Bounds on Weights of Nearby Cycles and Wakimoto Sheaves on Affine Flag Manifolds

We study certain nearby cycles sheaves on an affine flag manifold which arise naturally in the Beilinson–Gaitsgory deformation of the affine flag manifold to the affine Grassmannian. We study the multiplicity functions we introduced in an earlier paper, which encode the data of the Jordan-Hölder series. We prove the multiplicity functions are polynomials in q, and we give a sharp bound for their degrees. Our results apply as well to the nearby cycles in the p-adic deformation of Laumon–Haines–Ngô, and also to Wakimoto sheaves.     

A polyhedron of genus 4 with minimal number of vertices and maximal symmetry

We construct a symmetric polyhedron of genus 4 in R ³ with 11 vertices. This shows that for given genus g the minimal numbers of vertices of combinatorial manifolds and of polyhedra coincide in the first previously unknown case g=4 also. We show that our polyhedron has the maximal symmetry for the given genus and minimal number of vertices.     

Optimal control of single-server queueing networks

A general single-server queueing network model is considered. It is well-known that an optimal policy is determined by the largest-index policy. There is an index for each given queue and one allocates the server to a queue with largest current index. Using discounted dynamic programming we give a new and short proof of this result and derive some characterizations and bounds of the indices. Moreover, it is shown that an approximate largest-index policy yields an approximately optimal policy. These results lead to efficient methods for computing the indices. In particular, we present a general largest-remaining-index method.     

The phase transition to the quark-gluon plasma and its effect on hydrodynamic flow

It is shown that in ideal relativistic hydrodynamics a phase transition from hadron to quark and gluon degrees of freedom in the nuclear matter equation of state leads to a minimum in the excitation function of the transverse collective flow.     

Global solutions for quasilinear parabolic problems

Results on the global existence of classical solutions for quasilinear parabolic equations in bounded domains with homogeneous Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions are presented. Besides quasilinear parabolic equations, the method is also applicable to some weakly-coupled reaction-diffusion systems and to elliptic equations with nonlinear dynamic boundary conditions. Received December 21, 2000; accepted August 30, 2001.     

Transmission Fluctuation Spectrometry in Concentrated Suspensions Part One: Effects of the Monolayer Structure

The theory of transmission fluctuation spectrometry (TFS) was recently developed for particle size analysis in dilute flowing particle suspensions, whereby the statistical transmission fluctuations are used to extract the particle size distribution and particle concentration.