Γ-convergence results for power-law functionals with variable exponents are obtained. The main motivation comes from the study of (first-failure) dielectric breakdown. Some connections with the generalization of the ∞-Laplace equation to the variable exponent setting are also explored. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification:

We study variational problems with volume constraints (also called level set constraints) of the form

We consider a thin curved film made of a martensitic material. The behavior of the film is governed by a free energy composed of a bulk energy term and an interfacial energy term. We show that the minimizers of the free energy converge to the minimizers of an energy depending on a two-dimensional deformation and one Cosserat vector field when the thickness of the curved film goes to zero. using...

For a one-dimensional nonlocal nonconvex singular perturbation problem with a noncoercive periodic well potential, we prove a Γ-convergence theorem and show compactness up to translation in all L and certain Orlicz spaces for sequences of bounded energy. This generalizes work of Alberti, Bouchitté and Seppecher [1] for the coercive two-well case. The theorem has applications to a certain thin-f...

We provide a rigorous justification of the classical linearization approach in plasticity. By taking the small-deformations limit, we prove via Γ-convergence for rate-independent processes that energetic solutions of the quasi-static finite-strain elastoplasticity system converge to the unique strong solution of linearized elastoplasticity.

Let Γ denote a distance-regular graph with classical parameters (D, b, α, β) and b 6= 1, α = b − 1. The condition on α implies that Γ is formally self-dual. For b = q we use the adjacency matrix and dual adjacency matrix to obtain an action of the q-tetrahedron algebra ⊠q on the standard module of Γ. We describe four algebra homomorphisms into ⊠q from the quantum affine algebra Uq(ŝl2); using t...

This paper investigates the word problem for inverse monoids generated by a set Γ subject to relations of the form e = f , where e and f are both idempotents in the free inverse monoid generated by Γ. It is shown that for every fixed monoid of this form the word problem can be solved both in linear time on a RAM as well as in deterministic logarithmic space, which solves an open problem of Marg...

r is called commuting regular ring (resp. semigroup) if for each x,y $in$ r thereexists a $in$ r such that xy = yxayx. in this paper, we introduce the concept of commuting$pi$-regular rings (resp. semigroups) and study various properties of them.

High-spin states in 84 Rb are studied by using the 70 Zn( 18 O, p3n) reaction at a beam energy of 75 MeV. Three high-lying negative-parity bands established, whose level spacings very regular, i.e., there is no signature splitting. The dipole character transitions these three assigned γ-γ directional correlations oriented (DCO) intensity ratios and multipolarity M1 suggested analogy with multip...

A Hamilton cycle in a graph Γ is a cycle passing through every vertex of Γ. A Hamiltonian decomposition of Γ is a partition of its edge set into disjoint Hamilton cycles. One of the oldest results in graph theory is Walecki’s theorem from the 19th century, showing that a complete graph Kn on an odd number of vertices n has a Hamiltonian decomposition. This result was recently greatly extended b...