The role of Biot slow waves in electroseismic wave phenomena

The electromagnetic fields that are generated as a spherical seismic wave (either P or S) traverses an interface separating two porous materials are numerically modeled both with and without the generation of Biot slow waves at the interface. In the case of an incident fast-P wave, the predicted electric-field amplitudes when slow waves are neglected can easily be off by as much as an order of magnitude. In the case of an incident S wave, the error is much smaller (typically on the order of 10% or less) because not much S-wave energy gets converted into slow waves. In neglecting the slow waves, only six plane waves (reflected and transmitted fast-P, S, and EM waves) are available with which to match the eight continuity conditions that hold at each interface. This overdetermined problem is solved by placing weights on the eight continuity conditions so that those conditions that are most important for obtaining the proper response are emphasized. It is demonstrated that when slow waves are neglected, it is best to also neglect the continuity of the Darcy flow and fluid pressure across an interface. The principal conclusion of this work is that to properly model the electromagnetic (EM) fields generated at an interface by an incident seismic wave, the full Biot theory that allows for generation of slow waves must be employed.     

Conjugacy and Other Properties of One-Relator Groups

In this note, we prove that certain one-relator groups are residually finite and have solvable (power) conjugacy problem, by an examination of the co-primeness of the exponent sum of some of the generators appearing in the relator.     

A theorem,like f⊘lner’s theorem on amenability,concerning residual properties of free groups

Let PL(F _q) denote the projective line over a Galois field F _q. Consider PSL (2, Z ) as a free product of two cyclic groups <x> and <y> of orders 2 and 3. We have shown that any homomorphism from PSL(2,Z) into PGL(2,q) can be extended to a homomorphism from PGL(2Z) into PGL(2q) except in the case where the order of the image of xyis 6 but the images of xand ydo not commute in PGL(2q). It has been shown also that every element in PGL(2,q), not of order 1,2 , or 6, is the image of xyunder some non-degenerate homomorphism. We have parametrized the conjugacy classes of non-degenerate homomorphisms α with the non-trivial elements of F _q. Due to this parametrization we have developed a useful mechanism by which one can construct.

a unique coset diagram (attributed to G. Higman) for each conjugacy class, depicting the action of PGL(2Z) on PL( F _q).     

On theT(q)-conditions of small cancellation theory

In this paper we give a graphical method which can be used to determine whether or not a group presentation satisfies the small cancellation conditionT(q). We use this method to determine all 2- and 3-generator presentations satisfyingT(4).     

Properties of certain semigroups and their potential as platforms for cryptosystems

In this paper, we study some properties of semigroups with presentation 〈a,b ; a ^p =b ^r ,a ^q =b ^s 〉. We will also study their potential as platforms for the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol.     

On the Left and Right Cohomological Dimension of Monoids

In this paper we show that, given 0m, n, any monoid can be embeddedinto a monoid with left cohomological dimension m and rightcohomological dimension n. The embedding can be chosen to preservevarious monoid-theoretical properties. 1991 Mathematics SubjectClassification 20M50.