Trivial module for ortho-symplectic Lie superalgebras and Littlewood’s formula

We show that the denominator identity for ortho-symplectic Lie superalgebras osp(k|2n) is equivalent to the Littlewood’s formula. Such an equivalence also implies the relation between the trivial module and generalized Verma modules for osp(k|2n). Furthermore, we discuss the harmonic representative elements of the Kostant’s u-cohomology with trivial coefficients.     

Textbook research in mathematics education: development status and directions

This paper presents a survey study aiming to systematically examine, analyse and review relevant research focusing on mathematics textbooks and hence identify future directions in this field of research. The literature surveyed is selected from different data sources, including mainly journal articles, research theses and conference proceedings. The survey revealed that important progress has been made over the last few decades in mathematics textbook research, though the major achievement has been concentrated in the areas of textbook analysis (including textbook comparison), and the use of textbooks in teaching and learning. It is overall no longer true that the textbook research in mathematics is “scattered, inconclusive, and often trivial” as described six decades ago; however, the development of research on mathematics textbooks has been unbalanced in different areas. Following the review and discussion, the paper proposes five needed directions for advancing the research in this field.     

Research Article: On Extending Primal-Dual Interior-Point Method for Linear Optimization to Convex Quadratic Symmetric Cone Optimization

Disjoint frames are interesting frames in Hilbert spaces, which were introduced by Han and Larson in [4 D. Han and D. R. Larson ( 2000 ). Frames, Basis and Group Representations . Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, No. 679. AMS, Providence, RI.  [Google Scholar]]. In this article, we use disjoint frames to construct frames. In particular, we obtain some conditions for the linear combinations of frames to be frames where the coefficients in the combination may be operators. Our results generalize the corresponding results obtained by Han and Larson. Finally, we provide some examples to illustrate our constructions.     

On condition numbers for Moore–Penrose inverse and linear least squares problem involving Kronecker products

In this paper, we investigate the normwise, mixed, and componentwise condition numbers and their upper bounds for the Moore–Penrose inverse of the Kronecker product and more general matrix function compositions involving Kronecker products. We also present the condition numbers and their upper bounds for the associated Kronecker product linear least squares solution with full column rank. In practice, the derived upper bounds for the mixed and componentwise condition numbers for Kronecker product linear least squares solution can be efficiently estimated using the Hager–Higham Algorithm. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A normal criterion about two families of meromorphic functions concerning shared values

In this paper, we mainly discuss the normality of two families of functions concerning shared values and proved: Let F and G be two families of functions meromorphic on a domain D■C,a1, a2, a3, a4 be four distinct finite complex numbers. If G is normal, and for every f ∈ F , there exists g ∈ G such that f(z) and g(z) share the values a1, a2, a3, a4, then F is normal on D.     

On the number of limit cycles of polynomial Liénard systems

Liénard systems are very important mathematical models describing oscillatory processes arising in applied sciences. In this paper, we study polynomial Liénard systems of arbitrary degree on the plane, and develop a new method to obtain a lower bound of the maximal number of limit cycles. Using the method and basing on some known results for lower degree we obtain new estimations of the number of limit cycles in the systems which greatly improve existing results.     

非线性时滞反应扩散有限差分方程组的高阶单调迭代方法

对一类非线性时滞反应扩散方程的有限差分方程组建立了一类高阶单调迭代方法.这类方法给出了一个有效的线性迭代算法.迭代序列单调收敛于方程组的唯一解,并且序列的单调性使得每一步迭代都给出了解的改进的上下界.迭代收敛率具有p+2阶,这里p≥1是一个正整数,它依赖于迭代方法的构造.数值结果显示了方法的有效性.     

投影三角分解法定价带随机波动率的美式期权

考虑数值求解Heston随机波动率美式期权定价问题,通过在空间方向采用中心差分格式离散二维偏微分算子,在时间方向利用隐式交替方向格式,将美式期权定价问题转化成求解每个时间层上的若干个线性互补问题.针对一般美式期权定价模型离散得到的线性互补问题,构造出投影三角分解法进行求解,并在理论上给出算法的收敛条件.数值实验表明,所构造的数值方法对于求解美式期权定价问题是有效的,并且优于经典的投影超松弛迭代法和算子分裂方法.     

Kronecker乘积图的超连通性(英文)

设G1和G2是两个连通图,则G1和G2的Kronecker积G1×G2定义如下:V(G1×G2)=V(G1)×V(G2),E(G1×G2)={(u1,v1)(u2,v2):u1u2∈E(G1),v1v2∈E(G2)}.我们证明了G×Kn(n≥4)超连通图当且仅当κ(G)n>δ(G)(n 1),其中G是任意的连通图,Kn是n阶完全图.进一步我们证明了对任意阶至少为3的连通图G,如果κ(G)=δ(G),则G×Kn(n≥3)超连通图.这个结果加强了郭利涛等人的结果.