The paper is concerned with an effective formula for the Euler characteristic of the link of a weighted homogeneous mapping with an isolated singularity. The formula is based on Szafraniec’s method for calculating the Euler characteristic of a real algebraic manifold (as the signature of an appropriate bilinear form). It is shown by examples that in the case of a weighted homogeneous mapping it is possible to make the computer calculations of the Euler characteristics much more effective.
The paper is concerned with the relations between real and complex topological invariants of germs of real-analytic functions. We give a formula for the Euler characteristic of the real Milnor fibres of a real-analytic germ in terms of the Milnor numbers of appropriate functions.
We consider decision about the choice of a lawyer as a particular case of self-insurance-cum-protection when the lawyer's cost is repaid in case of victory. The problem was introduced by Sevi and Yafil (2005) in the context of self-protection, which requires assumption that the size of loss does not depend on effort (level of the expenditure on lawyer). In this paper we drop that assumption and our model includes possibility that both loss and probability of incuring a loss depend on effort. ...
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