The hyperosculating points of surfaces in
It is a classical result, first established by de Jonquières (1859), that generically the number of conics tangent to 5 given conics in the complex projective plane is 3264. We show here the existence of configurations of 5 real conics such that the number of real conics tangent to them is 3264.
The goal of this paper is to apply the Continuous Hopfield Networks (CHN) to the Placement of Electronic Circuit Problem (PECP). This assignment problem has been expressed as Quadratic Knapsack Problem (QKP). To solve the PECP via the CHN, we choose an energy function which ensures an appropriate balance between minimization of the cost function and simultaneous satisfaction of the PECP constraints. In addition, the parameters of this function must...
We give the Thom polynomials for the singularities associated with maps with parameter . Our computations combine the characterization of Thom polynomials via the “method of restriction equations” of Rimanyi et al. with the techniques of Schur functions.
We give a closed formula for the Thom polynomials of the singularities in terms of Schur functions. Our computations combine the characterization of the Thom polynomials via the “method of restriction equations” of Rimányi et al. with the techniques of Schur functions.
This work contains an extended version of a course given in Arrangements in Pyrénées. School on hyperplane arrangements and related topics held at Pau (France) in June 2012. In the first part, we recall the computation of the fundamental group of the complement of a line arrangement. In the second part, we deal with characteristic varieties of line arrangements focusing on two aspects: the relationship with the position of the singular points (relative to projective curves of some prescribed degrees)...