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In this paper, it is explicitly determined the r-dynamic chromatic number of the direct product of any given path with either a complete graph or a wheel graph. Illustrative examples are shown for each one of the cases that are studied throughout the paper. Junta de Andalucía FQM-016

In this paper, variational discretization directed against the optimal control problem governed by nonlinear parabolic equations with control constraints is studied. It is known that the a priori error estimates is $|||u-u_h|||_{L^\infty(J; L^2(\Omega))} = O(h+k)$ using backward Euler method for standard finite element. In this paper, the better result $|||u-u_h|||_{L^\infty(J; L^2(\Omega))} = O(h^2+k)$ is gained. Beyond that, we get a posteriori error estimates of residual type.

This paper establishes a model of continuous-state branching processes with time inhomogeneous competition in Levy random environments. Some results on extinction are presented, including the distribution of the extinction time, the limiting distribution conditioned on large extinction times and the asymptotic behavior near extinction. This paper also provides a new time-space transformation which can be used for further exploration in similar models. The results are applied to an epidemic model to describe the dynamics of infectious population and a virus model to describe the dynamics of viral load.

In this paper, we introduce the notion of a modular p-metric space (an extended modular b-metric space) and establish some fixed point results for alpha-nu-Meir-Keeler contractions in this new space. Using these results, we deduce some new fixed point theorems in extended modular metric spaces endowed with a graph and in partially ordered extended modular metric spaces. Also, we develop an important relation between fuzzy-Meir-Keeler and extended fuzzy p-metric with modular p-metric and get certain new fixed point results in triangular fuzzy p-metric spaces. We provide an example and an application to support our results which generalize several well known results in the literature., Basque GovernmentBasque Government [IT1207-19]; Ege University Scientific Research Projects Coordination UnitEge University [FGA-2020-22080], The authors would like to thank the editor and the anonymous referees for their careful reading of our manuscript and their many insightful comments and suggestions. The authors thank the Basque Government for its support of this work through Grant IT1207-19. This study is supported by Ege University Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit. Project Number FGA-2020-22080.

In this paper, we introduce a class of meromorphic starlike function by subordination relationship and generalized $\lambda$-Hadamard product. We obtain the necessary and sufficient conditions and closure properties of the class. In addition, some new results of the class are given.

The iterative functional equation $ \alpha\rightarrow(\alpha\rightarrow \beta) = \alpha\rightarrow \beta $ and the law of importation $ (\alpha\wedge \beta)\rightarrow \gamma = \alpha\rightarrow (\beta\rightarrow \gamma) $ are two tautologies in classical logic. In fuzzy logics, they are two important properties, and are respectively formulated as $ I(\alpha, \beta) = I(\alpha, I(\alpha, \beta)) $ and $ I(T(\alpha, \beta), \gamma) = I(\alpha, I(\beta, \gamma)) $ where $ I $ is a fuzzy implication and $ T $ is a $ t $-norm. Over the past several years, solutions to these two functional equations involving different classes of fuzzy implications have been studied. However, there are no results about stability study of fuzzy functional equations involving fuzzy implication. This paper discusses fuzzy implications that do not strictly satisfying these equations, but approximately satisfy these equations. Then we establish the Hyers-Ulam stability of the iterative functional equation involving the $ (S, N) $-implication, where the $ (S, N) $-implication is a common class of fuzzy implications generated by a continuous $ t $-conorm $ S $ and a continuous fuzzy negation $ N $. Furthermore, given a fixed $ t $-norm (the minimum $ t $-norm or the product $ t $-norm) the Hyers-Ulam stability of the law of importation involving the $ (S, N) $-implication is studied.

The fixed point results for Chatterjea type contraction in the setting of Complete metric space exists in literature. Taking this approach forward Karapinar gave the concept of cyclic Chatterjea contraction mappings. Fan also worked on these cyclic mappings in a new setting of quasi-partial b-metric space. Motivated by the work of these researchers, we have introduced the notion of $qp_{b}$-cyclic Chatterjea contractive mappings and established fixed point results on them. The aim of this paper is to use an interpolative approach in the framework of quasi-partial b-metric space and to prove existence and uniqueness of fixed point theorem for $qp_{b}$-interpolative Chatterjea contraction mappings. The results are affirmed with applications based on them.

In this paper, the study of fractional order partial differential equations is made by using the reliable algorithm of the new iterative method (NIM). The fractional derivatives are considered in the Caputo sense whose order belongs to the closed interval [0, 1]. The proposed method is directly extended to study the fractional-order Roseau-Hyman and fractional order inhomogeneous partial differential equations without any transformation to convert the given problem into integer order. The obtained results are compared with those obtained by Variational Iteration Method (VIM), Homotopy Perturbation Method (HPM), Laplace Variational Iteration Method (LVIM) and the Laplace Adominan Decomposition Method (LADM). The results obtained by NIM, show higher accuracy than HPM, LVIM and LADM. The accuracy of the proposed method improves by taking more iterations.

The goal of this paper is further to study a kind of generalized vector inverse quasi-variational inequality problems and to obtain error bounds in terms of the residual gap function, the regularized gap function, and the global gap function by utilizing the relaxed monotonicity and Hausdorff Lipschitz continuity. These error bounds provide effective estimated distances between an arbitrary feasible point and the solution set of generalized vector inverse quasi-variational inequality problems.

As the solutions of partial differential equations (PDEs), PDE surfaces provide an effective way for physical-based surface design in surface modeling. The bicubic B-spline surface is a useful tool for surface modeling in computer aided geometric design (CAGD). In this paper, we present a method for generating bicubic B-spline surfaces with the uniform knots and the quasi-uniform knots from the sixth order PDEs. From the given boundary condition, based on the cubic B-spline basis representation and the PDE mask, the resulting bicubic B-spline surface can be generated uniquely. The boundary condition is more flexible and can be applied for curvature-continuous surface design, surface blending and hole filling. Some representative examples show the effectiveness of the presented method.

In this paper, we develop a rumor spreading model by introducing white noise into the model. We establish sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of an ergodic stationary distribution of the positive solutions to the stochastic model by constructing a suitable stochastic Lyapunov function, which provides us a good description of persistence. Finally, we provide some numerical simulations to illustrate the analytical results.

In a graph G, the distance between two vertices is the length of the shortest path between them. The maximum distance between a vertex to any other vertex is considered as the eccentricity of the vertex. In this paper, we introduce the first general Zagreb eccentricity index and found upper and lower bounds on this index in terms of order, size and diameter. Moreover, we characterize the extremal graphs in the class of trees, trees with pendant vertices and bipartite graphs. Results on some famous topological indices can be presented as the corollaries of our main results.

In this paper, we carry out stochastic comparisons on extreme order statistics (i.e. smallest and largest order statistics) from dependent and heterogeneous samples following modified proportional hazard rates (MPHR) and modified proportional reversed hazard rates (MPRHR) models. We build the usual stochastic order for sample minimums and maximums, and the hazard rate order on minimums of sample and the reversed hazard rate order on maximums of sample are also derived, respectively. Finally, some examples are given to illustrate the theoretical results.

Based on the classical Lie group method, a generalized two-component Hunter-Saxton system is studied in this paper. All of the its geometric vector fields, infinitesimal generators and the commutation relations of Lie algebra are derived. Furthermore, the similarity variables and symmetry reductions of this new generalized two-component Hunter-Saxton system are derived. Under these Lie symmetry reductions, some exact solutions are obtained by using the symbolic computation. Moreover, a conservation law of this system is presented by using the multiplier approach.

In this paper, we further investigate the single proper nonnegative splittings and double proper nonnegative splittings of rectangular matrices. Two convergence theorems for the single proper nonnegative splitting of a semimonotone matrix are derived, and more comparison results for the spectral radii of matrices arising from the single proper nonnegative splittings and double proper nonnegative splittings of different rectangular matrices are presented. The obtained results generalize the previous ones, and it can be regarded as the useful supplement of the results in [Comput. Math. Appl., 67: 136–144, 2014] and [Results. Math., 71: 93–109, 2017].

Pythagorean fuzzy environment is the modern tool for handling uncertainty in many decisions making problems. In this paper, we represent the notion of Pythagorean fuzzy subgroup (PFSG) as a generalization of intuitionistic fuzzy subgroup. We investigate various properties of our proposed fuzzy subgroup. Also, we introduce Pythagorean fuzzy coset and Pythagorean fuzzy normal subgroup (PFNSG) with their properties. Further, we define the notion of Pythagorean fuzzy level subgroup and establish related properties of it. Finally, we discuss the effect of group homomorphism on Pythagorean fuzzy subgroup.

In this paper we investigate the finite element approximation of time fractional optimal control problem with integral state constraint. A space-time finite element scheme for the control problem is developed with piecewise constant time discretization and piecewise linear spatial discretization for the state equation. A priori error estimate for the space-time discrete scheme is derived. Projected gradient algorithm is used to solve the discrete optimal control problem. Numerical experiments are carried out to illustrate the theoretical findings.

To avoid singular generalized Jacobian matrix and further accelerate the convergence of the generalized Newton (GN) iteration method for solving generalized absolute value equations Ax - B|x| = b, in this paper we propose a new relaxed generalized Newton (RGN) iteration method by introducing a relaxation iteration parameter. The new RGN iteration method involves the well-known GN iteration method and the Picard iteration method as special cases. Theoretical analyses show that the RGN iteration method is well defined and globally linearly convergent under suitable conditions. In addition, a specific sufficient condition is studied when the coefficient matrix A is symmetric positive definite. Finally, two numerical experiments arising from the linear complementarity problems are used to illustrate the effectiveness of the new RGN iteration method.

Topological graph indices have been of great interest in the research of several properties of chemical substances as it is possible to obtain these properties only by using mathematical calculations. The irregularity indices are the ones to determine the degree of irregularity of a graph. Albertson and Bell indices are two of them. Edge and vertex deletion and addition are important and useful methods in calculating several properties of a given graph. In this paper, the effects of adding a new edge or a new vertex to a graph on the Albertson and Bell indices are determined.

In this paper, we introduce new concepts, admissible multivalued hybrid $\mathcal{Z}$-contractions and multivalued hybrid $\mathcal{Z}$-contractions in the framework of $b$-metric spaces and establish sufficient conditions for existence of fixed points for such contractions. A few consequences of our main theorem involving linear and nonlinear contractions are pointed out and discussed by using variants of simulation functions. In the case where our notions are reduced to their single-valued counterparts, the results presented herein complement, unify and generalize a number of significant fixed point theorems due to Branciari, Czerwik, Jachymski, Karapinar and Argawal, Khojasteh, Rhoades, among others. Nontrivial illustrative examples are provided to support the assertions of the obtained results. From application point of view, some fixed point theorems of $b$-metric spaces endowed with partial ordering and graph are deduced and solvability conditions of nonlinear matrix equations are investigated.

This paper delves into the study of critical sets of Latin squares having a given isotopism in their autotopism group. Particularly, we prove that the sizes of these critical sets only depend on both the main class of the Latin square and the cycle structure of the isotopism under consideration. Keeping then in mind that the autotopism group of a Latin square acts faithfully on the set of entries of the latter, we enumerate all the critical sets based on autotopisms of Latin squares of order up to five. Junta de Andalucía FQM-016

In this paper, we introduce certain subclasses of meromorphic harmonic univalent functions, which are defined by using generalized (p, q)-post quantum calculus operators as well as subordination relationship. Sufficient coefficient conditions, extreme points, distortion bounds and convolution properties for functions belonging to the subclasses are obtained.

This paper investigates an averaging principle for stochastic evolution equations with jumps and random time delays modulated by two-time-scale Markov switching processes in which both fast and slow components co-exist. We prove that there exists a limit process (averaged equation) being substantially simpler than that of the original one.

This paper gropes the stability and Hopf bifurcation of a delayed synthetic drug transmission model with two stages of addiction and Holling Type-II functional response. The critical point at which a Hopf bifurcation occurs can be figured out by using the escalating time delay of psychologically addicts as a bifurcation parameter. Directly afterwards, properties of the Hopf bifurcation are explored with aid of the central manifold theorem and normal form theory. Specially, global stability of the model is proved by constructing a suitable Lyapunov function. To underline effectiveness of the obtained results and analyze influence of some influential parameters on dynamics of the model, some numerical simulations are ultimately addressed.

In the paper, the authors find and apply necessary and sufficient conditions for a bivariate mean of two positive numbers with three parameters to be Schur convex or Schur harmonically convex respectively.

This paper is concerned to establish an advanced form of the well-known Hermite-Hadamard (HH) inequality for recently-defined Generalized Conformable (GC) fractional operators. This form of the HH inequality combines various versions (new and old) of this inequality, containing operators of the types Katugampula, Hadamard, Riemann-Liouville, conformable and Riemann, into a single form. Moreover, a novel identity containing the new GC fractional integral operators is proved. By using this identity, a bound for the absolute of the difference between the two rightmost terms in the newly-established Hermite-Hadamard inequality is obtained. Also, some relations of our results with the already existing results are presented. Conclusion and future works are presented in the last section.

In this paper, we investigate the global properties of two general models of pathogen infection with immune deficiency. Both pathogen-to-cell and cell-to-cell transmissions are considered. Latently infected cells are included in the second model. We show that the solutions are nonnegative and bounded. Lyapunov functions are organized to prove the global asymptotic stability for uninfected and infected steady states of the models. Analytical expressions for the basic reproduction number $\mathcal{R}_{0}$ and the necessary condition under which the uninfected and infected steady states are globally asymptotically stable are established. We prove that if $\mathcal{R}_{0}$ < 1 then the uninfected steady state is globally asymptotically stable (GAS), and if $\mathcal{R}_{0}$ > 1 then the infected steady state is GAS. Numerical simulations are performed and used to support the analytical results.

Recently, Hoang and Egbelowo (Boletin de la Sociedad Matematica Mexicana, 2020) proposed a nonstandard finite difference scheme (NSFD) to get a discrete SIR epidemic model with saturated incidence rate and constant vaccination. The discrete model was derived by discretizing the right-hand sides of the system locally and the first order derivative is approximated by the generalized forward difference method but with a restrictive denominator function. Their analysis showed that the NSFD scheme is dynamically-consistent only for relatively small time-step sizes. In this paper, we propose and analyze an alternative NSFD scheme by applying nonlocal approximation and choosing the denominator function such that the proposed scheme preserves the boundedness of solutions. It is verified that the proposed discrete model is dynamically-consistent with the corresponding continuous model for all time-step size. The analytical results have been confirmed by some numerical simulations. We also show numerically that the proposed NSFD scheme is superior to the Euler method and the NSFD method proposed by Hoang and Egbelowo (2020).