Finite element approximations of a nonlinear diffusion model with memory

The convergence of a finite element scheme approximating a nonlinear system of integro-differential equations is proven. This system arises in mathematical modeling of the process of a magnetic field penetrating into a substance. Properties of existence, uniqueness and asymptotic behavior of the solutions are briefly described. The decay of the numerical solution is compared with both the theoretical and finite difference results.     

Star-regularity and regular completions

In this paper we establish a new characterisation of star-regular categories, using a property of internal reflexive graphs, which is suggested by a recent result due to O. Ngaha Ngaha and the first author. We show that this property is, in a suitable sense, invariant under regular completion of a category in the sense of A. Carboni and E.M. Vitale. Restricting to pointed categories, where star-regularity becomes normality in the sense of the second author, this reveals an unusual behaviour of the exactness property of normality (i.e. the property that regular epimorphisms are normal epimorphisms) compared to other closely related exactness properties studied in categorical algebra.     

Categorical (binary) difference terms and protomodularity

In this paper we obtain an intrinsic syntactical characterization of protomodularity, via so-called categorical difference terms, similar to the one known in the case of varieties involving binary terms d satisfying d(x, x) = d(y, y). We also show that purely categorical modifications of the condition in the characterization give characterizations of Mal’tsev and additive categories, thus revealing a new conceptual link between these three classes of categories, and hence, also between the corresponding classes of varieties.     

Subtractive Categories

We introduce a notion of a subtractive category. It generalizes the notion of a pointed subtractive variety of universal algebras in the sense of A. Ursini. Subtractive categories are closely related to Mal’tsev and additive categories: (i) a category C with finite limits is a Mal’tsev category if and only if for every object X in C the category Pt(X)=((X,1_X)↓(C↓X)) of “points over X” is subtractive; (ii) a pointed category C with finite limits is additive if and only if C is subtractive and half-additive.Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000) 18C99, 18E05, 08B05.     

The low temperature magnetic phase diagram of EuxSr1−xTiO3

Specific heat and magnetization measurements demonstrate that the antiferromagnetic (AFM) phase transition at T _N  = 5.7 K of EuTiO₃ is rapidly suppressed with Sr doping in Eu _x Sr_1?x TiO₃. Close to x = 0.25, T _N  = 0 K and AFM order vanishes. Above this critical concentration a finite transition temperature to an AFM phase is observed. The exchange couplings are derived as a function of x and the corresponding low temperature phase diagram is presented.     

ECONOMICAL DIFFERENCE SCHEME FOR ONE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL NONLINEAR SYSTEM

The multi-dimensional system of nonlinear partial differential equations is considered. In two-dimensional case, this system describes process of vein formation in higher plants. Variable directions finite difference scheme is constructed. The stability and convergence of that scheme are studied. Numerical experiments are carried out. The appropriate graphical illustrations and tables are given.     

Neutron-mirror-neutron oscillations: how fast might they be?

We discuss the phenomenological implications of the neutron (n) oscillation into the mirror neutron (n'), a hypothetical particle exactly degenerate in mass with the neutron but sterile to normal matter. We show that the present experimental data allow a maximal n-n' oscillation in vacuum with a characteristic time tau much shorter than the neutron lifetime, in fact as small as 1 sec. This phenomenon may manifest in neutron disappearance and regeneration experiments perfectly accessible to present experimental capabilities and may also have interesting astrophysical consequences, in particular, for the propagation of ultra high energy cosmic rays.     

Double protection of the Higgs potential in a supersymmetric little Higgs model

A mechanism of double protection of the Higgs potential, by supersymmetry and by a global symmetry, is investigated in a class of supersymmetric models with the SU(3)cxSU(3)wxU(1)x gauge symmetry. The electroweak symmetry can be then broken with no fine-tuning at all.     

Split Short Five Lemma for Clots and Subtractive Categories

It is well-known that a pointed variety is classically ideal determined (or “BIT speciale”) if and only if it satisfies the split short five lemma (i.e. if and only if it is a protomodular category in the sense of D. Bourn). A much weaker property than being classically ideal determined is “subtractivity”, defined as follows: a variety with a constant 0 is said to be subtractive if its theory contains a binary term s satisfying s(x,x) = 0 and s(x,0) = x. In the case of a pointed variety (i.e. when 0 is the unique constant), this condition can be reformulated purely categorically (as many other similar term conditions), which gives rise to the notion of a subtractive category. In the present paper we show that in a certain general categorical context subtractivity is equivalent to a special restriction of the split short five lemma to the class of clots, i.e. monomorphisms that are pullbacks of reflexive relations R→Y×Y along product injections (1 _Y ,0): Y→Y×Y.     

Large time behavior of the solution to an initial-boundary value problem with mixed boundary conditions for a nonlinear integro-differential equation

Large time behavior of the solution to the nonlinear integro-differential equation associated with the penetration of a magnetic field into a substance is studied. Furthermore, the rate of convergence is given. Initial-boundary value problem with mixed boundary conditions is considered.