Stability of a thin liquid layer,spreading on a quasi–rotating disk

In many industrial processes solids are coated to obtain specific surface properties, as e.g. corrosion resistance, mechanical (wear) resistance, optical, or electrical properties. Even today many coating processes are not fully understood and the choice of parameters is largely based on experience. Hence, a prediction of the complete hydrodynamic process and the appearance of instabilities in its dependency on the parameters appears highly desirable. This would serve to optimize the quality of the coating. A common coating technique is the so-called spin coating. The coating agent is dissolved or suspended in a liquid, brought onto the solid, spread by rotation, and the carrier liquid is finally removed by evaporation or by chemical reactions. In this article an evolution equation is derived from lubrication theory, valid for thin liquid layers. The model involves a dynamic contact angle, centrifugal, capillary, and gravitational forces. The evolution equation can be solved analytically, provided the capillary number is small. Then a coupled linear stability analysis of the contact line and the free interface is performed. (© 2009 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Absolute continuity of the spectrum of the periodic Schrödinger operator in a layer and in a smooth cylinder

The Schr?dinger operator H = −Δ + V is considered in a layer or in a d-dimensional cylinder. The potential V is assumed to be periodic with respect to a lattice. The absolute continuity of H is established, provided that V ∈ L _p,loc, where p is a real number greater than d/2 in the case of a layer and p > max(d/2, d − 2) for a cylinder. Bibliography: 14 titles.     

Proof of a conjecture of Zahariuta concerning a problem of Kolmogorov on the ε-entropy

We prove a conjecture of Zahariuta which itself solves a problem of Kolmogorov on the -entropy of some classes of analytic functions. For a given holomorphically convex compact subset K in a pseudoconvex domain D in Cⁿ, Zahariutas conjecture consists in approximating the relative extremal function u^*_K,D, uniformly on any compact subset of DK, by pluricomplex Green functions on D with logarithmic poles in the compact subset K.     

Local stability “in the large” of the rigid layer of a sandwich plate in compression with bending

Experiments show that at certain geometrical and mechanical parameters of a sandwich plate subjected to compression with bending the loss of stability of its rigid layer occurs through a leap to a nonadjacent form of equilibrium. The current notion about the loss of stability of rigid layers of multilayer systems and calculation schemes correspond only to particular cases of the phenomenon and are true only in the framework of certain physical, mechanical, and geometrical characteristics of structures. The most general and closest to reality is the calculation method which takes into consideration the entire complex of deformations of all elements of a multilayer system. The study includes the experimental and theoretical analysis of the influence of bending rigidity, initial bend, and decisive deformational factors on the value of the critical force in the rigid layer of the plate having a light filler. The position of the local energetic extremum emerging in the process studied and the region where it is necessary to take into account the real character of the loss of stability in the large are determined.Moscow State University for Ecology and Environmental Studies, Moscow, Russia. Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 59–70, January–February, 1999.     

On the Monotonicity of the Speed of Random Walks on a Percolation Cluster of Trees

The authors consider the simple random walk on the infinite cluster of the Bernoulli bond percolation of trees, and investigate the relation between the speed of the simple random walk and the retaining probability p by studying three classes of trees. A sufficient condition is established for Galton-Watson trees.     

A Note on the Bondage Number of a Graph

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Boundary layer analysis in the semiclassical limit of a quantum drift–diffusion model

We study a singularly perturbed elliptic second order system in one space variable as it appears in a stationary quantum drift–diffusion model of a semiconductor. We prove the existence of solutions and their uniqueness as minimizers of a certain functional and determine rigorously the principal part of an asymptotic expansion of a boundary layer of those solutions. We prove analytical estimates of the remainder terms of this asymptotic expansion, and confirm by means of numerical simulations that these remainder estimates are sharp.     

Correction to the paper “on the curvature of a generalization of a contact metric manifolds”

We considered in Example 3.1 of the paper [1] an S-structure on R^2n+s . We concluded that when s > 1 this manifold cannot be of constant φ-sectional curvature. Unfortunately this result is wrong. In fact, essentially due to a sign mistake in defining the φ-structure and a consequent transposition of the elements of the φ-basis (3.2), some of the Christoffel’s symbols were incorrect. In the present rectification, using a more slendler tecnique, we prove that our manifold is of constant φ-sectional curvature −3s and then it is η-Einstein.     

Finiteness of the number of eigenvalues of the two-particle Schrödinger operator on a lattice

We consider the two-particle Schrödinger operator H(k) on the ν-dimensional lattice ?^ν and prove that the number of negative eigenvalues of H(k) is finite for a wide class of potentials \(\hat v\).     

On the traces of Sobolev functions on the boundary of a cusp with a Hölder singularity

For the Sobolev classes W _p ¹ on a “zero” cusp with a Hölder singularity at the vertex, we consider the question of compactness of the embedding of the traces of Sobolev functions into the Lebesgue classes on the boundary of the cusp.     

Preliminary Analysis on the Probabilistic Feature of a Dark Cave of Digits

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On a transformation of the wiener process in ℝ m by a functional of the local time type on a surface

A transformation of the Wiener process _t in ^m is considered. This transformation is realized by a multiplicative functional _l=u(_l/u(₀), where the functionu is constructed in a certain way by using a functional of the local time type on a surface. It is proved that this transformation is equivalent to the successive application of an absolutely continuous change of a measure and killing on the surface.Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 45, No. 6, pp. 863–866, June, 1993.     

A note on the second largest eigenvalue of the laplacian matrix of a graph ∗

In this note, a lower bound for the second largest eigenvalue of the Laplacian matrix of a graph is given in terms of the second largest degree of the graph.     

Bound states of the Schrödinger operator of a system of three bosons on a lattice

We consider the Hamiltonian H_µ of a system of three identical quantum particles (bosons) moving on a d-dimensional lattice ?^d, d = 1, 2, and coupled by an attractive pairwise contact potential µ < 0. We prove that the number of bound states of the corresponding Schrödinger operator H_µ(K), \(K \in \mathbb{T}^d\), is finite and establish the location and structure of its essential spectrum. We show that the bound state decays exponentially at infinity and that the eigenvalue and the corresponding bound state as functions of the quasimomentum \(K \in \mathbb{T}^d\) are regular.     

Bounds on the Non-real Spectrum of a Singular Indefinite Sturm-Liouville Operator on ℝ

A simple explicit bound on the absolute values of the non-real eigenvalues of a singular indefinite Sturm-Liouville operator on the real line with the weight function sgn(·) and an integrable, continuous potential q is obtained. (© 2016 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Formula for the number of eigenvalues of a three-particle Schrödinger operator on a lattice

We consider a system of three arbitrary quantum particles on a three-dimensional lattice that interact via short-range attractive potentials. We obtain a formula for the number of eigenvalues in an arbitrary interval outside the essential spectrum of the three-particle discrete Schrödinger operator and find a sufficient condition for the discrete spectrum to be finite. We give an example of an application of our results.     

Asymptotics of the Discrete Spectrum of the Three-Particle Schrödinger Difference Operator on a Lattice

We consider the Hamiltonian H (K) of a system consisting of three bosons that interact through attractive pair contact potentials on a three-dimensional integer lattice. We obtain an asymptotic value for the number N(K,z) of eigenvalues of the operator H₀(K) lying below z0 with respect to the total quasimomentum K0 and the spectral parameter z–0.