Hachtel, Gary D., Somenzi, Fabio

Logic Synthesis and Verification Algorithms

2006, 600 p., Softcover
ISBN: 0-387-31004-5

About this textbook

Logic Synthesis and Verification Algorithms blends mathematical foundations and algorithmic developments with circuit design issues. Each new technique is presented in the context of its application to design. Through the study of optimal two-level and multilevel combinational circuit design, the reader is introduced to basic concepts, such as Boolean algebras, local search, and algebraic factorization.

Similarly, through the study of optimal sequential circuit design, the reader is introduced to graph algorithms, finite state systems, and language theory. Throughout the book, recurrent themes such as branch and bound, dynamic programming, and symbolic implicit enumeration are used to establish optimal design principles.

Circuit designers and CAD tool developers alike will find Logic Synthesis and Verification Algorithms useful as an introductory and reference text. The rich collection of examples and solved problems make this book ideal for self study.

Because of its careful balance of theory and application, Logic Synthesis and Verification Algorithms will serve well as a textbook for upper division and first year graduate students in electrical and computer engineering.

Table of contents

I: Introduction.1. Introduction.2. A Quick Tour of Logic Synthesis with the Help of a Simple Example.- II: Two Level Logic Synthesis. 3. Boolean Algebras. 4. Synthesis of Two-Level Circuits. 5. Heuristic Minimization of Two-Level Circuits. 6. Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs).- III: Models of Sequential Systems. 7. Models of Sequential Systems. 8. Synthesis and Verification of Finite State Machines. 9. Finite Automata. IV: Multilevel Logic Synthesis. 10. Multi-Level Logic Synthesis. 11. Multi-Level Minimization. 12. Automatic Test Generation for Combinational Circuits. 13. Technology Mapping. A. ASCII Codes. B. Supplementary Problems.- Bibliography.- Index.

Kozen, Dexter C.

Theory of Computation

Series: Texts in Computer Science
2006, XIV, 426 p. 1 illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 1-84628-297-7
Due: May 2006

About this textbook

This textbook has been written with the dual purpose to cover core material in the foundations of computing for graduate students in computer science, as well as to provide an introduction to some more advanced topics for those intending further study in the area.

This book contains an invaluable collection of lectures for first-year graduates on the theory of computation, focusing primarily on computational complexity theory. Topics and features include:

Organization into self-contained lectures of 3-7 pages;
41 primary lectures and a handful of supplementary lectures covering more specialized or advanced topics;
12 homework sets and several miscellaneous homework exercises of varying levels of difficulty, many with hints and complete solutions.
Aimed at advanced undergraduates and first-year graduates in Computer Science or Mathematics with an interest in the theory of computation and computational complexity, this book provides a thorough grounding the foundations of computational complexity theory.

Table of contents

The Complexity of Computations.- Time and Space Complexity Classes and Savitchfs Theorem.- Separation Results.- Logspace Computability.- The Circuit Value Problem.- The Knaster-Tarski Theorem.- Alternation.- The Polynomial-Time Hierarchy.- Parallel Complexity.- Probabilistic Complexity.- Chinese Remaindering.- Berlekampfs Algorithm.- Interactive Proofs.- Probabilistically Checkable Proofs.- Complexity of Decidable Theories.- Complexity of the Theory of Real Addition.- Lower Bound for the Theory of Real Addition.- Safrafs Construction.- Relativized Complexity.- Nonexistence of Sparse Complete Sets.- Unique Satisfiability.- Todafs Theorem.- Lower Bounds for Constant Depth Circuits.- The Switching Lemma.- Tail Bounds.- Applications of the Recursion Theorem.- The Arithmetic Hierarchy.- Complete Problems in the Arithmetic Hierarchy.- Postfs Problem.- The Friedberg?Muchnik Theorem.- The Analytic Hierarchy.- Kleenefs Theorem.- Fair Termination and Harelfs Theorem.- Exercises.- Hints and Solutions.

Gyori, Ervin; Katona, Gyula O.H.; Lovasz, Laszlo (Eds.)

More Sets, Graphs and Numbers

Der folgende Untertitel soll in die Titelei aufgenommen werden (jedoch nicht aufs Cover): "A Salute to Vera Sos and Andras Hajnal" In der Titelei unter den Kontaktadressen der Herausgeber bitte auch den Managing Editor Tamas Fleiner aufnehmen.

Series: Bolyai Society Mathematical Studies, Vol. 15
2006, 405 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 3-540-32377-5

About this book

Discrete mathematics, including (combinatorial) number theory and set theory has always been a stronghold of Hungarian mathematics. The present volume honouring Vera Sos and Andras Hajnal contains survey articles (with classical theorems and state-of-the-art results) and cutting edge expository research papers with new theorems and proofs in the area of the classical Hungarian subjects, like extremal combinatorics, colorings, combinatorial number theory, etc. The open problems and the latest results in the papers inspire further research.

The volume is recommended to experienced specialists as well as to young researchers and students.

Table of contents

Contents.- Preface.- M. Beck, X. Wang, T. Zaslavsky: A Unifying Generalization of Spernerfs Theorem.- Y.F. Bilu, D. Masser: A Quick Proof of Sprindzhukfs Decomposition Theorem.- B. Bollobas, A.D. Scott: Discrepancy in Graphs and Hypergraphs.- E. Czabarka, O. Sykora, L.A. Szekely, I. Vrtfo: Biplanar Crossing Numbers I: A Survey of Results and Problems.- C. Doche, M. Mendes France: An Exercise on the Average Number of Real Zeros of Random Real Polynomials.- A. Frank: Edge-Connection of Graphs, Digraphs, and Hypergraphs.- K. Gyory: Perfect Powers in Products with Consecutive Terms from Arithmetic Progressions.- I. Juhasz, A. Szymanski: The Topological Version of Fodorfs Theorem.- A. Kostochka: Color-Critical Graphs and Hypergraphs with Few Edges: A Survey.- M. Krivelevich, B. Sudakov: Pseudo-random Graphs.- J. Nesetril: Bounds and Extrema for Classes of Graphs and Finite Structures.- J. Pach, R. Radoicic, G. Toth: Relaxing Planarity for Topological Graphs.- A. Petho: Notes on CNS Polynominals and Integral Interpolation.- A. Recski, D. Szeszler: The Evolution of an Idea ? Gallaifs Algorithm.- A. Sarkozy: On the Number of Additive Representations of Integers.- L. Soukup: A Lifting Theorem on Forcing LCS Spaces.- A. Thomason: Extremal Functions for Graph Minors.- A Tijdeman: Periodicity and Almost-Periodicity.


Santilli, Ruggero Maria

Isodual Theory of Antimatter
with applications to Antigravity, Grand Unification and Cosmology

Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics, Vol. 151
2006, XVI, 329 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 1-4020-4517-4

About this book

Antimatter, already conjectured by A. Schuster in 1898, was actually predicted by P.A.M. Dirac in the late 19-twenties in the negative-energy solutions of the Dirac equation. Its existence was subsequently confirmed via the Wilson chamber and became an established part of theoretical physics.

Dirac soon discovered that particles with negative energy do not behave in a physically conventional manner, and he therefore developed his "hole theory". This restricted the study of antimatter to the sole level of second quantization.

As a result antimatter created a scientific imbalance, because matter was treated at all levels of study, while antimatter was treated only at the level of second quantization.

In search of a new mathematics for the resolution of this imbalance the author conceived what we know today as Santillifs isodual mathematics, which permitted the construction of isodual classical mechanics, isodual quantization and isodual quantum mechanics.

The scope of this monograph is to show that our classical, quantum and cosmological knowledge of antimatter is at its beginning with much yet to be discovered, and that a commitment to antimatter by experimentalists will be invaluable to antimatter science.

Table of contents

PREFACE.
1: INTRODUCTION. 1.1 The Scientific Imbalance Caused by Antimatter. 1.2 Guide to the Monograph. 1.3 The Scientific Imbalance Caused by Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics for Matter and Antimatter. 1.4 The Scientific Imbalance Caused by General Relativity and Quantum Gravity for Matter and Antimatter. 1.5 Hadronic Mechanics.
2: ISODUAL THEORY OF POINT-LIKE ANTIPARTICLES. 2.1 Elements of Isodual Mathematics. 2.2 Classical Isodual Theory of Point-like Antiparticles. 2.3 Operator Isodual Theory of Point-like Antiparticles.
3: LIE-ISOTOPIC AND LIE-ADMISSIBLE TREATMENTS OF EXTENDED PARTICLES AND THEIR ISODUALS FOR EXTENDED ANTIPARTICLES. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Isomathematics for Extended particles and Its Isodual for Extended Antiparticles. 3.3 Classical Iso-Hamiltonian Mechanics and Its Isodual. 3.4 Lie-Isotopic Branch of Hadronic Mechanics and Its Isodual. 3.5 Isorelativity and Its Isodual. 3.6 Lie-Admissible Branch of Hadronic Mechanics and Its Isodual. 3.7 Experimental Verifications and Industrial Applications of Hadronic Mechanics.
4: ANTIGRAVITY AND SPACETIME MACHINES. 4.1 Theoretical Predictions of Antigravity. 4.2 Experimental Verification of Antigravity. 4.3 Causal Spacetime Machine.
5: GRAND-UNIFICATION AND COSMOLOGY. 5.1 Iso-Grand-Unification. 5.2 Iso-Self-Dual and Geno-Self-Dual Cosmologies. 5.3 Concluding Remarks.
INDEX


Gorniewicz, Lech

Topological Fixed Point Theory of Multivalued Mappings

Series: Topological Fixed Point Theory and Its Applications, Vol. 4
2nd ed., 2006, Approx. 535 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 1-4020-4665-0
Due: April 2006

About this book

This book is devoted to the topological fixed point theory of multivalued mappings including applications to differential inclusions and mathematical economy. It is the first monograph dealing with the fixed point theory of multivalued mappings in metric ANR spaces. Although the theoretical material was tendentiously selected with respect to applications, the text is self-contained. Current results are presented.

This book will be especially useful for post-graduate students and researchers interested in fixed point theory, and in particular, topological methods in nonlinear analysis, differential equations and dynamical systems. The content is also likely to stimulate the interest of mathematical economists, population dynamics experts as well as theoretical physicists exploring the topological dynamics.

Table of contents

Preface.- Chapter I Background in Topology.- Chapter II Multivalued Mappings.- Chapter III Approximation Methods in Fixed Point Theory of Multivalued Mappings.- Chapter IV Homological Methods in Fixed Point Theory of Multivalued Mappings.- Chapter V Consequences and Applications.- Chapter VI Fixed Point Theory Approach to Differental Inclusions.- Chapter VII Recent Results.-Bibliography.- Index.