Let $ϵ=({ϵ}_n{)}_{n\ge 0}$ be the Thue-Morse sequence, i.e., the sequence defined by the recurrence equations:$${ϵ}_0=1,{ϵ}_{2n}={ϵ}_n,{ϵ}_{2n+1}=1-{ϵ}_n.$$We consider $\left\{\right|{ℰ}_n^p|{\}}_{n\ge 1,p\ge 0}$, the double sequence of Hankel determinants (modulo 2) associated with the Thue-Morse sequence. Together with three other sequences, it obeys a set of sixteen recurrence equations. It is shown to be automatic. Applications are given, namely to combinatorial properties of the Thue-Morse sequence and to the existence of certain Padé approximants of the power series ${\sum }_{n\ge 0}(-1{)}^{{ϵ}_n}{x}^n$.

Let $\left(z_{\nu }\right)$ be a sequence in the upper half plane. If $1\<p\le \infty$ and if$$y_{\nu }^{1/p}f(z_{\nu })=a_{\nu },\nu =1,2,...(*)$$has solution $f\left(z\right)$ in the class of Poisson integrals of $L^p$ functions for any sequence $(a_{\nu })\in {\ell }^p$, then we show that $\left(z_{\nu }\right)$ is an interpolating sequence for $H^{\infty }$. If $f(z_{\nu })=a_{\nu }$, $\nu =1,2,...$ has solution in the class of Poisson integrals of BMO functions whenever $(a_{\nu })\in {\ell }^{\infty }$, then $\left(z_{\nu }\right)$ is again an interpolating sequence for $H^{\infty }$. A somewhat more general theorem is also proved and a counterexample for the case $p\le 1$ is described.

Given information about a harmonic function in two variables, consisting of a finite number of values of its Radon projections, i.e., integrals along some chords of the unit circle, we study the problem of interpolating these data by a harmonic polynomial. With the help of symbolic summation techniques we show that this interpolation problem has a unique solution in the case when the chords form a regular polygon. Numerical experiments for this and more general cases are presented.

Se considera la interpolación de Hermite de funciones de una variable mediante polinomios generalizados. Se pretende mostrar que técnicas computacionales conocidas para interpolación polinómica se pueden aplicar también a interpolación mediante polinomios generalizados. Como aplicación se estudia con cierto detalle la interpolación mediante funciones racionales con polos prefijados. La interpolación polinómica corresponde al caso particular en que todos los polos prefijados están en el infinito.

This work is devoted to the numerical simulation of the Vlasov equation using a phase space grid. In contrast to Particle-In-Cell (PIC) methods, which are known to be noisy, we propose a semi-Lagrangian-type method to discretize the Vlasov equation in the two-dimensional phase space. As this kind of method requires a huge computational effort, one has to carry out the simulations on parallel machines. For this purpose, we present a method using patches decomposing the phase domain, each patch being...

We propose transmission conditions of order 1, 2 and 3 approximating the shielding behaviour of thin conducting curved sheets for the magneto-quasistatic eddy current model in 2D. This model reduction applies to sheets whose thicknesses ε are at the order of the skin depth or essentially smaller. The sheet has itself not to be resolved, only its midline is represented by an interface. The computation is directly in one step with almost no additional cost. We prove the well-posedness w.r.t. to...

We propose transmission conditions of order 1, 2 and 3 approximating the shielding behaviour of thin conducting curved sheets for the magneto-quasistatic eddy current model in 2D. This model reduction applies to sheets whose thicknesses ε are at the order of the skin depth or essentially smaller. The sheet has itself not to be resolved, only its midline is represented by an interface. The computation is directly in one step with almost no additional cost. We prove the well-posedness w.r.t. to...

We introduce an infinite sequence of higher order Schwarzian derivatives closely related to the theory of monotone matrix functions. We generalize the classical Koebe lemma to maps with positive Schwarzian derivatives up to some order, obtaining control over derivatives of high order. For a large class of multimodal interval maps we show that all inverse branches of first return maps to sufficiently small neighbourhoods of critical values have their higher order Schwarzian derivatives positive up...

We point out relations between Siciak’s homogeneous extremal function ${\Psi }_B$ and the Cauchy-Poisson transform in case $B$ is a ball in ℝ². In particular, we find effective formulas for ${\Psi }_B$ for an important class of balls. These formulas imply that, in general, ${\Psi }_B$ is not a norm in ℂ².