Sufficient conditions for a control to be a strong minimum

The control literature either presents sufficient conditions for global optimality (for example, the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman theorem) or, if concerned with local optimality, restricts attention to comparison controls which are local in theL -sense. In this paper, use is made of an exact expression for the change in cost due to a change in control, a natural extension of a result due to Weierstrass, to obtain sufficient conditions for a control to be a strong minimum (in the sense that comparison controls are merely required to be close in theL ₁-sense).     

Cell decomposition for P‐minimal fields

In [12], P. Scowcroft and L. van den Dries proved a cell decomposition theorem for p‐adically closed fields. We work here with the notion of P‐minimal fields defined by D. Haskell and D. Macpherson in [6]. We prove that a P‐minimal field K admits cell decomposition if and only if K has definable selection. A preprint version in French of this result appeared as a prepublication [8] (© 2009 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

纤维丛上一般非线性控制系统的几何框架及其最小实现理论*

本文探讨正确建立一般非线性控制系统纤维丛框架的途径,并研究了纤维丛上系统的最小实现理论。我们在本文中通过引进(F,φ)同构,(F,φ)同态,强等价等新概念,实质上拓广了H.J.Sussmann所发展的非线性系统实现理论的经典概念和结果,并证明了纤维丛上的一般非线性系统的最小实现唯一性定理。     

经济学中拟齐次生产模型的几何刻画

齐次和拟齐次生产函数作为经典的生产函数模型,在经济分析中具有广泛的应用.从几何学的角度研究齐次和拟齐次生产函数的分类具有重要理论意义和应用价值.该研究利用几何不变量方法,完全分类了拟齐次生产函数所对应的平坦拟齐次生产曲面,并且也给出了极小拟齐次生产曲面的完整分类.     

Minimality conditions for wave speed in anisotropic smectic C∗ liquid crystals

We discuss minimality conditions for the speed of monotone travelling waves in a sample of smectic C^∗ liquid crystal subject to a constant electric field, dealing with both isotropic and anisotropic cases. Such conditions are important in understanding the properties of domain wall switching across a smectic layer, and our focus here is on examining how the presence of anisotropy can affect the speed of this switching. We obtain an estimate of the influence of anisotropy on the minimal speed, sufficient conditions for linear and non‐linear minimal speed selection mechanisms to hold in different parameter regimes, and a characterisation of the boundary separating the linear and non‐linear regimes in parameter space.     

指数函数系的不完备性和极小性

Necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained for the incompleteness and the minimality of the exponential system E（Λ,M） = {z l e λ n z ： l = 0,1,...,m n-1;n = 1,2,...} in the Banach space E 2 [σ] consisting of some analytic functions in a half strip.If the incompleteness holds,each function in the closure of the linear span of exponential system E（Λ,M） can be extended to an analytic function represented by a Taylor-Dirichlet series.Moreover,by the conformal mapping ζ = φ（z） = e z ,the similar results hold for the incompleteness and the minimality of the power function system F （Λ,M） = {（log ζ） l ζ λ n ： l = 0,1,...,m n-1;n = 1,2,...} in the Banach space F 2 [σ] consisting of some analytic functions in a sector.     

Cubic spline interpolation with quasiminimal B-spline coefficients

Summary The end conditions for cubic spline interpolation with equidistant knots will be defined so as to make the (slightly modified) B-spline coefficients minimal. This produces good approximation results as compared e.g. with the not-a-knot spline.     

On two generalizations of Pareto minimality

In this paper we investigate two generalizations of the Pareto minimality concept: infimality and approximate minimality. It is shown that existence conditions for these optimality notions are much weaker and that they allow a more complete characterization via linear and nonlinear scalarization than Pareto minimality. We further study some relations between those optimality structures and apply the results to the image of a vector-valued mapping.The author is indebted to Professor J. Jahn for his encouragement and for helpful discussions, and to the anonymous referees for their suggestions.     

Generalized arcwise-connected functions and characterizations of local-global minimum properties

In this paper, new classes of generalized convex functions are introduced, extending the concepts of quasi-convexity, pseudoconvexity, and their associate subclasses. Functions belonging to these classes satisfy certain local-global minimum properties. Conversely, it is shown that, under some mild regularity conditions, functions for which the local-global minimum properties hold must belong to one of the classes of functions introduced.Dedicated to R. BellmanThe authors are indebted to I. Kozma, N. Megiddo, and A. Tamir for valuable discussions and to S. Schaible for valuable remarks. This research was partially supported by the Fund for the Encouragement of Research at the Technion.