Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for the Oscillation of a Second Order Linear Differential Equation

In this paper we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the oscillation of the second order linear differential equation where p is a locally integrable function and either or where We give some applications which show how these results unify and imply some classical results in oscillation theory.     

Supercritical Branching Brownian Motion and K-P-P Equation In the Critical Speed-Area

If R_t is the position of the rightmost particle at time t in a one dimensional branching brownian motion, whore α is the inverse of the mean life time and m is the mean of the reproduction law. If Z_t denotes the random point measure of particles living at time t, we get in the critical area {c = c₀} The function u(t, x) = P(R_t > x) is studied as a solution of the K-P-P equation for some function f. Conditioned on non-extinction of the spatial tree in the c₀-direction, a limit distribution is obtained and characterized.     

On the Eigenvalues of Half‐Linear Boundary Value Problems

We consider the half‐linear boundary value problem where and the weight function q is assumed to change sign. We prove the existence of two sequences , of eigenvalues and derive asymptotic estimates for as .     

Radially symmetric Poisson–Boltzmann equation in a domain expanding to infinity

The electric potential u in a solution of an electrolyte around a linear polyelectrolyte of the form of a cylinder satisfies We study the problem when R → ∞.     

Quasilinear degenerate parabolic equations of Kirchhoff type

We investigate the evolution problem where H is a Hilbert space, A is a self‐adjoint linear non‐negative operator on H with domain D(A), and is a continuous function. We prove that if , and , then there exists at least one global solution, which is unique if either m never vanishes, or m is locally Lipschitz continuous. Moreover, we prove that if for all , then this problem is well posed in H. On the contrary, if for some it happens that for all , then this problem has no solution if with β small enough. We apply these results to degenerate parabolic PDEs with non‐local non‐linearities. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Analytic aspects of the Toda system: I. A Moser‐Trudinger inequality

In this paper, we analyze solutions of the open Toda system and establish an optimal Moser‐Trudinger type inequality for this system. Let Σ be a closed surface with area 1 and K = (a_ij)_{N × N} the Cartan matrix for SU(N + 1), i.e., We show that has a lower bound in (H¹(Σ))^N if and only if This inequality is optimal. As a direct consequence, if M_j < for 4π for j = 1, 2, …, N, Φ_M has a minimizer u that satisfies © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Ryser's embedding problem for Hadamard matrices

What is the minimum order of a Hadamard matrix that contains an a by b submatrix of all 1's? Newman showed that where c^? denotes the smallest order greater than or equal to c for which a Hadamard matrix exists. It follows that if 4 divides both a and b, and if the Hadamard conjecture is true, then . We establish the improved bounds for min {a,b} ≥ 2. The Hadamard conjecture therefore implies that if 4 divides both 2ab and ?a/2? ?b/2?, then (a, b) = 2 · max {?a/2?b, ?b/2?a}. Our lower bound comes from a counting argument, while our upper bound follows from a sub‐multiplicative property of : Improvements in our upper bound occur when suitable conference matrices or Bush‐type Hadamard matrices exist. We conjecture that any (1,?1)‐matrix of size a by b occurs as a submatrix of some Hadamard matrix of order at most . © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Combin Designs     

Nontrivial periodic solutions of a nonlinear beam equation

We consider the existence of a nontrivial solution of the following equation: where g is a nondecreasing function defined on R¹, satisfies g(O) = O, and some other additional conditions. Our results and methods are quite similar to those associated with recent work on the nonlinear wave equation [1]-[8]: .     

Comparing Packing Measures to Hausdorff Measures on the Line

For each 0 < s < 1, define where , denote respectively the s‐dimensional packing measure and Hausdorff measure, and the infimum is taken over all the sets E ⊂ R with . In this paper we give a nontrivial estimation of c(s), namely, for each 0 < s < 1, where . As an application, we obtain a lower density theorem for Hausdorff measures.     

Spanning trees with many leaves

We show that if G is a simple connected graph with and , then G has a spanning tree with > t leaves, and this is best possible. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Graph Theory 37: 189–197, 2001     

On the oscillation of functional differential equations

In this paper we present certain criteria for the oscillation of functional differential equations of the form where δ = ±1, p, g: [t₀, ∞) → IR, H: [t₀,∞) × IR → IR are continuous, p(t) ≥ 0 for t ≥ t₀ and lim_t → ∞ g(t) — ∞. We like to point out that condition of the form will not be employed.     

Integrability Properties of the Maximal Operator on Partial Sums of Fourier Series in Orlicz Spaces

Let S* (f be the majorant function of the partial sums of the trigonometric Fourier series of f. In this paper we consider the Orlicz space Lπ and give a generalization of Soria's result [S1]. Let π (t) be a concave function with some nice properties and . If there exists a positive constant a₀ < 1 such that then we have .     

On the Harnack principle for strongly elliptic systems with nonsmooth coefficients

In this paper we prove the following theorem (for notation and definitions, see the paragraphs below): “Let Ω ⊆ ℝⁿ be a domain, m ∈ ℕ, and λ, q > 0. Then, there exists r (= r(λ, q)) > 1 such that for every 0 < p < q, whenever are weak solutions of a strongly elliptic system with m equations of ellipticity λ satisfying ∈ 𝒫_r a.e. and Ω′ ⊆ Ω subdomain, the following inequalities hold: where C (= C(n,m,λ,q,p,Ω,Ω′)) is a positive constant.” © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Uniqueness of Integrable Solutions ∇ζ = Gζ, ζ∣Γ = 0 for Integrable Tensor-Coefficients G and Applications to Elasticity

Let be bounded Lipschitz and relatively open. We show that the solution to the linear first order system 1 : (1) vanishes if and , (e.g. ). We prove to be a norm if with , for some p, q > 1 with 1/p + 1/q = 1 and . We give a new proof for the so called ‘in-finitesimal rigid displacement lemma’ in curvilinear coordinates: Let , satisfy for some with . Then there are and a constant skew-symmetric matrix , such that . (© 2013 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Implicit linear time‐dependent differential‐difference equations and applications

The paper deals with the differential‐difference equation in a Banach space. The operator coefficient of the delay‐free derivative is allowed to be degenerate. Existence and uniqueness theorems are proved under the main assumption that for every the point is a polar singularity of the resolvent . The results are applied to evolution problems of microwave circuits. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Energy Estimates and Cavity Interaction for a Critical‐Exponent Cavitation Model

We consider the minimization of in a perforated domain of among maps that are incompressible (det ) and invertible, and satisfy a Dirichlet boundary condition u = g on ?Ω. If the volume enclosed by g (?Ω) is greater than |Ω|, any such deformation u is forced to map the small holes B_ε( a _i) onto macroscopically visible cavities (which do not disappear as ε → 0). We restrict our attention to the critical exponent p = n, where the energy required for cavitation is of the order of and the model is suited, therefore, for an asymptotic analysis (v₁,…, v_M denote the volumes of the cavities). In the spirit of the analysis of vortices in Ginzburg‐Landau theory, we obtain estimates for the “renormalized” energy showing its dependence on the size and the shape of the cavities, on the initial distance between the cavitation points a ₁,…, a _M, and on the distance from these points to the outer boundary ?Ω. Based on those estimates we conclude, for the case of two cavities, that either the cavities prefer to be spherical in shape and well separated, or to be very close to each other and appear as a single equivalent round cavity. This is in agreement with existing numerical simulations and is reminiscent of the interaction between cavities in the mechanism of ductile fracture by void growth and coalescence. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Law of large numbers for increasing subsequences of random permutations

Let the random variable Z_n,k denote the number of increasing subsequences of length k in a random permutation from S_n, the symmetric group of permutations of {1,…,n}. We show that Var(Z) = o((EZ)²) as n → ∞ if and only if . In particular then, the weak law of large numbers holds for Z if ; that is, We also show the following approximation result for the uniform measure U_n on S_n. Define the probability measure μ on S_n by where U denotes the uniform measure on the subset of permutations that contain the increasing subsequence {x₁,x₂,…,x}. Then the weak law of large numbers holds for Z if and only if where ∣∣˙∣∣ denotes the total variation norm. In particular then, (*) holds if . In order to evaluate the asymptotic behavior of the second moment, we need to analyze occupation times of certain conditioned two‐dimensional random walks. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2006     

On asymmetric coverings and covering numbers

An asymmetric covering is a collection of special subsets S of an n‐set such that every subset T of the n‐set is contained in at least one special S with . In this paper we compute the smallest size of any for We also investigate “continuous” and “banded” versions of the problem. The latter involves the classical covering numbers , and we determine the following new values: , , , , and . We also find the number of non‐isomorphic minimal covering designs in several cases. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Combin Designs 11: 218–228, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/jcd.10022     

Asymptotics of solutions for sub critical non‐convective type equations

We study the Cauchy problem for non‐linear dissipative evolution equations (1) where ?? is the linear pseudodifferential operator and the non‐linearity is a quadratic pseudodifferential operator (2) û ≡ ?_x→ξ u is the Fourier transformation. We consider non‐convective type non‐linearity, that is we suppose that a(t,0,y) ≠ 0. Let the initial data , are sufficiently small and have a non‐zero total mass , where is the weighted Sobolev space. Then we give the main term of the large time asymptotics of solutions in the sub critical case. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Tauberian theorem for m‐spherical transforms on the Heisenberg group

In this paper we prove a Tauberian type theorem for the space L ( H _n ). This theorem gives sufficient conditions for a L ( H _n ) submodule J ? L ( H _n ) to make up all of L ( H _n ). As a consequence of this theorem, we are able to improve previous results on the Pompeiu problem with moments on the Heisenberg group for the space L^∞( H _n ). In connection with the Pompeiu problem, given the vanishing of integrals ∫ z ^m L _g f ( z , 0) dσ ( z ) = 0 for all g ∈ H _n and i = 1, 2 for appropriate radii r₁ and r₂, we now have the (improved) conclusion f ≡ 0, where = · · · and form the standard basis for T^(0,1)( H _n ). (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)