Numerical approximation of AR‐XPS spectra for rough surfaces considering the effect of electron shadowing

A computational scheme is presented that takes into account the topography, i.e. the shadowing and hence the local emission angle of the electrons when evaluating AR‐XPS data of macroscopic rough surfaces. The topography of the sample surface is supposed to be recorded by atomic force microscopy and/or optical microscopy. The emitted photoelectrons are simulated based on an extension of the Beer–Lambert law that includes the shadowing, the current local emission angle, and the geometrical instrument setup. The obtained angle‐resolved XPS spectra are optimized in accordance with experimental ones via a self‐consistent minimization algorithm that also allows one to determine the layer thicknesses of the corrugated sample. In order to validate the proposed numerical scheme, the simulation program simulation of electron spectra for surface analysis is used. An additional analysis is then performed considering only experimental data. The numerical scheme gives good agreement in simulation–simulation as well as simulation–experiment comparisons and permits a comprehensible interpretation of the measured data. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Chaos and Shadowing Lemma for Autonomous Systems of Infinite Dimensions

For finite-dimensional maps and periodic systems, Palmer rigorously proved Smale horseshoe theorem using shadowing lemma in 1988 [20]. For infinite-dimensional maps and periodic systems, such a proof was completed by Steinlein and Walther in 1990 [30], and Henry in 1994 [9]. For finite-dimensional autonomous systems, such a proof was accomplished by Palmer in 1996 [17]. For infinite-dimensional autonomous systems, the current article offers such a proof. First we prove an Inclination Lemma to set up a coordinate system around a pseudo-orbit. Then we utilize graph transform and the concept of persistence of invariant manifold, to prove the existence of a shadowing orbit.     

CHARACTERISTICS OF SUBDIFFERENTIALS OF FUNCTIONS

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Approximation properties for solutions to non‐Lipschitz stochastic differential equations with Lévy noise

In this paper, we consider the non‐Lipschitz stochastic differential equations and stochastic functional differential equations with delays driven by Lévy noise, and the approximation theorems for the solutions to these two kinds of equations will be proposed respectively. Non‐Lipschitz condition is much weaker condition than the Lipschitz one. The simplified equations will be defined to make its solutions converge to that of the corresponding original equations both in the sense of mean square and probability, which constitute the approximation theorems. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On lengths,areas and Lipschitz continuity of polyharmonic mappings

In this paper, we continue our investigation of polyharmonic mappings in the complex plane. First, we establish two Landau type theorems. We also show a three circles type theorem and an area version of the Schwarz lemma. Finally, we study Lipschitz continuity of polyharmonic mappings with respect to the distance ratio metric.     

D-admissible hybrid control of a class of singular systems

This paper mainly studies the problem of designing a hybrid state feedback D-admissible controller for a class of linear and nonlinear singular systems. Based on the relationship between singular discrete systems and singular delta operator systems, several necessary and sufficient conditions for a linear singular delta operator system to be D-admissible (i.e. regular, causal and all finite poles lie in a prescribed circular region) with different representations are derived. Then, the existence conditions and explicit expressions of a desirable D-admissible controller are given by means of matrix inequalities and strict linear matrix inequalities, respectively. We further extend the obtained results to singular delta operator systems with Lipschitz nonlinear perturbations, and the design methods of hybrid controller are presented for the nonlinear case as well. Finally, numerical examples as well as simulations are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical outcomes obtained in the paper.     

Formulation of a Hysteretic Restoring Force Model. Application to Vibration Isolation

This article focuses on the formulation of a hysteretic model used as anisolator restoring force model. The proposed model is based on operatorgoverning input and output functions that depend on the deflection andthe restoring force of the isolator. First, the mathematical formulationis demonstrated, then the hysteretic model proposed is applied toisolators having different types of behavior. The model parameters aresought using the experimental force-deflection loop of each of theisolators studied. Next, the transient response of a flexible structuremounted on an all-metal isolator is predicted by coupling the firstorder differential equation of the restoring force and the second orderdifferential equations of the structure's motion. The experimentalinvestigation validates the proposed hysteretic model applied to theall-metal mount.     

Asymptotic error distribution for the Euler scheme with locally Lipschitz coefficients

In traditional works on numerical schemes for solving stochastic differential equations (SDEs), the globally Lipschitz assumption is often assumed to ensure different types of convergence. In practice, this is often too strong a condition. Brownian motion driven SDEs used in applications sometimes have coefficients which are only Lipschitz on compact sets, but the paths of the SDE solutions can be arbitrarily large. In this paper, we prove convergence in probability and a weak convergence result under a less restrictive assumption, that is, locally Lipschitz and with no finite time explosion. We prove if a numerical scheme converges in probability uniformly on any compact time set (UCP) with a certain rate under a global Lipschitz condition, then the UCP with the same rate holds when a globally Lipschitz condition is replaced with a locally Lipschitz plus no finite explosion condition. For the Euler scheme, weak convergence of the error process is also established. The main contribution of this paper is the proof of $\sqrt{n}$ weak convergence of the normalized error process and the limit process is also provided. We further study the boundedness of the second moments of the weak limit process and its running supremum under both global Lipschitz and locally Lipschitz conditions.     

Endpoint estimates for multilinear fractional integrals with non-doubling measures

Under the assumption that μ is a non-doubling measure on Rdwhich only satisfies the polynomial growth condition,the authors obtain the boundedness of the multilinear fractional integrals on Morrey spaces,weak-Morrey spaces and Lipschitz spaces associated with μ,which,in the case when μ is the d-dimensional Lebesgue measure,also improve the known results.