Global Dynamics of a Multi-group SEIR Epidemic Model with Infection Age

National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 12022113),Henry Fok Foundation for Young Teachers, China (No. 171002), Outstanding Young Talents Support Plan of Shanxi Province, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB for short), India(No. ECR/2017/002786), UGC-BSR Research Start-Up-Grant, India (No. F.30-356/2017(BSR)), and Senior Research Fellowship from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR for short),India (No. 09/1131(0006)/2017-EMR-I).     

The equality cases for the inequalities of Oppenheim and Schur for positive semi-definite matrices

In this paper, necessary and sufficient conditions for equality in the inequalities of Oppenheim and Schur for positive semidefinite matrices are investigated. Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10531070), National Basic Research Program of China 973 Program (No. 2006CB805900), National Research Program of China 863 Program (No. 2006AA11Z209) and the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (Grant No. 06ZR14049).     

The Existence of a Positive Solution of D α[x(t) − x(0)] = x(t)f(t,x t )

This paper is devoted to the problem of existence of positive solution for a delay differential equation with fractional order. Some sufficient conditions for its existence of positive solution are given. This work was supported in part by the Key Project of the National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 60534020), the National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 60474037), and Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (No. NCET-04-415).     

The Paley-Wiener theorem in the non-commutative and non-associative octonions

The Paley-Wiener theorem in the non-commutative and non-associative octonion analytic function space is proved. This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 1999075105), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10471002) and Research Foundation for Doctoral Programm (Grant No. 20050574002)     

A new proof of <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Superscript> estimates for the parabolic polyharmonic equations

In this paper we obtain local L ^p estimates for the parabolic polyharmonic equations by a straightforward approach. Yao was supported by the Innovation Foundation of Shanghai University (Grant No. A10-0101-08-905), Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (Grant No. J50101) and Key Disciplines of Shanghai Municipality (Grant No. S30104). Zhou was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2006CB705700), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60532080), and the Key Project of Chinese Ministry of Education (Grant No. 306017)     

Jackson’s integral of the Hurwitz zeta function

We give a Jacksonq-integral analogue of Euler’s logarithmic sine integral established in 1769 from several points of view, specifically from the one relating to the Hurwitz zeta function. Partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Exploratory Research No. 15654003. Partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) No. 15340003. Partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) No. 15340012.     

Existence and uniqueness of solutions for singular integral equation

Using the mixed monotone method we establish existence and uniqueness results for a singular integral equation. The theorem obtained is very general and complements previous known results. The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.10571021 and No.10701020) and Key Laboratory for Applied Statistics of MOE(KLAS) and Subject Foundation of Harbin University (No. HXK200714).     

On Singular Sets of Local Solutions to p-Laplace Equations

The author proves that the on the singular set of a local solution to existence of an optimal control problem. right-hand term of a p-Laplace equation is zero the equation. Such a result is used to study the     

Gaining efficiency via weighted estimators for multivariate failure time data

Multivariate failure time data arise frequently in survival analysis. A commonly used technique is the working independence estimator for marginal hazard models. Two natural questions are how to improve the efficiency of the working independence estimator and how to identify the situations under which such an estimator has high statistical efficiency. In this paper, three weighted estimators are proposed based on three different optimal criteria in terms of the asymptotic covariance of weighted estimators. Simplified close-form solutions are found, which always outperform the working independence estimator. We also prove that the working independence estimator has high statistical efficiency, when asymptotic covariance of derivatives of partial log-likelihood functions is nearly exchangeable or diagonal. Simulations are conducted to compare the performance of the weighted estimator and working independence estimator. A data set from Busselton population health surveys is analyzed using the proposed estimators. This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10628104), Fan was also supported by National Institutes of Health (Grant No. R01-GM072611) and Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. DMS-0714554), Zhou was supported by National Natural Science Funds for Distinguisheel Young Scholar (Grant No. 70825004), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10731010, 10628104), the National Basic Research Program (Grant No. 2007CB814902), Creative Research Groups of China (Grant No. 10721101) and Leading Academic Disipline Program, the 10 ^th five year plan of 211 Project for Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (the 3 ^rd phase), Cai was supported by National Institutes of Health (Grant No. R01-HL57444)     

Sharp Minima for Multiobjective Optimization in Banach Spaces

We study sharp minima for multiobjective optimization problems. In terms of the Mordukhovich coderivative and the normal cone, we present sufficient and or necessary conditions for existence of such sharp minima, some of which are new even in the single objective setting.This research was supported by a Central Research Grant of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Grant No. G-T 507). Research of the first author was also supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of PR China (Grant No. 10361008) and the Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province, China (Grant No. 2003A002M).     

Analysis of two-sample censored data using a semiparametric mixture model

In this article we study a semiparametric mixture model for the two-sample problem with right censored data. The model implies that the densities for the continuous outcomes are related by a parametric tilt but otherwise unspecified. It provides a useful alternative to the Cox （1972） proportional hazards model for the comparison of treatments based on right censored survival data. We propose an iterative algorithm for the semiparametric maximum likelihood estimates of the parametric and nonparametric components of the model. The performance of the proposed method is studied using simulation. We illustrate our method in an application to melanoma.     

Portfolio optimization under entropic risk management

framework in the risk uniqueness In this paper, properties of the entropic risk measure are examined rigorously in a general This risk measure is then applied in a dynamic portfolio optimization problem, appearing management constraint. By considering the dual problem, we prove the existence and of the solution and obtain an analytic expression for the solution.     

A second order difference scheme with nonuniform rectangular meshes for nonlinear parabolic system

In this paper, a difference scheme with nonuniform meshes is proposed for the initial-boundary problem of the nonlinear parabolic system. It is proved that the difference scheme is second order convergent in both space and time.     

On the product formulas for <Emphasis Type="Italic">C</Emphasis>-semigroups

In this paper we obtain a Chernoff-type approximation theorem for C-semigroups, from which we derive the Trotter product formula and the Post-Widder inversion formula for C-semigroups. The first author was supported by the NSF of China (Grant No. 10501032) and the NSFC-RFBR Programm (Grant No. 108011120015), and the second author by the NSF of China (Grant No. 10671079).     

On the rotating Navier-Stokes equations with mixed boundary conditions

The stationary and nonstationary rotating Navier-Stokes equations with mixed boundary conditions are investigated in this paper. The existence and uniqueness of the solutions are obtained by the Galerkin approximation method. Next, θ-scheme of operator splitting algorithm is applied to rotating Navier-Stokes equations and two subproblems are derived. Finally, the computational algorithms for these subproblems are provided.     

Ruin probability of the renewal model with risky investment and large claims

The ruin probability of the renewal risk model with investment strategy for a capital market index is investigated in this paper. For claim sizes with common distribution of extended regular variation, we study the asymptotic behaviour of the ruin probability. As a corollary, we establish a simple asymptotic formula for the ruin probability for the case of Pareto-like claims. This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10571167, 70501028), the Beijing Sustentation Fund for Elitist (Grant No. 20071D1600800421), the National Social Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 05&ZD008) and the Research Grant of Renmin University of China (Grant No. 08XNA001)     

Convergence of Newton‘’s Method and Uniqueness of the Solution of Equations in Banach SpacesⅡ

Some results on convergence of Newton‘s method in Banach spaces are established under the assumption that the derivative of the opderators satisfies the radius or center Lipschitz condition with a weak L average.     

A Local Limit Theorem for Solutions of BSDEs with Mao’s non-Lipschitz Generator

This paper establishes a local limit theorem for solutions of backward stochastic differential equations with Mao＇s non-Lipschitz generator, which is similar to the limit theorem obtained by [3] under the Lipschitz assumption.     

Solving geometric programs using GRG: Results and comparisons

This paper describes the performance of a general-purpose GRG code for nonlinear programming in solving geometric programs. The main conclusions drawn from the experiments reported are: (i) GRG competes well with special-purpose geometric programming codes in solving geometric programs; and (ii) standard time, as defined by Colville, is an inadequate means of compensating for different computing environments while comparing optimization algorithms.This research was partially supported by the Office of Naval Research under Contracts Nos. N00014-75-C-0267 and N00014-75-C-0865, the US Energy Research and Development Administration, Contract No. E(04-3)-326 PA-18, and the National Science Foundation, Grant No. DCR75-04544 at Stanford University; and by the Office of Naval Research under Contract No. N00014-75-C-0240, and the National Science Foundation, Grant No. SOC74-23808, at Case Western Reserve University.     

Solutions for the prescribing mean curvature equation

By variational methods, for a kind of Yamabe problem whose scalar curvature vanishes in the unit ball BN and on the boundary S^N-1 the mean curvature is prescribed, we construct multi-peak solutions whose maxima are located on the boundary as the parameter tends to 0^＋ under certain assumptions. We also obtain the asymptotic behaviors of the solutions.