Study evaluates and compares traditional and causal machine learning methods for estimating direct price effects of environmental amenities.
problem Estimating direct price effects of environmental amenities in housing markets.
method Empirical Monte Carlo simulation to compare traditional regression and causal machine learning approaches.
result Causal Machine Learning (CML) methods, particularly causal forest DID, perform comparably to generalized DID in most scenarios.
Studies amenable category's monotonicity and its relation to topological complexity.
problem Monotonicity of amenable category for degree-one maps.
method Uses amenable covers and compares with topological complexity.
result Establishes a relation between amenable category and topological complexity.
Groups with specific properties have vanishing ℓ2-Betti numbers.
problem Understanding ℓ2-Betti numbers for certain groups. method Introduced cheap 1-rebuilding property and used structure theorem of Tucker-Drob.
result First ℓ2-Betti numbers vanish for specified groups. The paper explores non-amenability in infinite-type surfaces and graphs.
problem Determining non-amenability in mapping class groups of infinite-type surfaces and graphs.
method Analyzes mapping class groups of infinite-type surfaces and graphs, provides examples and exhibits classes of groups.
result Completely determines non-amenability of mapping class groups of infinite-type surfaces and graphs.
Study finds environmental liability insurance reduces industrial carbon emissions.
problem Reduction of industrial carbon emissions.
method Two-way fixed effect model using provincial (city) level panel data from 2010 to 2020.
result Environmental liability insurance reduces industrial carbon emissions at both direct and indirect levels, with varying effects.
We generalize Luck's Theorem to show that the L^2-Betti numbers of a residually amenable covering space are the limit of the L^2-Betti numbers of a sequence of amenable covering spaces. We show that any residually amenable covering space of a finite simplicial complex is of determinant class, and that the L^2 torsion i…
Extends Gromov's theorem with amenable covers.
problem Gromov's Vanishing Theorem limitations.
method Gromov's multicomplex theory, relative bounded cohomology.
result Relative version of Gromov's Vanishing Theorem.
The existence of nonconstant harmonic Dirichlet functions on a Cayley graph of a discrete group is equivalent to the nonvanishing of the first L2-cohomology of the given group. It was first proven by Cheeger and Gromov that such functions do not exists on the Cayley-graph of an amenable group. The result was extended u…
The study shows simplicial volume finiteness for certain manifolds with amenable fundamental groups.
problem Determining the simplicial volume of manifolds with specific properties.
method Analyzing the fundamental group and using amenability properties.
result Simplicial volume is finite for certain manifolds with amenable fundamental groups.
Paper shows mapping class groups are not extremely amenable except for specific cases.
problem Determining when mapping class groups are extremely amenable.
method Utilized Kechris-Pestov-Todorčević machinery.
result Big mapping class groups are not extremely amenable unless the surface is a sphere or a once-punctured sphere.
Higher environmental performance linked to more tax avoidance, especially for financially constrained firms.
problem Tax avoidance practices in relation to environmental performance.
method Entropy balancing, propensity score matching, instrumental variable method, Heckman test.
result Higher environmental performance correlates with increased tax avoidance, particularly for financially constrained firms.
The paper introduces a new financial market for environmental indices to attract investors.
problem Inherent risks and sustainability concerns in environmental investments.
method Quantitative measures, econometric analysis, dynamic asset pricing tools, and financial options.
result Monetization and construction of country-specific environmental indices as dollar-denominated assets.
Study shows environmental spending positively impacts company profitability.
problem Impact of environmental spending on company profitability.
method Panel data regression analysis using E-Views.
result Environmental spending positively impacts profitability metrics.
Integral foliated simplicial volume is zero for certain amenable covers.
problem Calculating the integral foliated simplicial volume of specific manifolds.
method Using open amenable covers and fixed price property of fundamental groups.
result Integral foliated simplicial volume is zero for manifolds with multiplicity at most n.
Proposes a new framework for environmental CVA with robust wrong-way risk.
problem Limited operational implementations of translating environmental scenarios into CVA.
method Three components: hazard rate mapping, tail generators, and KL divergence-based wrong-way risk bound.
result Nature CVAs can vary significantly across different ecosystem generators.
Coxeter groups admit amenable actions on compact spaces. Moreover, they have finite asymptotic dimension.
AI methods are energy-intensive, but efficiency alone isn't enough for sustainability.
problem AI methods are energy-intensive and contribute to climate change.
method Critically examines the limitations of efficiency in improving environmental sustainability of AI.
result Efficiency alone is insufficient to address the environmental impacts of AI.
The aim of this paper is to clarify the relationship between Gromov-hyperbolicity and amenability for planar maps.
Study assesses environmental management accounting practices in Bangladesh.
problem Low environmental management accounting practices in Bangladeshi manufacturing companies.
method Developed a compliance checklist and evaluated practices using binary scoring.
result Environmental management accounting practices are poor in Bangladeshi manufacturing companies.
Hedonic models predict 84-92% of U.S. real estate prices, highlighting environmental factors' impact.
problem Predicting real estate prices using hedonic models with environmental factors.
method P-spline generalized additive models for real estate prices, contrasting with linear and polynomial models.
result GAM models explain 84-92% of U.S. real estate price variance, with environmental factors contributing minimally.
In this paper, we prove that the L2 Betti numbers of an amenable covering space can be approximated by the average Betti numbers of a regular exhaustion, proving a conjecture that we made in an earlier paper. We also prove that an arbitrary amenable covering space of a finite simplicial complex is of determinant cla…
Study identifies contagion in aggregated defaults despite environmental changes.
problem Identify contagion in aggregated default counts with fluctuating probabilities.
method Compare three contagion mechanisms (Davis-Lo, Torri, Vasicek) under i.i.d. and hierarchical specifications.
result Threshold contagion is largely absorbed into environmental heterogeneity, while cumulative contagion leaves a persistent signature.
MMformer improves forecasting of environmental time series data.
problem Accurately forecasting environmental change trends for policy-making.
method Meta-learning MTS model combining self-attention and adaptive transferable multi-head attention.
result MMformer outperforms other models in air quality and climate datasets, reducing prediction errors by 50% in MSE and 20% in MAE.
RST improves environmental time series classification accuracy using randomized B-spline trees.
problem Improving accuracy in classifying complex environmental time series.
method Randomized Spline Trees (RST) integrates randomized functional representations into ensemble learning.
result RST variants outperform standard Random Forests and Gradient Boosting on most environmental time series datasets.
Recent research in coarse geometry revealed similarities between certain concepts of analysis, large scale geometry, and topology. Property A of G.Yu is the coarse analog of amenability for groups and its generalization (exact spaces) was later strengthened to be the large scale analog of paracompact spaces using parti…
Bayesian optimization adapted for experiments with changing environmental conditions.
problem Optimizing experiments influenced by uncontrollable environmental factors.
method Extends Bayesian optimization to handle both controllable and uncontrollable parameters, fitting a global surrogate model and optimizing only controllable parameters conditionally on measurements of uncontrollable variables.
result The proposed ENVBO algorithm finds solutions for the full domain of the environmental variable more efficiently and cost-effectively than traditional methods.
It was pointed out to us that the proof of a crucial lemma (Lemma 5.3) in the paper is incorrect. Thus the approximation theorem (Theorem 0.1) for L^2 torsion of an amenable covering of a finite simplicial complex remains unproved. However, results and proofs of the first four sections (in particular, the approximation…
Compact leaves with amenable groups are stable under small perturbations.
problem Stability of compact leaves with amenable fundamental groups under small perturbations.
method Proving Thurston's conjecture for foliations close to the original foliation.
result Compact leaves with amenable groups are stable under small perturbations.
Classifies 4-manifolds with elementary amenable groups and their boundaries.
problem Characterizing compact aspherical 4-manifolds with elementary amenable fundamental groups.
method Classification based on fundamental group properties and Farrell-Jones Conjecture.
result Such manifolds are either polycyclic or solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups.
Study uses ML and statistical models to analyze climate impacts of industrial growth.
problem Understanding and predicting environmental impacts of industrial activities.
method Comparative analysis of ML and statistical models on time series data.
result ML models outperform statistical models in predicting environmental impacts.
A standing conjecture in L2-cohomology is that every finite CW-complex X is of L2-determinant class. In this paper, we prove this whenever the fundamental group belongs to a large class of groups containing e.g. all extensions of residually finite groups with amenable quotients, all residually amenable groups and free …
We present results from a set of experiments in this pilot study to investigate the causal influence of user activity on various environmental parameters monitored by occupant carried multi-purpose sensors. Hypotheses with respect to each type of measurements are verified, including temperature, humidity, and light lev…
Novel Orlicz regrets consistently bound environmental variable statistics.
problem Consistent evaluation of stochastic environmental variables like water quality indices.
method Proposed novel Orlicz regrets for upper and lower bounds.
result Explicit linkage between Orlicz regrets and divergence risk measures.
We analyse a multiplex of networks between OECD countries during the decade 2002-2010, which consists of five financial layers, given by foreign direct investment, equity securities, short-term, long-term and total debt securities, and five environmental layers, given by emissions of N O x, P M 10 SO 2, CO 2 equivalent…
Proposes balancing revenue and environmental impact in assortment planning.
problem Maximizing revenue while considering environmental impact in retail assortment planning.
method Multi-objective optimization using Higg Material Sustainability Index.
result Shows it's possible to have lower environmental impact without significant revenue loss.
The paper extends Johnson's characterization of amenable groups to homomorphisms and acyclicity in bounded cohomology.
problem Characterizing amenable and acyclic groups and homomorphisms in bounded cohomology.
method Extending Johnson's characterization to homomorphisms and proving analogous results for boundedly acyclic homomorphisms.
result Characterizations of amenable and boundedly acyclic homomorphisms in terms of bounded cohomology vanishing.
Measure-scaling quasi-isometries on graphs have specific scaling groups.
problem Understanding the scaling groups of graphs under quasi-isometries.
method Analyzing measure-scaling quasi-isometries on graphs and their properties.
result The scaling group of a graph is invariant under measure-scaling quasi-isometries.
One of the primary aspects of sustainable development involves accurate understanding and modeling of environmental phenomena. Many of these phenomena exhibit variations in both space and time and it is imperative to develop a deeper understanding of techniques that can model space-time dynamics accurately. In this pap…
Researchers redefine ℓ∞-cohomology for groups and spaces, linking it to amenability, hyperbolicity, and algorithmic undecidability.
problem Characterizing groups using ℓ∞-cohomology. method Revisiting Gersten's ℓ∞-cohomology, providing characterizations of amenability and hyperbolicity, and considering algorithmic problems. result Undecidability of some algorithmic problems concerning ℓ∞-cohomology. BN^2MF identifies unknown exposure patterns in environmental mixtures.
problem Identifying unknown exposure patterns in environmental mixtures.
method Bayesian non-parametric non-negative matrix factorization (BN^2MF) with non-negative continuous priors and a non-parametric sparse prior.
result Estimates patterns of chemical exposures without specifying the number of patterns.
We give a diffeomorphism classification of pinched negatively curved manifolds with amenable fundamental groups, namely, they are precisely the Möbius band, and the products of a line with the total spaces of flat vector bundles over closed infranilmanifolds.
Study shows complete affine manifolds have zero simplicial volume.
problem Estimating the amenable category of affine manifolds.
method Construction of manifolds with infinite amenable normal subgroups.
result Zero simplicial volume for all such manifolds.
We discuss some additivity properties of the simplicial volume for manifolds with boundary: we give proofs of additivity for glueing amenable boundary components and of superadditivity for glueing amenable submanifolds of the boundary, and we discuss doubling of 3-manifolds.
Let Gamma be a finitely generated, amenable group. Using an idea of E Ghys, we prove that if Gamma has a nontrivial, orientation-preserving action on the real line, then Gamma has an infinite, cyclic quotient. (The converse is obvious.) This implies that if Gamma has a faithful action on the circle, then some finite-in…
New computations show various properties of bounded cohomology in finitely presented groups.
problem Understanding bounded cohomology properties in finitely presented groups.
method Computational and theoretical analysis of bounded cohomology.
result Existence of finitely presented non-amenable boundedly acyclic groups and groups with uncountable bounded cohomology.
We prove that the first reduced cohomology with values in a mixing Lp-representation, p larger than 1, vanishes for a class of amenable groups including connected amenable Lie groups. In particular this solves for this class of amenable groups a conjecture of Gromov saying that every finitely generated amenable group h…
We prove that Out(FN) is boundary amenable. This also holds more generally for Out(G), where G is either a toral relatively hyperbolic group or a finitely generated right-angled Artin group. As a consequence, all these groups satisfy the Novikov conjecture on higher signatures.
A big challenge in environmental monitoring is the spatiotemporal variation of the phenomena to be observed. To enable persistent sensing and estimation in such a setting, it is beneficial to have a time-varying underlying environmental model. Here we present a planning and learning method that enables an autonomous ma…