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Today's Topics:
     1. I. Macdonald speaking in Seminaire Bourbaki
     2. Nancy Seminar on Dunkl operators and applications
     3. Toronto Workshop on Special Functions, q-Series and Related Topics
     4. q-Special Functions at Prague Quantum Groups meeting
     5. CRM Workshop on the Theory of Special Functions
     6. Celebration of Gabor Szego in Hungary
     7. New Memoir on Spectral Theory and Orthogonal Polynomials
     8. Continuation of the three-volume Vilenkin-Klimyk book
     9. Lecture Notes on Affine Hecke algebras and Macdonald conjectures
    10. New book on Orthogonal Polynomials in Several Variables
    11. New Book on A Numerical Library in C
    12. Electronic Guide to Available Mathematical Software
    13. Change of Address for WWW home page of J. Approx. Theory
    14. New email address of AT-NET
    15. Phone, fax and email address changes at University of Leuven
    16. Recent additions to ftp site on orthogonal polynomials and
        related special functions
    17. Obtaining back issues and contributing to future issues of OP-SF Net
        and the Newsletter




Calendar of events:                                         see issue/topic:

1995
March 12: I. Macdonald's seminaire Bourbaki lecture                  2.1 #1
March 17-18: Session "Approximation Theory and Special Functions"    1.7 #6
March 20-22: Stieltjes Colloquium in Toulouse                        1.7 #7
March 31,April 1: Nancy Seminar on Dunkl operators and applications  2.1 #2
May 29-June 2: Formal Power Series and Combinatorics, Paris          1.8 #13
June 9-10: Lee Lorch Conference 1995                                 1.7 #8
June 12-23: Fields Institute program on Special functions etc.       2.1 #3
June 22-24: q-Special Functions at Prague Quantum Groups meeting     2.1 #4
July 3-7: Minisymposium at ICIAM '95, Hamburg:
         "Orthogonal Polynomials and Spectral Methods"               1.8 #16
July 19-21: First Maghrebian Colloquium on Analysis                  1.9 #4

1996
May 6-26: CRM Workshop on the Theory of Special Functions            2.1 #5



Topic #1  ---------------  OP-SF NET  ---------------  February 9, 1995
From: Announcement leaflet
Subject: I. Macdonald speaking in Seminaire Bourbaki

A session of the Seminaire Bourbaki will be held in Paris on
11-12 March 1995. One of the speakers will be Ian Macdonald:

Time: Sunday, March 12, 14.00 hour
Place: Institut Henri Poincare, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie,
       Paris 5e, France
Speaker: I. Macdonald
Subject: Affine Hecke algebras and orthogonal polynomials



Topic #2  ---------------  OP-SF NET  ---------------  February 9, 1995
From: Charles Torossian <Charles.Torossian@iecn.u-nancy.fr>
Subject: Nancy Seminar on Dunkl operators and applications

                    Universite de Nancy I

             Operateurs de Dunkl et Applications

          Friday March 31 and Saturday April 1, 1995

                Seminaire Nancy-Metz-Strasbourg

Friday, March 31:

10.30  Charles Torossian (CNRS-Nancy 1):
 Introduction aux operateurs de Dunkl, operateurs d'entrelacement
 et multiplicites singulieres.

11.30  Dominique Manchon (CNRS-Nancy 1):
 Systeme de Bessel et analyse harmonique tangente pour les operateurs
 de Dunkl.

14.15  Abdel Latif Mortajine (Nancy 1):
 Une application des operateurs de shift aux conjectures de Mehta et
 du terme constant.

15.30  Jean-Philippe Anker (Nancy 1):
 Operateurs de Cherednik et analyse harmonique.

17.00  Gerrit Heckman (Nijmegen):
 Branched coverings of discriminants.


Saturday, April 1:

10.00  Tom Koornwinder (Amsterdam):
 Macdonald polynomials and affine Hecke algebras

11.15  Olivier Babelon (Paris 6):
 Systeme de Calogero-Moser.

14.00  Gerrit Heckman (Nijmegen):
 Spectral theory of Yang's system.

15.30  Jan Felipe van Diejen (Amsterdam):
 Families of commuting difference operators.


Organizers: Dominique Manchon and Charles Torossian

Address:
 Institut Elie Cartan
 BP 239
 54506 Vandoeuvre les Nancy
 phone: +33-8391 2686 or +33-8391 2603
 fax: +33-8328 0989
 email: semidunk@iecn.u-nancy.fr



Topic #3  ---------------  OP-SF NET  ---------------  February 9, 1995
From: David Masson <masson@math.toronto.edu>
Subject: Toronto Workshop on Special Functions, q-Series and Related Topics

     Workshop on Special Functions, q-Series and Related Topics

                Monday, June 12 to Friday, June 23, 1995
                     Media Room, University College
             University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This two-week program (an activity of the Fields Institute) was earlier
announced in OP-SF Net 1.7, Topic 9.
The following additional information is available now.

- There are some changes in the list of invited speakers for the
  second week (see the list of invited speakers below)

- Call for Contributed Papers:  During each afternoon in the
  second week there will be parallel sessions for contributed talks.
  A title and abstract (and/or preprint) must be submitted for consideration.
  Contact Lynne Wight for further details and a  registration package.

- Registration:   For a registration package please contact Lynne Wight by
  May 15, 1995 at:

                The Fields Institute, 185 Columbia Street West
                Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 5Z5
                e-mail: spfunct@fields.uwaterloo.ca
                Fax: (519) 725-0704     Phone: (519) 725-0096

Further details:

Conference Advisory Committee:  G.E. Andrews (Pennsylvania State
University), R. Askey (University of Wisconsin, Madison),
C.F. Dunkl (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), M.E.H. Ismail
(University of South Florida, Tampa), T. H.  Koornwinder
(University of Amsterdam), D.R. Masson (University of Toronto), M. Rahman
(Carleton University), S.K. Suslov (Kurchatov
Institute, Russia), D. Zeilberger (Temple University)

Mini-Courses:
During the first week, June 12 - 16, there will be five mini-courses (three
to four hours of lectures each) on  the following topics.

Topic:                                     Lecturer:

q-Series                                   George Gasper (Northwestern
                                             University)
Orthogonal Polynomials                     Walter Van Assche (Katholieke
                                             Universiteit Leuven)
Asymptotics of Orthogonal Polynomials      Paul Nevai (Ohio State University)

Computer Algebra and Special Functions     Doron Zeilberger (Temple University)

Quantum Groups and q-Special Functions     Tom Koornwinder (University of
                                             Amsterdam)

Workshop:
During the second week, June 19 - 23, there will be a workshop
concentrating on the following research topics in relation to special
functions and q-series (a different emphasis for each day):
- Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions
- Multivariable Theory
- Number Theory and Combinatorics
- Computer Algebra
- Quantum Groups and Representation Theory

For each topic there will be three invited speakers (one hour talks) and a
selection of contributed papers.

Invited Speakers for the Workshop will include:

- Krishnaswami Alladi (University of Florida)
- Bruce C. Berndt (University of Illinois)
- David Chudnovsky (Columbia University)
- Gregory Chudnovsky (Columbia University)
- Pavel I. Etingof (Harvard University)
- I.M. Gelfand (Rutgers University)
- R.Wm. Gosper (Symbolics, Inc.)
- Robert A. Gustafson (Texas A&M University)
- D.M. Jackson (University of Waterloo)
- Hendrik T. Koelink (Katholieke Universiteit, Belgium)
- Christian Krattenthaler (Vienna University)
- M. Noumi (University of Tokyo)
- E. Opdam (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
- Peter Paule (Johannes Kepler University, Austria)
- H.S. Wilf (University of Pennsylvania)
- Yuan Xu (University of Oregon)



Topic #4  ---------------  OP-SF NET  ---------------  February 9, 1995
From: C. Burdik <burdik@km1.fjfi.cvut.cz>
Subject: q-Special Functions at Prague Quantum Groups meeting

The International Colloquium on Quantum Groups and Integrable Systems
will take place in Prague, Czech Republic during 22-24 June, 1995.
The programme will include invited talks (40 min. duration) and a
number of contributions (20 min. duration) to be followed by
discussions to provide a more complete understanding of the related
topics.
The following topics will be discussed:

- Quantum groups and Yangians
- Representations of quantum groups and Yangians
- Differential geometry on quantum groups
- Modern aspects of integrability: quantum groups, quadratic algebras,
  other types of symmetries
- Separation of variables, q-special functions

Proceedings will be published  after the Workshop in Czech. Jour. Phys B.

Organizing Committee:
- C. Burdik (Prague)
- J.P. Gazeau (Paris)
- M. Havlicek (Prague)
- G. Chadzitaskos (Prague)
- J. Lukierski (Wroclaw)
- J. Tolar (Prague)

Registration fee: US $100.
Registration: before 30 March 1995
Submission of abstracts: before 30 April 1995
Address for registration and further information:

 C. Burdik
 Department of Mathematics
 Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering
 Trojanova 13
 CZ-120 00 Prague 2
 Czech Republic
 phone: +42-2-296 137
 fax: +42-2-290 572
 email: burdik@km1.fjfi.cvut.cz



Topic #5  ---------------  OP-SF NET  ---------------  February 9, 1995
From: Louis Pelletier <pelletl@CRM.UMontreal.CA>
Subject: CRM Workshop on the Theory of Special Functions

                    CENTRE DE RECHERCHES MATHEMATIQUES
                           Theme Year 1995-1996
                      APPLIED and NUMERICAL ANALYSIS


The Centre de recherches mathematiques is hosting a year long program
in applied and numerical analysis in 1995-1996. The year's activities
will be devoted to the following subjects: applications to hydrodyna-
mics, the mathematics of finance, and recent developments and methods
(wavelets, neural networks, special functions). Elements of the program
are organized jointly with the Centre de recherche en calcul applique
(CERCA) or with the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en analyse
des organisations (CIRANO). The CRM Summer School, which will again be
held in Banff, Alberta during the month of August, is part of the theme
year. Following is a schedule of events:

Workshop on the Theory of Special Functions
May 6-26, 1996
Two workshops are planned for this period, one entitled Theory of Non-
linear Special Functions: The Painleve Transcendents (May 13-18) and the
other Algebraic Methods and q-Special Functions (May 20-26). A series of
lectures on topics related to the workshops will be organized during the
week of May 6-10.
Organizers: L. Vinet (CRM), P. Winternitz (CRM)
The list of invited lecturers includes: M. Ablowitz, G.E. Andrews, R.
Askey, D. Bressoud, I. Cherednitz, P.A. Clarkson, C.M. Cosgrove, B.
Dubrovin, C.F. Dunkl, P.I. Etingof, H. Flaschka, A.S. Fokas, I.B.
Frenkel, B. Grammaticos, M. Ismail, A.R. Its, M. Jimbo, N. Joshi, E.G.
Kalnins,  A.V. Kitaev, T.H. Koornwinder, V.E. Korepin, I.M. Krichever,
M.D. Kruskal, I. Macdonald, V.B. Matveev, F. Nijhoff, M. Noumi, E. Opdam,
C. Rogers, F. Smirnov, D. Stanton, S. Suslov, A.P. Veselov

If you wish to participate in any of the following activities, please
contact Louis Pelletier for registration a month before the event for
accommodation or two weeks before for attendance only.

If you wish to receive any financial support (if available) please
write us a letter (to be mailed to Louis Pelletier, CRM, Universite de
Montreal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-ville, Montreal (Quebec), Canada
H3C 3J7 or e-mail to PELLETL@CRM.UMontreal.CA) that specify your
research interests.



Topic #6  ---------------  OP-SF NET  ---------------  February 9, 1995
From: Tom Koornwinder <thk@fwi.uva.nl>
Subject: Celebration of Gabor Szego in Hungary

Gabor Szego (in diacritical TeX notation written as G\'abor Szeg\H{o})
was born on January 20, 1895 in Kunhegyes, Hungary, so the enthusiastic
citizens of this small town organized a a little celebration on
January 21, 1995, which was endorsed and co-organized by the Janos Bolyai
Society and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Paul Nevai attended the celebration and reported on it.
His full account appeared in AT-NET and is obtainable from

          WWW:  http://math.ohio-state.edu/JAT/DATA/ATNET/szego

Below follows a very short extract I have made from Paul's report.
(I apologize for having left out the diacritical signs.)

During the morning session there were four speeches about Szego's
life by the following speakers:
- Barna Szenassy (read by Erzsbet Daroczy)
- Dick Askey (translated into Hungarian and read by Gyuri Petruska)
- Lee Lorch (idem)
- Paul Nevai
The talks by Askey and Lorch are included in Paul Nevai's full account.

After lunch the participants  went to see the Szego exhibit in the basement
of the City Library.

The afternoon session consisted of a few 15 minutes talks about
Szego's influence on Hungarian mathematics. It was organized by Gabor
Halasz. The speakers were Gabor Halasz, Gyuri Petruska, Paul Nevai,
and Peter Vertesi. Topics ranged over inequalities, power series,
Szego's theory, interpolation, etc.



Topic #7  ---------------  OP-SF NET  ---------------  February 9, 1995
From: Notices Amer. Math. Soc., January 1995
Subject: New Memoir on Spectral Theory and Orthogonal Polynomials

The following AMS Memoir appeared:

A. Jirari,
"Second-order Sturm-Liouville equations and orthogonal polynomials",
Memoirs AMS, Vol. 113, Number 542, 1995.

>From the abstract:
The book develops a theory for regular and singular Sturm-Liouville
boundary problems for difference equations, generalizing many of the
known results for differential equations.
Discussing the self-adjointness of these problems as well as their
abstract spectral resolution in the appropriate $L^2$ setting.
the book gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a second-order
difference operator to be self-adjoint and have orthogonal polynomials
as eigenfunctions.



Topic #8  ---------------  OP-SF NET  ---------------  February 9, 1995
From: OP-SF Net Editor <thk@fwi.uva.nl>
Subject: Continuation of the three-volume Vilenkin-Klimyk book

As a continuation of the three-volume book
"Representation of Lie Groups and Special Functions"
by N. Ja. Vilenkin and A.U. Klimyk (Kluwer, 1991-93), the two authors
(the first of whom died) have published now a one-volume continuation
which describes some new directions and results within the theme of
their earlier book:

N. Ja. Vilenkin and A.U. Klimyk
"Representation of Lie Groups and Special Functions, Recent Advances"
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Dordrecht, 1995

It consists of six chapters:

Chapter 1: h-Harmonic polynomials, h-Hankel transform, and Coxeter groups

Chapter 2: Symmetric polynomials and symmetric functions

Chapter 3: Hypergeometric functions related to Jack polynomials

Chapter 4: Clebsch-Gordan coefficients and Racah coefficients
           of finite dimensional representations

Chapter 5: Clebsch-Gordan coefficients of the group U(n) and related
           generalizations of hypergeometric functions

Chapter 6: Gel'fand hypergeometric functions



Topic #9  ---------------  OP-SF NET  ---------------  February 9, 1995
From: OP-SF Net Editor
Subject: Lecture Notes on Affine Hecke algebras and Macdonald conjectures

The following lecture notes are available as file hecke.tex from
Waleed Al-Salam's anonymous ftp site:

 Alexander A. Kirillov. Jr.,
 Lectures on the affine Hecke algebras and Macdonald conjectures,

These are the notes from a series of lectures the author gave at
Harvard University in the Fall of 1994. The goal of these lectures is
to give a self-contained exposition of a recent result of I.
Cherednik, who proved I.G. Macdonald's inner product conjectures for
arbitrary root systems, using the algebraic structure he called
"double affine Hecke algebra". In order to make these lectures
understandable to a general mathematical audience, the author gives
all necessary definitions (including that of Macdonald's polynomials,
Hecke algebras, etc.) and motivations in the course. However,
familiarity with (finite-dimensional and affine) root systems and Weyl
groups is assumed.

The author gives much credit to earlier lecture courses on the subject by
Ivan Cherednik, Howard Garland and Ian Macdonald.



Topic #10  --------------  OP-SF NET  ---------------  February 9, 1995
From: Yuan Xu <yuan@bright.uoregon.edu>
Subject: New book on Orthogonal Polynomials in Several Variables

The following Research Note appeared:

Yuan Xu
"Common Zeros of Polynomials in Several Variables and Higher
Dimensional Quadrature"
Pitman Research Notes in Mathematics Series, 312
Essex, 1994.

Abstract:
This research note presents a systematic study of the common zeros of
sets of polynomials in several variables which are related to higher
dimensional quadrature (often called cubature).  Just like the classical
Gaussian quadrature formula, a cubature formula of degree 2n-1 needs at
least N nodes, where N denotes the dimension of the subspace of
polynomials of degree at most n-1. A cubature formula whose number of
nodes is equal to N exists if, and only if, the corresponding orthogonal
polynomials of degree n have N real and distinct common zeros. However,
since such a cubature does not exist in general, one is led to study
cubature formulae with more nodes, the most interesting cases being the
ones with a minimal number of nodes.
     In the recent development of orthogonal polynomials in several
variables, the common zeros of orthogonal polynomials are characterized
as the joint eigenvalues of a family of block Jacobi matrices defined
through the coefficient matrices of a three-term relation in
vector-matrix form. The main results in this book show that, in general,
cubature formulae are based on the real and distinct common zeros of a
family of quasi-orthogonal polynomials, and the existence of these common
zeros can be characterized through the solvability of certain nonlinear
matrix equations derived from the modified block Jacobi matrices.
     The approach is parallel to that of one variable, which differs
significantly from earlier ones based on the algebraic ideal theory.
The book is in essence a research paper; a good portion of the
theorems are new and, in many cases, new proofs are given for known
results. The content is basically self-contained, including one
section that summarizes the recent results on the general structure of
orthogonal polynomials in several variables.



Topic #11  --------------  OP-SF NET  ---------------  February 9, 1995
From: M. Tong <be478@freenet.carleton.ca>
Subject: New Book on A Numerical Library in C

The following book appeared:

    Author :  H.T. Lau
     Title :  A Numerical Library in C for Scientists and Engineers
              (ISBN 0-8493-7376-X)
 Publisher :  CRC Press, Inc.
              2000 Corporate Blvd., N.W.
              Boca Raton, FL 33431
              USA
              telephone: +1-407-994 0555

This book contains an extensive coverage of computer programs in
numerical computing, with several hundred procedures including areas in
    Linear Algebra
    Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations
      (stiff and non-stiff systems)
    Optimization
    Parameter Estimation
    Special Functions in mathematical physics.
A diskette is included with all the source code.



Topic #12  --------------  OP-SF NET  ---------------  February 9, 1995
From: OP-SF Net Editor <thk@fwi.uva.nl>
Subject: Electronic Guide to Available Mathematical Software

The October 1994 issue of SIAM News described the Guide to Available
Mathematical Software (GAMS) of the National Institute of Standards and
Technology. It can be accessed by ftp, telnet, gopher or

  WWW: http://gams.nist.gov

Three possible ways of searching for software are offered you there:

-  what problem it solves
-  package name
-  module name

Try for instance the first possibility and search for one of the two
following keywords:

- orthogonal polynomials
- mathematical functions



Topic #13  --------------  OP-SF NET  ---------------  February 9, 1995
From: Paul Nevai <nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Change of Address for WWW home page of J. Approx. Theory

The Journal of Approximation Theory WWW home page address
(see OP-SF Net 1.9, Topic 10) has been simplified to:

         http://math.ohio-state.edu/JAT

All back issues of OP-SF Net are also kept there.



Topic #14  --------------  OP-SF NET  ---------------  February 9, 1995
From: AT-NET <at-net@math.technion.ac.il>
Subject: New email address of AT-NET

AT-NET is the electronic News Net on Approximation Theory.
The email address of AT-NET recently changed into:

                   at-net@math.technion.ac.il

We include a review of a few basic options available on AT-NET:

A) To submit a message to AT-NET, send it to:
      approx@math.technion.ac.il  or  at-net@math.technion.ac.il

B) To get the list of subscribers to AT-NET, send an e-mail message
   with body:
                          review at-net
   to the address:  listproc@math.technion.ac.il

C) You have various options on how to obtain the files of previous Bulletins.
  a) An index of bulletins (as of January 95) is obtainable by posting the
     message   index at-net   to   listproc@math.technion.ac.il   Bulletins
     are indexed by year and month. One can download, after one knows the
     correct format of the name using the command    get filename   addressed
     to the same address.
  b) By lynx, xmosaic, etc..... to
            http://gauss.technion.ac.il/lists/at-net
  c) By ftp to
                 gauss.technion.ac.il
     anonymous login, with password your address. Do cd lists/at-net
     to get into the correct subdirectory, and then the usual downloading
     commands.
  d) All previous Bulletins are presently archived at the home page of JAT,
            http://math.ohio-state.edu/JAT

D) To sign on to AT-NET, do the following from the e-mail address
   you wish to have all messages sent to. Send an e-mail message to:
               listproc@math.technion.ac.il
   with the body of the message consisting of the one line:
               sub at-net <given_name> <surname>
   Your subscription should be automatically accepted. You will receive
   notice of this fact, along with additional information. If you have
   problems, write to Allan Pinkus at approx@math.technion.ac.il
   or Carl de Boor at atnet@stolp.cs.wisc.edu



Topic #15  --------------  OP-SF NET  ---------------  February 9, 1995
From: OP-SF Net Editor <thk@fwi.uva.nl>
Subject: Phone, fax and email address changes at University of Leuven

Walter Van Assche and Erik Koelink got new email addresses and phone and fax
numbers:

Walter Van Assche:
phone: +32-16-32 70 51
fax:   +32-16-32 79 98
email:  Walter.VanAssche@wis.kuleuven.ac.be

Erik Koelink:
phone: +32-16-32 70 50
fax:   +32-16 32 79 98
email: Erik.Koelink@wis.KULeuven.ac.be

Their common mail address remains:
 Departement Wiskunde
 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
 Celestijnenlaan 200 B
 B-3001 Leuven (Heverlee)
 Belgium



Topic #16  --------------  OP-SF NET  ---------------  February 9, 1995
From: Waleed A. Al-Salam <waleed@euler.math.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Recent additions to ftp site on orthogonal polynomials and
         related special functions

Waleed Al-Salam has an anonymous ftp site at

     euler.math.ualberta.ca

on orthogonal polynomials and related special functions.
It can also be accessed by using World Wide Web (xmosaic or Mosaic)
at the address  ftp://euler.math.ualberta.ca.

Manuscripts can be obtained from directory  pub  and subdirectories.
In particular, examine the  CONTENTS  file in the  pub  directory.

If you wish to receive periodic info regarding recent additions to
this database please send an email  message to
waleed@euler.math.ualberta.ca   with your e-mail address.

You are invited to submit one or more of your not-yet-in-print
manuscripts which you wish to make available to the general OPS
community. They should be in Plain TeX, LaTeX, AMSTeX or AMSLaTeX
format. These manuscripts can be submitted by one of the following
methods:
     a) E-mail to waleed@EULER.MATH.UALBERTA.CA
     b) anonymous ftp to  euler.math.ualberta.ca
        then "cd submissions"
        and finally "put file" where "file" is the name of the file
        you wish to deposit.

Between December 27, 1994 and February 7, 1995 the following additions were
put in the pub directory:

M. A. Pinsky and C. Prather, Pointwise convergence of n-dimensional Hermite
     expansions. (see /ftp/pub/pinsky.tex)

A. A. Kirillov, Jr., Lectures on the affine Hecke algebras and Macdonald
     conjectures. (see /ftp/pub/hecke.tex)



Topic #17  --------------  OP-SF NET  ---------------  February 9, 1995
From: OP-SF Net editor <thk@fwi.uva.nl>
Subject: Obtaining back issues and contributing to future issues of OP-SF Net
         and the Newsletter

Back issues of OP-SF Net can be obtained from
     ftp:     ae.siam.org, in directory  pub/opsf-net .
or   gopher:  gopher.siam.org
or   WWW:     gopher://gopher.siam.org
or   WWW:     http://math.ohio-state.edu/JAT

Contributions to the OP-SF Net 2.2 should reach the email
address  poly@siam.org  before March 15, 1995.

Contributions to the Spring issue of the Orthogonal Polynomials and
Special Functions Newsletter should reach the Editor Eugene Tomer
before February 10, 1995.

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arrangements with the Editor. AmsTeX and AmsLatex files cannot be
accepted.  Whatever the content of your Latex article, you must use a
certain preamble which can be obtained by e-mail from the Editor.

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      Applied Mathematics & Computing
      150 Hernandez Avenue
      San Francisco, CA 94127, USA
      fax +1-415-731 3551

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