Modelling with the Novel INAR(1)-PTE Process

Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability - In this paper, the first-order non-negative integer-valued autoregressive process with Poisson-transmuted exponential innovations is introduced....     

Closed-Form Expression for the Exact Period of a Nonlinear Oscillator Typified by a Mass Attached to a Stretched Wire

The exact analytical expression of the period of a conservative nonlinear oscillator with a non-polynomial potential, is obtained. Such an oscillatory system corresponds to the transverse vibration of a particle attached to the center of a stretched elastic wire. The result is given in terms of elliptic functions and validates the approximate formulae derived from various approximation procedures as the harmonic balance method and the rational harmonic balance method usually implemented for solving such a nonlinear problem.     

Length of the Instability Intervals for Hill's Equation

The length of instability intervals is investigated for the Hill equation y′′+ω(ω− 2∈p(x)y = 0, where p(x) has an infinite Fourier series of coefficients c _n. For any small ∈ it is shown that these lengths are completely characterized by the c _n's.     

Computation of the Madelung constant for hypercubic crystal structures in any dimension

A new method of computing the Madelung constants for hypercubic crystal structures in any dimension \(n\ge 2\) is given. It is shown for \(n\ge 3\) that the Madelung constant may be obtained in a simple, efficient and unambiguous way as the Hadamard finite part of the integral representation of the potential within the crystal which is divergent at any point charge location. Such a regularization method fails in the bidimensional case due to the logarithmic nature of singularities for the potential. In that case, a specific approach is proposed taking in account the scale invariance of the Poisson equation and the existence of a finite horizon for each point charge in the plane. Since a closed-form exact solution for the 2D electrostatic potential may be derived, one shows that the Madelung constant may be defined via an appropriate limit calculation as the mean value of potential energies of charges composing the unit cell.     

Variational iterative method and initial-value problems

The variational iterative method is revisited for initial-value problems in ordinary or partial differential equation. A distributional characterization of the Lagrange multiplier - the keystone of the method - is proposed, that may be interpreted as a retarded Green function. Such a formulation makes possible the simplification of the iteration formula into a Picard iterative scheme, and facilitates the convergence analysis. The approximate analytical solution of a nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with inhomogeneous initial data is proposed.