Inflatable space structures need to maintain in a desired shape in space in order to achieve satisfactory performance. The active shape control technique has shown its advantages in solving this problem. Due to strong non-linear properties of the inflatable structures, it is a challenging task to model the inflatable structure properties and to find optimal control output. In this paper, a sche...

In this paper we investigate the statistical properties of magnetic field fluctuations measured by the four Cluster spacecraft in the cusp and close to the interface with the magnetospheric lobes, magnetopause and magnetosheath. At lower altitudes along the outbound orbit of 26 February 2001, the magnetic field fluctuations recorded by all four spacecraft are random and their Probability Distri...

In this paper, we define a new projective invariant and call it W̃ -curvature. We prove that a Finsler manifold with dimension n ≥ 3 is of constant flag curvature if and only if its W̃ -curvature vanishes. Various kinds of projectively flatness of Finsler metrics and their equivalency on Riemannian metrics are also studied. M.S.C. 2010: 53B40, 53C60.

We introduce the concept of flatness degree for matroids, as a generalization of submodularity. This represents weaker variations of the concept of flatness which characterize strict gammoids for finite matroids. We prove that having flatness degree 3, which is the smallest non-trivial flatness degree, implies pseudomodularity on the lattice of flats of the matroid. We show however an example o...

Valdis Laan in [5] introduced an extension of strong flatness which is called weak pullback flatness. In this paper we introduce a new property of acts over monoids, called U-WPF which is an extension of weak pullback flatness and give a classification of monoids by this property of their acts and also a classification of monoids when this property of acts implies others. We also show that regu...