singularities of energy minimizing maps from the ball to the sphere we study maps from the unit ball b in r3 to the unit sphere s2 in r3 which minimize dirichlet s energy integral varepsilon varphi int b nabla varphi 2 dv

a novel derivation methodology for polynomial lq controller design a simple derivation method for optimization of linear quadratic lq controllers is presented in the discrete time polynomial systems framework a control law variation regarded as a potential feedforward from the innovations is used orthogonality is evaluated in the frequency domain by collectively cancelling unstable poles by zeros the suggested method summarized as a three step scheme is exemplified on a disturbance measurement feedforward and an output feedback problem it is a simple more direct alternative to the completing the squares approach

a quantization property for static ginzburg landau vortices for any critical point of the complex ginzburg landau functional in dimension 3 we prove that for large coupling constants if the energy of this critical point on a ball of a given radius r is relatively small compared to r log then the ball of half radius contains no vortex the modulus of the solution is larger than we then show how this property can be applied to describe limiting vortices as e 0 2001 john wiley sons inc

optimal differentiation based on stochastic signal models the problem of estimating the time derivative of a signal from sampled measurements is addressed the measurements may be corrupted by colored noise a key idea is to use stochastic models of the signal to be differentiated and of the measurement noise two approaches are suggested the first is based on a continuous time stochastic process as a model of the signal the second uses a discrete time arma model of the signal and a discrete time approximation of the derivative operator digital differentiators are presented in a shift operator polynomial form they minimize the mean square estimation error and are calculated from a linear polynomial equation and a polynomial spectral factorization the three obstacles to perfect differentiation namely a finite smoothing lag measurement noise and aliasing effects due to sampling are discussed

the rigidity theorems of self shrinkers via gauss maps abstract we study the rigidity results for self shrinkers in euclidean space by restriction of the image under the gauss map the geometric properties of the target manifolds carry into effect in the self shrinking hypersurface situation theorem 3 1 and theorem 3 2 not only improve the previous results but also are optimal in higher codimensional case using geometric properties of the grassmannian manifolds the target manifolds of the gauss map we give a rigidity theorem for self shrinking graphs

homotopy classes in sobolev spaces and the existence of energy minimizing maps consider the problem of finding maps f m n that are stationary for an energy functional such as fm idfl p where m and n are compact riemannian manifolds and p l such maps may be found by minimizing the functional but if we minimize among all maps from m to n then the minimum is 0 and is attained only by constant maps thus in order to find nontrivial stationary maps we would like to use the topology of m and n to define classes of maps from m to n in which we can minimize the functional for instance one could try to minimize among maps in a given homotopy class but this is not possible in general unless p dimm since a minimizing sequence of mappings in one homotopy class can converge in the appropriate weak topology to a map in another homotopy class however in this paper we show that it is possible to minimize among maps fwhose restrictions to a lower dimensional skeleton of a triangulation of m belong to a given homotopy class to state the results precisely we need to refer to certain sobolev spaces and norms we will assume without loss of generality that m and n are submanifolds of euclidean spaces r m and r respectively and we let lip m n denote the space of lipschitz maps from m to n we define li p m r to be the space of all functions fe lp m r n such that there exist functions

dirichlet and neumann boundary value problems for yang mills connections the yang mills equations have been extensively studied on compact riemannian manifolds without boundary a substantial amount of work has also been done on non compact examples with a boundary component at infinity see 5 10 11 14 15 here we define and describe a solution of dirichlet and neumann boundary value problems for yang mills connections on a compact four dimensional manifold with smooth boundary the equations in the interior are the full yang mills equations we do not restrict ourselves to self dual or anti self dual solutions in the case where the structure group in the gauge theory is abelian our results are contained in the hodge de rham theory for manifolds with boundary see 6 9 4 3 in the general case our results describe a non linear version of this theory the base manifold m of the theory is a compact orientable four dimensional manifold with smooth boundary m we assume that m is endowed with a riemannian metric we consider a principal fiber bundle p over m with structure group g a compact lie group which will have a metric invariant under the adjoint action in the usual example this comes from trace the unknown in the problem is the connection a i e a differential form in p ad g where g is the lie algebra of g there are two natural boundary value problems one of them requires fixing the tangential part of the connection a on the bundle restricted to m if m is locally described as x 0 this amounts to prescribing a1 x dx a2 x dx 2 a3 x dx 3 on m the connection is fixed in the sense that a particular choice is fixed in the gauge equivalence class of a on the boundary the yang mills equations are satisfied in the interior this corresponds to the dirichlet problem in the other boundary value problem we consider a is free at the boundary but the normal part of the curvature is set equal to zero we call this the neumann problem for the dirichlet problem we consider a sequence of l1 connections that minimizes the yang mills functional with prescribed admissible tangential boundary data we show that there exists a weak limiting connection a by finding local good gauges the limiting connection is only locally defined we show that a solves the yang mills equations and satisfies the boundary conditions up to

smoothness of harmonic maps for hypoelliptic diffusions harmonic maps are viewed as maps sending a fixed diffusion to manifold valued martingales under a convexity condition we prove that the continuity of real valued harmonic functions implies the continuity of harmonic maps then we prove with a probabilistic method that continuous harmonic maps are smooth under hormander s condition the proof relies on the study of martingales with values in the tangent bundle

the least eigenvalue of signless laplacian of graphs under perturbation abstract we investigate how the least eigenvalue of the signless laplacian of a graph changes by relocating a bipartite branch from one vertex to another vertex and minimize the least eigenvalue of the signless laplacian among the class of connected graphs with fixed order which contains a given non bipartite graph as an induced subgraph

convex functionals and the stratification of the singular set of their stationary points abstract we prove partial regularity of stationary solutions and minimizers u from a set r n to a riemannian manifold n for the functional f x u u 2 d x the integrand f is convex and satisfies some ellipticity and boundedness assumptions we also develop a new monotonicity formula and an regularity theorem for such stationary solutions with no restriction on their images we then use the idea of quantitative stratification to show that the k th strata of the singular set of such solutions are k rectifiable

polynomial optimization of stochastic discrete time control for unstable plants the matrix polynomial method of optimization of linear multivariable discrete time control for unstable plants with stationary stochastic inputs is derived in a constructive manner new sufficient conditions are obtained and kucera s second diophantine equation is found directly from the requirement that the system be stable although the second equation must be satisfied it is proved that it need not be used in the optimization when a certain coprimeness exists

liquid crystals and the monotonicity formula abstract we give numerical evidence that the monotonicity formula holds for the liquid crystal functional and study part of the associated bifurcation diagram

wiener design of adaptation algorithms with time invariant gains a design method is presented that extends least mean squared lms adaptation of time varying parameters by including general linear time invariant filters that operate on the instantaneous gradient vector the aim is to track time varying parameters of linear regression models in situations where the regressors are stationary or have slowly time varying properties the adaptation law is optimized with respect to the steady state parameter error covariance matrix for time variations modeled as vector arima processes the design method systematically uses prior information about time varying parameters to provide filtering prediction or fixed lag smoothing estimates for arbitrary lags the method is based on a transformation of the adaptation problem into a wiener filter design problem the filter works in open loop for slow parameter variations whereas a time varying closed loop has to be considered for fast variations in the latter case the filter design is performed iteratively the general form of the solution at each iteration is obtained by a bilateral diophantine polynomial matrix equation and a spectral factorization for white gradient noise the diophantine equation has a closed form solution further structural constraints result in very simple design equations under certain model assumptions the wiener designed adaptation laws reduce to lms adaptation compared with kalman estimators the channel tracking performance becomes nearly the same in mobile radio applications whereas the complexity is in general much lower

the least signless laplacian eigenvalue of non bipartite graphs with given stability number abstract in this paper we investigate the least eigenvalue of signless laplacian matrix of a connected graph and determine the graphs which have the minimum least signless laplacian eigenvalue among all nonbipartite graphs with given stability number n 1 2 or covering number 2 n 1 2 respectively

brownian motion and the formation of singularities in the heat flow for harmonic maps we develop a general framework for a stochastic interpretation of certain nonlinear pdes on manifolds the linear operation of takin expectations is replaced by the concept of martingale means namely the notion of deterministic starting points of martingales with respect to the levi civita connection ending up at a prescribed state we formulate a monotonicity condition for the riemannian quadratic variation of such martingales that allows us to turn smallness of the quadratic variation into a priori gradient bounds for solutions of the nonlinear heat equation such estimates lead to simple criteria for blow ups in the nonlinear heat flow for harmonic maps with small initial energy

a kepstrum approach to filtering smoothing and prediction with application to speech enhancement a kepstrum or complex cepstrum approach to minimum phase wiener filtering of stationary scalar processes is proposed and solved for the case of signal plus coloured noise where the noise possibly includes a white noise component a general solution is found in an innovations form the spectral factorization of the noise model and of the signal plus noise model required for the solution are determined from data using the kepstrum technique with the fast fourier transform this approach avoids dependence on any form of multidimensional state space or polynomial based model and so avoids use of recursive parameter estimation or of diophantine equations

stability and asymptotics in nematic liquid crystals under a small dirichlet data and a non constant magnetic field abstract we consider the stability of a critical point and asymptotics of the minimizers of the free energy functional with a small dirichlet boundary data under a non constant exterior magnetic field in nematic liquid crystals in the author s previous papers we studied the stability of a critical point under the more general hypotheses but we had to assume the curl free condition on the critical point for technical reason however in this paper without the curl free condition we can get the similar result in the special case where the elastic coefficients are equal

the domination number and the least q eigenvalue abstract in this paper for a nonbipartite graph with both order n and domination number we show that it contains a nonbipartite unicyclic spanning subgraph with the same domination number we also present some results about the changing of the domination number when the structure of a graph is changed by investigating the relation between the domination number and the least q eigenvalue of a graph we minimize the least q eigenvalue among all the nonbipartite graphs with both order n 4 and given domination number n 1 3

on the least eigenvalue of aα matrix of graphs abstract let g be a graph of order n with m edges and chromatic number let a g be the adjacency matrix and d g be the diagonal matrix of vertex degrees of g nikiforov defined the matrix a g as a g d g 1 a g where 0 1 then a 1 2 g 1 2 d g a g 1 2 q g where q g is the signless laplacian matrix of g let q n g and n a be the least eigenvalue of q g and a g respectively lima et al 2011 8 proposed some open problems on q n g two of which are as follows 1 to characterize the graphs for which q n g 2 m n 1 2 to characterize the graphs for which q n g 1 1 1 2 m n in this paper we present an upper bound on n a in terms of n m and 1 2 1 and characterize the extremal graphs as an application we completely solve problem 1 moreover we examine the more generalized result of problem 2 on a g when 1 we obtain some necessary conditions for n a 1 2 m 1 n and as a corollary for the equality in problem 2

a bernstein type theorem for minimal hypersurfaces via gauss maps abstract let m be an n dimensional smooth oriented complete embedded minimal hypersurface in r n 1 with euclidean volume growth we show that if the image under the gauss map of m avoids some neighborhood of a half equator then m must be an affine hyperplane

an elementary partial regularity proof for vector valued obstacle problems soit r n et m r n des ensembles ouverts bornes on suppose n 3 n 2 et on requiert que la frontiere de m est une hyper surface lisse de classe c 2 l espace de fonction h 1 2 m des fonctions de comparaison consiste en toutes les fonctions de sobolev v h 1 2 r n avec la propriete v x m pour presque tous les points x dans si u h 1 2 m minimise localement l energie alors il y a un sous ensemble ouvert 0 de tel que u c 1 0 r n pour tout 0 1 h n 2 0 0 et x 0 si et seulement si lim 1 0 r 2 n br x du 2 dz 0

the singular set of minima of integral functionals in this paper we provide upper bounds for the hausdorff dimension of the singular set of minima of general variational integrals open image in new window where f is suitably convex with respect to dv and holder continuous with respect to x v in particular we prove that the hausdorff dimension of the singular set is always strictly less than n where open image in new window

quaternionic maps between hyperkahler manifolds quaternionic maps q maps between hyperkahler manifolds are quaternionic analogue of cauchy riemann equations between kahler manifolds we provide a necessary and sufficient condition on when a quaternionic map becomes holomorphic with respect to some complex structures in the hyperkahler 2 spheres and give examples of q maps which cannot be holomorphic when the domain is real 4 dimensional we analyze the structure of the blow up set of a sequence of q maps and show that the singular set of a stationary q map is h1 rectifiable

on the regularity of harmonic functions and spherical harmonic maps defined on lattices abstract a growth lemma for certain discrete symmetric laplacians defined on a lattice z d zd rd with spacing is proved the lemma implies a de giorgi theorem that the harmonic functions for these laplacians are equi holder continuous 0 these results are then applied to establish regularity properties for the harmonic maps defined on zd and taking values in an n dimensional sphere sn uniform in questions of the convergence 0 and the dirichlet problem for these discrete harmonic maps are also addressed

on a fractional ginzburg landau equation and 1 2 harmonic maps into spheres this paper is devoted to the asymptotic analysis of a fractional version of the ginzburg landau equation in bounded domains where the laplacian is replaced by an integro differential operator related to the square root laplacian as defined in fourier space in the singular ginzburg landau limit we show that solutions with uniformly bounded energy converge weakly to sphere valued 1 2 harmonic maps i e the fractional analogues of the usual harmonic maps in addition the convergence holds in smooth functions spaces away from a n 1 rectifiable closed set of finite n 1 hausdorff measure the proof relies on the representation of the square root laplacian as a dirichlet to neumann operator in one more dimension and on the analysis of a boundary version of the ginzburg landau equation besides the analysis of the fractional ginzburg landau equation we also give a general partial regularity result for stationary 1 2 harmonic maps in arbitrary dimension

single versus double diophantine equation debate comments on a polynomial approach to wiener filtering comments made on a paper by grimble concerning the number of diophantine equations which are needed to solve the optimal filtering problem are shown not to be valid for the system description employed a comment regarding the proof of optimality is also discussed

regularity of a fourth order nonlinear pde with critical exponent in this paper we demonstrate the regularity of minimizers for a variational problem a special case of which arises in spectral theory and conformal geometry the associated euler lagrange equation is fourth order semilinear the leading term is the bilaplacian and lower order terms appear at critical powers

optimal parallel model solutions using the polynomial approach solutions to the optimal filtering and open loop control problems using a generalized parallel model scheme are presented the solutions are based on the algebra of polynomial matrices different c

polynomial solution of 2d kalman bucy filtering problem the 2d version of the kalman bucy filtering problem is formulated and then solved via 2d polynomial methods the optimal filter is restricted to be a linear causal system the design procedure is shown to consist of one 2d spectral factorization equation only in fact it works for n d signals n 2 as well

a sharp lower bound for the least eigenvalue of the signless laplacian of a non bipartite graph we prove that the minimum value of the least eigenvalue of the signless laplacian of a connected non bipartite graph with a prescribed number of vertices is attained solely in the unicyclic graph obtained from a triangle by attaching a path at one of its endvertices

wiener filter design using polynomial equations a simplified way of deriving realizable and explicit wiener filters is presented discrete time problems are discussed in a polynomial equation framework optimal filters predictors and smoothers are calculated by means of spectral factorizations and linear polynomial equations a tool for obtaining these equations for a given problem structure is described it is based on the evaluation of orthogonality in the frequency domain by means of canceling stable poles with zeros comparisons are made to previously known derivation methodologies such as completing the squares for the polynomial systems approach and the classical wiener solution the simplicity of the proposed derivation method is particularly evident in multistage filtering problems to illustrate two examples are discussed a filtering and a generalized deconvolution problem a new solvability condition for linear polynomial equation appearing in scalar problems is also presented

harmonic maps from noncompact riemannian manifolds with non negative ricci curvature outside a compact set in this paper we prove the uniqueness and existence of harmonic maps of finite energy from a complete noncompact riemannian manifold m g with sobolev constant s2 m 0 and ricci curvature ric m 0 outside some compact subset into a complete manifold of nonpositive curvature or a regular ball in particular we prove the uniqueness and existence of bounded harmonic functions on m g

phase transition for potentials of high dimensional wells for a potential function f w r k rc that attains its global minimum value at two disjoint compact connected submanifolds n in r k we discuss the asymptotics as 0 of minimizers u of the singular perturbed functional e u d r jruj 2 c 1 2 f u dx under suitable dirichlet boundary data g w r k in the expansion of e u with respect to 1 we identify the first order term by the area of the sharp interface between the two phases an area minimizing hypersurfacea and the energyc f of minimal connecting orbits between n c and n and the zerothorder term by the energy of minimizing harmonic maps into n both under the dirichlet boundary condition on and a very interesting partially constrained boundary condition on the sharp interfacea 2011 wiley periodicals inc

the uniqueness of tangent cones for yang mills connections with isolated singularities we proved a uniqueness theorem of tangent connections for a yang mills connection with an isolated singularity with a quadratic growth of the curvature at the singularity we also obtained control over the rate of the asymptotic convergence of the connection to the tangent connection if furthermore the connection is stationary or the tangent connection is integrable with a stronger result in the latter case there are parallel results for the cones at infinity of a yang mills connection on an asymptotically flat manifold we also gave an application of our methods to the yang mills flow and proved that the yang mills flow exists for all time and has asymptotic limit if the initial value is close to a smooth local minimizer of the yang mills functional

some regularity results for p harmonic mappings between riemannian manifolds abstract let m be a c 2 smooth riemannian manifold with boundary and n a complete c 2 smooth riemannian manifold we show that each stationary p harmonic mapping u m n whose image lies in a compact subset of n is locally c 1 for some 0 1 provided that n is simply connected and has non positive sectional curvature we also prove similar results for minimizing p harmonic mappings with image being contained in a regular geodesic ball moreover when m has non negative ricci curvature and n is simply connected with non positive sectional curvature we deduce a gradient estimate for c 1 smooth weakly p harmonic mappings from which follows a liouville type theorem in the same setting

diophantine equations in control a survey abstract this survey is also a tutorial whose aim is to explain the role of diophantine equations in the synthesis of feedback control systems these are linear equations in a ring and result from a fractional representation of the systems involved the cornerstone of the exposition is a simple parametrization of all stabilizing controllers for a given plant one can then choose in principle the best controllers for various applications these ideas evolved from early attempts to use polynomial equations in the design of discrete time linear systems by now they have been extended to continuous time infinite dimensional time varying and non linear systems

on the least q eigenvalue of a non bipartite hamiltonian graph abstract in this paper we study the least q eigenvalue of a non bipartite hamiltonian graph and determine all non bipartite hamiltonian graphs whose least q eigenvalue attains the minimum among all non bipartite hamiltonian graphs on n vertices

on global singularities of sobolev mappings we define various invariants for sobolev mappings defined between manifolds which are stable under perturbation with respect to the strong sobolev topology we show that these invariants classify various types of global singularities of sobolev maps these invariants are used to give a simple characterization of the strong closure of the set of smooth maps in the sobolev space

rigidity of teichmuller space we prove the holomorphic rigidity conjecture of teichmuller space which loosely speaking states that the action of the mapping class group uniquely determines the teichmuller space as a complex manifold the method of proof is through harmonic maps we prove that the singular set of a harmonic map from a smooth n dimensional riemannian domain to the weil petersson completion overline mathcal t of teichmuller space has hausdorff dimension at most n 2 and moreover u has certain decay near the singular set combining this with the earlier work of schumacher siu and jost yau we provide a proof of the holomorphic rigidity of teichmuller space in addition our results provide as a byproduct a harmonic maps proof of both the high rank and the rank one superrigidity of the mapping class group proved via other methods by farb masur and yeung

polynomial approach to wiener filtering a rigorous derivation is given of the polynomial method for finding wiener filters in both discrete time and continuous time in each case the method involves one spectral factorization and the solution of one diophantine equation the theory is applicable in multivariable situations but simple scalar examples are included here to compare the polynomial approach with the basic wiener method

regularity of harmonic maps with prescribed singularities in this paper we studied the regularity problem for harmonic maps into hyperbolic spaces with prescribed singularities along codimension two submanifolds this is motivated from one of hawking s conjectures on the uniqueness of kerr solutions among all axially symmetric asymptotically flat stationary solutions to the vacuum einstein equation in general relativity

partially constrained boundary conditions with energy minimizing mappings on considere la regularite a la frontiere pour une application minimisant l energie u m n pour deux types de conditions aux limites frontiere libre et condition limite partiellement contrainte

biaxial escape in nematics at low temperature abstract in the present work we study minimizers of the landau de gennes free energy in a bounded domain r 3 we prove that at low temperature minimizers do not vanish even for topologically non trivial boundary conditions this is in contrast with a simplified ginzburg landau model for superconductivity studied by bethuel brezis and helein merging this with an observation of canevari we obtain as a corollary the occurrence of biaxial escape the tensorial order parameter must become strongly biaxial at some point in in particular while it is known that minimizers cannot be purely uniaxial we prove the much stronger and physically relevant fact that they lie in a different homotopy class

compactness theorems for coupled yang mills fields in this paper we consider coupled yang mills fields on vector bundle e over compact riemannian manifold m under appropriate conditions on the curvature and the higgs field two compactness theorems are proved

the regularity of harmonic maps into spheres and applications to bernstein problems we show the regularity of and derive a priori estimates for weakly harmonic maps from a riemannian manifold into a euclidean sphere under the assumption that the image avoids some neighborhood of a half equator the proofs combine constructions of strictly convex functions and the regularity theory of quasilinear elliptic systems we apply these results to the spherical and euclidean bernstein problems for minimal hypersurfaces obtaining new conditions under which compact minimal hypersurfaces in spheres or complete minimal hypersurfaces in euclidean spaces are trivial

an l p regularity theory for harmonic maps motivated by the harmonic map heat flow we consider maps between riemannian manifolds such that the tension field belongs to an lp space under an appropriate smallness condition a certain degree of regularity follows for suitable solutions of the harmonic map heat flow we have a partial regularity result as a consequence

parabolic theory as a high dimensional limit of elliptic theory the aim of this article is to show how certain parabolic theorems follow from their elliptic counterparts this technique is demonstrated through new proofs of five important theorems in parabolic unique continuation and the regularity theory of parabolic equations and geometric flows specifically we give new proofs of an l 2 carleman estimate for the heat operator and the monotonicity formulas for the frequency function associated to the heat operator the two phase free boundary problem the flow of harmonic maps and the mean curvature flow the proofs rely only on the underlying elliptic theorems and limiting procedures belonging essentially to probability theory in particular each parabolic theorem is proved by taking a high dimensional limit of the related elliptic result

polynomial systems approach to optimal linear filtering and prediction the solution of the optimal linear estimation problem is considered using a polynomial matrix description for the discrete system the filter or predictor is given by the solution of two diophantine equations and is equivalent to the state equation form of the steady state kalman filter or the transfer function matrix form of the wiener filter the pole zero properties of the optimal filter are more obvious in the polynomial representation and new insights into the disturbance rejection properties of the filter are obtained the plant or signal model can be stable or unstable and allowance is made for both control and disturbance input subsystems and white and coloured measurement noise or an output disturbance subsystem the model structure was determined by the needs of several industrial filtering problems the polynomial form of filter may easily be included in a self tuning algorithm and a simple adaptive estimator is described

monotonicity formulas for extrinsic triharmonic maps and the triharmonic lane emden equation abstract we derive monotonicity formulas and e regularity results for extrinsic triharmonic maps and triharmonic lane emden equations as an application we prove partial regularity results for both types of equations in the supercritical regime

h sub 2 optimal linear robust sampled data filtering design using polynomial approach a new frequency domain approach to robust multi input multi output mimo linear filter design for sampled data systems is presented the system and noise models are assumed to be represented by polynomial forms that are not perfectly known except that they belong to a certain set the optimal design guarantees that the error variance is kept below an upper bound that is minimized for all admissible uncertainties the design problem is cast in the context of h sub 2 via the polynomial matrix representation of systems with norm bounded unstructured uncertainties the sampled data mix of continuous and discrete time systems is handled by means of a lifting technique however it does not increase the dimensionality or alter the computational cost of the solution the setup adopted allows dealing with several filtering problems a simple deconvolution example illustrates the procedure

singular points of harmonic maps from 4 dimensional domains into 3 spheres in this article we show that if a stable stationary harmonic map u from a domain in r4 into s3 has an isolated singular point then the mapping degree deg u of u at is 1 or 1 furthermore the complete characterization of stable stationary tangent maps from b4 to s3 is given