121 research outputs found
On the number of solutions of a transcendental equation arising in the theory of gravitational lensing
The equation in the title describes the number of bright images of a point
source under lensing by an elliptic object with isothermal density. We prove
that this equation has at most 6 solutions. Any number of solutions from 1 to 6
can actually occur.Comment: 26 pages, 12 figure
The Cauchy-Green formula and rational approximation on the sets with a finite perimeter in the complex plane
AbstractIntegral representations of Lipschitz functions on the sets with a finite perimeter in C are studied. These formulas can be viewed as generalizations of the classical Cauchy-Green theorem. Also, it is shown that those results lead to a convenient approach to certain problems in the theory of rational approximation
Malmheden's theorem revisited
In 1934 H. Malmheden discovered an elegant geometric algorithm for solving
the Dirichlet problem in a ball. Although his result was rediscovered
independently by Duffin 23 years later, it still does not seem to be widely
known. In this paper we return to Malmheden's theorem, give an alternative
proof of the result that allows generalization to polyharmonic functions and,
also, discuss applications of his theorem to geometric properties of harmonic
measures in balls in Euclidean spaces
Two-dimensional shapes and lemniscates
A shape in the plane is an equivalence class of sufficiently smooth Jordan
curves, where two curves are equivalent if one can be obtained from the other
by a translation and a scaling. The fingerprint of a shape is an equivalence of
orientation preserving diffeomorphisms of the unit circle, where two
diffeomorphisms are equivalent if they differ by right composition with an
automorphism of the unit disk. The fingerprint is obtained by composing Riemann
maps onto the interior and exterior of a representative of a shape in a
suitable way. In this paper, we show that there is a one-to-one correspondence
between shapes defined by polynomial lemniscates of degree n and nth roots of
Blaschke products of degree n. The facts that lemniscates approximate all
Jordan curves in the Hausdorff metric and roots of Blaschke products
approximate all orientation preserving diffeomorphisms of the circle in the
C^1-norm suggest that lemniscates and roots of Blaschke products are natural
objects to study in the theory of shapes and their fingerprints
Laplacian Growth, Elliptic Growth, and Singularities of the Schwarz Potential
The Schwarz function has played an elegant role in understanding and in
generating new examples of exact solutions to the Laplacian growth (or "Hele-
Shaw") problem in the plane. The guiding principle in this connection is the
fact that "non-physical" singularities in the "oil domain" of the Schwarz
function are stationary, and the "physical" singularities obey simple dynamics.
We give an elementary proof that the same holds in any number of dimensions for
the Schwarz potential, introduced by D. Khavinson and H. S. Shapiro [17]
(1989). A generalization is also given for the so-called "elliptic growth"
problem by defining a generalized Schwarz potential. New exact solutions are
constructed, and we solve inverse problems of describing the driving
singularities of a given flow. We demonstrate, by example, how \mathbb{C}^n -
techniques can be used to locate the singularity set of the Schwarz potential.
One of our methods is to prolong available local extension theorems by
constructing "globalizing families". We make three conjectures in potential
theory relating to our investigation
A note on isoparametric polynomials
We show that any homogeneous polynomial solution of |\nabla
F(x)|^2=m^2|x|^(2m-2), m>1, is either a radially symmetric polynomial F(x)=\pm
|x|^m (for even m's) or it is a composition of a Chebychev polynomial and a
Cartan-M\"unzner polynomial.Comment: 6 page
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