Resonant Leading Term Geometric Optics Expansions with Boundary Layers for Quasilinear Hyperbolic Boundary Problems

We construct and justify leading order weakly nonlinear geometric optics expansions for nonlinear hyperbolic initial value problems, including the compressible Euler equations. The technique of simultaneous Picard iteration is employed to show approximate solutions tend to the exact solutions in the small wavelength limit. Recent work [2 Coulombel, J.-F., Gues, O., and Williams, M., 2011. Resonant leading order geometric optics expansions for quasilinear hyperbolic fixed and free boundary problems, Comm. Part. Diff. Eqs. 36 (2011), pp. 1797–1859.[Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] by Coulombel et al. studied the case of reflecting wave trains whose expansions involve only real phases. We treat generic boundary frequencies by incorporating into our expansions both real and nonreal phases. Nonreal phases introduce difficulties such as approximately solving complex transport equations and result in the addition of boundary layers with exponential decay. This also prevents us from doing an error analysis based on almost periodic profiles as in [2 Coulombel, J.-F., Gues, O., and Williams, M., 2011. Resonant leading order geometric optics expansions for quasilinear hyperbolic fixed and free boundary problems, Comm. Part. Diff. Eqs. 36 (2011), pp. 1797–1859.[Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]].     

Non–existence of theta–shaped self–similarly shrinking networks moving by curvature

We prove that there are no networks homeomorphic to the Greek “Theta” letter (a double cell) embedded in the plane with two triple junctions with angles of 120 degrees, such that under the motion by curvature they are self–similarly shrinking.

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An algorithmic proof of the General Néron Desingularization theorem and its uniform version is given for morphisms with big smooth locus. This generalizes the results for the one-dimensional case (cf. [10 Pfister, G., Popescu, D. (2017). Constructive General Neron Desingularization for one dimensional local rings. J. Symbolic Comput. 80:570–580.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]], [7 Khalid, A., Pfister, G., Popescu, D. (2018). A uniform General Neron Desingularization in dimension one. J. Algebra Appli. 16. arXiv:AC/1612.03416. [Google Scholar]]).     

A Regularized Hybrid Steepest Descent Method for Variational Inclusions

This article is concerned with a generalization of the hybrid steepest descent method from variational inequalities to the multivalued case. This will be reached by replacing the multivalued operator by its Yosida approximate, which is always Lipschitz continuous. It is worth mentioning that the hybrid steepest descent method is an algorithmic solution to variational inequality problems over the fixed point set of certain nonexpansive mappings and has remarkable applicability to the constrained nonlinear inverse problems like image recovery and MIMO communication systems (see, e.g., [9 I. Yamada , M. Yukawa , and M. Yamagishi ( 2011 ). Minimizing the moreau envelope of nonsmooth convex functions over the fixed point set of certain quasi-nonexpansive mappings . In Fixed Point Algorithms for Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering ( H.H. Bauschke , R. Burachik , P.L. Combettes , V. Elser , D.R. Luke , and H. Wolkowicz , eds.), Springer-Verlag , New York , Chapter 17 , pp. 343 – 388 . [Google Scholar], 10 I. Yamada , Ogura , and N. Shirakawa ( 2002 ). A numerically robust hybrid steepest descent method for the convexly constrained generalized inverse problems . In Inverse Problems, Image Analysis and Medical Imaging. Contemporary Mathematics ( Z. Nashed and O. Scherzer , eds.), American Mathematical Society , Providence , RI , Vol. 313 , pp. 269 – 305 . [Google Scholar]]).     

A new family of set-theoretic solutions of the Yang–Baxter equation

A new family of non-degenerate involutive set-theoretic solutions of the Yang–Baxter equation is constructed. Two subfamilies, consisting of irretractable square-free solutions, are new counterexamples to Gateva-Ivanova’s Strong Conjecture [7 Gateva-Ivanova, T. (2004). A combinatorial approach to the set-theoretic solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation. J. Math. Phys. 45(10):3828–3858.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]]. They are in addition to those obtained by Vendramin [15 Vendramin, L. (2016). Extensions of set-theoretic solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation and a conjecture of Gateva-Ivanova. J. Pure Appl. Algebra 220:2064–2076.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] and [1 Bachiller, D., Cedó, F., Jespers, E., Okniński, J. (2017). A family of irretractable square-free solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation. Forum Math. (to appear). [Google Scholar]].     

The infinitesimal and the little q-Schur superalgebras

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WHEN WILL THEY EVER MAKE UP THEIR MINDS? THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF UNSTABLE DECISION MAKING

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Extremal loop weight modules and tensor products for quantum toroidal algebras

We define integrable representations of quantum toroidal algebras of type A by tensor product, using the Drinfeld “coproduct.” This allows us to recover the vector representations recently introduced by Feigin–Jimbo–Miwa–Mukhin [7 Feigin, B., Jimbo, M., Miwa, T., Mukhin, E. (2013). Representations of quantum toroidal 𝔤𝔩_n. J. Algebra 380:78–108.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] and constructed by the author [21 Macdonald, I. G. (1995). Symmetric Functions and Hall Polynomials. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford Math. Monographs, 1979. [Google Scholar]] as a subfamily of extremal loop weight modules. In addition we get new extremal loop weight modules as subquotients of tensor powers of vector representations. As an application we obtain finite-dimensional representations of quantum toroidal algebras by specializing the quantum parameter at roots of unity.     

On H-supplemented modules over a right perfect ring

In 1971, Koehler [11 Koehler, A. (1971). Quasi-projective and quasi-injective modules. Pac. J. Math. 36(3):713–720.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] proved a structure theorem for quasi-projective modules over right perfect rings by using results of Wu–Jans [22 Wu, L. E. T., Jans, J. P. (1967). On quasi-projectives. Illinois J. Math. 11:439–448. [Google Scholar]]. Later Mohamed–Singh [17 Mohamed, S. H., Singh, S. (1977). Generalizations of decomposition theorems known over perfect rings. J. Aust. Math. Soc. Ser. A 24(4):496–510.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]] studied discrete modules over right perfect rings and gave decomposition theorems for these modules. Moreover, Oshiro [18 Oshiro, K. (1983). Semiperfect modules and quasi-semiperfect modules. Osaka J. Math. 20:337–372.[Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] deeply studied (quasi-)discrete modules over general rings. In this paper, we consider that decomposition theorems for H-supplemented modules with the condition (D₂) or (D₃) over right perfect rings.     

Log terminal singularities

The aim of this work is to simplify the definitions related to the study of singularities of normal varieties initiated in [3 de Fernex, T., Hacon, C. (2009). Singularities on normal varieties. Singularities on normal varieties 145, Fasc. 2:393–414. [Google Scholar]] and [8 Urbinati, S. (2012). Discrepancies of non-?-Gorenstein varieties. Michigan Math. J. 61(2):265–277.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]]. We introduce a notion of discrepancy for normal varieties, and we define log terminal⁺ singularities. We use finite generation to relate these new singularities with log terminal singularities (in the sense of [3 de Fernex, T., Hacon, C. (2009). Singularities on normal varieties. Singularities on normal varieties 145, Fasc. 2:393–414. [Google Scholar]]).     

On the almost Gorenstein property of determinantal rings

In this paper, we investigate the question of when the determinantal ring R over a field k is an almost Gorenstein local/graded ring in the sense of [14 Goto, S., Takahashi, R., Taniguchi, N. (2015). Almost Gorenstein rings - towards a theory of higher dimension. J. Pure Appl. Algebra 219:2666–2712.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]]. As a consequence of the main result, we see that if R is a non-Gorenstein almost Gorenstein local/graded ring, then the ring R has a minimal multiplicity.     

On quotients of generalized Euclidean group rings

Let R = ?[C] be the integral group ring of a finite cyclic group C. Dennis et al. [4 Dennis, K., Magurn, B., Vaserstein, L. (1984). Generalized Euclidean group rings. J. Reine Angew. Math. 351:113–128.[Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] proved that R is a generalized Euclidean ring in the sense of Cohn [3 Cohn, P. M. (1966). On the structure of the GL₂ of a ring. Inst. Hautes Études Sci. Publ. Math. 30:5–53.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]], i.e., SL_n(R) is generated by the elementary matrices for all n. We prove that every proper quotient of R is also a generalized Euclidean ring.     

Forward-backward SDEs with discontinuous coefficients

In this paper, we are interested in the well-posedness of a class of fully coupled forward-backward SDE (FBSDE) in which the forward drift coefficient is allowed to be discontinuous with respect to the backward component of the solution. Such an FBSDE is motivated by a practical issue in regime-switching term structure interest rate models, and the discontinuity makes it beyond any existing framework of FBSDEs. In a Markovian setting with non-degenerate forward diffusion, we show that a decoupling function can still be constructed and that it is a Sobolev solution to the corresponding quasilinear PDE. As a consequence we can then argue that the FBSDE admits a weak solution in the sense of [1 Antonelli, F., Ma, J. (2003). Weak solutions of forward-backward SDE’s. Stochastic Analysis and Applications 21(3):493–514.[Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 2 Ma, J., Zhang, J., Zheng, Z. (2008). Weak solutions for backward stochastic differential equations, A martingale approach. The Annals of Probability 36(6):2092–2125.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]]. In the one-dimensional case, we further prove that the weak solution of the FBSDE is actually strong, and it is pathwisely unique. Our approach does not use the well-known Yamada–Watanabe Theorem, but instead follows the idea of Krylov for SDEs with measurable coefficients.     

On L p Resolvent Estimates for Elliptic Operators on Compact Manifolds

We prove uniform L^p estimates for resolvents of higher order elliptic self-adjoint differential operators on compact manifolds without boundary, generalizing a corresponding result of [3 Dos Santos Ferreira, D., Kenig, C., and Salo, M., 2014. On L^p resolvent estimates for Laplace-Beltrami operators on compact manifolds, Forum Math. 26 (2014), pp. 815–849.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] in the case of Laplace-Beltrami operators on Riemannian manifolds. In doing so, we follow the methods, developed in [1 Bourgain, J., Shao, P., Sogge, C., and Yao, X., On L^p-resolvent estimates and the density of eigenvalues for compact Riemannian manifolds, Comm. Math. Phys., to appear.[Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] very closely. We also show that spectral regions in our L^p resolvent estimates are optimal.     

Research Article: On Extending Primal-Dual Interior-Point Method for Linear Optimization to Convex Quadratic Symmetric Cone Optimization

Disjoint frames are interesting frames in Hilbert spaces, which were introduced by Han and Larson in [4 D. Han and D. R. Larson ( 2000 ). Frames, Basis and Group Representations . Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, No. 679. AMS, Providence, RI.  [Google Scholar]]. In this article, we use disjoint frames to construct frames. In particular, we obtain some conditions for the linear combinations of frames to be frames where the coefficients in the combination may be operators. Our results generalize the corresponding results obtained by Han and Larson. Finally, we provide some examples to illustrate our constructions.     

Erratum to “On α-DICC modules” Commun. Algebra. 22(6):1933–1944 (1994)

We give a correct statement for [2 Karamzadeh, O. A. S., Motamedi, M. (1994). On α-DICC modules. Commun. Algebra 22(6):1933–1944.[Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], Proposition 1.2]. However, this new form of the proposition needs no different proof from that of [2 Karamzadeh, O. A. S., Motamedi, M. (1994). On α-DICC modules. Commun. Algebra 22(6):1933–1944.[Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], Proposition 1.2].     

Fractional powers of sectorial operators via the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator

In the very influential paper [4 Caffarelli, L.A., Silvestre, L. (2007). An extension problem related to the fractional Laplacian. Commun. Partial Differential Equations 32:1245–1260.[Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] Caffarelli and Silvestre studied regularity of (?Δ)^s, 0<s<1, by identifying fractional powers with a certain Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator. Stinga and Torrea [15 Stinga, P.R., Torrea, J. (2010). Extension problem and Harnack’s inequality for some fractional operators. Commun. Partial Differential Equations 35:2092–2122.[Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] and Galé et al. [7 Galé, J., Miana, P., Stinga, P.R. (2013). Extension problem and fractional operators: semigroups and wave equations. J. Evol. Eqn. 13:343–368.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] gave several more abstract versions of this extension procedure. The purpose of this paper is to study precise regularity properties of the Dirichlet and the Neumann problem in Hilbert spaces. Then the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator becomes an isomorphism between interpolation spaces and its part in the underlying Hilbert space is exactly the fractional power.     

Calderón problem for connections

In this paper, we consider the problem of identifying a connection ? on a vector bundle up to gauge equivalence from the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map of the connection Laplacian ?*? over conformally transversally anisotropic (CTA) manifolds. This was proved in [9 Dos Santos Ferreira, D., Kenig, C., Salo, M., Uhlmann, G. (2009). Limiting Carleman weights and anisotropic inverse problems. Invent. Math. 178:119–171.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] for line bundles in the case of the transversal manifold being simple—we generalize this result to the case where the transversal manifold only has an injective ray transform. Moreover, the construction of suitable Gaussian beam solutions on vector bundles is given for the case of the connection Laplacian and a potential, following the works of [11 Dos Santos Ferreira, D., Kurylev, Y., Lassas, M., Salo, M. (2016). The Calderón problem in transversally anisotropic geometries. J. Eur. Math. Soc., 18:2579–2626.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]]. This in turn enables us to construct the Complex Geometrical Optics (CGO) solutions and prove our main uniqueness result. We also reduce the problem to a new non-abelian X-ray transform for the case of simple transversal manifolds and higher rank vector bundles. Finally, we prove the recovery of a flat connection in general from the DN map, up to gauge equivalence, using an argument relating the Cauchy data of the connection Laplacian and the holonomy.     

On the Attached Prime Ideals of Local Cohomology Modules

In this article, we shall prove some new properties about attached prime ideals over local cohomology modules. Also we generalize some of the results of [2 Brodmann , M. P. , Sharp , R. Y. ( 1998 ). Local Cohomology; An Algebraic Introduction with Geometric Applications . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]].     

An Application of Darbo Fixed-Point Theorem to a Class of Functional Integral Equations

In this article, using Darbo's fixed-point theorem associated with the measure of noncompactness, we prove a theorem on the existence of the solutions of some nonlinear functional integral equations in the space of continuous functions on interval [0, a]. Our existence results include several existence results obtained earlier by Maleknejad et al. [7 K. Maleknejad , K. Nouri , and R. Mollapourasl ( 2009 ). Investigation on the existence of solutions for some nonlinear functional-integral equations . Nonlinear Anal. 71 : 1575 – 1578 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] and Özdemir et al. [8 ?. Özdemir , Ü. Çakan , and B. ?lhan ( 2013 ). On the existence of the solutions for some nonlinear Volterra integral equations . Abstr. Appl. Anal. Article ID 689234.  [Google Scholar]] as special cases under some weaker conditions. We give also some examples which show that our results are applicable.