A solution to a Dirichlet problem for the complex Monge-Ampère operator is characterized as a minimizer of an energy functional. A mutual energy estimate and a generalization of Hölder's inequality is proved. A comparison is made with corresponding results in classical potential theory.

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For a fractal Schrodinger operator with a continuous potential and a coupling parameter, we obtain an analog of a semi-classical asymptotic formula for the number of bound states as the parameter tends to infinity. We also study Bohr's formula for Schrodinger operators on blowups of self-similar sets. For a Schrodinger operator defined by a fractal measure and a locally bounded potential that tends to infinity, we derive an analog of Bohr's formula under various assumptions. We demonstrate how these results can be applied to self-similar measures with overlaps, including the infinite Bernoulli convolution associated with the golden ratio, a family of convolutions of Cantor-type measures, and a family of measures that we call essentially of finite type.

In this paper we analyze an algorithm which solves the point projection and the “inversion” problems for parametric curves and surfaces. It consists of a geometric second order iteration which converges faster than existing first order methods, and whose sensitivity to the choice of initial values is small. Applications include the ICP algorithm for shape registration.

The present paper is devoted to the theory of discontinuous Markoff processes, that is processes where the transitions between states take place either by “jumps” of some specified kind, or by other means. States are taken as point$x$in an abstract space;$phases$are points ($x, t$) in the product state×time space; sets of states are denoted by$X$, sets of phases by$S$.