Functional inequalities for transient birth-death processes and their applications

We give a new diagram about uniform decay, empty essential spectrum and various functional inequalities, including Poincaré inequalities, super- and weak-Poincaré inequalities, for transient birth-death processes. This diagram is completely opposite to that in ergodic situation, and substantially points out the difference between transient birth-death processes and recurrent ones. The criterion for the empty essential spectrum is achieved. Some matching sufficient and necessary conditions for weak-Poincaré inequalities and super-Poincaré inequalities are also presented.     

On commutators of vector BMO functions and multilinear singular integrals with non-smooth kernels

Let T be a bounded multilinear operator on some product of Lq(Rn) spaces. Assume that T has a non-smooth associated kernel which satisfies certain weak regularity conditions but not regular enough to fall under the scope of the standard multilinear Calderón-Zygmund theory. The main aim of this paper is to establish a sufficient condition on the kernel of T so that the commutator of a vector BMO function and T is bounded on certain product Lp(Rn) spaces. We obtain boundedness of the commutator of and T by first proving certain pointwise estimates on the Fefferman-Stein sharp maximal operator. An important example of multilinear operators which satisfy our kernel conditions is the maximal mth order Calderón commutator.     

On a Hilbert-type linear series operator and its applications

This paper deals with a Hilbert-type linear series operator and its norm. Several generalizations of the Hilbert-type inequalities whose kernels are symmetric and homogeneous of the first order are presented. Included are applications of some new extended Hilbert-type inequalities with the best possible constant factors and the equivalent forms are established. Also, the reverse forms and some particular forms are obtained as special cases of the results of this paper.     

The Tree of Hubs Location Problem

This paper presents the Tree of Hubs Location Problem. It is a network hub location problem with single assignment where a fixed number of hubs have to be located, with the particularity that it is required that the hubs are connected by means of a tree. The problem combines several aspects of location, network design and routing problems. Potential applications appear in telecommunications and transportation systems, when set-up costs for links between hubs are so high that full interconnection between hub nodes is prohibitive. We propose an integer programming formulation for the problem. Furthermore, we present some families of valid inequalities that reinforce the formulation and we give an exact separation procedure for them. Finally, we present computational results using the well-known AP and CAB data sets.     

一类具非线性边界条件的高阶方程的双参数奇摄动问题

研究了一类含双参数的非线性高阶微分方程的奇摄动问题.运用合成展开法构造了问题的形式渐近解,并运用微分不等式理论证明了原问题解的存在性及所得形式渐近解的一致有效性.     

Generalized implicit Euler method for hyperbolic functional differential equations

Nonlinear hyperbolic functional differential equations with initial boundary conditions are considered. Theorems on the convergence of difference schemes and error estimates of approximate solutions are presented. The proof of the stability of the difference functional problem is based on a comparison technique. Nonlinear estimates of the Perron type with respect to the functional variable for given functions are used. Numerical examples are given (© 2010 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Dimensional variance inequalities of Brascamp–Lieb type and a local approach to dimensional Prékopaʼs theorem

We give a new approach, inspired by Hörmander?s L²$L^2$-method, to weighted variance inequalities which extend results obtained by Bobkov and Ledoux. It provides in particular a local proof of the dimensional functional forms of the Brunn–Minkowski inequalities. We also present several applications of these variance inequalities, including reverse Hölder inequalities for convex functions, weighted Brascamp–Lieb inequalities and sharp weighted Poincaré inequalities for generalized Cauchy measures.     

Robust stability and stabilization of linear stochastic systems with Markovian switching and uncertain transition rates

This paper is concerned with the robust stabilization problem for a class of linear uncertain stochastic systems with Markovian switching. The uncertain stochastic system with Markovian switching under consideration involves parameter uncertainties both in the system matrices and in the mode transition rates matrix. New criteria for testing the robust stability of such systems are established in terms of bi-linear matrix inequalities (BLMIs), and sufficient conditions are proposed for the design of robust state-feedback controllers. A numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of our results.     

Stability analysis of the differential genetic regulatory networks model with time-varying delays and Markovian jumping parameters

In this paper, we investigate the stability and robust stability criteria for genetic regulatory networks with interval time-varying delays and Markovian jumping parameters. The genetic regulatory networks have a finite number of modes, which may jump from one mode to another according to the Markov process. By using Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional, some sufficient conditions are derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities to achieve the global asymptotic stability in the mean square of the considered genetic regulatory networks. Two numerical examples are provided to illustrate the usefulness of the obtained theoretical results.     

Stable multi-sets

In this paper we introduce a generalization of stable sets: stable multi-sets. A stable multi-set is an assignment of integers to the vertices of a graph, such that specified bounds on vertices and edges are not exceeded. In case all vertex and edge bounds equal one, stable multi-sets are equivalent to stable sets.  For the stable multi-set problem, we derive reduction rules and study the associated polytope. We state necessary and sufficient conditions for the extreme points of the linear relaxation to be integer. These conditions generalize the conditions for the stable set polytope. Moreover, the classes of odd cycle and clique inequalities for stable sets are generalized to stable multi-sets and conditions for them to be facet defining are determined.  The study of stable multi-sets is initiated by optimization problems in the field of telecommunication networks. Stable multi-sets emerge as an important substructure in the design of optical networks. Received: February 14, 2001/Revised version: September 7, 2001