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Yang-Mills connections on surfaces and representations of the path group
Kent E. Morrison
We prove that Yang-Mills connections on a surface are characterized as those with the property that the holonomy around homotopic closed paths only depends on the oriented area bet…
The FedEx problem
Kent E. Morrison
The original shipping strategy of FedEx is to fly all packages to a hub location during the afternoon and evening, sort them there, and then fly them to their destinations during t…
From bocce to positivity: some probabilistic linear algebra
Kent E. Morrison
A question in geometric probability about the location of the balls in a game of bocce leads to related questions about the probability that a system of linear equations has a posi…
Guessing games
Anthony Mendes, Kent E. Morrison
In a guessing game, players guess the value of a random real number selected using some probability density function. The winner may be determined in various ways; for example, a w…