Search results for "Counterexample"

Counterexamples for unique continuation

1988

Asymptotic behavior for the heat equation in nonhomogeneous media with critical density

2013

Abstract We study the long-time behavior of solutions to the heat equation in nonhomogeneous media with critical singular density | x | − 2 ∂ t u = Δ u , in  R N × ( 0 , ∞ ) in dimensions N ≥ 3 . The asymptotic behavior proves to have some interesting and quite striking properties. We show that there are two completely different asymptotic profiles depending on whether the initial data u 0 vanishes at x = 0 or not. Moreover, in the former the results are true only for radially symmetric solutions, and we provide counterexamples to convergence to symmetric profiles in the general case.

Drug Activity Characterization Using One-Class Support Vector Machines with Counterexamples

2013

The problem of detecting chemical activity in drugs from its molecular description constitutes a challenging and hard learning task. The corresponding prediction problem can be tackled either as a binary classification problem (active versus inactive compounds) or as a one class problem. The first option leads usually to better prediction results when measured over small and fixed databases while the second could potentially lead to a much better characterization of the active class which could be more important in more realistic settings. In this paper, a comparison of these two options is presented when support vector models are used as predictors.

Analytical-numerical methods for investigation of hidden oscillations in nonlinear control systems

2011

The method of harmonic linearization, numerical methods, and the applied bifurcation the- ory together discover new opportunities for analysis of oscillations of control systems. In the present survey analytical-numerical algorithms for hidden oscillation localization are discussed. Examples of hidden attrac- tor localization in Chua's circuit and counterexamples construction to Aizerman's conjecture and Kalman's conjecture are considered.

A counterexample to Feit's Problem VIII on decomposition numbers

2016

We find a counterexample to Feit's Problem VIII on the bound of decomposition numbers. This also answers a question raised by T. Holm and W. Willems.

Poincaré Week in Göttingen, 22–28 April 1909

2018

When Paul Wolfskehl died in 1906, his will established a prize for the first mathematician who could supply a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem, or give a counterexample refuting it. The interest from this prize money was later used to bring world-renowned mathematicians to Gottingen to deliver a series of lectures. Hilbert was apparently very pleased with this arrangement, and once jested that the only thing that kept him from proving Fermat’s famous conjecture was the thought of killing the goose that laid these golden eggs.

Counterexamples to the Kneser conjecture in dimension four.

1995

We construct a connected closed orientable smooth four-manifold whose fundamental group is the free product of two non-trivial groups such that it is not homotopy equivalent toM 0#M 1 unlessM 0 orM 1 is homeomorphic toS 4. LetN be the nucleus of the minimal elliptic Enrique surfaceV 1(2, 2) and putM=N∪ ∂NN. The fundamental group ofM splits as ℤ/2 * ℤ/2. We prove thatM#k(S 2×S2) is diffeomorphic toM 0#M 1 for non-simply connected closed smooth four-manifoldsM 0 andM 1 if and only ifk≥8. On the other hand we show thatM is homeomorphic toM 0#M 1 for closed topological four-manifoldsM 0 andM 1 withπ 1(Mi)=ℤ/2.

Historical Notes on Star Geometry in Mathematics, Art and Nature

2018

Gamma: “I can. Look at this Counterexample 3: a star-polyhedron I shall call it urchin. This consists of 12 star-pentagons. It has 12 vertices, 30 edges, and 12 pentagonal faces-you may check it if you like by counting. Thus the Descartes-Euler thesis is not true at all, since for this polyhedron \(V - E + F = - 6\)”. Delta: “Why do you think that your ‘urchin’ is a polyhedron?” Gamma: “Do you not see? This is a polyhedron, whose faces are the twelve star-pentagons”. Delta: “But then you do not even know what a polygon is! A star-pentagon is certainly not a polygon!”

On the number of constituents of products of characters

2022

It has been conjectured that if the number of distinct irreducible constituents of the product of two faithful irreducible characters of a finite p-group, for p ≥ 5, is bigger than (p + 1)/2, then it is at least p. We give a counterexample to this conjecture.

On Formations of Finite Groups with the Wielandt Property for Residuals

2001

Abstract Given two subgroups U, V of a finite group which are subnormal subgroups of their join 〈U, V〉 and a formation F , in general it is not true that 〈U, V〉 F  = 〈U F , V F 〉. A formation is said to have the Wielandt property if this equality holds universally. A formation with the Wielandt property must be a Fitting class. Wielandt proved that the most usual Fitting formations (e.g., nilpotent groups and π-groups) have the Wielandt property. At present, neither a general satisfactory result on the universal validity of the Wielandt property nor a counterexample is known. In this paper a criterion for a Fitting formation to have the Wielandt property is given. As an application, it is p…