A New Family of Cyclic Difference Sets with Singer Parameters in Characteristic Three

We construct a new family of cyclic difference sets with parameters ((3 ^d – 1)/2, (3 ^{d – 1} – 1)/2, (3 ^{d – 2} – 1)/2) for each odd d. The difference sets are constructed with certain maps that form Jacobi sums. These new difference sets are similar to Maschietti's hyperoval difference sets, of the Segre type, in characteristic two. We conclude by calculating the 3-ranks of the new difference sets.     

New Cyclic Difference Sets with Singer Parameters Constructed from d-Homogeneous Functions

In this paper, for a prime power q, new cyclic difference sets with Singer para- meters ((q ⁿ –1/q–1), (q ^n–1–1/q–1), (q ^n–2–1/q–1)) are constructed by using q-ary sequences (d-homogeneous functions) of period q ⁿ –1 and the generalization of GMW difference sets is proposed by combining the generation methods of d-form sequences and extended sequences. When q is a power of 3, new cyclic difference sets with Singer parameters ((q ⁿ –1/q–1), (q ^n–1–1/q–1), (q ^n–2–1/q–1)) are constructed from the ternary sequences of period q ⁿ –1 with ideal autocorrelation introduced by Helleseth, Kumar, and Martinsen.     

Failure of water-filled cylindrical glass-reinforced epoxy shells under internal impulsive loading

Conclusions 1. The explosive failure of water-filled, geometrically similar glass-reinforced epoxy shells, whose dimensions increase by a factor of 1.5–4.4, is not associated with an energetic scale effect. This is attributable to the imperfect similarity of the shells, since although their dimensions changed, the diameter of the glass reinforcing fibers remained the same.2. The relative mass of explosive required to fracture the shells is approximately 0.4%. With respect to this index, glass-reinforced epoxy is comparable to structural steels 20 and 17Mn1Si at R₀160 mm.3. The circumferential deformation of the shells at failure is about 4% and does not depend on the thickness of the shell wall, the dimensions of geometrically similar shells, or the initial strain rate on the interval 0.21 · 10³–1.2 · 10³ sec^–1. Thin-walled shells begin to fail from the outside surface, thick-walled shells from the inside surface.4. The modulus of elasticity of the GRE is 2.4 · 10⁵ kgf/cm² and does not depend on the strain rate on the interval 10^–3–1.5 · 10³ sec^–1. The material deforms elastically up to failure.Moscow. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 2, pp. 283–289, March–April, 1978.     

Convergence of the method of lines for the first periodic boundary-value problem for a second-order nonlinear parabolic equation

For solving the first generalized periodic boundary-value problem in the case of a second-order quasilinear parabolic equation of form with periodic condition and boundary conditions there is examined a longitudinal variant of the method of lines, reducing the solving of problem (1)–(3) to the solving of a two-point problem for a system ofN ^-1 first-order ordinary differential equations of form with the two-point conditions An error estimate is established. The convergence of the solutions of problem (4)–(5) to the generalized solution of problem (1)–(3) is established for two methods of choosing the functions. Convergence with orderh ² is guaranteed under the assumption of square-integrability of the third derivative of the solution of problem (1)–(3).Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 90, pp. 268–276, 1979.     

Quadratic Hermite–Padé Approximation to the Exponential Function: A Riemann–Hilbert Approach

We investigate the asymptotic behavior of the polynomials p, q, r of degrees n in type I Hermite–Padé approximation to the exponential function, defined by p(z)e^-z + q(z) + r(z) e^z = O(z³ⁿ⁺²) as z 0. These polynomials are characterized by a Riemann–Hilbert problem for a 3 × 3 matrix valued function. We use the Deift–Zhou steepest descent method for Riemann–Hilbert problems to obtain strong uniform asymptotics for the scaled polynomials p(3nz), q(3nz), and r(3nz) in every domain in the complex plane. An important role is played by a three-sheeted Riemann surface and certain measures and functions derived from it. Our work complements the recent results of Herbert Stahl.     

Zerfallende Quadrikenschnitte und stereographische Projektion

If the intersection of two quadrics Q ₁ ^n–1 , Q ₂ ^n–1 in projective space Pⁿ contains a quadric Q ₃ ^n–2 which is different from its singularity space, then the intersection Q ₁ ^n–1 Q ₂ ^n–1 is the union of two quadrics Q ₃ ^n–2 , Q ₄ ^n–2 . This theorem leads to a geometric characterization of those hyperquadrics of a hyperplane of Pⁿ that are images of quadrics on a given quadric Q^n–1 by a given stereographic projection of Q^n–1 onto .

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Herrn Prof. Dr.Oswald Giering zum 50. Geburtstag gewidmet     

The dynamic properties of polyethylene and an acrylonitrile — Butadiene — Styrene material in a broad range of temperature and strain-rate variation

Conclusions The mechanical properties of an acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene material and polyethylenes of densities =0.92 and 0.96 g/cm³ are studied within the temperature range of from 100 to –196°C and at strain rates of from 10^–3 to 1.3 · 10³ sec^–1. It is observed that under low-temperature and high-strain-rate conditions, the laws governing the mechanical properties of the acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene material and polyethylenes are similar. Regions of strain rates and temperatures are found for which the behavior of the test materials is in good agreement with the Ree-Eyring equation, and, consequently, conforms to a temperature-time analogy. No embrittlement of the polyethylene is observed during tests at strain rates to 1.3 · 10³ sec^–1 and temperatures down to –196°C. In approximating these values of and T, the mechanical properties of polyethylenes will cease to be dependent on initial density.Institute of Polymer Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, Riga. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 6, 1027–1033, November–December, 1978.     

On optimal simultaneous rational approximation to with being some kind of cubic algebraic function

It is shown that each rational approximant to (ω,ω²)^τ given by the Jacobi–Perron algorithm (JPA) or modified Jacobi–Perron algorithm (MJPA) is optimal, where ω is an algebraic function (a formal Laurent series over a finite field) satisfying ω³+kω-1=0 or ω³+kdω-d=0. A result similar to the main result of Ito et al. [On simultaneous approximation to (α,α²) with α³+kα-1=0, J. Number Theory 99 (2003) 255–283] is obtained.     

Effect of cycle asymmetry on the cyclic strength of polymers

Cyclic strength diagrams have been obtained for polymethyl methacrylate and kaprolon at different degrees of loading asymmetry (from a pure compression to a pure tension cycle) on the interval from –100 to +80° C at 2·10³ and 3·10⁵ cycles.M. I. Kalinin Leningrad Polytechnic Institute. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 948–951, September–October, 1968.     

Locally nilpotent groups with the min−∞−n condition

The study of locally nilpotent groups with the weak minimality condition for normal subgroups, the min^––n condition, is continued. The following results are obtained.THEOREM 1. A locally nilpotent group with the min^––n condition is countable.THEOREM 2. If G is a locally nilpotent group with the min^––n condition whose periodic part is nilpotent and the orders of the elements of the periodic part are bounded in the aggregate, then G=t(G)A, where the subgroup A is minimax.THEOREM 3. Suppose G is a locally nilpotent group with the min^––n condition and T is its periodic part. If T is nilpotent and G/T is Abelian, then G=TA, where the subgroup A is minimax.Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 340–346, March, 1990.     

Automorphisms of Strongly Regular Krein Graphs without Triangles

A strongly regular graph is called a Krein graph if, in one of the Krein conditions, an equality obtains for it. A strongly regular Krein graph Kre(r) without triangles has parameters ((r² + 3r)², r³ + 3r² + r, 0, r² + r). It is known that Kre(1) is a Klebsh graph, Kre(2) is a Higman-Sims graph, and that a graph of type Kre(3) does not exist. Let G be the automorphism group of a hypothetical graph Γ = Kre(5), g be an element of odd prime order p in G, and Ω = Fix(g). It is proved that either Ω is the empty graph and p = 5, or Ω is a one-vertex graph and p = 41, or Ω is a 2-clique and p = 17, or Ω is the complete bipartite graph K_8,8, from which the maximal matching is removed, and p = 3.Supported by RFBR grant No. 05-01-00046.__________Translated from Algebra i Logika, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 335–354, May–June, 2005.     

Bäcklund autotransformation for the equationu xt=eu−e−2u

The system of differential relations that arises in connection with the Bullough-Dodd-Zhiber-Shabat equationu _xt=e^u–e^–2u is considered. The consistency of this system is established, and it is shown that the system realizes a Bäcklund autotransformation for the equationu _xt=e^u–e^–2u. The associated three-dimensional dynamical systems, which are compatible on a two-dimensional invariant submanifold, are investigated, and a construction of their general solution, which gives the explicit form of the three-parameter soliton for the equationu _xt=e^u–e^–2u, is proposed.Bashkir State University. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 95, No. 1, pp. 146–159, April, 1993.     

An Ozsváth–Szabó Floer homology invariant of knots in a contact manifold

Using the knot Floer homology filtration, we define invariants associated to a knot in a three-manifold possessing non-vanishing Floer co(homology) classes. In the case of the Ozsváth–Szabó contact invariant we obtain an invariant of knots in a contact three-manifold. This invariant provides an upper bound for the Thurston–Bennequin plus rotation number of any Legendrian realization of the knot. We use it to demonstrate the first systematic construction of prime knots in contact manifolds other than S³ with negative maximal Thurston–Bennequin invariant. Perhaps more interesting, our invariant provides a criterion for an open book to induce a tight contact structure. A corollary is that if a manifold possesses contact structures with distinct non-vanishing Ozsváth–Szabó invariants, then any fibered knot can realize the classical Eliashberg–Bennequin bound in at most one of these contact structures.     

Infrared spectroscopic study of the prefracture state of rigid polymers

A correspondence has been established between the effects of stress and temperature on the half-width and the position of the maximum of the 972-cm^–1 absorption band for polyethylene terephthalate. It is shown that the prefracture state of polyethylene terephthalate is a softened state.A. F. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 3, pp. 520–523, May–June, 1976.     

Dimensionsdefekt stetiger Abbildungen M4→S3

In this note we shall prove the following statements: Let Mⁿ, n>3, be a compact, triangulated, n-dimensional mainfold with H²(Mⁿ)=0; let f: MⁿS³ be an essential map onto the 3-sphere, Then there exist at most two points a and b, so that f^–1(a) and f^–1(b) are finite sets. If f: M⁴S³ is essential, then there are at most two points a and b with dim f^–1(a)=0 and dim f^–1(b)=0.     

Ahlfors-régularité des quasi-minima de Mumford–Shah

Let be an open set. We consider on Ω the competitors (U,K) for the reduced Mumford–Shah functional, that is to say the Mumford–Shah functional in which the -norm of U term is removed, where K is a closed subset of Ω and U is a function on ΩK with gradient in  . The main result of this paper is the following: there exists a constant c for which, whenever (U,K) is a quasi-minimizer for the reduced Mumford–Shah functional and B(x,r) is a ball centered on K and contained in Ω with bounded radius, the -measure of is bounded above by cr^N−1 and bounded below by c⁻¹r^N−1.     

A new difference scheme with high accuracy and absolute stability for solving convection–diffusion equations

In this paper, we use a semi-discrete and a padé approximation method to propose a new difference scheme for solving convection–diffusion problems. The truncation error of the difference scheme is O(h⁴+τ⁵). It is shown through analysis that the scheme is unconditionally stable. Numerical experiments are conducted to test its high accuracy and to compare it with Crank–Nicolson method.     

Integrable Hierarchy, 3×3 Constrained Systems, and Parametric Solutions

This paper provides a new integrable hierarchy. The DP equation: m _t +um _x +3mu _x =0, m=u–u _xx , proposed recently by Degasperis and Procesi, is the first member in the negative order hierarchy while the first equation in the positive order hierarchy is: m _t =4(m ^–2/3) _x –5(m ^–2/3) _xxx +(m ^–2/3) _xxxxx . The whole hierarchy is shown Lax-integrable through solving a key matrix equation. To obtain the parametric solutions for the whole hierarchy, we separately discuss the negative order and the positive order hierarchies. For the negative order hierarchy, its 3×3 Lax pairs and corresponding adjoint representations are cast in Liouville-integrable Hamiltonian canonical systems under the Dirac–Poisson bracket defined on a symplectic submanifold of R ^6N . Based on the integrability of those finite-dimensional canonical Hamiltonian systems we give the parametric solutions of all equations in the negative order hierarchy. In particular, we obtain the parametric solution of the DP equation. Moreover, for the positive order hierarchy, we consider a different constraint and process a procedure similar to the negative case to obtain the parametric solutions of the positive order hierarchy. In a special case, we give the parametric solution of the 5th-order PDE m _t =4(m ^–2/3) _x –5(m ^–2/3) _xxx +(m ^–2/3) _xxxxx . Finally, we discuss the stationary solutions of the 5th-order PDE, which may be included in the parametric solution.     

Local Constraints on Einstein–Weyl Geometries: The 3-Dimensional Case

Following an earlier study [3], we consider the Einstein–Weyl equations on a fixed (complex) background metric as an equation for a 1-form and its first few derivatives. If the background is flat then we conclude that the only solutions are conformal rescalings of constant curvature metrics. If the background is a homogeneous 3-geometry in Bianchi class A (i.e., with unimodular isometry group), we find necessary and sufficient conditions on the 3-geometry for solutions of the Einstein–Weyl equations to exist. The solutions we find are complexifications of known ones. In particular, we find that the general left-invariant metric on S³ and the metric 'Sol' admit no local solutions of the Einstein–Weyl equations.     

The value functions of singularly perturbed time-optimal control problems in the framework of Lyapunov functions method

The Dirichlet problems for singularly perturbed Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equations are considered. Some impulse variables in the Hamiltonians have coefficients with a small parameter of singularity ε in denominators.The research appeals to the theory of minimax solutions to HJEs. Namely, for any ε>0, it is known that the unique lower semi-continuous minimax solution to the Dirichlet problem for HJBE coincides with the value function u^ε of a time-optimal control problem for a system with fast and slow motions.Effective sufficient conditions based on the fact are suggested for functions u^ε to converge, as ε tends to zero. The key condition is existence of a Lyapunov type function providing a convergence of singularly perturbed characteristics of HJBEs to the origin. Moreover, the convergence implies equivalence of the limit function u⁰ and the value function of an unperturbed time-optimal control problem in the reduced subspace of slow variables.