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Vol. 26, No. 1           September 2005


This volume is dedicated to memory of
OLGA LADYZHENSKAYA
(1922-2004)


TABLE OF CONTENTS


Title and Author(s) Page
item Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya
Wojciech M. Zajaczkowski
ABSTRACT.
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item On the topology of eigenfields
Vladimir I. Arnold
ABSTRACT. Topological properties of the eigenfields dependence on the eigenvalue position is discussed for the cases, where the variety of the eigenfield vanishing does not divide the oscillating domain into pieces.
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item Parameter dependent pull-back of closed differential forms and invariant integrals
Jean Mawhin
ABSTRACT. We prove, given a closed differential k-form \omega in an arbitrary open set D \subset {\Bbb R}^n, and a parameter dependent smooth map F(\,\cdot\,,\lambda) from an arbitrary open set G \subset {\Bbb R}^m into D, that the derivative with respect to \lambda of the pull-back F(\,\cdot\,,\lambda)^{*}\omega is exact in G. We give applications to various theorems in topology, dynamics and hydrodynamics.
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item Homology index braids in infinite-dimensional Conley index theory
Maria C. Carbinatto and Krzysztof P. Rybakowski
ABSTRACT. We extend the notion of a categorial Conley-Morse index, as defined in [R1], to the case based on a more general concept of an index pair introduced in [FM]. We also establish a naturality result of the long exact sequence of attractor-repeller pairs with respect to the choice of index triples. In particular, these results immediately give a complete and rigorous existence result for homology index braids in infinite dimensional Conley index theory.

Finally, we describe some general regular and singular continuation results for homology index braids obtained in our recent papers [CR6] and [CR7].

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item Almost flat bundles and almost flat structures
Alexandr Mishchenko and Nicolae Teleman
ABSTRACT. In this paper we discuss some geometric aspects concerning almost flat bundles, notion introduced by Connes, Gromov and Moscovici [2]. Using a natural construction of [1], we present here a simple description of such bundles. For this we modify the notion of almost flat structure on bundles over smooth manifolds and extend this notion to bundles over arbitrary CW-spaces using quasi-connections [3].

Connes, Gromov and Moscovici [2] showed that for any almost flat bundle \alpha over the manifold M, the index of the signature operator with values in \alpha is a homotopy equivalence invariant of M. From here it follows that a certain integer multiple n of the bundle \alpha comes from the classifying space B\pi_{1}(M). The geometric arguments discussed in this paper allow us to show that the bundle \alpha itself, and not necessarily a certain multiple of it, comes from an arbitrarily large compact subspace Y\subset B\pi_{1}(M) trough the classifying mapping.

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item On multiple solutions of the exterior Neumann problem involving critical Sobolev exponent
Jan Chabrowski and Michael Willem
ABSTRACT. In this paper we consider the exterior Neumann problem involving a critical Sobolev exponent. We establish the existence of two solutions having a prescribed limit at infinity.
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item The effect of the domain's configuration space on the number of nodal solutions of singularly perturbed elliptic equations
Thomas Bartsch and Tobias Weth
ABSTRACT. We prove a new multiplicity result for nodal solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the singularly perturbed equation
-\varepsilon^2 \Delta u + u = f(u) for \varepsilon > 0
small on a bounded domain \Omega\subset\R^N. The nonlinearity f grows superlinearly and subcritically. We relate the topology of the configuration space C\Omega=\{(x,y)\in\Omega\times\Omega:x\not=y\} of ordered pairs in the domain to the number of solutions with exactly two nodal domains. More precisely, we show that there exist at least cupl(C\Omega)+2 nodal solutions, where cupl denotes the cuplength of a topological space. We furthermore show that cupl(C\Omega)+1 of these solutions have precisely two nodal domains, and the last one has at most three nodal domains.
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item Existence results for first and second order semilinear impulsive differential inclusions
Lech Górniewicz, Sotiris K. Ntouyas and Donal O'Regan
ABSTRACT. In this paper we prove existence results for first and second order semilinear impulsive differential inclusions in Banach spaces.
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item A Sharkovskii-type theorem for minimally forced interval maps
Roberta Fabbri, Tobias Jaeger, Russel Johnson and Gerhard Keller
ABSTRACT. We state and prove a version of Sharkovskii's theorem for forced interval maps in which the forcing flow is minimal (Birkhoff recurrent). This setup includes quasiperiodically forced interval maps as a special case. We find that it is natural to substitute the concept of "fixed point" with that of "core strip". Core strips are frequently of almost automorphic type.
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item Symmetry breaking solutions of nonlinear elliptic systems
Javier Bracho, Monica Clapp and Waclaw Marzantowicz
ABSTRACT. We consider nonlinear elliptic systems with Dirichlet boundary condition on a bounded domain in RN which is invariant with respect to the action of some group G of orthogonal transformations. For every subgroup K of G we give a simple criterion for the existence of infinitely many solutions which are K-invariant but not G-invariant. We include a detailed discussion of the case N = 3.
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