Replenishment-Depletion Urn in Equilibrium

An urn has balls of colors C1 and C2. It is replenished (R) by balls of both colors and then depleted by (D) the same number; this constitutes a cycle. When R = D, the system is closed and equilibrium will be reached after many cycles. The ultimate distribution is found only when the replenishment is the same for each color. Asymptotic normal and asymptotic binomial distributions arise when the parameters reach extreme values. For the multicolor urn an expression is given for the correlation between the number of balls of any two colors.     

Modelling the landing of a plane in a calculus lab

We exhibit a simple model of a plane landing that involves only basic concepts of differential calculus, so it is suitable for a first-year calculus lab. We use the computer algebra system Maxima and the interactive geometry software GeoGebra to do the computations and graphics.     

Newton Methods for Quasidifferentiable Equations and Their Convergence

The Newton method and the inexact Newton method for solving quasidifferentiable equations via the quasidifferential are investigated. The notion of Q-semismoothness for a quasidifferentiable function is proposed. The superlinear convergence of the Newton method proposed by Zhang and Xia is proved under the Q-semismooth assumption. An inexact Newton method is developed and its linear convergence is shown.Project sponsored by Shanghai Education Committee Grant 04EA01 and by Shanghai Government Grant T0502.     

LITTLEWOOD-PALEY THEOREM FOR SCHR DINGER OPERATORS

Let H be a Schrodinger operator on Rn. Under a polynomial decay condition for the kernel of its spectral operator, we show that the Besov spaces and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces associated with H are well defined. We further give a Littlewood-Paley characterization of Lp spaces in terms of dyadic functions of H. This generalizes and strengthens the previous result when the heat kernel of H satisfies certain upper Gaussian bound.     

Cohomology of Sheaves of Frechet Algebras and Spectral Theory

We propose a holomorphic functional calculus for a noncommutative operator family generating a supernilpotent Lie subalgebra. This calculus extends Taylor's holomorphic functional calculus.     

Some subclasses of multivalent functions involving a certain linear operator

The authors investigate various inclusion and other properties of several subclasses of the class Ap of normalized p-valent analytic functions in the open unit disk, which are defined here by means of a certain linear operator. Problems involving generalized neighborhoods of analytic functions in the class Ap are investigated. Finally, some applications of fractional calculus operators are considered.     

Interpolation theorems for self-adjoint operators

We prove a complex and a real interpolation theorems on Besov spaces and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces associated with a selfadjoint operator L, without assuming the gradient estimate for its spectral kernel. The result applies to the cases where L is a uniformly elliptic operator or a Schrdinger operator with electro-magnetic potential.     

Bunny hops: using multiplicities of zeroes in calculus for graphing

Students learn a lot of material in each mathematics course they take. However, they are not always able to make meaningful connections between content in successive mathematics courses. This paper reports on a technique to address a common topic in calculus I courses (intervals of increase/decrease and concave up/down) while also making use of students’ pre-existing knowledge about the behaviour of functions around zeroes based on multiplicities.