Admissible control and observation operators for Volterra integral equations

The admissibility of observation operators and control operators for linear Volterra systems is studied by means of the theory of composition operators on Hardy spaces.Under certain assumptions it is shown to be equivalent to admissibility for the classical Cauchy problem. A duality between control and observation operators is also established,extending known results for the Cauchy problem,which is a special case.     

A non-trivial Fréchet quotient of the space of real analytic functions

We prove that the space of real analytic functions ${\cal A}(\Omega)$ on an arbitrary open set $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ has a Fréchet infinite dimensional quotient space with a continuous norm. Received: 4 February 2002     

Bounded point evaluations and cyclic polynomials on the spaces $$\hat F$$

LetF be aBK space withAK and denote the set of all formal power series with such that ε F for the sequence of coefficients of . We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a point to be a bounded point evaluation on , and for a polynomial to be cyclic in . As special cases, we obtain the results for the space ℓ _p (β) in [7]. Research of the authors supported under the research project #1232 of the Serbian Ministry of Sciences and Tecnology and, in the case of the second author, also by the DAAD foundation (German Academic Exchange Service), grant 911 103 102 8.     

Blow-up and pattern formation in hyperbolic models for chemotaxis in 1-D

In this paper we study finite time blow-up of solutions of a hyperbolic model for chemotaxis. Using appropriate scaling this hyperbolic model leads to a parabolic model as studied by Othmer and Stevens (1997) and Levine and Sleeman (1997). In the latter paper, explicit solutions which blow-up in finite time were constructed. Here, we adapt their method to construct a corresponding blow-up solution of the hyperbolic model. This construction enables us to compare the blow-up times of the corresponding models. We find that the hyperbolic blow-up is always later than the parabolic blow-up. Moreover, we show that solutions of the hyperbolic problem become negative near blow-up. We calculate the zero-turning-rate time explicitly and we show that this time can be either larger or smaller than the parabolic blow-up time. The blow-up models as discussed here and elsewhere are limiting cases of more realistic models for chemotaxis. At the end of the paper we discuss the relevance to biology and exhibit numerical solutions of more realistic models.     

Stability and linear oscillations of liquid bridges with varied boundary conditions under zero gravity

This article deals with stability and small linear oscillations of liquid bridges between fixed solid surfaces (parallel plates, spheres, ...) under zero gravity. A general investigation method for any kind of axisymmetric liquid bridge is exposed but the author focus his work on the spherical liquid bridge cases. In particular, he exposes a full theoretical study of spherical liquid bridges between two spheres, plates and cones.     

Asymptotic behaviour of large solutions of quasilinear elliptic problems

The paper deals with the large solutions of the problems $\triangle u=u^p$ and $\triangle u= e^u.$ They blow up at the boundary. It is well-known that the first term in their asymptotic behaviour near the boundary is independent of the geometry of the boundary. We determine the second term which depends on the mean curvature of the nearest point on the boundary. The computation is based on suitable upper and lower solutions and on estimates given in [4]. In the last section these estimates are used together with the P-function to establish the asymptotic behaviour of the gradients.     

Shapley value for constant-sum games

It is proved that Youngs [4] axiomatization for the Shapley value by marginalism, efficiency, and symmetry is still valid for the Shapley value defined on the class of nonnegative constant-sum games with nonzero worth of grand coalition and on the entire class of constant-sum games as well.The research was supported by NWO (The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) grant NL-RF 047-008-010.I am thankful to Theo Driessen, Natalia Naumova and Elena Yanovskaya for interesting discussions and comments. The useful remarks of two anonymous referees are also appreciated.     

Difference Fourier transforms for nonreduced root systems

In the first part of the paper kernels are constructed which meromorphically extend the Macdonald-Koornwinder polynomials in their degrees. In the second part the kernels associated with rank one root systems are used to define nonsymmetric variants of the spherical Fourier transform on the quantum SU(1,1) group. Related Plancherel and inversion formulas are derived using double affine Hecke algebra techniques.     

Nonlinear Liouville theorems for Grushin and Tricomi operators

The aim of this paper is to study necessary conditions for existence of weak solutions of the inequality

     

Existence of Optimal Controls for Semilinear Parabolic Equations without Cesari-Type Conditions

   Abstract. Optimal control problems governed by semilinear parabolic partial differential equations are considered. No Cesari-type conditions are assumed. By proving the existence theorem and the Pontryagin maximum principle of optimal ``state-control" pairs for the corresponding relaxed problems, an existence theorem of optimal pairs for the original problem is established.