Pointwise displacement errors in linear shell theory resulting from errors in the stress-strain relations

It is rigorously proved that relative errors of order in the stress-strain relations of linear shell theory result in relative pointwise errors in the solution displacement field of order .

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Zusammenfassung Für die Theorie dünner Schalen wird bewiesen, daß ein relativer Fehler der Größe in den Spannungs-Dehnungs-Beziehungen einen relativen lokalen Fehler der Größe in der Lösung für das Verschiebungsfeld erzeugt.

     

Inverse power law potentials in rectangular configurations

Summary Calculations based on a (distance)^– intermolecular potential (>3) enable study of the effects on adsorption of the geometry of the solid. This paper gives the closed form solution for the adsorptive potential about a homogeneous solid rectangular corner; and, through systematic superposition, closed form solutions for the following configurations also: the rectangular corner of a cavity; laminae and rectangular cracks occupying a quarter plane; semi-infinite rectangular prisms and prismatic cavities; rectangular parallelepipeds and brick-shaped cavities. These various results are developed in detail for the cases =6 and =4. The paradox that potentials for >3 seem to be obtainable more readily than Newtonian potentials (=1) is explained by the existence only for >3 of simple fundamental solutions for infinite homogeneous solid configurations.

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Zusammenfassung Berechnungen, denen ein intermolekulares Potential der Form (Abstand)^– (>3) zugrunde gelegt ist, ermöglichen eine Untersuchung von Effekten der Adsorption auf die Geometrie des Festkörpers. Die vorliegende Arbeit gibt die Lösung in geschlossener Form für das Adsorptionspotential um eine feste, homogene, rechtwinklige Ecke an. Ausserdem werden durch systematische Superposition Lösungen in geschlossener Form für die folgenden Konfigurationen angegeben: die rechtwinklige Innenecke einer Mulde; viertelunendliche, ebene Platten und rechteckige Spalten; halbunendliche, reckteckige Prismen und prismatische Mulden; Quader und quaderförmige Höhlen. Diese Ergebnisse sind ausführlich dargestellt für die Fälle =4. Das Paradoxon. dass Potentiale mit >3 scheinbar leichter zugänglich sind als das Gravitationspotential (=1), wird dadurch erklärt, dass nur für >3 einfache Grundlösungen für unendliche, homogene Festköperkonfigurationen existieren.

     

How to approximate the solutions of certain free boundary problems for the Laplace equation by using the contraction principle

We show how the free boundary of an ideal fluid, subject to a generalized Bernoulli condition, can (under appropriate circumstances) be approximated. Our method is based on a class of free-boundary perturbation operatorsT , 0<<1, which are all contracting relative to a suitable norm and class of boundaries, and whose fixed points converge to the desired free boundary solution as 0+.

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Zusammenfassung Wir zeigen, wie der freie Rand einer idealen Flüssigkeit, welcher einer verallgemeinerten Bernoulli-Bedingung genügt, unter geeigneten Umständen approximiert werden kann. Unsere Methode stützt sich auf eine Klasse freier RandperturbationsoperatorenT , 0<<1, welche relativ zu einer geeigneten Norm und Ränderklasse kontrahierend sind und deren Fixpunkte gegen die gewünschte Lösung der freien Randaufgabe mit 0+ konvergieren.

     

An analytical asymptotic approximation to the deformation of an elastic-plastic plate

A simply supported circular plate under a ring of load with values beyond the elastic limit is considered. We concentrate on the first stage of the elastic-plastic deformations and present an analytical asymptotic solution, using the yield criterion of Tresca and expansions in terms of the thickness ratio of the central plastic zone, assumed to be sufficiently thin at this first stage. It is shown that as soon as (thickness of plastic zone/plate thickness) reaches values comparable withv ² (v being the Poisson ratio), the plastic zone extends radially faster and its radial width beyond the ring of load becomes of the order . The results of the present solution for the loaddisplacement behaviour are compared with numerical finite-element results obtained by the first author with the yield criterion of von Mises.

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Zusammenfassung Wir betrachten eine am äußeren Rand aufgelegte Kreisplatte unter Ringbelastung mit Lastwerten, welche die elastische Grenze überschreiten. Wir konzentrieren uns auf die erste Phase der elastisch-plastischen Verformungen und schlagen eine analytische asymptotische Lösung vor, wobei wir die Trescasche Fließbedingung benutzen und die maßgebenden Größen in Funktion des als klein angenommenen Dickenverhältnisses der mittleren plastischen Zone asymptotisch entwickeln. Wir zeigen, daß sobald (=Dicke der plastischen Zone/Plattendicke) mitv ² (v=Poissonzahl) vergleichbare Werte erreicht, die plastische Zone in radialer Richtung sich schneller ausbreitet und die radiale Breite jenseits des Belastungsrings von der Ordnung wird. Die Resultate der vorliegenden Lösung für das Last-Verformungsverhalten werden mit entsprechenden, vom ersten Autor erhaltenen numerischen Resultaten gemäß der Methode von finiten Elementen und der von Misesschen Fließbedingung verglichen.

     

A value iteration method for undiscounted multichain Markov decision processes

This paper proposes a value iteration method which finds an-optimal policy of an undiscounted multichain Markov decision process in a finite number of iterations. The undiscounted multichain Markov decision process is reduced to an aggregated Markov decision process, which utilizes maximal gains of undiscounted Markov decision sub-processes and is formulated as an optimal stopping problem. As a preliminary, sufficient conditions are presented under which a policy is-optimal.

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Zusammenfassung In dieser Arbeit wird eine Wertiterationsmethode vorgeschlagen, die eine-optimale Politik für einen undiskontierten nicht-irreduziblen Markovschen Entscheidungsprozeß (MEP) in endlichen vielen Schritten liefert. Der undiskontierte nicht-irreduzible MEP wird auf einen aggregierten MEP reduziert, der maximale Gewinn eines undiskontierten Sub-MEP verwendet und als optimales Stopp-Problem formuliert wird. Zu Beginn werden hinreichende Bedingungen für die-Optimalität einer Politik angegeben.

     

Criticality in a model for thermal ignition in three or more dimensions

An explicitly resolvable model, which was instroduced in a previous paper (see [1]), is used to obtain exact behaviour of its bifurcation curves. The model closely approximates the true Arrhenius law for a spherical vessel of reacting material undergoing an exothermic reaction in three or more dimensions. For a sequence of values of a parameter, which is the reciprocal of the dimensionless activation energy, the number of the solutions changes for certain values of the eigenparameter Further, there exist solutions for all then is non-zero.

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Zusammenfassung Mit Hilfe eines explizit lösbaren Modells, das in einer früheren Arbeit eingeführt wurde (siehe [1]), erhält man das exakte Verhalten der zugehörigen Verzweigungskurven. Das Modell approximiert gut das Arrheniussche Gesetz für exotherme Reaktionen in einem sphärischen Topf in drei oder mehr Dimensionen. Für eine Folge von Werten des Parameters, welches als Reziproke der dimensionslosen Aktivierungsenergie dient, ändert sich die Anzahl der Lösungen zum Eigenwert, der durch gesteuert wird. Weiter gibt es für alle mindestens eine Lösung, sofern 0 gilt.

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Supported in part by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and in part by the Victoria University of Wellington Fellowship Committee.     

Eine Familie interpolatorischer Quadraturformeln mit ableitungsfreien Fehlerschranken

Zusammenfassung Es wird eine von einem Parameter , 01 abhängige Familie von Quadraturformeln vorgestellt, für die auf gewissen Hilberträumen analytischer Funktionen ableitungsfreie Fehlerschdranken existieren. Für =0 erhält man als Spezialfall die Gaußschen Quadraturformeln und für =1 die Wilfschen Quadraturformeln. Sämtliche Formeln haben folgende Eigenschaften: Sie sind interpolatorisch, d.h. hier, sie können durch Integration eines hermiteschen Interpolationsoperators erzeugt werden, sie haben positive Gewichte. Ihre Stützstellen liegen im Innern des Integrationsintervalles. Sie sind auch erzeugbar durch Minimierung des Fehlerkoeffizienten, und sie konvergieren für jede im Integrationsintervall stetige Funktion.

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A family of quadrature formulas having error bounds without derivatives

Summary A family of quadrature formulas depending on a parameter , 01 is presented which admits error estimates without derivatives for certain Hilbert spaces of analytic functions. For =0 the Gaussian quadrature formulas are contained as a special case, and for =1 the same is valid for the Wilfian quadrature formulas. The formulas have the following properties: They are interpolatory formulas, that means they may be generated on integration of a Hermitian interpolating operator, they have positive weights. Their nodes are inside the interval of integration, and they also may be produced by minimizing the error coefficient. They are convergent for every function which is continuous between the limits of integration.

     

Über die Anzahl der Lösungen der diskreten Theodorsen-Gleichung

Summary Discretization of the Theodorsen integral equation (T) yields the discrete Theodorsen-equation (T _d ), a system of 2N nonlinear equations. A so-called -condition may be fulfilled. It is known that (T) has exactly one continuous solution. This solution gives the boundary correspondence of the normalized conformal map of the unit disc onto a given domainG. It is also known that (T _d ) has one and only one solution if <1 and at least one solution if 1. We show here that for every 1 and N\ {1} there is a domainG satisfying an -condition such that (T _d ) has an infinite number of solutions. Moreover, givenK>0 and any domainG that fulfills an -condition, we will construct a domainG ₁ in the neighbourhood ofG that fulfills a max (1, +K)-condition such that (T _d ) forG ₁ has an infinite number of solutions. The underlying idea of the construction of those domains allows also to give important new facts about iterative methods for the solution of (T _d ), even in the case <1.

     

The generalized inverse of a perturbed singular matrix

It is shown that, whenA is singular, (A+A ₁)^–1 can be expanded into a Laurent's series in. The coefficients of the expansion are given in an explicit form. The case where A+A ₁ vanishes identically in is also studied and a generalized inverse ofA+A ₁ is given.

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Zusammenfassung Es wird gezeigt, daß wennA singulär ist (A+A ₁)^–1 auf eine Laurent-Serie in erweitert werden kann. Die Koeffizienten der Erweiterung werden in expliziter Form gegeben. Der Fall wo A+A ₁ sich identisch in auflöst wird ebenfalls untersucht und eine verallgemeinerte Umkehrung vonA+A ₁ wird angegeben.

     

Thermal stability of a reactive slab with time-periodic heating of one surface

Summary The stability of time-periodic thermal oscillations in a slab with chemical reaction is examined. One surface is at a fixed temperature and the temperature of the other varies with amplitude and frequency. The reaction, which is of zero-order, is characterised by the Frank-Kamenetskii parameter(,,), where(=RT ₀/E) is the activation energy parameter. Perturbation series in and are used to calculate the critical values _crit; for _crit the slab can support time-periodic temperature oscillations.

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Zusammenfassung Die Stabilität von zeitperiodischen thermischen Schwingungen in einem Stab mit chemischer Reaktion wird untersucht. Eine Oberfläche hat eine feste Temperatur und auf der anderen verändert sich die Temperatur mit der Amplitude und der Frequenz. Die Reaktion der Ordnung null, wird vom Frank-Kamenetskii Parameter(,,) bestimmt, wobei(=RT ₀/E) der Aktivierungs-Energie Parameter ist. Reihenentwicklungen in und werden für die Berechnung des kritischen Wertes _crit benützt; für _crit können im Stab zeitperiodische Temperaturschwingungen bestehen.

     

Estimates of the asphericity of sections of convex bodies

We define the function (n, k) to be the infimum of all such that any bounded centrally symmetric convex body inR ⁿ possesses an -asphericalk-dimensional central section. It is proved that (3, 2)=2–1 and (n, n-1)n-1-1. Several related functions are defined and their values on the pairs (n, n-1) are estimated.Translated from Ukrainskií Geometricheskií Sbornik, Issue 28, 1985, pp. 76–79.     

Shift invariant spaces inL 2

If is a complex, separable Hilbert space, letL ² () denote theL ²-space of functions defined on the unit circle and having values in . The bilateral shift onL ²() is the operator (U f)()=f(). A Hilbert spaceH iscontractively contained in the Hilbert spaceK ifHK and the inclusion mapH–K is a contraction. We describe the structure of those Hilbert spaces, contractively contained inL ²(), that are carried into themselves contractively byU . We also do this for the subcase of those spaces which are carried into themselves unitarily byU .     

Extensions and selections in subspaces ofC(K)

LetK be a compact Hausdorff space and letFK be a peak interpolation set for a function algebraAC(K). Let be a map fromK to the family of all convex subsets of such that the set {(z, x)zK, x(z)} is open inK×C and such thatg(z)(z) (zK) for somegA. We prove that everyfC(F) satisfyingf(s)(s) (sF) (f(s)closure (s) (sF)) admits an extensionfAA} satisfyingf(z)(z) (zK) (f(z))}closure (z) (zK), respectively). We prove a more general theorem of this kind and present various applications which generalize known dominated interpolation theorems for subspaces ofC(K).     

Exponential estimates for the Wiener sausage

Summary LetC (t) be the Wiener sausage of radius inR ^d up to timet. We obtain bounds on the asymptotics ofE exp (|C (t)|) ast, for all >0.     

Invariant manifolds of singularly perturbed ordinary differential equations

For singularly perturbed systems of ODE's satisfying a certain stability assumption the existence of an asymptotically stable (unstable) invariant manifold is proved. This invariant manifold is -close to the so-called reduced manifold of such a system. As an illustrative example a 3-dimensional autonomous system describing a model in biochemistry is considered.

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Zusammenfassung Für singulär gestörte Differentialgleichungssysteme, die einer gewissen Stabilitätsbedingung genügen, wird die Existenz einer asymptotisch stabilen (instabilen) invarianten Mannigfaltigkeit nachgewiesen, die in einer -Umgebung der sogenannten reduzierten Mannigfaltigkeit eines solchen Systems liegt. Als Anschauungsbeispiel wird ein dreidimensionales autonomes System betrachtet, welches ein biochemisches Modell beschreibt.

     

Generation of alternating groups by pairs of conjugates

Considering the conjugacy classes of the alternating group of degreen, those classes that contain a pair of generators are in the majority. In fact, the proportion of such classes is 1 –(n), and(n) 0 asn .     

S-Continued Fraction Method for the Investigation of a Complex Dielectric Constant of Two-Components Composite

The aim of this contribution is to examine the S-continued fraction method of obtaining bounds on the effective dielectric constant _e of a two-phase composite for the case where the dielectric coefficients ₁and ₂ of both components are either complex or real. The starting point for our study is a power expansion of _e (z) at(z)=0 (z)=₂/₁-1. The obtained S-continued fraction bounds have an interesting mathematical structure convenient for theoretical and numerical investigations of _e. They also agree with the earlier estimations reported by Bergman and Milton. Specific examples of calculation of bounds on _e by theS-continued fraction method are also provided.     

On differentiability of SRB states for partially hyperbolic systems

Consider a one parameter family of diffeomorphisms f such that f ₀ is an Anosov element in a standard abelian Anosov action having sufficiently strong mixing properties. Let be any u-Gibbs state for f . We prove (Theorem 1) that for any C function A the map (A) is differentiable at =0. This implies (Corollary 2.2) that the difference of Birkhoff averages of the perturbed and unperturbed systems is proportional to . We apply this result (Corollary 3.3) to show that a generic perturbation of the time one map of geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle over a surface of negative curvature has a unique SRB measure with good statistical properties.     

Homogenization and concentrated capacity for the heat equation with non-linear variational data in reticular almost disconnected structures and applications to visual transduction

Out of a right, circular cylinder of height H and cross-section a disc of radius R+ one removes a stack of nH/ parallel, equi-spaced cylinders C_j,j=1,2,...,n, each of radius R and height . Here , are fixed positive numbers and is a positive parameter to be allowed to go to zero. The union of the C_j almost fills in the sense that any two contiguous cylinders C_j are at a mutual distance of the order of and that the outer shell, i.e., the gap S=-_o has thickness of the order of (_o is obtained from by formally setting =0). The cylinder from which the C_j are removed, is an almost disconnected structure, it is denoted by , and it arises in the mathematical theory of phototransduction.For each >0 we consider the heat equation in the almost disconnected structure , for the unknown function u, with variational boundary data on the faces of the removed cylinders C_j. The limit of this family of problems as 0 is computed by concentrating heat capacity and diffusivity on the outer shell, and by homogenizing the u within the limiting cylinder _o.It is shown that the limiting problem consists of an interior diffusion in _o and a boundary diffusion on the lateral boundary S of _o. The interior diffusion is governed by the 2-dimensional heat equation in _o, for an interior limiting function u. The boundary diffusion is governed by the Laplace–Beltrami heat equation on S, for a boundary limiting function u_S. Moreover the exterior flux of the interior limit u provides the source term for the boundary diffusion on S. Finally the interior limit u, computed on S in the sense of the traces, coincides with the boundary limit u_S. As a consequence of the geometry of , local arguments do not suffice to prove convergence in _o, and also we have to take into account the behavior of the solution in S. A key, novel idea consists in extending equi-bounded and equi-Hölder continuous functions in -dependent domains, into equi-bounded and equi-Hölder continuous functions in the whole ^N, by means of the Kirzbraun–Pucci extension technique.The biological origin of this problem is traced, and its application to signal transduction in the retina rod cells of vertebrates is discussed. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) 35B27, 35K50, 92C37     

The Correction Theorem for Anisotropic Spaces

The following old problem is solved. Given an > 0, a function f:[0,1]ⁿ , and the partial moduli of continuity of this function evaluated in a symmetric space X, find a set I() of measure larger than 1- such that the partial uniform moduli of continuity of f determined for the points of this set admit an unimprovable (with respect to all restrictions to sets of measure larger than 1- ) estimate of partial uniform moduli of continuity and write out this estimate of the uniform partial moduli of continuity.