Spherical f-Tilings by Scalene Triangles and Isosceles Trapezoids, Ⅱ

The study of the dihedral f-tilings of the sphere S ² whose prototiles are a scalene triangle and an isosceles trapezoid was initiated in a previous work. In this paper we continue this classification presenting the study of all dihedral spherical f-tilings by scalene triangles and isosceles trapezoids in some cases of adjacency.     

On the Isosceles Orthogonally Exponential Mappings

We prove that if X is a real linear normed space and dim X > 1, then, for every isosceles orthogonally exponential mapping f of X into a division ring, either f(X\{0}) = {0} or 0 ∉ f(X). As a consequence of this fact we obtain the following theorem: If X is not an inner product space and dim X > 2, then every isosceles orthogonally exponential mapping of X into a (commutative) field is exponential. We also generalize some results concerning the orthogonally additive mappings. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Isosceles Orthogonal Triples in Linear 2-Normed Spaces

A triple (x, y, z) in a linear 2-normed space (X, ‖.,.‖) is called an isosceles orthogonal triple, denoted |(x, y, z), if |(.,.,.) is said to be homogeneous if |(x, y, z) implies |(ax, y, z) for all real a and it is additive if |(x₁, y, z) and |(x₂, y, z) imply that |(x₁ + x₂, y, z). In addition to developing some basic properties of |(.,.,.), this paper shows that under the assumption of strict convexity, every subspace of X of dimension ≤ 3 contains an isosceles orthogonal triple. Further, if (X, ‖.,.‖) is strictly convex and |(…,.) is either homogeneous or additive, then (X, ‖.,.‖) is a 2-inner product space.     

The Number of Isosceles Right Triangles Determined by <Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis> Points in Convex Position in the Plane

Any set of n points in convex position in the plane induces at most 2n congruent copies of a fixed isosceles triangle. Furthermore, at most 2n–4 congruent isosceles right triangles can be induced by a set of n points in convex position, and in strictly convex position at most n congruent isosceles right triangles can be induced.     

Isosceles Triangles Determined by a Planar Point Set

 It is proved that, for any ɛ>0 and n>n ₀(ɛ), every set of n points in the plane has at most triples that induce isosceles triangles. (Here e denotes the base of the natural logarithm, so the exponent is roughly 2.136.) This easily implies the best currently known lower bound, , for the smallest number of distinct distances determined by n points in the plane, due to Solymosi–Cs. Tóth and Tardos. Received: February, 2002 Final version received: September 15, 2002 RID="*" ID="*" Supported by NSF grant CCR-00-86013, PSC-CUNY Research Award 63382-00-32, and OTKA-T-032452 RID="†" ID="†" Supported by OTKA-T-030059 and AKP 2000-78-21     

A class of tilings of S 2

By a monohedral f-tiling of the Euclidean sphere S ² we mean a monohedral edge-to-edge tiling of S ² such that all vertices are of even valency and satisfy the angle-folding relation. Our purpose is to enumerate all monohedral f-tilings of S ².     

A Multivalued Approach to the Planar Isosceles Three Body Problem

The isosceles three body problem consists of three point masses located on the vertices of an isosceles triangle on the plane. The two masses on the asymmetric edge are equal. This problem has been extensively studied but not as a perturbation of the Kepler problem. In this case we arrive at a differential inclusion as a natural formulation when we regularize the problem. We also derive an extension of the vectorfield that allows us to consider orbits across singular sets.      

On the Uniqueness of Isosceles Orthogonality in Normed Linear Spaces

Via studying the relation between isosceles orthogonality and the lengths of segments contained in the unit sphere, existing results on the uniqueness of isosceles orthogonality are improved.     

Countable decompositions ofR 2 andR 3

If the continuum hypothesis holds,R ² is the union of countably many sets, none spanning a right triangle. Some partial results are obtained concerning the following conjecture of the first author:R ² is the union of countably many sets, none spanning an isosceles triangle. Finally, it is shown thatR ³ can be colored with countably many colors with no monochromatic rational distance.     

Isosceles Planar Subsets

A finite planar set is k -isosceles for k ≥ 3 if every k -point subset of the set contains a point equidistant from two others. There are three nonsimilar 3-isosceles sets with five points and one with six points. Eleven 4-isosceles sets with eight points are noted, and it is conjectured that no 4-isosceles set has nine points. Exactly one 4-isosceles 8-set has four points on a line, and every 4-isosceles set that includes the vertices of a square has fewer than eight points. <lsiheader> <onlinepub>26 June, 1998 <editor>Editors-in-Chief: &lsilt;a href=../edboard.html#chiefs&lsigt;Jacob E. Goodman, Richard Pollack&lsilt;/a&lsigt; <pdfname>19n3p391.pdf <pdfexist>yes <htmlexist>no <htmlfexist>no <texexist>yes <sectionname> </lsiheader> Received February 1, 1997, and in revised form June 24, 1997.     

Dynamics in the Schwarzschild Isosceles Three Body Problem

The Schwarzschild potential, defined as \(U(r)=-A/r-B/r^3\) , where \(r\) is the relative distance between two mass points and \(A,B>0\) , models astrophysical and stellar dynamics systems in a classical context. In this paper we present a qualitative study of a three mass point system with mutual Schwarzschild interaction where the motion is restricted to isosceles configurations at all times. We retrieve the relative equilibria and provide the energy–momentum diagram. We further employ appropriate regularization transformations to analyze the behavior of the flow near triple collision. We emphasize the distinct features of the Schwarzschild model when compared to its Newtonian counterpart. We prove that, in contrast to the Newtonian case, on any level of energy the measure of the set on initial conditions leading to triple collision is positive. Further, whereas in the Newtonian problem triple collision is asymptotically reached only for zero angular momentum, in the Schwarzschild problem the triple collision is possible for nonzero total angular momenta (e.g., when two of the mass points spin infinitely many times around the center of mass). This phenomenon is known in celestial mechanics as the black-hole effect and is understood as an analog in the classical context of behavior near a Schwarzschild black hole. Also, while in the Newtonian problem all triple collision orbits are necessarily homothetic, in the Schwarzschild problem this is not necessarily true. In fact, in the Schwarzschild problem there exist triple collision orbits that are neither homothetic nor homographic.     

Numerical integrations over an arbitrary quadrilateral region

In this paper, double integrals over an arbitrary quadrilateral are evaluated exploiting finite element method. The physical region is transformed into a standard quadrilateral finite element using the basis functions in local space. Then the standard quadrilateral is subdivided into two triangles, and each triangle is further discretized into 4 × n² right isosceles triangles, with area , and thus composite numerical integration is employed. In addition, the affine transformation over each discretized triangle and the use of linearity property of integrals are applied. Finally, each isosceles triangle is transformed into a 2-square finite element to compute new n² extended symmetric Gauss points and corresponding weight coefficients, where n is the lower order conventional Gauss Legendre quadratures. These new Gauss points and weights are used to compute the double integral. Examples are considered over an arbitrary domain, and rational and irrational integrals which can not be evaluated analytically.     

等腰三角形管道进口段流动阻力研究

本文首先利用Л.В.Канторович变分方法求出了等腰三角形管道不可压缩流体层流完全发展段流动速度的变分解,并且给出了压力损失的理论计算值与实验值.继而,本文推求出适用于各种顶角的等腰三角形管道进口段流动的速度分布模型和附加压力损失系统以及进口段长度计算方法.并对两种顶角(2α=45.1°,60°)的等腰三角形管道进口段流动进行了具体计算和实验.本文的理论分析与其他作者的理论分析比较表明,本文的分析结果具有很高的精度和广泛的实用性,并与作者的实验结果吻合较好.     

Numerical integration with polynomial exactness over a spherical cap

This paper presents rules for numerical integration over spherical caps and discusses their properties. For a spherical cap on the unit sphere \mathbbS²\mathbb{S}^2, we discuss tensor product rules with n ²/2 + O(n) nodes in the cap, positive weights, which are exact for all spherical polynomials of degree ≤ n, and can be easily and inexpensively implemented. Numerical tests illustrate the performance of these rules. A similar derivation establishes the existence of equal weight rules with degree of polynomial exactness n and O(n ³) nodes for numerical integration over spherical caps on \mathbbS²\mathbb{S}^2. For arbitrary d ≥ 2, this strategy is extended to provide rules for numerical integration over spherical caps on \mathbbS^d\mathbb{S}^d that have O(n ^d ) nodes in the cap, positive weights, and are exact for all spherical polynomials of degree ≤ n. We also show that positive weight rules for numerical integration over spherical caps on \mathbbS^d\mathbb{S}^d that are exact for all spherical polynomials of degree ≤ n have at least O(n ^d ) nodes and possess a certain regularity property.     

On the Dissection of Rectangles into Right-Angled Isosceles Triangles

We consider the problem of dissecting a rectangle or a square into unequal right-angled isosceles triangles. This is regarded as a generalization of the well-known and much-solved problem of dissecting such figures into unequal squares. There is an analogous “electrical” theory but it is based on digraphs instead of graphs and has an appropriate modification of Kirchhoff's first law. The operation of reversing all edges in the digraph is found to be of great help in the construction of “perfect” dissected squares.     

Spherical derivatives and normal families

We show that a family of functions meromorphic in a plane domain D whose spherical derivatives are uniformly bounded away from zero is normal. Furthermore, we show that for each f meromorphic in the unit disk D, inf _z∈D f ^#(z) ≤ 1/2, where f ^# denotes the spherical derivative of f.     

Generalized spherical harmonics and exterior differentiation in weighted sobolev spaces

We generalize spherical harmonics expansions of scalar functions to expansions of alternating differential forms (‘q-forms’). To this end we develop a calculus for the use of spherical co-ordinates for q-forms and determine the eigen-q-forms of the Beltrami-operator on S^N?1 which replace the classical spherical harmonics. We characterize and classify homogeneous q-forms u which satisfy Δu = 0 on ?^N??{0} and determine Fredholm properties, kernel and range of the exterior derivative d acting in weighted L^p-spaces of q-forms (generalizing results of McOwen for the scalar Laplacian). These techniques and results are necessary prerequisites for the discussion of the low-frequency behaviour in exterior boundary value problems for systems occurring in electromagnetism and isotropic elasticity.     

Pythagorean orthogonality and additive mappings

Summary In this note we consider a real normed vector spaceX equipped with the isosceles orthogonality or the Pythagorean orthogonality, both of them defined by R. C. James. It is known that any odd, isosceles orthogonally additive mapping fromX into an Abelian group is unconditionally additive whenever dimX 3. Also, it is worth mentioning that this result was the first of this sort based on a non-homogeneous relation. In this context, we derive here the same for the other non-homogeneous orthogonality, the Pythagorean one, answering in part a pretty old and famous question. The proof uses the corresponding result for isosceles orthogonality and a detailed analysis of the geometry of normed spaces.Dedicated to Professor Jürg Rätz on the occasion of his 60th birthday     

The Coulomb energy of spherical designs on <Emphasis Type="Italic">S</Emphasis><Superscript>2</Superscript>

In this work we give upper bounds for the Coulomb energy of a sequence of well separated spherical n-designs, where a spherical n-design is a set of m points on the unit sphere S ² ⊂ ℝ³ that gives an equal weight cubature rule (or equal weight numerical integration rule) on S ² which is exact for spherical polynomials of degree ⩽ n. (A sequence Ξ of m-point spherical n-designs X on S ² is said to be well separated if there exists a constant λ > 0 such that for each m-point spherical n-design X ∈ Ξ the minimum spherical distance between points is bounded from below by .) In particular, if the sequence of well separated spherical designs is such that m and n are related by m = O(n ²), then the Coulomb energy of each m-point spherical n-design has an upper bound with the same first term and a second term of the same order as the bounds for the minimum energy of point sets on S ². Dedicated to Edward B. Saff on the occasion of his 60th birthday.     

Algebraic and differential equations for spinning particles on the sphere

We revise the mathematical formulation of the theory of a particle in a spherical surface, in particular we show that the system of relations between two sets of generators of theSU(2) group lead to a formulation of nonrelativistic spinone half theory on the sphereS ³. First we examine various possibilities to extend this approach in the case of relativistic motion, then we give formulation for the Dirac and Maxwell equations in homogeneous space-time where a geometrical point is associated with the notion of relativistic top. Finally we formulate these equations in aS ³ surface embedded inR ⁵, using spherical system of coordinates, and examine the eigenvalue problem.