The finite temperature effective potential of the Abelian Higgs Model is studied using the self-consistent composite operator method, which can be used to sum up the contributions of daisy and superdaisy diagrams. The effect of the momentum dependence of the effective masses is estimated by using a Rayleigh-Ritz variational approximation.

In this paper we prove that finite element discrete harmonic functions with mixed Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions satisfy a weak (Agmon-Miranda) maximum principle on convex polygonal domains. Using this result, we establish the stability of the Ritz projection with mixed boundary conditions in L∞ norm up to a logarithmic term.

We consider the problem of computing PageRank. The matrix involved is large and cannot be factored, and hence techniques based on matrix-vector products must be applied. A variant of the restarted refined Arnoldi method is proposed, which does not involve Ritz value computations. Numerical examples illustrate the performance and convergence behavior of the algorithm. AMS subject classification ...

This paper proposes a new general framework of higher-order shear deformation theory (HSDT) and solves the structural responses functionally graded (FG) plates using novel exponential shape functions for Ritz method. Based on fundamental equations elasticity theory, displacement field is expanded in unified form which can recover to many different plate theories such as zeroth-order third-order...

By the semi-inverse method proposed by He, a Lagrangian is established for the large deflection problem of thin circular plate. Ritz method is used to obtain an approximate analytical solution of the problem. First order approximate solution is obtained, which is similar to those in open literature. By Mathematica a more accurate solution can be deduced. 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights re...

We derive error bounds for the Rayleigh-Ritz method for the approximation to extremal eigenpairs of a symmetric matrix. The bounds are expressed in terms of the eigenvalues of the matrix and the angle between the subspace and the eigenvector. We also present a sharp bound.

Microvibrations at frequencies between 1 and 1000 Hz generated by on-board equipment can propagate through a satellite's structure and hence signiicantly reduce the performance of sensitive payloads. This paper describes a Lagrange-Rayleigh-Ritz method for developing models suitable for the design of active control schemes. Here Loop Transfer Recovery based controller design methods are employe...

Multigrid algorithms are the method of choice for solving large Ritz-Galerkin systems for elliptic boundary value problems. Using b-spline bases provides geometric flexibility as well as many computational advantages and permits particularly efficient and elegant implementations. This is described for a fairly general discretization which covers all principal features of b-spline elements.

By the semi-inverse method, a variational principle is obtained for the Thomas– Fermi equation, then the Ritz method is applied to solve an analytical solution, which is a much simpler and more efficient method. 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.

We investigate existing and novel methods to approximate matrix functions using subspace methods. We analyze a two-sided harmonic Ritz approach and apply this to the extraction from a subspace for matrix functions. We derive all methods in various ways and provide a framework to fit in the techniques.