The Clifford dimension of a projective curve
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...