Positive solutions of some nonlocal fourth-order boundary value problem

By the use of the Krasnosel’skii’s fixed point theorem, the existence of one or two positive solutions for the nonlocal fourth-order boundary value problem

     

Increasing efficiency of inverse iteration

Inverse iteration is simple but not very efficient method for computing few eigenvalues with minimal absolute values and corresponding eigenvectors of a symmetric matrix. The idea is to increase its efficiency by technique similar to multigrid methods used for solving linear systems. This approach is not new, but until now multigrid was mostly used for solving linear system which appear in Rayleigh quotient iteration, inverse iteration and related iterative methods. Instead of choosing appropriate coordinates (grids), our algorithm performs inverse iteration on a sequence of subspaces with decreasing dimensions (multispace). Block Lanczos method is used for the selection of a smaller subspace. This will produce a banded matrix, which makes inverse iteration even faster in the smaller dimensions.      

Well-posedness of an evolution problem with nonlocal diffusion

We prove the well-posedness of a general evolution reaction–nonlocal diffusion problem under two sets of assumptions. In the first set, the main hypothesis is the Lipschitz continuity of the range kernel and the bounded variation of the spatial kernel and the initial datum. In the second set of assumptions, we relax the Lipschitz continuity of the range kernel to Hölder continuity, and assume monotonic behavior. In this case, the spatial kernel and the initial data can be just integrable functions. The main applications of this model are related to the fields of Image Processing and Population Dynamics.     

An inverse diffusion problem with nonlocal boundary conditions

This article considers the inverse problem of identification of a time‐dependent thermal diffusivity together with the temperature in an one‐dimensional heat equation with nonlocal boundary and integral overdetermination conditions when a heat exchange takes place across boundary of the material. The well‐posedness of the problem is studied under some regularity, and consistency conditions on the data of the problem together with the nonnegativity condition on the Fourier coefficients of the initial data and source term. The inverse problem is also studied numerically by using the Crank–Nicolson finite difference scheme combined with predictor‐corrector technique. The numerical examples are presented and discussed. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 32: 564–590, 2016     

The inverse problem for certain tree parameters

Let p be a graph parameter that assigns a positive integer value to every graph. The inverse problem for p asks for a graph within a prescribed class (here, we will only be concerned with trees), given the value of p. In this context, it is of interest to know whether such a graph can be found for all or at least almost all integer values of p. We will provide a very general setting for this type of problem over the set of all trees, describe some simple examples and finally consider the interesting parameter “number of subtrees”, where the problem can be reduced to some number-theoretic considerations. Specifically, we will prove that every positive integer, with only 34 exceptions, is the number of subtrees of some tree.     

Global existence for some transport equations with nonlocal velocity

In this paper, we study transport equations with nonlocal velocity fields with rough initial data. We address the global existence of weak solutions of a one dimensional model of the surface quasi-geostrophic equation and the incompressible porous media equation, and one dimensional and n dimensional models of the dissipative quasi-geostrophic equations and the dissipative incompressible porous media equation.     

Fuzzy relational equations and the inverse problem

The inverse problem concerned with fuzzy relations is investigated. The conditions for the existence of a solution are shown and an analytical solution is given. A method for the improvement of the solution is proposed.     

Uniqueness for an inverse source problem of determining a space dependent source in a time-fractional diffusion equation

We study uniqueness of a solution for an inverse source problem arising in linear time-fractional diffusion equations with time dependent coefficients. New uniqueness results are formulated in Theorem 3.1. We also show optimality of the conditions under which uniqueness holds by explicitly constructing counterexamples, that is by constructing more than one solution in the case when the conditions for uniqueness are violated.     

On an inverse problem for acoustic and seismic waves

Two basic inverse problems for determining the constitutive relation in an attenuating medium from given absorption behavior of plane waves in the medium are dealt with in the frequency domain by methods of complex analysis. In particular the case of a prescribed constant internal friction function over the seismic frequencies is considered in detail.     

Attractors and symmetries of vector fields: The inverse problem

The inverse problem of constructing dynamical systems X with a prescribed compact attracting set K⊂Rn and non-trivial dynamics on it is solved. The boundaries ∂ of the attracting basins corresponding to different connected components of K and the relationship between the symmetries of K, X and ∂ are also studied.     

The method of lines applied to nonlinear nonlocal functional differential equations

This paper discusses nonlinear functional differential equation in a real reflexive Banach space with nonlocal history condition. By using the method of lines, the existence and uniqueness of a strong solution are established. Finally, some applications of the abstract results are presented.     

Linear parameterized inverse eigenvalue problem of bisymmetric matrices

In this paper, we consider the linear parameterized inverse eigenvalue problem of bisymmetric matrices which is described as follows:     

The N-membrane problem with nonlocal constraints

In this paper, we study a nonlocal variational inequality. The nonlocality appears both in the coefficients of the operator, through an integral representing some elastic energy, and in the constraints, which are of the type called soft in the literature.     

The inverse solution of the atomic mixing equations by an operator-splitting method

The quantification problem of recovering the original material distribution from secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) data is considered in this paper. It is an inverse problem, is ill-posed and hence it requires a special technique for its solution. The quantification problem is essentially an inverse diffusion or (classically) a backward heat conduction problem. In this paper an operator-splitting method (that is proposed in a previous paper by the first author for the solution of inverse diffusion problems) is developed for the solution of the problem of recovering the original structure from the SIMS data. A detailed development of the quantification method is given and it is applied to typical data to demonstrate its effectiveness.     

The inverse eigenvalue problem of generalized reflexive matrices and its approximation

This paper studies inverse eigenvalue problems of generalized reflexive matrices and their optimal approximations. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of the problems are derived, the solutions and their optimal approximations are provided.     

A penalty function method for solving inverse optimal value problem

In order to consider the inverse optimal value problem under more general conditions, we transform the inverse optimal value problem into a corresponding nonlinear bilevel programming problem equivalently. Using the Kuhn–Tucker optimality condition of the lower level problem, we transform the nonlinear bilevel programming into a normal nonlinear programming. The complementary and slackness condition of the lower level problem is appended to the upper level objective with a penalty. Then we give via an exact penalty method an existence theorem of solutions and propose an algorithm for the inverse optimal value problem, also analysis the convergence of the proposed algorithm. The numerical result shows that the algorithm can solve a wider class of inverse optimal value problem.     

An inverse model for the most uniform problem

In this paper, we consider a kind of inverse model for the most uniform problem. This model has some practical background. It is shown that the model can be solved in polynomial time whenever an associated min-sum problem can be solved in polynomial time.