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Pleba\'nski's class of nonlinear vacuum electrodynamics is considered which is for several reasons of interest at the present time. In particular the question is answered under which circumstances Maxwell's original field equations are…
We address the problem of minimal actuator placement in linear systems so that the volume of the set of states reachable with one unit or less of input energy is lower bounded by a desired value. First, following the recent work of…
The multi-objective optimization is to optimize several objective functions over a common feasible set. Since the objectives usually do not share a common optimizer, people often consider (weakly) Pareto points. This paper studies…
We prove existence and uniqueness of a solution to the problem of minimizing the logarithmic energy of vector potentials associated to a $d$-tuple of positive measures supported on closed subsets of the complex plane. The assumptions we…
Consider the action of a connected complex reductive group on a finite-dimensional vector space. A fundamental result in invariant theory states that the orbit closure of a vector v is separated from the origin if and only if some…
Let f be a function meromorphic in a neighborhood of infinity. The central problem in the present investigation is to find the largest domain D \subset C to which the function f can be extended in a meromorphic and singlevalued manner.…
Consider the global wellposedness problem for nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation \[ i\partial_t u = [-\tfrac{1}{2} \Delta + V(x)] u \pm |u|^{4/(d-2)} u, \ u(0) \in \Sigma(\mathbf{R}^d), \] where $\Sigma$ is the weighted Sobolev space…
A new algorithm for solving non-homogeneous asymptotically linear and superlinear problems is proposed. The ground state solution of the problem, which in general is obtained as a mini-max of the associated functional, is obtained as the…
We present an optimization problem emerging from optimal control theory and situated at the intersection of fractional programming and linear max-min programming on polytopes. A na\"ive solution would require solving four nested, possibly…
A fourth-order elliptic problem of Leray-Lions type is considered for combined nonlinearities and Sobolev-critical growth with Navier and Dirichlet boundary conditions. By combining variational methods and critical point theory, the…
We describe an approach for finding upper bounds on an ODE dynamical system's maximal Lyapunov exponent among all trajectories in a specified set. A minimization problem is formulated whose infimum is equal to the maximal Lyapunov exponent,…
We introduce the problem of minimal actuator placement in a linear control system so that a bound on the minimum control effort for a given state transfer is satisfied while controllability is ensured. We first show that this is an NP-hard…
We extend the notion of some energy-type expressions based on two sets, developed in the abstract potential theory. We also give the discretized version of the quantities defined, similar to Chebyshev constant. This extension allows to…
We study fourth-order quasilinear elliptic problems that involve the p-biharmonic operator and Navier boundary conditions. The nonlinear term grows at the critical Sobolev rate. Starting from a Hamiltonian system of two second-order…
Minimization of energy functionals is based on a discretization by the finite element method and optimization by the trust-region method. A key tool is a local evaluation of the approximated gradients together with sparsity of the resulting…
We consider minimum energy optimal control problem with time dependent Lagrangian on the nonholonomic integrator and and find the analytical solution using Sturm-Liouville theory. Furthermore, we also consider the minimum energy problem on…
This is an English translation of G.N. Chebotarev's paper "On The Klein-Hilbert Resolvent Problem" which was originally written in Russian and published in Izvestiya Kazan. Fiz. Mat. Obshch., 6 (1932-1933), 5-22. In this article, Chebotarev…
Moment problems and orthogonal polynomials, both meant in a single real variable, belong to the oldest problems in Classical Analysis. They have been developing for over a century in two parallel, mostly independent streams. During the last…
This paper provides a new regularization method which is particularly suitable for linear exponentially ill-posed problems. Under logarithmic source conditions (which have a natural interpretation in terms of Sobolev spaces in the…
A new pairwise cost function is proposed for the optimal transport barycenter problem, adopting the form of the minimal action between two points, with a Lagrangian that takes into account an underlying probability distribution. Under this…