In this paper we provide the guidelines for the direct degree elevation of NURBS curves. Through the analysis of linear equation systems of quartic and lower degree splines we derive a direct relation between the knot vector of a spline and the degree elevation coefficients. We also present a direct degree elevation scheme and several algorithms based on the discovered relation. Experimental re...

One might say that this formula allows one to solve the quadratic with a pencil. There is an analogous formula for the general quartic equation, ax+ bx + cx + dx+ e = 0. If you just have to know the formula or one way to derive it and don’t care about anything else, you may just skip to the last section of this paper. However, there is a mathematical notion of a pencil, which is rather cool and...

We give a class of exact solutions of quartic scalar field theories. These solutions prove to be interesting as are characterized by the production of mass contributions arising from the nonlinear terms while maintaining a wavelike behavior. So, a quartic massless equation has a nonlinear wave solution with a dispersion relation of a massive wave and a quartic scalar theory gets its mass term r...

Quartic-Spline Collocation Methods for Fourth-Order Two-Point Boundary Value Problems Ying Zhu Master of Science Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 2001 This thesis presents numerical methods for the solution of general linear fourth-order boundary value problems in one dimension. The methods are based on quartic splines, that is, piecewise quartic polynomials with C3...

The purpose of this paper is to solve the seventh-order functional equation as follows:  --------------------------- Next, we study the stability of this type of functional equation. Clearly, the function ----------  holds in this type functional equation. Also, we prove Hyers-Ulam stability for this type functional equation in the β-Gaussian Banach space.  

This paper is devoted to the derivation of a macroscopic diffusion equation (Fourier’s law) describing the transport of energy in an anharmonic chain. More precisely, we study here the so-called FPU-β chain, which is a very simple model for a one-dimensional crystal in which atoms are coupled to their nearest neighbors by a harmonic potential, weakly perturbed by a quartic potential. The starti...

D−dimensional central and complex potentials of a Coulomb plus quartic-polynomial form are considered in a PT −symmetrized radial Schrödinger equation. Arbitrarily large finite multiplets of bound states are shown obtainable in an elementary form. Relations between their energies and couplings are determined by a finite-dimensional secular equation. The Bender’s and Boettcher’s one-dimensional ...

In this paper we prove that the Diophantine equation x − 4cxy + (6c+ 2)xy + 4cxy + y = 1, where c ≥ 3 is an integer, has only the trivial solutions (±1, 0), (0,±1). Using the method of Tzanakis, we show that solving this quartic Thue equation reduces to solving the system of Pellian equations (2c+ 1)U − 2cV 2 = 1, (c− 2)U − cZ = −2, and we prove that all solutions of this system are given by (U...