starting from two-dimensional (2d) equations of motion, discretized formulations for transient behavior of soil-structure interaction problems have been derived. two different dynamic infinite elements taking into account single and two-wave types are presented in transformed space. by coupling the infinite elements with standard finite elements, an ordinary finite element procedure is used for...

In this paper, we investigate the convergence of a sequence of minimizing trajectories in infinite horizon optimization problems. The convergence is considered in the sense of ideals and their particular case called the statistical convergence. The optimality is defined as a total cost over the infinite horizon.

Fixed point methods play a major role in the paper. In particular, we use lower type inequalities together with Krasnoselskii’s fixed point theorem in a cone to deduce the existence of positive solutions for a general class of problems. Moreover, the results and technique are applicable also to positone problems. 2000 Math. Subj. Class. 34B15, 47H30, 39A10.

This note introduces a new general conjecture correlating the dimensionality dT of an infinite lattice with N nodes to the asymptotic value of its Wiener Index W(N). In the limit of large N the general asymptotic behavior W(N)≈Ns is proposed, where the exponent s and dT are related by the conjectured formula s=2+1/dT allowing a new definition of dimensionality dW=(s-2)-1. Being related to the t...

In this paper we introduce and study a regularising one-to-one mapping Υ0 from the class of one-dimensional Lévy measures into itself. This mapping appeared implicitly in our previous paper [BT2], where we introduced a one-to-one mapping Υ from the class ID(∗) of one-dimensional infinitely divisible probability measures into itself. Based on the studies of Υ0 in the present paper, we also deduc...

A probability measure μ on Rd is called weakly unimodal if there exists a constant κ ≥ 1 such that for all r > 0, (0.1) sup a∈Rd μ(B(a, r)) ≤ κμ(B(0, r)). Here, B(a, r) denotes the `∞-ball centered at a ∈ Rd with radius r > 0. In this note, we derive a sufficient condition for weak unimodality of a measure on the Borel subsets of Rd. In particular, we use this to prove that every symmetric infi...

The core of games arising from semi-infinite transportation situations with infinitely divisible goods is studied. In these situations one aims at maximizing the profit from transporting a good from a finite number of suppliers to an infinite number of demanders. This good is infinitely divisible. It is shown that the underlying primal and dual infinite programs have no duality gap. Further, th...

We extend the Lévy-Khintchine representation for an infinitely divisible distribution to define a driving process in the context of the bond price framework developed earlier. We describe a methodology using subordination to construct such processes and we develop some examples in detail.