This paper summarizes as a working paperbasic facts in both nite and in nite dimensional optimization in view of optimality conditions and stability of solutions to perturbed problems. Begining with section 4, partially new and unpublished results are included, elaborated in joint work with D. Klatte, Univ. Zuerich.

We show how the (globally supersymmetric) model of Mirabelli and Peskin can be formulated in the boundary (“downstairs” or “interval”) picture. The necessary GibbonsHawking-like terms appear naturally when using (codimension one) superfields. This formulation is free of the δ(0) ambiguities of the orbifold (“upstairs”) picture while describing the same physics since the boundary conditions on t...

In this section, we will introduce the work of Kbabou, Hermi, and Rhonma (2007)[2]. Their main idea is to use the eigenvalues and their ratios of the Dirichlet-Laplacian for various planar shapes as their features for classifying them. Let the sequence 0 < λ 1 < λ 2 ≤ λ 3 ≤ · · · ≤ λ k ≤ · · · → ∞ be the sequence of eigenvalues of Dirichlet-Laplacian problem: −∆u = λu in a given bounded planar ...

Introduction The first part of the paper presents several properties of saddle point matrices with two vector blocks. In these block matrices, the top-left block is a real square matrix , the topright block is the column vector with all entries , the bottom-left block is transposed, and the bottom-right block has the single entry . If is symmetric, the saddle point matrix can be interpreted as ...

The relativistic Boltzmann equation for a constant differential cross section and with periodic boundary conditions is considered. The speed of light appears as a parameter c>c0 for a properly large and positive c0. A local existence and uniqueness theorem is proved in an interval of time independent of c>c0 and conditions are given such that in the limit c→+∞ the solutions converge, in a suita...

We will mainly consider the Sinh-Gordon model in finite spacial volume which corresponds to imposing the periodic boundary conditions φ(x + R) = φ(x). A lot is known about the Sinh-Gordon model in infinite volume R → ∞, see e.g. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. The spectrum contains a single particle with mass m which is related to the parameter μ in (1.1) in a definite way [6], see eqn. (5.32) below. The S-ma...

We study optimal control problems of systems describing the flow of incompressible shear-thickening fluids. We prove existence of solutions and derive necessary optimality conditions under precise restrictions on the optimal control.

The method of alkaline elution was used to detect DNA alteration in rat liver throughout the carcinogenic sequence that resulted from exposure to a standard four-cycle feeding regimen of 2-acetylaminofluorene (AFF). At the end of 3 weeks of AAF feeding, DNA from aliquots of whole liver demonstrated a small but significant degree of damage. By the end of the fourth AAF feeding, the liver exhibit...

We discuss solutions of the one-dimensional telegrapher’s equation in the presence of boundary conditions. We revisit the case of a radiation boundary condition and obtain an alternative expression for the already known Green’s function. Furthermore, we formulate a backreaction boundary condition, which has been widely used in the context of diffusion-controlled reversible reactions, for a one-...