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Bi-Integrable And Tri-Integrable Couplings And Their Hamiltonian Structures, Jinghan Meng 2012 University of South Florida

Bi-Integrable And Tri-Integrable Couplings And Their Hamiltonian Structures, Jinghan Meng

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

An investigation into structures of bi-integrable and tri-integrable couplings is undertaken. Our study is based on semi-direct sums of matrix Lie algebras. By introducing new classes of matrix loop Lie algebras, we form new Lax pairs and generate several new bi-integrable and tri-integrable couplings of soliton hierarchies through zero curvature equations. Moreover, we discuss properties of the resulting bi-integrable couplings, including infinitely many commuting symmetries and conserved densities. Their Hamiltonian structures are furnished by applying the variational identities associated with the presented matrix loop Lie algebras.

The goal of this dissertation is to demonstrate the efficiency of our approach and …


Multi-Time Scales Stochastic Dynamic Processes: Modeling, Methods, Algorithms, Analysis, And Applications, Jean-Claude Pedjeu 2012 University of South Florida

Multi-Time Scales Stochastic Dynamic Processes: Modeling, Methods, Algorithms, Analysis, And Applications, Jean-Claude Pedjeu

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

By introducing a concept of dynamic process operating under multi-time scales in sciences and engineering, a mathematical model is formulated and it leads to a system of multi-time scale stochastic differential equations. The classical Picard-Lindel\"{o}f successive approximations scheme is expended to the model validation problem, namely, existence and uniqueness of solution process. Naturally, this generates to a problem of finding closed form solutions of both linear and nonlinear multi-time scale stochastic differential equations. To illustrate the scope of ideas and presented results, multi-time scale stochastic models for ecological and epidemiological processes in population dynamic are exhibited. Without loss in generality, …


Stochastic Hybrid Dynamic Systems: Modeling, Estimation And Simulation, Daniel Siu 2012 University of South Florida

Stochastic Hybrid Dynamic Systems: Modeling, Estimation And Simulation, Daniel Siu

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Stochastic hybrid dynamic systems that incorporate both continuous and discrete dynamics have been an area of great interest over the recent years. In view of applications, stochastic hybrid dynamic systems have been employed to diverse fields of studies, such as communication networks, air traffic management, and insurance risk models. The aim of the present study is to investigate properties of some classes of stochastic hybrid dynamic systems.

The class of stochastic hybrid dynamic systems investigated has random jumps driven by a non-homogeneous Poisson process and deterministic jumps triggered by hitting the boundary. Its real-valued continuous dynamic between jumps is described …


Ace - A Model Centered Reu Program Standing On The Three Legs Of Cse: Analysis, Computation And Experiment, Hong P. Liu, Andrei Ludu 2012 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Ace - A Model Centered Reu Program Standing On The Three Legs Of Cse: Analysis, Computation And Experiment, Hong P. Liu, Andrei Ludu

Publications

Enhancing REU (research experience for undergraduates) has become a popular strategy for many selective universities to enhance quality of undergraduate education and recruit gifted new students. The university that the authors are affiliated has set REU as one of the major outcomes for our QEP (quality enhancement program) for next 5 years. This paper presents a model centered REU program entitled as ACE standing for Analysis, Computation and Experiment. As a work in progress, the program is planned to run for the next 5 years and to serve for 20-30 undergraduate students who are gifted in mathematics and computing annually. …


Geometry Of Partial Differential Equations, Paul Bracken 2012 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Geometry Of Partial Differential Equations, Paul Bracken

School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Faculty Publications

The study of partial differential equations has been the object of much investigation and seen a great many advances recently. This is primarily due to the fact that certain classes of these equations fall under the category of being integrable. These kinds of equations have many useful properties such as the existence of Lax pairs, Backlund transformations, explicit solutions and the existence of a correspondence with geometric manifolds. There have also been many applications of solutions to these equations in the study of solitons and other objects which have seen applications in physics. It is the objective here to study …


Characterizations Of Logistic Distribution Through Order Statistics With Independent Exponential Shifts, M. Ahsanullah, George Yanev, Constantin Onica 2012 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Characterizations Of Logistic Distribution Through Order Statistics With Independent Exponential Shifts, M. Ahsanullah, George Yanev, Constantin Onica

School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Faculty Publications

Distributional properties of logistic order statistics subject to independent exponential one-sided and two-sided shifts are established. Utilizing these properties, we extend several known results and obtain new characterizations of the logistic distribution.


On Fundamental Groups Of Quotient Spaces, Jack S. Calcut, Robert E. Gompf, John D. McCarthy 2012 Oberlin College

On Fundamental Groups Of Quotient Spaces, Jack S. Calcut, Robert E. Gompf, John D. Mccarthy

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

In classical covering space theory, a covering map induces an injection of fundamental groups. This paper reveals a dual property for certain quotient maps having connected fibers, with applications to orbit spaces of vector fields and leaf spaces in general.


The Hyperboloid Model Of Hyperbolic Geometry, Zachery S. Lane Solheim 2012 Eastern Washington University

The Hyperboloid Model Of Hyperbolic Geometry, Zachery S. Lane Solheim

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

"The main goal of this thesis is to introduce and develop the hyperboloid model of Hyperbolic Geometry. In order to do that, some time is spent on Neutral Geometry as well as Euclidean Geometry; these are used to build several models of Hyperbolic Geometry. At this point the hyperboloid model is introduced, related to the other models visited, and developed using some concepts from physics as aids. After the development of the hyperboloid model, Fuchsian groups are briefly discussed and the more familiar models of Hyperbolic Geometry are further investigated"--Document.


Review: On The Near Periodicity Of Eigenvalues Of Toeplitz Matrices, Stephan Ramon Garcia 2011 Pomona College

Review: On The Near Periodicity Of Eigenvalues Of Toeplitz Matrices, Stephan Ramon Garcia

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Nonparametric Copula Density Estimation In Sensor Networks, Leming Qu, Hao Chen, Yicheng Tu 2011 Boise State University

Nonparametric Copula Density Estimation In Sensor Networks, Leming Qu, Hao Chen, Yicheng Tu

Mathematics Faculty Publications and Presentations

Statistical and machine learning is a fundamental task in sensor networks. Real world data almost always exhibit dependence among different features. Copulas are full measures of statistical dependence among random variables. Estimating the underlying copula density function from distributed data is an important aspect of statistical learning in sensor networks. With limited communication capacities or privacy concerns, centralization of the data is often impossible. By only collecting the ranks of the data observed by different sensors, we estimate and evaluate the copula density on an equally spaced grid after binning the standardized ranks at the fusion center. Without assuming any …


Lagrange's Theory Of Analytical Functions And His Ideal Of Purity Of Method, Giovanni Ferraro, Marco Panza 2011 Università del Molise

Lagrange's Theory Of Analytical Functions And His Ideal Of Purity Of Method, Giovanni Ferraro, Marco Panza

MPP Published Research

We reconstruct essential features of Lagrange’s theory of analytical functions by exhibiting its structure and basic assumptions, as well as its main shortcomings. We explain Lagrange’s notions of function and algebraic quantity, and we concentrate on power-series expansions, on the algorithm for derivative functions, and the remainder theorem—especially on the role this theorem has in solving geometric and mechanical problems. We thus aim to provide a better understanding of Enlightenment mathematics and to show that the foundations of mathematics did not, for Lagrange, concern the solidity of its ultimate bases, but rather purity of method—the generality and internal organization of …


Elliptic Operators And Maximal Regularity On Periodic Little-Hölder Spaces, Jeremy LeCrone 2011 University of Richmond

Elliptic Operators And Maximal Regularity On Periodic Little-Hölder Spaces, Jeremy Lecrone

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

We consider one-dimensional inhomogeneous parabolic equations with higher-order elliptic differential operators subject to periodic boundary conditions. In our main result we show that the property of continuous maximal regularity is satisfied in the setting of periodic little-Hölder spaces, provided the coefficients of the differential operator satisfy minimal regularity assumptions.We address parameter-dependent elliptic equations, deriving invertibility and resolvent bounds which lead to results on generation of analytic semigroups. We also demonstrate that the techniques and results of the paper hold for elliptic differential operators with operator-valued coefficients, in the setting of vector-valued functions.


Partial Connectivity In Wireless Sensor Networks, Robert Andre Murphy 2011 University of Missouri-St. Louis

Partial Connectivity In Wireless Sensor Networks, Robert Andre Murphy

Dissertations

Given a bounded region of the 2-dimensional plane, a discrete set of nodes is distributed throughout according to a Poisson point process. Given some fixed, finite, real number, two nodes are said to connect and form an edge if their mutual distance is less than this number. Let G be the graph of all such edges over the set of generated nodes and let C be any set of mutually connected nodes. It is shown that there is a critical mutual distance such that at least half of all generated nodes are mutually connected to form a connected cluster. Now, …


Dynamic Appointment Scheduling In Healthcare, McKay N. Heasley 2011 Brigham Young University - Provo

Dynamic Appointment Scheduling In Healthcare, Mckay N. Heasley

Theses and Dissertations

In recent years, healthcare management has become fertile ground for the scheduling theory community. In addition to an extensive academic literature on this subject, there has also been a proliferation of healthcare scheduling software companies in the marketplace. Typical scheduling systems use rule-based analytics that give schedulers advisory information from programmable heuristics such as the Bailey-Welch rule cite{B,BW}, which recommends overbooking early in the day to fill-in potential no-shows later on. We propose a dynamic programming problem formulation to the scheduling problem that maximizes revenue. We formulate the problem and discuss the effectiveness of 3 different algorithms that solve the …


Second-Order Subdifferential Calculus With Applications To Tilt Stability In Optimization, Boris S. Mordukhovich, R T. Rockafellar 2011 Wayne State University

Second-Order Subdifferential Calculus With Applications To Tilt Stability In Optimization, Boris S. Mordukhovich, R T. Rockafellar

Mathematics Research Reports

The paper concerns the second-order generalized differentiation theory of variational analysis and new applications of this theory to some problems of constrained optimization in finitedimensional spaces. The main attention is paid to the so-called (full and partial) second-order subdifferentials of extended-real-valued functions, which are dual-type constructions generated by coderivatives of first-order sub differential mappings. We develop an extended second-order subdifferential calculus and analyze the basic second-order qualification condition ensuring the fulfillment of the principal secondorder chain rule for strongly and fully amenable compositions. The calculus results obtained in this way and computing the second-order subdifferentials for piecewise linear-quadratic functions and …


Bifurcation And Invariant Manifolds Of The Logistic Competition Model, M. Guzowska, Rafael Luís, Saber Elaydi 2011 Trinity University

Bifurcation And Invariant Manifolds Of The Logistic Competition Model, M. Guzowska, Rafael Luís, Saber Elaydi

Mathematics Faculty Research

In this paper we study a new logistic competition model. We will investigate stability and bifurcation of the model. In particular, we compute the invariant manifolds, including the important center manifolds, and study their bifurcation. Saddle-node and period doubling bifurcation route to chaos is exhibited via numerical simulations.


Dynamic Server Allocation At Parallel Queues, Susan E. Martonosi 2011 Harvey Mudd College

Dynamic Server Allocation At Parallel Queues, Susan E. Martonosi

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

We explore whether dynamically reassigning servers to parallel queues in response to queue imbalances can reduce average waiting time in those queues. We use approximate dynamic programming methods to determine when servers should be switched, and we compare the performance of such dynamic allocations to that of a pre-scheduled deterministic allocation. Testing our method on both synthetic data and data from airport security checkpoints at Boston Logan International Airport, we find that in situations where the uncertainty in customer arrival rates is significant, dynamically reallocating servers can substantially reduce waiting time. Moreover, we find that intuitive switching strategies that are …


A General Family Of Dual To Ratio-Cum-Product Estimator In Sample Surveys, Florentin Smarandache, Rajesh Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Pankaj Chauhan, Nirmala Sawan 2011 University of New Mexico

A General Family Of Dual To Ratio-Cum-Product Estimator In Sample Surveys, Florentin Smarandache, Rajesh Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Pankaj Chauhan, Nirmala Sawan

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

This paper presents a family of dual to ratio-cum-product estimators for the finite population mean. Under simple random sampling without replacement (SRSWOR) scheme, expressions of the bias and mean-squared error (MSE) up to the first order of approximation are derived. We show that the proposed family is more efficient than usual unbiased estimator, ratio estimator, product estimator, Singh estimator (1967), Srivenkataramana (1980) and Bandyopadhyaya estimator (1980) and Singh et al. (2005) estimator. An empirical study is carried out to illustrate the performance of the constructed estimator over others.


Density Dependent Utilities With Transaction Costs, Eriyoti Chikodza, Julius N Esunge 2011 Louisiana State University

Density Dependent Utilities With Transaction Costs, Eriyoti Chikodza, Julius N Esunge

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Consistent Price Systems For Bounded Processes, Florian Maris, Eric Mbakop, Hasanjan Sayit 2011 Louisiana State University

Consistent Price Systems For Bounded Processes, Florian Maris, Eric Mbakop, Hasanjan Sayit

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


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