New exact solutions to the nonautonomous Liouville equation

We obtain new formulas for the exact analytic solutions to the nonautonomous elliptic Liouville equation in the two-dimensional coordinate space with the free function dependent specially on an arbitrary harmonic function. We present new exact solutions to the wave Liouville equation with two arbitrary functions, providing original formulas for the general solution for the classical (autonomous) and wave Liouville equations. Some equivalence transformations are presented for the elliptic Liouville equation depending on conjugate harmonic functions. In particular, we indicate a transformation that reduces the equation under study to an autonomous form.     

Operator adapted spectral element methods I: harmonic and generalized harmonic polynomials

Summary. The paper presents results on the approximation of functions which solve an elliptic differential equation by operator adapted systems of functions. Compared with standard polynomials, these operator adapted systems have superior local approximation properties. First, the case of Laplace's equation and harmonic polynomials as operator adapted functions is analyzed and rates of convergence in a Sobolev space setting are given for the approximation with harmonic polynomials. Special attention is paid to the approximation of singular functions that arise typically in corners. These results for harmonic polynomials are extended to general elliptic equations with analytic coefficients by means of the theory of Bergman and Vekua; the approximation results for Laplace's equation hold true verbatim, if harmonic polynomials are replaced with generalized harmonic polynomials. The Partition of Unity Method is used in a numerical example to construct an operator adapted spectral method for Laplace's equation that is based on approximating with harmonic polynomials locally. Received May 26, 1997 / Revised version received September 21, 1998 / Published online September 7, 1999     

On the solution of the inhomogeneous polyharmonic equation and the inhomogeneous helmholtz equation

We present formulas that simplify finding the solutions of the Poisson equation, the inhomogeneous polyharmonic equation, and the inhomogeneous Helmholtz equation in the case of a polynomial right-hand side. They are based on the representation of an analytic function by harmonic functions. The resulting formulas remain valid for some analytic right-hand sides for which the corresponding operator series converge.     

Minimal harmonic graphs and their Lorentzian cousins

Motivated by the observation that the only surface which is locally a graph of a harmonic function and is also a minimal surface in E³ is either a plane or a helicoid, we provide similar characterizations of the elliptic, hyperbolic and parabolic helicoids in L³ as the nontrivial zero mean curvature surfaces which also satisfy the harmonic equation, the wave equation, and a degenerate equation which is derived from the harmonic equation or the wave equation. This elementary and analytic result shows that the change of the roles of dependent and independent variables may be useful in solving differential equations.     

Uniqueness of analytic solutions for stationary plate oscillations in an annulus

The equations governing the harmonic oscillations of a plate with transverse shear deformation are considered in an annular domain. It is shown that under nonstandard boundary conditions where both the displacements and tractions are zero on the internal boundary curve, the corresponding analytic solution is zero in the entire domain. This property is then used to prove that a boundary value problem with Dirichlet or Neumann conditions on the external boundary and Robin conditions on the internal boundary has at most one analytic solution.     

Exact analytic solutions to the problem on plane buckling modes of rectangular orthotropic plates with free edges under biaxial loading

A two-dimensional linearized problem on plane buckling modes (BMs) of a rectangular plate with free edges, made of an elastic orthotropic material, underbiaxial tension-compression is considered. With the use of double trigonometric basis functions, displacement functions exactly satisfying all static boundary condition on plate edges are constructed. It is shown that the exact analytic solutions found describe only the pure shear BMs, and if the normal stress in one direction is assumed equal to zero, an analog of the solution given by the kinematic Timoshenko model can be obtained. Upon performing the limit passage to the zero harmonic in the displacement functions of one of the directions, the solution to the problem of biaxial compression can be obtained by equating the Poisson ratio to zero; in the case of uniaxial compression, this solution exactly agrees with that following from the classical Bernoulli-Euler model. __________ Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 149–170, March–April, 2007.     

On the analytic complexity of hypergeometric functions

Hypergeometric functions of several variables resemble functions of finite analytic complexity in the sense that the elements of both classes satisfy certain canonical overdetermined systems of partial differential equations. Otherwise these two sets of functions are very different. We investigate the relation between the two classes of functions and compute the analytic complexity of certain bivariate hypergeometric functions.     

Subclasses of harmonic mappings defined by convolution

Two new subclasses of harmonic univalent functions defined by convolution are introduced. The subclasses generate a number of known subclasses of harmonic mappings, and thus provide a unified treatment in the study of these subclasses. Sufficient coefficient conditions are obtained that are shown to be also necessary when the analytic parts of the harmonic functions have negative coefficients. Growth estimates and extreme points are also determined.     

Structure of rings of functions with Riemann Stieltjes convolution products

In this note three sets of complex valued functions with pointwise addition and a Riemann Stieltjes convolution product are considered. The functions considered are discrete analytic functions, sequences, and continuous functions of bounded variation defined on the nonnegative real numbers. Each forms a commutative algebra with identity. The discrete analytic functions form a principal ideal ring with five maximal ideals, nine prime ideals, and is essentially a direct sum of four discrete valuation rings. The ring of sequences is isomorphic to an ideal of the ring of discrete analytic functions; it has two maximal and three prime ideals. Both contain divisors of zero. The units, associates, irreducible elements and primes in these two rings are described. The results are used to study the continuous functions; partial results are obtained concerning units and divisors of zero. The product satisfies a convolution theorem.     

A regularity theory for intrinsic minimising fractional harmonic maps

We define and develop an interior partial regularity theory for intrinsic energy minimising fractional harmonic maps from Euclidean space into smooth compact Riemannian manifolds for fractional powers strictly between zero and one. Intrinsic fractional harmonic maps are critical points of an energy whose first variation is a Dirichlet to Neumann map for the harmonic map problem on a half-space with a Riemannian metric which can degenerate/become singular along the boundary, depending on the fractional power. Similarly to the approach used to prove regularity for stationary intrinsic semi-harmonic maps, we take advantage of the connection between fractional harmonic maps and free boundary problems for harmonic maps in order to develop a partial regularity theory for the fractional harmonic maps we consider. In particular, we prove partial regularity for locally minimising harmonic maps with (partially) free boundary data on half-spaces with the aforementioned metrics up to the boundary; fractional harmonic maps then inherit this regularity. As a by-product of our methods we shed some new light on the monotonicity of the average energy of solutions of the degenerate linear elliptic equation related to fractional harmonic functions.     

Matrix technique for nonperturbative Green function of time-independent Schrödinger equation

A Green function of time-independent multi-channel Schrödinger equation is considered in matrix representation beyond a perturbation theory. Nonperturbative Green functions are obtained through the regular in zero and at infinity solutions of the multi-channel Schrödinger equation for different cases of symmetry of the full Hamiltonian. The spectral expansions for the nonperturbative Green functions are obtained in simple form through multi-channel wave functions. The developed approach is applied to obtain simple analytic equations for the Green functions and transition matrix elements for compound multi-potential system within quasi-classical approximation. The limits of strong and weak inter-channel interactions are studied.     

A boundary layer theory for diffusively perturbed transport around a heteroclinic cycle

We consider a two‐dimensional transport equation subject to small diffusive perturbations. The transport equation is given by a Hamiltonian flow near a compact and connected heteroclinic cycle. We investigate approximately harmonic functions corresponding to the generator of the perturbed transport equation. In particular, we investigate such functions in the boundary layer near the heteroclinic cycle; the space of these functions gives information about the likelihood of a particle moving a mesoscopic distance into one of the regions where the transport equation corresponds to periodic oscillations (i.e., a “well” of the Hamiltonian). We find that we can construct such approximately harmonic functions (which can be used as “corrector functions” in certain averaging questions) when certain macroscopic “gluing conditions” are satisfied. This provides a different perspective on some previous work of Freidlin and Wentzell on stochastic averaging of Hamiltonian systems. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

隧洞围岩应力复变函数分析法中的解析函数求解

利用复变函数理论进行地下任意开挖断面隧洞围岩应力分析的前提,是根据围岩应力边界条件方程推导出两个解析函数．从Harnack定理出发,将隧洞围岩应力边界条件方程转化成积分方程;把Laurent级数有限项表示的映射函数引入积分方程中,将以任意开挖断面为边界条件的解析函数求解转化成以单位圆周线为边界条件的求解问题．对积分方程中各被积函数在讨论域内的解析性进行了分析,在此基础上利用留数理论求解了方程中各项积分值,并获得了用来表示任意开挖断面隧道围岩应力的两个解析函数通式．给出了圆形和椭圆形隧道的两个解析函数求解算例,所获得的结果与文献中的结果一致．利用留数理论推导出的两个解析函数通式,适用于任意开挖断面隧洞的围岩应力解析解的计算,且计算过程更为简单,计算结果更为精确．     

与A-调和方程有关的两个结果

给出两个与A 调和方程有关的结果 .第一个结果是一类A 调和方程的很弱解可由调和函数逼近 .另一个是变分积分弱极值的充分必要条件     

On uniform approximation by harmonic and almost harmonic vector fields

Three- dimensional analogs of rational uniform approximation in \mathbbC \mathbb{C} are considered. These analogs are related to approximation properties of harmonic (i. e., curl-free and solenoidal) vector fields. The usual uniform approximation by fields harmonic near a given compact set K ⊂ \mathbbR³ \mathbb{R}^3 is compared with the uniform approximation by smooth fields whose curls and divergences tends to zero uniformly on K. A similar two-dimensional modification of the uniform approximation by functions f that are complex analytic near a given compact set K ⊂ \mathbbC \mathbb{C} (when f is assumed to be in C ¹ with [`(?)] f\bar \partial {\kern 1pt}f small on K) results in a problem equivalent to the original one. In the three-dimensional settings, the two problems (of harmonic and of almost harmonic approximation) are different. The first problem is nonlocal whereas the second one is local (i. e., an analog of the Bishop theorem on the locality of R(K) is still valid for almost harmonic approximation). Almost curl-free approximation is also considered. Bibliography: 7 titles.     

Some pathological examples of solutions to a Beltrami equation

We construct an example of a bounded solution to a uniformly elliptic Beltrami equation that has no nontangential limit values almost everywhere on the boundary of the unit disk and also an example of a solution to such an equation that is not identically zero and has zero nontangential limit values almost everywhere on the boundary of the unit disk. These examples show that, in the general case of the Hardy spaces of solutions to a uniformly elliptic Beltrami equation (and to more general noncanonical first-order elliptic systems), the usual statement of boundary value problems used for holomorphic and generalized analytic functions is ill-posed.     

Two-dimensional steady-state general solution for isotropic thermoelastic materials with applications. I: General solutions and fundamental solutions

Four steady-state general solutions are derived in this paper for the two-dimensional equation of isotropic thermoelastic materials. Using the differential operator theory, three general solutions can be derived and expressed in terms of one function, which satisfies a six-order partial differential equation. By virtue of the Almansi’s theorem, the three general solutions can be transferred to three general solutions which are expressed in terms of two harmonic functions, respectively. At last, a integrate general solution expressed in three harmonic functions is obtained by superposing the obtained two general solutions. The proposed general solution is very simple in form and can be used easily in certain boundary problems. As two examples, the fundamental solutions for both a line heat source in the interior of infinite plane and a line heat source on the surface of semi-infinite plane are presented by virtue of the obtained general solutions.     

Convolutions for special classes of harmonic univalent functions

Ruscheweyh and Sheil-Small proved the PólyarSchoenberg conjecture that the class of convex analytic functions is closed under convolution or Hadamard product. They also showed that close-to-convexity is preserved under convolution with convex analytic functions. In this note, we investigate harmonic analogs. Beginning with convex analytic functions, we form certain harmonic functions which preserve close-to-convexity under convolution. An auxiliary function enables us to obtain necessary and sufficient convolution conditions for convex and starlike harmonic functions, which lead to sufficient coefficient bounds for inclusion in these classes.