We reconsider the principles of diminishing transfer (introduced by Kolm (1976)) and dual diminishing transfer (introduced by Mehran (1976)). It appears that if a Rank Dependent Expected Utility (RDEU) maximizer respects the principle of diminishing (resp. dual diminishing) transfer, then he behaves in accordance with the Expected Utility model (resp. Yaari’s dual model). This leads us to defin...

In this paper, we consider convergence of classical high order Godunov-type schemes towards entropy solutions for scalar conservation laws. It is well known that sufficient conditions for such convergence include total variation boundedness of the reconstruction and cell or wavewise entropy inequalities. We prove that under large time steps, we only need total variation boundedness of the recon...

We show that any conservative scheme for solving scalar conservation laws in two space dimensions, which is total variation diminishing, is at most first-order accurate.

In this paper, we investigate the total variation diminishing property for a class of 2-stage explicit Rung-Kutta methods of order two (RK2) when applied to the numerical solution of special nonlinear initial value problems (IVPs) for (ODEs). Schemes preserving the essential physical property of diminishing total variation are of great importance in practice. Such schemes are free of spurious o...