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Angled crested like water waves with surface tension II: Zero surface tension limit

March 13, 2024 09:27 AM
This is the second paper in a series of papers analyzing angled crested type water waves with surface tension. We consider the 2D capillary gravity water wave equation and assume that the fluid is inviscid, incompressible, irrotational and the air density is zero. In the first paper \cite{Ag19} we constructed a weighted energy which generalizes the energy of Kinsey and Wu \cite{KiWu18} to the case of non-zero surface tension, and proved a local wellposedness result. In this paper we prove that under a suitable scaling regime, the zero surface tension limit of these solutions with surface tension are solutions to the gravity water wave equation which includes waves with angled crests.

Advanced issues in partial least squares structural equation modeling

March 13, 2024 09:21 AM
Advanced Issues in Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling provides a practical and applied description of advanced issues in PLS-SEM relevant for students, professors and applied researchers. The book combines simple explanations of complex statistical concepts with examples and case studies that readers can follow using datasets available with the book.

Inverse Scattering Theory and Transmission Eigenvalues

September 18, 2023 04:02 PM
In the first edition , the authors discussed methods for determining the support of inhomogeneous media from measured far field data and the role of transmission eigenvalue problems in the mathematical development of these methods. In this second edition, three new chapters describe recent developments in inverse scattering theory.

The man from the future: The visionary life of John von Neumann

March 24, 2023 10:23 AM
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neumann. Born in Budapest at the turn of the century, von Neumann is one of the most influential scientists to have ever lived.

Topological and ergodic theory of symbolic dynamics

March 24, 2023 10:22 AM
Symbolic dynamics is essential in the study of dynamical systems of various types and is connected to many other fields such as stochastic processes, ergodic theory, representation of numbers, information and coding, etc. This graduate text introduces symbolic dynamics from a perspective of topological dynamical systems and presents a vast variety of important examples.

Discrete analogues in harmonic analysis: Bourgain, Stein, and beyond

March 24, 2023 10:20 AM
This timely book explores certain modern topics and connections at the interface of harmonic analysis, ergodic theory, number theory, and additive combinatorics. The main ideas were pioneered by Bourgain and Stein, motivated by questions involving averages over polynomial sequences, but the subject has grown significantly over the last 30 years, through the work of many researchers, and has steadily become one of the most dynamic areas of modern harmonic analysis.

The rise and fall of the German combinatorial analysis

March 24, 2023 10:18 AM
This text presents the ideas of a particular group of mathematicians of the late 18th century known as "the German combinatorial school" and its influence. The book tackles several questions concerning the emergence and historical development of the German combinatorial analysis, which was the unfinished scientific research project of that group of mathematicians

Finite fields, with applications to combinatorics

March 24, 2023 09:56 AM
This book uses finite field theory as a hook to introduce the reader to a range of ideas from algebra and number theory. It constructs all finite fields from scratch and shows that they are unique up to isomorphism. As a payoff, several combinatorial applications of finite fields are given: Sidon sets and perfect difference sets, de Bruijn sequences and a magic trick of Persi Diaconis, and the polynomial time algorithm for primality testing due to Agrawal, Kayal and Saxena.

What's the use? The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics

February 28, 2023 05:18 PM
What's the Use? asks why there is such a vast gulf between public perceptions of mathematics and reality. It shows how mathematics is vital, often in surprising ways, behind the scenes of daily life.

Paul Robbins

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