Covering with blocks in the non-symmetric case

Considering an infinite string of i.i.d. random letters drawn from a finite alphabet we define the cover timeW _n as the number of random letters needed until each pattern of lenghtn appears at least once as a substring. Sharp weak and a.s. limit results onW _n are known in the symmetric case, i.e., when the random letters are uniformly distributed over the alphabet. In this paper we determine the limit distribution ofW _n in the nonsymmetric case asn. Generalizations in terms of point processes are also proved.Dedicated to Endre Csáki on his 60th birthday.     

在两层不同爆速炸药滑移爆轰作用下飞板运动的数值计算研究

本文研究用低爆速炸药复盖高爆速炸药在定滑移爆轰作用下飞板运动的计算方法,并对惯性复盖与炸药复盖的结果作出相互比较。     

1‐Factor and Cycle Covers of Cubic Graphs

Let G be a bridgeless cubic graph. Consider a list of k 1‐factors of G. Let be the set of edges contained in precisely i members of the k 1‐factors. Let be the smallest over all lists of k 1‐factors of G. Any list of three 1‐factors induces a core of a cubic graph. We use results on the structure of cores to prove sufficient conditions for Berge‐covers and for the existence of three 1‐factors with empty intersection. Furthermore, if , then is an upper bound for the girth of G. We also prove some new upper bounds for the length of shortest cycle covers of bridgeless cubic graphs. Cubic graphs with have a 4‐cycle cover of length and a 5‐cycle double cover. These graphs also satisfy two conjectures of Zhang 18 . We also give a negative answer to a problem stated in 18 .     

3D X-ray Micro-CT Analysis of Rebar Corrosion in Reinforced Concrete Subjected to a Chloride-Induced Environment

The paper presents experimental investigations of the concrete covers’ protective ability to counteract rebar corrosion in reinforced concrete cubes. The concrete sample was subjected to a chloride-induced environment to get corroded and combined with an un-corroded sample. The chloride-accelerated technique can induce a high degree of corrosion within a controlled time. Moreover, detailed and thorough experimental measurements and analyses of reinforcement loss due to corrosion and its influence on concrete microstructure, were studied through 3D X-ray micro-computed tomography. The rebar outside the concrete was heavily corroded due to the chloride-accelerated test, whereas, only local surface corrosion products appeared inside the concrete. It turned out that the concrete cover showed protective ability to counteract the reinforcing-steel corrosion mechanism despite the accelerated corrosion environment. Moreover, the bond strength between the reinforcement rebar and concrete was not visibly affected since the failure force in the pull-out test and failure mechanisms, observed by 3D X-ray micro-CT, were similar for corroded and un-corroded samples. The failure occurred due to radial cracks with a maximum width equal to approximately 0.25 mm.     

Multipliers,covers, and stem extensions for Lie superalgebras

Suppose that the underlying field is of characteristic different from 2 and 3. We first prove that the so-called stem deformations of a free presentation of a finite-dimensional Lie superalgebra L exhaust all the maximal stem extensions of L; up to equivalence of extensions. Then we prove that multipliers and covers always exist for a Lie superalgebra and they are unique up to superalgebra isomorphisms. Finally, we describe the multipliers, covers, and maximal stem extensions of Heisenberg superalgebras and model filiform Lie superalgebras.     

Injective hulls are not natural

In a category with injective hulls and a cogenerator, the embeddings into injective hulls can never form a natural transformation, unless all objects are injective. In particular, assigning to a field its algebraic closure, to a poset or Boolean algebra its Mac-Neille completion, and to an R-module its injective envelope is not functorial, if one wants the respective embeddings to form a natural transformation. Received January 21, 2000; accepted in final form August 10, 2001. RID="h1" RID="h2" RID="h3" ID="h1"The hospitality of York University is gratefully acknowledged by the first author. ID="h2"Third author partially supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic under Grant no. 201/99/0310, and the hospitality of York University is also acknowledged. ID="h3"Partial financial assistance by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Councel of Canada is acknowledged by the fourth author.     

统计递归集的Hausdorff测度的上、下界

给出了由随机压缩算子生成的统计递归集的Ｈａｕｓｄｏｒｆ测度上、下界的估计．也就是说,在一些条件下,找出了Ｋ（ω）∩∞ｎ＝１∪ｉ∈Ｎｎ（ω）ｆ（ω）ｎ,ｉ（Ｅ）的α－维Ｈａｕｓｄｏｒｆ测度的上、下界,其中｛ｆｎ,ｉ,１≤ｉ,ｎ＜∞｝是一族随机压缩算子,｛Ｎｎ（ω）,ｎ≥１｝是一族可数的随机指标集．     

一种完备完全分配格上矩阵方程的求解方法

模糊理论已经在决策、模式识别、故障诊断、过程控制等许多方面得到了广泛应用，在这些应用问题求解中往往要遇到求解模糊关系方程。本文从完备完全分配格的角度给出了一种求解模糊关系方程极小解的完备解法，并用计算机实现了提出的算法，为实际问题求解计算机化打下了基础。