It is shown that the nonhomogeneous Dirichlet and Neuman problems for the 2nd-order Seiberg-Witten equation on a compact 4-manifold X admit a regular solution once the nonhomogeneous Palais-Smale condition is satisfied. The approach consists in applying the elliptic techniques to the variational setting of the Seiberg-Witten equation. The gauge invariance of the functional allows to restrict th...

Two piecewise Hermite bicubic orthogonal spline collocation schemes are considered for the approximate solution of elliptic, self-adjoint, nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary value problems on rectangles. In the rst scheme, the nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition is approximated by means of the piecewise Hermite cubic interpolant, while the piecewise cubic interpolant at the boundary Gaus...

The propagation of compound plasmon-polariton (CPP) waves was investigated for the canonical boundary-value problem involving a metal film sandwiched between homogeneous uniaxial dielectric material and periodically nonhomogeneous isotropic material. Attention focused upon exceptional CPP whose decay in is governed by product linear an exponential function distance from dielectric/metal interfa...

A laser-driven particle source is exploited for the elemental and stratigraphic characterization of a nonhomogeneous sample.

The fracture behaviors near the interface crack tip for mode II of orthotropic bimaterial are discussed. The oscillatory singularity fields are researched. The stress functions are chosen which contain twelve undetermined coefficients and an unknown singularity exponent. Based on the boundary conditions and linear independence, the system of twelve nonhomogeneous linear equations is derived. Ac...

We study a semiparametric pseudo-likelihood inference for nonhomogeneous Gamma process with random effects for degradation data. The setting for degradation data is one in which n independent subjects, each with a nonhomogeneous Gamma process, are observed at possible different times. The random effects are used to represent heterogeneity of degradation paths. To obtain the maximum pseudo-likel...

In this paper, we consider a nonhomogeneous space-time fractional telegraph equation defined in a bounded space domain, which is obtained from the standard telegraph equation by replacing the firstor second-order time derivative by the Caputo fractional derivative Dt , α > 0; and the Laplacian operator by the fractional Laplacian (−∆) , β ∈ (0, 2]. We discuss and derive the analytical solutions...

We study the nonlinear eigenvalue problem−div(a(|∇u|)∇u) = λ|u|q(x)−2u in Ω, u = 0 on ∂Ω, where Ω is a bounded open set in R with smooth boundary, q is a continuous function, and a is a nonhomogeneous potential. We establish sufficient conditions on a and q such that the above nonhomogeneous quasilinear problem has continuous families of eigenvalues. The proofs rely on elementary variational ar...

In this paper, sufficient conditions are given for the existence of limiting distribution of a nonhomogeneous countable Markov chain with time-dependent transition intensity matrix. The method of proof exploits the fact that if the distribution of random process Q = (Qt )t 0 is absolutely continuous with respect to the distribution of ergodic random process Q◦ = (Q◦t )t 0, then Qt law −→ t→∞ wh...

In this paper we consider nonhomogeneous birth and death processes (BDP) with periodic rates. Two important parameters are studied, which are helpful to describe a nonhomogeneous BDP X = X (t), t ≥ 0: the limiting mean value (namely, the mean length of the queue at a given time t) and the double mean (i.e. the mean length of the queue for the whole duration of the BDP). We find conditions of ex...