One-dimensional Schrödinger operators with random or deterministic potentials: New spectral types

We prove sufficient conditions involving only potential asymptotic near one of the infinities in order to have purely absolutely continuous components in the spectrum. These deterministic results are then applied to random cases and exhibit classes of models for which, with probability one, one component of the spectrum is purely absolutely continuous and the rest is dense pure point with exponentially decaying eigenfunctions.     

Characterization of Riesz bases of wavelets generated from multiresolution analysis

We investigate Riesz bases of wavelets generated from multiresolution analysis. This investigation leads us to a study of refinement equations with masks being exponentially decaying sequences. In order to study such refinement equations we introduce the cascade operator and the transition operator. It turns out that the transition operator associated with an exponentially decaying mask is a compact operator on a certain Banach space of sequences. With the help of the spectral theory of the compact operator we are able to characterize the convergence of the cascade algorithm associated with an exponentially decaying mask in terms of the spectrum of the corresponding transition operator. As an application of this study we establish the main result of this paper which gives a complete characterization of all possible Riesz bases of compactly supported wavelets generated from multiresolution analysis. Several interesting examples are provided to illustrate the general theory.     

Meta-heuristics for placing strategic safety stock in multi-echelon inventory with differentiated service times

Pioneered by Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz in the 1950s, the mean-variance (MV) formulation is a fundamental theory for risk management in finance. Over the past decades, there is a growing popularity of applying this ground breaking theory in analyzing stochastic supply chain management problems. Nowadays, there is no doubt that the mean-variance (MV) theory is a well-proven approach for conducting risk analysis in stochastic supply chain operational models. In view of the growing importance of MV approach in supply chain management, we review a selection of related papers in the literature that focus on MV analytical models. By classifying the literature into three major areas, namely, single-echelon problems, multi-echelon supply chain problems, and supply chain problems with information updating, we derive insights into the current state of knowledge in each area and identify some associated challenges with a discussion of some specific models. We also suggest future research directions on topics such as information asymmetry, supply networks, and boundedly rational agents, etc. In conclusion, this paper provides up-to-date information which helps both academicians and practitioners to better understand the development of MV models for supply chain risk analysis.     

Timoshenko梁的边界反馈一致镇定

该文研究在Timoshenko梁两端施加边界反馈控制的镇定问题.在某些线性边界反馈作用下,通过分析闭环系统算子的谱,并利用频域方法证明了相应的闭环系统的一致稳定性.     

Essential spectrum in vibrations of thin shells in membrane approximation: propagation of singularities

The spectral problem of thin elastic shells in membrane approximation does not satisfy the classical properties of compactness and so there exists an essential spectrum. In the first part, we propose to determine this spectrum and the weakness directions in the shell. We particularly study the case of homogeneous and isotropic shells with some examples. In the second part, we consider an elementary model problem to study the propagation of singularities and their reflections at the boundary of the domain. In the last, we study the problem of propagation for an isotropic cylindrical shell and we show that the equation of propagation does not depend on the Poisson coefficient. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On guided waves in 3-D photonic crystals

The propagation of guided waves in 3-D photonic crystals is studied. In this paper, we suppose that the spectrum of reference medium (a perfectly 3-D photonic crystal) has band gaps. If a line defect is introduced along one of the lattice vectors, we prove that spectrum can be created inside the gaps of the reference spectrum if the line defect is sufficiently strong. Furthermore, we also prove that the generalized eigenfunctions corresponding to the generalized eigenvalues created by line defect are exponentially decaying away from the line defect.     

On the asymptotic behavior of nonlinear waves in the presence of a short-range potential

Consider the nonlinear wave equation with zero mass and a time-independent potential in three space dimensions. When it comes to the associated Cauchy problem, it is already known that short-range potentials do not affect the existence of small-amplitude solutions. In this paper, we focus on the associated scattering problem and we show that the situation is quite different there. In particular, we show that even arbitrarily small and rapidly decaying potentials may affect the asymptotic behavior of solutions.     

Schrödinger operators with matrix potentials. Transition from the absolutely continuous to the singular spectrum

It is proven that the absolutely continuous spectrum of matrix Schrödinger operators coincides (with the multiplicity taken into account) with the spectrum of the unperturbed operator if the (matrix) potential is square integrable. The same result is also proven for some classes of slower decaying potentials if they are smooth.     

Unstable directions and fractal dimension for skew products with overlaps in fibers

A unique feature of smooth hyperbolic non-invertible maps is that of having different unstable directions corresponding to different prehistories of the same point. In this paper we construct a new class of examples of non-invertible hyperbolic skew products with thick fibers for which we prove that there exist uncountably many points in the locally maximal invariant set ?? (actually a Cantor set in each fiber), having different unstable directions corresponding to different prehistories; also we estimate the angle between such unstable directions. We discuss then the Hausdorff dimension of the fibers of ?? for these maps by employing the thickness of Cantor sets, the inverse pressure, and also by use of continuous bounds for the preimage counting function. We prove that in certain examples, there are uncountably many points in ?? with two preimages belonging to ??, as well as uncountably many points having only one preimage in ??. In the end we give examples which, also from the point of view of Hausdorff dimension, are far from being homeomorphisms on ??, as well as far from being constant-to-1 maps on ??.     

On a Class of Operators of Finite Type

This paper studies some class of pure operators A with finite rank self-commutators satisfying the condition that there is a finite dimensional subspace containing the image of the self-commutator and invariant with respect to A*. Besides, in this class the spectrum of operator A is covered by the projection of a union of quadrature domains in some Riemann surfaces. In this paper the analytic model, the mosaic and some kernel related to the eigenfunctions are introduced which are the analogue of those objects in the theory of subnormal operators.     

Finite-time blowup and global-in-time unbounded solutions to a parabolic–parabolic quasilinear Keller–Segel system in higher dimensions

In this paper we consider quasilinear Keller–Segel type systems of two kinds in higher dimensions. In the case of a nonlinear diffusion system we prove an optimal (with respect to possible nonlinear diffusions generating explosion in finite time of solutions) finite-time blowup result. In the case of a cross-diffusion system we give results which are optimal provided one assumes some proper non-decay of a nonlinear chemical sensitivity. Moreover, we show that once we do not assume the above mentioned non-decay, our result cannot be as strong as in the case of nonlinear diffusion without nonlinear cross-diffusion terms. To this end we provide an example, interesting by itself, of global-in-time unbounded solutions to the nonlinear cross-diffusion Keller–Segel system with chemical sensitivity decaying fast enough, in a range of parameters in which there is a finite-time blowup result in a corresponding case without nonlinear cross-diffusion.     

Stability of spectral types for Jacobi matrices under decaying random perturbations

We study stability of spectral types for semi-infinite self-adjoint tridiagonal matrices under random decaying perturbations. We show that absolutely continuous spectrum associated with bounded eigenfunctions is stable under Hilbert-Schmidt random perturbations. We also obtain some results for singular spectral types.     

Hexagonal Fourier-Galerkin Methods for the Two-Dimensional Homogeneous Isotropic Decaying Turbulence

In this paper, we propose two hexagonal Fourier-Galerkin methods for the direct numerical simulation of the two-dimensional homogeneous isotropic decaying turbulence. We first establish the lattice Fourier analysis as a mathematical foundation. Then a universal approximation scheme is devised for our hexagonal Fourier-Galerkin methods for Navier-Stokes equations. Numerical experiments mainly concentrate on the decaying properties and the self-similar spectra of the two-dimensional homogeneous turbulence at various initial Reynolds numbers with an initial flow field governed by a Gaussian-distributed energy spectrum. Numerical results demonstrate that both the hexagonal Fourier-Galerkin methods are as efficient as the classic square Fourier-Galerkin method, while provide more effective statistical physical quantities in general.     

Absolutely continuous spectrum and spectral transition for some continuous random operators

In this paper we consider two classes of random Hamiltonians on $L^2({\mathbb R}^d)$ : one that imitates the lattice case and the other a Schr?dinger operator with non-decaying, non-sparse potential both of which exhibit a.c. spectrum. In the former case we also know the existence of dense pure point spectrum for some disorder thus exhibiting spectral transition valid for the Bethe lattice and expected for the Anderson model in higher dimension.     

On local comparison between various metrics on Teichmüller spaces

There are several Teichmüller spaces associated to a surface of infinite topological type, after the choice of a particular basepoint (a complex or a hyperbolic structure on the surface). Such spaces include the quasiconformal Teichmüller space, the length spectrum Teichmüller space, the Fenchel-Nielsen Teichmüller space, and there are others. In general, these spaces are set-theoretically different. An important question is therefore to understand relations between them. Each of these spaces is equipped with its own metric, and under some hypotheses, there are inclusions between them. In this paper, we obtain local metric comparison results on these inclusions, namely, we show that the inclusions are locally bi-Lipschitz under certain hypotheses. To obtain these results, we use some hyperbolic geometry estimates that give new results also for surfaces of finite type. We recall that in the case of a surface of finite type, all these Teichmüller spaces coincide setwise. In the case of a surface of finite type with no boundary components (but possibly with punctures), we show that the restriction of the identity map to any thick part of Teichmüller space is globally bi-Lipschitz with respect to the length spectrum metric on the domain and the classical Teichmüller metric on the range. In the case of a surface of finite type with punctures and boundary components, there is a metric on the Teichmüller space which we call the arc metric, whose definition is analogous to the length spectrum metric, but which uses lengths of geodesic arcs instead of lengths of closed geodesics. We show that the restriction of the identity map to any “relative thick” part of Teichmüller space is globally bi-Lipschitz, with respect to any of the three metrics: the length spectrum metric, the Teichmüller metric and the arc metric on the domain and on the range.     

A Notion of Nonlocal Curvature

We consider a nonlocal (or fractional) curvature and we investigate similarities and differences with respect to the classical local case. In particular, we show that the nonlocal mean curvature can be seen as an average of suitable nonlocal directional curvatures and there is a natural asymptotic convergence to the classical case. Nevertheless, different from the classical cases, minimal and maximal nonlocal directional curvatures are not in general attained at perpendicular directions and, in fact, one can arbitrarily prescribe the set of extremal directions for nonlocal directional curvatures. Also the classical directional curvatures naturally enjoy some linear properties that are lost in the nonlocal framework. In this sense, nonlocal directional curvatures are somewhat intrinsically nonlinear.     

Combining and scaling descent and negative curvature directions

The aim of this paper is the study of different approaches to combine and scale, in an efficient manner, descent information for the solution of unconstrained optimization problems. We consider the situation in which different directions are available in a given iteration, and we wish to analyze how to combine these directions in order to provide a method more efficient and robust than the standard Newton approach. In particular, we will focus on the scaling process that should be carried out before combining the directions. We derive some theoretical results regarding the conditions necessary to ensure the convergence of combination procedures following schemes similar to our proposals. Finally, we conduct some computational experiments to compare these proposals with a modified Newton??s method and other procedures in the literature for the combination of information.     

Eigenvalue problems for anisotropic discrete boundary value problems

In this paper, we prove the existence of a continuous spectrum for a family of discrete boundary value problems. The main existence results are obtained by using critical point theory. The equations studied in the paper represent a discrete variant of some recent anisotropic variable exponent problems, which deserve as models in different fields of mathematical physics.