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Idempotent Analysis and Its Applications

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Vassili N. Kolokoltsov

    1. Department of Mathematical Statistics, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, England
      Institute of New Technologies, Moscow, Russia

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  2. Victor P. Maslov

    1. Department of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

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Part of the book series: Mathematics and Its Applications (MAIA, volume 401)

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Idempotent Analysis

    • Vassili N. Kolokoltsov, Victor P. Maslov
    Pages 1-44

  3. Analysis of Operators on Idempotent Semimodules

    • Vassili N. Kolokoltsov, Victor P. Maslov
    Pages 45-84

  4. Generalized Solutions of Bellman’s Differential Equation

    • Vassili N. Kolokoltsov, Victor P. Maslov
    Pages 85-150

  5. Quantization of the Bellman Equation and Multiplicative Asymptotics

    • Vassili N. Kolokoltsov, Victor P. Maslov
    Pages 151-231

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 233-308
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The first chapter deals with idempotent analysis per se . To make the pres- tation self-contained, in the first two sections we define idempotent semirings, give a concise exposition of idempotent linear algebra, and survey some of its applications. Idempotent linear algebra studies the properties of the semirn- ules An , n E N , over a semiring A with idempotent addition; in other words, it studies systems of equations that are linear in an idempotent semiring. Pr- ably the first interesting and nontrivial idempotent semiring , namely, that of all languages over a finite alphabet, as well as linear equations in this sern- ing, was examined by S. Kleene [107] in 1956 . This noncommutative semiring was used in applications to compiling and parsing (see also [1]) . Presently, the literature on idempotent algebra and its applications to theoretical computer science (linguistic problems, finite automata, discrete event systems, and Petri nets), biomathematics, logic , mathematical physics , mathematical economics, and optimizat ion, is immense; e. g. , see [9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16 , 17, 22, 31 , 32, 35,36,37,38,39 ,40,41,52,53 ,54,55,61,62 ,63,64,68, 71, 72, 73,74,77,78, 79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,88,114,125 ,128,135,136, 138,139,141,159,160, 167,170,173,174,175,176,177,178,179,180,185,186 , 187, 188, 189]. In §1. 2 we present the most important facts of the idempotent algebra formalism . The semimodules An are idempotent analogs of the finite-dimensional v- n, tor spaces lR and hence endomorphisms of these semi modules can naturally be called (idempotent) linear operators on An .

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mathematical Statistics, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, England

    Vassili N. Kolokoltsov

  • Institute of New Technologies, Moscow, Russia

    Vassili N. Kolokoltsov

  • Department of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    Victor P. Maslov

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