Stability results for scattered‐data interpolation on Euclidean spheres

Let denote the unit sphere in and the geodesic distance in . A spherical‐basis function approximant is a function of the form , where are real constants, is a fixed function, and is a set of distinct points in . It is known that if is a strictly positive definite function in , then the interpolation matrix is positive definite, hence invertible, for every choice of distinct points and every positive integer M. The paper studies a salient subclass of such functions , and provides stability estimates for the associated interpolation matrices. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

The C r-fundamental splines of Clough–Tocher and Powell–Sabin types for Lagrange interpolation on a three direction mesh

Let Δ⁽¹⁾ be the uniform three direction mesh of the plane whose vertices are integer points of .Let (respectively of degree d=3r (respectively d=3r+1 ) for r odd (respectively even) on the triangulation , and of degree d=2r (respectively d=2r+1) for r odd (respectively even) on the triangulation . Using linear combinations of translates of these splines we obtain Lagrange interpolants whose corresponding order of approximation is optimal. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Strictly Positive Definite Functions on a Real Inner Product Space

If converges for all with all coefficients , then the function is positive definite on H×H for any inner product space H. Set K={k: a _k >0}. We show that is strictly positive definite if and only if K contains the index 0 plus an infinite number of even integers and an infinite number of odd integers.     

Numerical bifurcation and stability analysis for steady-states of reaction diffusion equations

Solutions of a semilinear elliptic boundary value problem, (with bounded below) can be put into a one-to-one correspondence with zeros of a function . Often d is small. The function is called the bifurcation function. It can also be shown that the eigenvalues of the matrix characterize the stability properties of the solutions of the elliptic problem as rest points of . A finite element method that can be used for computing B and B _c has recently been proposed. An overview of these results and the finite element method is given. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

The minimal number of pieces realizing affine congruence by dissection of topological discs

Let be a group of affine transformations of the plane that contains a strict contraction and all translations. It is shown that any two topological discs are congruent dissection with respect to such that only three topological discs are used as pieces of dissection. Two pieces of dissection do not suffice in general even if consists of all affine transformations. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Quotient Groups of Groups of Certain Classes

For an arbitrary variety of groups and an arbitrary class of groups that is closed on quotient groups, we prove that a quotient group G/N of the group G possesses an invariant system with - and -factors (respectively, is a residually -group) if G possesses an invariant system with - and -factors (respectively, is a residually -group) and N (respectively, N is a maximal invariant -subgroup of the group G).     

A Comparison on the Commutative Neutrix Convolution of Distributions and the Exchange Formula

Let , be ultradistributions in and let and where is a sequence in which converges to the Dirac-delta function . Then the neutrix product is defined on the space of ultradistributions as the neutrix limit of the sequence provided the limit exist in the sense that

Properties of the Absolute That Affect Smoothness of Flows on Closed Surfaces

Let be a closed orientable surface of genus , endowed with the structure of a Riemann manifold of constant negative curvature. For the universal covering , there is the notion of absolute, each of whose points determines an asymptotic direction of a bundle of parallel equidirected geodesics. In the paper it is proved that there is a set on the absolute having the cardinality of the continuum and such that if an arbitrary flow on has a semitrajectory whose covering has asymptotic direction defined by a point from , then this flow is not analytical and has infinitely many stationary points.     

On the area swept under the occupation process of an M/M/1 queue in a busy period

We compute in this paper the distribution of the area swept under the occupation process of an M/M/1 queue during a busy period. For this purpose, we use the expression of the Laplace transform of the random variable established in earlier studies as a fraction of Bessel functions. To get information on the poles and the residues of , we take benefit of the fact that this function can be represented by a continued fraction. We then show that this continued fraction is the even part of an S fraction and we identify its successive denominators by means of Lommel polynomials. This allows us to numerically evaluate the poles and the residues. Numerical evidence shows that the poles are very close to the numbers as . This motivated us to formulate some conjectures, which lead to the derivation of the asymptotic behaviour of the poles and the residues. This is finally used to derive the asymptotic behaviour of the probability survivor function . The outstanding property of the random variable is that the poles accumulate at 0 and its tail does not exhibit a nice exponential decay but a decay of the form for some positive constants c and , which indicates that the random variable has a Weibull-like tail. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Problems on Extremal Decomposition of the Riemann Sphere

We apply a variant of the method of the extremal metric to some problems concerning extremal decompositions and related problems. Let be a system of distinct points on and let be the family of all systems of nonoverlapping simply connected domains on such that . Let