Parrondo’s Paradox for Tent Maps

In this paper, we study the dynamic Parrondo’s paradox for the well-known family of tent maps. We prove that this paradox is impossible when we consider piecewise linear maps with constant slope. In addition, we analyze the paradox “simple + simple = complex” when a tent map with constant slope and a piecewise linear homeomorphism with two different slopes are considered.

The Embedding Theorem of an L0-Prebarreled Module into Its Random Biconjugate Space

We first prove Mazur’s lemma in a random locally convex module endowed with the locally L0-convex topology. Then, we establish the embedding theorem of an L0-prebarreled random locally convex module, which says that if (S,P) is an L0-prebarreled random locally convex module such that S has the countable concatenation property, then the canonical embedding mapping J of S onto J(S)⊂(Ss⁎)s⁎ is an L0-linear homeomorphism, where (Ss⁎)s⁎ is the strong random biconjugate space of S under the locally L0-convex topology.

A finite set of generators for the homeotopy group of a 2-manifold

The homeotopy group Λx of a space X is the group of all homeomorphisms of X to itself, modulo the subgroup of those homeomorphisms that are isotopic to the identity. In this paper X will be taken to be a closed oriented 2-manifold, together with a polyhedral structure, and the definition of Λx is then restricted to the consideration of piecewise-linear homeomorphisms and isotopies. Although this restriction to the polyhedral category is not really essential to what follows, it does tend to simplify some of the arguments. In (2) a homeomorphism of X was associated with every simple closed (polyhedral) curve c in X in the following way. First, let A be an annulus in the Euclidean plane parametrized by (r, θ) where 1 ≤ r ≤ 2 and θ is a real number mod 2 π. We define a homeomorphism H: A → A byH is then fixed on the boundary of A. If now e: A → X is an orientation-preserving embedding, and eA is a neighbourhood of c in X, then eHe−1|eA can be extended by the identity on X − eA to a homeomorphism h:X → X. Any piecewise linear homeomorphism hc which is isotopic to h will be called a twist about c or, if c is not specified, just a twist.