On the Irreducibility of Commuting Varieties Associated with Involutions of Simple Lie Algebras

Let be a reductive Lie algebra over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero and an arbitrary -grading. We consider the variety , which is called the commuting variety associated with the -grading. Earlier it was proved by the author that is irreducible, if the -grading is of maximal rank. Now we show that is irreducible for and (E₆,F₄). In the case of symmetric pairs of rank one, we show that the number of irreducible components of is equal to that of nonzero non--regular nilpotent G ₀-orbits in . We also discuss a general problem of the irreducibility of commuting varieties.     

Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions of the Cauchy Problem x′ = f(t,x, x′), x(0) = 0

We prove the existence of continuously differentiable solutions such that

On the Uniqueness of the Recovery of Parameters of the Maxwell System from Dynamical Boundary Data

The paper deals with the problem of recovering the parameters (functions) and of the Maxwell dynamical system

Absolute Continuity of the Spectrum of a Periodic Schrödinger Operator

We prove the absolute continuity of the spectrum of the Schrödinger operator in , , with periodic (with a common period lattice ) scalar and vector potentials for which either , , or the Fourier series of the vector potential converges absolutely, , where is an elementary cell of the lattice , for , and for , and the value of is sufficiently small, where and otherwise, , and .     

Existence of Positive Solutions for a Class of Higher Order Neutral Functional Differential Equations

The higher order neutral functional differential equation

Minihypers and Linear Codes Meeting the Griesmer Bound: Improvements to Results of Hamada, Helleseth and Maekawa

This article improves results of Hamada, Helleseth and Maekawa on minihypers in projective spaces and linear codes meeting the Griesmer bound.In [10,12],it was shown that any -minihyper, with , where , is the disjoint union of points, lines,..., -dimensional subspaces. For q large, we improve on this result by increasing the upper bound on non-square, to non-square, square, , and (4) for square, p prime, p<3, to . In the case q non-square, the conclusion is the same as written above; the minihyper is the disjoint union of subspaces. When q is square however, the minihyper is either the disjoint union of subspaces, or the disjoint union of subspaces and one subgeometry . For the coding-theoretical problem, our results classify the corresponding codes meeting the Griesmer bound.     

A Change-of-Variable Formula with Local Time on Curves

Let be a continuous semimartingale and let be a continuous function of bounded variation. Setting and suppose that a continuous function is given such that F is C^1,2 on and F is on . Then the following change-of-variable formula holds: where is the local time of X at the curve b given by and refers to the integration with respect to . A version of the same formula derived for an Itô diffusion X under weaker conditions on F has found applications in free-boundary problems of optimal stopping.     

The Boundary Equivalence for Rings and Matrix Rings over Them

We study into the question of whether some rings and their associated matrix rings have equal decidability boundaries in the scheme and scheme-alternative hierarchies. Let be a decidability boundary for an algebraic system A; w.r.t. the hierarchy H. For a ring R, denote by an algebra with universe . On this algebra, define the operations + and in such a way as to extend, if necessary, the initial matrices by suitably many zero rows and columns added to the underside and to the right of each matrix, followed by ordinary addition and multiplication of the matrices obtained. The main results are collected in Theorems 1-3. Theorem 1 holds that if R is a division or an integral ring, and R has zero or odd characteristic, then the equalities hold for any n1. And if R is an arbitrary associative ring with identity then for any n 1 and i,j { 1,..., n}, where e _ij is a matrix identity. Theorem 2 maintains that if R is an associative ring with identity then . Theorem 3 proves that for any n 1.     

Effects Connected with the Coincidence of Velocities in the Two-Velocity Dynamical System

The paper deals with the system

Kneser-type oscillation criteria for self-adjoint two-term differential equations

It is proved that the even-order equationy ⁽²ⁿ⁾ +p(t)y=0 is (n,n) oscillatory at if

Asymptotic behavior of solutions of A 2nth order nonlinear differential equation

In this paper we prove two results. The first is an extension of the result of G. D. Jones [4[:Every nontrivial solution for

Solutions of minimal period for a semilinear wave equation

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On solutions of quasilinear wave equations with nonlinear damping terms

In this paper we consider the existence and asymptotic behavior of solutions of the following problem:

Asymptotic Properties of Generalized Feynman–Kac Functionals

Let ( ) be a regular Dirichlet form on L2(X;m) and {Px}x X the Hunt process generated by ( ). Let be a signed 'smooth measure' associated with ( ) and At the continuous additive functional corresponding to the measure . Under some conditions on ( ) and , we shall prove that

A Generalized Measure Concentrated on a Closed Set of Measure Zero

When E is a closed set of measure zero in the dyadic group and the Walsh series satisfies

Multiple Wick Product Chaos Processes

Let u(x) xR ^q be a symmetric nonnegative definite function which is bounded outside of all neighborhoods of zero but which may have u(0)=. Let p _x, (·) be the density of an R ^q valued canonical normal random variable with mean x and variance and let {G _x, ; (x, )R ^q ×[0,1 ]} be the mean zero Gaussian process with covariance

Oscillation of nonlinear differential systems with retarded arguments

In this work we investigate some oscillatory properties of solutions of non-linear differential systems with retarded arguments. We consider the system of the form

On the Lax Solution to the Hamilton–Jacobi Equation and Its Generalizations. Part II

This article is a continuation of [J. Math. Sci., 99, No.5, 1541–1547 (2000)] devoted to the validity of the Lax formula (cited in the article of Crandall, Ishii, and Lions [Bull. AMS, 27, No.1, 1–67 (2000)])

Asymptotic Formulas for the Solutions of Integro-Differential Equations

We study the problem of asymptotic integration of the linear integro-differential equation