Vol 54, No 8 (2018)

A sufficiently general class of diffeomorphisms of the annulus (the direct product of a ball in \(\mathbb{R}^{k}\), k ≥ 2, by an m-dimensional torus) is studied. The so-called annulus principle, i.e., a set of sufficient conditions under which the diffeomorphisms of the class under study have a mixing hyperbolic attractor, is obtained.

For the system of root functions of an operator defined by the differential operation −u″ + p(x)u′ + q(x)u, x ∈ G = (0, 1), with complex-valued singular coefficients, sufficient conditions for the Bessel property in the space L₂(G) are obtained and a theorem on the unconditional basis property is proved. It is assumed that the functions p(x) and q(x) locally belong to the spaces L₂ and W₂⁻¹, respectively, and may have singularities at the endpoints of G such that q(x) = q_R(x) +q′S(x) and the functions q_S(x), p(x), q₂^S (x)w(x), p²(x)w(x), and q_R(x)w(x) are integrable on the whole interval G, where w(x) = x(1 − x).

In the framework of the linearized shallow water equations, the homogenization method for wave type equations with rapidly oscillating coefficients that generally cannot be represented as periodic functions of the fast variables is applied to the Cauchy problem for the wave equation describing the evolution of the free surface elevation for long waves propagating in a basin over an uneven bottom. Under certain conditions on the function describing the basin depth, we prove that the solution of the homogenized equation asymptotically approximates the solution of the original equation. Model homogenized wave equations are constructed for several examples of one-dimensional sections of the real ocean bottom profile, and their numerical and asymptotic solutions are compared with numerical solutions of the original equations.

For a spectrally controllable linear autonomous systems with commensurable delays, we construct state feedbacks ensuring the complete damping of the original system (finite stabilization) as well as the complete damping of the original system and the asymptotic stability of the closed-loop system (complete stabilization). The spectral reduction and asymptotic stabilization problems are considered as auxiliary problems. The argument is constructive, and the results are illustrated by an example.