MULTIPLE POSITIVE SOLUTIONS TO SOME SECOND-ORDER m-POINT BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS

Multiplicity of positive solutions to some second order m-point boundary value problems are considered. By fixed-point theorems in a cone, some new results are obtained. The associated Green’s function of these problems are also given.     

On the Stability of the Positive Radial Steady States for a Semilinear Cauchy Problem Involving Critical Exponents

This article is contributed to the Cauchy problem u/t = △u K(ㄧxㄧ)up in Rn x (0,T), u(x,0) =(ψ)(x) in Rn; with initial function(ψ)≠0. The stability of positive radial steady state, which are positive solutions of △u K(ㄧxㄧ)up =0, is obtained when p is critical for general K(ㄧxㄧ).     

测度链上p-Laplacian边值问题的三个正对称解

该文研究了p-Laplacian动力边值问题（g（u^△（t）））△＋a（t）f（t，u（t））=0，t∈[0，T]T,u（0）=u（T）=w，u△（0）=-u^△（T）正解的存在性．其中W是非负实数，g（v）=｜v｜p-2v1 P＞1．根据对称技巧和五泛函不动点定理，证明了边值问题至少有三个正的对称解，同时，给出了一个例子验证了我们的结果。     

Multiple positive solutions of periodic boundary value problems for second order impulsive differential equations

This paper is devoted to study the existence of multiple positive solutions for the second order periodic boundary value problem with impulse effects. The main results here are the generalization of Jiang [Daqing Jiang, On the existence of positive solutions to second order periodic BVPs, Acta Math. Sci. 18 (1998) 31–35] for ordinary differential equations. Existence is established via the theory of fixed point index in cones.     

Convergence of Distributed Optimal Controls on the Internal Energy in Mixed Elliptic Problems when the Heat Transfer Coefficient Goes to Infinity

We consider a steady-state heat conduction problem P _α with mixed boundary conditions for the Poisson equation depending on a positive parameter α , which represents the heat transfer coefficient on a portion Γ ₁ of the boundary of a given bounded domain in R ⁿ . We formulate distributed optimal control problems over the internal energy g for each α . We prove that the optimal control g_ op _α and its corresponding system u_ g_ op _α α and adjoint p_ g_ op _α α states for each α are strongly convergent to g _op , u_ g _op and p _ g _op , respectively, in adequate functional spaces. We also prove that these limit functions are respectively the optimal control, and the system and adjoint states corresponding to another distributed optimal control problem for the same Poisson equation with a different boundary condition on the portion Γ ₁ . We use the fixed point and elliptic variational inequality theories.     

Partition identities and the coin exchange problem

The number of partitions of n into parts divisible by a or b equals the number of partitions of n in which each part and each difference of two parts is expressible as a non-negative integer combination of a and b. This generalizes identities of MacMahon and Andrews. The analogous identities for three or more integers (in place of a,b) hold in certain cases.     

Inverse complementarity in a resource deficit model

The concept of inverse complementarity for a parametric family of optimization problems is introduced. This concept is an effective tool for solving complicated applied problems arising in socioeconomic systems. As an example, a nonlinear resource deficit model is constructed in which the equilibrium is characterized by an external market value of resources coinciding with internal objectively determined resource estimates. An extraproximal method is proposed for computing an equilibrium solution. The convergence of the method is proved. Original Russian Text. A.V. Zykina, 2008, published in Zhurnal Vychislitel’noi Matematiki i Matematicheskoi Fiziki, 2008, Vol. 48, No. 11, pp. 1968–1978.     

On the numerical solution of the linear complementarity problem

The well-known linear complementarity problem with definite matrices is considered. It is proposed to solve it using a global optimization algorithm in which one of the basic stages is a special local search. The proposed global search algorithm is tested using a variety of randomly generated problems; a detailed analysis of the computational experiment is given.     

Multipeak solutions to the Bahri-Coron problem in domains with a shrinking hole

We construct positive and sign changing multipeak solutions to the pure critical exponent problem in a bounded domain with a shrinking hole, having a peak which concentrates at some point inside the shrinking hole (i.e. outside the domain) and one or more peaks which concentrate at interior points of the domain. These are, to our knowledge, the first multipeak solutions in a domain with a single small hole.     

An algorithm for ordinal sorting based on ELECTRE with categories defined by examples

This work proposes a Progressive Assisted Sorting Algorithm (PASA) based on a multicriteria evaluation ELECTRE-type method. The purpose of the PASA is to aid a decision maker to progressively sort a set of alternatives into a set of categories, which we considered are ordered (ordinal sorting), following a consistency principle. We consider the principle that if an alternative outranks (is as good as) a second one, then it must belong to the same category or to a better category. The set of alternatives already sorted by the decision maker will implicitly define the categories, and will constrain the range of categories where other alternatives may be sorted. We show how the same idea may be used in an aggregation/disaggregation approach, considering some parameters of ELECTRE are not fixed a priori, but are constrained only by the examples provided. In this context, we establish a “convex-shape property” stating that the range of possible categories for an alternative is always an interval of categories. A discussion contrasting this approach with ELECTRE TRI is included in the conclusions.