Shock wave induced cavitation experiments and atomic force microscopy measurements of flat polyamide and hydrophobized silicon surfaces immersed in water are performed. It is shown that surface nanobubbles, present on these surfaces, do not act as nucleation sites for cavitation bubbles, in contrast to the expectation. This implies that surface nanobubbles are not just stable under ambient cond...

In this paper, a novel variational model with strict convexity for removing multiplicative noise from images is proposed and studied. Firstly, by applying maximum likelihood estimation method and the Bayesian formulation, the variational model is derived. Then, we use an alternating minimization algorithm to find out the minimizer of the objective function, and prove the existence of the minimi...

The stability problem of the functional equation was conjectured by Ulam and was solved by Hyers in the case of additive mapping. Baker et al. investigated the superstability of the functional equation from a vector space to real numbers. In this paper, we exhibit the superstability of $m$-additive maps on complete non--Archimedean spaces via a fixed point method raised by Diaz and Margolis.

A topological algebra is a complex associative algebra which is also a Hausdorff topological vector space such that the multiplication is separately continuous. A locally convex algebra is a topological algebra whose topology is determined by a family of seminorms. A complete metrizable locally convex algebra is called a B0-algebra. The topology of a B0-algebra A may be given by a countable fam...

Let D(s) = ∑∞ m=1 amm −s be the Dirichlet series generated by the infinite product ∏∞ k=2(1− k−s). The value of am for squarefree integers m with n prime factors depends only on the number n, and we let f(n) denote this value. We prove an asymptotic estimate for f(n) which allows us to solve several problems raised in a recent paper by M. V. Subbarao and A. Verma.

A multiplicative function f is said to be specially multiplicative if there is a completelymultiplicative function fA such that f(m)f(n)= ∑ d|(m,n) f (mn/d)fA(d) for allm andn. For example, the divisor functions and Ramanujan’s τ-function are specially multiplicative functions. Some characterizations of specially multiplicative functions are given in the literature. In this paper, we provide so...

In this paper we will investigate the superstability of the generalized d’Alembert type functional equations Pm i=1 f(x + σ i(y)) = kg(x)f(y) and Pm i=1 f(x + σ i(y)) = kf(x)g(y).

If (G, *) and (H, •) are groups, then a function f : G −→ H is a homomorphism if f (x * y) = f (x) • f (y) for all x, y ∈ G. Example: Let (G, *) be an arbitrary group and H = {e}, then the function f : G −→ H such that f (x) = e for any x ∈ G is a homomorphism. In fact, f (x * y) = e = e • e = f (x) • f (y). f (x) = x for any x ∈ G is a homomorphism. In fact, f (x * y) = x * y = f (x) * f (y). ...