It is shown that the Cesàro averaging operators Cα, Re α > −1, introduced by Stempak, are bounded on the Dirichlet space Da if and only if a > 0, while the associated operators Aα are bounded on Da if and only if −1 < a < 2. This extends results of Galanopoulos, who considered the particular case α = 0 for 0 ≤ a ≤ 1.

In this paper we prove new existence results for non-autonomous systems of first order ordinary differential equations under weak conditions on the nonlinear part. Discontinuities with respect to the unknown are allowed to occur over general classes of time-dependent sets which are assumed to satisfy a kind of inverse viability condition.

We study a generalization of the Svarc genus of a fibre map. For an arbitrary collection ɛ of spaces and a map f : X → Y, we define a numerical invariant, the ɛ-sectional category of f, in terms of open covers of Y. We obtain several basic properties of ɛ-sectional category, including those dealing with homotopy domination and homotopy pushouts. We then give three simple axioms which characterize the ɛ-sectional category. In the final section, we obtain inequalities for the ɛ-sectional category of a composition and inequalities relating the ɛ-sectional category to the Fadell–Husseini category of a map and the Clapp–Puppe category of a map.

We show that there exists a function f, meromorphic in the plane C, such that the family of all functions g holomorphic in the unit disc D for which f ∘ g has no fixed point in D is not normal. This answers a question of Hinchliffe, who had shown that this family is normal if Ĉ\f(C) does not consist of exactly one point in D. We also investigate the normality of the family of all holomorphic functions g such that f(g(z)) ≠ h(z) for some non-constant meromorphic function h.

We consider the inverse-scattering problem of determining the shape of a partly coated obstacle in R3 from a knowledge of the incident time-harmonic electromagnetic plane wave and the electric far-field pattern of the scattered wave. A justification is given of the linear sampling method in this case and numerical examples are provided showing the practicality of our method.

Let Ω be a bounded domain in Rn, n ≥ 3 and 0 ∈ Ω. It is known that the heat problem ∂u/∂t + Lλ*u = 0 in Ω × (0, ∞), u(x, 0) = u0 ≥ 0, u0 ≢ 0, where Lλ* := −Δ − λ*/|x|2, λ* := ¼(n − 2)2, does not admit any solutions for any t > 0. In this paper we consider the perturbation operator Lλ*q := −Δ − λ*q(x)/|x|2 for some suitable bounded positive weight function q and determine the border line between the existence and non-existence of positive solutions for the above heat problem with the operator Lλ*q. In dimension n = 2, we have similar phenomena for the critical Hardy–Sobolev operator L* := −Δ − (1/4|x|2)(log R/|x|)−2 for sufficiently large R.

We study inclusion indices relative to an interpolation scale. Applications are given to several families of functions spaces.

In this paper, we show that if b(x) ≥ b∞ > 0 in Ω̄ and there exist positive constants C, δ, R0 such thatwhere x = (y, z) ∈ RN with y ∈ Rm, z ∈ Rn, N = m + n ≥ 3, m ≥ 2, n ≥ 1, 1 < p < (N + 2)/(N − 2), ω ⊆ Rm a bounded C1,1 domain and Ω = ω × Rn, then the Dirichlet problem −Δu + u = b(x)|u|p−1u in Ω has a solution that changes sign in Ω, in addition to a positive solution.

The paper considers an incompressible and irrotational flow of a fluid with constant density bounded below by a rigid horizontal bottom and above by a free surface under the influence of gravity and surface tension. It is known that the full Euler equations have travelling two-dimensional solitary-wave solutions of small amplitude for large surface tension (Bond number greater than ⅓). This paper shows that these waves are linearly unstable to three-dimensional perturbations which oscillate along the wave crest with wavenumber in a finite band. The growth rates of these unstable modes are well approximated using the linearized Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation with positive disper

Based on earlier results on existence, we study the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to the coalescence-breakage equations, including the volume-scattering phenomenon and high-energy collisions. The solutions are shown to converge towards one particular equilibrium, provided the kernels satisfy a kind of reversibility. We also derive stability of these equilibria in a suitable topology.

In this paper we present a simpler proof of a result of Lewis concerning the continuity of weak solutions to the two-dimensional thermistor problem in the case where the temperature can blow up in a region with non-empty interior. Some other regularity properties are also discussed.

We embed truncations of the epi-graph of quasi-convex functions defined on linear subspaces E ⊂ MN × n of real matrices into MN × n to bound quasi-convex sets by the graph of the functions. We also characterize subspaces E on which all quasi-convex functions are convex and show, by using the Tarski–Seidenberg theorem in real algebraic geometry, that if dim (E) > N + n − 1, then there exist non-trivial quasi-convex functions on E.