universal finite size scaling amplitudes on a torus for the triangular ising lattice gas recently the author suggested studying the scaling properties of complex two dimensional phase transitions by calculating the universal amplitudes of interfacial free energies on a torus geometry employing monte carlo simulations he tests this method at the 3 3 phase transition in the ising lattice gas on a triangular lattice belonging to the chiral three state potts universality class the interfacial free energies for this lattice gas model can be written in terms of free energy differences between systems with different sizes the algorithm to calculate these free energy differences is presented using lattice sizes up to 18 18 and modest computing effort he finds that the universal amplitude a 1 220 02 in accordance with the exact analytical value for the non chiral three state potts model a 1 203291 which he determined earlier

formulas for hankel singular values and vectors for a class of input delay systems this paper gives explicit formulas for hankel singular values and vectors for a class of multiple input delay systems the class consists of systems whose gramian is reducible to an integral operator with semi separable kernel this structure is exploited in deriving a transcendental equation for singular values

radial solutions and phase separation in a system of two coupled schrodinger equations we consider the nonlinear elliptic system left begin aligned delta u u u 3 beta v 2u 0 quad rm in mathbb b delta v v v 3 beta u 2v 0 quad rm in mathbb b u v 0 quad rm in mathbb b quad u v 0 quad rm on partial mathbb b end aligned right where n leqq 3 and mathbb b subset mathbb r n is the unit ball we show that for every beta leqq 1 and k in mathbb n the above problem admits a radially symmetric solution u v such that u v changes sign precisely k times in the radial variable furthermore as beta to infty after passing to a subsequence u w and v w uniformly in mathbb b where w w w has precisely k nodal domains and is a radially symmetric solution of the scalar equation w w w3 0 in mathbb b w 0 on partial mathbb b within a hartree fock approximation the result provides a theoretical indication of phase separation into many nodal domains for bose einstein double condensates with strong repulsion

weighted sensitivity minimization general plants in h and rational weights abstract for general plants in h and rational weighting functions the problem of computing the weighted h optimal sensitivity is considered a general formula is derived for a function whose singularities determine the optimal sensitivity 6 a determinantal expression for the optimal sensitivity is then deduced and related to a conjecture of zhou and khargonekar

on the state space and frequency domain characterization of h norm of sampled data systems this paper studies the problem of characterization and computation of the h norm of sampled data systems using the time invariant function space model via lifting with the advantage of time invariance the treatment gives an eigenvalue type characterization first in the operator form in the frequency domain and then in the hamiltonian type finite dimensional form the form obtained can be adopted for use with the bisection algorithm for actual computation

all optimal hankel norm approximations of linear multivariable systems and their l error bounds the problem of approximating a multivariable transfer function g s of mcmillan degree n by s of mcmillan degree k is considered a complete characterization of all approximations that minimize the hankel norm is derived the solution involves a characterization of all rational functions s f s that minimize where s has mcmillan degree k and f s is anticavisal the solution to the latter problem is via results on balanced realizations all pass functions and the inertia of matrices all in terms of the solutions to lyapunov equations it is then shown that where k 1 g s is the k l st hankel singular value of g s and for one class of optimal hankel norm approximations the method is not computationally demanding and is applied to a 12 state model

linear control theory with an h 0e optimality criterion this expository paper sets out the principal results in bf h infty control theory in the context of continuous time linear systems the focus is on the mathematical theory rather than computational methods

weighted sensitivity minimization for delay systems in this note we discuss the h infty sensitivity minimization problem for linear time invariant delay systems while the unweighted case reduces to simple nevanlinna pick interpolation the weighted case turns out to be much more complicated and demands certain functional analytic techniques for its solution

on decoupling the h optimal sensitivity problem for products of plants abstract in this note we show how to solve the h optimal sensitivity problem for a siso plant p s p 1 s p 2 s given the solutions for p 1 s p 2 s this allows us to solve the problem for systems of the form e hs p 0 s where p 0 s is the transfer function of a stable lti finite dimensional system

least energy solitary waves for a system of nonlinear schrodinger equations in mathbb r n in this paper we consider systems of coupled schrodinger equations which appear in nonlinear optics the problem has been considered mostly in the one dimensional case here we make a rigorous study of the existence of least energy standing waves solitons in higher dimensions we give conditions on the parameters of the system under which it possesses a solution with least energy among all multi component solutions conditions under which the system does not have positive solutions and the associated energy functional cannot be minimized on the natural set where the solutions lie

asymptotic estimates for the spatial segregation of competitive systems abstract for a class of population models of competitive type we study the asymptotic behavior of the positive solutions as the competition rate tends to infinity we show that the limiting problem is a remarkable system of differential inequalities which defines the functional class s in 2 by exploiting the regularity theory recently developed in conti et al indiana univ math j to appear for the elements of functional classes of the form s we provide some qualitative and regularity property of the limiting configurations besides for the case of two competing species we obtain a full description of the limiting states and we prove some quantitative estimates for the rate of convergence finally we prove some new liouville type results which allow to have uniform regularity estimates of the solutions

on the h optimal sensitivity problem for systems with delays in this paper we extend some of the results of ieee trans automat control ac 31 1986 pp 763 766 to more general delay systems in particular we analyze the effect of the interaction of delays and nonminimum phase zeros on the h infty optimal weighted sensitivity

feedback and optimal sensitivity model reference transformations multiplicative seminorms and approximate inverses in this paper the problem of sensitivity reduction by feedback is formulated as an optimization problem and separated from the problem of stabilization stable feedback schemes obtainable from a given plant are parameterized salient properties of sensitivity reducing schemes are derived and it is shown that plant uncertainty reduces the ability of feedback to reduce sensitivity the theory is developed for input output systems in a general setting of banach algebras and then specialized to a class of multivariable time invariant systems characterized by n times n matrices of h infty frequency response functions either with or without zeros in the right half plane the approach is based on the use of a weighted seminorm on the algebra of operators to measure sensitivity and on the concept of an approximate inverse approximate invertibility of the plant is shown to be a necessary and sufficient condition for sensitivity reduction an indicator of approximate invertibility called a measure of singularity is introduced the measure of singularity of a linear time invariant plant is shown to be determined by the location of its right half plane zeros in the absence of plant uncertainty the sensitivity to output disturbances can be reduced to an optimal value approaching the singularity measure in particular if there are no right half plane zeros sensitivity can be made arbitrarily small the feedback schemes used in the optimization of sensitivity resemble the lead lag networks of classical control design some of their properties and methods of constructing them in special cases are presented

on the nehari problem for a certain class of l functions appearing in control theory ii abstract in this paper we generalize the results of c foias and a tannenbaum j functional analysis 74 1987 146 159 on the classical nehari problem to a much broader class of operators we relate our results to the computation of the discrete spectrum for a certain class of contractions which appear frequently in control engineering applications

robust stabilization of delay systems by approximation of coprime factors given a delay system with transfer function g s h2 s h1 s where h1 s 01npi s e is and h2 s 02nqi s e is with 0 0 1 n1 0 0 n2 the pi being polynomials of degree i and i 0for i 0 and the qi polynomials of degree di 0 for each i the robust stabilization of a class of perturbed coprime factors of this system is considered asymptotic estimates are obtained based on recent results on the approximation and stabilization of normalized coprime factors an explicit formula is given for the normalized coprime factor stability margin for the case of a multivariable transfer function of the form g s e str s with r rational

multiple sign changing and semi nodal solutions for coupled schrodinger equations we study the following coupled schrodinger equations which have appeared as several models from mathematical physics u1 1u1 1u13 u1u22 x u2 2u2 2u23 u12u2 x u1 u2 0on here rn n 2 3 is a smooth bounded domain 1 2 1 2 are all positive constants we show that for each k n there exists k 0 such that this system has at least k sign changing solutions i e both two components change sign and k semi nodal solutions i e one component changes sign and the other one is positive for each fixed 0 k

h optimal feedback controllers for linear multivariable systems this paper treats the problem of designing for a linear multivariable plant a feedback controller which minimizes the h infty norm of a weighted sensitivity matrix there exists a family of optimal improper feedbacks this family is determined by application of a theory of ball and helton a method for computing optimal feedbacks is described in detail and a numerical example is included it is shown that an optimal improper feedback can be approximated by a proper one under certain conditions on the weighting matrices

on h optimal sensitivity theory for siso feedback systems this paper deals with the design of feedback controllers which minimize the h infty norm of the sensitivity function suitably weighted this approach to the theory of feedback design was introduced by zames 1 and developed by zames and francis 2 in this paper the theory of sarason 3 is applied to the determination of the optimal weighted sensitivity function and an upper bound on its norm the problem of achieving small sensitivity over a specified frequency band is studied and the effect of nonminimum phase is elucidated finally a method is introduced for handling plant poles and zeros on the imaginary axis

positive least energy solutions and phase separation for coupled schrodinger equations with critical exponent in this paper we study the following coupled schrodinger system which can be seen as a critically coupled perturbed brezis nirenberg problem left begin array ll delta u lambda 1 u mu 1 u 3 beta uv 2 quad x in omega delta v lambda 2 v mu 2 v 3 beta vu 2 quad x in omega u geqq 0 v geqq 0 rm in omega quad u v 0 quad rm on partial omega end array right here omega subset mathbb r 4 is a smooth bounded domain lambda 1 omega 0 and beta neq 0 where lambda 1 omega is the first eigenvalue of with the dirichlet boundary condition note that the nonlinearity and the coupling terms are both critical in dimension 4 that is frac 2n n 2 4 when n 4 we show that this critical system has a positive least energy solution for negative positive small and positive large for the case in which lambda 1 lambda 2 we obtain the uniqueness of positive least energy solutions we also study the limit behavior of the least energy solutions in the repulsive case beta to infty and phase separation is expected these seem to be the first results for this schrodinger system in the critical case

positive ground state solutions and multiple nontrivial solutions for coupled critical elliptic systems in this study we consider the following coupled elliptic system with a sobolev critical exponent p u1 1u1 1u1p1 1 1u12 1 u12 2 1u22 2 x u2 2u2 2u2p2 1 2u22 1 u12 2u22 2 1 x u1 u2 0in u1 u2 0on where rn is a bounded smooth domain n 5 2 0 for j 1 2 and 1 is the first eigenvalue of with the dirichlet boundary condition we demonstrate the existence of a positive ground state solution for problem p when the coupling parameter 1 2 under some other conditions we show the nonexistence of positive solutions for p when n 3 we also construct multiple nontrivial solutions and sign changing solutions for the following system u1 1u1 1u13 u22u1 x u2 2u2 2u23 u12u2 x u1 u2 0on where rn is a bounded smooth domain and n 4

uniform holder bounds for nonlinear schrodinger systems with strong competition for the positive solutions of the gross pitaevskii system u u 1 u 3 u v 2 v v 2 v 3 u 2 v we prove that l boundedness implies c 0 boundedness for every 0 1 uniformly as moreover we prove that the limiting profile as is lipschitz continuous the proof relies upon the blowup technique and the monotonicity formulae by almgren and alt caffarelli and friedman this system arises in the hartree fock approximation theory for binary mixtures of bose einstein condensates in different hyperfine states extensions to systems with k 2 densities are given

on the weighted sensitivity minimization problem for delay systems we consider the h optimal sensitivity problem for delay systems in particular we consider computation of inf w q q h jr where w s is any function in rh jr and in h jr is any inner function we derive a new explicit solution in the pure delay case where e sh h 0

ground state of n coupled nonlinear schrodinger equations in mathbb r n n leq 3 we establish some general theorems for the existence and nonexistence of ground state solutions of steady state n coupled nonlinear schrodinger equations the sign of coupling constants ij s is crucial for the existence of ground state solutions when all ij s are positive and the matrix is positively definite there exists a ground state solution which is radially symmetric however if all ij s are negative or one of ij s is negative and the matrix is positively definite there is no ground state solution furthermore we find a bound state solution which is non radially symmetric when n 3

gap metric problem for mimo delay systems parametrization of all suboptimal controllers we consider the problem of robustness optimization in the gap metric for mimo systems with a scalar time delay we present an algorithm for the parametrization of all suboptimal controllers in our algorithm the aak theory plays the central role using this approach suboptimal controllers can be found by computing solutions to certain infinite rank operator equations we show that these equations can be solved numerically by modifying the two point boundary value problem approach reported earlier for the computation of optimal robustness radius we present a numerical example to illustrate the procedure

on standard h control problems for systems with infinitely many unstable poles abstract in this paper h control for a class of linear time invariant systems with infinitely many unstable poles is studied an example of such a plant is a high gain system with delayed feedback we formulate the problem via a generalized plant which consists of a rational transfer matrix and the inverse of a scalar possibly irrational inner function it is shown that the problem can be decomposed into a finite dimensional h control problem and an additional rank condition