When the degree of saturation at intersection approaches one, Webster’s optimum cycle length equation becomes inapplicable, because the cycle length will becomes very big when the degree of saturation approaches one and will be fully unrealistic when the degree of saturation becomes greater than one. This is not a problem for HCM2000 method. But optimum cycle length calculation in this method h...

After reviewing a number of results from geometric singular perturbation theory, we give an example of a theorem for periodic solutions in a slow manifold. This is illustrated by examples involving the van der Pol-equation and a modified logistic equation. Regarding nonhyperbolic transitions we discuss a four-dimensional relaxation oscillation and also canard-like solutions emerging from the mo...

We study four distinct second-order nonlinear equations of Rabelo which describe pseudospherical surfaces. By transforming these equations to the constant-characteristic form we relate them to some well-studied integrable equations. Two of the Rabelo equations are found to be related to the sine-Gordon equation. The other two are transformed into a linear equation and the Liouville equation, an...

In 1986, Mills and Robbins observed by computer the continued fraction expansion of certain algebraic power series over a finite field. Incidentally, they came across a particular equation of degree four in characteristic p = 13. This equation has an analogue for all primes p ≥ 5. There are two patterns for the continued fraction of the solution of this equation, according to the residue of p m...

Solvability of forward–backward stochastic di erential equations with nonsmooth coe cients is considered using the Four-Step Scheme and some approximation arguments. For the onedimensional case, the existence of an adapted solution is established for the equation which allows the di usion in the forward equation to be degenerate. As a byproduct, we obtain the existence of a viscosity solution t...

Elliptic equations model the behaviour of scalar quantities u, such as temperature or gravitational potential, which are in an equilibrium situation subject to certain imposed boundary conditions. In his first four lectures, John Urbas discussed linear 1 elliptic equations. In his lectures on the minimal surface equation, Graham Williams discussed the minimal surface equation, a quasilinear 2 e...

This paper shows that the general hypersurface of degree ≥ 6 in projective four space cannot support an indecomposable rank two vector bundle which is Arithmetically CohenMacaulay and four generated. Equivalently, the equation of the hypersurface is not the Pfaffian of a four by four minimal skewsymmetric matrix.

This paper shows that the general hypersurface of degree ≥ 6 in projective four space cannot support an indecomposable rank two vector bundle which is Arithmetically CohenMacaulay and four generated. Equivalently, the equation of the hypersurface is not the Pfaffian of a four by four minimal skewsymmetric matrix.

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