Vol 54, No 9 (2018)

Control problems are considered for a model of magnetic scattering on a permeable anisotropic obstacle shaped as a spherical layer. Such problems arise in developing technologies for designing magnetic cloaking devices when the corresponding inverse problems are solved by an optimization method. The solvability of the direct and extremal problems for the model in question is proved and the optimality system is derived. Its analysis permits obtaining sufficient conditions on the initial data which ensure the local uniqueness and stability of the optimal solutions.

In the domain Q = [0,∞)×[0,∞) of the variables (x, t), for the telegraph equation with a Dirac potential concentrated at a point (x₀, t₀) ∈ Q, we consider a mixed problem with initial (at t = 0) conditions on the solution and its derivative with respect to t and a condition on the boundary x = 0 which is a linear combination with coefficients depending on t of the solution and its first derivatives with respect to x and t (a directional derivative). We obtain formulas for the classical solution of this problem under certain conditions on the point (x₀, t₀), the coefficient of the Dirac potential, and the conditions of consistency of the initial and boundary data and the right-hand side of the equation at the point (0, 0). We study the behavior of the solution as the direction of the directional derivative in the boundary condition tends to a characteristic of the equation and obtain estimates of the difference between the corresponding solutions.

The problem of normal waves in a closed (screened) regular waveguiding structure of arbitrary cross-section is considered by reducing it to a boundary value problem for the longitudinal electromagnetic field components in Sobolev spaces. The variational statements of the problem is used to determine the solution. The problem is reduced to studying an operator function. The properties of the operators contained in the operator function necessary to analyze its spectral properties are studied. Theorems on the spectrum discreteness and the distribution of characteristic numbers of the operator function on the complex plane are proved. The problem of completeness of the system of root vectors of the operator function is considered. The theorem on the double completeness of the system of root vectors of the operator function with finite deficiency is proved.

A problem with data on the characteristics is considered for a quasilinear hyperbolic equation. The inverse problem of determining two unknown coefficients of the equation from some additional information about the solution is posed. One of the unknown coefficients depends on the independent variable, and the other, on the solution of the equation. Uniqueness theorems are proved for the solution of the inverse problem. The proof is based on the derivation of the integro-functional equation and the analysis of the uniqueness of its solution.

Explicit solutions are obtained for integral equations to which the skew derivative problem for the Laplace equation outside open curves on the plane is reduced. Moreover, explicit relations are obtained for harmonic potentials whose density is prescribed on open curves on the plane. The results can be used to test numerical algorithms in boundary value problems outside open curves on the plane.

Theorems providing the convergence of approximate solutions of linear operator equations to the solution of the original equation are proved. The obtained theorems are used to rigorously mathematically justify the possibility of numerical solution of the 3D singular integral equations of electromagnetism by the Galerkin method and the collocation method.

The asymptotic behavior of eigenvalues of a boundary value problem for a secondorder differential-operator equation in a separable Hilbert space on a finite interval is studied for the case in which the same spectral parameter occurs linearly in the equation and quadratically in one of the boundary conditions. We prove that the problem has a sequence of eigenvalues converging to zero.

The transition to space-time chaos in the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation through cascades of traveling wave bifurcations in accordance with the Feigenbaum–Sharkovskii–Magnitskii universal bifurcation scenario is analyzed analytically and numerically. It is proved that the bifurcation parameter is the traveling wave propagation velocity along the spatial axis, which does not explicitly occur in the original equation.