In this paper we describe a semianalytical approach to computing the temperature and thermal stress inside a III-V compound grown with the Czochralski technique. An analysis of the growing conditions indicates that the crystal growth occurs on the conductive time scale. A perturbation method for the temperature field is developed for an arbitrary crystal profile using the Biot number as a (smal...

The motions of relativistic particles in a magnetosonic shock wave propagating obliquely to an external magnetic field are studied. In the zeroth-order theory, particles continue to move nearly parallel to the external magnetic field in the shock transition region, when the shock speed is close to c cos θ, where c is the speed of light and θ is the propagation angle. Perturbations to this zerot...

The cancellation of the 0th order is described by a low-contrast fused-silica grating. In reported works, the high-contrast grating and complicated structure were applied with reasonable and excellent performance. However, the low-contrast grating is proved that it can also cancel the 0th order with the period more than 2λ in this paper. Grating parameters are optimized by using rigorous couple...

We show that the zeroth cohomology of effective line bundles on del Pezzo and Hirzebruch surfaces can always be computed in terms a topological index.

We consider the problem of minimizing a high-dimensional objective function, which may include regularization term, using only (possibly noisy) evaluations function. Such optimization is also called derivative-free, zeroth-order, or black-box optimization. propose new zeroth-order regularized method, dubbed ZORO. When underlying gradient approximately sparse at an iterate, ZORO needs very few f...

We present a statistical strategy for the efficient determination of the cluster luminosity function from the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) effects survey. The strategy is set up to match in particular the upcoming AMiBA (Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy) experiment. To determine the cluster luminosity function from the noise contaminated SZ map, we first define the zeroth-order cluster lumi...

Let Ψ = {ψ1, . . . , ψL} ⊂ L2 := L2(−∞,∞) generate a tight affine frame with dilation factor M , where 2 ≤M ∈ Z, and sampling constant b = 1 (for the zeroth scale level). Then for 1 ≤ N ∈ Z, N×oversampling (or oversampling by N) means replacing the sampling constant 1 by 1/N . The Second Oversampling Theorem asserts that N×oversampling of the given tight affine frame generated by Ψ preserves a ...

In this paper, we study the portfolio optimization problem with general utility functions and when the return and volatility of the underlying asset are slowly varying. An asymptotic optimal strategy is provided within a specific class of admissible controls under this problem setup. Specifically, we establish a rigorous first order approximation of the value function associated to a fixed zero...

The distributed-tubes model of hepatic elimination is extended to include intermixing between sinusoids, resulting in the formulation of a new, interconnected-tubes model. The new model is analysed for the simple case of two interconnected tubes, where an exact solution is obtained. For the case of many strongly-interconnected tubes, it is shown that a zeroth-order approximation leads to the co...