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In this paper, we present and analyze a prey-predator system, in which prey species can be infected with some disease. The model presented in this paper is motivated from D. Mukherjee’s model in which he has considered an SI model for the prey species. There are substantial evidences that infected individuals have the ability to recover from the disease if vaccinated/ treated properly. In this regard, Mukherjee’s model is modified by considering SIS model for prey species. Theoretical and numerical simulations show that the recovery of infected prey species plays a crucial role in eliminating the limit cycle oscillations and thus making the interior equilibrium point stable. The possibility of Hopf bifurcation around non zero equilibrium point using the recovery rate as a bifurcation parameter, is discussed. Further, the model is extended by incorporating the harvesting of predator population. A monitory agency has been introduced which monitors the exploitation of resources by implementing certain taxes for each unit biomass of the predator population. The main purpose of the present research is to explore the effect of recovery rate of prey on the dynamics of the system and to optimize the total economical net profits from harvesting of predator species, taking taxation as control parameter.

In this paper we extend the idea of weighted density of Balcerzak et al. (2015) by using a modulus function and introduce the idea f -density of weight g of subsets of ω ≔ { 0 , 1 , … } (at the same time extending the notion of f -density (Aizpuru et al., 2014)), which we name d g f where g : ω → [ 0 , ∞ ) satisfies g ( n ) → ∞ and n ∕ g ( n ) ↛ 0 and f is a modulus function. The aim of this paper is to show that we can get new ideals Z g ( f ) consisting of sets A ⊂ ω for which d g f ( A ) = 0 different from all the previously constructed ideals Z g of Balcerzak et al. (2015) and moreover they retain all the nice properties of the ideals Z g .

The first part of this paper considers the controllability for a functional semilinear differential inclusion governed by a family of operators { A ( t ) : t ∈ [ 0 , b ] } generating an evolution operator in a Banach space in the presence of noninstantaneous impulse effects. In the second part of this paper we study the controllability for a fractional noninstantaneous impulsive semilinear differential inclusion with delay, where the linear part is an infinitesimal generator of a C 0 − semigroup. Using a weakly convergent criterion in the space of piecewise continuous functions and weak topology theory (for weak sequentially closed graph operators) we establish sufficient conditions to guarantee controllability results. Examples are given to illustrate the abstract results.

Quasi-elliptic cohomology is a variant of elliptic cohomology theories. It is the orbifold K-theory of a space of constant loops. For global quotient orbifolds, it can be expressed in terms of equivariant K-theories. Thus, the constructions on it can be made in a neat way. This theory reflects the geometric nature of the Tate curve. In this paper we provide a systematic introduction of its construction and definition., Comment: Final Version. 26 pages. To appear in Advances in Mathematics. In this paper we generalize the construction in arXiv:1612.00930. The subtle point of this generalization is explained in Section 2

This paper deals with the existence of multiple solutions for the quasilinear equation − div A ( x , ∇ u ) + V ( x ) | u | α ( x ) − 2 u = f ( x , u ) in R N , which involves a general variable exponent elliptic operator in divergence form. The problem corresponds to double phase anisotropic phenomena, in the sense that the differential operator has behaviors like | ξ | q ( x ) − 2 ξ for small | ξ | and like | ξ | p ( x ) − 2 ξ for large | ξ | , where 1 α ( ⋅ ) ≤ p ( ⋅ ) q ( ⋅ ) N . Our aim is to approach variationally the problem by using the tools of critical points theory in generalized Orlicz–Sobolev spaces with variable exponent. Our results extend the previous works A. Azzollini et al. (2014) [4] and N. Chorfi and V. Radulescu (2016) [11] from cases where the exponents p and q are constant, to the case where p ( ⋅ ) and q ( ⋅ ) are functions. We also substantially weaken some of the hypotheses in these papers and we overcome the lack of compactness by using the Cerami compactness condition.

This paper develops the analytical conditions for the existence of periodic solutions of a second-order,time-delayed, discontinuous dynamical system. A sample model consists of two linear delayed sub-systems with a switching boundary. The defined G-functions for the delayed, discontinuous systems are introduced, and sufficient and necessary conditions for a flow crossing, sliding and grazing along the switch boundary are developed for such a delayed, discontinuous system. Furthermore, nine (9) regular basic mappings in phase plane and thirty-three (33) delay-related mappings for the second-order, time-delayed, discontinuous systems are classified. Constraint equations are predicted analytically for two periodic orbits with initial functions provided posteriorly. Finally, three numerical examples are illustrated to verify the existence of generalized slowly oscillating periodic orbits without and with sliding portions. This paper improves and extends motion switchability conditions at the boundary in discontinuous dynamical systems without delay.

A three factor variance model introduced by Gatheral in 2008, called the double mean reverting (DMR) model, is well-known to reflect the empirical dynamics of the variance and prices of options on both SPX and VIX consistently with the market. One drawback of the DMR model is that calibration may not be easy as no closed form solution for European options exists, not like the Heston model. In this paper, we still use the double mean reverting nature to extend the Heston model and study the pricing of variance swaps given by simple returns in discrete sampling times. The constant mean level of Heston’s stochastic volatility is extended to a slowly varying process which is specified in two different ways in terms of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) and Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (CIR) processes. So, two types of double mean reversion are considered and the corresponding models are called the double mean reverting Heston-OU model and the double mean reverting Heston-CIR models. We solve Riccati type nonlinear equations and derive closed form exact solutions or closed form approximations of the fair strike prices of the variance swaps depending on the correlation structure of the three factors. We verify the accuracy of our analytic solutions by comparing with values computed by Monte Carlo simulation. The impact of the double mean reverting formulation on the fair strike prices of the variance swaps are also scrutinized in the paper.

Recently fractional differential operators with non-index law properties have being recognized to have brought new weapons to accurately model real world problems particularly those with non-Markovian processes. This present paper has two double aims, the first was to prove the inadequacy and failure of index law fractional calculus and secondly to show the application of fractional differential operators with no index law properties to statistic and dynamical systems. To achieve this, we presented the historical construction of the concept of fractional differential operators from Leibniz to date. Using a matrix based on the fractional differential operators, we proved that, fractional operators obeying index law cannot model real world problems taking place in two states, more precisely they cannot describe phenomena taking place beyond their boundaries, as they are scaling invariant, more precisely our results show that, mathematical models based on these differential operators are not able to describe the inverse memory, meaning the full history of a physical problem cannot be described accurately using these derivatives with index law properties. On the other hand, we proved that, differential operators with no index-law properties are scaling variant, thus can describe situations taking place in different states and are able to localize the frontiers between two states. We present the renewal process properties included in differential equation build out of the Atangana–Baleanu fractional derivative and counting process, which is connected to its inter-arrival time distribution Mittag–Leffler distribution which is the kernel of these derivatives. We presented the connection of each derivative to a statistical family, for instance Riemann–Liouville–Caputo derivatives are connected to the Pareto statistic, which has no well-defined average when alpha is less than 1 corresponding to the interval where fractional operators mostly defined. We established new properties and theorem for the Atangana–Baleanu derivative of an analytic function, in particular we proved that, they are convolution of the Mittag–Leffler function with the Riemann–Liouville–Caputo derivatives. To see the accuracy of the non-index law derivative to in modeling real chaotic problems, 4 examples were considered, including the nine-term 3-D novel chaotic system, King Cobra chaotic system, the Ikeda delay system and chaotic chameleon system. The numerical simulations show very interesting and novel attractors. The king cobra system with the Atangana–Baleanu presented a very novel attractor where at the earlier time we observed a random walk and latter time we observed the real sharp of the cobra. The Ikeda model with Atangana–Baleanu presented different attractors for each value of fractional order, in particular we obtain a square and circular explosions. The results obtained in this paper show that, the future of modeling real world problem relies on fractional differential operators with non-index law property. Our numerical results showed that, to not model physical problems with fractional differential operators with non-singular kernel and imposing index law in fractional calculus is rightfully living with closed eyes without ever taking a risk to open them.

Decomposition spaces are simplicial $\infty$-groupoids subject to a certain exactness condition, needed to induce a coalgebra structure on the space of arrows. Conservative ULF functors (CULF) between decomposition spaces induce coalgebra homomorphisms. Suitable added finiteness conditions define the notion of M\"obius decomposition space, a far-reaching generalisation of the notion of M\"obius category of Leroux. In this paper, we show that the Lawvere-Menni Hopf algebra of M\"obius intervals, which contains the universal M\"obius function (but is not induced by a M\"obius category), can be realised as the homotopy cardinality of a M\"obius decomposition space $U$ of all M\"obius intervals, and that in a certain sense $U$ is universal for M\"obius decomposition spaces and CULF functors., Comment: 35 pages. This paper is one of six papers that formerly constituted the long manuscript arXiv:1404.3202. v3: minor expository improvements. Final version to appear in Adv. Math

It has been shown that natural interval extensions (NIE) can be used to calculate the largest positive Lyapunov exponent (LLE). However, the elaboration of NIE are not always possible for some dynamical systems, such as those modelled by simple equations or by Simulink-type blocks. In this paper, we use rounding mode of floating-point numbers to compute the LLE. We have exhibited how to produce two pseudo-orbits by means of different rounding modes; these pseudo-orbits are used to calculate the Lower Bound Error (LBE). The LLE is the slope of the line gotten from the logarithm of the LBE, which is estimated by means of a recursive least square algorithm (RLS). The main contribution of this paper is to develop a procedure to compute the LLE based on the LBE without using the NIE. Additionally, with the aid of RLS the number of required points has been decreased. Eight numerical examples are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed technique.

This is a chiefly expository paper on the subject of the title which, in our view, has not received a detailed treatment in the literature which is commensurate with its importance. We expect the results presented here to be useful in a number of contexts. For example, several of them will be applied in a forthcoming paper by the authors., Comment: 25 pages

Focusing on the unpredictability of person-to-person contacts and the complexity of random variations in nature, this paper will formulate a stochastic SIR epidemic model with nonlinear incidence rate and general stochastic noises. First, we derive a stochastic critical value R 0 S related to the basic reproduction number R 0 . Via our new method in constructing suitable Lyapunov function types, we obtain the existence and uniqueness of an ergodic stationary distribution of the stochastic system if R 0 S > 1 . Next, via solving the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation, it is theoretically proved that the stochastic model has a log-normal probability density function when another critical value R 0 H > 1 . Then the exact expression of the density function is obtained. Moreover, we establish the sufficient condition R 0 C 1 for disease extinction. Finally, several numerical simulations are provided to verify our analytical results. By comparison with other existing results, our developed theories and methods will be highlighted to end this paper.

Semi-Markov processes established a rich framework for many real-world problems. Semi-Markov processes include Markov processes, Markov chains, renewal processes, Markov renewal processes, Poisson processes, birth and death processes, and etc. Since semi-Markov processes describe more complex mathematical models of various objects, in many cases the obtained mathematical models are investigated numerically. But in some cases it is possible to study such mathematical models using analytical methods. In the presented paper, the authors chose to do the second way. In this paper we study the semi-Markov random walk processes with negative drift and positive jumps. The random variable or the moment, at which the process for the time reaches in zero level is introduced. An integral equation for the Laplace transform of conditional distribution of this random variable is obtained. In this paper length of jump is given by the gamma distribution with parameters α and β resulting in a fractional order integral equation. In the class of gamma distributions, the resulting general integral equation of convolution type is reduced to a fractional order differential equation with constant coefficients. And also, the exact solution of the resulting fractional differential equation with constant coefficients has been found. Finally, using form of Laplace transform the expectation and variance of the random variable are found.

The norm of a partition is defined as the product of its parts. This paper aims to conduct a thorough study of norms of prime partitions which are partitions with all prime parts. The analysis begins by defining r p ( i , n ) , called the primal norm counting function, which refers to number of times i appears as a norm to the prime partitions of n. The generating function for this function is deduced, using which a wealth of intriguing relations are proved like series, product, integral representations, and recursive relations, etc. The special cases of these results bear resemblance to other results known in classical partition theory. An analogue of the Goldbach conjecture in the theory of norms is presented, and it is stressed that an explicit formula for r p ( i , n ) must be extracted. Two approaches are discussed for this purpose, and the paper is concluded with a potential scope for future work.

A concept of emergence was recently introduced in the paper [Berger] in order to quantify the richness of possible statistical behaviors of orbits of a given dynamical system. In this paper, we develop this concept and provide several new definitions, results, and examples. We introduce the notion of topological emergence of a dynamical system, which essentially evaluates how big the set of all its ergodic probability measures is. On the other hand, the metric emergence of a particular reference measure (usually Lebesgue) quantifies how non-ergodic this measure is. We prove fundamental properties of these two emergences, relating them with classical concepts such as Kolmogorov's $\epsilon$-entropy of metric spaces and quantization of measures. We also relate the two types of emergences by means of a variational principle. Furthermore, we provide several examples of dynamics with high emergence. First, we show that the topological emergence of some standard classes of hyperbolic dynamical systems is essentially the maximal one allowed by the ambient. Secondly, we construct examples of smooth area-preserving diffeomorphisms that are extremely non-ergodic in the sense that the metric emergence of the Lebesgue measure is essentially maximal. These examples confirm that super-polynomial emergence indeed exists, as conjectured in the paper [Berger]. Finally, we prove that such examples are locally generic among smooth diffeomorphisms., Comment: v3: Final version; to appear in Advances in Mathematics

In this paper, we replace the classical differential operators with the fractal-fractional differential operators corresponding to the power law, exponential decay, and the generalized Mittag-Leffler kernels. These operators have two parameters created: the first is a fractal dimension and the second is a fractional order. The numerical schemes are combination of the Lagrange interpolating polynomial and theory of fractional calculus. In the case of δ = k = 1 the numerical solutions for the proposed models are found to be in an excellent agreement with the finite difference methods. We investigate the effects of the fractal-fractional order on the oscillations in the Fractal-Fractional Brusselator Chemical Reaction (FFBCR). All calculations in this paper were done using the mathematica package.

This paper considers the problem of establishing L p -improving inequalities for Radon-like operators in intermediate dimensions (i.e., for averages overs submanifolds which are neither curves nor hypersurfaces). Due to limitations in existing approaches, previous results in this regime are comparatively sparse and tend to require special numerical relationships between the dimension n of the ambient space and the dimension k of the submanifolds. This paper develops a new approach to this problem based on a continuum version of the Kakeya-Brascamp-Lieb inequality, established by Zhang [28] and extended by Zorin-Kranich [29] , and on recent results for geometric nonconcentration inequalities [11] . As an initial application of this new approach, this paper establishes sharp restricted strong type L p -improving inequalities for certain model quadratic submanifolds in the range k n ≤ 2 k .

Most recently, some new double sequence spaces B ( M u ) , B ( C ϑ ) where ϑ = { b , b p , r , f , f 0 } and B ( L q ) for 0 q ∞ have been introduced as the domain of four-dimensional generalized difference matrix B ( r , s , t , u ) in the double sequence spaces M u , C ϑ where ϑ = { b , b p , r , f , f 0 } and L q for 0 q ∞ , and some topological properties, dual spaces, some new four-dimensional matrix classes and matrix transformations related to these spaces have also been studied by Tug and Basar and Tug (see [1] , [2] , [3] , [4] ). In this paper, we introduce new strongly almost convergent double sequence spaces B [ C f ] and B [ C f 0 ] whose B ( r , s , t , u ) -transforms are in the spaces [ C f ] and [ C f 0 ] , respectively. The main body of this paper is designed by the investigation of the following hypothesis. Firstly, we examine some topological properties and inclusion relations including the new double sequence spaces B [ C f ] and B [ C f 0 ] . Also, we determine the α-dual, β ( b p ) -dual and γ-dual of the space B [ C f ] . Finally, we give the necessary and sufficient conditions on an infinite matrix transforming from [ C f ] over C f , and we also characterize the classes ( [ C f ] ; M u ) , ( B [ C f ] ; C f ) and ( B [ C f ] ; M u ) .

In previous work, we have introduced a program aimed at studying the birational geometry of locally symmetric varieties of Type IV associated to moduli of certain projective varieties of K3 type. In particular, a concrete goal of our program is to understand the relationship between GIT and Baily-Borel compactifications for quartic K3 surfaces, K3's which are double covers of a smooth quadric surface, and double EPW sextics. In our first paper [36] , based on arithmetic considerations, we have given conjectural decompositions into simple birational transformations of the period maps from the GIT moduli spaces mentioned above to the corresponding Baily-Borel compactifications. In our second paper [35] we studied the case of quartic K3's; we have given geometric meaning to this decomposition and we have partially verified our conjectures. Here, we give a full proof of the conjectures in [36] for the moduli space of K3's which are double covers of a smooth quadric surface. The main new tool here is VGIT for ( 2 , 4 ) complete intersection curves.

We present a covering conjecture that we expect to be true below superstrong cardinals. We then show that the conjecture is true in hod mice. This work is a continuation of the work that started in Covering with Universally Baire Functions Advances in Mathematics, and the main conjecture of the current paper is a revision of the UB Covering Conjecture of the aforementioned paper.

Let $G$ be a reductive group over an algebraically closed field and let $W$ be its Weyl group. In a series of papers, Lusztig introduced a map from the set $[W]$ of conjugacy classes of $W$ to the set $[G_u]$ of unipotent classes of $G$. This map, when restricted to the set of elliptic conjugacy classes $[W_e]$ of $W$, is injective. In this paper, we show that Lusztig's map $[W_e] \to [G_u]$ is order-reversing, with respect to the natural partial order on $[W_e]$ arising from combinatorics and the natural partial order on $[G_u]$ arising from geometry., Comment: 25 pages

The present work is devoted to giving new insights into the extended Malkus-Robbins (EMR) dynamo. Firstly, based on differential geometry method, i.e. Kosambi-Cartan-Chern (KCC) theory, the paper investigates the Jacobi stability of the equilibrium and periodic orbit by the eigenvalues of the deviation curvature tensor. The deviation vector is applied to analyze the trajectory behaviors near the equilibrium and periodic orbit. Secondly, the zero-zero-Hopf bifurcation is investigated. The paper obtains the conditions that two periodic solutions appear at the bifurcation point and discusses their stability. Finally, on the global dynamics, the ultimate bound sets of the system are estimated. Numerical simulations are given to verify and visualize the corresponding theoretical results.

This paper establishes a version of Nevanlinna theory based on Askey–Wilson divided difference operator for meromorphic functions of finite logarithmic order in the complex plane C . A second main theorem that we have derived allows us to define an Askey–Wilson type Nevanlinna deficiency which gives a new interpretation that one should regard many important infinite products arising from the study of basic hypergeometric series as zero/pole-scarce. That is, their zeros/poles are indeed deficient in the sense of difference Nevanlinna theory. A natural consequence is a version of Askey–Wilson type Picard theorem. We also give an alternative and self-contained characterisation of the kernel functions of the Askey–Wilson operator. In addition we have established a version of unicity theorem in the sense of Askey–Wilson. This paper concludes with an application to difference equations generalising the Askey–Wilson second-order divided difference equation.

Let M m be a closed smooth manifold equipped with a smooth involution having fixed point set of the form F n ∪ F 3 , where F n and F 3 are submanifolds with dimensions n and 3, respectively, where 3 n m and with the normal bundles over F n and F 3 being nonbounding. The authors of this paper, together with Patricia E. Desideri, previously showed that, when n is even, then m ≤ n + 4 , which we call a small codimension phenomenon. Further, they showed that this small bound is best possible. In this paper we study this problem for n odd, which is much more complicated, requiring more sophisticated techniques involving characteristic numbers. We show in this case that m ≤ M ( n − 3 ) + 6 , where M ( n ) is the Stong–Pergher number (see the definition of M ( n ) in Section 1). Further, we show that this bound is almost best possible, in the sense that there exists an example with m = M ( n − 3 ) + 5 , which means that for n odd the small codimension phenomenon does not occur and the bound in question is meaningful. The existence of these bounds is guaranteed by the famous Five Halves Theorem of J. Boardman, which establishes that, under the above hypotheses, m ≤ 5 2 n .

This paper presents a new Planar Least-Squares Projection (PLSP) method to accurately construct the layered contours directly from the point cloud for additive manufacturing. With the rapid development of 3D measuring technology, the dense and accurate point cloud, which can represent more accurate geometry information of a physical object than before, has been readily available. Additive manufacturing based directly on such point cloud is considered to be a promising alternative for fabricating the complex parts, but it requires the research on effective processing methods of the point set surface. In this paper, the presented PLSP method addresses this technical challenge for additive manufacturing. Mathematical modeling and processing of point cloud are presented to identify projections and construct accurate layered contours by considering both the least-square projection errors and projection distance selection criteria from measured point cloud. Technique of assigning new set of weights on measure scattered point cloud is discussed to achieve accurate layered contour development. The presented PLSP method with the new weight function and the consideration of point cloud deviation distances in sliced contour development is able to avoid the occurrence of the wrong projection that many other current methods suffer from. Technique of integrating the presented PLSP with the boundary point sequence curve (PSC) method is also discussed in this paper to eliminate contour development errors by considering the similarity in shape and closeness in distance for the ideal layered contours. Since this presented method does not involve the non- linear optimization, it is mathematically robust, and it can ensure the constructed layered contours lie accurately on the underlying nominal surface, and also has the ability of recognizing and processing the multi-contours on a common slicing plane. Both computational and experimental results based on the presented method are presented for validation.

In this paper, we describe a surprising link between the theory of the Goldman–Turaev Lie bialgebra on surfaces of genus zero and the Kashiwara–Vergne (KV) problem in Lie theory. Let Σ be an oriented 2-dimensional manifold with non-empty boundary and K a field of characteristic zero. The Goldman–Turaev Lie bialgebra is defined by the Goldman bracket { − , − } and Turaev cobracket δ on the K -span of homotopy classes of free loops on Σ. Applying an expansion θ : K π → K 〈 x 1 , … , x n 〉 yields an algebraic description of the operations { − , − } and δ in terms of non-commutative variables x 1 , … , x n . If Σ is a surface of genus g = 0 the lowest degree parts { − , − } − 1 and δ − 1 are canonically defined (and independent of θ). They define a Lie bialgebra structure on the space of cyclic words which was introduced and studied by Schedler [31] . It was conjectured by the second and the third authors that one can define an expansion θ such that { − , − } = { − , − } − 1 and δ = δ − 1 . The main result of this paper states that for surfaces of genus zero constructing such an expansion is essentially equivalent to the KV problem. In [24] , Massuyeau constructed such expansions using the Kontsevich integral. In order to prove this result, we show that the Turaev cobracket δ can be constructed in terms of the double bracket (upgrading the Goldman bracket) and the non-commutative divergence cocycle which plays the central role in the KV theory. Among other things, this observation gives a new topological interpretation of the KV problem and allows to extend it to surfaces with arbitrary number of boundary components (and of arbitrary genus, see [2] ).

Dolgachev surfaces are simply connected minimal elliptic surfaces with $p_g=q=0$ and of Kodaira dimension 1. These surfaces were constructed by logarithmic transformations of rational elliptic surfaces. In this paper, we explain the construction of Dolgachev surfaces via $\mathbb Q$-Gorenstein smoothing of singular rational surfaces with two cyclic quotient singularities. This construction is based on the paper by Lee-Park. Also, some exceptional bundles on Dolgachev surfaces associated with $\mathbb Q$-Gorenstein smoothing are constructed based on the idea of Hacking. In the case if Dolgachev surfaces were of type $(2,3)$, we describe the Picard group and present an exceptional collection of maximal length. Finally, we prove that the presented exceptional collection is not full, hence there exist a nontrivial phantom category in the derived category., Comment: 35 pages; 3 figures; exposition improved; Adv. Math. (to appear)

Completely multiplicative functions whose sum is zero ($CMO$). The paper deals with $CMO$, meaning completely multiplicative ($CM$) functions $f$ such that $f(1)=1$ and $\sum\limits_1^\infty f(n)=0$. $CM$ means $f(ab)=f(a)f(b)$ for all $(a,b)\in \N^{*2}$, therefore $f$ is well defined by the $f(p)$, $p$ prime. Assuming that $f$ is $CM$, give conditions on the $f(p)$, either necessary or sufficient, both is possible, for $f$ being $CMO$ : that is the general purpose of the authors. The $CMO$ character of $f$ is invariant under slight modifications of the sequence $(f(p))$ (theorem~3). The same idea applies also in a more general context (theorem~4). After general statements of that sort, including examples of $CMO$ (theorem~5), the paper is devoted to ``small'' functions, that is, functions of the form $\frac{f(n)}{n}$, where the $f(n)$ are bounded. Here is a typical result : if $|f(p)|\le 1$ and $Re\, f(p)\le0$ for all $p$, a necessary and sufficient condition for $\big(\frac{f(n)}{n}\big)$ to be $CMO$ is $\sum \, Re\, f(p)/p=-\infty$ (theorem~8). Another necessary and sufficient condition is given under the assumption that $|1+f(p)|\le 1$ and $f(2)\not=-2$ (theorem~7). A third result gives only a sufficient condition (theorem~9). The three results apply to the particular case $f(p)=-1$, the historical example of Euler. Theorems 7 and 8 need auxiliary results, coming either from the existing literature (Hal\'asz, Montgomery--Vaughan), or from improved versions of classical results (Ingham, Ska\l ba) about $f(n)$ under assumptions on the $f*1(n)$, * denoting the multiplicative convolution (theorems~10~and~11).

Firstly, by combining Mawhin’s continuation theorem of coincidence degree theory with Lyapunov functional method and by using inequality techniques, a sufficient condition on the existence of periodic solutions for inertial BAM neural networks is obtained. Secondly, a novel sufficient condition which can ensure the global asymptotic stability of periodic solutions of the system is obtained by using Lyapunov functional method and by using inequality techniques. In our paper, the assumption for boundedness on the activation functions in existing paper is removed, the conditions in inequality form in existing papers are replaced with novel conditions, and the prior estimate method of periodic solutions is replaced with Lyapunov functional method. Hence, our result on global asymptotic stability of periodic solutions for above system is less conservative than those obtained in existing paper and more novel than those obtained in existing papers.

Randomness is a common phenomenon in nonlinear systems. And conditions to reach synchronization are more complex and difficult when chaotic systems have random parameters. So in this paper, an adaptive scheme for synchronization of chaotic system with random parameters by using the fuzzy impulsive method and combining the properties of Wiener process and Ito differential is investigated. The main concepts of this paper are applying fuzzy method to approximate the nonlinear part of system, then using Ito differential to study the Wiener process of random parameters of chaotic system, and realizing synchronization under fuzzy impulsive method. The stability is analyzed by Lyapunov stability theorem. At the end of the paper, numerical simulation is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the results obtained in this paper.

In this paper, we investigate a new perturbation theorem for the Moore-Penrose metric generalized inverses of a bounded linear operator in Banach space. The main tool in this paper is “the generalized Neumann lemma” which is quite different from the method in [12] where “the generalized Banach lemma” was used. By the method of the perturbation analysis of bounded linear operators, we obtain an explicit perturbation theorem and three inequalities about error estimates for the Moore-Penrose metric generalized inverse of bounded linear operator under the generalized Neumann lemma and the concept of stable perturbations in Banach spaces.

In this paper we compute topological entropy with prescribed accuracy for different economic models, showing the existence of a topologically chaotic regime for them. In order to make the paper self-contained, a general overview on the topological entropy of continuous interval maps is given. More precisely, we focus on piecewise monotone maps which often appear as dynamical models in economy, but also in population growth and physics. Our main aim is to show that when topological entropy can be approximated up to a given error, it is a useful tool which helps to analyze the chaotic dynamics in one dimensional models.

In this paper, we introduce the concept of completely positive matrix of linear maps on Hilbert $A$-modules over locally $C^{*}$-algebras and prove an analogue of Stinespring theorem for it. We show that any two minimal Stinespring representations for such matrices are unitarily equivalent. Finally, we prove an analogue of the Radon--Nikodym theorem for this type of completely positive $n\times n$ matrices., 17 pages; The paper was revised and some material is added to it. To appear in Indag. Math

A periodic predator-prey model has been introduced in [5] to study the effect of water level on persistence or extinction of fish populations living in an artificial lake. By using the continuation theorem of Mawhin’s coincidence degree theory, the authors give sufficient conditions for the existence of at least one positive periodic solution. In this paper we study the problem in the general case. We begin by analyzing the invariance, permanence, non-persistence and the globally asymptotic stability for the system. Most interestingly, under additional conditions, we find that the periodic solution obtained in [5] is unique. Finally, in order to make the model system more realistic, we consider the special case when the periodicity in [5] is replaced by almost periodicity. We obtain conditions for existence, uniqueness and stability of a positive almost periodic solution. The methods used in this paper will be comparison theorems and Lyapunov functions. An example is employed to illustrate our result.

This paper surveys the latest advances of the first author's group on the three new methodologies of fractional and fractal derivatives modeling to meet the increasing and challenging demands in scientific and engineering communities. Firstly, the structural fractal was proposed as a generalization of the Euclidean distance. Using the structural metric, the structural derivative approach was derived as a significant extension of the global fractional calculus and the local fractional derivative approaches to tackle the perplexing modeling problems. The classical derivative describes the change rate of a certain physical variable with respect to time or space, which rarely takes into account the significant influence of mesoscopic time-space metric of a complex system on its physical behaviors. The structural function plays a central role in this new strategy as a kernel transform of underlying time-space structural metric of physical systems. Secondly, we employed the fundamental solution or probability density function of statistical distribution which can describe the problem of interest to construct the implicit calculus governing equation. The ‘implicit’ suggests that the explicit calculus expression of this governing equation is difficult to derive and not required. The fundamental solution or potential function of calculus governing equation and corresponding boundary conditions are sufficient to do numerical simulation. We call this strategy the implicit calculus equation modeling. Thirdly, based on the implicit calculus equation modeling approach, we introduced the concept of fundamental solution on fractal and consequently defined the fractal differential operator to describe various mechanical behaviors of fractal materials. Fractal calculus operator significantly extends the application scope of the classical calculus modeling approach under the framework of continuum mechanics. This is also a step-forward advance of the fractal derivative proposed earlier by the first author. To demonstrate the structural derivative application, we applied the inverse Mittag-Leffler function as the structural function to model ultraslow diffusion of a random system of two interacting particles. On the other hand, this paper uses the fractional Riesz potential as the fundamental solution to establish the implicit calculus equation of fractional Laplacian modeling the power law behaviors of steady heat conduction in multiple phase material. Finally, by using the singular boundary method, we made numerical simulation of the fractal Laplacian equation for phenomenological modeling potential problems in fractal media. Numerical experiments show that all the three new methodologies are feasible mathematical tools to describe complex physical behaviors.

This paper presents a new chaotic system that exhibits a two wing (2W) chaotic attractor in its integer order dynamics, three-wing (3W) and four-wing (4W) chaotic attractors in its fractional-order (FO) dynamics, and an eight-wing (8W) attractor in its nonautonomous fractional dynamics. An interesting feature of the proposed system is that two distinct periodic orbits coexist with a strange attractor that gradually evolves into a 4W attractor. The asymmetry, dissimilarity and topological structure of this proposed system with respect to those available in literature, manifest increased irregularity, which in turn indicate more chaos. Besides, the authors have drawn its comparison with various well-known fractional-order chaotic systems (FOCS)s to prove its enhanced features in terms of higher Lyapunov Exponent, fractional order orbital velocities, bandwidth, density, range of dynamical behaviour, etc. A control scheme is proposed to enable switching hybrid synchronisation between the 8W nonautonomous FOCS and the 4W autonomous FOCS, using the former as master and the latter as slave. This work throws light on the potential practical applicability of the proposed system by designing a circuit using minimum circuit components possible, thus signifying the objectives of the paper are finally achieved.

The year 2017 marks the 80th anniversary of Witt’s famous paper containing key results, including the Witt cancellation theorem, which form the foundation for the algebraic theory of quadratic forms. We pay homage to this paper by presenting a transparent and algebraic proof of the Witt cancellation theorem, which itself is based on a cancellation. We also present an overview of some recent spectacular work which is still building on Witt’s original creation of the algebraic theory of quadratic forms.

In this paper, we introduce a new geometric constant C N J ( p ) ( a , X ) of a Banach space X, which is closely related to the generalized von Neumann-Jordan constant and analyze some properties of the constant. Subsequently, we present several sufficient conditions for normal structure of a Banach space in terms of this new constant, the generalized James constant, the generalized Garcia-Falset coefficient and the coefficient of weak orthogonality of Sims. Our main results of the paper generalize some known results in the recent literature.

This paper presents a synopsis of fractional calculus tools for characterising respiratory mechanics. A discussion on power law impedance, viscoelasticity and tissue heterogeneity is made based on morphological and structural properties of lungs. Although targeted towards respiratory system applications, these tools can serve as a basis for modelling other biological structures as well. The paper underlines the importance of characterising the viscoelastic properties of the respiratory tissue and its time-varying properties as a function of disease progress. Perspectives are suggested for developing models able to mimic disease progression and understand treatment effects for better therapeutic management.

Motivated by the paper Gerard-Varet and Dormy (2010) [6] [JAMS, 2010] about the linear ill-posedness for the Prandtl equations around a shear flow with exponential decay in normal variable, and the recent study of well-posedness on the Prandtl equations in Sobolev spaces, this paper aims to extend the result in [6] to the case when the shear flow has general decay. The key observation is to construct an approximate solution that captures the initial layer to the linearized problem motivated by the precise formulation of solutions to the inviscid Prandtl equations.

In this paper we study the geometric properties of a couple of mutually orthogonal foliations with complementary dimensions. We recall that from Novikov's theorem, there is no foliation of S 3 by closed curves with integrable normal bundle. Nevertheless, for S 2 k + 1 , k ≥ 2 , Novikov's theorem is not applicable. In this paper we show that on odd-dimensional unit spheres there is no umbilical foliation with integrable normal bundle and divergence free mean curvature vector.

It is well-known that dyadic martingale transforms are a good model for Calderon–Zygmund singular integral operators. In this paper we extend some results on weighted norm inequalities to vector-valued functions. We prove that if W is an A 2 matrix weight, then the weighted L 2 -norm of a Calderon–Zygmund operator with cancellation has the same dependence on the A 2 characteristic of W as the weighted L 2 -norm of an appropriate matrix martingale transform. Thus the question of the dependence of the norm of matrix-weighted Calderon–Zygmund operators on the A 2 characteristic of the weight is reduced to the case of dyadic martingales and paraproducts. We also show a slightly different proof for the special case of Calderon–Zygmund operators with even kernel, where only scalar martingale transforms are required. We conclude the paper by proving a version of the matrix-weighted Carleson Embedding Theorem. Our method uses a Bellman function technique introduced by S. Treil to obtain the right estimates for the norm of dyadic Haar shift operators. We then apply the representation theorem of T. Hytonen to extend the result to general Calderon–Zygmund operators.

This paper is a continue work of [4,5]. In the previous two papers, we studied the Cauchy problem of the multi-dimensional compressible Euler equations with time-depending damping term - μ ( 1 + t ) λ ρ u , where λ≥0 and μ > 0 are constants. We have showed that, for all λ≥0 and μ>0, the smooth solution to the Cauchy problem exists globally or blows up in finite time. In the present paper, instead of the Cauchy problem we consider the initial-boundary value problem in the half space ℝ d + with space dimension d = 2,3. With the help of the special structure of the equations and the fluid vorticity, we overcome the difficulty arisen from the boundary effect. We prove that there exists a global smooth solution for 0 ≤ λ

In this paper, we consider a von Karman equation with infinite memory. For von Karman equations with finite memory, there is a lot of literature concerning on existence of the solutions, decay of the energy, and existence of the attractors. However, there are few results on existence and energy decay rate of the solutions for von Karman equations with infinite memory. The main goal of the present paper is to generalize previous results by treating infinite history instead of finite history.

This paper investigates the orbital stability of periodic traveling wave solutions to the generalized Zakharov equations { i u t + u x x = u v + | u | 2 u , v t t - v x x = ( | u | 2 ) x x . First, we prove the existence of a smooth curve of positive traveling wave solutions of dnoidal type with a fixed fundamental period L for the generalized Zakharov equations. Then, by using the classical method proposed by Benjamin, Bona et al., we show that this solution is orbitally stable by perturbations with period L. The results on the orbital stability of periodic traveling wave solutions for the generalized Zakharov equations in this paper can be regarded as a perfect extension of the results of [15, 16, 19].

In this paper, the Taylor sequence space t p θ of non-absolute type is introduced which consists of all sequences whose Taylor transforms of order θ , ( 0 θ 1 ) , are in the space l p . It is shown that the space t p θ is a normed space which includes the space l p where 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞ . Moreover, in this paper a general upper estimate is obtained for the norm of Hausdorff matrices and Norlund matrices as operators from l p into the Taylor sequence space t p θ . Finally, the results are extended to the matrix domain of an arbitrary invertible matrix E in the sequence space l p .

In this paper, we study the effect of stochastic noise on the virus infection model with nonlytic immune response. Firstly, the mathematical model describing the virus infection with nonlytic immune response is presented. The basic reproduction number is derived and the stability of disease-free state E0 and disease state E1 are analysed. Then the threshold conditions for extinction and persistence of the virus are derived by the rigorous theoretical proofs. It is found that when the noise is large enough, the virus will die out without constraint. When the noise is small, the virus will become extinct under the condition R 0 * 1 and persistence under R 0 * * > 1 . Besides, the upper bound and lower bound for persistence have been given. At last, some numerical simulations are carried out to support our results. The conclusion of this paper could help provide the theoretical basis for the further study of the virus infection.

In a recent paper [5] S. Solecki proved a finite self-dual Ramsey theorem that extends simultaneously the classical finite Ramsey theorem [4] and the Graham–Rothschild theorem [2] . In this paper we prove the corresponding infinite dimensional version of the self-dual theorem. As a consequence, we extend the classical infinite Ramsey theorem [4] and the Carlson–Simpson theorem [1] .

In this expository paper, we give a complete proof of van den Essen’s theorem that the de Rham cohomology spaces of a holonomic D -module are finite-dimensional in the case of a formal power series ring over a field of characteristic zero. This proof requires results from at least five of van den Essen’s papers as well as his unpublished thesis, and until now has not been available in a self-contained document.

In a paper in 1962, Guido Zappa asked whether a non-trivial coset of a Sylow p-subgroup of a finite group could contain only elements whose orders are powers of p, and also in that case, at least one element of order p. The first question was raised again recently in a 2014 paper by Daniel Goldstein and Robert Guralnick, when generalising an answer by John Thompson in 1967 to a similar question by L.J. Paige. In this paper we give a positive answer to both questions of Zappa, showing somewhat surprisingly that in a number of non-abelian finite simple groups (including PSL ( 3 , 4 ) , PSU ( 5 , 2 ) and the Janko group J 3 ), some non-trivial coset of a Sylow 5-subgroup (of order 5) contains only elements of order 5. Also Zappa's first question is studied in more detail. Various possibilities for the group and its Sylow p-subgroup P are eliminated, and it then follows that | P | ≥ 5 and | P | ≠ 8 . It is an open question as to whether the order of the Sylow p-subgroup can be 7 or 9 or more.