In recent years, there has been a growing interest on non-localmodels because of their relevance in many practical applications. Awidely studied class non-local models involves fractional orderoperators. They usually describe anomalous diffusion. Inparticular, these equations provide more faithful representationof the long-memory and nonlocal dependence diffusion fractaland porous media, heat f...

Since Razborov, based on the approximation method, succeeded to obtain a superpolynomial lower bound on the size of monotone circuits computing the clique function, much effort has been devoted to explore the method and derive good lower bounds[K, NM, R1, R2, RR]. Employing the approximation method, Alon and Boppana[AB] obtained an exponential lower bound for monotone circuits computing the cli...

We investigate the convergence properties of a stochastic primal-dual splitting algorithm for solving structured monotone inclusions involving the sum of a cocoercive operator and a composite monotone operator. The proposed method is the stochastic extension to monotone inclusions of a proximal method studied in [26, 35] for saddle point problems. It consists in a forward step determined by the...

in this article, we investigate sufficient conditions for existence of maximal and minimalsolutions to a coupled system of highly nonlinear differential equations of fractional order with mixedtype boundary conditions. to achieve this goal, we apply monotone iterative technique togetherwith the method of upper and lower solutions. also an error estimation is given to check theaccuracy of the me...

In a recent paper by Monteiro and Svaiter, a hybrid proximal extragradient (HPE) framework was used to study the iteration-complexity of a first-order (or, in the context of optimization, second-order) method for solving monotone nonlinear equations. The purpose of this paper is to extend this analysis to study a prox-type first-order method for monotone smooth variational inequalities and incl...

In this paper, a monotone positive solution is studied for buckling of a distributed model of multi walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) cantilevers in the vicinity of thin and thick graphite sheets subject to intermolecular forces. In the modeling of intermolecular forces, Van der Waals forces are taken into account. A hybrid nano-scale continuum model based on Lennard–Jones potential is applied to ...

This paper deals with discrete monotone iterative algorithms for solving a nonlinear singularly perturbed parabolic problem. A block monotone domain decomposition algorithm based on a Schwarz alternating method and on a block iterative scheme is constructed. This monotone algorithm solves only linear discrete systems at each time level and converges monotonically to the exact solution of the no...

We study monotonicity properties for minimizers of transport problems. In the one-dimensional case, we present an algorithm to construct minimizing monotone transport plans by “monotonizing” a given minimizing transport plan. This method applies in particular to the case of the L1-Wasserstein metric where we prove the existence of monotone minimizers for arbitrary marginals. We find that monoto...