Controllability of Second-Order Differential and Integro-Differential Inclusions in Banach Spaces

In this paper, the controllability of second-order differential and integro-differential inclusions in Banach spaces are investigated. Two new results are obtained by using the theory of strongly continuous cosine families and a fixed point theorem for multivalued maps. Communicated by F. Zirilli Research supported by NNSF of China Grant 10571078, by NSF of Gansu Province of China Grant ZS011-A25-007-Z, and by the Teaching and Research Award Program for Outstanding Young Teacher in Higher Education Institutions, Ministry of Education of China.     

Vector Ordinal Optimization

Ordinal optimization is a tool to reduce the computational burden in simulation-based optimization problems. So far, the major effort in this field focuses on single-objective optimization. In this paper, we extend this to multiobjective optimization and develop vector ordinal optimization, which is different from the one introduced in Ref. 1. Alignment probability and ordered performance curve (OPC) are redefined for multiobjective optimization. Our results lead to quantifiable subset selection sizes in the multiobjective case, which supplies guidance in solving practical problems, as demonstrated by the examples in this paper.This paper was supported in part by Army Contract DAAD19-01-1-0610, AFOSR Contract F49620-01-1-0288, and a contract with United Technology Research Center (UTRC). The first author received additional funding from NSF of China Grants 60074012 and 60274011, Ministry of Education (China), and a Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) Fundamental Research Funding Grant, and the NCET program of China.The authors are grateful to and benefited from two rounds of reviews from three anonymous referees.     

On Pairs of Linear Equations in Three Prime Variables

In this paper, we consider the simultaneous representation of pairs of integers as linear combinations in three prime variables and obtain a related numerical bound.     

A note on the perturbed compound poisson risk model with a threshold dividend strategy

In this paper, we consider the Perturbed Compound Poisson Risk Model with a threshold dividend strategy （PCT）. Integro-differential equations （IDE） for its Cerber-Shiu functions and dividend payments function are stated. We maily focus on deriving the boundary conditions to solve these equations.     

Sharp Error Estimate for Maximum Likelihood Estimator of Nonstationary Diffusion Processes

We consider the maximum likelihood estimator of the unknown parameter in a class of nonstationary diffusion processes. We give further a precise estimate for the error of the estimator.     

Modified Combined Relaxation Method for General Monotone Equilibrium Problems in Hilbert Spaces

In this paper, we study a class of general monotone equilibrium problems in a real Hilbert space which involves a monotone differentiable bifunction. For such a bifunction, a skew-symmetric type property with respect to the partial gradients is established. We suggest to solve this class of equilibrium problems with the modified combined relaxation method involving an auxiliary procedure. We prove the existence and uniqueness of the solution to the auxiliary variational inequality in the auxiliary procedure. Further, we prove also the weak convergence of the modified combined relaxation method by virtue of the monotonicity and the skew-symmetric type property.Communicated by F. GiannessiHis research was partially supported by the Teaching and Research Award Fund for Outstanding Young Teachers in Higher Education Institutions of MOE, China and by the Dawn Program Foundation in Shanghai.His research was partially supported by a grant from the National Science Council of Taiwan.     

Time-varying parameter auto-regressive models for autocovariance nonstationary time series

In this paper, autocovariance nonstationary time series is clearly defined on a family of time series. We propose three types of TVPAR (time-varying parameter auto-regressive) models: the full order TVPAR model, the time-unvarying order TVPAR model and the time-varying order TVPAR model for autocovariance nonstationary time series. Related minimum AIC (Akaike information criterion) estimations are carried out. This work was supported by the Doctoral Research Fund of the Ministry of Education, China (Grant No. 20040285008), and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan, 2005 (Grant No. 17300228)     

An analogue of Beurling’s theorem for the Jacobi transform

In this paper, we prove Beurling＇s theorem for the Jacobi transform, from which we derive some other versions of uncertainty principles.     

Iterative Method for Set-Valued Mixed Quasi-variational Inequalities in a Banach Space

This paper introduces an iterative method for finding approximate solutions of a set-valued mixed quasivariational inequality in the setting of a Banach space. Existence of a solution of this rather general problem and the convergence of the proposed iterative method to a solution are established.The first two authors were partially supported by the National Science Council of the Republic of China. The third author was partially supported by the Teaching and Research Award Fund for Outstanding Young Teachers in Higher Education Institutions of MOE, China and by the Dawn Program Foundation in ShanghaiCommunicated by     

ON THE EXISTENCE OF POSITIVE SOLUTIONS OF AN ELLIPTIC BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM

Using variational method, the authors get an existence result for positive solutions of a superlinear elliptic boundary value problem without assuming the P.S. condition. To prove the results in this paper, the authors adopt the method of gradient flow and use a new class of truncation functions. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China.     

Second Order Isoperimetric Inequalities of Split Extensions

In this paper, we set up the general upper bounds for the second order dehn functions of split extensions.AMS Subject Classification (2000): 20F32This work was partially supported by China State Education Ministry SEYTF Funds and China Guangdong Province GDNSF (000864) Fund.     

Feasibility-Solvability Theorem for a Generalized System

In this paper, we consider a generalized system in the framework of the formulation proposed by Blum and Oettli. The concepts of feasibility and strict feasibility are introduced for a generalized system and a feasibility-solvability theorem is obtained. This work was supported by the Foundation for Young Teacher in Sichuan University (07069), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10826064, 10671135) and the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (20060610005). The authors thank Professor L.D. Muu (Hanoi) and the referee for valuable comments and suggestions which lead to improvements of this paper.     

Modified High-order Upwing Method for Convection Diffusion Equation

Abstract   In this paper, we study the high-order upwind finite difference method for steady convection-diffusion problems. Based on the conservative convection-diffusion equation, a high-order upwind finite difference scheme on nonuniform rectangular partition for convection-diffusion equation is proposed. The proposed scheme is in conversation form, satisfies maximum value principle and has second-order error estimates in discrete H ¹ norm. To illustrate our conclusion, several numerical examples are given. Supported by the Research Fund for Doctoral Program of High Education of China State Education Commission.     

Global Error Bound for the Generalized Linear Complementarity Problem over a Polyhedral Cone

In this paper, the global error bound estimation for the generalized linear complementarity problem over a polyhedral cone (GLCP) is considered. To obtain a global error bound for the GLCP, we first develop some equivalent reformulations of the problem under milder conditions and then characterize the solution set of the GLCP. Based on this, an easily computable global error bound for the GLCP is established. The results obtained in this paper can be taken as an extension of the existing global error bound for the classical linear complementarity problems. This work was supported by the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong, a Chair Professor Fund of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10771120) and the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry.     

Travelling wave fronts in nonlocal delayed reaction-diffusion systems and applications

This paper is concerned with the travelling wave fronts of nonlocal reaction-diffusion systems with delays. The existence of travelling wave fronts for nonlocal reaction-diffusion systems with delays is established by using Schauder’s fixed point theorem and upper-lower solution technique. Then these results are applied to the nonlocal delayed Logistic model and the delayed Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction-diffusion system. Our results show that the time delay can reduce the minimal wave speed while the nonlocality can increase the minimal wave speed. Wan-Tong Li: Supported by NNSF of China (10571078) and the Teaching and Research Award Program for Outstanding Young Teachers in Higher Education Institutions of Ministry of Education of China.     

Scattering and Bound States in Euclidean Lattice Quantum Field Theories

In this paper we sudy the property of asymptotic completeness in (massive) Euclidean lattice quantum field theories. We use the methods of Spencer and Zirilli [2] to prove, under suitable hypothesis, two-body asymptotic completeness, i.e., for the energy range just above the two-particle threshold.     

New results on periodic solutions for a kind of Rayleigh equation

The paper deals with the existence of periodic solutions for a kind of non-autonomous time-delay Rayleigh equation. With the continuation theorem of the coincidence degree and a priori estimates, some new results on the existence of periodic solutions for this kind of Rayleigh equation are established. This work is supported by Science and Technology Plan of Hunan Province, China under Grant No. 2008FJ3143 and the Teaching and Research Award Program for Outstanding Young Teachers in Higher Education Institutions of Hunan Province.     

Compactly supported refinable distributions in Triebel-Lizorkin spaces and besov spaces

The aim of this article is to characterize compactly supported refinable distributions in Triebel-Lizorkin spaces and Besov spaces by projection operators on certain wavelet space and by some operators on a finitely dimensional space.Research partially supported by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China # 69735020, the Tian Yuan Projection of the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China, the Doctoral Bases Promotion Foundation of National Educational Commission of China #97033519 and the Zhejiang Provincial Sciences Foundation of China # 196083, and by the Wavelets Strategic Research Program funded by the National Science and Technology Board and the Ministry of Education, Singapore.     

Spectral gap and logarithmic Sobolev constant for continuous spin systems

The aim of this paper is to study the spectral gap and the logarithmic Sobolev constant for continuous spin systems. A simple but general result for estimating the spectral gap＇of finite dimensional systems is given by Theorem 1.1, in terms of the spectral gap for one-dimensional marginals. The study of this topic provides us a chance, and it is indeed another aim of the paper, to justify the power of the results obtained previously. The exact order in dimension one （Proposition 1.4）, and then the precise leading order and the explicit positive regions of the spectral gap and the logarithmic Sobolev constant for two typical infinite-dimensional models are presented （Theorems 6.2 and 6.3）. Since we are interested in explicit estimates, the computations become quite involved. A long section （Section 4） is devoted to the study of the spectral gap in dimension one.     

Iterative Algorithm for Generalized Set-Valued Strongly Nonlinear Mixed Variational-Like Inequalities

The auxiliary principle technique is extended to study the generalized strongly nonlinear mixed variational-like inequality problem for set-valued mappings without compact values. We establish first the existence of a solution of the related auxiliary problem. Then, the iterative algorithm for solving that problem is given by using this existence result. Moreover, the existence of a solution of the original problem and the convergence of iterative sequences generated by the algorithm are both derived.Research partially supported by the Teaching and Research Award Fund for Outstanding Young Teachers in Higher Education Institutions of MOE, China and the Dawn Program Foundation in Shanghai, China. Research partially supported by a grant from the National Science Council of Taiwan