Volume 53, Nº 3 (2017)

We study a special class of diffeomorphisms of an annulus (the direct product of a ball in ℝ^k, k ≥ 2, by an m-dimensional torus). We prove the so-called annulus principle; i.e., we suggest a set of sufficient conditions under which each diffeomorphism in a given class has an m-dimensional expanding hyperbolic attractor.

We study the geometry of the reachability set of a family of vector fields on a C^∞ manifold. We show that, for each real number T, the T-reachability set is a smooth submanifold of an orbit of codimension zero or one and that, on an arbitrary connected C^∞ manifold of dimension greater than one, there exists a system of three vector fields such that each 0-reachability set coincides with the manifold itself.

We consider a transport boundary value problem for an isotropic elastic medium bounded by a cylindrical surface of arbitrary cross-section and subjected to supersonic transport loads. We pose the corresponding hyperbolic boundary value problem and prove the uniqueness of the solution with regard to shock waves. To solve the problem, we use the method of generalized functions. In the space of generalized functions, we obtain the solution, perform its regularization, and construct a dynamic analog of the Somigliana formula and singular boundary equations solving the boundary value problem.

We consider a mixed problem in a half-strip for a hyperbolic system with one space variable and with constant coefficients. The control problem is to find boundary conditions ensuring that the system has a given state vector at a given instant of time. We study whether the problem is asymptotically solvable, i.e., whether there exists a sequence of boundary conditions such that the corresponding sequence of final state vectors uniformly converges to the given vector. We reduce the construction of a family of such sequences of boundary conditions with a function parameter to the solution of a Fredholm integral equation of the second kind and prove a sufficient condition for its unique solvability in terms of the problem data.

For linear autonomous systems of the neutral type with commensurable state and control delays, we obtain spectral reducibility criteria in two classes of controllers and suggest a method for their construction.

For the abstract parabolic equation \(\dot x = Bx + bv\left( t \right)\) with an unbounded self-adjoint operator B, where b is a vector and v(t) is a scalar function, we suggest a solution method based on the evaluation of some rational function of the operator B. We obtain a priori estimates of the approximation error for the output function y(t) = <x(t), l>, where l is a given vector. The results of a numerical experiment for the inhomogeneous heat equation are presented.

We present some results on the solvability of an integral equation of the second kind with a difference kernel on a finite interval, construct a counterexample to an assertion, earlier believed to have been proved, on the solvability of this equation, and pose an open problem.