Delegating Divisible Sovereignty: Sweeping a Conceptual Minefield David A. Lake University of California, San Diego October 11, 2006 Delegating authority to international organizations (IOs) has recently been attacked by observers on the right and left. Conservatives, especially in the United States, charge that delegating authority to a supranational body or agency violates the Constitution. C...

Large amplitude standing waves of spatially periodic sine-Gordon equations are excited and controlled by sweeping the frequency of a small, spatially modulated driving oscillation through resonances in the system. The approach is based on capturing the system into resonances and subsequent adiabatic, persistent phase locking (autoresonance) yielding control via a single external parameter (the ...

Enhancement of heat and mass transfer and decrease of energy dissipation are great necessities of the evolution of fluid flow devices. Utilizing oscillatory or pulsatile fluid flow for periodic disturbing of velocity and thermal boundary layers is one of the methods with exciting results. Passive methods of generating oscillatory flow are preferred to active methods because of simplicity, no ne...

A fifth order weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) fast sweeping method is designed in this paper, extending the result of the third order WENO fast sweeping method in J. Sci. Comput. 29, 25–56 (2006) and utilizing the two approaches of accurate inflow boundary condition treatment in J. Comput. Math. 26, 1–11 (2008), which allows the usage of Cartesian meshes regardless of the domain bou...

We present a new algorithm, Prioritized Sweeping, for e cient prediction and control of stochastic Markov systems. Incremental learning methods such as Temporal Di erencing and Qlearning have fast real time performance. Classical methods are slower, but more accurate, because they make full use of the observations. Prioritized Sweeping aims for the best of both worlds. It uses all previous expe...

We propose an effective stopping criterion for higher-order fast sweeping schemes for static Hamilton-Jacobi equations based on ratios of three consecutive iterations. To design the new stopping criterion we analyze the convergence of the first-order Lax-Friedrichs sweeping scheme by using the theory of nonlinear iteration. In addition, we propose a fifth-order Weighted PowerENO sweeping scheme...