In this contribution, we propose a new hybrid method for minimization of nonlinear least squares. This method is based on quasi-Newton updates, applied to an approximation $A$ of the Jacobian matrix $J$, such that $A^{T}f=J^{T}f$. This property allows us to solve a linear least squares problem, minimizing $\parallel Ad+f\parallel$ instead of solving the normal equation $A^{T}Ad+J^{T}f=0$, where $d\in R^n$ is the required direction vector. Computational experiments confirm the efficiency of the new method.

For any field $K$ equipped with a set of pairwise inequivalent absolute values satisfying a product formula, we completely describe the conditions under which Newton’s method applied to a squarefree polynomial $f\in K\left[x\right]$ will succeed in finding some root of $f$ in the $v$-adic topology for infinitely many places $v$ of $K$. Furthermore, we show that if $K$ is a finite extension of the rationals or of the rational function field over a finite field, then the Newton approximation sequence fails to converge...

We study the flat region of stationary points of the functional ${\int }_{\Omega }F\left(\right|\nabla u\left(x\right)\left|\right)dx$ under the constraint $u\le M$, where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in ${ℝ}^2$. Here $F\left(s\right)$ is a function which is concave for $s$ small and convex for $s$ large, and $M>0$ is a given constant. The problem generalizes the classical minimal resistance body problems considered by Newton. We construct a family of partially flat radial solutions to the associated stationary problem when $\Omega$ is a ball. We also analyze some other qualitative properties. Moreover,...

Newton-type methods have been successfully applied to solve the absolute value equation $Ax-\left|x\right|=b$ (denoted by AVE). This class of methods usually solves a system of linear equations exactly in each iteration. However, for large-scale AVEs, solving the corresponding system exactly may be expensive. In this paper, we propose an inexact Newton-type method for solving the AVE. In each iteration, the proposed method solves the corresponding system only approximately. Moreover, it adopts a new line...

Let $K$ be a number field defined by an irreducible polynomial $F\left(X\right)\in \mathbb{Z}\left[X\right]$ and ${\mathbb{Z}}_K$ its ring of integers. For every prime integer $p$, we give sufficient and necessary conditions on $F\left(X\right)$ that guarantee the existence of exactly $r$ prime ideals of ${\mathbb{Z}}_K$ lying above $p$, where $\overline{F}\left(X\right)$ factors into powers of $r$ monic irreducible polynomials in ${𝔽}_p\left[X\right]$. The given result presents a weaker condition than that given by S. K. Khanduja and M. Kumar (2010), which guarantees the existence of exactly $r$ prime ideals of ${\mathbb{Z}}_K$ lying above $p$....

We design shifted $LR$ transformations based on the integrable discrete hungry Toda equation to compute eigenvalues of totally nonnegative matrices of the banded Hessenberg form. The shifted $LR$ transformation can be regarded as an extension of the extension employed in the well-known dqds algorithm for the symmetric tridiagonal eigenvalue problem. In this paper, we propose a new and effective shift strategy for the sequence of shifted $LR$ transformations by considering the concept of the Newton...

We study nonlinear elliptic equations of the form $F\left(D^{2}u\right)=f\left(u\right)$ where the main assumption on $F$ and $f$ is that there exists a one dimensional solution which solves the equation in all the directions $\xi \in {ℝ}^n$. We show that entire monotone solutions $u$ are one dimensional if their $0$ level set is assumed to be Lipschitz, flat or bounded from one side by a hyperplane.

We show the existence of weak solutions in the extended sense of the Cauchy problem for the cubic fourth order nonlinear Schrödinger equation with the initial data $u_0\in X$, where $X\in \{M_{2,q}^s\left(ℝ\right),H^{\sigma }\left(𝕋\right),H^{s_1}\left(ℝ\right)+H^{s_2}\left(𝕋\right)\}$ and $q\in [1,2]$, $s\ge 0$, or $\sigma \ge 0$, or $s_2\ge s_1\ge 0$. Moreover, if $M_{2,q}^s\left(ℝ\right)\hookrightarrow L^3\left(ℝ\right)$, or if $\sigma \ge \frac{1}{6}$, or if $s_1\ge \frac{1}{6}$ and $s_2>\frac{1}{2}$ we show that the Cauchy problem is unconditionally wellposed in $X$. Similar results hold true for all higher order nonlinear Schrödinger equations and mixed order NLS due to a factorization property of the corresponding phase factors. For the proof we employ...

The adaptive $s$-step CG algorithm is a solver for sparse symmetric positive definite linear systems designed to reduce the synchronization cost per iteration while still achieving a user-specified accuracy requirement. In this work, we improve the adaptive $s$-step conjugate gradient algorithm by the use of iteratively updated estimates of the largest and smallest Ritz values, which give approximations of the largest and smallest eigenvalues of $A$, using a technique due to G. Meurant and...

We consider problem (P) of Kirchhoff-Carrier type with nonlinear terms containing a finite number of unknown values $u({\eta }_1,t),\cdots ,u({\eta }_q,t)$ with $0\le {\eta }_1<{\eta }_2<\cdots <{\eta }_q<1.$ By applying the linearization method together with the Faedo-Galerkin method and the weak compact method, we first prove the existence and uniqueness of a local weak solution of problem (P). Next, we consider a specific case $\left({\mathrm{P}}_q\right)$ of (P) in which the nonlinear term contains the sum $S_q\left[u^2\right]\left(t\right)=q^{-1}{\sum }_{i=1}^q{u}^2(\frac{(i-1)}{q},t)$. Under suitable conditions, we prove that the solution of $\left({\mathrm{P}}_q\right)$ converges to the solution...

It is known that the nonlinear nonhomogeneous backward Cauchy problem $u_t\left(t\right)+Au\left(t\right)=f(t,u\left(t\right))$, $0\le t<\tau$ with $u\left(\tau \right)=\phi$, where $A$ is a densely defined positive self-adjoint unbounded operator on a Hilbert space, is ill-posed in the sense that small perturbations in the final value can lead to large deviations in the solution. We show, under suitable conditions on $\phi$ and $f$, that a solution of the above problem satisfies an integral equation involving the spectral representation of $A$, which is also ill-posed. Spectral truncation...

Let $\mathscr{H}$ be an infinite-dimensional complex Hilbert space and $𝔄$ be a standard operator algebra on $\mathscr{H}$ which is closed under the adjoint operation. It is shown that every nonlinear $*$-Lie higher derivation $𝒟={\left\{{\delta }_n\right\}}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ of $𝔄$ is automatically an additive higher derivation on $𝔄$. Moreover, $𝒟={\left\{{\delta }_n\right\}}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ is an inner $*$-higher derivation.

We study the existence of positive solutions of the quasilinear problem ⎧ $-{\Delta }_{N}u+{V\left(x\right)\left|u\right|}^{N-2}u={f(u,|\nabla u|}^{N-2}\nabla u)$, $x\in {ℝ}^N$, ⎨ ⎩ u(x) > 0, $x\in {ℝ}^N$, where ${\Delta }_{N}u={div\left(\right|\nabla u|}^{N-2}\nabla u)$ is the N-Laplacian operator, $V:{ℝ}^N\to ℝ$ is a continuous potential, $f:ℝ\times {ℝ}^N\to ℝ$ is a continuous function. The main result follows from an iterative method based on Mountain Pass techniques.

We address the problem of the existence of finite energy solitary waves for nonlinear Klein-Gordon or Schrödinger type equations $\Delta u-u+f\left(u\right)=0$ in ${ℝ}^N$, $u\in H^1\left({ℝ}^N\right)$, where $N\ge 2$. Under natural conditions on the nonlinearity $f$, we prove the existence of $\mathrm{𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠}$ in any dimension $N\ge 2$. Our result complements earlier works of Bartsch and Willem $(N=4\mathrm{𝚘𝚛}N\ge 6)$ and Lorca-Ubilla $(N=5)$ where solutions invariant under the action of $O\left(2\right)\times O(N-2)$ are constructed. In contrast, the solutions we construct are invariant under the action of $D_k\times O(N-2)$ where $D_k\subset O\left(2\right)$ denotes the dihedral...

We study nonlinear diffusion problems of the form $u_t=u_{xx}+f\left(u\right)$ with free boundaries. Such problems may be used to describe the spreading of a biological or chemical species, with the free boundary representing the expanding front. For special $f\left(u\right)$ of the Fisher-KPP type, the problem was investigated by Du and Lin [DL]. Here we consider much more general nonlinear terms. For any $f\left(u\right)$ which is $C^1$ and satisfies $f\left(0\right)=0$, we show that the omega limit set $\omega \left(u\right)$ of every bounded positive solution is determined by a stationary...

We consider the initial value problem for the nonlinear partial differential equations describing the motion of an inhomogeneous and anisotropic hyperelastic medium. We assume that the stored energy function of the hyperelastic material is a function of the point x and the nonlinear Green-St. Venant strain tensor $e_{jk}$. Moreover, we assume that the stored energy function is $C^{\infty }$ with respect to x and $e_{jk}$. In our description we assume that Piola-Kirchhoff’s stress tensor $p_{jk}$ depends on the tensor...

This paper is concerned with the study of a nonlocal nonlinear parabolic problem associated with the equation $u_t-M\left({\int }_{\Omega }\phi u\mathrm{d}x\right)\mathrm{div}\left(A(x,t,u)\nabla u\right)=g(x,t,u)$ in $\Omega \times (0,T)$, where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain of ${ℝ}^n$ $(n\ge 1)$, $T>0$ is a positive number, $A(x,t,u)$ is an $n\times n$ matrix of variable coefficients depending on $u$ and $M:ℝ\to ℝ$, $\phi :\Omega \to ℝ$, $g:\Omega \times (0,T)\times ℝ\to ℝ$ are given functions. We consider two different assumptions on $g$. The existence of a weak solution for this problem is proved using the Schauder fixed point theorem for each of these assumptions. Moreover, if $A(x,t,u)=a(x,t)$ depends only on...

This paper considers the initial-boundary value problem for the nonlinear diffusion equation with the perturbation term $$u_t+(-\Delta +1)\beta \left(u\right)+G\left(u\right)=g\text{in}\Omega \times (0,T)$$ in an unbounded domain $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^N$ with smooth bounded boundary, where $N\in \mathbb{N}$, $T>0$, $\beta$, is a single-valued maximal monotone function on $ℝ$, e.g., $$\beta \left(r\right)={\left|r\right|}^{q-1}r(q>0,q\ne 1)$$ and $G$ is a function on $ℝ$ which can be regarded as a Lipschitz continuous operator from ${\left(H^1\left(\Omega \right)\right)}^{*}$ to ${\left(H^1\left(\Omega \right)\right)}^{*}$. The present work establishes existence and estimates for the above problem.

A general theorem (principle of a priori boundedness) on solvability of the boundary value problem $$\mathrm{d}x=\mathrm{d}A\left(t\right)·f(t,x),h\left(x\right)=0$$ is established, where $f:[a,b]\times {ℝ}^n\to {ℝ}^n$ is a vector-function belonging to the Carathéodory class corresponding to the matrix-function $A:[a,b]\to {ℝ}^{n\times n}$ with bounded total variation components, and $h:{BV}_s([a,b],{ℝ}^n)\to {ℝ}^n$ is a continuous operator. Basing on the mentioned principle of a priori boundedness, effective criteria are obtained for the solvability of the system under the condition $x\left(t_1\left(x\right)\right)=ℬ\left(x\right)·x\left(t_2\left(x\right)\right)+c_0,$ where $t_i:{BV}_s([a,b],{ℝ}^n)\to [a,b]$ $(i=1,2)$ and $ℬ:{BV}_s([a,b],{ℝ}^n)\to {ℝ}^n$ are continuous...