characterizing the manifest probabilities of latent trait models the problem of characterizing the manifest probabilities of a latent trait model is considered the item characteristic curve is transformed to the item passing odds curve and a corresponding transformation is made on the distribution of ability this results in a useful expression for the manifest probabilities of any latent trait model the result is then applied to give a characterization of the rasch model as a log linear model for a 2 j contingency table partial results are also obtained for other models the question of the identifiability of guessing parameters is also discussed

continuous and discrete latent structure models for item response data relations are examined between latent trait and latent class models for item response data conditions are given for the two latent class and two parameter normal ogive models to agree and relations between their item parameters are presented generalizationss are then made to continuous models with more than one latent trait and discrete models with more than two latent classes and methods are presented for relating latent class models to factor models for dichotomized variables results are illustrated using data from the law school admission test previously analyzed by several authors

discrete oscillation theorems for symplectic eigenvalue problems with general boundary conditions depending nonlinearly on spectral parameter abstract in this paper we establish new oscillation theorems for discrete symplectic eigenvalue problems with general boundary conditions we suppose that the symplectic coefficient matrix of the system and the boundary conditions are nonlinear functions of the spectral parameter and that they satisfy certain natural monotonicity assumptions in our new theory we admit possible oscillations in the coefficients of the symplectic system and the boundary conditions by incorporating their nonconstant rank with respect to the spectral parameter we also prove necessary and sufficient conditions for boundedness of the real part of spectrum of these eigenvalue problems

eigenvalues of second order difference equations with periodic and antiperiodic boundary conditions this paper is concerned with periodic and antiperiodic boundary value problems for self adjoint second order difference equations existence of eigenvalues of these two different boundary value problems is proved numbers of their eigenvalues are calculated and their relationships are obtained in addition a representation of solutions of a nonhomogeneous linear equation with initial conditions is given

range characterization of the cosine transform on higher grassmannians abstract we characterize the range of the cosine transform on real grassmannians in terms of the decomposition under the action of the special orthogonal group so n we also give a geometric interpretation of this image in terms of valuations in addition we discuss the non archimedean analogues

some properties of eigenfunctions for the equation of vibrating beam with a spectral parameter in the boundary conditions abstract in this paper we consider a spectral problem for ordinary differential equations of fourth order with the spectral parameter contained in three of the boundary conditions we study the oscillatory properties of the eigenfunctions and using these properties we obtain sufficient conditions for the system of eigenfunctions of the problem in question to form a basis in the space l p 0 1 1 p after removing three functions

intertwining operators for the generalized principal series on a symmetric r space three questions about the intertwining operators for the generalized principal series on a symmetric r space are solved description of the functional kernel both in the noncompact and in the compact picture domain of convergence meromorphic continuation a large use is made of the theory of positive jordan triple systems the meromorphic continuation of the intertwining integral is achieved via a bernstein sato identity and a precise description of the poles is obtained 0 2000 mathematics subject classification 22e45 43a80

intersection bodies and generalized cosine transforms the paper is focused on intimate connection between geometric properties of intersection bodies in convex geometry and generalized cosine transforms in harmonic analysis a new concept of intersection body that unifies some known classes of geometric objects is introduced a parallel between trace theorems in function theory restriction onto lower dimensional subspaces of the spherical radon transforms and the generalized cosine transforms and sections of intersection bodies is established new integral formulas for different classes of cosine transforms are obtained and examples of intersection bodies are given we also revisit some known facts in this area and give them new simple proofs

on the linear and nonlinear discrete second order neumann boundary value problems abstract by construct the spectrum of the linear eigenvalue problem we are concerned with the global structure of the set of sign changing solutions to the discrete second order neumann boundary value problem p t 1 u t 1 q t u t ra t f u t t 1 t z u 0 u t 0 furthermore we obtain the existence of the sign changing solutions of the above nonlinear problem

the busemann petty problem via spherical harmonics abstract the busemann petty problem asks whether symmetric convex bodies in r n with smaller central hyperplane sections necessarily have smaller n dimensional volume the solution has recently been completed and the answer is affirmative if n 4 and negative if n 5 in this article we present a short proof of the affirmative result and its generalization using the funk hecke formula for spherical harmonics

inversion of fractional integrals related to the spherical radon transform explicit inversion formulas are obtained for the analytic family of fractional integrals t f x n sn xy 1 f y dyon the unit sphere in rn 1 arbitrary complex andn 2 are considered in the ease 0 the integralt fcoincides with the spherical radon transform for 1 1 3 5 such integrals are known as the blaschke levy representations and arise in convex geometry probability and the banach space theory for 1 3 5 the integralt fis defined by continuity as the spherical convolution with the power logarithmic kernel different inversion methods are discussed

on the degenerate principal series of complex symplectic groups we apply techniques introduced by clerc kobayashi orsted and pevzner to study the degenerate principal series of sp n c an explicit description of the k types is provided and knapp stein normalised operators are realised as symplectic fourier transforms and their k spectrum explicitly computed reducibility phenomena are analysed in terms of k types and eigenvalues of intertwining operators we also construct a new model for these representations in which knapp stein intertwiners take an algebraic form

on the meromorphic extension of the spherical functions on noncompactly causal symmetric spaces abstract we determine integral formulas for the meromorphic extension in the parameter of the spherical functions on a noncompactly causal symmetric space the main tool is bernstein s theorem on the meromorphic extension of complex powers of polynomials the regularity properties of are deduced in particular the possible poles of are located among the translates of the zeros of the bernstein polynomial the translation parameter depends only on the structure of the symmetric space the expression of the bernstein polynomial is conjectured the relation between the bernstein polynomial and the product formula of the c function is analyzed the conjecture is verified in the rank one case the explicit formulas obtained in this case yield a detailed description of singularities of in the general higher rank case the integral formulas are applied to find asymptotic estimates for the spherical functions in the appendix the spherical functions on noncompactly causal symmetric spaces are regarded as a special instance of harish chandra type expansions associated with roots systems with arbitrary multiplicities we study expansions obtained by taking averages over arbitrary parabolic subgroups of the weyl group of the root system the possible singularities are located in this general context

bifurcation techniques and positive solutions of discrete lidstone boundary value problems abstract let n 1 t n 5 be two positive integers and t n n n 1 t we consider the existence of solutions of the discrete lidstone boundary value problem 1 n 2 n u t n f t u t 2 u t 1 2 n 2 u t n 1 t t n 2 i u n i 1 2 i u t i 1 0 i 0 1 n 1 where f t n r n r is continuous

a general structural equation model with dichotomous ordered categorical and continuous latent variable indicators a structural equation model is proposed with a generalized measurement part allowing for dichotomous and ordered categorical variables indicators in addition to continuous ones a computationally feasible three stage estimator is proposed for any combination of observed variable types this approach provides large sample chi square tests of fit and standard errors of estimates for situations not previously covered two multiple indicator modeling examples are given one is a simultaneous analysis of two groups with a structural equation model underlying skewed likert variables the second is a longitudinal model with a structural model for multivariate probit regressions

processes of flats induced by higher dimensional processes stationary processes of k flats in mathbb e d can be thought of as point processes on the grassmannian mathcal l kd of k dimensional subspaces of mathbb e d if such a process is sampled by a d k j dimensional space f it induces a process of j flats in f in this work we will investigate the possibility of determining the original k process from knowledge of the intensity measures of the induced j processes we will see that this is impossible precisely when 1 k d 1 and j 0 2 r 2 1 where r is the rank of the manifold mathcal l kd we will show how the problem is equivalent to the study of the kernel of various integral transforms these will then be investigated using harmonic analysis on grassmannian manifolds

the linearization of boundary eigenvalue problems and reproducing kernel hilbert spaces the boundary eigenvalue problems for the adjoint of a symmetric relation s in a hilbert space with finite not necessarily equal defect numbers which are related to the selfadjoint hilbert space extensions of s are characterized in terms of boundary coefficients and the reproducing kernel hilbert spaces they induce 2001 elsevier science inc all rights reserved

eigenvalues of discrete linear second order periodic and antiperiodic eigenvalue problems with sign changing weight abstract by virtue of the eigenvalues of discrete linear second order neumann eigenvalue problems we study the eigenvalues of discrete linear second order periodic and antiperiodic eigenvalue problems with sign changing weight we find that these two problems have t real eigenvalues including the multiplicity respectively furthermore the numbers of positive eigenvalues are equal to the numbers of positive elements in the weight function and the numbers of negative eigenvalues are equal to the numbers of negative elements in the weight function furthermore these eigenvalues including the eigenvalues of neumann problem satisfy the order relation

kinematic formulas on the quaternionic plane we introduce different bases for the vector space of sp 2 sp 1 invariant translation invariant continuous valuations on the quaternionic plane and determine a complete set of kinematic formulas

the complex busemann petty problem on sections of convex bodies abstract the complex busemann petty problem asks whether origin symmetric convex bodies in c n with smaller central hyperplane sections necessarily have smaller volume we prove that the answer is affirmative if n 3 and negative if n 4

eigenvalues of discrete sturm liouville problems with eigenparameter dependent boundary conditions abstract we consider the discrete right definite sturm liouville problems p t 1 y t 1 q t y t m t y t t 1 t z a 0 b 0 y 0 c 0 d 0 y 0 a 1 b 1 y t 1 c 1 d 1 y t 1 where 1 t z 1 2 t m t 0 for t 1 t z 1 i i 0 where i a i d i b i c i for i 0 1 we obtain the existence of the eigenvalues the sign changing times of the eigenfunctions and the interlacing results of the eigenvalues of the above problem the dirichlet problem and the neumann problem

eigenvalues of second order difference equations with coupled boundary conditions abstract this paper is concerned with coupled boundary value problems for self adjoint second order difference equations existence of eigenvalues is proved numbers of eigenvalues are calculated and relationships between the eigenvalues of a self adjoint second order difference equation with three different coupled boundary conditions are established these results extend the relevant existing results of periodic and antiperiodic boundary value problems

unitary representations of lie groups with reflection symmetry we consider the following class of unitary representations of some real lie groupgwhich has a matched pair of symmetries described as follows i supposeghas a period 2 automorphism and that the hilbert spaceh carries a unitary operatorjsuch thatj j i e selfsimilarity ii an added symmetry is implied ifh further contains a closed subspacek0having a certainorder covarianceproperty and satisfying thek0 restricted positivity v jv 0 v k0 where is the inner product inh from i ii we get an induced dual representation of an associated dual groupgc all three properties selfsimilarity order covariance and positivity are satisfied in a natural context whengis semisimple and hermitean but whengis the ax b group or the heisenberg group positivity is incompatible with the other two axioms for the infinite dimensional irreducible representations we describe a class ofg containing the latter two which admits a classification of the possible spacesk0 h satisfying the axioms of selfsimilarity and order covariance

fourier and poisson transformation associated to a semisimple symmetric space soit g un groupe de lie semisimple connexe contenu dans un groupe de lie semisimple simplement connexe dont l algebre de lie est la complexification de celle de g soit une involution non triviale de g et une involution de cartan commutant avec soit h un groupe point fixe de on etudie les representations h spheriques de dimension finie de g contenant un vecteur k fixe ou k est un sous groupe compact maximal stable de g sous representations de dimension finie de le noyau de poisson la distribution u i la transformation de fourier et poisson formules integrales

generalizations of the busemann petty problem for sections of convex bodies abstract we present generalizations of the busemann petty problem for dual volumes of intermediate central sections of symmetric convex bodies it is proved that the answer is negative when the dimension of the sections is greater than or equal to 4 for two three dimensional sections both negative and positive answers are given depending on the orders of dual volumes involved and certain cases remain open for bodies of revolution a complete solution is obtained in all dimensions

spectrum generating operators and intertwining operators for representations induced from a maximal parabolic subgroup abstract we present a new method of calculating intertwining operators between principal series representations of semisimple lie groups g working in the compact realization we find the eigenvalues of the operators on the k types and give several examples among the advantages of our method is its applicability to bundle valued cases

the cos λ and sin λ transforms as intertwining operators between generalized principal series representations of sl n 1 k abstract in this article we connect topics from convex and integral geometry with well known topics in representation theory of semisimple lie groups by showing that the cos and sin transforms on the grassmann manifolds gr p k su n 1 k s u p k u n 1 p k are standard intertwining operators between certain generalized principal series representations induced from a maximal parabolic subgroup p p of sl n 1 k the index p indicates the dependence of the parabolic on p the general results of knapp and stein 1971 1980 20 21 and vogan and wallach 1990 44 then show that both transforms have meromorphic extension to c and are invertible for generic c furthermore known methods from representation theory combined with a selberg type integral allow us to determine the k spectrum of those operators

vecteurs distributions h invariants pour les series principales generalisees d espaces symetriques reductifs et prolongement meromorphe d integrales d eisenstein

on the relationship between item response theory and factor analysis of discretized variables equivalence of marginal likelihood of the two parameter normal ogive model in item response theory irt and factor analysis of dichotomized variables fa was formally proved the basic result on the dichotomous variables was extended to multicategory cases both ordered and unordered categorical data pair comparison data arising from multiple judgment sampling were discussed as a special case of the unordered categorical data a taxonomy of data for the irt and fa models was also attempted

canonical representations related to hyperbolic spaces abstract we extend the notion of canonical representation introduced by a m vershik i m gel fand and m i graev 1982 in representation theory cambridge univ press cambridge u k to all classical rank one semisimple lie groups we determine the spectral decomposition of the canonical representations in detail

structure of the degenerate principal series on symmetric r spaces and small representations abstract let g be a simple real lie group with maximal parabolic subgroup p whose nilradical is abelian then x g p is called a symmetric r space we study the degenerate principal series representations of g on c x in the case where p is not conjugate to its opposite parabolic we find the points of reducibility the composition series and all unitarizable constituents among the unitarizable constituents we identify some small representations having as associated variety the minimal nilpotent k c orbit in p c where k c is the complexification of a maximal compact subgroup k g and g k p the corresponding cartan decomposition

classification of invariant valuations on the quaternionic plane abstract we describe the orbit space of the action of the group sp 2 sp 1 on the real grassmann manifolds gr k h 2 in terms of certain quaternionic matrices of moore rank not larger than 2 we then give a complete classification of valuations on the quaternionic plane h 2 which are invariant under the action of the group sp 2 sp 1

sturm liouville eigenvalue problems on time scales for sturm liouville eigenvalue problems on time scales with separated boundary conditions we give an oscillation theorem and establish rayleigh s principle our results not only unifly the corresponding theories for differential and difference equations but are also new in the discrete case