Developments in operational research: R.W. Eglese and G.K. Rand (eds.) Pergamon, Oxford, 1984, vii + 110 pages, $20.00

A practical method of calculating the distribution of the number of customers in the single server queueing system with inhomogeneous arrival rate and discrete service time distribution is proposed. The system is formulated as an inhomogeneous Markov chain in discrete time, leading to recurrence relations for the state probabilities. The recurrence relations are then solved numerically. Various measures of performance, such as mean and variance of the number of customers in the system and virtual waiting time can be obtained from these results. Examples are presented to demonstrate the scope of the method, including time-dependent behaviour of homogeneous queues; cyclic behaviour of queues with cyclic arrival rates; and a previously published study of an airport runway in which the author had to resort to crude interpolation to obtain results. The method can be further extended to provide a reasonably accurate approximation for some systems with continuous distributions of service times.     

A thermochemical instability. II. Inhomogeneous fluctuations

The behavior of coupled stochastic fields near a cusp bifurcation is studied. The results are applied to a thermochemical model and the possibility of observing nonclassical critidal behavior is discussed.     

Effects of aggregation on the electromagnetic resonance scattering of dielectric spherical objects

Summary The effects of aggregation on the electromagnetic resonance scattering by small, strongly reflecting spheres are studied. Two or more spheres are allowed to cluster together to form rather complicated anisotropic scatterers whose extinction cross-section is calculated as a function of the wave number of the incident field in the neighbourhood of the lowest resonance of the individual spheres. The macroscopic absorption coefficient of a low-density random dispersion of clusters is also calculated in the same range of wave number. The results for two-, three- and four-sphere clusters are discussed. Work supported in part by C.N.R. through the G.N.S.M. and in part by the U.S. Army European Research Office through grant DAJA45-84-C-0005 and contract DAJA37-81-C-0895.     

正压流体中具有β效应与地形效应的强迫Rossby孤立波

正压流体中,从有外源的准地转位涡方程出发采用摄动方法和时空伸长变换推导了具有β效应、地形效应和外源的强迫Rossby孤立波方程,得到孤立Rossby波振幅的演变满足带有地形与外源强迫的非齐次 Boussinesq方程的结论. 通过分析孤立Rossby波振幅的演变,指出β效应、地形效应以及外源都是诱导Rossby孤立波产生的重要因素,说明在地形强迫效应和非线性作用相平衡的假定下,Rossby孤立波振幅的演变满足非齐次Boussinesq方程,给出在切变基本气流下地形和正压流体中R     

Radially isospectral annular membranes

^** Email: h.gottlieb{at}griffith.edu.au By utilizing transformations of both the radial coordinate andthe radial wave function, densities of annular membranes whichare radially isospectral to any given radial density are produced.In particular, new families of annular membrane densities arefound which are radially isospectral to a uniform membrane.Some new generalizations for completely isospectral annularmembranes (including angle-dependent densities) are also given.     

Effects of Different Spin-Spin Couplings and Magnetic Fields on Thermal Entanglement in Heisenberg XYZ Chain

The effects of spin-spin interaction on thermed entanglement of a two-qubit Heisenberg XYZ model with different inhomogeneous magnetic fields are investigated. It is shown that the entanglement is dependent on the spin-spin interaction and the inhomogeneous magnetic fields. The larger the Ji （i-axis spin-spin interaction）, the higher critical value the Bi （i-axis uniform magnetic field） has. Moreover, in the weak-field regime, the larger Ji corresponds to more entanglement, while in the strong-field regime, different Ji correspond to the same entanglement. In addition, it is found that with the increase of Ji, the concurrence can approach the maximum value more rapidly for the smaller Bi, and can reach a larger value for the smaller bi （i-axis nonuniform magnetic field）. So we can get more entanglement by increasing the spin-spin interaction Ji, or by decreasing the uniform magnetic field Bi and the nonuniform magnetic field hi.     

Painleve Integrability of Nonlinear SchrSdinger Equations with both Space- and Time-Dependent Coefficients

We investigate the Painleve integrabiiity of nonautonomous nonlinear Schr6dinger （NLS） equations with both space-and time-dependent dispersion, nonlinearity, and external potentials. The Painleve analysis is carried out without using the Kruskal＇s simplification, which results in more generalized form of inhomogeneous equations. The obtained equations are shown to be reducible to the standard NLS equation by using a point transformation. We also construct the corresponding Lax pair and carry out its Kundu-type reduction to the standard Lax pair. Special cases of equations from choosing limited form of coefficients coincide with the equations from the previous Painleve analyses and/or become unknown new equations.     

非时齐马氏过程的耦合基本定理

本文将耦合方法应用于非时齐马氏过程,推广了时齐情形的耦合基本定理,为后续研究非时齐马氏过程的耦合提供了理论基础.     

Connectivity of a general class of inhomogeneous random digraphs

We study a family of directed random graphs whose arcs are sampled independently of each other, and are present in the graph with a probability that depends on the attributes of the vertices involved. In particular, this family of models includes as special cases the directed versions of the Erd?s‐Rényi model, graphs with given expected degrees, the generalized random graph, and the Poissonian random graph. We establish a phase transition for the existence of a giant strongly connected component and provide some other basic properties, including the limiting joint distribution of the degrees and the mean number of arcs. In particular, we show that by choosing the joint distribution of the vertex attributes according to a multivariate regularly varying distribution, one can obtain scale‐free graphs with arbitrary in‐degree/out‐degree dependence.     

Series of tail distributions of finitely inhomogeneous random walks

Let Sn=X₁+?+Xn be a random walk, where the steps Xn are independent random variables having a finite number of possible distributions, and consider general series of the form

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