On the frictionless unilateral contact of two viscoelastic bodies.
Let be a relatively closed subset of a Euclidean domain . We investigate when solutions to certain elliptic equations on are restrictions of solutions on all of . Specifically, we show that if is not too large, and has a suitable decay rate near , then can be so extended.
Following Morrey [14] we associate to any measurable symmetric matrix valued function such that
Let be a compact manifold let be a finite group acting freely on , and let be the (Fréchet) space of -invariant metric on . A natural conjecture is that, for a generic metric in , all eigenspaces of the Laplacian are irreducible (as orthogonal representations of ). In physics terminology, no “accidental degeneracies” occur generically. We will prove this conjecture when dim dim for all irreducibles of . As an application, we construct isospectral manifolds with simple eigenvalue...
The purpose of this paper is to reconsider the genesis of the concept of covariant differentiation, which is interpreted as arising out of two traditions running through 19th-century research work. While the first tradition, of an algebraic nature, was responsible for the “algorithmic” emergence of the concept, the second, analytical in character, was essentially concerned with the import of covariant differentiation as a broader kind of differentiation. The methodological contrast that these two...
The article studies a second-order linear differential operator of the type
We describe qualitative behaviour of solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in 2D in terms of motion of vortices and radiation. To this end we introduce the notion of the intervortex energy. We develop a rather general adiabatic theory of motion of well separated vortices and present the method of effective action which gives a fairly straightforward justification of this theory. Finally we mention briefly two special situations where we are able to obtain rather detailed picture of the vortex...
We prove the existence and upper semicontinuity with respect to the nonlinearity and the diffusion coefficient of global attractors for a class of semilinear degenerate parabolic equations in an arbitrary domain.