Oscillating tableaux are certain walks in Young’s lattice of partitions; they generalize standard Young tableaux. The shape of an oscillating tableau is the last partition it visits and the length of an oscillating tableau is the number of steps it takes. We define a new statistic for oscillating tableaux that we call weight: the weight of an oscillating tableau is the sum of the sizes of all t...

By a highly–oscillating function we mean one with large number of local maxima and minima over some interval. The computation of integrals of highly–oscillating functions is one of the most important issues in numerical analysis since such integrals abound in applications in many branches of mathematics as well as in other sciences, e.g., quantum physics, fluid mechanics, electromagnetics, etc....

The atomic force microscope is a versatile tool that allows many routes to be used for investigating the mechanical properties of soft materials on the nanometer scale. In the present work, experiments were performed on polystyrene polymer films of various molecular weight by approaching a vibrating nanotip towards the surface. The variation of the oscillating amplitude of the cantilever is int...

We investigate fundamental nonlinear dynamics of ferrofluidic Taylor-Couette flow - flow confined be-tween two concentric independently rotating cylinders - consider small aspect ratio by solving the ferro-hydrodynamical equations, carrying out systematic bifurcation analysis. Without magnetic field, we find steady flow patterns, previously observed with a simple fluid, such as those containing...

We study the behavior of solutions to a Schrödinger equation with large, rapidly oscillating, mean zero, random potential with Gaussian distribution. We show that in high dimension d > m, where m is the order of the spatial pseudo-differential operator in the Schrödinger equation (with m = 2 for the standard Laplace operator), the solution converges in the L sense uniformly in time over finite ...

The exact general evolution of circular strings in 2 + 1 dimensional de Sitter spacetime is described closely and completely in terms of elliptic functions. The evolution depends on a constant parameter b, related to the string energy, and falls into three classes depending on whether b < 1/4 (oscillatory motion), b = 1/4 (degenerated, hyperbolic motion) or b > 1/4 (unbounded motion). The novel...

An 'oscillating' version of Brownian motion is defined and studied. 'Ordinary' Brownian motion and 'reflecting' Brownian motion are shown to arise as special cases. Transition densities, first-passage time distributions, and occupation time distributions for the process are obtained explicitly. Convergence of a simple oscillating random walk to an oscillating Brownian motion process is establis...

Stimuli-responsive polymers and their application to biomaterials have been widely studied. On the other hand, as a novel biomimetic polymer, we have been studying the polymer with an autonomous self-oscillating function by utilizing oscillating chemical reactions. So far, we succeeded in developing a novel self-oscillating polymer and gels by utilizing the oscillating reaction, called the Belo...

a noninteracting quantum-dot arrays side coupled to a quantum wire is studied. transport through the quantum wire is investigated by using a noninteracting anderson tunneling hamiltonian. the conductance at zero temperature develops an oscillating band with resonances and antiresonances due to constructive and destructive interference in the ballistic channel, respectively. moreover, we have fo...