Interpolation on lattices generated by cubic pencils

Principal lattices are distributions of points in the plane obtained from a triangle by drawing equidistant parallel lines to the sides and taking the intersection points as nodes. Interpolation on principal lattices leads to particularly simple formulae. These sets were generalized by Lee and Phillips considering three-pencil lattices, generated by three linear pencils. Inspired by the addition of points on cubic curves and using duality, we introduce an addition of lines as a way of constructing lattices generated by cubic pencils. They include three-pencil lattices and then principal lattices. Interpolation on lattices generated by cubic pencils has the same good properties and simple formulae as on principal lattices. Dedicated to C.A. Micchelli for his mathematical contributions and friendship on occasion of his sixtieth birthday Mathematics subject classifications (2000) 41A05, 41A63, 65D05. J.M. Carnicer: Partially supported by the Spanish Research Grant BFM2003-03510, by Gobierno de Aragón and Fondo Social Europeo.     

Generation of lattices of points for bivariate interpolation

Principal lattices in the plane are distributions of points particularly simple to use Lagrange, Newton or Aitken–Neville interpolation formulae. Principal lattices were generalized by Lee and Phillips, introducing three-pencil lattices, that is, points which are the intersection of three lines, each one belonging to a different pencil. In this contribution, a semicubical parabola is used to construct lattices of points with similar properties. For the construction of new lattices we use cubic pencils of lines and an addition of lines on them. AMS subject classification 41A05, 65D05, 41A63Research partially supported by the Spanish Research Grant BFM2003-03510, by Gobierno de Aragón and Fondo Social Europeo.     

Uniqueness of the “nonsingular core” for Hermitian and other matrix pencils

Every pencil of hermitian matrices is conjunctive with a pencil of the form L ⊕ M, where L (the "minimal-indices" part) has no elementary divisors and M (the "nonsingular core") is a nonsingular pencil. Here it is shown that the conjunctivity type ofM is determined by that of L ⊕ M. The same method of proof applies to many other types of pencils, e.g. to congruence of pencils based on (1) a pair of symmetric matrices, (2) a pair of alternating matrices, or (3) a symmetric and an alternating matrix.     

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Integrability of the Equations for Nonsingular Pairs of Compatible Flat Metrics

We solve the problem of describing all nonsingular pairs of compatible flat metrics (or, in other words, nonsingular flat pencils of metrics) in the general N-component case. This problem is equivalent to the problem of describing all compatible Dubrovin–Novikov brackets (compatible nondegenerate local Poisson brackets of hydrodynamic type) playing an important role in the theory of integrable systems of hydrodynamic type and also in modern differential geometry and field theory. We prove that all nonsingular pairs of compatible flat metrics are described by a system of nonlinear differential equations that is a special nonlinear differential reduction of the classical Lamé equations, and we present a scheme for integrating this system by the method of the inverse scattering problem. The integration procedure is based on using the Zakharov method for integrating the Lamé equations (a version of the inverse scattering method).     

On the quadratic two-parameter eigenvalue problem and its linearization

We introduce the quadratic two-parameter eigenvalue problem and linearize it as a singular two-parameter eigenvalue problem. This, together with an example from model updating, shows the need for numerical methods for singular two-parameter eigenvalue problems and for a better understanding of such problems.There are various numerical methods for two-parameter eigenvalue problems, but only few for nonsingular ones. We present a method that can be applied to singular two-parameter eigenvalue problems including the linearization of the quadratic two-parameter eigenvalue problem. It is based on the staircase algorithm for the extraction of the common regular part of two singular matrix pencils.     

Definitizable hermitian matrix pencils

Summary An hermitian matrix pencilA – B withA nonsingular is called strongly definitizable ifAp(A ^–1 B) is positive definite for some polynomialp. We present three characterizations of strongly definitizable pencils, which generalize the classical results for definite pencils. They are, in particular, stably simultaneously diagonable. We also discuss this form of stability with respect to an open subset of the real line. Implications for some quadratic eigenvalue problems are included.Research supported in part by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.Dedicated to the memory of Alexander M. Ostrowski on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth.     

Linear Pencils of Tropical Plane Curves

Linear pencils of tropical plane curves are parameterized by tropical lines (i.e. trees) in the space of coefficients. We study pencils of tropical curves with n-element support that pass through n?2 general points in the plane. Richter-Gebert et al. proved that such trees are compatible with their support set, and they conjectured that every compatible tree can be realized by a point configuration. In this article, we prove this conjecture. Our approach is based on a characterization of the fixed loci of tropical linear pencils.     

Newton-like method with modification of the right-hand-side vector

This paper proposes a new Newton-like method which defines new iterates using a linear system with the same coefficient matrix in each iterate, while the correction is performed on the right-hand-side vector of the Newton system. In this way a method is obtained which is less costly than the Newton method and faster than the fixed Newton method. Local convergence is proved for nonsingular systems. The influence of the relaxation parameter is analyzed and explicit formulae for the selection of an optimal parameter are presented. Relevant numerical examples are used to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method.

     

An iterative method for solving the stable subspace of a matrix pencil and its application

This work is to propose an iterative method of choice to compute a stable subspace of a regular matrix pencil. This approach is to define a sequence of matrix pencils via particular left null spaces. We show that this iteration preserves a semigroup property depending only on the initial matrix pencil. Via this recursion relationship, we propose an accelerated iterative method to compute the stable subspace and use it to provide a theoretical result to solve the principal square root of a given matrix, both nonsingular and singular. We show that this method can not only find out the matrix square root, but also construct an iterative approach which converges to the square root with any desired order.     

Cremona transformations and the conundrum of dimensionality and signature of macro-spacetime

The issue of dimensionality and signature of the observed universe is analysed. Neither of the two properties follows from first principles of physics, save for a remarkably fruitful Cantorian fractal spacetime approach pursued by El Naschie, Nottale and Ord. In the present paper, the author's theory of pencil-generated spacetime(s) is invoked to provide a clue. This theory identifies spatial coordinates with pencils of lines and the time dimension with a specific pencil of conics. Already its primitive form, where all pencils lie in one and the same projective plane, implies an intricate connection between the observed multiplicity of spatial coordinates and the (very) existence of the arrow of time. A qualitatively new insight into the matter is acquired, if these pencils are not constrained to be coplanar and are identified with the pencils of fundamental elements of a Cremona transformation in a projective space. The correct dimensionality of space (3) and time (1) is found to be uniquely tied to the so-called quadro-cubic Cremona transformations – the simplest non-trivial, non-symmetrical Cremona transformations in a projective space of three dimensions. Moreover, these transformations also uniquely specify the type of a pencil of fundamental conics, i.e. the global structure of the time dimension. Some physical and psychological implications of these findings are mentioned, and a relationship with the Cantorian model is briefly discussed.     

Hexagonal-surface-webs formed by n-pencils of spheres belonging to the same bundle

In this work,it is shown that n pencils of spheres which belong to the same bundle form a hexagonal-surface-web.Firstly,4 pencils of spheres orthogonal to the same sphere are taken into consideration. Later,by means of a suitable transformation,the equations of these 4 pencils of spheres are written in their simplest form and the equation of the surface web is obtained.Then,it is concluded that any 4- pencils of spheres belonging to the same bundle form a hexagonal-surface-web.From this we conclude that a surface n-web which is formed by n pencils of spheres belonging to the same bundle is a hexagonal web.n pencils of spheres are said to belong to the same bundle,if all the spheres cut a fixed sphere orthogonally.     

Configurations of six skew lines

In this paper we give a classification of nonsingular configurations of 6 lines of the space RP³ with respect to right isotopy (in the course of a rigid isotopy the lines remain pairwise disjoint lines) and prove that up to rigid isotopies nonsingular configurations of 6 lines are not determined by the linking coefficients.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 167, pp. 121–134, 1988.     

On equivalence of pencils from discrete-time and continuous-time control

We study two matrix pencils that arise, respectively, in discrete-time and continuous-time optimal and robust control. We introduce a one-to-one transformation between these two pencils. We show that for the pencils under the transformation, their regularity is preserved and their eigenvalues and deflating subspaces are equivalently related. The eigen-structures of the pencils under consideration have strong connections with the associated control problems. Our result may be applied to connect the discrete-time and continuous-time control problems and eventually lead to a unified treatment of these two types of control problems.     

Paare und Tripel halbkonzentrischer Kreise der euklidischen Ebene

In [1], semi-concentric circles have been defined and considered, also their special nets and pencils.—The isochordal curve and the isogonal curve of two circles, the isochordal lines and the isogonal points of three circles show many differences according to whether the two or three circles are semiconcentric or not. Results for semi-concentric circles are developed here, while results for other circles have been given in [2] and [5].     

Global Euler obstruction and polar invariants

Let be a purely dimensional, complex algebraic singular space. We define a global Euler obstruction Eu(Y) which extends the Euler-Poincaré characteristic in case of a nonsingular Y. Using Lefschetz pencils, we express Eu(Y) as alternating sum of global polar invariants. Partially supported by CNRS-CONACYT (12409) Cooperation Program. The first and third named authors partially supported by CONACYT grant G36357-E and DGPA (UNAM) grant IN 101 401.     

There exist 6n/13 ordinary points

In 1958 L. M. Kelly and W. O. J. Moser showed that apart from a pencil, any configuration ofn lines in the real projective plane has at least 3n/7 ordinary or simple points of intersection, with equality in the Kelly-Moser example (a complete quadrilateral with its three diagonal lines). In 1981 S. Hansen claimed to have improved this ton/2 (apart from pencils, the Kelly-Moser example and the McKee example). In this paper we show that one of the main theorems used by Hansen is false, thus leavingn/2 open, and we improve the 3n/7 estimate to 6n/13 (apart from pencils and the Kelly-Moser example), with equality in the McKee example. Our result applies also to arrangements of pseudolines.The research of J. Csima was supported in part by NSERC Grant A4078. E. T. Sawyer's research was supported in part by NSERC Grant A5149.     

4-Webs on hypersurfaces of 4-axial space

V. B. Lazareva investigated 3-webs formed by shadow lines on a surface embedded in 3-dimensional projective space and assumed that the lighting sources are situated on 3 straight lines. The results were used, in particular, for the solution of the Blaschke problem of classification of regular 3-webs formed by pencils of circles in a plane. In the present paper, we consider a 4-web W formed by shadow surfaces on a hypersurface V embedded in 4-dimensional projective space assuming that the lighting sources are situated on 4 straight lines. We call the projective 4-space with 4 fixed straight lines a 4-axial space. Structure equations of 4-axial space and of the surface V , asymptotic tensor of V , torsions and curvatures of 4-web W, and connection form of invariant affine connection associated with 4-web W are found.     

Pencils of waveguide type and related extremal problems

The variational properties of the spectra of a class of quadratic pencils are investigated. These operator pencils are not strongly damped, which is expressed in a considerable manner in its properties. The obtained results are fundamental in the investigation of two-parameter pencils of waveguide type, which model pencils arising in the theory of regular waveguides. The considerable difficulties, arising at the investigation of pencils of waveguide type, are explained by the fact that they do not generate Rayleigh systems in the entire space, but only on certain of its nonconvex homogeneous sets. These sets occur here as the sets of the admissible vectors of the corresponding extremal problems.Translated from Problemy Matematicheskogo Analiza, No. 11, pp. 80–96, 1990.