Closed graph and open mapping theorems for normed cones

A quasi-normed cone is a pair (X, p) such that X is a (not necessarily cancellative) cone and q is a quasi-norm on X. The aim of this paper is to prove a closed graph and an open mapping type theorem for quasi-normed cones. This is done with the help of appropriate notions of completeness, continuity and openness that arise in a natural way from the setting of bitopological spaces.     

Spectral theory of left definite difference operators

This paper is concerned with the spectral theory for the second-order left definite difference boundary value problems. Existence of eigenvalues of boundary value problems is proved, numbers of their eigenvalues are calculated and fundamental spectral results are obtained.     

Robust supergain beamforming for circular array via second-order cone programming

The phenomenon of supergain for a circular array and its robust beamforming are presented. The coplanar superdirective array gain of the circular array, although it is not so extreme as an endfire line array, outperforms a lot over that of a conventional delay-and-sum beamformer in isotropic noise fields when the inter-element spacings are much smaller than one-half wavelength. However, optimum beamforming algorithms can be extremely sensitive to slight errors in array characteristics. The performance are known to degrade significantly if some of underlying assumptions on the sensor array is violated. Therefore, white noise gain constraint is used to improve the robustness of the supergain beamformer against random errors. We show that the design of the weight vector of robust supergain beamformer can be reformulated as a form of second-order cone programming and resolved efficiently via the well-established interior point method. Results of computer simulation for a 24-element circular array confirm satisfactory performance of the approach proposed in this paper.     

Generalizing Mutational Equations for Uniqueness of Some Nonlocal 1st-Order Geometric Evolutions

The mutational equations of Aubin extend ordinary differential equations to metric spaces (with compact balls). In first-order geometric evolutions, however, the topological boundary need not be continuous in the sense of Painlevé–Kuratowski. So this paper suggests a generalization of Aubin’s mutational equations that extends classical notions of dynamical systems and functional analysis beyond the traditional border of vector spaces: Distribution-like solutions are introduced in a set just supplied with a countable family of (possibly non-symmetric) distance functions. Moreover their existence is proved by means of Euler approximations and a form of “weak” sequential compactness (although no continuous linear forms are available beyond topological vector spaces). This general framework is applied to a first-order geometric example, i.e. compact subsets of ℝ ^N evolving according to the nonlocal properties of both the current set and its proximal normal cones. Here neither regularity assumptions about the boundaries nor the inclusion principle are required. In particular, we specify sufficient conditions for the uniqueness of these solutions.      

Correlative Sparsity in Primal-Dual Interior-Point Methods for LP,SDP, and SOCP

Exploiting sparsity has been a key issue in solving large-scale optimization problems. The most time-consuming part of primal-dual interior-point methods for linear programs, second-order cone programs, and semidefinite programs is solving the Schur complement equation at each iteration, usually by the Cholesky factorization. The computational efficiency is greatly affected by the sparsity of the coefficient matrix of the equation which is determined by the sparsity of an optimization problem (linear program, semidefinite program or second-order cone program). We show if an optimization problem is correlatively sparse, then the coefficient matrix of the Schur complement equation inherits the sparsity, and a sparse Cholesky factorization applied to the matrix results in no fill-in. S. Kim’s research was supported by Kosef R01-2005-000-10271-0 and KRF-2006-312-C00062.     

Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for the Boundedness of the Riesz Potential in Local Morrey-type Spaces

The problem of the boundedness of the Riesz potential I _α , 0 < α < n, in local Morrey-type spaces is reduced to the boundedness of the Hardy operator in weighted L _p -spaces on the cone of non-negative non-increasing functions. This allows obtaining sufficient conditions for the boundedness in local Morrey-type spaces for all admissible values of the parameters. Moreover, for a certain range of the parameters, these sufficient conditions coincide with the necessary ones. V. Guliyev’s research was partially supported by the grant of the Azerbaijan-U. S. Bilateral Grants Program II (project ANSF Award / AZM1-3110-BA-08) and the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (TUBITAK, programme 2221, no. 220.01-619-4889).     

奇异二阶周期边值问题正解的存在性

利用不动点指数理论研究奇异二阶周期边值问题.在有关其线性算子方程对应的第一特征值的条件下得到边值问题正解的存在性,推广和改进了最近文献的结果.     

向量优化问题有效解的稳定性

运用标量化的方法,通过锥正定真有效解的上半连续性讨论了无限维赋范空间中锥有效解的部分上半连续性,证明了锥有效解的通有稳定性.在此基础上,进一步证明,在Baire纲的意义下,绝大多数的向量优化问题至少存在一个锥正定真有效解是本质的有效解,换句话说,绝大多数的向量优化问题锥有效解是几乎下半连续的.     

Pure Shear – A Footnote

A result on pure shear provides the motivation for the determination of some new general results relating real second order Cartesian tensors.      

Existence of multiple fixed points for nonlinear operators and applications

In this paper, by the fixed point index theory, the number of fixed points for sublinear and asymptotically linear operators via two coupled parallel sub-super solutions is studied. Under suitable conditions, the existence of at least nine or seven distinct fixed points for sublinear and asymptotically linear operators is proved. Finally, the theoretical results are applied to a nonlinear system of Hammerstein integral equations.