In this paper, we first establish regularity of the heat flow of biharmonic maps into the unit sphere S ⊂ R under a smallness condition of renormalized total energy. For the class of such solutions to the heat flow of biharmonic maps, we prove the properties of uniqueness, convexity of hessian energy, and unique limit at t = ∞. We establish both regularity and uniqueness for Serrin’s (p, q)-sol...

Transgenic rats expressing the env-pX gene of human T cell leukemia virus type-I under the control of the viral long terminal repeat promoter (env-pX rats) developed systemic autoimmune diseases. Prior to disease manifestation, the immunosuppressive function of CD25(+)CD4(+) T (T-reg) cells was impaired in these rats. Since T cell differentiation appeared to be disordered in env-pX rats, we ass...

Only the position representation is used in introductory quantum mechanics and the momentum representation is not usually presented until advanced undergraduate courses. To emphasize the relativity of the representations of the abstract formulation of quantum mechanics, two examples of representations related to the operators αX + (1 − α)P and 1 2 (XP + PX) are presented.

Chen's biharmonic conjecture is well-known and stays open: The only biharmonic submanifolds of Euclidean spaces are the minimal ones. In this paper, we consider an advanced version of the conjecture, replacing $Delta$ by its extension, $L_1$-operator ($L_1$-conjecture). The $L_1$-conjecture states that any $L_1$-biharmonic Euclidean hypersurface is 1-minimal. We prove that the $L_1$-conje...

The hepatitis B virus (HBV) X protein (pX) is implicated in hepatocarcinogenesis by an unknown mechanism. pX variants encoded by HBV genomes found integrated in genomic DNA from liver tumors of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) generally lack amino acids 134 to 154. Since deregulation of mitogenic pathways is linked to oncogenic transformation, herein we define the pX region required...

Chen conjecture states that every Euclidean biharmonic submanifold is minimal. In this paper we consider the Chen conjecture for Lk-operators. The new conjecture (Lk-conjecture) is formulated as follows: If Lkx = 0 then Hk+1 = 0 where x : M → R is an isometric immersion of a Riemannian manifold M into the Euclidean space R, Hk+1 is the (k+1)-th mean curvature of M , and Lk is the linearized ope...

in this paper, we improve some recent coupled fixed point resultsfor single-valued operators in the framework of ordered $b$-metricspaces established by bota et al. [m-f. bota, a. petrusel, g.petrusel and b. samet, coupled fixed point theorems forsingle-valued operators in b-metric spaces, fixed point theoryappl. (2015) 2015:231]. also, we prove that perov-type fixed pointtheorem in ordered gen...

The concept of multilevel filtering (MF) preconditioning applied to second-order selfadjoint elliptic problems is briefly reviewed. It is then shown how to effectively apply this concept to other elliptic problems such as the second-order anisotropic problem, biharmonic equation, equations on locally refined grids and interface operators arising from domain decomposition methods. Numerical resu...