Evolution of non-spreading Airy wavepackets in time dependent linear potentials

We report on the use of the algebraic methods to obtain the explicit form of the solution of the Schrödinger equation with a linear potential. We consider the case of the explicitly time dependent Hamiltonian and formulate the general conditions that allow for the solutions to be found that are expressed in terms of Airy functions, yielding non spreading wave packets. The relevant physical meaning of these solutions is analyzed and the examples of their applications are given. The role, played by the Airy transform and its relevance to the problems, involving linear potentials is discussed. Eventually, we present a thorough discussion on the analogy between the Airy and the Gauss-Weierstrass transform, often employed in the solutions of the heat type equations.     

A finite transform involving generalized prolate spheroidal wave functions and its applications

The author has extended his previous results pertaining to spheroidal functions by introducing a new finite transform involving generalized prolate spheroidal functions. The inversion has also been found. In the end its application has also been given in solving certain boundary value problems.     

An ultra-fast smoothing algorithm for time–frequency transforms based on Gabor functions

Gabor functions, Gaussian wave packets, are optimally localized in time and frequency, and thus in principle ideal as (frame) basis functions for a wavelet, windowed Fourier or wavelet-packet transform for the detection of events in noisy signals or for data compression. A major obstacle for their use is that a tailored efficient operator acting on the transform coefficients for altering the width of the wave packets does not exist. However, by virtue of a curious property of the Gabor functions it is possible to change the width of the wave packets using just one-dimensional convolutions with very short kernels. The cost of a wavelet-type transform based on the scheme presented below is similar to that of a low order wavelet transform for a compact kernel and significantly less than the algorithme à trous. The scheme can hence easily be employed for the processing of signals in real time.     

Biorthogonal Locally Supported Wavelets on the Sphere Based on Zonal Kernel Functions

This article presents a method for approximating spherical functions from discrete data of a block-wise grid structure. The essential ingredients of the approach are scaling and wavelet functions within a biorthogonalisation process generated by locally supported zonal kernel functions. In consequence, geophysically and geodetically relevant problems involving rotationinvariant pseudodifferential operators become attackable. A multiresolution analysis is formulated enabling a fast wavelet transform similar to the algorithms known from classical tensor product wavelet theory.     

Generalized prolate spheroidal wave functions for offset linear canonical transform in Clifford analysis

Prolate spheroidal wave functions (PSWFs) possess many remarkable properties. They are orthogonal basis of both square integrable space of finite interval and the Paley–Wiener space of bandlimited functions on the real line. No other system of classical orthogonal functions is known to obey this unique property. This raises the question of whether they possess these properties in Clifford analysis. The aim of the article is to answer this question and extend the results to more flexible integral transforms, such as offset linear canonical transform. We also illustrate how to use the generalized Clifford PSWFs (for offset Clifford linear canonical transform) we derive to analyze the energy preservation problems. Clifford PSWFs is new in literature and has some consequences that are now under investigation. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Fast value iteration: an application of Legendre-Fenchel duality to a class of deterministic dynamic programming problems in discrete time*

ABSTRACT

We propose an algorithm, which we call ‘Fast Value Iteration’ (FVI), to compute the value function of a deterministic infinite-horizon dynamic programming problem in discrete time. FVI is an efficient algorithm applicable to a class of multidimensional dynamic programming problems with concave return (or convex cost) functions and linear constraints. In this algorithm, a sequence of functions is generated starting from the zero function by repeatedly applying a simple algebraic rule involving the Legendre-Fenchel transform of the return function. The resulting sequence is guaranteed to converge, and the Legendre-Fenchel transform of the limiting function coincides with the value function.     

An integral equation involving the confluent hypergeometric function of several complex variables †

In the present note the author establishes an inversion theorem for a convolution transform whose kernel involves a confluent hypergeometric function of several complex variables. It is shown how the main result can be specialized to solve a number of integral equations involving special functions of interest in applied problems. An extension of the method to a general class of integral equations is also considered.     

Locally supported spherical wavelets based on block grids

This paper presents a method for approximating spherical functions from discrete data of a block–wise grid structure. The essential ingredients of the approach are scaling and wavelet functions within a biorthogonalisation process generated by locally supported zonal kernel functions. In consequence, geophysically and geodetically relevant problems involving rotation–invariant pseudodifferential operators become attackable. A multiresolution analysis is formulated enabling a fast wavelet transform similar to the algorithms known from classical tensor product wavelet theory. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Hybrid differential transform and finite difference method to solve the nonlinear heat conduction problem

In this paper, the differential transform is employed to discuss the behaviors of nonlinear heat conduction problem. A hybrid method of differential transform and finite difference approach is proposed to solve the transient responses of a nonlinear heat conduction problem. Different parameters of the equation and boundary conditions are considered to verify the feasibility of the proposed method to such problems. Simulation results are illustrated and discussed in comparison with the linear case. The results show that the hybrid method can achieve good results for such problems.     

Conditions Characterizing Minima of the Difference of Functions

 Optimization problems involving differences of functions arouse interest as generalizations of so-called d.c. problems, i.e. problems involving the difference of two convex functions. The class of d.c. functions is very rich, so d.c. problems are rather general optimization problems. Several global optimality conditions for these d.c. problems have been proposed in the optimization literature. We provide a survey of these conditions and try to detect their common basis. This enables us to give generalizations of the conditions to situations when the objective function is no longer a difference of convex functions, but the difference of two functions which are representable as the upper envelope of an arbitrary family of functions. (Received 6 February 2001; in revised form 11 October 2001)     

Convolution Hankel Transforms on the Zemanian Spaces

In this paper we investigate the convolution Hankel transforms on the Zemanian spaces of Hankel transformable functions and distributions. The convolution Hankel transform is defined on generalized functions by using the adjoint method. Our new definition includes as special cases other known definitions of the convolution Hankel transform of distributions. Finally we establish a distributional inversion formula for the transformation under consideration involving Bessel differential operators.     

利用改进的(G′/G)-展开法求广义的(2+1)维Boussinesq方程的精确解

利用改进的(G′/G)-展开法,求广义的(2+1)维Boussinesq方程的精确解,得到了该方程含有较多任意参数的用双曲函数、三角函数和有理函数表示的精确解,当双曲函数表示的行波解中参数取特殊值时,便得到广义的(2+1)维Boussinesq方程的孤立波解.     

Impedance Passive and Conservative Boundary Control Systems

The external Cayley transform is used for the conversion between the linear dynamical systems in scattering form and in impedance form. We use this transform to define a class of formal impedance conservative boundary control systems (colligations), without assuming a priori that the associated Cauchy problems are solvable. We give sufficient and necessary conditions when impedance conservative colligations are internally well-posed boundary nodes; i.e., when the associated Cauchy problems are solvable and governed by C ₀ semigroups. We define a “strong” variant of such colligations, and we show that “strong” impedance conservative boundary colligation is a slight generalization of the “abstract boundary space” construction for a symmetric operator in the Russian literature. Many aspects of the theory is illustated by examples involving the transmission line and the wave equations. Received: August 21, 2006. Accepted: October 22, 2006.     

Linear B-spline finite element method for the improved Boussinesq equation

In this paper, we develop and validate a numerical procedure for solving a class of initial boundary value problems for the improved Boussinesq equation. The finite element method with linear B-spline basis functions is used to discretize the nonlinear partial differential equation in space and derive a second order system involving only ordinary derivatives. It is shown that the coefficient matrix for the second order term in this system is invertible. Consequently, for the first time, the initial boundary value problem can be reduced to an explicit initial value problem to which many accurate numerical methods are readily applicable. Various examples are presented to validate this technique and demonstrate its capacity to simulate wave splitting, wave interaction and blow-up behavior.     

Reissner板中的夹杂和缺陷问题研究

基于保角变换技术和Faber级数展开,研究了含任意形状夹杂或缺陷的无限大Reissner板弯曲问题．将变换域中单位圆内、外解析函数分别展开成Faber级数,并将波动函数展开成第一类和第二类修正的n阶Bessel函数;利用边界位移、剪力和弯矩连续性条件得到问题的高阶线性方程组．以含椭圆形夹杂和缺陷的无限大Reissner板柱面弯曲为例,进一步给出了数值算例和理论分析．结果表明,对于软夹杂,板内力矩随夹杂与板厚尺寸比a/h变化非常敏感;在含硬夹杂条件下,板内力矩随夹杂尺寸变化相对不敏感．     

Eigenvalues of the discretized Navier-Stokes equation with application to the detection of Hopf bifurcations

This paper is concerned with a numerical approach to the problem of finding the leftmost eigenvalues of large sparse nonsymmetric generalised eigenvalue problems which arise in stability studies of incompressible fluid flow problems. The matrices have a special block structure that is typical of mixed finite element discretizations for such problems. The numerical approach is an extension of the hybrid technique introduced by Saad [22] and utilizes the idea of preconditioning the eigenvalue problem before applying Arnoldi's method. Two preconditioners, one a modified Cayley transform, the other a Chebyshev polynomial transform, are compared in numerical experiments on a double diffusive convection problem and the Cayley transform proves superior. The Cayley transform is then used to provide numerical results for the finite Taylor problem.     

Generating Functions for Focused Wave Modes of the Bessel–Gauss Type

Applying Bateman's transform to expansions of plane and spherical waves in particular solutions to the wave equation, focused wave modes similar to the Bessel–Gauss pulses, as well as their generating functions, are obtained. Bibliography: 5 titles.     

A new construction of the Clifford-Fourier kernel

In this paper, we develop a new method based on the Laplace transform to study the Clifford-Fourier transform. First, the kernel of the Clifford-Fourier transform in the Laplace domain is obtained. When the dimension is even, the inverse Laplace transform may be computed and we obtain the explicit expression for the kernel as a finite sum of Bessel functions. We equally obtain the plane wave decomposition and find new integral representations for the kernel in all dimensions. Finally we define and compute the formal generating function for the even dimensional kernels.     

Moving boundary value problems for the wave equation

We study certain boundary value problems for the one-dimensional wave equation posed in a time-dependent domain. The approach we propose is based on a general transform method for solving boundary value problems for integrable nonlinear PDE in two variables, that has been applied extensively to the study of linear parabolic and elliptic equations. Here we analyse the wave equation as a simple illustrative example to discuss the particular features of this method in the context of linear hyperbolic PDEs, which have not been studied before in this framework.