ON A SUBCLASS OF CLOSE TO CONVEX FUNCTIONS

Let C ′(α,β) be the class of functions f(z)=(a~nz~n)from n=2 to ∞ analytic in D ={z:|z|1},satisfying for some convex function g(z) with g(0) = g ′(0) ? 1 = 0 and for all z in D the condition ((zf′(z))/(g(z))-1)/(((zf′(z))/(g(z))+(1-2a))β for some α,β(0≤α1,0β≤1).A sharp coefficient estimate,distortion theorems and radius of convexity are determined for the class C ′(α,β).The results extend the work of C.Selvaraj.     

EXISTENCE OF ENTROPY SOLUTIONS TO TWO-DIMENSIONAL STEADY EXOTHERMICALLY REACTING EULER EQUATIONS

We are concerned with the global existence of entropy solutions of the twodimensional steady Euler equations for an ideal gas, which undergoes a one-step exothermic chemical reaction under the Arrhenius-type kinetics. The reaction rate function φ(T) is assumed to have a positive lower bound. We first consider the Cauchy problem(the initial value problem), that is, seek a supersonic downstream reacting flow when the incoming flow is supersonic, and establish the global existence of entropy solutions when the total variation of the initial data is suffciently small. Then we analyze the problem of steady supersonic, exothermically reacting Euler flow past a Lipschitz wedge, generating an additional detonation wave attached to the wedge vertex, which can be then formulated as an initial-boundary value problem. We establish the global existence of entropy solutions containing the additional detonation wave(weak or strong, determined by the wedge angle at the wedge vertex) when the total variation of both the slope of the wedge boundary and the incoming flow is suitably small. The downstream asymptotic behavior of the global solutions is also obtained.     

TANGENT UNIT-VECTOR FIELDS:NONABELIAN HOMOTOPY INVARIANTS AND THE DIRICHLET ENERGY

Let O be a closed geodesic polygon in S~2 . Maps from O into S~2 are said to satisfy tangent boundary conditions if the edges of O are mapped into the geodesics which contain them. Taking O to be an octant of S 2,we compute the infimum Dirichlet energy E(H) for continuous maps satisfying tangent boundary conditions of arbitrary homotopy type H . The expression for E (H ) involves a topological invariant - the spelling length - associated with the (non-abelian) fundamental group of the n-times punctured two-sphere, π 1 (S 2 ? {s 1 , ··· , s n }, ?). The lower bound for E(H) is obtained from combinatorial group theory arguments, while the upper bound is obtained by constructing explicit representa- tives which, on all but an arbitrarily small subset of O, are alternatively locally conformal or anticonformal. For conformal and anticonformal classes (classes containing wholly con- formal and anticonformal representatives respectively), the expression for E (H ) reduces to a previous result involving the degrees of a set of regular values s 1 , ··· , s n in the target S 2 space. These degrees may be viewed as invariants associated with the abelianization of π 1 (S 2 ? {s 1 , ··· , s n }, *). For nonconformal classes, however, E(H) may be strictly greater than the abelian bound. This stems from the fact that, for nonconformal maps, the number of preimages of certain regular values may necessarily be strictly greater than the absolute value of their degrees.This work is motivated by the theoretical modelling of nematic liquid crystals in confined polyhedral geometries. The results imply new lower and upper bounds for the Dirichlet energy (one-constant Oseen-Frank energy) of reflection-symmetric tangent unit- vector fields in a rectangular prism.     

THE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS WITH THE KINEMATIC AND VORTICITY BOUNDARY CONDITIONS ON NON-FLAT BOUNDARIES

We study the initial-boundary value problem of the Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible fluids in a general domain in R^n with compact and smooth boundary, subject to the kinematic and vorticity boundary conditions on the non-flat boundary. We observe that, under the nonhomogeneous boundary conditions, the pressure p can be still recovered by solving the Neumann problem for the Poisson equation. Then we establish the well-posedness of the unsteady Stokes equations and employ the solution to reduce our initial-boundary value problem into an initial-boundary value problem with absolute boundary conditions. Based on this, we first establish the well-posedness for an appropriate local linearized problem with the absolute boundary conditions and the initial condition （without the incompressibility condition）, which establishes a velocity mapping. Then we develop apriori estimates for the velocity mapping, especially involving the Sobolev norm for the time-derivative of the mapping to deal with the complicated boundary conditions, which leads to the existence of the fixed point of the mapping and the existence of solutions to our initial-boundary value problem. Finally, we establish that, when the viscosity coefficient tends zero, the strong solutions of the initial-boundary value problem in R^n（n ≥ 3） with nonhomogeneous vorticity boundary condition converge in L^2 to the corresponding Euler equations satisfying the kinematic condition.     

ON THE BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER OF GENERAL BRANCHING PROCESSES

Under a very general condition （TNC condition） we show that the spectral radius of the kernel of a general branching process is a threshold parameter and hence plays a role as the basic reproduction number in usual CMJ processes. We discuss also some properties of the extinction probability and the generating operator of general branching processes. As an application in epidemics, in the final section we suggest a generalization of SIR model which can describe infectious diseases transmission in an inhomogeneous population.     

WELL-POSEDNESS OF A COMPRESSIBLE GAS-LIQUID MODEL FOR DEEPWATER OIL WELL OPERATIONS

The main purpose of this paper is two-fold:(i) to generalize an existence result for a compressible gas-liquid model with a friction term recently published by Friis and Evje [SIAM J. Appl. Math., 71(2011), pp. 2014–2047];(ii) to derive a uniqueness result for the same model. A main ingredient in the existence part is the observation that we can consider weaker assumptions on the initial liquid and gas mass, and still obtain an existence result. Compared to the above mentioned work, we rely on a more refined application of the estimates provided by the basic energy estimate. Concerning the uniqueness result, we borrow ideas from Fang and Zhang [Nonlinear Anal. TMA, 58(2004), pp. 719–731] and derive a stability result under appropriate constraints on parameters that determine rate of decay toward zero at the boundary for gas and liquid masses, and growth rate of masses associated with the friction term and viscous coefficient.     

STABILIZATION OF MARKOVIAN JUMP LINEAR SYSTEMS VIA RANDOM COMMUNICATION TIME DELAYED AND IMPULSIVE CONTROLLERS

This paper deals with the stabilization problems for a networked control system via time-delayed and impulsive controllers. The random communication delays in the model signal are modeled as a Markov chain. First, we introduce a hybrid controller with delay and impulses for the networked control systems. Then, some sufficient conditions are proposed for the design of a hybrid controller such that the closed-loop system is stochastically stable.     

A CLASS OF MULTIWAVELETS AND PROJECTED FRAMES FROM TWO-DIRECTION WAVELETS

This article aims at studying two-direction refinable functions and two-direction wavelets in the setting Rs, s 1. We give a sufficient condition for a two-direction refinable function belonging to L2(Rs). Then, two theorems are given for constructing biorthogonal(orthogonal) two-direction refinable functions in L2(Rs) and their biorthogonal(orthogonal) two-direction wavelets, respectively. From the constructed biorthogonal(orthogonal)two-direction wavelets, symmetric biorthogonal(orthogonal) multiwaveles in L2(Rs) can be obtained easily. Applying the projection method to biorthogonal(orthogonal) two-direction wavelets in L2(Rs), we can get dual(tight) two-direction wavelet frames in L2(Rm), where m ≤ s. From the projected dual(tight) two-direction wavelet frames in L2(Rm), symmetric dual(tight) frames in L2(Rm) can be obtained easily. In the end, an example is given to illustrate theoretical results.     

A MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF ENTERPRISE COMPETITIVE ABILITY AND PERFORMANCE THROUGH EMDEN-FOWLER EQUATION （Ⅱ）

In this paper we work with the ordinary equation u＇＇ - u2 （u ＋ ） = 0 and ob- tain some interesting phenomena concerning, blow-up, blow-up rate, life-span of solutions to those equations.     

THE HADAMARD INEQUALITY FOR CONVEX FUNCTION VIA FRACTIONAL INTEGRALS

In this paper, we establish several inequalities for some differantiable mappings that are connected with the Riemann-Liouville fractional integrals. The analysis used in the proofs is fairly elementar...     

一类六角系统图的特征多项式及应用

Let Ln be the hexagonal chain graph,Fnbe the hexacyclic system graph and Mn be the M¨obius hexacyclic system graph. Derflinger and Sofer gave the spectra of Ln and Fn by using group theoretical method. Later, Gutman gave the spectra of them using a polynomial result due to Godsil and McKay. In this paper, we give a simple and direct method to determine the characteristic polynomial and spectra of Fn and Ln. By the method, we give the characteristic polynomial and spectrum of Mn that is new. Additionally, the exact values of total π-electron energy and the nullities of Ln, Fn and Mn are obtained, and the bounds for the energy of Ln and Mn are also considered.     

POSITIVE SOLUTIONS FOR PARAMETRIC EQUIDIFFUSIVE p-LAPLACIAN EQUATIONS

We consider a parametric Dirichlet problem driven by the p-Laplacian with a Carath′eodory reaction of equidiffusive type. Our hypotheses incorporate as a special case the equidiffusive p-logistic equation. We show that if λ1 0 is the principal eigenvalue of the Dirichlet negative p-Laplacian and λ λ1(λ being the parameter), the problem has a unique positive solution, while for λ∈(0,λ1], the problem has no positive solution.     

A REACTIVE DYNAMIC CONTINUUM USER EQUILIBRIUM MODEL FOR BI-DIRECTIONAL PEDESTRIAN FLOWS

In this paper, a reactive dynamic user equilibrium model is extended to simulate two groups of pedestrians traveling on crossing paths in a continuous walking facility. Each group makes path choices to minimize the travel cost to its destination in a reactive manner based on instantaneous information. The model consists of a conservation law equation coupled with an Eikonal-type equation for each group. The velocity-density relationship of pedestrian movement is obtained via an experimental method. The model is solved using a finite volume method for the conservation law equation and a fast-marching method for the Eikonal-type equation on unstructured grids. The numerical results verify the rationality of the model and the validity of the numerical method. Based on this continuum model, a number of results, e.g., the formation of strips or moving clusters composed of pedestrians walking to the same destination, are also observed.     

EXISTENCE AND MOMENT ESTIMATES FOR SOLUTIONS TO NEUTRAL STOCHASTIC FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

In this paper, we show the existence and uniqueness of solutions to a large class of SFDEs with the generalized local Lipschitzian coefficients. Some moment estima- tes of the solutions are given by establishing new Ito operator inequalities based on the Razumikhin technique. These estimates improve, extend and unify some related results including exponential stability of Mao （1997） [20], decay stability of Wu et al. （2010,2011） [32,33], Pavlovic et al. （2012） [24], asymptotic behavior of Luo et al. （2011） [18] and Song et al. （2013） [26]. Moreover, stochastic version of Wintner theorem in continuous space is established by the comparison principle, which improve and extend the main results of Xu et al. （2008 [39], 2013 [36]）. When the methods presented are applied to the SFDEs with impulses and SFDEs in Hilbert spaces, we extend the related results of Govindana et al. （2013） [7], Liu et al. （2007） [15], Vinod- kumar （2010） [29] and Xu et al. （2012） [35]. Two examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of our results.     

ON THE SINGULARITY OF LEAST SQUARES ESTIMATOR FOR MEAN-REVERTING α-STABLE MOTIONS

We study the problem of parameter estimation for mean-reverting α-stable motion, dXt = （a0 - θ0Xt）dt ＋ dZt, observed at discrete time instants. A least squares estimator is obtained and its asymptotics is discussed in the singular case （a0, θ0） = （0, 0）. If a0 = 0, then the mean-reverting α-stable motion becomes Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and is studied in [7] in the ergodic case θ0 〉 0. For the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, asymptotics of the least squares estimators for the singular case （θ0 = 0） and for ergodic case （θ0 〉 0） are completely different.     

ON PROPERTIES OF MEROMORPHIC SOLUTIONS FOR COMPLEX DIFFERENCE EQUATION OF MALMQUIST TYPE

In this paper, we present the properties on zeros, fixed points, poles, Borel exceptional value of finite order transcendental meromorphic solutions of complex difference equation of Malmquist typewhere n（∈ N） 〉 2, P（f（z）） and Q（f（z）） are relatively prime polynomials in f（z） with rational coefficients a8 （s = 0, 1,…,p） and bt （t = 0, 1,… ,q） such that aoapbq 7≠ O, and also consider the existence and the forms on rational solutions of this type of difference equations. Some examples are also listed to show that the assumptions of theorems, in certain senses, are the best possible.     

TWO-DIMENSIONAL RIEMANN PROBLEMS： FROM SCALAR CONSERVATION LAWS TO COMPRESSIBLE EULER EQUATIONS

In this paper we survey the authors＇ and related work on two-dimensional Riemann problems for hyperbolic conservation laws, mainly those related to the compressible Euler equations in gas dynamics. It contains four sections： 1. Historical review. 2. Scalar conservation laws. 3. Euler equations. 4. Simplified models.     

DOMAIN OF THE DOUBLE SEQUENTIAL BAND MATRIX B（r,s） ON SOME MADDOX＇S SPACES

The domain of generalized difference matrix B(r, s) in the classical spaces l∞,c, and c0 was recently studied by Kirisci and Bassar in [16]. The main goal of this article is to introduce the paranormed sequence spaces l∞( B, p), c( B, p), and c0( B, p), which are more general and comprehensive than the corresponding consequences of the matrix domain of B(r, s), as well as other studies in literature. Besides this, the alpha-, beta-, and gamma-duals of the spaces l∞( B, p), c( B, p), and c0( B, p) are computed and the bases of the spaces c( B, p)and c0( B, p) are constructed. The final section of this article is devoted to the characterization of the classes(λ( B, p) :) and( : λ( B, p)), where λ∈ {c, c0, l∞}and is any given sequence space. Additionally, the characterization of some other classes which are related to the space of almost convergent sequences is obtained by means of a given lemma.     

GLOBAL EXISTENCE AND BLOW-UP OF SOLUTIONS FOR GENERALIZED POCHHAMMER-CHREE EQUATIONS

In this article,we study the initial boundary value problem of generalized Pochhammer-Chree equation u_(tt)-u_(xx)-u_(xxt)-u_(xxtt)=f(u) xx,x ∈Ω,t 0,u(x,0) = u0(x),u t(x,0)=u1(x),x ∈Ω,u(0,t) = u(1,t) = 0,t≥0,where Ω=(0,1).First,we obtain the existence of local W k,p solutions.Then,we prove that,if f(s) ∈ΩC k+1(R) is nondecreasing,f(0) = 0 and |f(u)|≤C1|u| u 0 f(s)ds+C2,u 0(x),u 1(x) ∈ΩW k,p(Ω) ∩ W 1,p 0(Ω),k ≥ 1,1 p ≤∞,then for any T 0 the problem admits a unique solution u(x,t) ∈ W 2,∞(0,T;W k,p(Ω) ∩ W 1,p 0(Ω)).Finally,the finite time blow-up of solutions and global W k,p solution of generalized IMBq equations are discussed.     

MULTIPLICATION OPERATORS ON INVARIANT SUBSPACES OF FUNCTION SPACES

Let M? be the operator of multiplication by?on a Hilbert space of functions analytic on the open unit disk. For an invariant subspace F for the multiplication operator Mz, we derive some spectral prope...