It is well known that beam is one of the basic structures in architecture. It is greatly used in the designing of bridge and construction. Recently, scientists bring forward the theory of combined beams. That is to say, we can bind up some stratified structure copings into one global combined beam with rock bolts. The deformations of an elastic beam in equilibrium state, whose two ends are simp...

We consider the Cauchy problem for the Euler-Bernoulli equation of the vibrating beam and solve it in Gevrey classes under appropriate Levi conditions on the lower order terms.

In a sequence of independent Bernoulli trials the probability of success in the k:th trial is pk = a/(a+b+k−1). An explicit formula for the binomial moments of the number of two consecutive successes in the first n trials is obtained and some consequences of it are derived.

In an infinite sequence of independent Bernoulli trials with success probabilities pk = a/(a + b + k − 1) for k = 1, 2, 3, . . . , let Nr be the number of r ≥ 2 consecutive successes. Expressions for the first two moments of Nr are derived. Asymptotics of the probability of no occurrence of r consecutive successes for large r are obtained. Using an embedding in a marked Poisson process, it is i...

The billiard in a polygon is not always ergodic and never K-mixing or Bernoulli. Here we consider billiard tables by attaching disks to each vertex of an arbitrary simply connected, convex polygon. We show that the billiard on such a table is ergodic, K-mixing and Bernoulli.

The chemical distance D(x, y) is the length of the shortest open path between two points x and y in an infinite Bernoulli percolation cluster. In this work, we study the asymptotic behaviour of this random metric, and we prove that, for an appropriate norm μ depending on the dimension and the percolation parameter, the probability of the event

Kolmogorov studied the problem of whether a function of the parameter p of the Bernoulli distribution Bernoulli[p] has an unbiased estimator based on a sample X1, X2, . . . , Xn of size n and proved that exactly the polynomial functions of degree at most n can be estimated. For the geometric distribution Geometric[p], we prove that exactly the functions that are analytic at p = 1 have unbiased ...

We give an asymptotic expansion for the Taylor coefficients of L(P (z)) where L(z) is analytic in the open unit disc whose Taylor coefficients vary ‘smoothly’ and P (z) is a probability generating function. We show how this result applies to a variety of problems, amongst them obtaining the asymptotics of Bernoulli transforms and weighted renewal sequences.

We consider the Bernoulli first-passage percolation on Z (d ≥ 2). That is, the edge passage time is taken independently to be 1 with probability 1− p and 0 otherwise. Let μ(p) be the time constant. We prove in this paper that μ(p1)− μ(p2) ≥ μ(p2) 1− p2 (p2 − p1) for all 0 ≤ p1 < p2 < 1 by using Russo’s formula. AMS classification: 60K 35. 82B 43.