The unique rank property among gabriel localizations

It is not uncommon for rings to have Gabriel localizations which do not possess the unique rank (UR) property although the rings themselves do have UR. We show that if F is a Gabriel filter of right ideals on a ring R and R_F is the corresponding Gabriel localization, then free R_F?modules of ranks m and n are isomorphic if and only if some F-dense submodule of (R/T_f(R))^m is isomorphic to some F-dense submodule of (R/T_F(R))ⁿ, where T_F(R) is the F-torsion ideal of R.     

Existence and Non-Existence Results for Quasilinear Elliptic Exterior Problems with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions

Existence and non-existence results are established for quasilinear elliptic problems with nonlinear boundary conditions and lack of compactness. The proofs combine variational methods with the geometrical feature, due to the competition between the different growths of the nonlinearities.     

Alternating Sign Multibump Solutions of Nonlinear Elliptic Equations in Expanding Tubular Domains

Let Γ denote a smooth simple curve in ? ^N , N ≥ 2, possibly with boundary. Let Ω _R be the open normal tubular neighborhood of radius 1 of the expanded curve RΓ: = {Rx | x ∈ Γ??Γ}. Consider the superlinear problem ? Δu + λu = f(u) on the domains Ω _R , as R → ∞, with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. We prove the existence of multibump solutions with bumps lined up along RΓ with alternating signs. The function f is superlinear at 0 and at ∞, but it is not assumed to be odd. If the boundary of the curve is nonempty our results give examples of contractible domains in which the problem has multiple sign changing solutions.     

Some properties of the sub-fractional Brownian motion

We study several properties of the sub-fractional Brownian motion (fBm) introduced by Bojdecki et al. related to those of the fBm. This process is a self-similar Gaussian process depending on a parameter H ∈ (0, 2) with non stationary increments and is a generalization of the Brownian motion (Bm).

The strong variation of the indefinite stochastic integral with respect to sub-fBm is also discussed.     

Constructing Almost Excellent Unique Factorization Domains

Abstract

Let (T, M) be a complete local normal integral domain containing the rationals such that |T/M | ≥ c where c is the cardinality of the real numbers. Let p be a non-maximal prime ideal of T such that _{T p} is a regular local ring. We construct a local Unique Factorization Domain (UFD) A such that the M-adic completion of A is T, p is maximal in the generic formal fiber and all fibers of A are geometrically regular except for those over some height one prime ideals.

     

Error estimates for the finite element approximation of linear elastic equations in an unbounded domain

In this paper we present error estimates for the finite element approximation of linear elastic equations in an unbounded domain. The finite element approximation is formulated on a bounded computational domain using a nonlocal approximate artificial boundary condition or a local one. In fact there are a family of nonlocal approximate boundary conditions with increasing accuracy (and computational cost) and a family of local ones for a given artificial boundary. Our error estimates show how the errors of the finite element approximations depend on the mesh size, the terms used in the approximate artificial boundary condition, and the location of the artificial boundary. A numerical example for Navier equations outside a circle in the plane is presented. Numerical results demonstrate the performance of our error estimates.

     

Infinite domain potential problems by a new formulation of singular boundary method

This study proposes a new formulation of singular boundary method (SBM) and documents the first attempt to apply this new method to infinite domain potential problems. The essential issue in the SBM-based methods is to evaluate the origin intensity factor. This paper derives a new regularization technique to evaluate the origin intensity factor on the Neumann boundary condition without the need of sample solution and nodes as in the traditional SBM. We also modify the inverse interpolation technique in the traditional SBM to get rid of the perplexing sample nodes in the calculation of the origin intensity factor on the Dirichlet boundary condition. It is noted that this new SBM retains all merits of the traditional SBM being truly meshless, free of integration, mathematically simple, and easy-to-program without the requirement of a fictitious boundary as in the method of fundamental solutions (MFS). We examine the new SBM by the four benchmark infinite domain problems to verify its applicability, stability, and accuracy.     

A characterization of isometries on an open convex set,II

Let E ⁿ be an n-dimensional Euclidean space with n ≥ 2. In this paper, we generalize a classical theorem of Beckman and Quarles by proving that if a mapping, from an open convex subset Co of E ⁿ into E ⁿ , preserves a distance ρ, then the restriction of f to an open convex subset C _∞ of C ₀ is an isometry. This work was supported by 2007 Hongik University Research Fund.