Harnack’s inequality for a class of non-divergent equations in the Heisenberg group

We prove an invariant Harnack’s inequality for operators in non-divergence form structured on Heisenberg vector fields when the coe?cient matrix is uniformly positive definite, continuous, and symplectic. The method consists in constructing appropriate barriers to obtain pointwise-to-measure estimates for supersolutions in small balls, and then invoking the axiomatic approach developed by Di Fazio, Gutiérrez, and Lanconelli to obtain Harnack’s inequality.     

On the Poincaré inequality for vector fields

We prove the Poincaré inequality for vector fields on the balls of the control distance by integrating along subunit paths. Our method requires that the balls are representable by means of suitable “controllable almost exponential maps”. Both authors were partially supported by the University of Bologna, funds for selected research topics.     

Dispersive deformations of the Hamiltonian structure of Euler’s equations

Euler’s equations for a two-dimensional fluid can be written in the Hamiltonian form, where the Poisson bracket is the Lie–Poisson bracket associated with the Lie algebra of divergence-free vector fields. For the two-dimensional hydrodynamics of ideal fluids, we propose a derivation of the Poisson brackets using a reduction from the bracket associated with the full algebra of vector fields. Taking the results of some recent studies of the deformations of Lie–Poisson brackets of vector fields into account, we investigate the dispersive deformations of the Poisson brackets of Euler’s equation: we show that they are trivial up to the second order.     

Metrically Regular Vector Field and Iterative Processes for Generalized Equations in Hadamard Manifolds

This paper is focused on the problem of finding a singularity of the sum of two vector fields defined on a Hadamard manifold, or more precisely, the study of a generalized equation in a Riemannian setting. We extend the concept of metric regularity to the Riemannian setting and investigate its relationship with the generalized equation in this new context. In particular, a version of Graves’s theorem is presented and we also define some concepts related to metric regularity, including the Aubin property and the strong metric regularity of set-valued vector fields. A conceptual method for finding a singularity of the sum of two vector fields is also considered. This method has as particular instances: the proximal point method, Newton’s method, and Zincenko’s method on Hadamard manifolds. Under the assumption of metric regularity at the singularity, we establish that the methods are well defined in a suitable neighborhood of the singularity. Moreover, we also show that each sequence generated by these methods converges to this singularity at a superlinear rate.     

Filtering for Non-Markovian SDEs Involving Nonlinear SPDEs and Backward Parabolic Equations

We study a filtering problem for non-Markovian SDE’s where the drift vector fields commute with diffusion vector fields. The evolution of the conditioned mean value will be decribed using a backward parabolic equation with parameters.     

A method for the resolution of the Jacobi equation Y ″ + RY = 0 on the manifold Sp (2)/ SU (2)

In this paper a method for the resolution of the differential equation of the Jacobi vector fields in the manifold V ₁ = Sp(2)/SU(2) is exposed. These results are applied to determine areas and volumes of geodesic spheres and balls.     

Hölder continuity and Harnack inequality for De Giorgi classes related to Hörmander vector fields

Summary In this paper De Giorgi classes (see [DG.], [L.])related to Hörmander vector fields (see [H.]₁)are considered. Hölder continuity and Harnack inequality (with respect to the intrinsic balls) are proved. These properties are valid, in particular, for Q-minima (see [GG.])and for solutions of certain non-linear operators related to Hörmander vector fields.     

Localizing Vector Optimization Problems with Application to Welfare Economics

In the present paper, the Polyak’s principle, concerning convexity of the images of small balls through C^{1, 1} mappings, is employed in the study of vector optimization problems. This leads to extend to such a context achievements of local programming, an approach to nonlinear optimization, due to B.T. Polyak, which consists in exploiting the benefits of the convex local behaviour of certain nonconvex problems. In doing so, solution existence and optimality conditions are established for localizations of vector optimization problems, whose data satisfy proper assumptions. Such results are subsequently applied in the analysis of welfare economics, in the case of an exchange economy model with infinite-dimensional commodity space. In such a setting, the localization of an economy yields existence of Pareto optimal allocations, which, under certain additional assumptions, lead to competitive equilibria.     

钢球质量监测最佳抽检方案的确定

本文介绍概率抽样法在钢球生产过程中的应用,通过此法确定钢球生产中各工序质量监测的最佳抽检方案,以确保产品被接受的概率最大。     

Local convexity properties of quasihyperbolic balls in punctured space

This paper deals with local convexity properties of the quasihyperbolic metric in the punctured space. We consider convexity and starlikeness of the quasihyperbolic balls.     

A Subgradient-Like Algorithm for Solving Vector Convex Inequalities

In this paper, we propose a strongly convergent variant of Robinson’s subgradient algorithm for solving a system of vector convex inequalities in Hilbert spaces. The advantage of the proposed method is that it converges strongly, when the problem has solutions, under mild assumptions. The proposed algorithm also has the following desirable property: the sequence converges to the solution of the problem, which lies closest to the starting point and remains entirely in the intersection of three balls with radius less than the initial distance to the solution set.     

On the complexity of extending the convergence ball of Wang’s method for finding a zero of a derivative

Ball convergence results are very important, since they demonstrate the complexity in choosing initial points for iterative methods. One of the most important problems in the study of iterative methods is to determine the convergence ball. This ball is small in general restricting the choice of initial points. We address this problem in the case of Wang’s method utilized to determine a zero of a derivative. Finding such a zero has many applications in computational fields, especially in function optimization. In particular, we find the convergence ball of Wang’s method using hypotheses up to the second derivative in contrast to earlier studies using hypotheses up to the fourth derivative. This way, we also extend the applicability of Wang’s method. Numerical experiments used to test the convergence criteria complete this study.     

Generalizing Mutational Equations for Uniqueness of Some Nonlocal 1st-Order Geometric Evolutions

The mutational equations of Aubin extend ordinary differential equations to metric spaces (with compact balls). In first-order geometric evolutions, however, the topological boundary need not be continuous in the sense of Painlevé–Kuratowski. So this paper suggests a generalization of Aubin’s mutational equations that extends classical notions of dynamical systems and functional analysis beyond the traditional border of vector spaces: Distribution-like solutions are introduced in a set just supplied with a countable family of (possibly non-symmetric) distance functions. Moreover their existence is proved by means of Euler approximations and a form of “weak” sequential compactness (although no continuous linear forms are available beyond topological vector spaces). This general framework is applied to a first-order geometric example, i.e. compact subsets of ℝ ^N evolving according to the nonlocal properties of both the current set and its proximal normal cones. Here neither regularity assumptions about the boundaries nor the inclusion principle are required. In particular, we specify sufficient conditions for the uniqueness of these solutions.      

On the problem of characterizing the diversity vectors of balls

Under study are the diversity vectors of balls (the ith entry of the vector is equal to the number of different balls of radius i) for ordinary connected graphs. The problem is solved of characterizing the diversity vectors of balls in graphs of small diameter.     

Fokker-Planck type equations with Sobolev diffusion coefficients and BV drift coefficients

Combining Le Bris and Lions’ arguments with Ambrosio’s commutator estimate for BV vector fields, we prove in this paper the existence and uniqueness of solutions to the Fokker-Planck type equations with Sobolev diffusion coefficients and BV drift coefficients.     

Pucci eigenvalues on geodesic balls

We study the eigenvalue problem for the Riemannian Pucci operator on geodesic balls. We establish upper and lower bounds for the principal Pucci eigenvalues depending on the curvature, extending Cheng’s eigenvalue comparison theorem for the Laplace–Beltrami operator. For manifolds with bounded sectional curvature, we prove Cheng’s bounds hold for Pucci eigenvalues on geodesic balls of radius less than the injectivity radius. For manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below, we prove Cheng’s upper bound holds for Pucci eigenvalues on certain small geodesic balls. We also prove that the principal Pucci eigenvalues of an \({O(n)}\)-invariant hypersurface immersed in \({{\mathbb{R}}^{n+1}}\) with one smooth boundary component are smaller than the eigenvalues of an \({n}\)-dimensional Euclidean ball with the same boundary.     

联系概率的由来及其在风险决策中的应用

观察一简单随机摸球实验:当盒子中只有白球时,事件A="任抽一球是白球"是必然事件;当盒子中有白球黑球时,事件A是随机事件,这一实验表明事件A的随机性是2个事物(白、黑球)相互联系的一种属性,借此实验说明概率用联系数表述的原理以及联系概率的来由,同时还介绍了引出联系概率时用到的一些新概念,举例说明联系概率在风险决策中的应用.     

Application of planar Randers geodesics with river-type perturbation in search models

We consider remodelling the planar search patterns in the presence of the river-type perturbations represented by the weak vector fields, basing on the time-optimal paths as the Finslerian solutions to Zermelo’s problem via Randers metric.     

A compactness result for Landau state in thin-film micromagnetics

We deal with a nonconvex and nonlocal variational problem coming from thin-film micromagnetics. It consists in a free-energy functional depending on two small parameters ε and η and defined over vector fields m:Ω⊂R²→S² that are tangent at the boundary ∂Ω. We are interested in the behavior of minimizers as ε,η→0. They tend to be in-plane away from a region of length scale ε (generically, an interior vortex ball or two boundary vortex balls) and of vanishing divergence, so that S¹-transition layers of length scale η (Néel walls) are enforced by the boundary condition. We first prove an upper bound for the minimal energy that corresponds to the cost of a vortex and the configuration of Néel walls associated to the viscosity solution, so-called Landau state. Our main result concerns the compactness of vector fields {mε,η}_ε,η↓0 of energies close to the Landau state in the regime where a vortex is energetically more expensive than a Néel wall. Our method uses techniques developed for the Ginzburg-Landau type problems for the concentration of energy on vortex balls, together with an approximation argument of S²-vector fields by S¹-vector fields away from the vortex balls.     

HOMOCENTRIC CONVERGENCE BALL OF THE SECANT METHOD

A local convergence theorem and five semi-local convergence theorems of the secant method are listed in this paper.For every convergence theorem,a convergence ball is respectively introduced,where the hypothesis conditions of the corresponding theorem can be satisfied.Since all of these convergence balls have the same center x~*,they can be viewed as a homocentric ball. Convergence theorems are sorted by the different sizes of various radii of this homocentric ball, and the sorted sequence represents the degree of weakness on the conditions of convergence theorems.