Variational approach to solutions for a class of fractional Hamiltonian systems

In this paper, we investigate the existence of infinitely many solutions for the following fractional Hamiltonian systems: ( FHS ) where α ∈ (1 ∕ 2,1), , , and are symmetric and positive definite matrices for all , , and ? W is the gradient of W at u. The novelty of this paper is that, assuming L is coercive at infinity, and W is of subquadratic growth as | u | → + ∞ , we show that (FHS) possesses infinitely many solutions via the genus properties in the critical theory. Recent results in the literature are generalized and significantly improved. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Extending LSQR methods to solve the generalized Sylvester‐transpose and periodic Sylvester matrix equations

It is well known that the least‐squares QR‐factorization (LSQR) algorithm is a powerful method for solving linear systems Ax = b and unconstrained least‐squares problem min_x | | Ax ? b | | . In the paper, the LSQR approach is developed to obtain iterative algorithms for solving the generalized Sylvester‐transpose matrix equation the minimum Frobenius norm residual problem and the periodic Sylvester matrix equation Numerical results are given to illustrate the effect of the proposed algorithms. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A class of vector‐valued dilation‐and‐modulation frames on the half real line

Vector‐valued frames were first introduced under the name of superframes by Balan in the context of signal multiplexing and by Han and Larson from the mathematical aspect. Since then, the wavelet and Gabor frames in have interested many mathematicians. The space models vector‐valued causal signal spaces because of the time variable being nonnegative. But it admits no nontrivial shift‐invariant system and thus no wavelet or Gabor frame since is not a group by addition (not as ). Observing that is a group by multiplication, we, in this paper, introduce a class of multiplication‐based dilation‐and‐modulation ( ) systems, and investigate the theory of frames in . Since is not closed under the Fourier transform, the Fourier transform does not fit . We introduce the notion of Θ_a transform in , and using Θ_a‐transform matrix method, we characterize frames, Riesz bases, and dual frames in and obtain an explicit expression of duals for an arbitrary given frame. An example theorem is also presented.     

Multilinear and multiparameter spectral multipliers on stratified groups

As far as we know, the study of multilinear spectral multipliers on nilpotent Lie groups is a very new research work. There is even no study of Hörmander‐type multiplier theorem for multilinear and multiparameter spectral multipliers on nilpotent Lie groups. In this paper, on product spaces of stratified groups G = G₁ × ⋯ × G_M, we prove Hörmander‐type multiplier theorems for multilinear and multiparameter spectral multipliers from to L^r(G) with , from to with , and from to L^r(·)(G) with or for all ℓ = 1,…,N.     

Infinitely many solutions to elliptic systems with critical exponents and Hardy potentials

In this paper, we consider the following elliptic systems with critical Sobolev growth and Hardy potentials: where N ≥ 3, η > 0, λ₁,λ₂ ∈ [0,Λ_N), and is the best Hardy constant. is the critical Sobolev exponent. a₁, a₂, b₁, and b₂ are positive parameters, and α,β > 1 satisfy 2 < α + β < 2*. h(x) ? 0, h(x) ≥ 0, , , and with . By means of the concentration–compactness principle and R. Kajikiya's new version of symmetric mountain pass lemma, we obtain infinitely many solutions that tend to zero. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Transition matrices for quantum waveguides with impurities

We consider the electron propagation in a cylindrical quantum waveguide where D is a bounded domain in described by the Dirichlet problem for the Schrödinger operator where x=(x₁, x₂), , is the transversal confinement potential, and is the impurity potential.  We construct the left and right transition matrices and give an numerical algorithm for their calculations based on the spectral parameter power series method.     

Existence of positive solutions for nonlinear Kirchhoff type problems in with critical Sobolev exponent

In this paper, we study the following nonlinear problem of Kirchhoff type with critical Sobolev exponent: where a, b > 0 are constants. Under certain assumptions on the sign‐changing function f(x,u), we prove the existence of positive solutions by variational methods. Our main results can be viewed as a partial extension of a recent result of He and Zou in [Journal of Differential Equations, 2012] concerning the existence of positive solutions to the nonlinear Kirchhoff problem where ϵ > 0 is a parameter, V (x) is a positive continuous potential, and with 4 < p < 6 and satisfies the Ambrosetti–Rabinowitz type condition. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Positive solutions to semilinear elliptic equations involving a weighted fractional Lapalacian

In this paper, we consider a uniform elliptic nonlocal operator (1) which is a weighted form of fractional Laplacian. We firstly establish three maximum principles for antisymmetric functions with respect to the nonlocal operator. Then, we obtain symmetry, monotonicity, and nonexistence of solutions to some semilinear equations involving the operator on bounded domain, and , by applying direct moving plane methods. Finally, we show the relations between the classical operator  ? Δ and the nonlocal operator in ( 1 ) as α →2. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Existence and concentration of bound states for a Kirchhoff type problem with potentials vanishing or unbounded at infinity

In this paper, we study the existence and concentration behavior of positive solutions for the following Kirchhoff type equation: where ɛ is a positive parameter, a and b are positive constants, and 3<p<5. Let denotes the ground energy function associated with , , where is regard as a parameter. Suppose that the potential V(x) decays to zero at infinity like |x|^−α with 0<α≤2, we prove the existence of positive solutions u_ɛ belonging to for vanishing or unbounded K(x) when ɛ > 0 small. Furthermore, we show that the solution u_ɛ concentrates at the minimum points of as ɛ→0⁺.     

Three rapidly convergent parareal solvers with application to time‐dependent PDEs with fractional Laplacian

Time‐dependent PDEs with fractional Laplacian ( ? Δ)^α play a fundamental role in many fields and approximating ( ? Δ)^α usually leads to ODEs' system like u ^′ (t ) + A u (t ) =  g (t ) with A  = Q ^α , where is a sparse symmetric positive definite matrix and α  > 0 denotes the fractional order. The parareal algorithm is an ideal solver for this kind of problems, which is iterative and is characterized by two propagators and . The propagators and are respectively associated with large step size ΔT and small step size Δt , where ΔT  = J Δt and J ?2 is an integer. If we fix the ‐propagator to the Implicit‐Euler method and choose for some proper Runge–Kutta (RK) methods, such as the second‐order and third‐order singly diagonally implicit RK methods, previous studies show that the convergence factors of the corresponding parareal solvers can satisfy and , where σ (A ) is the spectrum of the matrix A . In this paper, we show that by choosing these two RK methods as the ‐propagator, the convergence factors can reach , provided the one‐stage complex Rosenbrock method is used as the ‐propagator. If we choose for both and , the complex Rosenbrock method, we show that the convergence factor of the resulting parareal solver can also reach . Numerical results are given to support our theoretical conclusions. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A quasilinear chemotaxis–haptotaxis model: The roles of nonlinear diffusion and logistic source

In this paper, we study the following quasilinear chemotaxis–haptotaxis system (?) in a bounded smooth domain under zero‐flux boundary conditions, where the nonlinearities D ,S ₁, and S ₂ are supposed to generalize the prototypes with , and f ∈C ¹([0,+∞ ) × [0,+∞ )) satisfies with r > 0 and b > 0. If the nonnegative initial data u ₀(x )∈W ^1,∞ (Ω),v ₀(x )∈W ^1,∞ (Ω), and for some α ∈(0,1), it is proved that

1. For n = 1, if and then (?) has a unique nonnegative classical solution, which is globally bounded.
2. For n = 2, if and then (?) has a unique nonnegative classical solution, which is globally bounded.
3. For n ≥3, if and then (?) has a unique nonnegative classical solution, which is globally bounded.

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Time‐harmonic and asymptotically linear Maxwell equations in anisotropic media

This paper is focused on following time‐harmonic Maxwell equation: where is a bounded Lipschitz domain, is the exterior normal, and ω is the frequency. The boundary condition holds when Ω is surrounded by a perfect conductor. Assuming that f is asymptotically linear as , we study the above equation by improving the generalized Nehari manifold method. For an anisotropic material with magnetic permeability tensor and permittivity tensor , ground state solutions are established in this paper. Applying the principle of symmetric criticality, we find 2 types of solutions with cylindrical symmetries in particular for the uniaxial material.     

Rotating periodic solutions for second‐order dynamical systems with singularities of repulsive type

In this paper, we study the following second‐order dynamical system: where c ?0 is a constant, and . When g admits a singularity at zero of repulsive type without the restriction of strong force condition, we apply the coincidence degree theory to prove that the system admits nonplanar collisionless rotating periodic solutions taking the form u (t  + T ) = Q u (t ), with T  > 0 and Q an orthogonal matrix under the assumption of Landesman–Lazer type. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Characterizations of Sobolev spaces associated to operators satisfying off‐diagonal estimates on balls

Let be a metric measure space of homogeneous type and L be a one‐to‐one operator of type ω on for ω ∈[0, π /2). In this article, under the assumptions that L has a bounded H _∞ ‐functional calculus on and satisfies (p _L , q _L ) off‐diagonal estimates on balls, where p _L ∈[1, 2) and q _L ∈(2, ∞ ], the authors establish a characterization of the Sobolev space , defined via L ^{α /2}, of order α ∈(0, 2] for p ∈(p _L , q _L ) by means of a quadratic function S _{α , L} . As an application, the authors show that for the degenerate elliptic operator L _w : =? w  ^? 1div(A ?) and the Schrödinger type operator with a ∈(0, ∞ ) on the weighted Euclidean space with A being real symmetric, if n ?3, with q ∈[1, 2], , p ∈(1, ∞ ) and with , then, for all , , where the implicit equivalent positive constants are independent of f , denotes the class of Muckenhoupt weights, the reverse Hölder class, and D (L _w ) and the domains of L _w and , respectively. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On Fejér's inequalities for the Legendre polynomials

We present various inequalities for the sum where denotes the Legendre polynomial of degree k . Among others we prove that the inequalities hold for all and . The constant factors 2/5 and are sharp. This refines a classical result of Fejér, who proved in 1908 that is nonnegative for all and .     

Inframonogenic functions and their applications in 3‐dimensional elasticity theory

Solutions of the sandwich equation , where stands for the first‐order differential operator (called Dirac operator) in the Euclidean space , are known as inframonogenic functions. These functions generalize in a natural way the theory of kernels associated with , the nowadays well‐known monogenic functions, and can be viewed also as a refinement of the biharmonic ones. In this paper we deepen study the connections between inframonogenic functions and the solutions of the homogeneous Lamé‐Navier system in . Our findings allow to shed some new light on the structure of the solutions of this fundamental system in 3‐dimensional elasticity theory.     

Homoclinic solutions for second‐order discrete Hamiltonian systems with asymptotically quadratic potentials

In this paper, we study the existence of infinitely many homoclinic solutions for the second‐order self‐adjoint discrete Hamiltonian system , where , and are unnecessarily positive definites for all . By using the variant fountain theorem, we obtain an existence criterion to guarantee that the aforementioned system has infinitely many homoclinic solutions under the assumption that W(n,x) is asymptotically quadratic as | x | → + ∞ . Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Estimates of learning rates of regularized regression via polyline functions

Based on the simplicity and calculability of polyline function, we consider, in this paper, the regularized regression learning algorithm associated with the least square loss and the set of polyline function . The target is the error analysis for the regression problem. The approach presented in the paper yields satisfactory learning rates. The rates depend on the approximation property of and on the capacity of measured by covering numbers. Under some certain conditions, the rates achieve m^?4/5 log m. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Regular attractor for damped KdV‐Burgers equations on R

We study the well‐posedness and dynamic behavior for the KdV‐Burgers equation with a force on R . We establish L ^p ?L ^q estimates of the evolution , as an application we obtain the local well‐posedness. Then the global well‐posedness follows from a uniform estimate for solutions as t goes to infinity. Next, we prove the asymptotical regularity of solutions in space and by the smoothing effect of . The regularity and the asymptotical compactness in L ² yields the asymptotical compactness in by an interpolation arguement. Finally, we conclude the existence of an globalattractor.     

Analyticity for a class of nonlocal Kuramoto‐Sivashinsky equations arising in interfacial electrohydrodynamics

In this article, we study the analyticity properties of solutions of the nonlocal Kuramoto‐Sivashinsky equations, defined on 2π‐periodic intervals, where ν is a positive constant; μ is a nonnegative constant; p is an arbitrary but fixed real number in the interval [3,4); and is an operator defined by its symbol in Fourier space, with be the Hilbert transform. We establish spatial analyticity in a strip around the real axis for the solutions of such equations, which possess universal attractors. Also, a lower bound for the width of the strip of analyticity is obtained.