Supply chain analysis under a price-discount incentive scheme for electric vehicles

We investigate an automobile supply chain where a manufacturer and a retailer serve heterogeneous consumers with electric vehicles (EVs) under a government’s price-discount incentive scheme that involves a price discount rate and a subsidy ceiling. We show that the subsidy ceiling is more effective in influencing the optimal wholesale pricing decision of the manufacturer with a higher unit production cost. However, the discount rate is more effective for the manufacturer with a lower unit production cost. Moreover, the expected sales are increasing in the discount rate but may be decreasing in the subsidy ceiling. Analytic results indicate that an effective incentive scheme should include both a discount rate and a subsidy ceiling. We also derive the necessary condition for the most effective discount rate and subsidy ceiling that maximize the expected sales of EVs, and obtain a unique discount rate and subsidy ceiling that most effectively improve the manufacturer’s incentive for EV production.     

具有捕食正效应及Holling Ⅱ功能性反应的捕食-食饵系统

本文研究一类具有捕食正效应的Holling Ⅱ功能性反应的食饵-捕食者系统:dx/dt=rx(1-x/k+εy/k)-αxy/1+ωx,dy/dt=kαxy/1+ωx-dy,讨论其平衡点的性态.     

On solution sequences of the singular Liouville equations with an integral constraint

In this paper,we analyze the blow-up behavior of sequences{uk}satisfying the following conditionsΔuk=|x|2αk V k eukinΩ,(0.1)whereΩR2,V k→V in C1,|Vk|≤A,0a≤Vk≤b,0≤αk→α∈(0,∞),andΩ|x|2αkeuk dx≤Λ1.(0.2)Furthermore,we assume that there exists someq∈(1,2)such that rq 2Br(p)|uk|qdx≤Λ2(0.3)for anyB r(p)Ω.As a result,we give a new proof of the concentration-compactness theorem for the mean feld equation.     

The elementary symmetric functions of a reciprocal polynomial sequence

Erdös and Niven proved in 1946 that for any positive integers m and d, there are at most finitely many integers n   for which at least one of the elementary symmetric functions of 1/m,1/(m+d),…,1/(m+(n−1)d)$1/m,1/(m+d),\dots ,1/(m+(n-1)d)$ are integers. Recently, Wang and Hong refined this result by showing that if n?4$n?4$, then none of the elementary symmetric functions of 1/m,1/(m+d),…,1/(m+(n−1)d)$1/m,1/(m+d),\dots ,1/(m+(n-1)d)$ is an integer for any positive integers m and d. Let f   be a polynomial of degree at least 2 and of nonnegative integer coefficients. In this paper, we show that none of the elementary symmetric functions of 1/f(1),1/f(2),…,1/f(n)$1/f(1),1/f(2),\dots ,1/f(n)$ is an integer except for f(x)=x^m$f(x)=x^m$ with m?2$m?2$ being an integer and n=1$n=1$.     

Graphic Sequences with an A-Connected Realization

A non-increasing sequence \({\pi = (d_1, d_2, \ldots, d_n)}\) of non-negative integers is said to be graphic if it is the degree sequence of a simple graph G on n vertices. Let A be an (additive) abelian group. An extremal problem for a graphic sequence to have an A-connected realization is considered as follows: determine the smallest even integer \({\sigma (A, n)}\) such that each graphic sequence \({\pi = (d_1, d_2, \ldots, d_n)}\) with d _n ≥ 2 and \({\sigma (\pi) = d_1 + d_2 + \cdots +d_n \ge \sigma (A, n)}\) has an A-connected realization. In this paper, we determine \({\sigma (A, n)}\) for |A| ≥ 5 and n ≥ 3.     

Nonlinear separation approach for the augmented Lagrangian in nonlinear semidefinite programming

This paper aims at showing that the class of augmented Lagrangian functions for nonlinear semidefinite programming problems can be derived, as a particular case, from a nonlinear separation scheme in the image space associated with the given problem. By means of the image space analysis, a global saddle point condition for the augmented Lagrangian function is investigated. It is shown that the existence of a saddle point is equivalent to a regular nonlinear separation of two suitable subsets of the image space. Without requiring the strict complementarity, it is proved that, under second order sufficiency conditions, the augmented Lagrangian function admits a local saddle point. The existence of global saddle points is then obtained under additional assumptions that do not require the compactness of the feasible set. Motivated by the result on global saddle points, we propose two modified primal-dual methods based on the augmented Lagrangian using different strategies and prove their convergence to a global solution and the optimal value of the original problem without requiring the boundedness condition of the multiplier sequence.     

Dimension-Independent Estimates on the Densities of Wiener Functionals via the Log-Sobolev Inequality

Using the log-Sobolev inequality, we shall present in this note some estimates on the density of finite dimensional non-degenerate Wiener functionals which are independent on the dimension. We shall take the Gaussian measure as the reference measure, contrary to the customary choice of Lebesgue measure in the literature. As an application, we show that the limit in probability of a uniformly bounded sequence of non-degenerate Wiener functionals has a density with respect to the Gaussian measure.     

Estimation of relative risk using a log-binomial model with constraints

The relative risk/prevalence ratio and odds ratio are very popular in medical research and epidemiological studies. The odds ratio is overused in practice due to its direct relation with the logistic regression. Interpreting the odds ratio in terms of “relative risk” may lead to incorrect inference on the prevalence of certain event. In this paper, we propose to estimate the relative risk using the log-binomial model by maximizing the likelihood with a linear constraint, which can be easily implemented by an existing function, such as “constrOptim” in R. Furthermore, we review other existing methods and compare their performance under a variety of settings using simulated data. We suggest the proposed and COPY methods in practice, based on its performance in the simulations. For illustration, we investigate the vigorous physical activity effects on obesity using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, and the treatment effects on lung cancer mortality using data in R.     

矩阵多分裂迭代法的收敛条件

本文给出了求解非奇异线性方程组的矩阵多分裂并行迭代法的一些新的收敛结果.当系数矩阵单调和多分裂序列为弱正则分裂时,得到了几个与已有的收敛准则等价的条件,并且证明了异步迭代法在较弱条件下的收敛性.对于同步迭代,给出了与异步迭代不同且较为宽松的收敛条件.