Prime ends for domains in metric spaces

In this paper we propose a new definition of prime ends for domains in metric spaces under rather general assumptions. We compare our prime ends to those of Carathéodory and Näkki. Modulus ends and prime ends, defined by means of the p$p$-modulus of curve families, are also discussed and related to the prime ends. We provide characterizations of singleton prime ends and relate them to the notion of accessibility of boundary points, and introduce a topology on the prime end boundary. We also study relations between the prime end boundary and the Mazurkiewicz boundary. Generalizing the notion of John domains, we introduce almost John domains, and we investigate prime ends in the settings of John domains, almost John domains and domains which are finitely connected at the boundary.     

Two-dimensional steady-state oscillation problems of anisotropic elasticity

The paper deals with the two-dimensional exterior boundary value problems of the steady-state oscillation theory for anisotropic elastic bodies. By means of the limiting absorption principle the fundamental matrix of the oscillation equations is constructed and the generalized radiation conditions of Sommerfeld-Kupradze type are established. Uniqueness theorems of the basic and mixed type boundary value problems are proved.     

On the boundary integral equations for the crack opening displacement of flat cracks

The boundary integral equations for the crack opening displacement in acoustic and elastic scattering problems are discussed in the case of flat cracks by means of the Fourier analysis technique. The pseudo-differential nature of the hypersingular integral operators is shown and their symbols explicited. It is then proved that the variational problems assocaited with these BIE are well-posed in a Sobolev functional framework which is closely linked with the elastic energy. A decomposition of the vector integral equation in the elastic case into scalar integral equations is obtained as a by-product of the variational formulation.     

Lipschitz continuity of Cheeger-harmonic functions in metric measure spaces

We use the heat equation to establish the Lipschitz continuity of Cheeger-harmonic functions in certain metric spaces. The metric spaces under consideration are those that are endowed with a doubling measure supporting a (1,2)-Poincaré inequality and in addition supporting a corresponding Sobolev-Poincaré-type inequality for the modification of the measure obtained via the heat kernel. Examples are given to illustrate the necessity of our assumptions on these spaces. We also provide an example to show that in the general setting the best possible regularity for the Cheeger-harmonic functions is Lipschitz continuity.     

Asymptotic behavior of eigenfunctions and eigenfrequencies of oscillation boundary value problems of the linear theory of elastic mixtures

The asymptotic behavior of eigenoscillation and eigen-vector-function is studied for the internal boundary value problems of oscillation of the linear theory of a mixture of two isotropic elastic media.     

Global existence and decay for the semilinear thermoelastic contact problem

In this paper a class of semilinear thermoelastic contact problems is considered and the existence and exponential decay of the weak solutions are obtained.     

Dynamics of a thermoelastic von Kármán plate in a subsonic gas flow

We discuss the problem of non-linear oscillations of a clamped thermoelastic plate in a subsonic gas flow. The dynamics of the plate is described by von Kármán system in the presence of thermal effects. No mechanical damping is assumed. To describe the influence of the gas flow we apply the linearized theory of potential flows. Our main result states that each weak solution of the problem considered tends to the set of the stationary points of the problem. A similar problem was considered in [27], but with rotational inertia accounted for, i.e. with the additional term −αΔu_tt,α > 0, and the same result on stabilization was obtained. There was introduced the decomposition of the solution such that the one term tends to zero and the other is compact in special (“local energy”) topology. This decomposition enables us to prove the main result. But the case of rotational inertia neglected (α = 0) appears more difficult. Low a priori smoothness of u_t in the case α = 0 prevents us to construct such a decomposition. In order to prove additional smoothness of u_t we use analyticity of the corresponding thermoelastic semigroup proved in [25]. The isothermal variant of this problem with additional mechanical damping term −εΔu_t , ε > 0 was considered in [13] and stabilization to the set of stationary solutions to the problem was proved. The problem, considered in the present work can also be regarded as an extension of the result of [18] to the case when gas occupies an unbounded domain.     

Spectrum of the Kerzman–Stein Operator for Model Domains

For a domain , the Kerzman-Stein operator is the skew-hermitian part of the Cauchy operator acting on L²(b), which is defined with respect to Euclidean measure. In this paper we compute the spectrum of the Kerzman-Stein operator for three domains whose boundaries consist of two circular arcs: a strip, a wedge, and an annulus. We also treat the case of a domain bounded by two logarithmic spirals.     

Explicit constructions of graphs without short cycles and low density codes

We give an explicit construction of regular graphs of degree 2r withn vertices and girth ≧c logn/logr. We use Cayley graphs of factor groups of free subgroups of the modular group. An application to low density codes is given.     

Cauchy integrals,Calderón projectors,and Toeplitz operators on uniformly rectifiable domains

We develop properties of Cauchy integrals associated to a general class of first-order elliptic systems of differential operators D on a bounded, uniformly rectifiable (UR) domain Ω in a Riemannian manifold M. We show that associated to such Cauchy integrals are analogues of Hardy spaces of functions on Ω annihilated by D  , and we produce projections, of Calderón type, onto subspaces of L^p(∂Ω)$L^p(\partial \Omega )$ consisting of boundary values of elements of such Hardy spaces. We consider Toeplitz operators associated to such projections and study their index properties. Of particular interest is a “cobordism argument,” which often enables one to identify the index of a Toeplitz operator on a rough UR domain with that of one on a smoothly bounded domain.     

Elastodynamical scattering by N parallel half-planes in R3: II. Explicit solutions forN=2 by explicit symbol factorization

In this paper, which is a continuation of [73] part I, explicit solutions of two mixed b.v.ps. for the vectorial Lamé equation with DDT/DDT data, TTD/TTD data, resp., given on a system ofN=2 parallel screen-crack half-planes, are derived by explicit calculation of the factors of the corresponding (residual)L ²-lifted nonrational 6×6 Wiener-Hopf-Fouriersymbol matrices, which were scalarized ton-part form (n=6) structures For a single screen two WHOs closely related to theRawlins problem and the impedance problem for the (scalar) Helmholtz equation are established to be Fredholm operators, the second when assuming the regularity higher thanH ¹ i.e. H ¹⁺, 0<<1/2. The WHO of theN-screen Dirichlet (and Neumann) problem for the Helmholtz equation is shown to be invertible by an operator Neumann series, even for small distances between the half-planes.Dedicated to Professor W. Wendland on the occasion of his 60 ^th birthday in September 1996Sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft under grant number KO 634/32-3     

Global attractor for a nonlinear thermoviscoelastic model with a non-convex free energy density

This paper is concerned with the existence of a global attractor for a semiflow governed by the weak solutions to a nonlinear one-dimensional thermoviscoelasticity with a non-convex free energy density. The constitutive assumptions for the Helmholtz free energy include the model for the study of martensitic phase transitions in shape memory alloys. To describe physically phase transitions between different configurations of crystal lattices, we work in a framework in which the strain u$u$ belongs to L^∞$L^{\infty }$. New approaches are introduced and more delicate estimates are derived to establish the crucial L^∞$L^{\infty }$-estimate of strain u$u$ in deriving the compactness of the orbit of the semiflow and the existence of an absorbing set.     

Spectral set functions and scalar operators

A systematic study is made of continuous linear operators approximable (in certain topologies) by linear combinations of projections from the range of a spectral set function. Such operators may be viewed as natural analogues of the scalar-type spectral operators introduced by N. Dunford. We extend the classical theory so that the range of the spectral set function, necessarily a Boolean algebra of continuous projection operators, need not be uniformly bounded; it is this feature which gives the theory its wider range of applicability. Typically, the associated operational calculus, which is specified via a suitable integration process, is no longer related to a continuous homomorphism but merely to a certain kind of sequentially closed homomorphism.     

Decay estimates for a thermoelastic system in waveguides

We investigate the linear system of thermoelasticity, consisting of an elasticity equation and a heat conduction equation, in a waveguide Ω=(0,1)×Rn−1, with certain boundary conditions. We consider the cases of homogeneous and inhomogeneous systems and prove decay estimates of the solutions, which are a key ingredient to showing the global existence of solutions to non-linear thermoelasticity, after having decomposed the solutions into various parts. We also give a simplified proof to the representation of the solutions to the Cauchy problem of thermoelasticity.     

Generalized phases and nondispersive waves

We prove that the homogeneous wave equation has different kinds of nondispersive solutions all defined in terms of an arbitrary functionF(u), whereu is a solution of the corresponding characteristic equation.     

Transmission problems and spectral theory for singular integral operators on Lipschitz domains

We prove the well-posedness of the transmission problem for the Laplacian across a Lipschitz interface, with optimal non-tangential maximal function estimates, for data in Lebesgue and Hardy spaces on the boundary. As a corollary, we show that the spectral radius of the (adjoint) harmonic double layer potential K∗ in is less than , whenever is a bounded convex domain and 1<p?2.     

Hölder estimates of p-harmonic extension operators

It is now a well-known fact that for 1<p<∞ the p-harmonic functions on domains in metric measure spaces equipped with a doubling measure supporting a (1,p)-Poincaré inequality are locally Hölder continuous. In this note we provide a characterization of domains in such metric spaces for which p-harmonic extensions of Hölder continuous boundary data are globally Hölder continuous. We also provide a link between this regularity property of the domain and the uniform p-fatness of the complement of the domain.     

Blowing up behavior for a class of nonlinear VIEs connected with parabolic PDEs

We study the blowing-up behavior of solutions of a class of nonlinear integral equations of Volterra type that is connected with parabolic partial differential equations with concentrated nonlinearities. We present some analytic results and, in the case of the kernel of Abel-kind with power nonlinearity and fixed initial data, we give a numerical approximation by using one-point collocation methods.     

Decomposition theorems and fine estimates for electrical fields in the presence of closely located circular inclusions

When two inclusions get closer and their conductivities degenerate to zero or infinity, the gradient of the solution to the conductivity equation blows up in general. In this paper, we show that the solution to the conductivity equation can be decomposed into two parts in an explicit form: one of them has a bounded gradient and the gradient of the other part blows up. Using the decomposition, we derive the best possible estimates for the blow-up of the gradient. We then consider the case when the inclusions have positive permittivities. We show quantitatively that in this case the size of the blow-up is reduced.     

The structure of a tridiagonal pair

Let K denote a field and let V denote a vector space over K with finite positive dimension.We consider a pair of K-linear transformations A:V→V and A^∗:V→V that satisfy the following conditions: (i) each of A,A^∗ is diagonalizable; (ii) there exists an ordering of the eigenspaces of A such that A^∗V_i⊆V_i-1+V_i+V_i+1 for 0?i?d, where V_-1=0 and V_d+1=0; (iii) there exists an ordering of the eigenspaces of A^∗ such that for 0?i?δ, where and ; (iv) there is no subspace W of V such that AW⊆W,A^∗W⊆W,W≠0,W≠V.We call such a pair a tridiagonal pair on V. It is known that d=δ and for 0?i?d the dimensions of coincide.In this paper we show that the following (i)-(iv) hold provided that K is algebraically closed: (i) Each of has dimension 1.(ii) There exists a nondegenerate symmetric bilinear form 〈,〉 on V such that 〈Au,v〉=〈u,Av〉 and 〈A^∗u,v〉=〈u,A^∗v〉 for all u,v∈V.(iii) There exists a unique anti-automorphism of End(V) that fixes each of A,A^∗.(iv) The pair A,A^∗ is determined up to isomorphism by the data , where θ_i (resp.) is the eigenvalue of A (resp.A^∗) on V_i (resp.), and is the split sequence of A,A^∗ corresponding to and .