Buyer-seller exactness in the assignment game

In the assignment game framework, we try to identify those assignment matrices in which no entry can be increased without changing the core of the game. These games will be called buyer-seller exact games and satisfy the condition that each mixed-pair coalition attains the corresponding matrix entry in the core of the game. For a given assignment game, a unique buyer-seller exact assignment game with the same core is proved to exist. In order to identify this matrix and to provide a characterization of those assignment games which are buyer-seller exact in terms of the assignment matrix, attainable upper and lower core bounds for the mixed-pair coalitions are found. As a consequence, an open question posed in Quint (1991) regarding a canonical representation of a “45^o-lattice” by means of the core of an assignment game can now be answered. Received: March 2002/Revised version: January 2003 RID="*" ID="*"  Institutional support from research grants BEC 2002-00642 and SGR2001-0029 is gratefully acknowledged RID="**" ID="**"  The authors thank the referees for their comments     

-actions whose fixed data has a section

Given a collection of real vector bundles over a closed manifold , suppose that, for some is of the form , where is the trivial one-dimensional bundle. In this paper we prove that if is the fixed data of a -action, then the same is true for the Whitney sum obtained from by replacing by . This stability property is well-known for involutions. Together with techniques previously developed, this result is used to describe, up to bordism, all possible -actions fixing the disjoint union of an even projective space and a point.     

On Finite Groups and the Small Square Property

Let G be a finite group written multiplicatively and k a positive integer. If X is a non-empty subset of G, write X ² = |xy | x, y X . We say that G has the small square property on k-sets if |X ²| < k ² for any k-element subset X of G. For each group G, there is a unique m = m _G such that G has the small square property on (m + 1)-sets but not on m-sets. In this paper we show that given any positive integer d, there is a finite group G with m _G = d.     

Numerical analysis of a quadratic matrix equation

The quadratic matrix equation AX²+ BX + C = 0in n x nmatricesarises in applications and is of intrinsic interest as oneof the simplest nonlinear matrix equations. We give a completecharacterization of solutions in terms of the generalized Schurdecomposition and describe and compare various numerical solutiontechniques. In particular, we give a thorough treatment offunctional iteration methods based on Bernoulli’s method.Other methods considered include Newton’s method with exact line searches, symbolic solution and continued fractions.We show that functional iteration applied to the quadraticmatrix equation can provide an efficient way to solve the associated quadratic eigenvalue problem (²A + B + C)x = 0.     

The Gravitational Field of a Radiating and Contracting Spherically-Symmetric Body with Heat Flow

A model of a highly idealized spherically symmetric object radiating away its mass with constant luminosity is presented. The body starts at t = – with both infinite mass and radius and contracts to a point at t = 0 without forming an event horizon. Its material particles are moving non-geodesically and shearfree while transporting heat to the surface. Unlike in some radiating star models of a similar type, all physically required conditions are satisfied in this model.     

变系数广义KdV方程新的类孤波解和精确解

用普通KdV方程作变换，构造变系数广义KdV方程的解，获得了变系数广义KdV方程新的Jacobi椭圆函数精确解、类孤波解、三角函数解和Weierstrass椭圆函数解. 关键词： KdV方程 变系数广义KdV方程 类孤波解 精确解     

扩展的Jacobi椭圆函数展开法和Zakharov方程组的新的精确周期解

对Jacobi椭圆函数展开法进行了扩展，且利用这一方法求出了Zakharov方程组的一系列新的精确周期解，在极限情况下可得到相应的孤波解，补充了前面研究的结果. 关键词： Jacobi椭圆函数展开法 非线性发展方程 精确解 周期解     

Bound-State Solutions of the Klein-Gordon Equation for the Generalized <Emphasis Type="Italic">PT</Emphasis>-Symmetric Hulthén Potential

The one-dimensional Klein-Gordon equation is solved for the PT-symmetric generalized Hulthén potential in the scalar coupling scheme. The relativistic bound-state energy spectrum and the corresponding wave functions are obtained by using the Nikiforov-Uvarov method which is based on solving the second-order linear differential equations by reduction to a generalized equation of hypergeometric type. PACS numbers: 03.65.Fd, 03.65.Ge     

非线性Schrodinger方程的Jacobi椭圆函数包络解

通过函数变换和扩展Jacobi椭圆函数展开法,利用吴消元法,借助符号运算软件Maple,得到非线性Schringer方程丰富的包络形式精确解,特别是由两个Jacobi椭圆函数表示的精确解.当模数m→1或m→0时,一部分解退化为双曲函数或三角函数表示的解,F-展开法和扩展的F-展开法得到的精确解是本文结果的特例.     

Hartmann势加新环型势的相对论束缚态解(英文)

在矢势与标势相等的情况下,对Hartmann势加新环型势的Klein-Gordon方程精确求解.给出了归一化的角向和径向波函数,同时获得了能谱方程.