Mathematics Across Contemporary Sciences: AUS-ICMS, Sharjah, UAE, April 2015 (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics Book 190)

This work presents invited contributions from the second "International Conference on Mathematics and Statistics" jointly organized by the AUS (American University of Sharjah) and the AMS (American Mathematical Society). Addressing several research fields across the mathematical sciences, all of the papers were prepared by faculty members at universities in the Gulf region or prominent international researchers. The current volume is the first of its kind in the UAE and is intended to set new standards of excellence for collaboration and scholarship in the region. Front Matter....Pages i-x The Lusternik-Schnirelmann Category for a Differentiable Stack....Pages 1-15 Centrosymmetric, and Symmetric and Hankel-Symmetric Matrices....Pages 17-31 Partially Independent Random Variables....Pages 33-56 Sobol Sensitivity: A Strategy for Feature Selection....Pages 57-75 Basis Independence of Implicitly Defined Hamiltonian Circuit Dynamics....Pages 77-90 On a New Class of Variational Problems....Pages 91-109 A Scientific Tour on Orthogonal Arrays....Pages 111-135 Hoffman’s Coclique Bound for Normal Regular Digraphs, and Nonsymmetric Association Schemes....Pages 137-150 A Suspension Bridge Problem: Existence and Stability....Pages 151-165 An Interpolation-Based Approach to American Put Option Pricing....Pages 167-175 Stable Homotopy Groups of Moore Spaces....Pages 177-192 Notes on Quasi-Cyclic Codes with Cyclic Constituent Codes....Pages 193-206 Factorization of Computations in Bayesian Networks: Interpretation of Factors....Pages 207-226 Optimal Drug Treatment in a Simple Pandemic Switched System Using Polynomial Approach....Pages 227-240 On Carathéodory Quasilinear Functionals for BV Functions and Their Time Flows for a Dual \( H^{1}\) Penalty Model for Image Restoration....Pages 241-259