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We show that, for mechanical system with external forces, the equations of deviations of solution curves of the corresponding Lagrange equations,determine a nonlinear connection on the second order osculator (second order tangent) bundle.…

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A method is proposed which allows a complete determination of the complex reflection coefficient for any free unknown real potential (i.e., in the case where there is no effective absorption). In this method the unknown layer mounted on top…

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The Neumann--Neumann method is a commonly employed domain decomposition method for linear elliptic equations. However, the method exhibits slow convergence when applied to semilinear equations and does not seem to converge at all for…

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We study the existence and localization of eigenvalue-eigenfunction pairs for parameter-dependent Neumann BVPs with a functional term. By reformulating the problems as a Hammerstein integral equation, we apply an existence and localization…

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There exists a planar domain with piecewise smooth boundary and one hole such that the second eigenfunction for the Laplacian with Neumann boundary conditions attains its maximum and minimum inside the domain.

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We consider the inverse refractor and the inverse reflector problem. The task is to design a free-form lens or a free-form mirror that, when illuminated by a point light source, produces a given illumination pattern on a target. Both…

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We numerically investigate the generalized Steklov problem for the modified Helmholtz equation and focus on the relation between its spectrum and the geometric structure of the domain. We address three distinct aspects: (i) the asymptotic…

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We investigate the existence and uniqueness of solutions for second-order semi-linear partial differential equations defined on a Riemannian manifold $M$. By combining differential geometry and analysis techniques, we establish the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Nicolas Martinez-Alba , Oscar Riaño

A method is given of deriving the distribution of planar Brownian motion evaluated at certain stopping times using analytic functions. This method relies upon a generalization of the standard conformal invariance of harmonic measure. A…

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We study a model for the entanglement of a two-dimensional reflecting Brownian motion in a bounded region divided into two halves by a wall with three or more small windows. We map the Brownian motion into a Markov Chain on the fundamental…

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In this paper we study the Neumann problem for a type of fully nonlinear second order elliptic partial differential equations on domains in $\mathbb{C}^{n}$ without any curvature assumptions on the domain.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-27 WeiSong Dong , Wei Wei

We study the nodal deficiency of pairs of Neumann eigenfunctions defined over symmetric dumbbell domains. As the width of the connecting neck shrinks, these eigenfunctions converge to Neumann eigenfunctions defined over the ends of the…

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In this work, we explore the ability of NN (Neural Networks) to serve as a tool for finding eigen-pairs of ordinary differential equations. The question we aime to address is whether, given a self-adjoint operator, we can learn what are the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Ido Ben-Shaul , Leah Bar , Nir Sochen

In this paper we will prove the nodal line $N$ of the second eigenfunction of the Laplacian over some simply connected concave domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$ must intersect the boundary $\partial\Omega$ at exactly two points.

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