Problema di Dirichlet per l’equazione delle superfici di curvatura media assegnata con dato infinito

Riassunto In questo lavoro si studia il problema di Dirichlet per l’equazione delle superfici di curvatura media assegnata con dato infinito. Si dimostra una condizione necessaria e sufficiente affinchè esista una soluzione. Si dimostra pure un teorema di unicità.

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Summary In this paper we consider the Dirichlet’s problem for surfaces of prescribed mean curvature with infinite data. We prove a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of the solution. Finally we prove an uniqueness theorem.

     

A Lower Bound for the Height of a Rational Function at S-unit Points

Let a,b be given, multiplicatively independent positive integers and let >0. In a recent paper jointly with Y. Bugeaud we proved the upper bound exp(n) for g.c.d.(aⁿ–1, bⁿ–1); shortly afterwards we generalized this to the estimate g.c.d.(u–1,v–1)<>u,v) for multiplicatively independent S-units u,vZ. In a subsequent analysis of those results it turned out that a perhaps better formulation of them may be obtained in terms of the language of heights of algebraic numbers. In fact, the purposes of the present paper are: to generalize the upper bound for the g.c.d. to pairs of rational functions other than {u–1,v–1} and to extend the results to the realm of algebraic numbers, giving at the same time a new formulation of the bounds in terms of height functions and algebraic subgroups of G_m².     

Storage of localized structure matrices in nematic liquid crystals

We show experimentally that large matrices of localized structures can be stored as elementary pixels in a nematic liquid crystal cell. Based on optical feedback with phase modulated input beam, our system allows us to store, erase, and actualize the localized structures in the matrix.