Existence and multiplicity for positive solutions of a system of higher-order multi-point boundary value problems

We investigate the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions of multi-point boundary value problems for systems of nonlinear higher-order ordinary differential equations.     

Free energy and states of fractional-order hereditariness

Complex materials, often encountered in recent engineering and material sciences applications, show no complete separations between solid and fluid phases. This aspect is reflected in the continuous relaxation time spectra recorded in cyclic load tests. As a consequence the material free energy cannot be defined in a unique manner yielding a significative lack of knowledge of the maximum recoverable work that can extracted from the material. The non-uniqueness of the free energy function is removed in the paper for power-laws relaxation/creep function by using a recently proposed mechanical analogue to fractional-order hereditariness.     

Computing high precision Matrix Padé approximants

We describe a new method of computing matrix Padé approximants of series with integer data in an efficient and fraction-free way, by controlling the growth of the size of intermediate coefficients. This algorithm is applied to compute high precision Padé approximants of matrix-valued generating functions of time series. As an illustration we show that we can successfully recover from noisy equidistant sampling data a joint damped signal of four antenna, even in the presence of background signals.     

Finite-volume complex surfaces without cuspidal Einstein metrics

We derive an obstruction to the existence of cuspidal Einstein metrics on finite-volume complex surfaces. This generalizes a theorem of LeBrun for compact complex surfaces. As in the compact case, such a result relies on a scalar curvature estimate. Finally, the obstruction is made explicit on some examples.