A note on the illposedness for anisotropic nonlinear Schrödinger equation

In this short note, we show the illposedness of anisotropic Schroedinger equation in L^2 if the growth of nonlinearity is larger than a threshold power pc which is also the critical power for blowup, as Fibich, Ilan and Schochet have pointed out recently. The illposedness in anisotropic Sobolev space Hk,d-d^2s,s where 0 〈 s 〈 sc, sc =d/2-k/4-2/p-1, and the illposedness in Sobolev space of negative order H^s, s 〈 0 are also proved.     

Existence of T-solution for degenerated problem via Minty’s lemma

We study the existence result of solutions for the nonlinear degenerated elliptic problem of the form, -div（a（x, u,△↓u）） = F in Ω, where Ω is a bounded domain of R^N, N≥2, a ：Ω×R×R^N→R^N is a Carathéodory function satisfying the natural growth condition and the coercivity condition, but they verify only the large monotonicity. The second term F belongs to W^-1,p′（Ω, w^＊）. The existence result is proved by using the L^1-version of Minty＇s lemma.     

The FENE dumbbell model near equilibrium

We study the global existence of smooth solutions near the equilibrium to a coupled microscopic-macroscopic FENE dumbbell model which arises from the kinetic theory of diluted solutions of polymeric liquids with noninteracting polymer chains.     

The least squares problem of the matrix equation A1X1B1^T ＋ A2X2B2^T = T

The matrix least squares （LS） problem minx ｜｜AXB^T--T｜｜F is trivial and its solution can be simply formulated in terms of the generalized inverse of A and B. Its generalized problem minx1,x2 ｜｜A1X1B1^T ＋ A2X2B2^T - T｜｜F can also be regarded as the constrained LS problem minx=diag（x1,x2） ｜｜AXB^T -T｜｜F with A = [A1, A2] and B = [B1, B2]. The authors transform T to T such that min x1,x2 ｜｜A1X1B1^T＋A2X2B2^T -T｜｜F is equivalent to min x=diag（x1 ,x2） ｜｜AXB^T - T｜｜F whose solutions are included in the solution set of unconstrained problem minx ｜｜AXB^T - T｜｜F. So the general solutions of min x1,x2 ｜｜A1X1B^T ＋ A2X2B2^T -T｜｜F are reconstructed by selecting the parameter matrix in that of minx ｜｜AXB^T - T｜｜F.     

On the Numerical Solution to a Nonlinear Wave Equation Associated with the First Painlev′e Equation: an Operator-Splitting Approach

The main goal of this article is to discuss the numerical solution to a nonlinear wave equation associated with the first of the celebrated Painlevé transcendent ordinary differential equations. In order to solve numerically the above equation, whose solutions blow up in finite time, the authors advocate a numerical methodology based on the Strang’s symmetrized operator-splitting scheme. With this approach, one can decouple nonlinearity and differential operators, leading to the alternate solution at every time step of the equation as follows: (i) The first Painlevé ordinary differential equation, (ii) a linear wave equation with a constant coefficient. Assuming that the space dimension is two, the authors consider a fully discrete variant of the above scheme, where the space-time discretization of the linear wave equation sub-steps is achieved via a Galerkin/finite element space approximation combined with a second order accurate centered time discretization scheme. To handle the nonlinear sub-steps, a second order accurate centered explicit time discretization scheme with adaptively variable time step is used, in order to follow accurately the fast dynamic of the solution before it blows up. The results of numerical experiments are presented for different coefficients and boundary conditions. They show that the above methodology is robust and describes fairly accurately the evolution of a rather “violent” phenomenon.     

AN EXPLICIT MULTI-CONSERVATION FINITE-DIFFERENCE SCHEME FOR SHALLOW-WATER-WAVE EQUATION

An explicit multi-conservation finite-difference scheme for solving the spherical shallow-water-wave equation set of barotropic atmosphere has been proposed. The numerical scheme is based on a special semi-discrete form of the equations that conserves four basic physical integrals including the total energy, total mass, total potential vorticity and total enstrophy. Numerical tests show that the new scheme performs closely like but is much more time-saving than the implicit multi-conservation scheme.     

Precise asymptotics in Chung’s law of the iterated logarithm

Let X, X1, X2,... be i.i.d, random variables with mean zero and positive, finite variance σ^2, and set Sn = X1 ＋... ＋ Xn, n≥1. The author proves that, if EX^2I{｜X｜≥t} = 0（（log log t）^-1） as t→∞, then for any a〉-1 and b〉 -1,lim ε↑1/√1＋a（1/√1＋a-ε）b＋1 ∑n=1^∞（logn）^a（loglogn）^b/nP{max κ≤n｜Sκ｜≤√σ^2π^2n/8loglogn（ε＋an）}=4/π（1/2（1＋a）^3/2）^b＋1 Г（b＋1）,whenever an = o（1/log log n）. The author obtains the sufficient and necessary conditions for this kind of results to hold.     

Fourier Transforms of Bounded Bilinear Forms on C＊（S1）×C＊（S2） of Foundation ＊-semigroups S1 and S2

The author gives a characterization of the Fourier transforms of bounded bilinear forms on C＊（S1）×C＊（S2） of two foundation semigroups S1 and S2 in terms of Jordan ＊-representations, hemimogeneous random fields, and as well as weakly harmonizable random fields of S1 and S2 into Hilbert spaces.     

The blow-up rate for positive solutions of indefinite parabolic problems and related Liouville type theorems

In this paper, we derive an upper bound estimate of the blow-up rate for positive solutions of indefinite parabolic equations from Liouville type theorems. We also use moving plane method to prove the related Liouville type theorems for semilinear parabolic problems.     

Special Issue for ＂the 2nd Sino-German Workshop on Computational and Applied Mathematics＂

The 2nd Sino-German Workshop on Computational and Applied Mathematics took place in Hangzhou, China, from October 9-13, 2007. The long list of senior Chinese numerical analysts who had spent a year or more somewhere in Germany as Humboldt fellows had led to the first Sino-German Workshop in Berlin held at the Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin in 2005. The particular purpose of the second German-Chinese Workshop on Computational and Applied Mathematics was to attract more junior Chinese scientists to the actual research activities in Germany. A summer school in Beijing on adaptive finite element methods with Carsten Carstensen and Roll Rannacher piror to the Hangzhou workshop underlined this activity to foster the collaboration of the new generations in the fields of computational and applied mathematics. This special issue reflects the present topics therein in both countries and can be summarised under five headings （i）-（v）.     

为什么我们会算得慢?

从所周知,运算求解能力是高中数学新课标中所要求的基本数学思维能力之一.心理学家梅伊尔指出:一个人不会解一道题,不是因为他不能找到一种解法,而在于他习惯的运算方法妨碍了它去想出恰当的解题方法.由此可见,在破解一个数学问题时,除了要在思维上寻觅适当的方法外,