The holomorphic solutions of the generalized Dhombres functional equation

We study holomorphic solutions f of the generalized Dhombres equation f(zf(z))=φ(f(z)), z∈C, where φ is in the class E of entire functions. We show, that there is a nowhere dense set E₀⊂E such that for every φ∈E?E₀, any solution f vanishes at 0 and hence, satisfies the conditions for local analytic solutions with fixed point 0 from our recent paper. Consequently, we are able to provide a characterization of solutions in the typical case where φ∈E?E₀. We also show that for polynomial φ any holomorphic solution on C?{0} can be extended to the whole of C. Using this, in special cases like φ(z)=zk+1, k∈N, we can provide a characterization of the analytic solutions in C.     

Eigenfunctions of Composition Operators on Bloch-type Spaces

Suppose φ is a holomorphic self map of the unit disk and C_φ is a composition operator with symbol φ that fixes the origin and 0 < |φ'(0)| < 1. This paper explores sufficient conditions that ensure all the holomorphic solutions of Schröder equation for the composition operator C_φ to belong to a Bloch-type space B_α for some α > 0. In the second part of the paper, the results obtained for composition operators are extended to the case of weighted composition operators.     

Harmonic analysis and asymptotic behavior of solutions to the abstract cauchy problem

LetC _ub ( $\mathbb{J}$ , X) denote the Banach space of all uniformly continuous bounded functions defined on $\mathbb{J}$ 2 ε {?⁺, ?} with values in a Banach spaceX. Let ? be a class fromC _ub( $\mathbb{J}$ ,X). We introduce a spectrumsp?(φ) of a functionφ εC _ub (?,X) with respect to ?. This notion of spectrum enables us to investigate all twice differentiable bounded uniformly continuous solutions on ? to the abstract Cauchy problem (*)ω′(t) =Aω(t) +φ(t),φ(0) =x,φ ε ?, whereA is the generator of aC ₀-semigroupT(t) of bounded operators. Ifφ = 0 andσ(A) ∩i? is countable, all bounded uniformly continuous mild solutions on ?⁺ to (*) are studied. We prove the bound-edness and uniform continuity of all mild solutions on ?⁺ in the cases (i)T(t) is a uniformly exponentially stableC ₀-semigroup andφ εC _ub(?,X); (ii)T(t) is a uniformly bounded analyticC ₀-semigroup,φ εC _ub (?,X) andσ(A) ∩i sp(φ) = Ø. Under the condition (i) if the restriction ofφ to ?⁺ belongs to ? = ?(?⁺,X), then the solutions belong to ?. In case (ii) if the restriction ofφ to ?⁺ belongs to ? = ?(?⁺,X), andT(t) is almost periodic, then the solutions belong to ?. The existence of mild solutions on ? to (*) is also discussed.     

Duality for a class of nondifferentiable mathematical programming problems

Two dual problems are proposed for the minimax problem: minimize max_y?Yφ(x, y), subject to g(x) ? 0. A duality theorem is established for each dual problem. It is revealed that these problems are intimately related to a class of nondifferentiable programming problems.     

Local analytic solutions of the generalized Dhombres functional equation II

We study local analytic solutions f of the generalized Dhombres functional equation f(zf(z))=φ(f(z)), where φ is holomorphic at w₀≠0, f is holomorphic in some open neighborhood of 0, depending on f, and f(0)=w₀. After deriving necessary conditions on φ for the existence of nonconstant solutions f with f(0)=w₀ we describe, assuming these conditions, the structure of the set of all formal solutions, provided that w₀ is not a root of 1. If |w₀|≠1 or if w₀ is a Siegel number we show that all formal solutions yield local analytic ones. For w₀ with 0<|w₀|<1 we give representations of these solutions involving infinite products.     

Nonlinear Geometric Optics for Short Pulses

This paper studies the propagation of pulse-like solutions of semilinear hyperbolic equations in the limit of short wavelength. The pulses are located at a wavefront Σ?{φ=0} where φ satisfies the eikonal equation and dφ lies on a regular sheet of the characteristic variety. The approximate solutions are u^ε_approx=U (t, x, φ(t, x)/ε) where U(t, x, r) is a smooth function with compact support in r. When U satisfies a familiar nonlinear transport equation from geometric optics it is proved that there is a family of exact solutions u^ε_exact such that u^ε_approx has relative error O(ε) as ε→0. While the transport equation is familiar, the construction of correctors and justification of the approximation are different from the analogous problems concerning the propagation of wave trains with slowly varying envelope.     

A Computational Study of Shifting Bottleneck Procedures for Shop Scheduling Problems

We examine the performance of Shifting Bottleneck (SB) heuristics for shop scheduling problems where the performance measure to be minimized is makespan (C _max) or maximum lateness (L _max). Extensive computational experiments are conducted on benchmark problems from the literature as well as several thousand randomly generated test problems with three different routing structures and up to 1000 operations. Several different versions of SB are examined to determine the effect on solution quality and time of different subproblem solution procedures, reoptimization procedures and bottleneck selection criteria. Results show that the performance of SB is significantly affected by job routings, and that SB with optimal subproblem solutions and full reoptimization at each iteration consistently outperforms dispatching rules, but requires high computation times for large problems. High quality subproblem solutions and reoptimization procedures are essential to obtaining good solutions. We also show that schedules developed by SB to minimize L _max perform well with respect to several other performance measures, rendering them more attractive for practical use.     

On a class of C*-algebras generated by a countable family of partial isometries

The paper investigates the properties of an operator T _φ on the Hilbert space l ²(?), which are induced by the mapping φ of the set ? into itself. It is shown if the mapping φ is such that every preimage has finite, but not equipotentionally bounded cardinality, then the operator T _φ allows a closure and can be represented as a countable sum of partial isometries. The C*-algebras U _φ , P _φ and U _φ associated with given mappings and generated by the mentioned partial isometries are considered. Some properties of these algebras and some relations between them are given.     

On Solutions of Ordinary Differential Equations Arising from a Model of Crystal Growth

The properties of the solutions of the equations φ′″ + φ′ = ?e^φ and φ′″ + φ′ = 1/(2φ) in the complex plane are discussed. Both equations have Stokes phenomena as the imaginary axis is crossed. The Stokes multiplier of the subdominant term in each case is accurately calculated by transforming the equation into an integral equation by using a Laplace integral. The existence and uniqueness of the solutions of these integral equations are also discussed.     

Uniform asymptotic stability for perturbed neutral delay differential equations

One-dimensional perturbed neutral delay differential equations of the form (x(t)−P(t,x(t−τ)))′=f(t,x_t)+g(t,x_t) are considered assuming that f satisfies −v(t)M(φ)?f(t,φ)?v(t)M(−φ), where M(φ)=max{0,max_s∈[−r,0]φ(s)}. A typical result is the following: if ‖g(t,φ)‖?w(t)‖φ‖ and , then the zero solution is uniformly asymptotically stable providing that the zero solution of the corresponding equation without perturbation (x(t)−P(t,x(t−τ)))′=f(t,x_t) is uniformly asymptotically stable. Some known results associated with this equation are extended and improved.     

Phase transitions with semi-diffuse interfaces

In this paper, we examine new “phase-field” models with semi-diffuse interfaces. These models have the property that the −1/+1 planar phase transitions take place over a finite interval. The models also support multiple interface solutions with interfaces centered at arbitrary points L₁<L₂<?<L_N. These solutions correspond to local minima of an entropy functional (see (3.3) and (3.7)) rather than saddle points and are dynamically stable. The classical models have no such exact solutions but they do support solutions with N equally spaced transition points where the order parameter transitions between values p_min(N) and p_max(N) satisfying −1<p_min(N)<0<p_max(N)<1. These solutions of the classical model are saddle points of the entropy functional associated with those models and are not dynamically stable.     

Asymptotic representations of solutions of second-order differential equations

We establish asymptotic representations as t → ω (ω ≤ + ∞) of a class of monotone solutions of the second-order differential equation y″ = f(t, y, y′), where f:[a,ω[× Δ _Y0 × Δ _Y1 is a continuous function asymptotically close on the considered class of solutions to a function of the form ±p(t)φ ₀(y)φ ₁(y′) with functions φ ₀ and φ ₁ regularly varying as y → Y ₀ and y′ → Y ₁. Here Δ _Yi , i ∈ {0, 1}, is a one-sided neighborhood of Y _i , and Y _i is either zero or ±∞.     

RELATIVE INJECTIVITY OF MODULES AND EXCELLENT EXTENSIONS

Abstract

Yesl Any equation of conservation of the form ?_x{P(?_xφ, ?_tφ) = ?_t{Q(?_xφ, ?_tφ) is shown to admit an infinite-dimensional, Abellan group of symmetries that is not a prolongation symmetry group. Explicit equations are given for the determination of the generators of the Lle algebra of this Abellan symmetry group, and for the generators of Its underlying Poisson algebra.     

Generalized slant Toeplitz operators on H2

For an integer k ≥ 2, k^th‐order slant Toeplitz operator U_φ [1] with symbol φ in L^∞(??), where ?? is the unit circle in the complex plane, is an operator whose representing matrixM = (α_ij ) is given by α_ij = 〈φ, z^ki–j〉, where 〈. , .〉 is the usual inner product in L²(??). The operator V_φ denotes the compression of U_φ to H²(??) (Hardy space). Algebraic and spectral properties of the operator V_φ are discussed. It is proved that spectral radius of V_φ equals the spectral radius of U_φ, if φ is analytic or co‐analytic, and if T_φ is invertible then the spectrum of V_φ contains a closed disc and the interior of the disc consists of eigenvalues of infinite multiplicities. (© 2005 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Theta correspondence of automorphic characters

This paper describes the lifting of automorphic characters of O(3)(A) to . It does so by matching the image of this lift with the lift of automorphic characters from O(1)(A) to . Our matching actually gives a matching of individual automorphic forms, and not just of representation spaces. Let V be a 3-dimensional quadratic vector space and U a certain 1-dimensional quadratic space. To an automorphic form IV(χ,φ) determined by the Schwartz function φ∈S(V(A)) in the lift of the character χ we match an automorphic form IU(μ,φ₀) determined by the Schwartz function φ₀∈S(U(A)) in the lift of the character μ. Our work shows that, the space U is explicitly determined by the character χ. The character μ is explicitly determined by the space V and the function φ₀ is given by an orbital integral involving φ.     

A Class of Operators on Lh 2

Let D be the open unit disc in ? and let L_h ² be the space of quadratic integrable harmonic functions defined on D. Let \(\varphi: {\bar D}\rightarrow {\rm C}\) be a function in L^∞(D) with the property that φ(b) = lim_x→b,x?Dφ(x) for all b ? ?D. Define the operator C_φ in L_h ² as follows: C_φf = Q(φ·f),f ? L_h ², where Q is the orthogonal projection from L² (D) on L_h ². The following results are proved. If φ¦_?D ≡ 0, then C_φ is a compact linear operator and if φ¦_?D vanishes nowhere, then C_φ is a Fredholm operator.     

On some geometric and topological properties of generalized Orlicz–Lorentz sequence spaces

Generalized Orlicz–Lorentz sequence spaces λ_φ generated by Musielak‐Orlicz functions φ satisfying some growth and regularity conditions (see [28] and [33]) are investigated. A regularity condition δ^λ ₂ for φ is defined in such a way that it guarantees many positive topological and geometric properties of λ_φ. The problems of the Fatou property, the order continuity and the Kadec–Klee property with respect to the uniform convergence of the space λ_φ are considered. Moreover, some embeddings between λ_φ and their two subspaces are established and strict monotonicity as well as lower and upper local uniform monotonicities are characterized. Finally, necessary and sufficient conditions for rotundity of λ_φ, their subspaces of order continuous elements and finite dimensional subspaces are presented. This paper generalizes the results from [19], [4] and [17]. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

The Stokes phenomenon for the q-difference equation satisfied by the Ramanujan entire function

We show connection formulae between the origin and infinity for local solutions of the q-difference equation satisfied by the Ramanujan entire function. These solutions are given by the Ramanujan entire function, the q-Airy function, and the divergent basic hypergeometric series ₂ φ ₀(0,0;?;q,x). We use two different q-Borel–Laplace resummation methods to obtain our connection formulae.     

Estimates of the smoothness of dyadic orthogonal wavelets of Daubechies type

Suppose that ω(φ, ·) is the dyadic modulus of continuity of a compactly supported function φ in L ²(?⁺) satisfying a scaling equation with 2 ⁿ coefficients. Denote by α _φ the supremum for values of α > 0 such that the inequality ω(φ, 2^?j ) ≤ C2 ^?αj holds for all j ∈ ?. For the cases n = 3 and n = 4, we study the scaling functions φ generating multiresolution analyses in L ²(?₊) and the exact values of α _φ are calculated for these functions. It is noted that the smoothness of the dyadic orthogonal wavelet in L ²(?₊) corresponding to the scaling function φ coincides with α _φ .     

A method of feasible directions using function approximations,with applications to min max problems

This paper presents a demonstrably convergent method of feasible directions for solving the problem min{φ(ξ)| gⁱ(ξ)?0i=1,2,…,m}, which approximates, adaptively, both φ(x) and ▽φ(x). These approximations are necessitated by the fact that in certain problems, such as when $\text{φ(x) =}\text{max}\text{{f(x, y) ¦ y ? Ω}{}_{\mathrm{y}}\text{}}$, a precise evaluation of φ(x) and ▽φ(x) is extremely costly. The adaptive procedure progressively refines the precision of the approximations as an optimum is approached and as a result should be much more efficient than fixed precision algorithms.It is outlined how this new algorithm can be used for solving problems of the form $\text{min}{}_{\mathrm{y}}\text{? Ω}{}_{\mathrm{x}}\text{max}{}_{\mathrm{y}}\text{? Ω}{}_{\mathrm{y}}\text{f(x, y)}$ under the assumption that Ωm_ξ={x|gⁱ(x)?0, j=1,…,s} ∩$\text{R}$ⁿ, Ω_y={y|ζ_i(y)?0, i-1,…,t} ∩ $\text{R}$^m, with f, g^j, ζⁱ continuously differentiable, f(x, ·) concave, ζⁱ convex for $\text{i = 1,…, t,}\text{and}\text{Ω}{}_{\mathrm{x}}\text{, Ω}{}_{\mathrm{y}}$ compact.