带权函数的积分方程组正解的对称性和单调性

主要研究全空间上一类带权函数的积分方程组正解的径向对称性和单调性问题．在合适条件下,主要利用积分形式的移动平面方法,Hardy—Littlewwood—Sobolev（HLS）和Holder不等式给出了积分方程组正解的径向对称性和单调性的结论．这一结论很好的推广了已有的结果．     

球面混合插值的逼近性质

球面径向基函数(SBF)和多项式样条函数均为处理球面散乱数据的有效工具. 本文考虑由球面径向基函数与球面多项式函数组成的混合插值模型, 并利用最小二乘法求解该模型. 对于该插值模型, 首先, 给出带Bessel势的Sobolev空间中的Bernstein不等式, 然后利用该不等式建立逼近正定理,并进一步给出该插值工具的误差估计. 最后, 研究该插值方式(即利用最小二乘法求解混合插值模型)的稳定性.     

度量空间上Haj(l)asz-sobolev空间的新特征刻画

引进了包括分形和度量空间在内的齐型空间上的分数次Sobolev空间.这些Sobolev空间包括著名的Hajlasz—Sobolev空间为其特例,并建立了它们的各种Sharp极大函数的特征刻画.作为就用,证明了分数次Sobolev空间与某些Lipschitz型空间是一致的.此外,还给出了一些嵌入定理.     

带临界锥Sobolev指数项方程组的最小正能量解（英文）

借助Nehari流形,本文证明了一类带临界增长项的非线性系统存在最小正能量解,其中有一组解部分径向对称.推广了在经典Sobolev空间中的结果.     

度量空间上Hajłasz-Sobolev空间的新特征刻画

引进了包括分形和度量空间在内的齐型空间上的分数次Sobolev空间. 这些Sobolev空间包括著名的Hajłasz-Sobolev空间为其特例, 并建立了它们的各种Sharp极大函数的特征刻画. 作为应用, 证明了分数次Sobolev空间与某些Lipschitz型空间是一致的. 此外, 还给出了一些嵌入定理.     

单位球上Yamabe方程的全局分歧

该文研究了N维单位球面S^N上的Yamabe方程■通过分歧的方法,对于任意k≥1,证明了该方程对于任意的λ>λ_k:=(k+N-1)(N-2)/4都至少有一个非常数解v_k,使得v_k-λ⁽1/(N*-1))正好有k个零点,并且它们在(-1,1)中都是单根,其中N^*是Sobolev临界指数.在应用部分,得到了当n≥4时,R^N上非线性椭圆方程非径向解的存在性.此外,还得到了乘积流形中一个流形是单位球时的Yamabe问题的全局分歧结果.     

度量测度空间中Sobolev类Banach空间值函数的刻画（英文）

本文研究了在指标是无穷大时欧式空间情形下Sobolev函数类理论和指标是有限常数时度量空间下Sobolev类Banach空间值函数理论.利用Banach空间理论和位势理论的方法,得到了在指标是无穷大时度量测度空间中Sobolev类Banach空间值函数的各种刻画,进而比较了该Sobolev类与对应的Lipschitz类和Hajlasz-Sobolev类.所获结果推广了欧式空间和度量测度空间中Sobolev函数类相应的结论.     

求解扩散方程的非对称径向基函数配点法

本文针对扩散方程,借助于Halton节点,基于径向基函数和迭代法提出一种新的无网格方法.该方法在时间层上采用全隐离散,在空间层上构造了θ-型迭代格式,然后利用径向基函数去逼近未知函数.由于本文采用紧支集径向基函数,因而导出的离散系统矩阵是稀疏的,且有较好的条件数.最后通过数值实验验证新方法的有效性.     

关于低维Sobolev同胚的两个问题 献给余家荣教授100华诞

本文讨论和介绍Sobolev同胚的一些性质及相关结果,证明一维情形下微分同胚在Sobolev同胚中的稠密性,还证明在固定体积形式和边界的约束下,如果二维圆盘上新的体积形式是径向对称的并且一致靠近于Lebesgue测度,那么旋转对称同胚是Dirichlet能量的唯一极小解.     

Fock空间上径向函数诱导的Toeplitz算子

本文讨论了Fock空间上以径向函数和拟齐次函数为符号的Toeplitz算子的代数性质,给出了两个以径向函数为符号的Toeplitz算子的积仍为Toeplitz算子的充分必要条件,并且研究了以拟齐次函数为符号的Toeplitz算子的交换性.     

Zero-dimensional subschemes of ruled varieties

Here we study zero-dimensional subschemes of ruled varieties, mainly Hirzebruch surfaces and rational normal scrolls, by applying the Horace method and the Terracini method This research is part of the T.A.S.C.A. project of I.N.d.A.M., supported by P.A.T. (Trento) and M.I.U.R. (Italy)     

Generalization of the interaction between Haar approximation and polynomial operators to higher order methods

In applications it is useful to compute the local average empirical statistics on u. A very simple relation exists when of a function f（u） of an input u from the local averages are given by a Haar approximation. The question is to know if it holds for higher order approximation methods. To do so, it is necessary to use approximate product operators defined over linear approximation spaces. These products are characterized by a Strang and Fix like condition. An explicit construction of these product operators is exhibited for piecewise polynomial functions, using Hermite interpolation. The averaging relation which holds for the Haar approximation is then recovered when the product is defined by a two point Hermite interpolation.     

Comments on generalized Heron polynomials and Robbins’ conjectures

Heron’s formula for a triangle gives a polynomial for the square of its area in terms of the lengths of its three sides. There is a very similar formula, due to Brahmagupta, for the area of a cyclic quadrilateral in terms of the lengths of its four sides. (A polygon is cyclic if its vertices lie on a circle.) In both cases if A is the area of the polygon, (4A)² is a polynomial function of the square in the lengths of its edges. David Robbins in [D.P. Robbins, Areas of polygons inscribed in a circle, Discrete Comput. Geom. 12 (2) (1994) 223-236. MR 95g:51027; David P. Robbins, Areas of polygons inscribed in a circle, Amer. Math. Monthly 102 (6) (1995) 523-530. MR 96k:51024] showed that for any cyclic polygon with n edges, (4A)² satisfies a polynomial whose coefficients are themselves polynomials in the edge lengths, and he calculated this polynomial for n=5 and n=6. He conjectured the degree of this polynomial for all n, and recently Igor Pak and Maksym Fedorchuk [Maksym Fedorchuk, Igor Pak, Rigidity and polynomial invariants of convex polytopes, Duke Math. J. 129 (2) (2005) 371-404. MR 2006f:52015] have shown that this conjecture of Robbins is true. Robbins also conjectured that his polynomial is monic, and that was shown in [V.V. Varfolomeev, Inscribed polygons and Heron polynomials (Russian. Russian summary), Mat. Sb. 194 (3) (2003) 3-24. MR 2004d:51014]. A short independent proof will be shown here.     

On the weakening of the convergence of Newton’s method using recurrent functions

We use Newton’s method to approximate a locally unique solution of an equation in a Banach space setting. We introduce recurrent functions to provide a weaker semilocal convergence analysis for Newton’s method than before [J. Appell, E. De Pascale, J.V. Lysenko, P.P. Zabrejko, New results on Newton–Kantorovich approximations with applications to nonlinear integral equations, Numer. Funct. Anal. Optim. 18 (1997) 1–17; I.K. Argyros, The theory and application of abstract polynomial equations, in: Mathematics Series, St. Lucie/CRC/Lewis Publ., Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 1998; I.K. Argyros, Concerning the “terra incognita” between convergence regions of two Newton methods, Nonlinear Anal. 62 (2005) 179–194; I.K. Argyros, Convergence and Applications of Newton-Type Iterations, Springer-Verlag Publ., New York, 2008; S. Chandrasekhar, Radiative Transfer, Dover Publ., New York, 1960; F. Cianciaruso, E. De Pascale, Newton–Kantorovich approximations when the derivative is Hölderian: Old and new results, Numer. Funct. Anal. Optim. 24 (2003) 713–723; N.T. Demidovich, P.P. Zabrejko, Ju.V. Lysenko, Some remarks on the Newton–Kantorovich method for nonlinear equations with Hölder continuous linearizations, Izv. Akad. Nauk Belorus 3 (1993) 22–26. (in Russian); E. De Pascale, P.P. Zabrejko, Convergence of the Newton–Kantorovich method under Vertgeim conditions: A new improvement, Z. Anal. Anwendvugen 17 (1998) 271–280; L.V. Kantorovich, G.P. Akilov, Functional Analysis, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1982; J.V. Lysenko, Conditions for the convergence of the Newton–Kantorovich method for nonlinear equations with Hölder linearizations, Dokl. Akad. Nauk BSSR 38 (1994) 20–24. (in Russian); B.A. Vertgeim, On conditions for the applicability of Newton’s method, (Russian), Dokl. Akad. Nauk., SSSR 110 (1956) 719–722; B.A. Vertgeim, On some methods for the approximate solution of nonlinear functional equations in Banach spaces, Uspekhi Mat. Nauk 12 (1957) 166–169. (in Russian); English transl.:; Amer. Math. Soc. Transl. 16 (1960) 378–382] provided that the Fréchet-derivative of the operator involved is p$p$-Hölder continuous (p∈(0,1]$p\in (0,1]$).     

Transverse compression of PPTA fibers

Results of single transverse compression testing of PPTA and PIPD fibers, using a novel test device, are presented and discussed. In the tests, short lengths of single fibers are compressed between two parallel, stiff platens. The fiber elastic deformation is analyzed as a Hertzian contact problem. The inelastic deformation is analyzed by elastic-plastic FE simulation and by laser-scanning confocal microscopy of the compressed fibers ex post facto. The results obtained are compared to those in the literature and to the theoretical predictions of PPTA fiber transverse elasticity based on PPTA crystal elasticity.Presented at the 11th International Conference on Mechanics of Composite Materials (Riga, June 11–15, 2000).3TEX, Inc. 109, MacKenan Drive, Cary, North Carolina 27511, USA. Published in Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 533–544, March–April, 2000.     

Effectivity functions and simple games

The rather new notion of effectivity function is related to the notion of simple game. Every effectivity function is associated with a simple game. So theory about simple games may be applicable to effectivity functions. E.g. if the effectivity function is additive, then the associated simple game is weighted. Via a characterization of weighted simple games it is possible to characterize maximal additive effectivity functions.Finally we characterize additive effectivity functions and their associated simple games.I thank G.J. Otten for useful comments and stimulating conversations.     

Iterated function systems, Ruelle operators, and invariant projective measures

We introduce a Fourier-based harmonic analysis for a class of discrete dynamical systems which arise from Iterated Function Systems. Our starting point is the following pair of special features of these systems. (1) We assume that a measurable space comes with a finite-to-one endomorphism which is onto but not one-to-one. (2) In the case of affine Iterated Function Systems (IFSs) in , this harmonic analysis arises naturally as a spectral duality defined from a given pair of finite subsets in of the same cardinality which generate complex Hadamard matrices.

Our harmonic analysis for these iterated function systems (IFS) is based on a Markov process on certain paths. The probabilities are determined by a weight function on . From we define a transition operator acting on functions on , and a corresponding class of continuous -harmonic functions. The properties of the functions in are analyzed, and they determine the spectral theory of . For affine IFSs we establish orthogonal bases in . These bases are generated by paths with infinite repetition of finite words. We use this in the last section to analyze tiles in .

     

Dynamic assessment of reinforced concrete beams repaired with externally bonded FRP sheets

This research deals with RC beams strengthened with FRP. An experimental research is presented which is aimed at evaluating the capability of an experimental modal analysis to assess the stiffness decrease due to damage, as well as the stiffness recovery due to strengthening. Ten beams were tested. All of them were subjected to loading cycles with increasing load levels in order to induce cracking of different severity in them. The beams were then retrofitted by externally bonded FRP sheets. Three types of composites were used. The number of layers was varied, too. Modal tests were carried out after each loading-unloading cycle. The modal frequencies and damping ratios were determined for the first four vibration modes. The results obtained indicate that an experimental modal analysis can give useful information on the severity of damage and the effectiveness of strengthening. Russian translation published in Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 3–20, January–February, 2006.     

Imbeddings of free actions on handlebodies

Fix a free, orientation-preserving action of a finite group on a -dimensional handlebody . Whenever acts freely preserving orientation on a connected -manifold , there is a -equivariant imbedding of into . There are choices of closed and Seifert-fibered for which the image of is a handlebody of a Heegaard splitting of . Provided that the genus of is at least , there are similar choices with closed and hyperbolic.

     

Bounds for the zeros of polynomials

Let P(z)=∑↓j=0↑n ajx^j be a polynomial of degree n. In this paper we prove a more general result which interalia improves upon the bounds of a class of polynomials. We also prove a result which includes some extensions and generalizations of Enestrǒm-Kakeya theorem.