Power-of-two sampling in redundancy systems: The impact of assignment constraints

A classical sampling strategy for load balancing policies is power-of-two, where any server pair is sampled with equal probability. This does not cover practical settings with assignment constraints which force non-uniform sampling. While intuition suggests that non-uniform sampling adversely impacts performance, this was only supported through simulations, and rigorous statements have remained elusive. Building on product-form distributions for redundancy systems, we prove the stochastic dominance of uniform sampling for a four-server system as well as arbitrary-size systems in light traffic.     

Boussinesq方程行波解的存在性

利用平面动力系统方法的分支理论，研究了Boussinesq方程，通过对Boussinesq方程进行行波变换，得到了相应行波系统的首次积分和平衡点，给出了不同参数条件下的相图，证实了Boussinesq方程存在孤立波解和周期波解。     

Equi-attraction and backward compactness of pullback attractors for point-dissipative Ginzburg-Landau equations

A new concept of an equi-attractor is introduced, and defined by the minimal compact set that attracts bounded sets uniformly in the past, for a non-autonomous dynamical system. It is shown that the compact equi-attraction implies the backward compactness of a pullback attractor. Also, an eventually equi-continuous and strongly bounded process has an equi-attractor if and only if it is strongly point dissipative and strongly asymptotically compact. Those results primely strengthen the known existence result of a backward bounded pullback attractor in the literature. Finally, the theoretical criteria are applied to prove the existence of both equi-attractor and backward compact attractor for a Ginzburg-Landau equation with some varying coefficients and a backward tempered external force.     

Endopermutation Scott modules,slash indecomposability and saturated fusion systems

This paper introduces the notion of Frobenius-friendly modules which is a generalisation of p-permutation modules and we obtain the slash functors for these modules. Generalisations of Scott modules and Brauer indecomposability, which are called endopermutation Scott modules and slash indecomposability respectively, are given by using the slash functors. We also describe slash indecomposability in terms of saturated fusion systems, which is a generalisation of the case of Brauer indecomposability.     

Existence of Global Solutions for a Class of Abstract Second-Order Nonlocal Cauchy Problem with Impulsive Conditions in Banach Spaces

In this paper, we are concerned with a class of abstract second-order nonlocal Cauchy problem with impulsive conditions in Banach spaces. First, we study the existence of mild solutions for a class of second-order nonlocal Cauchy problem with impulsive conditions in Banach spaces on an interval [0,a]. Later, we study a couple of cases where we can establish the existence of global solutions for a class of abstract second-order nonlocal Cauchy problem with impulsive conditions in Banach spaces. We apply our theory to study the existence of solutions for impulsive partial differential equations.