Involutions in split semi‐quaternions

A map is an involution (resp, anti‐involution) if it is a self‐inverse homomorphism (resp, antihomomorphism) of a field algebra. The main purpose of this paper is to show how split semi‐quaternions can be used to express half‐turn planar rotations in 3‐dimensional Euclidean space and how they can be used to express hyperbolic‐isoclinic rotations in 4‐dimensional semi‐Euclidean space . We present an involution and an anti‐involution map using split semi‐quaternions and give their geometric interpretations as half‐turn planar rotations in . Also, we give the geometric interpretation of nonpure unit split semi‐quaternions, which are in the form p = coshθ + sinhθ i + 0 j + 0 k = coshθ + sinhθ i , as hyperbolic‐isoclinic rotations in .     

Invariant characterization of scalar third‐order ODEs that admit the maximal point symmetry Lie algebra

The Cartan equivalence method is used to deduce an invariant characterization of the scalar third‐order ordinary differential equation , which admits the maximal 7‐dimensional point symmetry Lie algebra. The method provides auxiliary functions that can be used to efficiently obtain the point transformation that does the reduction to the simplest linear equation . Moreover, examples are given to illustrate the method.     

Clifford algebra method for network expression,computation, and algorithm construction

Clifford algebra is introduced as a theoretical foundation for network topology expression and algorithm construction. Network nodes are coded with basis vectors in a vector space , and the edges and k‐walk routes can be expressed by 2‐blades and k‐blades, respectively, in the Clifford algebra Cl(n,0). The topologies among nodes, edges, and routes of networks can be directly calculated, and the network routes can be extended and traversed with oriented join products. The network algorithm construction processes based on Clifford algebra are instantiated by the single source shortest path algorithm. The experimental results on different scale random networks suggest that Clifford algebra is suited for network expression and relation computation. The Clifford algebra‐based shortest path algorithm is vivid and clear in geometric meaning and has great advantage on temporal and spatial complexity. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Modeling and stability analysis for a cholera model with vaccination

In this paper, we consider a cholera model with vaccination. The disease‐free equilibrium of the system is globally asymptotically stable when the basic reproduction number . If , the disease persists and the unique endemic equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable in the interior of the feasible region under some conditions, which is obtained by compound matrices and geometric approaches. We perform sensitivity analysis of on the parameters in order to determine their relative importance to disease transmission and prevalence. Numerical simulations are presented to illustrate the results. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

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.     

(Discrete) Almansi type decompositions: an umbral calculus framework based on symmetries

We introduce the umbral calculus formalism for hypercomplex variables starting from the fact that the algebra of multivariate polynomials shall be described in terms of the generators of the Weyl–Heisenberg algebra. The extension of to the algebra of Clifford‐valued polynomials gives rise to an algebra of Clifford‐valued operators whose canonical generators are isomorphic to the orthosymplectic Lie algebra . This extension provides an effective framework in continuity and discreteness that allow us to establish an alternative formulation of Almansi decomposition in Clifford analysis obtained by Ryan (Zeitschrift für Analysis und ihre Anwendungen 1990) and Malonek & Ren (Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences 2002;2007) that corresponds to a meaningful generalization of Fischer decomposition for the subspaces ker(D′)^k. We will discuss afterwards how the symmetries of (even part of ) are ubiquitous on the recent approach of RENDER (Duke Mathematical Journal 2008) showing that they can be interpreted in terms of the method of separation of variables for the Hamiltonian operator in quantum mechanics. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Harmonic and monogenic potentials in low dimensional Euclidean half‐space

In the framework of Clifford analysis, a chain of harmonic and monogenic potentials in the upper half of Euclidean space was constructed recently, including a higher dimensional analogue of the logarithmic function in the complex plane. Their distributional limits at the boundary were also determined. In this paper, the potentials and their distributional boundary values are calculated in dimensions 3 and 4, dimensions for which the expressions in general dimension break down. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On Korn's first inequality for tangential or normal boundary conditions with explicit constants

We will prove that for piecewise C²‐concave domains in Korn's first inequality holds for vector fields satisfying homogeneous normal or tangential boundary conditions with explicit Korn constant . Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Miniversal deformations of observable marked matrices

Given the set of vertical pairs of matrices keeping the subspace invariant, we compute miniversal deformations of a given pair when it is observable, and the subspace is marked. Moreover, we obtain the dimension of the orbit, characterize the structurally stable vertical pairs, and study the effect of each deformation parameter. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On 3D orthogonal prolate spheroidal monogenics

S. G. Georgiev, Complete orthogonal systems of monogenic polynomials over 3D prolate spheroids have recently experienced an upsurge of interest because of their many remarkable properties. These generalized polynomials and their applications to the theory of quasi‐conformal mappings and approximation theory have played a major role in this development. In particular, the underlying functions of three real variables take on values in the reduced quaternions (identified with ) and are generally assumed to be null‐solutions of the well‐known Riesz system in . The present paper introduces and explores a new complete orthogonal system of monogenic functions as solutions to this system for the space exterior of a 3D prolate spheroid. This will be made in the linear spaces of square integrable functions over . The representations of these functions are explicitly given. Some important properties of the system are briefly discussed, from which several recurrence formulae for fast computer implementations can be derived. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Spectral analysis of the Euler‐Bernoulli beam model with fully nonconservative feedback matrix

The Euler‐Bernoulli beam model with fully nonconservative boundary conditions of feedback control type is investigated. The output vector (the shear and the moment at the right end) is connected to the observation vector (the velocity and its spatial derivative on the right end) by a 2 × 2 matrix (the boundary control matrix), all entries of which are nonzero real numbers. For any combination of the boundary parameters, the dynamics generator, , of the model is a non–self‐adjoint matrix differential operator in the state Hilbert space. A set of 4 self‐adjoint operators, defined by the same differential expression as on different domains, is introduced. It is proven that each of these operators, as well as , is a finite‐rank perturbation of the same self‐adjoint dynamics generator of a cantilever beam model. It is also shown that the non–self‐adjoint operator, , shares a number of spectral properties specific to its self‐adjoint counterparts, such as (1) boundary inequalities for the eigenfunctions, (2) the geometric multiplicities of the eigenvalues, and (3) the existence of real eigenvalues. These results are important for our next paper on the spectral asymptotics and stability for the multiparameter beam model.     

Global well‐posedness and scattering of a generalized nonlinear fourth‐order wave equation

In this paper, we study the global well‐posedness and scattering theory of the solution to the Cauchy problem of a generalized fourth‐order wave equation where if d ?4, and if d ?5. The main strategy we use in this paper is concentration‐compactness argument, which was first introduced by Kenig and Merle to handle the scattering problem vector so as to control the momentum. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Supercritical Neimark‐Sacker bifurcation of a discrete‐time Nicholson‐Bailey model

We study the local dynamics and supercritical Neimark‐Sacker bifurcation of a discrete‐time Nicholson‐Bailey host‐parasitoid model in the interior of . It is proved that if α>1, then the model has a unique positive equilibrium point , which is locally asymptotically focus, unstable focus and nonhyperbolic under certain parametric condition. Furthermore, it is proved that the model undergoes a supercritical Neimark‐Sacker bifurcation in a small neighborhood of the unique positive equilibrium point , and meanwhile, the stable closed curve appears. From the viewpoint of biology, the stable closed curve corresponds to the period or quasiperiodic oscillations between host and parasitoid populations. Some numerical simulations are presented to verify theoretical results.     

Global well‐posedness for free boundary problem of the Oldroyd‐B model fluid flow

In this paper, we prove the global well‐posedness of non‐Newtonian viscous fluid flow of the Oldroyd‐B model with free surface in a bounded domain of N‐dimensional Euclidean space . The assumption of the problem is that the initial data are small enough and orthogonal to rigid motions. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Gelfand–Tsetlin bases for Hodge–de Rham systems in Euclidean spaces

The main aim of this paper is to construct explicitly orthogonal bases for the spaces of k‐homogeneous polynomial solutions of the Hodge–de Rham system in the Euclidean space , which take values in the space of s‐vectors. Actually, we describe even the so‐called Gelfand–Tsetlin bases for such spaces in terms of Gegenbauer polynomials. As an application, we obtain an algorithm on how to compute an orthogonal basis of the space of homogeneous solutions for an arbitrary generalized Moisil–Théodoresco system in . Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Lebesgue regularity for differential difference equations with fractional damping

We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of solutions belonging to the vector‐valued space of sequences for equations that can be modeled in the form where X is a Banach space, A is a closed linear operator with domain D(A) defined on X, and G is a nonlinear function. The operator Δ^γ denotes the fractional difference operator of order γ>0 in the sense of Grünwald‐Letnikov. Our class of models includes the discrete time Klein‐Gordon, telegraph, and Basset equations, among other differential difference equations of interest. We prove a simple criterion that shows the existence of solutions assuming that f is small and that G is a nonlinear term.     

A semilinear heat equation with a localized nonlinear source and non‐continuous initial data

This paper is devoted to the study of the Cauchy problem for a semilinear heat equation with nonlinear term presenting a nonlinear source centered in a closed region of the spatial domain Ω. We assume that is either a smooth bounded domain or the whole space , The initial data is assumed to belong to the Lebesgue space . Copyright © 2011 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.     

The Fischer decomposition for Hodge‐de Rham systems in Euclidean spaces

The classical Fischer decomposition of spinor‐valued polynomials is a key result on solutions of the Dirac equation in the Euclidean space . As is well‐known, it can be understood as an irreducible decomposition with respect to the so‐called L‐action of the Pin group Pin(m). But, in Clifford algebra valued polynomials, we can consider also the H‐action of Pin(m). In this paper, the corresponding Fischer decomposition for the H‐action is obtained. It turns out that, in this case, basic building blocks are the spaces of homogeneous solutions to the Hodge‐de Rham system. Moreover, it is shown that the Fischer decomposition for the H‐action can be viewed even as a refinement of the classical one. Copyright © 2011 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.