Predicting Optimal Lengths of Random Knots

In a thermally fluctuating long linear polymeric chain in a solution, the ends, from time to time, approach each other. At such an instance, the chain can be regarded as closed and thus will form a knot or rather a virtual knot. Several earlier studies of random knotting demonstrated that simpler knots show a higher occurrence for shorter random walks than do more complex knots. However, up to now there have been no rules that could be used to predict the optimal length of a random walk, i.e. the length for which a given knot reaches its highest occurrence. Using numerical simulations, we show here that a power law accurately describes the relation between the optimal lengths of random walks leading to the formation of different knots and the previously characterized lengths of ideal knots of a corresponding type.     

Analysis of generalized continued fraction algorithms over polynomials

We study and compare natural generalizations of Euclid's algorithm for polynomials with coefficients in a finite field. This leads to gcd algorithms together with their associated continued fraction maps. The gcd algorithms act on triples of polynomials and rely on two-dimensional versions of the Brun, Jacobi–Perron and fully subtractive continued fraction maps, respectively. We first provide a unified framework for these algorithms and their associated continued fraction maps. We then analyse various costs for the gcd algorithms, including the number of iterations and two versions of the bit-complexity, corresponding to two representations of polynomials (the usual and the sparse one). We also study the associated two-dimensional continued fraction maps and prove the invariance and the ergodicity of the Haar measure. We deduce corresponding estimates for the costs of truncated trajectories under the action of these continued fraction maps, obtained thanks to their transfer operators, and we compare the two models (gcd algorithms and their associated continued fraction maps). Proving that the generating functions appear as dominant eigenvalues of the transfer operator allows indeed a fine comparison between the models.     

Existence and pathwise uniqueness to an SPDE driven by α-stable colored noise

In this paper we study a stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) with Hölder continuous coefficient driven by an $\alpha$-stable colored noise. The pathwise uniqueness is proved by using a backward doubly stochastic differential equation backward (SDE) to take care of the Laplacian. The existence of solution is shown by considering the weak limit of a sequence of SDE system which is obtained by replacing the Laplacian operator in the SPDE by its discrete version. We also study an SDE system driven by Poisson random measures.     

On a family of singular continuous measures related to the doubling map

Here, we study some measures that can be represented by infinite Riesz products of 1-periodic functions and are related to the doubling map. We show that these measures are purely singular continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure and that their distribution functions satisfy super-polynomial asymptotics near the origin, thus providing a family of extremal examples of singular measures, including the Thue–Morse measure.     

Conditions based on conditional moments for max-stable limit laws

Let X ₁, X ₂, ...X _n be independent and identically distributed random variables with common distribution function F. Necessary and sufficient conditions for F to belong to the domains of attraction of Φ _α and Ψ _α are derived in terms of conditional moments.      

Transport‐equilibrium schemes for computing nonclassical shocks. Scalar conservation laws

This paper presents a new numerical strategy for computing the nonclassical weak solutions of scalar conservation laws which fail to be genuinely nonlinear. We concentrate on the typical situation of concave–convex and convex–concave flux functions. In such situations the so‐called nonclassical shocks, violating the classical Oleinik entropy criterion and selected by a prescribed kinetic relation, naturally arise in the resolution of the Riemann problem. Enforcing the kinetic relation from a numerical point of view is known to be a crucial but challenging issue. By means of an algorithm made of two steps, namely an Equilibrium step and a Transport step, we show how to force the validity of the kinetic relation at the discrete level. The proposed strategy is based on the use of a numerical flux function and random numbers. We prove that the resulting scheme enjoys important consistency properties. Numerous numerical evidences illustrate the validity of our approach. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2008     

A NEW FAMILY OF FILTRATION S ＋ 5 IN THE STABLE HOMOTOPY GROUPS OF SPHERES

In this article, by the algebraic method, the author proves the existence of a new nontrivial family of filtration s ＋ 5 in the stable homotopy groups of spheres πrS,which is represented by 0 ≠γ^-s＋3hnhm∈Ext^s＋5,A ^t（Zp,Zp）in the Adams spectral sequence,where r=q（p^m＋p^n＋（s＋3）p^2＋（s＋2）p＋（s＋1））-5,t=p^mq＋p^nq＋（s＋3）p^2q＋（s＋2）pq＋（s＋1）q＋s,p≥7,m≥n＋2〉5,0≤s〈p-3,q=2（p-1）.     

SEMIDISCRETE INTEGRABLE NONLINEAR SYSTEMS GENERATED BY THE NEW FOURTH-ORDER SPECTRAL OPERATOR: LOCAL CONSERVATION LAWS

Starting with the semidiscrete integrable nonlinear Schrödinger system on a zigzag-runged ladder lattice we have presented the generalization and an essentially off-diagonal enlargement of its spectral operator which in the framework of zero-curvature equation allows to generate at least two new types of semidiscrete integrable nonlinear systems. The two types of evolutionary operators consistent with the extended spectral operator are proposed. In order to fix arbitrary sampling functions in each type of evolution operators we have to rely upon a restricted collection of lowest local conservation laws whose local densities are independent on the type of admissible evolution operators. For this purpose the modified procedure of seeking the infinite hierarchy of local conservation laws based upon several distinct generating functions has been developed and some lowest local conservation laws have been explicitly obtained.     

一类非线性Schrodinger方程的差分／Legendre谱元法

考察一类带幂次非线性项的Schrodinger方程的Dirichlet初边值问题，提出了一个有效的计算格式，其中时间方向上应用了一种守恒的二阶差分隐格式，空间方向上采用Legendre谱元法．对于时间半离散格式，证职了该格式具有能量守恒性质，并给出了L^2误差估计，对于全离散格式，应用不动点原理证明了数值解的存在唯一性，并给出了L^2误差估计．最后，通过数值试验验证了结果的可信性．