Special issue: Honor of Robert E. Skelton on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Papers of a mini-symposium, Univ. of California, San Diego, CA, USA, December 1998.
This special issue of the Kybernetika Journal arose from the 9th workshop on uncertainty processing, WUPES’12, held in Mariánské Lázně, Czech Republic, in September 2012. In the selection process for this special issue, we tried to capture the rich variety of the presented methodological approaches. The quality of the selected papers was judged by reviewers in accord with the usual practice of Kybernetika. After a careful selection, 7 papers were included in the special issue. There are, however,...
This is a survey of recent contributions to the area of special Kähler geometry. A (pseudo-)Kähler manifold is a differentiable manifold endowed with a complex structure and a (pseudo-)Riemannian metric such that i) is orthogonal with respect to the metric ii) is parallel with respect to the Levi Civita connection A special Kähler manifold is a Kähler manifold together with a flat torsionfree connection such that i) where is the Kähler form and ii) is symmetric. A holomorphic...
The paper represents the lectures given by the author at the 16th Winter School on Geometry and Physics, Srni, Czech Republic, January 13-20, 1996. He develops in an elegant manner the theory of conformal covariants and the theory of functional determinant which is canonically associated to an elliptic operator on a compact pseudo-Riemannian manifold. The presentation is excellently realized with a lot of details, examples and open problems.