TY - JOUR T1 - Rigidity and trace properties of divergence-measure vector fields JF - Adv. Calc. Var. Y1 - In Press A1 - Leonardi, G. P. A1 - Saracco, G. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doubly Intermittent Full Branch Maps with Critical Points and Singularities Y1 - 2022 A1 - Douglas Coates A1 - Stefano Luzzatto A1 - Muhammad Mubarak KW - 37E05 KW - Dynamical Systems (math.DS) KW - FOS: Mathematics UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.12725 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Kernel-based active subspaces with application to computational fluid dynamics parametric problems using discontinuous Galerkin method JF - International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering Y1 - 2022 A1 - Francesco Romor A1 - Marco Tezzele A1 - Andrea Lario A1 - Gianluigi Rozza VL - 123 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Optimal design of planar shapes with active materials JF - Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences Y1 - 2022 A1 - Dario Andrini A1 - Giovanni Noselli A1 - Alessandro Lucantonio AB -

Active materials have emerged as valuable candidates for shape morphing applications, where a body reconfiguration is achieved upon triggering its active response. Given a desired shape change, a natural question is to compare different morphing mechanisms to select the most effective one with respect to an optimality criterion. We introduce an optimal control problem to determine the active strains suitable to attain a target equilibrium shape while minimizing the complexity of the activation. Specifically, we discuss the planar morphing of active, hyperelastic bodies in the absence of external forces and exploit the notion of target metric to encompass a broad set of active materials in a unifying approach. For the case of affine shape changes, we derive explicit conditions on the body reference configuration for the optimality of homogeneous target metrics. More complex shape changes are analysed via numerical simulations to explore the impact on optimal solutions of different objective functionals inspired by features of existing materials. We show how stresses arising from incompatibilities contribute to reduce the complexity of the controls. We believe that our approach may be exploited for the optimal design of active systems and may contribute to gather insight into the morphing strategies of biological systems.

VL - 478 UR - https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspa.2022.0256 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - An SIR–like kinetic model tracking individuals' viral load JF - Networks and Heterogeneous Media Y1 - 2022 A1 - Rossella Della Marca A1 - Nadia Loy A1 - Andrea Tosin ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Vibration Analysis of Piezoelectric Kirchhoff-Love shells based on Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces JF - International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering Y1 - 2022 A1 - Zhaowei Liu A1 - Andrew McBride A1 - Prashant Saxena A1 - Luca Heltai A1 - Yilin Qu A1 - Paul Steinmann ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Approximation of the spectral fractional powers of the Laplace-Beltrami Operator JF - arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.05141 Y1 - 2021 A1 - Bonito, Andrea A1 - Wenyu Lei ER - TY - JOUR T1 - An efficient computational framework for naval shape design and optimization problems by means of data-driven reduced order modeling techniques JF - Bolletino dell Unione Matematica Italiana Y1 - 2021 A1 - Nicola Demo A1 - Giulio Ortali A1 - Gianluca Gustin A1 - Gianluigi Rozza A1 - Gianpiero Lavini AB -

This contribution describes the implementation of a data-driven shape optimization pipeline in a naval architecture application. We adopt reduced order models in order to improve the efficiency of the overall optimization, keeping a modular and equation-free nature to target the industrial demand. We applied the above mentioned pipeline to a realistic cruise ship in order to reduce the total drag. We begin by defining the design space, generated by deforming an initial shape in a parametric way using free form deformation. The evaluation of the performance of each new hull is determined by simulating the flux via finite volume discretization of a two-phase (water and air) fluid. Since the fluid dynamics model can result very expensive—especially dealing with complex industrial geometries—we propose also a dynamic mode decomposition enhancement to reduce the computational cost of a single numerical simulation. The real-time computation is finally achieved by means of proper orthogonal decomposition with Gaussian process regression technique. Thanks to the quick approximation, a genetic optimization algorithm becomes feasible to converge towards the optimal shape.

VL - 14 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Exactness of Linear Response in the Quantum Hall Effect JF - Annales Henri Poincaré Y1 - 2021 A1 - Sven Bachmann A1 - De Roeck, Wojciech A1 - Fraas, Martin A1 - Markus Lange PB - Springer Science and Business Media LLC VL - 22 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00023-020-00989-z ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quantum Systems at The Brink. Existence and Decay Rates of Bound States at Thresholds; Critical Potentials and dimensionality Y1 - 2021 A1 - Dirk Hundertmark A1 - Michal Jex A1 - Markus Lange JF - arXiv:2107.14128 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trotter product formulae for $*$-automorphisms of quantum lattice systems Y1 - 2021 A1 - Sven Bachmann A1 - Markus Lange ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Energy-dissipation balance of a smooth moving crack Y1 - 2020 A1 - Maicol Caponi A1 - Ilaria Lucardesi A1 - Emanuele Tasso KW - Energy-dissipation balance KW - Fracture dynamics KW - Wave equation in time-dependent domains AB -

In this paper we provide necessary and sufficient conditions in order to guarantee the energy-dissipation balance of a Mode III crack, growing on a prescribed smooth path. Moreover, we characterize the singularity of the displacement near the crack tip, generalizing the result in [10] valid for straight fractures.

VL - 483 SN - 0022-247X UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022247X19309242 IS - 2 JO - Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Finite element approximation of an obstacle problem for a class of integro–differential operators JF - ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis Y1 - 2020 A1 - Bonito, Andrea A1 - Wenyu Lei A1 - Salgado, Abner J PB - EDP Sciences VL - 54 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - On the gauge group of Galois objects Y1 - 2020 A1 - Xiao Han A1 - Giovanni Landi AB - We study the Ehresmann--Schauenburg bialgebroid of a noncommutative principal bundle as a quantization of the classical gauge groupoid of a principal bundle. When the base algebra is in the centre of the total space algebra, the gauge group of the noncommutative principal bundle is isomorphic to the group of bisections of the bialgebroid. In particular we consider Galois objects (non-trivial noncommutative bundles over a point in a sense) for which the bialgebroid is a Hopf algebra. For these we give a crossed module structure for the bisections and the automorphisms of the bialgebroid. Examples include Galois objects of group Hopf algebras and of Taft algebras. UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06097 ER - TY - BOOK T1 - Kernel-based Active Subspaces with application to CFD parametric problems using Discontinuous Galerkin method Y1 - 2020 A1 - Francesco Romor A1 - Marco Tezzele A1 - Lario, Andrea A1 - Gianluigi Rozza ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Minimizers of the prescribed mean curvature functional in a Jordan domain with no necks JF - ESAIM Control Optim. Calc. Var. Y1 - 2020 A1 - Leonardi, G. P. A1 - Saracco, G. VL - 26 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A priori error estimates of regularized elliptic problems JF - Numerische Mathematik Y1 - 2020 A1 - Luca Heltai A1 - Wenyu Lei AB - Approximations of the Dirac delta distribution are commonly used to create sequences of smooth functions approximating nonsmooth (generalized) functions, via convolution. In this work we show a-priori rates of convergence of this approximation process in standard Sobolev norms, with minimal regularity assumptions on the approximation of the Dirac delta distribution. The application of these estimates to the numerical solution of elliptic problems with singularly supported forcing terms allows us to provide sharp \$\$H\^1\$\$and \$\$L\^2\$\$error estimates for the corresponding regularized problem. As an application, we show how finite element approximations of a regularized immersed interface method results in the same rates of convergence of its non-regularized counterpart, provided that the support of the Dirac delta approximation is set to a multiple of the mesh size, at a fraction of the implementation complexity. Numerical experiments are provided to support our theories. VL - 146 SN - 0945-3245 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00211-020-01152-w ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A priori error estimates of regularized elliptic problems JF - Numerische Mathematik Y1 - 2020 A1 - Luca Heltai A1 - Wenyu Lei ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quantum Systems at The Brink: Properties of Atomic Bound States at The Ionization Threshold Y1 - 2020 A1 - Dirk Hundertmark A1 - Michal Jex A1 - Markus Lange ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Stable vector bundles on the families of curves Y1 - 2020 A1 - Fedor Bogomolov A1 - Elena Lukzen AB - We offer a new approach to proving the Chen-Donaldson-Sun theorem which we demonstrate with a series of examples. We discuss the existence of a construction of a special metric on stable vector bundles over the surfaces formed by a families of curves and its relation to the one-dimensional cycles in the moduli space of stable bundles on curves. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A Theoretical Study on the Transient Morphing of Linear Poroelastic Plates JF - Journal of Applied Mechanics Y1 - 2020 A1 - Dario Andrini A1 - Alessandro Lucantonio A1 - Giovanni Noselli AB -

Based on their shape-shifting capabilities, soft active materials have enabled new possibilities for the engineering of sensing and actuation devices. While the relation between active strains and emergent equilibrium shapes has been fully characterized, the transient morphing of thin structures is a rather unexplored topic. Here, we focus on polymer gel plates and derive a reduced linear model to study their time-dependent response to changes in the fluid environment. We show that independent control of stretching and bending deformations in stress-free conditions allows to realize spherical shapes with prescribed geometry of the mid-plane. Furthermore, we demonstrate that tensile (compressive) membrane stresses delay (accelerate) swelling-induced shape transitions compared to the stress-free evolution. We believe that these effects should be considered for the accurate design of smart systems and may contribute to explain the complexity of natural shapes.

VL - 88 UR - https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4048806 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - An entropic interpolation proof of the HWI inequality JF - Stochastic Processes and their Applications Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ivan Gentil A1 - Christian Léonard A1 - Luigia Ripani A1 - Luca Tamanini KW - Entropic interpolations KW - Fisher information KW - Relative entropy KW - Schrödinger problem KW - Wasserstein distance AB -

The HWI inequality is an “interpolation”inequality between the Entropy H, the Fisher information I and the Wasserstein distance W. We present a pathwise proof of the HWI inequality which is obtained through a zero noise limit of the Schrödinger problem. Our approach consists in making rigorous the Otto–Villani heuristics in Otto and Villani (2000) taking advantage of the entropic interpolations, which are regular both in space and time, rather than the displacement ones.

UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304414918303454 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - On the Number of Flats Tangent to Convex Hypersurfaces in Random Position JF - Discrete & Computational Geometry Y1 - 2019 A1 - Khazhgali Kozhasov A1 - Antonio Lerario UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-019-00067-0 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Numerical approximation of the integral fractional Laplacian JF - Numerische Mathematik Y1 - 2019 A1 - Bonito, Andrea A1 - Wenyu Lei A1 - Joseph E Pasciak AB - We propose a new nonconforming finite element algorithm to approximate the solution to the elliptic problem involving the fractional Laplacian. We first derive an integral representation of the bilinear form corresponding to the variational problem. The numerical approximation of the action of the corresponding stiffness matrix consists of three steps: (1) apply a sinc quadrature scheme to approximate the integral representation by a finite sum where each term involves the solution of an elliptic partial differential equation defined on the entire space, (2) truncate each elliptic problem to a bounded domain, (3) use the finite element method for the space approximation on each truncated domain. The consistency error analysis for the three steps is discussed together with the numerical implementation of the entire algorithm. The results of computations are given illustrating the error behavior in terms of the mesh size of the physical domain, the domain truncation parameter and the quadrature spacing parameter. VL - 142 SN - 0945-3245 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00211-019-01025-x ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Nutations in growing plant shoots: The role of elastic deformations due to gravity loading JF - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids Y1 - 2019 A1 - Daniele Agostinelli A1 - Alessandro Lucantonio A1 - Giovanni Noselli A1 - Antonio DeSimone KW - Circumnutations KW - Flutter instability KW - Gravitropism KW - Hopf bifurcation AB -

The effect of elastic deformations induced by gravity loading on the active circumnutation movements of growing plant shoots is investigated. We consider first a discrete model (a gravitropic spring-pendulum system) and then a continuous rod model which is analyzed both analytically (under the assumption of small deformations) and numerically (in the large deformation regime). We find that, for a choice of material parameters consistent with values reported in the available literature on plant shoots, rods of sufficient length may exhibit lateral oscillations of increasing amplitude, which eventually converge to limit cycles. This behavior strongly suggests the occurrence of a Hopf bifurcation, just as for the gravitropic spring-pendulum system, for which this result is rigorously established. At least in this restricted set of material parameters, our analysis supports a view of Darwin’s circumnutations as a biological analogue to structural systems exhibiting flutter instabilities, i.e., spontaneous oscillations away from equilibrium configurations driven by non-conservative loads. Here, in the context of nutation movements of growing plant shoots, the energy needed to sustain oscillations is continuously supplied to the system by the internal biochemical machinery presiding the capability of plants to maintain a vertical pose.

UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2019.103702 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quantum Systems at The Brink. Existence and Decay Rates of Bound States at Thresholds; Helium Y1 - 2019 A1 - Dirk Hundertmark A1 - Michal Jex A1 - Markus Lange JF - arXiv:1908.04883 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quantum Systems at The Brink. Existence and Decay Rates of Bound States at Thresholds; Atoms Y1 - 2019 A1 - Dirk Hundertmark A1 - Michal Jex A1 - Markus Lange JF - arXiv:1908.05016 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Serre–Swan theorem for normed modules JF - Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo Series 2 Y1 - 2019 A1 - Danka Lučić A1 - Enrico Pasqualetto VL - 68 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12215-018-0366-6 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Analysis of a Dynamic Peeling Test with Speed-Dependent Toughness JF - SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics Y1 - 2018 A1 - Giuliano Lazzaroni A1 - Lorenzo Nardini AB -

We analyse a one-dimensional model of dynamic debonding for a thin film, where the local toughness of the glue between the film and the substrate also depends on the debonding speed. The wave equation on the debonded region is strongly coupled with Griffith's criterion for the evolution of the debonding front. We provide an existence and uniqueness result and find explicitly the solution in some concrete examples. We study the limit of solutions as inertia tends to zero, observing phases of unstable propagation, as well as time discontinuities, even though the toughness diverges at a limiting debonding speed.

VL - 78 UR - https://doi.org/10.1137/17M1147354 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - On asymptotic expansions in spin-boson models JF - Ann. Henri Poincaré Y1 - 2018 A1 - Bräunlich, Gerhard A1 - Hasler, David A1 - Markus Lange VL - 19 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-017-0625-7 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Cohesive fracture with irreversibility: Quasistatic evolution for a model subject to fatigue JF - Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences Y1 - 2018 A1 - Vito Crismale A1 - Giuliano Lazzaroni A1 - Gianluca Orlando AB -

In this paper we prove the existence of quasistatic evolutions for a cohesive fracture on a prescribed crack surface, in small-strain antiplane elasticity. The main feature of the model is that the density of the energy dissipated in the fracture process depends on the total variation of the amplitude of the jump. Thus, any change in the crack opening entails a loss of energy, until the crack is complete. In particular this implies a fatigue phenomenon, i.e. a complete fracture may be produced by oscillation of small jumps. The first step of the existence proof is the construction of approximate evolutions obtained by solving discrete-time incremental minimum problems. The main difficulty in the passage to the continuous-time limit is that we lack of controls on the variations of the jump of the approximate evolutions. Therefore we resort to a weak formulation where the variation of the jump is replaced by a Young measure. Eventually, after proving the existence in this weak formulation, we improve the result by showing that the Young measure is concentrated on a function and coincides with the variation of the jump of the displacement.

VL - 28 UR - https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218202518500379 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Computational methods in cardiovascular mechanics T2 - Cardiovascular Mechanics Y1 - 2018 A1 - Auricchio, Ferdinando A1 - Conti, Michele A1 - Lefieux, Adrian A1 - Morganti, Simone A1 - Alessandro Reali A1 - Gianluigi Rozza A1 - Veneziani, Alessandro ED - Michel F. Labrosse AB -

The introduction of computational models in cardiovascular sciences has been progressively bringing new and unique tools for the investigation of the physiopathology. Together with the dramatic improvement of imaging and measuring devices on one side, and of computational architectures on the other one, mathematical and numerical models have provided a new, clearly noninvasive, approach for understanding not only basic mechanisms but also patient-specific conditions, and for supporting the design and the development of new therapeutic options. The terminology in silico is, nowadays, commonly accepted for indicating this new source of knowledge added to traditional in vitro and in vivo investigations. The advantages of in silico methodologies are basically the low cost in terms of infrastructures and facilities, the reduced invasiveness and, in general, the intrinsic predictive capabilities based on the use of mathematical models. The disadvantages are generally identified in the distance between the real cases and their virtual counterpart required by the conceptual modeling that can be detrimental for the reliability of numerical simulations.

JF - Cardiovascular Mechanics PB - CRC Press UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315280288/chapters/10.1201%2Fb21917-5 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Dimension reduction for thin films with transversally varying prestrain: the oscillatory and the non-oscillatory case Y1 - 2018 A1 - Marta Lewicka A1 - Danka Lučić ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Existence for elastodynamic Griffith fracture with a weak maximal dissipation condition Y1 - 2018 A1 - Gianni Dal Maso A1 - Cristopher J. Larsen A1 - Rodica Toader AB - We consider a model of elastodynamics with fracture evolution, based on energy-dissipation balance and a maximal dissipation condition. We prove an existence result in the case of planar elasticity with a free crack path, where the maximal dissipation condition is satisfied among suitably regular competitor cracks. UR - http://preprints.sissa.it/handle/1963/35308 U1 - 35616 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/05 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Foldable structures made of hydrogel bilayers Y1 - 2018 A1 - Virginia Agostiniani A1 - Antonio DeSimone A1 - Alessandro Lucantonio A1 - Danka Lučić ER - TY - THES T1 - Ground states and spectral properties in quantum field theories Y1 - 2018 A1 - Markus Lange PB - Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena UR - https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00035196 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Heterogeneous elastic plates with in-plane modulation of the target curvature and applications to thin gel sheets JF - ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations Y1 - 2018 A1 - Virginia Agostiniani A1 - Alessandro Lucantonio A1 - Danka Lučić PB - EDP Sciences ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The prescribed mean curvature equation in weakly regular domains JF - NoDEA Nonlinear Differ. Equ. Appl. Y1 - 2018 A1 - Leonardi, G. P. A1 - Saracco, G. VL - 25 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Principal fibrations over noncommutative spheres JF - Reviews in Mathematical Physics Y1 - 2018 A1 - Michel Dubois-Violette A1 - Xiao Han A1 - Giovanni Landi AB - We present examples of noncommutative four-spheres that are base spaces of $SU(2)$-principal bundles with noncommutative seven-spheres as total spaces. The noncommutative coordinate algebras of the four-spheres are generated by the entries of a projection which is invariant under the action of $SU(2)$. We give conditions for the components of the Connes–Chern character of the projection to vanish but the second (the top) one. The latter is then a non-zero Hochschild cycle that plays the role of the volume form for the noncommutative four-spheres. VL - 30 UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07032 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - On the Quasistatic Limit of Dynamic Evolutions for a Peeling Test in Dimension One JF - Journal of Nonlinear Science Y1 - 2018 A1 - Giuliano Lazzaroni A1 - Lorenzo Nardini AB -

The aim of this paper is to study the quasistatic limit of a one-dimensional model of dynamic debonding. We start from a dynamic problem that strongly couples the wave equation in a time-dependent domain with Griffith's criterion for the evolution of the domain. Passing to the limit as inertia tends to zero, we find that the limit evolution satisfies a stability condition; however, the activation rule in Griffith's (quasistatic) criterion does not hold in general, thus the limit evolution is not rate-independent.

VL - 28 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00332-017-9407-0 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Renormalization analysis for degenerate ground states JF - J. Funct. Anal. Y1 - 2018 A1 - Hasler, David A1 - Markus Lange VL - 275 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfa.2018.03.005 ER - TY - CONF T1 - Shape Optimization by means of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Dynamic Mode Decomposition T2 - Technology and Science for the Ships of the Future: Proceedings of NAV 2018: 19th International Conference on Ship & Maritime Research Y1 - 2018 A1 - Nicola Demo A1 - Marco Tezzele A1 - Gianluca Gustin A1 - Gianpiero Lavini A1 - Gianluigi Rozza AB - Shape optimization is a challenging task in many engineering fields, since the numerical solutions of parametric system may be computationally expensive. This work presents a novel optimization procedure based on reduced order modeling, applied to a naval hull design problem. The advantage introduced by this method is that the solution for a specific parameter can be expressed as the combination of few numerical solutions computed at properly chosen parametric points. The reduced model is built using the proper orthogonal decomposition with interpolation (PODI) method. We use the free form deformation (FFD) for an automated perturbation of the shape, and the finite volume method to simulate the multiphase incompressible flow around the deformed hulls. Further computational reduction is done by the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) technique: from few high dimensional snapshots, the system evolution is reconstructed and the final state of the simulation is faithfully approximated. Finally the global optimization algorithm iterates over the reduced space: the approximated drag and lift coefficients are projected to the hull surface, hence the resistance is evaluated for the new hulls until the convergence to the optimal shape is achieved. We will present the results obtained applying the described procedure to a typical Fincantieri cruise ship. JF - Technology and Science for the Ships of the Future: Proceedings of NAV 2018: 19th International Conference on Ship & Maritime Research PB - IOS Press CY - Trieste, Italy UR - http://ebooks.iospress.nl/publication/49229 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - On sinc quadrature approximations of fractional powers of regularly accretive operators JF - Journal of Numerical Mathematics Y1 - 2018 A1 - Bonito, Andrea A1 - Wenyu Lei A1 - Joseph E Pasciak PB - De Gruyter ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Spontaneous morphing of equibiaxially pre-stretched elastic bilayers: The role of sample geometry JF - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences Y1 - 2018 A1 - Noe Caruso A1 - Aleksandar Cvetković A1 - Alessandro Lucantonio A1 - Giovanni Noselli A1 - Antonio DeSimone KW - Bifurcation KW - Elastic bilayer KW - Pre-stretch KW - Shape programming AB -

An elastic bilayer, consisting of an equibiaxially pre-stretched sheet bonded to a stress-free one, spontaneously morphs into curved shapes in the absence of external loads or constraints. Using experiments and numerical simulations, we explore the role of geometry for square and rectangular samples in determining the equilibrium shape of the system, for a fixed pre-stretch. We classify the observed shapes over a wide range of aspect ratios according to their curvatures and compare measured and computed values, which show good agreement. In particular, as the bilayer becomes thinner, a bifurcation of the principal curvatures occurs, which separates two scaling regimes for the energy of the system. We characterize the transition between these two regimes and show the peculiar features that distinguish square from rectangular samples. The results for our model bilayer system may help explaining morphing in more complex systems made of active materials.

VL - 149 UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020740317311761 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Two examples of minimal Cheeger sets in the plane JF - Ann. Mat. Pura Appl. (4) Y1 - 2018 A1 - Leonardi, G. P. A1 - Saracco, G. VL - 197 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - On the 1D wave equation in time-dependent domains and the problem of debond initiation Y1 - 2017 A1 - Giuliano Lazzaroni A1 - Lorenzo Nardini AB -

Motivated by a debonding model for a thin film peeled from a substrate, we analyse the one-dimensional wave equation, in a time-dependent domain which is degenerate at the initial time. In the first part of the paper we prove existence for the wave equation when the evolution of the domain is given; in the second part of the paper, the evolution of the domain is unknown and is governed by an energy criterion coupled with the wave equation. Our existence result for such coupled problem is a contribution to the study of crack initiation in dynamic fracture.

PB - SISSA UR - http://preprints.sissa.it/handle/1963/35302 U1 - 35608 U2 - Mathematics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The approximation of parabolic equations involving fractional powers of elliptic operators JF - J. Comput. Appl. Math. Y1 - 2017 A1 - Bonito, Andrea A1 - Wenyu Lei A1 - Joseph E Pasciak VL - 315 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2016.10.016 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Cheeger constant of a Jordan domain without necks JF - Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations Y1 - 2017 A1 - Leonardi, G. P. A1 - Neumayer, R. A1 - Saracco, G. VL - 56 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Derivation of a rod theory from lattice systems with interactions beyond nearest neighbours Y1 - 2017 A1 - Roberto Alicandro A1 - Giuliano Lazzaroni A1 - Mariapia Palombaro AB - We study continuum limits of discrete models for (possibly heterogeneous) nanowires. The lattice energy includes at least nearest and next-to-nearest neighbour interactions: the latter have the role of penalising changes of orientation. In the heterogeneous case, we obtain an estimate on the minimal energy spent to match different equilibria. This gives insight into the nucleation of dislocations in epitaxially grown heterostructured nanowires. UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/35269 U1 - 35575 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - On the effect of interactions beyond nearest neighbours on non-convex lattice systems Y1 - 2017 A1 - Roberto Alicandro A1 - Giuliano Lazzaroni A1 - Mariapia Palombaro AB - We analyse the rigidity of non-convex discrete energies where at least nearest and next-to-nearest neighbour interactions are taken into account. Our purpose is to show that interactions beyond nearest neighbours have the role of penalising changes of orientation and, to some extent, they may replace the positive-determinant constraint that is usually required when only nearest neighbours are accounted for. In a discrete to continuum setting, we prove a compactness result for a family of surface-scaled energies and we give bounds on its possible Gamma-limit in terms of interfacial energies that penalise changes of orientation. UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/35268 U1 - 35574 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Homotopically invisible singular curves JF - Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations Y1 - 2017 A1 - Andrei A. Agrachev A1 - Francesco Boarotto A1 - Antonio Lerario VL - 56 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-017-1203-z ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Homotopy properties of horizontal path spaces and a theorem of Serre in subriemannian geometry JF - Communications in Analysis and Geometry Y1 - 2017 A1 - Francesco Boarotto A1 - Antonio Lerario PB - International Press of Boston VL - 25 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Integrability of dominated decompositions on three-dimensional manifolds JF - Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems Y1 - 2017 A1 - Stefano Luzzatto A1 - Sina Türeli A1 - Khadim Mbacke War AB -


We investigate the integrability of two-dimensional invariant distributions (tangent sub-bundles) which arise naturally in the context of dynamical systems on 3-manifolds. In particular, we prove unique integrability of dynamically dominated and volume-dominated Lipschitz continuous invariant decompositions as well as distributions with some other regularity conditions.

PB - Cambridge University Press VL - 37 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Linearisation of multiwell energies Y1 - 2017 A1 - Roberto Alicandro A1 - Gianni Dal Maso A1 - Giuliano Lazzaroni A1 - Mariapia Palombaro AB - Linear elasticity can be rigorously derived from finite elasticity under the assumption of small loadings in terms of Gamma-convergence. This was first done in the case of one-well energies with super-quadratic growth and later generalised to different settings, in particular to the case of multi-well energies where the distance between the wells is very small (comparable to the size of the load). In this paper we study the case when the distance between the wells is independent of the size of the load. In this context linear elasticity can be derived by adding to the multi-well energy a singular higher order term which penalises jumps from one well to another. The size of the singular term has to satisfy certain scaling assumptions whose optimality is shown in most of the cases. Finally, the derivation of linear elasticty from a two-well discrete model is provided, showing that the role of the singular perturbation term is played in this setting by interactions beyond nearest neighbours. UR - http://preprints.sissa.it/handle/1963/35288 U1 - 35594 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Numerical approximation of space-time fractional parabolic equations JF - Comput. Methods Appl. Math. Y1 - 2017 A1 - Bonito, Andrea A1 - Wenyu Lei A1 - Joseph E Pasciak VL - 17 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/cmam-2017-0032 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - POD-Galerkin reduced order methods for CFD using Finite Volume Discretisation: vortex shedding around a circular cylinder JF - Communications in Applied and Industrial Mathematics Y1 - 2017 A1 - Giovanni Stabile A1 - Saddam Hijazi A1 - Andrea Mola A1 - Stefano Lorenzi A1 - Gianluigi Rozza AB -

Vortex shedding around circular cylinders is a well known and studied phenomenon that appears in many engineering fields. In this work a Reduced Order Model (ROM) of the incompressible flow around a circular cylinder, built performing a Galerkin projection of the governing equations onto a lower dimensional space is presented. The reduced basis space is generated using a Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) approach. In particular the focus is into (i) the correct reproduction of the pressure field, that in case of the vortex shedding phenomenon, is of primary importance for the calculation of the drag and lift coefficients; (ii) for this purpose the projection of the Governing equations (momentum equation and Poisson equation for pressure) is performed onto different reduced basis space for velocity and pressure, respectively; (iii) all the relevant modifications necessary to adapt standard finite element POD-Galerkin methods to a finite volume framework are presented. The accuracy of the reduced order model is assessed against full order results.

VL - 8 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Quasistatic crack growth based on viscous approximation: a model with branching and kinking JF - Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications NoDEA Y1 - 2017 A1 - Vito Crismale A1 - Giuliano Lazzaroni AB -

Employing the technique of vanishing viscosity and time rescaling, we show the existence of quasistatic evolutions of cracks in brittle materials in the setting of antiplane shear. The crack path is not prescribed a priori and is chosen in an admissible class of piecewise regular sets that allows for branching and kinking.

VL - 24 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00030-016-0426-6 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Random spectrahedra Y1 - 2017 A1 - Paul Breiding A1 - Khazhgali Kozhasov A1 - Antonio Lerario ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A reduced order model for investigating the dynamics of the Gen-IV LFR coolant pool JF - Applied Mathematical Modelling Y1 - 2017 A1 - Stefano Lorenzi A1 - Antonio Cammi A1 - Lelio Luzzi A1 - Gianluigi Rozza VL - 46 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85020006623&doi=10.1016%2fj.apm.2017.01.066&partnerID=40&md5=f6e5715037eb0ef2ecb9ae03f373294f ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Semistable Higgs Bundles on Calabi-Yau Manifolds Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ugo Bruzzo A1 - Valeriano Lanza A1 - Alessio Lo Giudice AB - We provide a partial classification of semistable Higgs bundles over a simply connected Calabi-Yau manifold. Applications to a conjecture about a special class of semistable Higgs bundles are given. In particular, the conjecture is proved for K3 and Enriques surfaces, and some related classes of surfaces. UR - http://preprints.sissa.it/handle/1963/35295 U1 - 35601 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Confinement of dislocations inside a crystal with a prescribed external strain Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ilaria Lucardesi A1 - Marco Morandotti A1 - Riccardo Scala A1 - Davide Zucco AB - We study screw dislocations in an isotropic crystal undergoing antiplane shear. In the framework of linear elasticity, by fixing a suitable boundary condition for the strain (prescribed non-vanishing boundary integral), we manage to confine the dislocations inside the material. More precisely, in the presence of an external strain with circulation equal to n times the lattice spacing, it is energetically convenient to have n distinct dislocations lying inside the crystal. The novelty of introducing a Dirichlet boundary condition for the tangential strain is crucial to the confinement: it is well known that, if Neumann boundary conditions are imposed, the dislocations tend to migrate to the boundary. The results are achieved using PDE techniques and Ƭ-convergence theory, in the framework of the so-called core radius approach. UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/35247 N1 - Preprint SISSA 20/2016/MATE U1 - 35558 U2 - Mathematics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Existence and uniqueness of dynamic evolutions for a peeling test in dimension one JF - Journal of Differential Equations Y1 - 2016 A1 - Gianni Dal Maso A1 - Giuliano Lazzaroni A1 - Lorenzo Nardini KW - Dynamic debonding KW - Dynamic energy release rate KW - Dynamic fracture KW - Griffith's criterion KW - Maximum dissipation principle KW - Wave equation in time-dependent domains AB -

In this paper we present a one-dimensional model of a dynamic peeling test for a thin film, where the wave equation is coupled with a Griffith criterion for the propagation of the debonding front. Our main results provide existence and uniqueness for the solution to this coupled problem under different assumptions on the data.

VL - 261 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022039616301772 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A Frobenius theorem for corank-1 continuous distributions in dimensions two and three JF - International Journal of Mathematics Y1 - 2016 A1 - Stefano Luzzatto A1 - Sina Türeli A1 - Khadim Mbacke War AB -

We formulate a notion of (uniform) asymptotic involutivity and show that it implies (unique) integrability of corank-1 continuous distributions in dimensions three or less. This generalizes and extends a classical Frobenius theorem, which says that an involutive C1 distribution is uniquely integrable.

VL - 27 UR - https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129167X16500610 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Gysin sequence for quantum lens spaces JF - Journal of Noncommutative Geometry Y1 - 2016 A1 - Francesca Arici A1 - Simon Brain A1 - Giovanni Landi AB -

We define quantum lens spaces as ‘direct sums of line bundles’ and exhibit them as ‘total spaces’ of certain principal bundles over quantum projective spaces. For each of these quantum lens spaces we construct an analogue of the classical Gysin sequence in K-theory. We use the sequence to compute the K-theory of the quantum lens spaces, in particular to give explicit geometric representatives of their K-theory classes. These representatives are interpreted as ‘line bundles’ over quantum lens spaces and generically define ‘torsion classes’. We work out explicit examples of these classes.

VL - 9 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Integrability of C1 invariant splittings JF - Dynamical Systems Y1 - 2016 A1 - Stefano Luzzatto A1 - Sina Türeli A1 - Khadim Mbacke War AB -

We derive some new conditions for integrability of dynamically defined C1 invariant splittings, formulated in terms of the singular values of the iterates of the derivative of the diffeomorphism which defines the splitting.

PB - Taylor & Francis VL - 31 UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/14689367.2015.1057480 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A multi-physics reduced order model for the analysis of Lead Fast Reactor single channel JF - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 87, 2 (2016): pp. 198-208 Y1 - 2016 A1 - Alberto Sartori A1 - Antonio Cammi A1 - Lelio Luzzi A1 - Gianluigi Rozza AB - In this work, a Reduced Basis method, with basis functions sampled by a Proper Orthogonal Decomposition technique, has been employed to develop a reduced order model of a multi-physics parametrized Lead-cooled Fast Reactor single-channel. Being the first time that a reduced order model is developed in this context, the work focused on a methodological approach and the coupling between the neutronics and the heat transfer, where the thermal feedbacks on neutronics are explicitly taken into account, in time-invariant settings. In order to address the potential of such approach, two different kinds of varying parameters have been considered, namely one related to a geometric quantity (i.e., the inner radius of the fuel pellet) and one related to a physical quantity (i.e., the inlet lead velocity). The capabilities of the presented reduced order model (ROM) have been tested and compared with a high-fidelity finite element model (upon which the ROM has been constructed) on different aspects. In particular, the comparison focused on the system reactivity prediction (with and without thermal feedbacks on neutronics), the neutron flux and temperature field reconstruction, and on the computational time. The outcomes provided by the reduced order model are in good agreement with the high-fidelity finite element ones, and a computational speed-up of at least three orders of magnitude is achieved as well. PB - Elsevier VL - 87 UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/35191 U1 - 35471 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/08 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Pimsner Algebras and Circle Bundles T2 - Noncommutative Analysis, Operator Theory and Applications Y1 - 2016 A1 - Francesca Arici A1 - Francesco D'Andrea A1 - Giovanni Landi ED - Alpay, Daniel ED - Cipriani, Fabio ED - Colombo, Fabrizio ED - Guido, Daniele ED - Sabadini, Irene ED - Sauvageot, Jean-Luc AB -

We report on the connections between noncommutative principal circle bundles, Pimsner algebras and strongly graded algebras. We illustrate several results with examples of quantum weighted projective and lens spaces and θ-deformations.

JF - Noncommutative Analysis, Operator Theory and Applications PB - Springer International Publishing CY - Cham SN - 978-3-319-29116-1 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29116-1_1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Pimsner algebras and Gysin sequences from principal circle actions JF - Journal of Noncommutative Geometry Y1 - 2016 A1 - Francesca Arici A1 - Jens Kaad A1 - Giovanni Landi VL - 10 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2066/162951 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - POD-Galerkin Method for Finite Volume Approximation of Navier-Stokes and RANS Equations Y1 - 2016 A1 - Stefano Lorenzi A1 - Antonio Cammi A1 - Lelio Luzzi A1 - Gianluigi Rozza AB - Numerical simulation of fluid flows requires important computational efforts but it is essential in engineering applications. Reduced Order Model (ROM) can be employed whenever fast simulations are required, or in general, whenever a trade-off between computational cost and solution accuracy is a preeminent issue as in process optimization and control. In this work, the efforts have been put to develop a ROM for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) application based on Finite Volume approximation, starting from the results available in turbulent Reynold-Averaged Navier Stokes simulations in order to enlarge the application field of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition – Reduced Order Model (POD – ROM) technique to more industrial fields. The approach is tested in the classic benchmark of the numerical simulation of the 2D lid-driven cavity. In particular, two simulations at Re = 103 and Re = 105 have been considered in order to assess both a laminar and turbulent case. Some quantities have been compared with the Full Order Model in order to assess the performance of the proposed ROM procedure i.e., the kinetic energy of the system and the reconstructed quantities of interest (velocity, pressure and turbulent viscosity). In addition, for the laminar case, the comparison between the ROM steady-state solution and the data available in literature has been presented. The results have turned out to be very satisfactory both for the accuracy and the computational times. As a major outcome, the approach turns out not to be affected by the energy blow up issue characterizing the results obtained by classic turbulent POD-Galerkin methods. PB - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Elsevier U1 - 35502 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/08 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A Reduced Basis Approach for Modeling the Movement of Nuclear Reactor Control Rods JF - NERS-14-1062; ASME J of Nuclear Rad Sci, 2, 2 (2016) 021019 Y1 - 2016 A1 - Alberto Sartori A1 - Antonio Cammi A1 - Lelio Luzzi A1 - Gianluigi Rozza AB - This work presents a reduced order model (ROM) aimed at simulating nuclear reactor control rods movement and featuring fast-running prediction of reactivity and neutron flux distribution as well. In particular, the reduced basis (RB) method (built upon a high-fidelity finite element (FE) approximation) has been employed. The neutronics has been modeled according to a parametrized stationary version of the multigroup neutron diffusion equation, which can be formulated as a generalized eigenvalue problem. Within the RB framework, the centroidal Voronoi tessellation is employed as a sampling technique due to the possibility of a hierarchical parameter space exploration, without relying on a “classical” a posteriori error estimation, and saving an important amount of computational time in the offline phase. Here, the proposed ROM is capable of correctly predicting, with respect to the high-fidelity FE approximation, both the reactivity and neutron flux shape. In this way, a computational speedup of at least three orders of magnitude is achieved. If a higher precision is required, the number of employed basis functions (BFs) must be increased. PB - ASME VL - 2 UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/35192 IS - 2 N1 - 8 pages U1 - 35473 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Reduced basis approaches in time-dependent noncoercive settings for modelling the movement of nuclear reactor control rods JF - Communications in Computational Physics Y1 - 2016 A1 - Alberto Sartori A1 - Antonio Cammi A1 - Lelio Luzzi A1 - Gianluigi Rozza AB -

In this work, two approaches, based on the certified Reduced Basis method, have been developed for simulating the movement of nuclear reactor control rods, in time-dependent non-coercive settings featuring a 3D geometrical framework. In particular, in a first approach, a piece-wise affine transformation based on subdomains division has been implemented for modelling the movement of one control rod. In the second approach, a “staircase” strategy has been adopted for simulating the movement of all the three rods featured by the nuclear reactor chosen as case study. The neutron kinetics has been modelled according to the so-called multi-group neutron diffusion, which, in the present case, is a set of ten coupled parametrized parabolic equations (two energy groups for the neutron flux, and eight for the precursors). Both the reduced order models, developed according to the two approaches, provided a very good accuracy compared with high-fidelity results, assumed as “truth” solutions. At the same time, the computational speed-up in the Online phase, with respect to the fine “truth” finite element discretization, achievable by both the proposed approaches is at least of three orders of magnitude, allowing a real-time simulation of the rod movement and control.

PB - SISSA UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/34963 IS - in press U1 - 35188 U2 - Mathematics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - t-Structures are Normal Torsion Theories JF - Applied Categorical Structures Y1 - 2016 A1 - Domenico Fiorenza A1 - Fosco Loregian AB -

We characterize $t$-structures in stable ∞-categories as suitable quasicategorical factorization systems. More precisely we show that a $t$-structure $\mathcal{t}$ on a stable $\infty$-category $\mathbb{C}$ is equivalent to a normal torsion theory $\mathbf{F}$ on $\mathbb{C}$, i.e. to a factorization system $\mathbf{F} = (\mathcal{\epsilon}, \mathcal{M})$ where both classes satisfy the 3-for-2 cancellation property, and a certain compatibility with pullbacks/pushouts.

VL - 24 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10485-015-9393-z ER - TY - THES T1 - t-structures on stable (infinity,1)-categories Y1 - 2016 A1 - Fosco Loregian KW - category theory, higher category theory, factorization system, torsion theory, homological algebra, higher algebra AB - The present work re-enacts the classical theory of t-structures reducing the classical definition coming from Algebraic Geometry to a rather primitive categorical gadget: suitable reflective factorization systems (defined in the work of Rosický, Tholen, and Cassidy-Hébert-Kelly), which we call "normal torsion theories" following. A relation between these two objects has previously been noticed by other authors, on the level of the triangulated homotopy categories of stable (infinity,1)-categories. The main achievement of the present thesis is to observe and prove that this relation exists genuinely when the definition is lifted to the higher-dimensional world where the notion of triangulated category comes from. PB - SISSA UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/35202 U1 - 35477 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/03 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Viscous approximation of quasistatic evolutions for a coupled elastoplastic-damage model JF - Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations Y1 - 2016 A1 - Vito Crismale A1 - Giuliano Lazzaroni AB -

Employing the technique of vanishing viscosity and time rescaling, we show the existence of quasistatic evolutions for elastoplastic materials with incomplete damage affecting both the elastic tensor and the plastic yield surface, in a softening framework and in small strain assumptions.

VL - 55 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-015-0947-6 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Young towers for product systems JF - Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A Y1 - 2016 A1 - Stefano Luzzatto A1 - Marks Ruziboev AB -

We show that the direct product of maps with Young towers admits a Young tower whose return times decay at a rate which is bounded above by the slowest of the rates of decay of the return times of the component maps. An application of this result, together with other results in the literature, yields various statistical properties for the direct product of various classes of systems, including Lorenz-like maps, multimodal maps, piecewise $C^2$ interval maps with critical points and singularities, Hénon maps and partially hyperbolic systems.

VL - 36 UR - http://aimsciences.org//article/id/18d4526e-470d-467e-967a-a0345ad4c642 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - A bridging mechanism in the homogenisation of brittle composites with soft inclusions Y1 - 2015 A1 - Marco Barchiesi A1 - Giuliano Lazzaroni A1 - Caterina Ida Zeppieri AB - We provide a homogenisation result for the energy-functional associated with a purely brittle composite whose microstructure is characterised by soft periodic inclusions embedded in a stiffer matrix. We show that the two constituents as above can be suitably arranged on a microscopic scale ε to obtain, in the limit as ε tends to zero, a homogeneous macroscopic energy-functional explicitly depending on the opening of the crack. PB - SISSA UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/7492 U1 - 7621 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Existence for constrained dynamic Griffith fracture with a weak maximal dissipation condition Y1 - 2015 A1 - Gianni Dal Maso A1 - Cristopher J. Larsen A1 - Rodica Toader AB - There are very few existence results for fracture evolution, outside of globally minimizing quasi-static evolutions. Dynamic evolutions are particularly problematic, due to the difficulty of showing energy balance, as well as of showing that solutions obey a maximal dissipation condition, or some similar condition that prevents stationary cracks from always being solutions. Here we introduce a new weak maximal dissipation condition and show that it is compatible with cracks constrained to grow smoothly on a smooth curve. In particular, we show existence of dynamic fracture evolutions satisfying this maximal dissipation condition, subject to the above smoothness constraints, and exhibit explicit examples to show that this maximal dissipation principle can indeed rule out stationary cracks as solutions. UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/35045 U1 - 35277 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/05 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Geodesics and horizontal-path spaces in Carnot groups JF - Geometry & Topology Y1 - 2015 A1 - Andrei A. Agrachev A1 - Alessandro Gentile A1 - Antonio Lerario AB -

We study properties of the space of horizontal paths joining the origin with a vertical point on a generic two-step Carnot group. The energy is a Morse-Bott functional on paths and its critical points (sub-Riemannian geodesics) appear in families (compact critical manifolds) with controlled topology. We study the asymptotic of the number of critical manifolds as the energy grows. The topology of the horizontal-path space is also investigated, and we find asymptotic results for the total Betti number of the sublevels of the energy as it goes to infinity. We interpret these results as local invariants of the sub-Riemannian structure.

PB - Mathematical Sciences Publishers VL - 19 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The phototransduction machinery in the rod outer segment has a strong efficacy gradient Y1 - 2015 A1 - Monica Mazzolini A1 - Giuseppe Facchetti A1 - L. Andolfi A1 - R. Proietti Zaccaria A1 - S. Tuccio A1 - J. Treud A1 - Claudio Altafini A1 - Enzo M. Di Fabrizio A1 - Marco Lazzarino A1 - G. Rapp A1 - Vincent Torre PB - National Academy of Sciences UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/35157 N1 - Open Access article U1 - 35382 U2 - Neuroscience ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Rigidity of three-dimensional lattices and dimension reduction in heterogeneous nanowires Y1 - 2015 A1 - Giuliano Lazzaroni A1 - Mariapia Palombaro A1 - Anja Schlomerkemper AB - In the context of nanowire heterostructures we perform a discrete to continuum limit of the corresponding free energy by means of Γ-convergence techniques. Nearest neighbours are identified by employing the notions of Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulations. The scaling of the nanowire is done in such a way that we perform not only a continuum limit but a dimension reduction simultaneously. The main part of the proof is a discrete geometric rigidity result that we announced in an earlier work and show here in detail for a variety of three-dimensional lattices. We perform the passage from discrete to continuum twice: once for a system that compensates a lattice mismatch between two parts of the heterogeneous nanowire without defects and once for a system that creates dislocations. It turns out that we can verify the experimentally observed fact that the nanowires show dislocations when the radius of the specimen is large PB - SISSA UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/7494 U1 - 7623 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Strong asymptotics of the orthogonal polynomials with respect to a measure supported on the plane JF - Comm. Pure Appl. Math. Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ferenc Balogh A1 - Marco Bertola A1 - Lee, Seung-Yeop A1 - Kenneth McLaughlin VL - 68 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpa.21541 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - The wave equation on domains with cracks growing on a prescribed path: existence, uniqueness, and continuous dependence on the data Y1 - 2015 A1 - Gianni Dal Maso A1 - Ilaria Lucardesi AB - Given a bounded open set $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^d$ with Lipschitz boundary and an increasing family $\Gamma_t$, $t\in [0,T]$, of closed subsets of $\Omega$, we analyze the scalar wave equation $\ddot{u} - div (A \nabla u) = f$ in the time varying cracked domains $\Omega\setminus\Gamma_t$. Here we assume that the sets $\Gamma_t$ are contained into a prescribed $(d-1)$-manifold of class $C^2$. Our approach relies on a change of variables: recasting the problem on the reference configuration $\Omega\setminus \Gamma_0$, we are led to consider a hyperbolic problem of the form $\ddot{v} - div (B\nabla v) + a \cdot \nabla v - 2 b \cdot \nabla \dot{v} = g$ in $\Omega \setminus \Gamma_0$. Under suitable assumptions on the regularity of the change of variables that transforms $\Omega\setminus \Gamma_t$ into $\Omega\setminus \Gamma_0$, we prove existence and uniqueness of weak solutions for both formulations. Moreover, we provide an energy equality, which gives, as a by-product, the continuous dependence of the solutions with respect to the cracks. UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/34629 U1 - 34832 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/05 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Achieving unanimous opinions in signed social networks Y1 - 2014 A1 - Claudio Altafini A1 - Gabriele Lini AB - Being able to predict the outcome of an opinion forming process is an important problem in social network theory. However, even for linear dynamics, this becomes a difficult task as soon as non-cooperative interactions are taken into account. Such interactions are naturally modeled as negative weights on the adjacency matrix of the social network. In this paper we show how the Perron-Frobenius theorem can be used for this task also beyond its standard formulation for cooperative systems. In particular we show how it is possible to associate the achievement of unanimous opinions with the existence of invariant cones properly contained in the positive orthant. These cases correspond to signed adjacency matrices having the eventual positivity property, i.e., such that in sufficiently high powers all negative entries have disappeared. More generally, we show how for social networks the achievement of a, possibily non-unanimous, opinion can be associated to the existence of an invariant cone fully contained in one of the orthants of n. PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/34935 U1 - 35137 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Buckling dynamics of a solvent-stimulated stretched elastomeric sheet Y1 - 2014 A1 - Alessandro Lucantonio A1 - Matthieu Roché A1 - Paola Nardinocchi A1 - Howard A. Stone AB - When stretched uniaxially, a thin elastic sheet may exhibit buckling. The occurrence of buckling depends on the geometrical properties of the sheet and the magnitude of the applied strain. Here we show that an elastomeric sheet initially stable under uniaxial stretching can destabilize when exposed to a solvent that swells the elastomer. We demonstrate experimentally and computationally that the features of the buckling pattern depend on the magnitude of stretching, and this observation offers a new way for controlling the shape of a swollen homogeneous thin sheet. PB - Royal Society of Chemistry UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/34967 U1 - 35197 U2 - Physics U4 - 1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Comparison of a Modal Method and a Proper Orthogonal Decomposition approach for multi-group time-dependent reactor spatial kinetics JF - Annals of Nuclear Energy Y1 - 2014 A1 - Alberto Sartori A1 - Davide Baroli A1 - Antonio Cammi A1 - Davide Chiesa A1 - Lelio Luzzi A1 - Roberto R. Ponciroli A1 - Ezio Previtali A1 - Marco E. Ricotti A1 - Gianluigi Rozza A1 - Monica Sisti AB -

In this paper, two modelling approaches based on a Modal Method (MM) and on the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) technique, for developing a control-oriented model of nuclear reactor spatial kinetics, are presented and compared. Both these methods allow developing neutronics description by means of a set of ordinary differential equations. The comparison of the outcomes provided by the two approaches focuses on the capability of evaluating the reactivity and the neutron flux shape in different reactor configurations, with reference to a TRIGA Mark II reactor. The results given by the POD-based approach are higher-fidelity with respect to the reference solution than those computed according to the MM-based approach, in particular when the perturbation concerns a reduced region of the core. If the perturbation is homogeneous throughout the core, the two approaches allow obtaining comparable accuracy results on the quantities of interest. As far as the computational burden is concerned, the POD approach ensures a better efficiency rather than direct Modal Method, thanks to the ability of performing a longer computation in the preprocessing that leads to a faster evaluation during the on-line phase.

PB - Elsevier VL - 71 UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/35039 U1 - 35270 U2 - Physics U4 - 1 ER - TY - CONF T1 - Coupled dynamic simulations of offshore wind turbines: influence of wave modelling on the fatigue load assesment T2 - XIII Conference of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering (In-Vento 2014) Y1 - 2014 A1 - Marino, Enzo A1 - Lugni, Claudio A1 - Giovanni Stabile A1 - Claudio Borri A1 - Manuel, Lance JF - XIII Conference of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering (In-Vento 2014) ER - TY - CONF T1 - Coupled dynamic simulations of offshore wind turbines using linear, weakly and fully nonlinear wave models: the limitations of the second-order wave theory T2 - 9th International Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN 2014) Y1 - 2014 A1 - Marino, Enzo A1 - Lugni, Claudio A1 - Giovanni Stabile A1 - Claudio Borri JF - 9th International Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN 2014) ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Model Order Reduction in Fluid Dynamics: Challenges and Perspectives Y1 - 2014 A1 - Toni Lassila A1 - Andrea Manzoni A1 - Alfio Quarteroni A1 - Gianluigi Rozza AB - This chapter reviews techniques of model reduction of fluid dynamics systems. Fluid systems are known to be difficult to reduce efficiently due to several reasons. First of all, they exhibit strong nonlinearities - which are mainly related either to nonlinear convection terms and/or some geometric variability - that often cannot be treated by simple linearization. Additional difficulties arise when attempting model reduction of unsteady flows, especially when long-term transient behavior needs to be accurately predicted using reduced order models and more complex features, such as turbulence or multiphysics phenomena, have to be taken into consideration. We first discuss some general principles that apply to many parametric model order reduction problems, then we apply them on steady and unsteady viscous flows modelled by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. We address questions of inf-sup stability, certification through error estimation, computational issues and-in the unsteady case - long-time stability of the reduced model. Moreover, we provide an extensive list of literature references. PB - Springer U1 - 34923 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Rate-independent damage in thermo-viscoelastic materials with inertia Y1 - 2014 A1 - Giuliano Lazzaroni A1 - Riccarda Rossi A1 - Marita Thomas A1 - Rodica Toader AB - We present a model for rate-independent, unidirectional, partial damage in visco-elastic materials with inertia and thermal effects. The damage process is modeled by means of an internal variable, governed by a rate-independent flow rule. The heat equation and the momentum balance for the displacements are coupled in a highly nonlinear way. Our assumptions on the corresponding energy functional also comprise the case of the Ambrosio-Tortorelli phase-field model (without passage to the brittle limit). We discuss a suitable weak formulation and prove an existence theorem obtained with the aid of a (partially) decoupled time-discrete scheme and variational convergence methods. We also carry out the asymptotic analysis for vanishing viscosity and inertia and obtain a fully rate-independent limit model for displacements and damage, which is Independent of temperature. PB - SISSA UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/7444 U1 - 7542 ER - TY - Generic T1 - A reduced order model for multi-group time-dependent parametrized reactor spatial kinetics T2 - 22nd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering ICONE22 Y1 - 2014 A1 - Alberto Sartori A1 - Davide Baroli A1 - Antonio Cammi A1 - Lelio Luzzi A1 - Gianluigi Rozza AB -

In this work, a Reduced Order Model (ROM) for multigroup time-dependent parametrized reactor spatial kinetics is presented. The Reduced Basis method (built upon a high-fidelity "truth" finite element approximation) has been applied to model the neutronics behavior of a parametrized system composed by a control rod surrounded by fissile material. The neutron kinetics has been described by means of a parametrized multi-group diffusion equation where the height of the control rod (i.e., how much the rod is inserted) plays the role of the varying parameter. In order to model a continuous movement of the rod, a piecewise affine transformation based on subdomain division has been implemented. The proposed ROM is capable to efficiently reproduce the neutron flux distribution allowing to take into account the spatial effects induced by the movement of the control rod with a computational speed-up of 30000 times, with respect to the "truth" model.

JF - 22nd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering ICONE22 PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) CY - Prague, Czech Republic SN - 978-079184595-0 UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/35123 N1 - 2014 22nd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, ICONE 2014; Prague; Czech Republic; 7 July 2014 through 11 July 2014; Code 109131; U1 - 35360 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Second Order Asymptotic Development for the Anisotropic Cahn-Hilliard Functional Y1 - 2014 A1 - Gianni Dal Maso A1 - Irene Fonseca A1 - Giovanni Leoni KW - Gamma-convergence, Cahn-Hilliard functional, phase transitions AB - The asymptotic behavior of an anisotropic Cahn-Hilliard functional with prescribed mass and Dirichlet boundary condition is studied when the parameter $\varepsilon$ that determines the width of the transition layers tends to zero. The double-well potential is assumed to be even and equal to $|s-1|^\beta$ near $s=1$, with $1<\beta<2$. The first order term in the asymptotic development by $\Gamma$-convergence is well-known, and is related to a suitable anisotropic perimeter of the interface. Here it is shown that, under these assumptions, the second order term is zero, which gives an estimate on the rate of convergence of the minimum values. PB - SISSA UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/7390 N1 - This article is composed if 33 pages and recorded in PDF format U1 - 7439 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/05 ANALISI MATEMATICA ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Some remarks on a model for rate-independent damage in thermo-visco-elastodynamics Y1 - 2014 A1 - Giuliano Lazzaroni A1 - Riccarda Rossi A1 - Marita Thomas A1 - Rodica Toader AB - This note deals with the analysis of a model for partial damage, where the rateindependent, unidirectional flow rule for the damage variable is coupled with the rate-dependent heat equation, and with the momentum balance featuring inertia and viscosity according to Kelvin-Voigt rheology. The results presented here combine the approach from Roubicek [1] with the methods from Lazzaroni/Rossi/Thomas/Toader [2] and extend the analysis to the setting of inhomogeneous time-dependent Dirichlet data. PB - SISSA UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/7463 U1 - 7566 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Swelling dynamics of a thin elastomeric sheet under uniaxial pre-stretch Y1 - 2014 A1 - Alessandro Lucantonio A1 - Paola Nardinocchi A1 - Howard A. Stone AB - It has been demonstrated experimentally that pre-stretch affects the swelling of an elastomeric membrane when it is exposed to a solvent. We study theoretically the one-dimensional swelling of a pre-stretched thin elastomeric sheet, bonded to an impermeable rigid substrate, to quantify the influence of pre-stretch. We show that the solvent uptake increases when pre-stretch increases, both at equilibrium and during the swelling transient, where it exhibits two different scaling regimes. The coupling between the solvent uptake and pre-stretch may be practically exploited to design soft actuators where the swelling-induced deformations can be controlled by varying the pre-stretch. PB - American Institute of Physics UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/35113 U1 - 35370 U2 - Physics U4 - 1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Swelling-induced and controlled curving in layered gel beams Y1 - 2014 A1 - Alessandro Lucantonio A1 - Paola Nardinocchi A1 - Matteo Pezzulla AB - We describe swelling-driven curving in originally straight and non-homogeneous beams. We present and verify a structural model of swollen beams, based on a new point of view adopted to describe swelling-induced deformation processes in bilayered gel beams, that is based on the split of the swelling-induced deformation of the beam at equilibrium into two components, both depending on the elastic properties of the gel. The method allows us to: (i) determine beam stretching and curving, once assigned the characteristics of the solvent bath and of the non-homogeneous beam, and (ii) estimate the characteristics of non-homogeneous flat gel beams in such a way as to obtain, under free-swelling conditions, three-dimensional shapes. The study was pursued by means of analytical, semi-analytical and numerical tools; excellent agreement of the outcomes of the different techniques was found, thus confirming the strength of the method. PB - Royal Society of London UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/34987 U1 - 35229 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Analytical validation of a continuum model for epitaxial growth with elasticity on vicinal surfaces Y1 - 2013 A1 - Gianni Dal Maso A1 - Irene Fonseca A1 - Giovanni Leoni KW - singular nonlinear parabolic equations, Hilbert transform, thin films AB - In this paper it is shown existence of weak solutions of a variational inequality derived from the continuum model introduced by Xiang [7, formula (3.62)] (see also the work of Xiang and E [8] and Xu and Xiang [9]) to describe the self-organization of terraces and steps driven by misfit elasticity between a film and a substrate in heteroepitaxial growth. This model is obtained as a continuum limit of discrete theories of Duport, Politi, and Villain [3] and Tersoff, Phang, Zhang, and Lagally[6]. PB - Springer UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/7245 U1 - 7284 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/05 ANALISI MATEMATICA ER - TY - CHAP T1 - A comparative study about the effects of linear, weakly and fully nonlinear wave models on the dynamic response of offshore wind turbines T2 - Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation Y1 - 2013 A1 - Marino, Enzo A1 - Giovanni Stabile A1 - Claudio Borri A1 - Lugni, Claudio JF - Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation PB - CRC Press ER - TY - THES T1 - On the desingularization of Kahler orbifolds with constant scalar curvature Y1 - 2013 A1 - Riccardo Lena PB - SISSA U1 - 7263 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/03 GEOMETRIA ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Genus stabilization for moduli of curves with symmetries Y1 - 2013 A1 - Fabrizio Catanese A1 - Michael Lönne A1 - Fabio Perroni KW - group actions KW - mapping class group KW - Moduli space of curves KW - Teichmüller space AB - In a previous paper, arXiv:1206.5498, we introduced a new homological\r\ninvariant $\\e$ for the faithful action of a finite group G on an algebraic\r\ncurve.\r\n We show here that the moduli space of curves admitting a faithful action of a\r\nfinite group G with a fixed homological invariant $\\e$, if the genus g\' of the\r\nquotient curve is sufficiently large, is irreducible (and non empty iff the\r\nclass satisfies the condition which we define as \'admissibility\'). In the\r\nunramified case, a similar result had been proven by Dunfield and Thurston\r\nusing the classical invariant in the second homology group of G, H_2(G, \\ZZ).\r\n We achieve our result showing that the stable classes are in bijection with\r\nthe set of admissible classes $\\e$. PB - SISSA UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6509 N1 - 21 pages, 2 figures U1 - 6461 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/03 GEOMETRIA ER - TY - RPRT T1 - A Reduced Computational and Geometrical Framework for Inverse Problems in Haemodynamics Y1 - 2013 A1 - Toni Lassila A1 - Andrea Manzoni A1 - Alfio Quarteroni A1 - Gianluigi Rozza PB - SISSA U1 - 6571 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/08 ANALISI NUMERICA ER - TY - RPRT T1 - A reduced-order strategy for solving inverse Bayesian identification problems in physiological flows Y1 - 2013 A1 - Toni Lassila A1 - Andrea Manzoni A1 - Alfio Quarteroni A1 - Gianluigi Rozza PB - SISSA U1 - 6555 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/08 ANALISI NUMERICA ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Reduction Strategies for Shape Dependent Inverse Problems in Haemodynamics Y1 - 2013 A1 - Toni Lassila A1 - Andrea Manzoni A1 - Gianluigi Rozza PB - SISSA U1 - 6554 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/08 ANALISI NUMERICA ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Some remarks on the viscous approximation of crack growth JF - Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. S Y1 - 2013 A1 - Giuliano Lazzaroni A1 - Rodica Toader KW - Variational models AB -

We describe an existence result for quasistatic evolutions of cracks in antiplane elasticity obtained in [16] by a vanishing viscosity approach, with free (but regular enough) crack path. We underline in particular the motivations for the choice of the class of admissible cracks and of the dissipation potential. Moreover, we extend the result to a model with applied forces depending on time.

PB - SISSA VL - 6 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4206 U1 - 3945 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications U4 - -1 ER - TY - THES T1 - Some topics on Higgs bundles over projective varieties and their moduli spaces Y1 - 2013 A1 - Alessio Lo Giudice KW - Algebraic Geometry, Moduli spaces, Vector bundles AB - In this thesis we study vector bundles on projective varieties and their moduli spaces. In Chapters 2, 3 and 4 we recall some basic notions as Higgs bundles, decorated bundles and generalized parabolic sheaves and introduce the problem we want to study. In chapter 5, we study Higgs bundles on nodal curves. After moving the problem on the normalization of the curve, starting from a Higgs bundle we obtain a generalized parabolic Higgs bundle. Using decorated bundles we are able to construct a projective moduli space which parametrizes equivalence classes of Higgs bundles on a nodal curve X. This chapter is an extract of a joint work with Andrea Pustetto Later on Chapter 6 is devoted to the study of holomorphic pairs (or twisted Higgs bundles) on elliptic curve. Holomorphic pairs were introduced by Nitsure and they are a natural generalization of the concept of Higgs bundles. In this Chapter we extend a result of E. Franco, O. Garc\'ia-Prada And P.E. Newstead valid for Higgs bundles to holomorphic pairs. Finally the last Chapter describes a joint work with Professor Ugo Bruzzo. We study Higgs bundles over varieties with nef tangent bundle. In particular generalizing a result of Nitsure we prove that if a Higgs bundle $(E,\phi)$ over the variety X with nef tangent remains semisatble when pulled-back to any smooth curve then it discrimiant vanishes. PB - SISSA U1 - 7134 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/03 GEOMETRIA ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Spectra of random Hermitian matrices with a small-rank external source: the supercritical and subcritical regimes JF - J. Stat. Phys. Y1 - 2013 A1 - Marco Bertola A1 - Buckingham, R. A1 - Lee, S. Y. A1 - Pierce, V. VL - 153 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10955-013-0845-2 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Boundary control and shape optimization for the robust design of bypass anastomoses under uncertainty JF - Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis, in press, 2012-13 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Toni Lassila A1 - Andrea Manzoni A1 - Alfio Quarteroni A1 - Gianluigi Rozza KW - shape optimization AB - We review the optimal design of an arterial bypass graft following either a (i) boundary optimal control approach, or a (ii) shape optimization formulation. The main focus is quantifying and treating the uncertainty in the residual flow when the hosting artery is not completely occluded,\\r\\nfor which the worst-case in terms of recirculation e ffects is inferred to correspond to a strong ori fice flow through near-complete occlusion. A worst-case optimal control approach is applied to the steady\\r\\nNavier-Stokes equations in 2D to identify an anastomosis angle and a cu ed shape that are robust with respect to a possible range of residual \\r\\nflows. We also consider a reduced order modelling framework\\r\\nbased on reduced basis methods in order to make the robust design problem computationally feasible. The results obtained in 2D are compared with simulations in a 3D geometry but without model\\r\\nreduction or the robust framework. PB - Cambridge University Press UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6337 U1 - 6267 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/08 ANALISI NUMERICA ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Convex pencils of real quadratic forms JF - Discrete and Computational Geometry, Volume 48, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 1025-1047 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Antonio Lerario AB - We study the topology of the set X of the solutions of a system of two quadratic inequalities in the real projective space RP^n (e.g. X is the intersection of two real quadrics). We give explicit formulae for its Betti numbers and for those of its double cover in the sphere S^n; we also give similar formulae for level sets of homogeneous quadratic maps to the plane. We discuss some applications of these results, especially in classical convexity theory. We prove the sharp bound b(X)\leq 2n for the total Betti number of X; we show that for odd n this bound is attained only by a singular X. In the nondegenerate case we also prove the bound on each specific Betti number b_k(X)\leq 2(k+2). PB - Springer UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/7099 N1 - Updated version to be published in DCG ; was published in : Discrete and Computational Geometry, Volume 48, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 1025-1047 U1 - 7097 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Generalized reduced basis methods and n-width estimates for the approximation of the solution manifold of parametric PDEs T2 - Springer, Indam Series, Vol. 4, 2012 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Toni Lassila A1 - Andrea Manzoni A1 - Alfio Quarteroni A1 - Gianluigi Rozza KW - solution manifold AB - The set of solutions of a parameter-dependent linear partial di fferential equation with smooth coe fficients typically forms a compact manifold in a Hilbert space. In this paper we review the generalized reduced basis method as a fast computational tool for the uniform approximation of the solution manifold. We focus on operators showing an affi ne parametric dependence, expressed as a linear combination of parameter-independent operators through some smooth, parameter-dependent scalar functions. In the case that the parameter-dependent operator has a dominant term in its affi ne expansion, one can prove the existence of exponentially convergent uniform approximation spaces for the entire solution manifold. These spaces can be constructed without any assumptions on the parametric regularity of the manifold \\r\\nonly spatial regularity of the solutions is required. The exponential convergence rate is then inherited by the generalized reduced basis method. We provide a numerical example related to parametrized elliptic\\r\\nequations con rming the predicted convergence rates. JF - Springer, Indam Series, Vol. 4, 2012 PB - Springer UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6340 U1 - 6270 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/08 ANALISI NUMERICA ER - TY - JOUR T1 - On the genus two free energies for semisimple Frobenius manifolds JF - Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics. Volume 19, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 273-298 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Boris Dubrovin A1 - Si-Qi Liu A1 - Youjin Zhang AB - We represent the genus two free energy of an arbitrary semisimple Frobenius\\r\\nmanifold as a sum of contributions associated with dual graphs of certain\\r\\nstable algebraic curves of genus two plus the so-called \\\"genus two G-function\\\".\\r\\nConjecturally the genus two G-function vanishes for a series of important\\r\\nexamples of Frobenius manifolds associated with simple singularities as well as\\r\\nfor ${\\\\bf P}^1$-orbifolds with positive Euler characteristics. We explain the\\r\\nreasons for such Conjecture and prove it in certain particular cases. PB - SISSA UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6464 N1 - 36 pages, 3 figures U1 - 6411 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/07 FISICA MATEMATICA ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Moduli spaces of noncommutative instantons: gauging away noncommutative parameters JF - Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (2012) 63 (1): 41-86 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Simon Brain A1 - Giovanni Landi AB - Using the theory of noncommutative geometry in a braided monoidal category, we improve upon a previous construction of noncommutative families of instantons of arbitrary charge on the deformed sphere S^4_\\\\theta. We formulate a notion of noncommutative parameter spaces for families of instantons and we explore what it means for such families to be gauge equivalent, as well as showing how to remove gauge parameters using a noncommutative quotient construction. Although the parameter spaces are a priori noncommutative, we show that one may always recover a classical parameter space by making an appropriate choice of gauge transformation. PB - Oxford University Press UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3777 U1 - 548 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - On robust Lie-algebraic stability conditions for switched linear systems JF - Systems and Control Letters. Volume 61, Issue 2, February 2012, Pages 347-353 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Andrei A. Agrachev A1 - Yurij Baryshnikov A1 - Daniel Liberzon AB - This paper presents new sufficient conditions for exponential stability of switched linear systems under arbitrary switching, which involve the commutators (Lie brackets) among the given matrices generating the switched system. The main novelty feature of these stability criteria is that, unlike their earlier counterparts, they are robust with respect to small perturbations of the system parameters. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6455 U1 - 6400 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/05 ANALISI MATEMATICA ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Spectra of random Hermitian matrices with a small-rank external source: the critical and near-critical regimes JF - J. Stat. Phys. Y1 - 2012 A1 - Marco Bertola A1 - Buckingham, R. A1 - Lee, S. Y. A1 - Pierce, V. VL - 146 UR - http://0-dx.doi.org.mercury.concordia.ca/10.1007/s10955-011-0409-2 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Systems of Quadratic Inequalities JF - Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 105, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 622-660 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Andrei A. Agrachev A1 - Antonio Lerario AB - We present a spectral sequence which efficiently computes Betti numbers of a closed semi-algebraic subset of RP^n defined by a system of quadratic inequalities and the image of the homology homomorphism induced by the inclusion of this subset in RP^n. We do not restrict ourselves to the term E_2 of the spectral sequence and give a simple explicit formula for the differential d_2. PB - SISSA UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/7072 U1 - 7066 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/03 GEOMETRIA ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Bishop and Laplacian Comparison Theorems on Three Dimensional Contact Subriemannian Manifolds with Symmetry Y1 - 2011 A1 - Andrei A. Agrachev A1 - Paul Lee AB - We prove a Bishop volume comparison theorem and a Laplacian comparison\r\ntheorem for three dimensional contact subriemannian manifolds with symmetry. PB - SISSA UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6508 N1 - 25 pages U1 - 6455 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Cones of divisors of blow-ups of projective spaces JF - Le Matematiche (Catania), volume 66, Issue no.2, (2011), pages : 153-187 Y1 - 2011 A1 - Alessio Lo Giudice A1 - Salvatore Cacciola A1 - M. Donten-Bury A1 - O. Dumitrescu A1 - J. Park KW - Mori dream space AB - We investigate Mori dream spaces obtained by blowing-up the n-dimensional complex projective space at n+1, n+2 or n+3 points in very general position. Using toric techniques we study the movable cone of the blow-up of Pn at n+1 points, its decomposition into nef chambers and the action of theWeyl group on the set of chambers. Moreover, using different methods, we explicitly write down the equations of the movable cone also for Pn blown-up at n+2 points. PB - Università degli Studi di Catania. Dipartimento di matematica UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6613 U1 - 6462 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/03 GEOMETRIA ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Crack growth with non-interpenetration : a simplified proof for the pure Neumann problem JF - Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 31 (2011) 1219-1231 Y1 - 2011 A1 - Gianni Dal Maso A1 - Giuliano Lazzaroni AB - We present a recent existence result concerning the quasi-static evolution of cracks in hyperelastic brittle materials, in the frame-work of finite elasticity with non-interpenetration. In particular, here we consider the problem where no Dirichlet conditions are imposed, the boundary is traction-free, and the body is subject only to time-dependent volume forces. This allows us to present the main ideas of the proof in a simpler way, avoiding some of the technicalities needed in the general case, studied in. PB - American Institute of Mathematical Sciences UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3801 U1 - 526 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Cytoskeletal actin networks in motile cells are critically self-organized systems synchronized by mechanical interactions JF - PNAS 108 (2011) 13978 Y1 - 2011 A1 - Luca Cardamone A1 - Alessandro Laio A1 - Rajesh Shahapure A1 - Antonio DeSimone PB - National Academy of Sciences UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4358 U1 - 4066 U2 - Physics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications U4 - -1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Energy release rate and stress intensity factor in antiplane elasticity JF - Journal de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees 95 (2011) 565-584 Y1 - 2011 A1 - Giuliano Lazzaroni A1 - Rodica Toader AB - In the setting of antiplane linearized elasticity, we show the existence of the stress intensity factor and its relation with the energy release rate when the crack path is a C1,1 curve. Finally, we show that the energy release rate is continuous with respect to the Hausdorff convergence in a class of admissible cracks. PB - Elsevier UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3780 U1 - 546 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Existence for wave equations on domains with arbitrary growing cracks JF - Rend. Lincei Mat. Appl. 22 (2011) 387-408 Y1 - 2011 A1 - Gianni Dal Maso A1 - Cristopher J. Larsen KW - Wave equation AB - In this paper we formulate and study scalar wave equations on domains with arbitrary growing cracks. This includes a zero Neumann condition on the crack sets, and the only assumptions on these sets are that they have bounded surface measure and are growing in the sense of set inclusion. In particular, they may be dense, so the weak formulations must fall outside of the usual weak formulations using Sobolev spaces. We study both damped and undamped equations, showing existence and, for the damped equation, uniqueness and energy conservation. PB - European Mathematical Society UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4284 U1 - 4015 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications U4 - -1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Generalized Ricci Curvature Bounds for Three Dimensional Contact Subriemannian manifolds Y1 - 2011 A1 - Andrei A. Agrachev A1 - Paul Lee PB - SISSA UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6507 N1 - This is a revised extended version that contains new results. U1 - 6454 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 ER - TY - THES T1 - Homology invariants of quadratic maps Y1 - 2011 A1 - Antonio Lerario AB - Given a real projective algebraic set X we could hope that the equations describing it can give some information on its topology, e.g. on the number of its connected components. Unfortunately in the general case this hope is too vague and there is no direct way to extract such information from the algebraic description of X: Even the problem to decide whether X is empty or not is far from an easy visualization and requires some complicated algebraic machinery. A fi rst step observation is that as long as we are interested only in the topology of X, we can replace, using some Veronese embedding, the original ambient space with a much bigger RPn and assume that X is cut by quadratic equations. The price for this is the increase of the number of equations de ning our set; the advantage is that quadratic polynomials are easier to handle and our hope becomes more concrete... PB - SISSA UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6245 U1 - 6145 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics U4 - -1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The matching property of infinitesimal isometries on elliptic surfaces and elasticity on thin shells JF - Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 200 (2011) 1023-1050 Y1 - 2011 A1 - Marta Lewicka A1 - Maria Giovanna Mora A1 - Mohammad Reza Pakzad AB - Using the notion of Γ-convergence, we discuss the limiting behavior of the three-dimensional nonlinear elastic energy for thin elliptic shells, as their thickness h converges to zero, under the assumption that the elastic energy of deformations scales like h β with 2 < β < 4. We establish that, for the given scaling regime, the limiting theory reduces to linear pure bending. Two major ingredients of the proofs are the density of smooth infinitesimal isometries in the space of W 2,2 first order infinitesimal isometries, and a result on matching smooth infinitesimal isometries with exact isometric immersions on smooth elliptic surfaces. PB - Springer UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3392 U1 - 940 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A MODEL FOR CRACK PROPAGATION BASED ON VISCOUS APPROXIMATION JF - {MATHEMATICAL MODELS & METHODS IN APPLIED SCIENCES} Y1 - 2011 A1 - Giuliano Lazzaroni A1 - Rodica Toader KW - Brittle fracture KW - Crack propagation KW - energy derivative KW - energy release rate KW - free-discontinuity problems KW - Griffith's criterion KW - local minimizers KW - stress intensity factor} KW - vanishing viscosity KW - {Variational models AB -

{In the setting of antiplane linearized elasticity, we show the existence of quasistatic evolutions of cracks in brittle materials by using a vanishing viscosity approach, thus taking into account local minimization. The main feature of our model is that the path followed by the crack need not be prescribed a priori: indeed, it is found as the limit (in the sense of Hausdorff convergence) of curves obtained by an incremental procedure. The result is based on a continuity property for the energy release rate in a suitable class of admissible cracks.}

PB - {WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD} CY - {5 TOH TUCK LINK, SINGAPORE 596224, SINGAPORE} VL - {21} ER - TY - CONF T1 - The Monge Problem in Geodesic Spaces T2 - Nonlinear Conservation Laws and Applications Y1 - 2011 A1 - Stefano Bianchini A1 - Fabio Cavalletti ED - Alberto Bressan ED - Chen, Gui-Qiang G. ED - Marta Lewicka ED - Wang, Dehua AB -

We address the Monge problem in metric spaces with a geodesic distance: (X, d) is a Polish non branching geodesic space. We show that we can reduce the transport problem to 1-dimensional transport problems along geodesics. We introduce an assumption on the transport problem π which implies that the conditional probabilities of the first marginal on each geodesic are continuous. It is known that this regularity is sufficient for the construction of an optimal transport map.

JF - Nonlinear Conservation Laws and Applications PB - Springer US CY - Boston, MA SN - 978-1-4419-9554-4 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Quasistatic crack growth in finite elasticity with Lipschitz data JF - {ANNALI DI MATEMATICA PURA ED APPLICATA} Y1 - 2011 A1 - Giuliano Lazzaroni KW - Brittle fracture KW - Crack propagation KW - Energy minimization KW - Finite elasticity KW - free-discontinuity problems KW - Griffith's criterion KW - Non-interpenetration} KW - Polyconvexity KW - Quasistatic evolution KW - Rate-independent processes KW - {Variational models AB -

{We extend the recent existence result of Dal Maso and Lazzaroni (Ann Inst H Poincare Anal Non Lineaire 27:257-290, 2010) for quasistatic evolutions of cracks in finite elasticity, allowing for boundary conditions and external forces with discontinuous first derivatives.}

PB - {SPRINGER HEIDELBERG} CY - {TIERGARTENSTRASSE 17, D-69121 HEIDELBERG, GERMANY} VL - {190} ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Singular perturbation models in phase transitions for second order materials JF - Indiana Univ. Math. J. 60 (2011) 367-409 Y1 - 2011 A1 - Milena Chermisi A1 - Gianni Dal Maso A1 - Irene Fonseca A1 - Giovanni Leoni AB - A variational model proposed in the physics literature to describe the onset of pattern formation in two-component bilayer membranes and amphiphilic monolayers leads to the analysis of a Ginzburg-Landau type energy with a negative term depending on the first derivative of the phase function. Scaling arguments motivate the study of the family of second order singular perturbed energies Fe having a negative term depending on the first derivative of the phase function. Here, the asymptotic behavior of {Fe} is studied using G-convergence techniques. In particular, compactness results and an integral representation of the limit energy are obtained. PB - Indiana University UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3858 U1 - 851 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A system-level approach for deciphering the transcriptional response to prion infection JF - Bioinformatics (Oxford, England). 2011 Dec; 27(24):3407-14 Y1 - 2011 A1 - Mattia Zampieri A1 - Giuseppe Legname A1 - Daniel Segrè A1 - Claudio Altafini AB - MOTIVATION: Deciphering the response of a complex biological system to an insulting event, at the gene expression level, requires adopting theoretical models that are more sophisticated than a one-to-one comparison (i.e. t-test). Here, we investigate the ability of a novel reverse engineering approach (System Response Inference) to unveil non-obvious transcriptional signatures of the system response induced by prion infection.\\r\\nRESULTS: To this end, we analyze previously published gene expression data, from which we extrapolate a putative full-scale model of transcriptional gene-gene dependencies in the mouse central nervous system. Then, we use this nominal model to interpret the gene expression changes caused by prion replication, aiming at selecting the genes primarily influenced by this perturbation. Our method sheds light on the mode of action of prions by identifying key transcripts that are the most likely to be responsible for the overall transcriptional rearrangement from a nominal regulatory network. As a first result of our inference, we have been able to predict known targets of prions (i.e. PrP(C)) and to unveil the potential role of previously unsuspected genes.\\r\\nCONTACT: altafini@sissa.it\\r\\nSUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. PB - Oxford University Press UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/5745 U1 - 5600 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications U4 - -1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Continuity of optimal control costs and its application to weak KAM theory JF - Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations. Volume 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 213-232 Y1 - 2010 A1 - Andrei A. Agrachev A1 - Paul Lee AB - We prove continuity of certain cost functions arising from optimal control of\\r\\naffine control systems. We give sharp sufficient conditions for this\\r\\ncontinuity. As an application, we prove a version of weak KAM theorem and\\r\\nconsider the Aubry-Mather problems corresponding to these systems. PB - SISSA UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6459 N1 - 23 pages, 1 figures U1 - 6405 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/05 ANALISI MATEMATICA ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Exact reconstruction of damaged color images using a total variation model JF - Ann. Inst. H. Poincare Anal. Non Lineaire 27 (2010) 1291-1331 Y1 - 2010 A1 - Irene Fonseca A1 - Giovanni Leoni A1 - Francesco Maggi A1 - Massimiliano Morini AB - In this paper the reconstruction of damaged piecewice constant color images is studied using a RGB total variation based model for colorization/inpainting. In particular, it is shown that when color is known in a uniformly distributed region, then reconstruction is possible with maximal fidelity. PB - Elsevier UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4039 U1 - 363 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - First colonization of a hard-edge in random matrix theory JF - Constr. Approx. Y1 - 2010 A1 - Marco Bertola A1 - Lee, S. Y. VL - 31 UR - http://0-dx.doi.org.mercury.concordia.ca/10.1007/s00365-009-9052-4 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Gene expression analysis of the emergence of epileptiform activity after focal injection of kainic acid into mouse hippocampus. JF - The European journal of neuroscience. 2010 Oct; 32(8):1364-79 Y1 - 2010 A1 - Dario Motti A1 - Caroline Le Duigou A1 - Nicole Chemaly A1 - Lucia Wittner A1 - Dejan Lazarevic A1 - Helena Krmac A1 - Troels Torben Marstrand A1 - Eivind Valen A1 - Remo Sanges A1 - Elia Stupka A1 - Albin Sandelin A1 - Enrico Cherubini A1 - Stefano Gustincich A1 - Richard Miles AB -

We report gene profiling data on genomic processes underlying the progression towards recurrent seizures after injection of kainic acid (KA) into the mouse hippocampus. Focal injection enabled us to separate the effects of proepileptic stimuli initiated by KA injection. Both the injected and contralateral hippocampus participated in the status epilepticus. However, neuronal death induced by KA treatment was restricted to the injected hippocampus, although there was some contralateral axonal degeneration. We profiled gene expression changes in dorsal and ventral regions of both the injected and contralateral hippocampus. Changes were detected in the expression of 1526 transcripts in samples from three time-points: (i) during the KA-induced status epilepticus, (ii) at 2 weeks, before recurrent seizures emerged, and (iii) at 6 months after seizures emerged. Grouping genes with similar spatio-temporal changes revealed an early transcriptional response, strong immune, cell death and growth responses at 2 weeks and an activation of immune and extracellular matrix genes persisting at 6 months. Immunostaining for proteins coded by genes identified from array studies provided evidence for gliogenesis and suggested that the proteoglycan biglycan is synthesized by astrocytes and contributes to a glial scar. Gene changes at 6 months after KA injection were largely restricted to tissue from the injection site. This suggests that either recurrent seizures might depend on maintained processes including immune responses and changes in extracellular matrix proteins near the injection site or alternatively might result from processes, such as growth, distant from the injection site and terminated while seizures are maintained.

PB - Wiley UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4480 U1 - 4244 U2 - Neuroscience U3 - Neurobiology U4 - -1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Nonlocal character of the reduced theory of thin films with higher order perturbations JF - Adv. Calc. Var. 3 (2010) 287-319 Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gianni Dal Maso A1 - Irene Fonseca A1 - Giovanni Leoni UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3754 U1 - 563 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Optimally swimming Stokesian Robots Y1 - 2010 A1 - François Alouges A1 - Antonio DeSimone A1 - Luca Heltai A1 - Aline Lefebvre A1 - Benoit Merlet AB - We study self propelled stokesian robots composed of assemblies of balls, in dimen-\\nsions 2 and 3, and prove that they are able to control their position and orientation. This is a result of controllability, and its proof relies on applying Chow\\\'s theorem in an analytic framework, similarly to what has been done in [3] for an axisymmetric system swimming along the axis of symmetry. However, we simplify drastically\\nthe analyticity result given in [3] and apply it to a situation where more complex swimmers move either in a plane or in three-dimensional space, hence experiencing also rotations. We then focus our attention on energetically optimal strokes, which we are able to compute numerically. Some examples of computed optimal strokes are discussed in detail. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3929 U1 - 472 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Quasistatic crack growth in finite elasticity with non-interpenetration JF - Ann. Inst. H. Poincare Anal. Non Lineaire 27 (2010) 257-290 Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gianni Dal Maso A1 - Giuliano Lazzaroni AB -

We present a variational model to study the quasistatic growth of brittle cracks in hyperelastic materials, in the framework of finite elasticity, taking\\ninto account the non-interpenetration condition.

UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3397 U1 - 935 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The reductions of the dispersionless 2D Toda hierarchy and their Hamiltonian structures JF - J. Phys. A 43 (2010) 045201 Y1 - 2010 A1 - Guido Carlet A1 - Paolo Lorenzoni A1 - Andrea Raimondo AB - We study finite-dimensional reductions of the dispersionless 2D Toda hierarchy showing that the consistency conditions for such reductions are given by a system of radial Loewner equations. We then construct their Hamiltonian structures, following an approach proposed by Ferapontov. PB - IOP Publishing UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3846 U1 - 863 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Shell theories arising as low energy Gamma-limit of 3d nonlinear elasticity JF - Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci. (5) Vol. IX (2010) 253-295 Y1 - 2010 A1 - Marta Lewicka A1 - Maria Giovanna Mora A1 - Mohammad Reza Pakzad AB - We discuss the limiting behavior (using the notion of gamma-limit) of the 3d nonlinear elasticity for thin shells around an arbitrary smooth 2d surface. In particular, under the assumption that the elastic energy of deformations scales like h4, h being the thickness of a shell, we derive a limiting theory which is a generalization of the von Karman theory for plates. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2601 U1 - 1521 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Biological Fluid Dynamics, Non-linear Partial Differential Equations T2 - Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science / Robert A. Meyers (ed.). - Springer, 2009, 548-554 Y1 - 2009 A1 - Antonio DeSimone A1 - François Alouges A1 - Aline Lefebvre JF - Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science / Robert A. Meyers (ed.). - Springer, 2009, 548-554 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2630 U1 - 1493 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Families of Monads and Instantons from a Noncommutative ADHM Construction Y1 - 2009 A1 - Simon Brain A1 - Giovanni Landi AB - We give a \\\\theta-deformed version of the ADHM construction of SU(2) instantons with arbitrary topological charge on the sphere S^4. Classically the instanton gauge fields are constructed from suitable monad data; we show that in the deformed case the set of monads is itself a noncommutative space. We use these monads to construct noncommutative `families\\\' of SU(2) instantons on the deformed sphere S^4_\\\\theta. We also compute the topological charge of each of the families. Finally we discuss what it means for such families to be gauge equivalent. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3478 U1 - 786 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - First colonization of a spectral outpost in random matrix theory JF - Constr. Approx. Y1 - 2009 A1 - Marco Bertola A1 - Lee, S. Y. VL - 30 UR - http://0-dx.doi.org.mercury.concordia.ca/10.1007/s00365-008-9026-y ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Gauged Laplacians on quantum Hopf bundles JF - Comm. Math. Phys. 287 (2009) 179-209 Y1 - 2009 A1 - Giovanni Landi A1 - Cesare Reina A1 - Alessandro Zampini AB - We study gauged Laplacian operators on line bundles on a quantum 2-dimensional sphere. Symmetry under the (co)-action of a quantum group allows for their complete diagonalization. These operators describe `excitations moving on the quantum sphere\\\' in the field of a magnetic monopole. The energies are not invariant under the exchange monopole/antimonopole, that is under inverting the direction of the magnetic field. There are potential applications to models of quantum Hall effect. PB - Springer UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3540 U1 - 1161 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A higher order model for image restoration: the one dimensional case JF - SIAM J. Math. Anal. 40 (2009) 2351-2391 Y1 - 2009 A1 - Gianni Dal Maso A1 - Irene Fonseca A1 - Giovanni Leoni A1 - Massimiliano Morini AB - The higher order total variation-based model for image restoration proposed by Chan, Marquina, and Mulet in [6] is analyzed in one dimension. A suitable functional framework in which the minimization problem is well posed is being proposed and it is proved analytically that the\\nhigher order regularizing term prevents the occurrence of the staircase effect. The generalized version of the model considered here includes, as particular cases, some curvature dependent functionals. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3174 U1 - 1127 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Investigating the Conformational Stability of Prion Strains through a Kinetic Replication Model JF - PLoS Comput Biol 2009;5(7): e1000420 Y1 - 2009 A1 - Mattia Zampieri A1 - Giuseppe Legname A1 - Claudio Altafini AB - Prion proteins are known to misfold into a range of different aggregated forms, showing different phenotypic and pathological states. Understanding strain specificities is an important problem in the field of prion disease. Little is known about which PrPSc structural properties and molecular mechanisms determine prion replication, disease progression and strain phenotype. The aim of this work is to investigate, through a mathematical model, how the structural stability of different aggregated forms can influence the kinetics of prion replication. The model-based results suggest that prion strains with different conformational stability undergoing in vivo replication are characterizable in primis by means of different rates of breakage. A further role seems to be played by the aggregation rate (i.e. the rate at which a prion fibril grows). The kinetic variability introduced in the model by these two parameters allows us to reproduce the different characteristic features of the various strains (e.g., fibrils\\\' mean length) and is coherent with all experimental observations concerning strain-specific behavior. PB - PLoS UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3989 U1 - 413 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Mesoscopic colonization in a spectral band JF - J. Phys. A Y1 - 2009 A1 - Marco Bertola A1 - Lee, S. Y. A1 - Mo, M. Y. VL - 42 UR - http://0-dx.doi.org.mercury.concordia.ca/10.1088/1751-8113/42/41/415204 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A nonlinear theory for shells with slowly varying thickness JF - C. R. Math. 347 (2009) 211-216 Y1 - 2009 A1 - Marta Lewicka A1 - Maria Giovanna Mora A1 - Mohammad Reza Pakzad AB - We study the Γ-limit of 3d nonlinear elasticity for shells of small, variable thickness, around an arbitrary smooth 2d surface. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2632 U1 - 1491 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Optimal transportation under nonholonomic constraints JF - Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 361 (2009) 6019-6047 Y1 - 2009 A1 - Andrei A. Agrachev A1 - Paul Lee AB - We study the Monge\\\'s optimal transportation problem where the cost is given by optimal control cost. We prove the existence and uniqueness of optimal map under certain regularity conditions on the Lagrangian, absolute continuity of the measures and most importantly the absent of sharp abnormal minimizers. In particular, this result is applicable in the case of subriemannian manifolds with a 2-generating distribution and cost given by d2, where d is the subriemannian distance. Also, we discuss some properties of the optimal plan when abnormal minimizers are present. Finally, we consider some examples of displacement interpolation in the case of Grushin plane. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2176 U1 - 2068 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Isospectral Dirac Operator on the 4-dimensional Orthogonal Quantum Sphere JF - Comm. Math. Phys. 279 (2008) 77-116 Y1 - 2008 A1 - Francesco D'Andrea A1 - Ludwik Dabrowski A1 - Giovanni Landi AB - Equivariance under the action of Uq(so(5)) is used to compute the left regular and (chiral) spinorial representations of the algebra of the quantum Euclidean 4-sphere S^4_q. These representations are the constituents of a spectral triple on this sphere with a Dirac operator which is isospectral to the canonical one of the spin structure of the round undeformed four-sphere and which gives metric dimension four for the noncommutative geometry. Non-triviality of the geometry is proved by pairing the associated Fredholm module with an `instanton\\\' projection. A real structure which satisfies all required properties modulo a suitable ideal of `infinitesimals\\\' is also introduced. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2567 U1 - 1553 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Noncommutative families of instantons JF - Int. Math. Res. Not. vol. 2008, Article ID rnn038 Y1 - 2008 A1 - Giovanni Landi A1 - Chiara Pagani A1 - Cesare Reina A1 - Walter van Suijlekom AB - We construct $\\\\theta$-deformations of the classical groups SL(2,H) and Sp(2). Coacting on the basic instanton on a noncommutative four-sphere $S^4_\\\\theta$, we construct a noncommutative family of instantons of charge 1. The family is parametrized by the quantum quotient of $SL_\\\\theta(2,H)$ by $Sp_\\\\theta(2)$. PB - Oxford University Press UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3417 U1 - 918 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Noncommutative Geometry of the Quantum Projective Plane JF - Rev. Math. Phys. 20 (2008) 979-1006 Y1 - 2008 A1 - Francesco D'Andrea A1 - Ludwik Dabrowski A1 - Giovanni Landi AB - We study the spectral geometry of the quantum projective plane CP^2_q. In particular, we construct a Dirac operator which gives a 0^+ summable triple, equivariant under U_q(su(3)). UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2548 U1 - 1571 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Optimal Strokes for Low Reynolds Number Swimmers: An Example JF - J. Nonlinear Sci. 18 (2008) 277-302 Y1 - 2008 A1 - François Alouges A1 - Antonio DeSimone A1 - Aline Lefebvre AB - Swimming, i.e., being able to advance in the absence of external forces by performing cyclic shape changes, is particularly demanding at low Reynolds numbers. This is the regime of interest for micro-organisms and micro- or nano-robots. We focus in this paper on a simple yet representative example: the three-sphere swimmer of Najafi and Golestanian (Phys. Rev. E, 69, 062901-062904, 2004). For this system, we show how to cast the problem of swimming in the language of control theory, prove global controllability (which implies that the three-sphere swimmer can indeed swim), and propose a numerical algorithm to compute optimal strokes (which turn out to be suitably defined sub-Riemannian geodesics). PB - Springer UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4006 U1 - 396 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Dirac operators on all Podles quantum spheres JF - J. Noncomm. Geom. 1 (2007) 213-239 Y1 - 2007 A1 - Francesco D'Andrea A1 - Ludwik Dabrowski A1 - Giovanni Landi A1 - Elmar Wagner AB - We construct spectral triples on all Podles quantum spheres. These noncommutative geometries are equivariant for a left action of $U_q(su(2))$ and are regular, even and of metric dimension 2. They are all isospectral to the undeformed round geometry of the 2-sphere. There is also an equivariant real structure for which both the commutant property and the first order condition for the Dirac operators are valid up to infinitesimals of arbitrary order. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2177 U1 - 2067 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Equilibrium configurations of epitaxially strained crystalline films: existence and regularity results JF - Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 186 (2007) 477-537 Y1 - 2007 A1 - Irene Fonseca A1 - Nicola Fusco A1 - Giovanni Leoni A1 - Massimiliano Morini AB - Strained epitaxial films grown on a relatively thick substrate are considered in the context of plane linear elasticity. The total free energy of the system is assumed to be the sum of the energy of the free surface of the film and the strain energy. Because of the lattice mismatch between film and substrate, flat configurations are in general energetically unfavorable and a corrugated or islanded morphology is the preferred growth mode of the strained film. After specifying the functional setup in which the existence problem can be properly framed, a study of the qualitative properties of the solutions is undertaken. New regularity results for volume-constrained local minimizers of the total free energy are established, leading, as a byproduct, to a rigorous proof of the zero-contact-angle condition between islands and wetting layers. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2350 U1 - 1666 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Necessary and sufficient conditions for the chainrule in W1,1loc(RN;Rd) and BVloc(RN;Rd) JF - J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 9 (2007) 219-252 Y1 - 2007 A1 - Giovanni Leoni A1 - Massimiliano Morini AB -

In this paper we prove necessary and sufficient conditions for the validity of the classical chain rule in Sobolev spaces and in the space of functions of bounded variation.

UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2037 U1 - 2159 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The number of eigenvalues of three-particle Schrödinger operators on lattices JF - J. Phys. A 40 (2007) 14819-14842 Y1 - 2007 A1 - Sergio Albeverio A1 - Gianfausto Dell'Antonio A1 - Saidakhmat N. Lakaev AB - We consider the Hamiltonian of a system of three quantum mechanical particles (two identical fermions and boson)on the three-dimensional lattice $\\\\Z^3$ and interacting by means of zero-range attractive potentials. We describe the location and structure of the essential spectrum of the three-particle discrete Schr\\\\\\\"{o}dinger operator $H_{\\\\gamma}(K),$ $K$ being the total quasi-momentum and $\\\\gamma>0$ the ratio of the mass of fermion and boson.\\nWe choose for $\\\\gamma>0$ the interaction $v(\\\\gamma)$ in such a way the system consisting of one fermion and one boson has a zero energy resonance.\\nWe prove for any $\\\\gamma> 0$ the existence infinitely many eigenvalues of the operator $H_{\\\\gamma}(0).$ We establish for the number $N(0,\\\\gamma; z;)$ of eigenvalues lying below $z<0$ the following asymptotics $$ \\\\lim_{z\\\\to 0-}\\\\frac{N(0,\\\\gamma;z)}{\\\\mid \\\\log \\\\mid z\\\\mid \\\\mid}={U} (\\\\gamma) .$$ Moreover, for all nonzero values of the quasi-momentum $K \\\\in T^3 $ we establish the finiteness of the number $ N(K,\\\\gamma;\\\\tau_{ess}(K))$ of eigenvalues of $H(K)$ below the bottom of the essential spectrum and we give an asymptotics for the number $N(K,\\\\gamma;0)$ of eigenvalues below zero. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2576 U1 - 1545 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A Hopf bundle over a quantum four-sphere from the symplectic group JF - Commun. Math. Phys. 263 (2006) 65-88 Y1 - 2006 A1 - Giovanni Landi A1 - Chiara Pagani A1 - Cesare Reina AB - We construct a quantum version of the SU(2) Hopf bundle $S^7 \\\\to S^4$. The quantum sphere $S^7_q$ arises from the symplectic group $Sp_q(2)$ and a quantum 4-sphere $S^4_q$ is obtained via a suitable self-adjoint idempotent $p$ whose entries generate the algebra $A(S^4_q)$ of polynomial functions over it. This projection determines a deformation of an (anti-)instanton bundle over the classical sphere $S^4$. We compute the fundamental $K$-homology class of $S^4_q$ and pair it with the class of $p$ in the $K$-theory getting the value -1 for the topological charge. There is a right coaction of $SU_q(2)$ on $S^7_q$ such that the algebra $A(S^7_q)$ is a non trivial quantum principal bundle over $A(S^4_q)$ with structure quantum group $A(SU_q(2))$. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2179 U1 - 2065 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Dirac operator on SU_q(2) JF - Commun. Math. Phys. 259 (2005) 729-759 Y1 - 2005 A1 - Ludwik Dabrowski A1 - Giovanni Landi A1 - Andrzej Sitarz A1 - Walter van Suijlekom A1 - Joseph C. Varilly AB - We construct a 3^+ summable spectral triple (A(SU_q(2)),H,D) over the quantum group SU_q(2) which is equivariant with respect to a left and a right action of U_q(su(2)). The geometry is isospectral to the classical case since the spectrum of the operator D is the same as that of the usual Dirac operator on the 3-dimensional round sphere. The presence of an equivariant real structure J demands a modification in the axiomatic framework of spectral geometry, whereby the commutant and first-order properties need be satisfied only modulo infinitesimals of arbitrary high order. PB - Springer UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4425 N1 - v2: minor changes U1 - 4175 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics U4 - -1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The local index formula for SUq(2) JF - K-Theory 35 (2005) 375-394 Y1 - 2005 A1 - Walter van Suijlekom A1 - Ludwik Dabrowski A1 - Giovanni Landi A1 - Andrzej Sitarz A1 - Joseph C. Varilly AB - We discuss the local index formula of Connes-Moscovici for the isospectral noncommutative geometry that we have recently constructed on quantum SU(2). We work out the cosphere bundle and the dimension spectrum as well as the local cyclic cocycles yielding the index formula. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1713 U1 - 2438 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Principal fibrations from noncommutative spheres JF - Comm. Math. Phys. 260 (2005) 203-225 Y1 - 2005 A1 - Giovanni Landi A1 - Walter van Suijlekom AB - We construct noncommutative principal fibrations S_\\\\theta^7 \\\\to S_\\\\theta^4 which are deformations of the classical SU(2) Hopf fibration over the four sphere. We realize the noncommutative vector bundles associated to the irreducible representations of SU(2) as modules of coequivariant maps and construct corresponding projections. The index of Dirac operators with coefficients in the associated bundles is computed with the Connes-Moscovici local index formula. The algebra inclusion $A(S_\\\\theta^4) \\\\into A(S_\\\\theta^7)$ is an example of a not trivial quantum principal bundle. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2284 U1 - 1732 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The spectral geometry of the equatorial Podles sphere JF - C. R. Math. 340 (2005) 819-822 Y1 - 2005 A1 - Ludwik Dabrowski A1 - Giovanni Landi A1 - Mario Paschke A1 - Andrzej Sitarz AB - We propose a slight modification of the properties of a spectral geometry a la Connes, which allows for some of the algebraic relations to be satisfied only modulo compact operators. On the equatorial Podles sphere we construct suq2-equivariant Dirac operator and real structure which satisfy these modified properties. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2275 U1 - 1972 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Fredholm modules for quantum euclidean spheres JF - J. Geom. Phys. 49 (2004) 272-293 Y1 - 2004 A1 - Eli Hawkins A1 - Giovanni Landi AB - The quantum Euclidean spheres, $S_q^{N-1}$, are (noncommutative) homogeneous spaces of quantum orthogonal groups, $\\\\SO_q(N)$. The *-algebra $A(S^{N-1}_q)$ of polynomial functions on each of these is given by generators and relations which can be expressed in terms of a self-adjoint, unipotent matrix. We explicitly construct complete sets of generators for the K-theory (by nontrivial self-adjoint idempotents and unitaries) and the K-homology (by nontrivial Fredholm modules) of the spheres $S_q^{N-1}$. We also construct the corresponding Chern characters in cyclic homology and cohomology and compute the pairing of K-theory with K-homology. On odd spheres (i. e., for N even) we exhibit unbounded Fredholm modules by means of a natural unbounded operator D which, while failing to have compact resolvent, has bounded commutators with all elements in the algebra $A(S^{N-1}_q)$. PB - SISSA Library UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1636 U1 - 2482 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Higher order quasiconvexity reduces to quasiconvexity JF - Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 171 (2004) 55-81 Y1 - 2004 A1 - Gianni Dal Maso A1 - Irene Fonseca A1 - Giovanni Leoni A1 - Massimiliano Morini AB - In this paper it is shown that higher order quasiconvex functions suitable in the variational treatment of problems involving second derivatives may be extended to the space of all matrices as classical quasiconvex functions. Precisely, it is proved that a smooth strictly 2-quasiconvex function with p-growth at infinity, p>1, is the restriction to symmetric matrices of a 1-quasiconvex function with the same growth. As a consequence, lower semicontinuity results for second-order variational problems are deduced as corollaries of well-known first order theorems. PB - Springer UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2911 U1 - 1789 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Non-linear sigma-models in noncommutative geometry: fields with values in finite spaces JF - Mod. Phys. Lett. A 18 (2003) 2371-2379 Y1 - 2003 A1 - Ludwik Dabrowski A1 - Thomas Krajewski A1 - Giovanni Landi AB - We study sigma-models on noncommutative spaces, notably on noncommutative tori. We construct instanton solutions carrying a nontrivial topological charge q and satisfying a Belavin-Polyakov bound. The moduli space of these instantons is conjectured to consists of an ordinary torus endowed with a complex structure times a projective space $CP^{q-1}$. PB - World Scientific UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3215 U1 - 1086 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Instanton algebras and quantum 4-spheres JF - Differential Geom. Appl. 16 (2002) 277-284 Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ludwik Dabrowski A1 - Giovanni Landi AB - We study some generalized instanton algebras which are required to describe `instantonic complex rank 2 bundles\\\'. The spaces on which the bundles are defined are not prescribed from the beginning but rather are obtained from some natural requirements on the instantons. They turn out to be quantum 4-spheres $S^4_q$, with $q\\\\in\\\\IC$, and the instantons are described by self-adjoint idempotents e. We shall also clarify some issues related to the vanishing of the first Chern-Connes class $ch_1(e)$ and on the use of the second Chern-Connes class $ch_2(e)$ as a volume form. PB - Elsevier UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3134 U1 - 1199 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Instantons on the Quantum 4-Spheres S^4_q JF - Comm. Math. Phys. 221 (2001) 161-168 Y1 - 2001 A1 - Ludwik Dabrowski A1 - Giovanni Landi A1 - Tetsuya Masuda AB - We introduce noncommutative algebras $A_q$ of quantum 4-spheres $S^4_q$, with $q\\\\in\\\\IR$, defined via a suspension of the quantum group $SU_q(2)$, and a quantum instanton bundle described by a selfadjoint idempotent $e\\\\in \\\\Mat_4(A_q)$, $e^2=e=e^*$. Contrary to what happens for the classical case or for the noncommutative instanton constructed in Connes-Landi, the first Chern-Connes class $ch_1(e)$ does not vanish thus signaling a dimension drop. The second Chern-Connes class $ch_2(e)$ does not vanish as well and the couple $(ch_1(e), ch_2(e))$ defines a cycle in the $(b,B)$ bicomplex of cyclic homology. PB - Springer UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3135 U1 - 1198 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Uniqueness of classical and nonclassical solutions for nonlinear hyperbolic systems JF - J. Differential Equations 172 (2001) 59-82 Y1 - 2001 A1 - Paolo Baiti A1 - Philippe G. LeFloch A1 - Benedetto Piccoli PB - Elsevier UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3113 U1 - 1220 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Some Properties of Non-linear sigma-Models in Noncommutative Geometry JF - Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 14 (2000) 2367-2382 Y1 - 2000 A1 - Ludwik Dabrowski A1 - Thomas Krajewski A1 - Giovanni Landi AB - We introduce non-linear $\\\\sigma$-models in the framework of noncommutative geometry with special emphasis on models defined on the noncommutative torus. We choose as target spaces the two point space and the circle and illustrate some characteristic features of the corresponding $\\\\sigma$-models. In particular we construct a $\\\\sigma$-model instanton with topological charge equal to 1. We also define and investigate some properties of a noncommutative analogue of the Wess-Zumino-Witten model. PB - SISSA Library UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1373 U1 - 3082 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A Uniqueness Condition for Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws JF - Discrete Contin. Dynam. Systems 6 (2000) 673-682 Y1 - 2000 A1 - Alberto Bressan A1 - Marta Lewicka AB - Consider the Cauchy problem for a hyperbolic $n\\\\times n$ system of conservation laws in one space dimension: $$u_t+f(u)_x=0, u(0,x)=\\\\bar u(x).\\\\eqno(CP)$$ Relying on the existence of a continuous semigroup of solutions, we prove that the entropy admissible solution of (CP) is unique within the class of functions $u=u(t,x)$ which have bounded variation along a suitable family of space-like curves. PB - American Institute of Mathematical Sciences UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3195 U1 - 1106 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - L-1 stability estimates for n x n conservation laws JF - Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 149 (1999), no. 1, 1--22 Y1 - 1999 A1 - Alberto Bressan A1 - Tai-Ping Liu A1 - Tong Yang AB - Let $u_t+f(u)_x=0$ be a strictly hyperbolic $n\\\\times n$ system of conservation laws, each characteristic field being linearly degenerate or genuinely nonlinear. In this paper we explicitly define a functional $\\\\Phi=\\\\Phi(u,v)$, equivalent to the $L^1$ distance, which is `almost decreasing\\\', i.e., $\\\\Phi(u(t),v(t))-\\\\Phi(u(s),v(s))\\\\leq\\\\break O (\\\\epsilon)·(t-s)$ for all $t>s\\\\geq 0$, for every pair of $\\\\epsilon$-approximate solutions $u,v$ with small total variation, generated by a wave-front-tracking algorithm. The small parameter $\\\\epsilon$ here controls the errors in the wave speeds, the maximum size of rarefaction fronts and the total strength of all non-physical waves in $u$ and in $v$. From the above estimate, it follows that front-tracking approximations converge to a unique limit solution, depending Lipschitz continuously on the initial data, in the $L^1$ norm. This provides a new proof of the existence of the standard Riemann semigroup generated by an $n\\\\times n$ system of conservation laws.\\\'\\\' PB - Springer UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3373 U1 - 957 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Nonclassical Shocks and the Cauchy Problem for Nonconvex Conservation Laws JF - J. Differential Equations 151 (1999) 345-372 Y1 - 1999 A1 - Debora Amadori A1 - Paolo Baiti A1 - Philippe G. LeFloch A1 - Benedetto Piccoli AB - The Riemann problem for a conservation law with a nonconvex (cubic) flux can be solved in a class of admissible nonclassical solutions that may violate the Oleinik entropy condition but satisfy a single entropy inequality and a kinetic relation. We use such a nonclassical Riemann solver in a front tracking algorithm, and prove that the approximate solutions remain bounded in the total variation norm. The nonclassical shocks induce an increase of the total variation and, therefore, the classical measure of total variation must be modified accordingly. We prove that the front tracking scheme converges strongly to a weak solution satisfying the entropy inequality. PB - Elsevier UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3312 U1 - 1018 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Structural stability and regularity of entropy solutions to hyperbolic systems of conservation laws JF - Indiana Univ. Math. J. 48 (1999), no. 1, 43--84 Y1 - 1999 A1 - Alberto Bressan A1 - Philippe G. LeFloch AB - The paper is concerned with the qualitative structure of entropy solutions to a strictly hyperbolic, genuinely nonlinear system of conservation laws. We first give an accurate description of the local and global wave-front structure of a BV solution, generated by a front tracking algorithm. PB - Indiana University UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3374 U1 - 956 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Algebraic differential calculus for gauge theories JF - Nuclear Phys. B. Proc. Suppl. 18A (1990), 171 Y1 - 1990 A1 - Giovanni Landi A1 - Giuseppe Marmo PB - SISSA Library UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/891 U1 - 2900 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Chern-Simons forms on principal superfiber bundles JF - J.Math.Phys.31:45,1990 Y1 - 1990 A1 - Giovanni Landi A1 - Claudio Bartocci A1 - Ugo Bruzzo AB - A graded Weil homomorphism is defined for principal superfiber bundles and the related transgression (or Chern-Simons) forms are introduced. As an example of the application of these concepts, a ``superextension\\\'\\\' of the Dirac monopole is discussed. PB - SISSA Library UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/590 U1 - 3314 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Limits of obstacle problems for the area functional. JF - Partial differential equations and the calculus of variations : essays in honor of Ennio De Giorgi. - Boston : Birkhauser, 1989. - p. 285-309 Y1 - 1989 A1 - Gianni Dal Maso A1 - G. Carere A1 - Antonio Leaci A1 - Eduardo Pascali PB - SISSA Library UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/577 U1 - 3327 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Algebraic reduction of the \\\'t Hooft-Polyakov monopole to the Dirac monopole. JF - Phys. Lett. B 201 (1988), no. 1, 101-104. Y1 - 1988 A1 - Giovanni Landi A1 - Giuseppe Marmo PB - SISSA Library UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/578 U1 - 3326 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - THES T1 - An Algebraic Setting for Gauge Theories Y1 - 1988 A1 - Giovanni Landi PB - SISSA UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/5828 U1 - 5677 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics U4 - -1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Einstein algebras and the algebraic Kaluza-Klein monopole. JF - Phys. Lett. B 210 (1988), no. 1-2, 68--72. Y1 - 1988 A1 - Giovanni Landi A1 - Giuseppe Marmo PB - SISSA Library UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/603 U1 - 3301 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Extensions of Lie superalgebras and supersymmetric Abelian gauge fields. JF - Phys. Lett. B 193 (1987), no. 1, 61-66. Y1 - 1987 A1 - Giovanni Landi A1 - Giuseppe Marmo PB - SISSA Library UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/507 U1 - 3397 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Graded Chern-Simons terms JF - Phys. Lett. B 192 (1987), no. 1-2, 81-88. Y1 - 1987 A1 - Giovanni Landi A1 - Giuseppe Marmo PB - SISSA Library UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/508 U1 - 3396 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Lie algebra extensions and abelian monopoles. JF - Phys. Lett. B 195 (1987), no. 3, 429-434 Y1 - 1987 A1 - Giovanni Landi A1 - Giuseppe Marmo PB - SISSA Library UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/506 U1 - 3398 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The natural spinor connection on $S\\\\sb 8$ is a gauge field JF - Lett. Math. Phys. 11 (1986), no. 2, 171-175 Y1 - 1986 A1 - Giovanni Landi PB - SISSA Library UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/448 U1 - 3455 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Flat connections for Lax hierarchies on coadjoint orbits JF - Phys. Lett. A 108 (1985), no. 7, 311-314 Y1 - 1985 A1 - Giovanni Landi A1 - Sergio De Filippo PB - SISSA Library UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/460 U1 - 3443 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Maximal acceleration and Sakharov's limiting temperature JF - Lett. Nuovo Cim. 42 (1985) 70-72 Y1 - 1985 A1 - Eduardo R. Caianiello A1 - Giovanni Landi AB -

It is shown that Sakharov's maximal temperature, derived by him from astrophysical considerations, is a straightforward consequence of the maximal acceleration introduced by us in previous works.

PB - Società Italiana di Fisica UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/372 U1 - 3595 U2 - Physics U3 - Elementary Particle Theory ER -