Collegio Carlo Alberto

PROXIMAL ESTIMATION AND INFERENCE

Abstract We develop a convex-analytic framework for constructing and analyzing a broad class of penalized estimators. Our method defines penalized estimators by applying proximal operators to benchmark estimators, rather than by penalizing the benchmark criterion itself. We estab...

Gender equality and labour market liberalisation: empirical evidence from the E.U.

Abstract Labour markets are responsible for large part of the levels of gender inequality present in the world and many countries enacted liberal reforms of their labour markets since the 1980s. The present empirical analysis aims at understanding their impact on gender inequalit...

The taxonomics of the lithe basal eutyrannosaur genera and species of late Maastrichtian western North America

In 1946 Gilmore observed that the Hell Creek Formation component of the larger TT-zone of the late Maastrichtian contained more tyrannosaur taxa than just titanic Tyrannosaurus rex, based on a small, ontogenetically mature skull with a higher tooth count than the tyrant lizard. O...

Some Remarks on Singular Capillary Cones with Free Boundary

Abstract We study singular minimizing capillary cones with free boundary. We provide a stability criterion à la Jerison–Savin and use it to prove that a minimizing capillary cone is flat when its free boundary mean curvature is non-negative and $$n\le 4$$ n ≤ 4 , or non-positive...

Top-Degree global solvability for tube complexes in gevrey ultradistributions

Abstract Let $$s>1$$ s > 1 , let $$M$$ M be a connected, non-compact, oriented real-analytic manifold, and let $$\omega _1,\ldots ,\omega _m$$ ω 1 , … , ω m be real-valued closed 1-forms of Gevrey order s on M . We study the differential complex naturally associated with this fam...

How Norms Depend on the Presence and Status of Observers: The Relational Contingency of Everyday Behaviors in 90 Societies

Norms are fundamental to social life, but basic questions about how they are affected by social context remain. Specifically, how do normative constraints depend on the presence and status of observers, and how do such relational contingencies vary across cultures? Using data fro...

On the Lawson-Osserman conjecture

Abstract We prove that if $u : B_{1} \subset \mathbb{R}^{2} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{n}$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>u</mml:mi> <mml:mo>:</mml:mo> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>B</mml:mi> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> </mml:msub> <mml:mo>⊂</mml:mo> <mml:msup> <mml:...