Sonar echo analysis

Pulse mode sonar operation is analyzed under the assumption that the scattering object Γ lies in the far fields of both the transmitter and the receiver. It is shown that, in this approximation, the sonar signal is a plane wave s(x · θ₀ – t) near Γ, where θ₀ is a unit vector directed from the transmitter toward Γ, and similarly the echo is a plane wave e(x · θ – t) near the receiver, where θ is a unit vector directed from Γ toward the receiver. Moreover, if Γ is stationary with respect to the sonar system then it is shown that where ?(ω) is the Fourier transform of S(τ) and T+(ωθ,ωθ₀) is the scattering amplitude in the direction θ due to the scattering by Γ of a time-harmonic plane wave with frequence ω and propagation direction θ₀. A generalization of this relation is derived for moving scatterers.     

Inversion of the Radon transform with incomplete data

The Radon transform R(p, θ), θ∈S^n?1, p∈?¹, of a compactly supported function f(x) with support in a ball B_a of radius a centred at the origin is given for all $ \theta \in \mathop {S^{n - 1} }\limits^\tilde $, where $ \mathop {S^{n - 1} }\limits^\tilde $ is an open set on S^n?1, and all p∈(? ∞, ∞), n≥2. An approximate formula is given to calculate f(x) from the given data.     

Regularities in the distribution of special sequences

For a given sequence ω = (x(k))_k=0^∞ in U^s, U = $\text{R/Z}$, let S(ω) denote the set of all boxes I in U^s with bounded discrepancy function, i.e.,

l_I the characteristic function of I. In this paper the set S(ω) is studied for a type of sequences generalizing the Halton-sequences. S(ω) is completely determined in the one-dimensional case. In higher dimensions the subset

of S(ω) is determined and a necessary condition on the elements of S(ω) is proved. The methods used in the proofs belong to ergodic theory.     

On the Range of Two Convolution Operators

Let _(ω)(ℝ) denote the non–quasianalytic class of Beurling type on ℝ. For μ, ν ∈ ′_(ω)(ℝ) we give necessary conditions for the inclusion T_ν( _(ω)(ℝ)) ⊂ T_μ( _(ω)(ℝ)), thus extending previous work of Malgrange and Ehrenpreis .     

The paley-wiener theorem for the radon transform

We prove that the support of a complex-valued function f in ?^k is contained in a convex set K if and only if the support of its Radon transform k(s, ω) is, for each ω, contained in s ≦ S_K (ω); here S_K is the support function of the set K. This theorem is used to determine the propagation speeds of hyperbolic differential equations with constant coefficients, to prove the nonexistence of point spectrum for a certain class of partial differential operators, and to give a simple reduction of Lions' convolution theorem to the one-dimensional convolution theorem of Titchmarsh.     

Multiparameter acoustic imaging in the born approximation

Samples of biological tissue are modelled as inhomogeneous fluids with density ?(X) and sound speed c(x) at point x. The samples are contained in the sphere |x| ? δ and it is assumed that ?(x) ? ?₀ = 1 and c(x) ? c₀ = 1 for |x| ? δ, and |γ_n(x)| ? 1 and |?γ?(x)| ? 1 where γ?(x) = ?(x) ? 1 and γ_n(x) = c^?2(x) ? 1. The samples are insonified by plane pulses s(x · θ₀ – t) where x = |θ₀| = 1 and the scattered pulse is shown to have the form |x|^?1 e_s(|x| – t, θ, θ₀) in the far field, where x = |x| θ. The response e_s(τ, θ, θ₀) is measurable. The goal of the work is to construct the sample parameters γn and γ? from e_s(τ, θ, θ₀) for suitable choiches of s, θ and θ₀. In the limiting case of constant density: γ?(x)_? 0 it is shown that Where δ represents the Dirac δ and S² is the unit sphere |θ| = 1. Analogous formulas, based on two sets of measurements, are derived for the case of variable c(x) and ?(x).     

The η invariant of the Atiyah–Patodi–Singer operator on compact flat manifolds

Let ${\mathcal{D}}$ be the boundary operator defined by Atiyah, Patodi and Singer, acting on smooth even forms of a compact orientable Riemannian manifold M. In continuation of our previous study, we deal with the problem of computing explicitly the ?? invariant ???= ??(M) for any orientable compact flat manifold M. After giving an explicit expression for ??(s) in the case of cyclic holonomy group, we obtain a combinatorial formula that reduces the computation to the cyclic case. We illustrate the method by determining ??(0) for several infinite families, some of them having non-abelian holonomy groups. For cyclic groups of odd prime order p??? 7, ??(s) can be expressed as a multiple of L _??(s), an L-function associated to a quadratic character mod p, while ??(0) is a (non-zero) integral multiple of the class number h _?p of the number field ${\mathbb Q(\sqrt {-p})}$ . In the case of metacyclic groups of odd order pq, with p, q primes, we show that ??(0) is a rational multiple of h _?p .     

Star coloring of sparse graphs

A proper coloring of the vertices of a graph is called a star coloring if the union of every two color classes induces a star forest. The star chromatic number χ_s(G) is the smallest number of colors required to obtain a star coloring of G. In this paper, we study the relationship between the star chromatic number χ_s(G) and the maximum average degree Mad(G) of a graph G. We prove that:

• 1. If G is a graph with , then χ_s(G)≤4.
• 2. If G is a graph with and girth at least 6, then χ_s(G)≤5.
• 3. If G is a graph with and girth at least 6, then χ_s(G)≤6.

These results are obtained by proving that such graphs admit a particular decomposition into a forest and some independent sets. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 62: 201–219, 2009     

Perfect matchings in random uniform hypergraphs

Let ??_k(n, p) be the random k‐uniform hypergraph on V = [n] with edge probability p. Motivated by a theorem of Erd?s and Rényi 7 regarding when a random graph G(n, p) = ??₂(n, p) has a perfect matching, the following conjecture may be raised. (See J. Schmidt and E. Shamir 16 for a weaker version.) Conjecture. Let k|n for fixed k ≥ 3, and the expected degree d(n, p) = p(). Then (Erd?s and Rényi 7 proved this for G(n, p).) Assuming d(n, p)/n^1/2 → ∞, Schmidt and Shamir 16 were able to prove that ??_k(n, p) contains a perfect matching with probability 1 ? o(1). Frieze and Janson 8 showed that a weaker condition d(n, p)/n^1/3 → ∞ was enough. In this paper, we further weaken the condition to A condition for a similar problem about a perfect triangle packing of G(n, p) is also obtained. A perfect triangle packing of a graph is a collection of vertex disjoint triangles whose union is the entire vertex set. Improving a condition p ≥ cn^?2/3+1/15 of Krivelevich 12 , it is shown that if 3|n and p ? n^?2/3+1/18, then © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 23: 111–132, 2003     

Scattering for Schrödinger Operators with Magnetic Fields

We study the existence and completeness of the wave operators W_ω(A(b),-Δ) for general Schrodinger operators of the form is a magnetic potential.     

Hadamard matrices constructed from supplementary difference sets in the class ℋ︁1

In this article we give the definition of the class ??₁ and prove: (1) ??₁(v) ≠ ? for v ∈ ?? = ??₁ ∪ ??₂ ∪ ??₃ where (2) there exists 2 ? {2q²; q² ± q, q²;q² ± q} supplementary difference sets for q² ∈ ??; (3) there exists an Hadamard matrix of order 4v for v ∈ ??; (4) if t is an order of T-matrices, there exists an Hadamard matrix of order 4tv for v ∈ ??. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

New estimates of errors of quadrature formulae,formulae of numerical differentiation and interpolation

В работе в качестве ха рактеристики функци иf рассматриваются сле дующие ее модули: ω_k(f; x; δ)=sup {¦Δ _h ^k f(t¦: t, t+kh∈[x-kδ/2, x+kδ/2][a, b], ω_k(f; δ)={sup ω_k(f; x; δ): х∈[а, Ь]. Получены оценки погр ешности квадратурны х формул с помощью модулят. Нап ример, справедливо следующ ее утверждение. Пусть квадратурная формул а точна на отрезке [а, Ь] д ля всех алгебраическ их многочленов степени не вышеk- 1 иR _n (f) — погрешностьn-соста вной квадратуры, поро жденнойL(f). Тогда $$L(f) = \sum\limits_{i = 0}^m {\sum\limits_{j = 0}^{\alpha _i } {A_i^j f^{(j)} (x_i )} } $$ . гдеs=max α_i, аС не зависит отп, f и [а, Ь]. Для погрешности инте рполяционных формул получены подобные оценки, выра женные с помощью модуля непр ерывности, а для погре шности численного дифферен цирования – с помощью локального м одуля непрерывностиω _k (f; x; δ). Для полученных оцено к характерно, что усло вия, накладываемые на при ближаемую функцию, не более огра ничительны, чем этого требует сама постановка зада чи (например, для квадратурных фор мул — условие интегри руемости по Риману). Для тех случае в, когда функция достаточное число раз дифференци руема, из этих оценок как следс твия вытекают все известные оценки.     

Approximation of functional depending on jumps by elliptic functional via t-convergence

We show how it is possible to approximate the Mumford-Shah (see [29]) image segmentation functional by elliptic functionals defined on Sobolev spaces. The heuristic idea is to consider functionals ??_h(u, z) with z ranging between 0 and 1 and related to the set K. The minimizing z_h are near to 1 in a neighborhood of the set K, and far from the neighborhood they are very small. The neighborhood shrinks as h → + ∞. For a similar approach to the problem compare Kulkarni; see [25]. The approximation of ??_h to ?? takes place in a variational sense, the De Giorgi F-convergence.     

Classification and geometric aspects of vector valued Fourier transforms

It is shown that for any locally compact abelian group ?? and 1 ≤ p ≤ 2, the Fourier type p norm with respect to ?? of a bounded linear operator T between Banach spaces, denoted by ‖T |???^??_p‖, satisfies ‖T |???^??_p‖ ≤ ‖T |???^??_p‖, where ?? is the direct product of ?₂, ?₃, ?₄, … It is also shown that if ?? is not of bounded order then Cⁿ_p ‖T |???^??_p‖ ≤ ‖T |???^??_p‖, where ?? is the circle group, n is a onnegative integer and C^p = . From these inequalities, for any locally compact abelian group ?? ‖T |???^??₂‖ ≤ ‖T |???^??₂‖, and moreover if ?? is not of bounded order then ‖T |???^??₂‖ = ‖T |???^??₂‖. The Hilbertian property and B‐convexity are discussed in the framework of Fourier type p norms. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Locating the peaks of solutions via the maximum principle II: A local version of the method of moving planes

Let Ω be a bounded, smooth domain in ?²ⁿ, n ≥ 2. The well‐known Moser‐Trudinger inequality ensures the nonlinear functional J_ρ(u) is bounded from below if and only if ρ ≤ ρ_2n := 2²ⁿn!(n ? 1)!ω_2n, where in , and ω_2n is the area of the unit sphere ??^{2n ? 1} in ?²ⁿ. In this paper, we prove the inf_u∈X J_ρ(u) is always attained for ρ ≤ ρ_2n. The existence of minimizers of J_ρ at the critical value ρ = ρ_2n is a delicate problem. The proof depends on the blowup analysis for a sequence of bubbling solutions. Here we develop a local version of the method of moving planes to exclude the boundary bubbling. The existence of minimizers for J_ρ at the critical value ρ = ρ_2n is in contrast to the case of two dimensions. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Existence,uniqueness, stochastic persistence and global stability of positive solutions of the logistic equation with random perturbation

This paper discusses a randomized logistic equation (1) with initial value x(0)=x₀>0, where B(t) is a standard one‐dimension Brownian motion, and θ∈(0, 0.5). We show that the positive solution of the stochastic differential equation does not explode at any finite time under certain conditions. In addition, we study the existence, uniqueness, boundedness, stochastic persistence and global stability of the positive solution. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Distortion Properties of Holomorphic Functions of Several Complex Variables

Let Q(D) be a class of functions q, q(0) = 0, |q(z)| < 1 holomorphic in the Reinhardt domain D ? C ⁿ, a and b — arbitrary fixed numbers satisfying the condition — 1 ≤ b < a ≤ 1. ??(a, b; D) — the class of functions p such that p ? ??(a, b; D) iff for some q ? Q(D) and every z ? D. S*(a, b; D) — the class of functions f such that f ? S*(a, g; D) iff S^c(a, b; D) — the class of functions q such that q ? S^c(a, b; D) iff , where p ε ??(a, b; D) and K is an operator of the form for z=z₁,z₂,…z_n. The author obtains sharp bounds on |p(z)|, f(z)| g(z)| as well as sharp coefficient inequalities for functions in ??(a, b; D), S*(a, b; D) and S^c(a, b; D).     

The Z \to c\bar c \to \gamma \gamma *, Z \to b\bar b \to \gamma \gamma * triangle diagrams and the Z → γψ, Z → γγ decays

We expounded an approach for studying the Z ?? ??? and Z ?? ???? decay based on the sum rules for the $Z \to c\bar c \to \gamma \gamma *$ and $Z \to b\bar b \to \gamma \gamma *$ amplitudes and their derivatives. We calculate the branching ratios of the Z ?? ??? and Z ?? ???? decays under different suppositions about the saturation of the sum rules. We find the lower bounds of ?? _?? BR(Z ?? ???) = 1.95 · 10 ^?7 and ?? _?? BR(Z ?? ????) = 7.23 · 10^?7 and discuss deviations from the lower bounds including the possibility of BR[Z ?? ??J/??(1S)] ?? BR[Z ?? ????(1S)] ?? 10 ^?6 , which is probably measurable at the LHC. Moreover, we calculate the angle distributions in the Z ?? ??? and Z ?? ???? decays.     

Convergence of Gaussian Quadrature Formulas for Power Orthogonal Polynomials

In classical theorems on the convergence of Gaussian quadrature formulas for power orthogonal polynomials with respect to a weight w on I =（a,b）,a function G ∈ S（w）:= { f:∫_I | f（x）| w（x）d x < ∞} satisfying the conditions G ^2j（x） ≥ 0,x ∈（a,b）,j = 0,1,...,and growing as fast as possible as x → a + and x → b,plays an important role.But to find such a function G is often difficult and complicated.This implies that to prove convergence of Gaussian quadrature formulas,it is enough to find a function G ∈ S（w） with G ≥ 0 satisfying sup n ∑λ0knG（xkn） k=1 n<∞ instead,where the xkn ’s are the zeros of the n th power orthogonal polynomial with respect to the weight w and λ0kn ’s are the corresponding Cotes numbers.Furthermore,some results of the convergence for Gaussian quadrature formulas involving the above condition are given.     

On the combinatorial structure of Rauzy graphs

Let S _m ⁰ be the set of all irreducible permutations of the numbers {1, ??,m} (m ?? 3). We define Rauzy induction mappings a and b acting on the set S _m ⁰ . For a permutation ?? ?? S _m ⁰ , denote by R(??) the orbit of the permutation ?? under the mappings a and b. This orbit can be endowed with the structure of an oriented graph according to the action of the mappings a and b on this set: the edges of this graph belong to one of the two types, a or b. We say that the graph R(??) is a tree composed of cycles if any simple cycle in this graph consists of edges of the same type. An equivalent formulation of this condition is as follows: a dual graph R*(??) of R(??) is a tree. The main result of the paper is as follows: if the graph R(??) of a permutation ?? ?? S _m ⁰ is a tree composed of cycles, then the set R(??) contains a permutation ?? ₀: i ? m + 1 ? i, i = 1, ??,m. The converse result is also proved: the graph R(?? ₀) is a tree composed of cycles; in this case, the structure of the graph is explicitly described.