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We study the algorithmic complexity of the problem of deciding whether a Linear Time Invariant dynamical system with rational coefficients has bounded trajectories. Despite its ubiquitous and elementary nature in Systems and Control, it…
There is a growing body of evidence that the running of $\alpha_s$ predicted by perturbation (PT) theory is not correctly describing the accelerator experiments at the highest energies. A natural explanation is provided by the authors' 1992…
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In this paper the analogues of the Lorentz transformations for non-inertial reference frames have been obtained. A common case when the movement speed of one coordinate frame in relation to another one can have time derivatives of higher…
We consider the periodic Manhattan lattice with alternating orientations going north-south and east-west. Place obstructions on vertices independently with probability $0<p<1$. A particle is moving on the edges with unit speed following the…
This paper is concerned with the Dirichlet initial-boundary value problem of a 2-D parabolic-elliptic system proposed to model the formation of biological transport networks. Even if global weak solutions for this system are known to exist,…
We analyze the problem of one dimensional quantum particle falling in a constant gravitational field, also known as the {\it bouncing ball}, employing a semiclassical approach known as momentous effective quantum mechanics. In this…
The paper addresses the doubly elliptic eigenvalue problem $$\begin{cases} -\Delta u=\lambda u \qquad &\text{in $\Omega$,}\\ u=0 &\text{on $\Gamma_0$,}\\ -\Delta_\Gamma u +\partial_\nu u =\lambda u\qquad &\text{on $\Gamma_1$,} \end{cases}…
The qualitative behavior of the Rabinowitz unbounded continuum of subcritical Gelfand problems is well known on balls in any dimension. We don't know of any such sharp and detailed description otherwise, which is our motivation to look for…
Using the variational approach and the critical point theory, we established several criteria for the existence of at least one nontrivial solution for a discrete elliptic boundary value problem with a weight $p(\cdot, \cdot)$ and depending…