The paper presents some main aspects regarding multi-parametric quadratic programming (mp-QP) problems. Model Predictive Control (MPC) is considered as a particular mp-QP problem, and this powerful tool is applied for control and simulation through a case study. Since the solutions to mp-QP problems can be expressed as piecewise affine linear functions of the state, a new implementation in term...

When we solve an ordinary nonlinear programming problem by the most and popular sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method, one of the difficulties that we must overcome is to ensure the consistence of its QP subproblems. In this paper, we develop a new SQP method which can assure that the QP subproblem at every iteration is consistent. One of the main techniques used in our method involves ...

We performed high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy on Nd1.87Ce0.13CuO4, which is located at the boundary of the antiferromagnetic (AF) and the superconducting phase. We observed that the quasiparticle (QP) effective mass around (pi,0) is strongly enhanced due to the opening of the AF gap. The QP mass and the AF gap are found to be anisotropic, with the largest value near the...

We present the design of an analog circuit which solves linear programming (LP) or Quadratic Programming (QP) problems. In particular, the steadystate circuit voltages are the components of the LP (QP) optimal solution. The paper shows how to construct the circuit and provides a proof of equivalence between the circuit and the LP (QP) problem. The proposed method is used to implement a LP-based...

We study experimentally the critical depinning current I(c) versus applied magnetic field B in Nb thin films which contain 2D arrays of circular antidots placed on the nodes of quasiperiodic (QP) fivefold Penrose lattices. Close to the transition temperature T(c) we observe matching of the vortex lattice with the QP pinning array, confirming essential features in the I(c)(B) patterns as predict...

Qualitative Process theory provides a formal representation for human-like models of continuous processes. Prior research mapped qualitative process elements onto English language constructions, but did not connect the representations to existing frame semantic resources. Here we identify and classify QP language constituents through their instantiation in FrameNet frames to provide a unified s...

The rst arrival quasi-P wave traveltime eld in an anisotropic elastic solid solves a rst order nonlinear partial diierential equation, the qP eikonal equation. Since the qP slowness surface is convex, the rst arrival traveltime along downward propagating rays solves the paraxial qP eikonal equation, an evolution equation in depth. A second order upwind nite diierence scheme solves this paraxial...

Abstract. We show that for any prime number l > 2 the minus class group of the field of the l-th roots of unity Qp(ζl) admits a finite free resolution of length 1 as a module over the ring Ẑ[G]/(1 + ι). Here ι denotes complex conjugation in G = Gal(Qp(ζl)/Qp) ∼= (Z/lZ)∗. Moreover, for the primes l ≤ 509 we show that the minus class group is cyclic as a module over this ring. For these primes we...

Let Ω be an algebraic closure of Qp and let F be a finite extension of Qp contained in Ω. Given positive integers f and e, the number of extensions K/F contained in Ω with residue degree f and ramification index e was computed by Krasner. This paper is concerned with the number I(F, f, e) of F -isomorphism classes of such extensions. We determine I(F, f, e) completely when p2 ∤ e and get partia...