Feedback approximation of the minimum energy control for linear infinite-dimensional systems with zero terminal state

The paper studies the minimum energy control problem for linear infinite-dimensional systems with an unbounded input operator and zero terminal state. This problem is approximated by the minimum energy control problem with a small terminal state for which the solution is derived in feedback form. The operators which comprise the feedback are described in terms of differential relations which, depending on circumstances, involve Liapunov or Riccati differential equations. A detailed example illustrates how the general results apply to the wave equation with control in Dirichlet boundary condition.This work was supported by the Polish Ministry of National Education under Grant DNS-T/02/097/90-2.     

Strategic absentmindedness in finitely repeated games

In this paper we consider finitely repeated games in which players can unilaterally commit to behave in an absentminded way in some stages of the repeated game. We prove that the standard conditions for folk theorems can be substantially relaxed when players are able to make this kind of compromises, both in the Nash and in the subgame perfect case. We also analyze the relation of our model with the repeated games with unilateral commitments studied, for instance, in García-Jurado et al. (Int. Game Theory Rev. 2:129–139, 2000). Authors acknowledge the financial support of Ministerio de Educaci ón y Ciencia, FEDER and Fundación Séneca de la Región de Murcia through projects SEJ2005-07637-C02-02, ECO2008-03484-C02-02, MTM2005-09184-C02-02, MTM2008-06778-C02-01 and 08716/PI/08.     

On partitioning the orbitals of a transitive permutation group

Let be a permutation group on a set with a transitive normal subgroup . Then acts on the set of nontrivial -orbitals in the natural way, and here we are interested in the case where has a partition such that acts transitively on . The problem of characterising such tuples , called TODs, arises naturally in permutation group theory, and also occurs in number theory and combinatorics. The case where is a prime-power is important in algebraic number theory in the study of arithmetically exceptional rational polynomials. The case where exactly corresponds to self-complementary vertex-transitive graphs, while the general case corresponds to a type of isomorphic factorisation of complete graphs, called a homogeneous factorisation. Characterising homogeneous factorisations is an important problem in graph theory with applications to Ramsey theory. This paper develops a framework for the study of TODs, establishes some numerical relations between the parameters involved in TODs, gives some reduction results with respect to the -actions on and on , and gives some construction methods for TODs.

     

Formulas for tamely ramified supercuspidal characters of

Let denote a -adic local field of residual characteristic . This article gives formulas, valid on the regular elliptic set, for the irreducible supercuspidal characters of which correspond to characters of a ramified Cartan subgroup. In the case in which does not contain cube roots of unity, i.e., the case in which ramified cubic extensions of degree over cannot be Galois, base change results concerning ``simple types" due to Bushnell and Henniart (1996) are used in the proofs.

     

Numerical index and renorming

We study the numerical index of a Banach space from the isomorphic point of view, that is, we investigate the values of the numerical index which can be obtained by renorming the space. The set of these values is always an interval which contains in the real case and in the complex case. Moreover, for ``most' Banach spaces the least upper bound of this interval is as large as possible, namely .

     

On lower bounds for theL 2-Wasserstein metric in a Hilbert space

We provide two families of lower bounds for theL ²-Wasserstein metric in separable Hilbert spaces which depend on the basis chosen for the space. Then we focus on one of these families and we provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the supremum in it to be attained. In the finite dimensional case, we identify the basis which provides the most accurate lower bound in the family.Research partially supported by the Spanish DGICYT under grants PB91-0306-02-00, 01 and 02.     

Polynomial algorithms for parametric minquantile and maxcovering planar location problems with locational constraints

A location is sought within some convex region of the plane for the central site of some public service to a finite number of demand points. The parametric maxcovering problem consists in finding for eachR>0 the point from which the total weight of the demand points within distanceR is maximal. The parametric minimal quantile problem asks for each percentage α the point minimising the distance necessary for covering demand points of total weight at least α. We investigate the properties of these two closely related problems and derive polynomial algorithms to solve them both in case of either (possibly inflated) Euclidean or polyhedral distances. The research of the first author is partially supported by Grant PB96-1416-C02-02 of Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Spain.     

Totally positive Toeplitz matrices and quantum cohomology of partial flag varieties

We show that the set of totally positive unipotent lower-triangular Toeplitz matrices in forms a real semi-algebraic cell of dimension . Furthermore we prove a natural cell decomposition for its closure. The proof uses properties of the quantum cohomology rings of the partial flag varieties of relying in particular on the positivity of the structure constants, which are enumerative Gromov-Witten invariants. We also give a characterization of total positivity for Toeplitz matrices in terms of the (quantum) Schubert classes. This work builds on some results of Dale Peterson's which we explain with proofs in the type case.

     

Remarks on a Nonlinear Parabolic Equation

The equation , , is studied in and in the periodic case. It is shown that the equation is well-posed in and possesses regularizing properties. For nonnegative initial data and the solution decays in as . In the periodic case it tends uniformly to a limit. A consistent difference scheme is presented and proved to be stable and convergent.

     

On the curves of contact on surfaces in a projective space. III

Suppose a smooth curve is a set-theoretic complete intersection of two surfaces and with the multiplicity of along less than or equal to the multiplicity of along . One obtains a relation between the degrees of , and , the genus of , and the multiplicity of along in case has only ordinary singularities. One obtains (in the characteristic zero case) that a nonsingular rational curve of degree 4 in is not set-theoretically an intersection of 2 surfaces, provided one of them has at most ordinary singularities. The same result holds for a general nonsingular rational curve of degree .

     

Relaxation limit for hyperbolic systems in chromatography

This paper is concerned with a nonlinear system which arises in chromatography. The global existence of solutions in space for a Cauchy problem with initial data is obtained for any fixed 0$">, and the convergence of to its equilibrium state , governed by a limit system is proved for the case by using the compensated compactness coupled with the framework of Tzavaras (1999).

     

An extension of Takahashi's theorem

A classical result of T. Takahashi [8] is generalized to the case of hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space E ^m . More concretely, we classify Euclidean hypersurfaces whose coordinate functions in E ^m are eigenfunctions of their Laplacian.Partially supported by a CAICYT Grant PR84-1242-C02-02 Spain.     

Locally conformal Kähler structures in quaternionic geometry

We consider compact locally conformal quaternion Kähler manifolds . This structure defines on a canonical foliation, which we assume to have compact leaves. We prove that the local quaternion Kähler metrics are Ricci-flat and allow us to project over a quaternion Kähler orbifold with fibers conformally flat 4-dimensional real Hopf manifolds. This fibration was known for the subclass of locally conformal hyperkähler manifolds; in this case we make some observations on the fibers' structure and obtain restrictions on the Betti numbers. In the homogeneous case is shown to be a manifold and this allows a classification. Examples of locally conformal quaternion Kähler manifolds (some with a global complex structure, some locally conformal hyperkähler) are the Hopf manifolds quotients of by the diagonal action of appropriately chosen discrete subgroups of .

     

Double Bruhat cells and total positivity

We study the totally nonnegative variety in a semisimple algebraic group . These varieties were introduced by G. Lusztig, and include as a special case the variety of unimodular matrices of a given order whose all minors are nonnegative. The geometric framework for our study is provided by intersecting with double Bruhat cells (intersections of cells of the two Bruhat decompositions of with respect to opposite Borel subgroups).

     

Enhanced accuracy by post-processing for finite element methods for hyperbolic equations

We consider the enhancement of accuracy, by means of a simple post-processing technique, for finite element approximations to transient hyperbolic equations. The post-processing is a convolution with a kernel whose support has measure of order one in the case of arbitrary unstructured meshes; if the mesh is locally translation invariant, the support of the kernel is a cube whose edges are of size of the order of only. For example, when polynomials of degree are used in the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method, and the exact solution is globally smooth, the DG method is of order in the -norm, whereas the post-processed approximation is of order ; if the exact solution is in only, in which case no order of convergence is available for the DG method, the post-processed approximation converges with order in , where is a subdomain over which the exact solution is smooth. Numerical results displaying the sharpness of the estimates are presented.

     

Optimal location and design of a competitive facility

A single facility has to be located in competition with fixed existing facilities of similar type. Demand is supposed to be concentrated at a finite number of points, and consumers patronise the facility to which they are attracted most. Attraction is expressed by some function of the quality of the facility and its distance to demand. For existing facilities quality is fixed, while quality of the new facility may be freely chosen at known costs. The total demand captured by the new facility generates income. The question is to find that location and quality for the new facility which maximises the resulting profits.It is shown that this problem is well posed as soon as consumers are novelty oriented, i.e. attraction ties are resolved in favour of the new facility. Solution of the problem then may be reduced to a bicriterion maxcovering-minquantile problem for which solution methods are known. In the planar case with Euclidean distances and a variety of attraction functions this leads to a finite algorithm polynomial in the number of consumers, whereas, for more general instances, the search of a maximal profit solution is reduced to solving a series of small-scale nonlinear optimisation problems. Alternative tie-resolution rules are finally shown to result in problems in which optimal solutions might not exist.Mathematics Subject Classification (2000):90B85, 90C30, 90C29, 91B42Partially supported by Grant PB96-1416-C02-02 of the D.G.E.S. and Grant BFM2002-04525-C02-02 of Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Spain     

Perfect cliques and colorings of Polish spaces

A coloring of a set is any subset of , where 1$"> is a natural number. We give some sufficient conditions for the existence of a perfect -homogeneous set, in the case where is and is a Polish space. In particular, we show that it is sufficient that there exist -homogeneous sets of arbitrarily large countable Cantor-Bendixson rank. We apply our methods to show that an analytic subset of the plane contains a perfect -clique if it contains any uncountable -clique, where is a natural number or (a set is a -clique in if the convex hull of any of its -element subsets is not contained in ).

     

The number of planar central configurations for the -body problem is finite when mass positions are fixed

In the -body problem a central configuration is formed when the position vector of each particle with respect to the center of mass is a common scalar multiple of its acceleration vector. Lindstrom showed for and for 4$"> that if masses are located at fixed points in the plane, then there are only a finite number of ways to position the remaining th mass in such a way that they define a central configuration. Lindstrom leaves open the case . In this paper we prove the case using as variables the mutual distances between the particles.

     

Linear systems of plane curves with a composite number of base points of equal multiplicity

In this article we study linear systems of plane curves of degree passing through general base points with the same multiplicity at each of them. These systems are known as homogeneous linear systems. We especially investigate for which of these systems, the base points, with their multiplicities, impose independent conditions and which homogeneous systems are empty. Such systems are called non-special. We extend the range of homogeneous linear systems that are known to be non-special. A theorem of Evain states that the systems of curves of degree with base points with equal multiplicity are non-special. The analogous result for points was conjectured. Both of these will follow, as corollaries, from the main theorem proved in this paper. Also, the case of points will follow from our result. The proof uses a degeneration technique developed by C. Ciliberto and R. Miranda.