{"title":"A more tractable solution to a singular integral equation obtained by solving a related Hilbert problem for two unknowns","authors":"J. A. Pennline","doi":"10.6028/JRES.080B.040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6028/JRES.080B.040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166823,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, Section B: Mathematical Sciences","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133947211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automatic computing methods for special functions. Part III. The sine, cosine, exponential integrals, and related functions","authors":"I. Stegun, R. Zucker","doi":"10.6028/JRES.080B.031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6028/JRES.080B.031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166823,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, Section B: Mathematical Sciences","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115158044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Matrix algebra and eigenvalues for the bead/spring model of polymer solutions","authors":"J. Fong, A. Peterlin","doi":"10.6028/JRES.080B.029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6028/JRES.080B.029","url":null,"abstract":"Some twenty years ago, Zimm [1] 1 formulated ~ linear, second-order partial differential eq uation for a distribution function IjJ which depends on time and ~N + 1) coordinates Xo. Yo. Zoo .. , , XN, YN, Z N, of the N + 1 beads, for modeling the bulk behavior of very dilute polymer s0lutions under the influe nce of external force, Brownian motion, and hydrodynamic interaction among the beads of the neckJace model. The mechanical model for each polymer molec ule is that of a c hain of N identical, ideally elastic segments joining N + 1 identical beads with comple te flexibility at each bead. Two length parameters are of interest in thi s model: ah, the so-called hydrodynamic radius of the bead, and bo, the root mean square of the segment length. The ratio a of the two length parameters (a = a,/ bo), and the number N of elastic segments completely charac terize the mathematical problem","PeriodicalId":166823,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, Section B: Mathematical Sciences","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127454614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Definite integrals of the complete elliptic integral K","authors":"M. Glasser","doi":"10.6028/JRES.080B.032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6028/JRES.080B.032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166823,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, Section B: Mathematical Sciences","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116051606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inverting sparse matrices by tree partitioning","authors":"D. Shier","doi":"10.6028/JRES.080B.025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6028/JRES.080B.025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166823,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, Section B: Mathematical Sciences","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134624220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A minimax-measure intersection problem","authors":"P. R. Meyers","doi":"10.6028/JRES.080B.024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6028/JRES.080B.024","url":null,"abstract":"Some years ago, NBS colleague S. Haber communicated the following proble m: To select n subsets of the unit interval, each of mea sw'e 112, so a s to minimize the maximum of the measures of the pairwise inte rsections of these subse ts. The problem is suggested by a paper [1]1 of Gilli s which, settling \"an unpubli shed conjec ture of Erdos,\" proves that for denumerably infinite collections of sets of measure a, the value corresponding to the maximum pairwise-inte rsection meas ure has infimum a 2 • (Collections with higher transfinit e cardinality are treated by Gillis in [2].) Here we provide an explicit solution for collections of finite cardinalities n. Further, and also corresponding to [1], we consider as well the case of p-fold intersections with 2 Sop Son, and provide the corresponding explicit solution. (As noted in [2], the argument of [1] easily extend s to show that aT' is the limiting value for a denumerably infinite collection.) As preliminary, we introduce a second minimization and point out its relationship to our minimax problem, to wit: Select n subsets A 10 A2 , • . , A 1/ of the unit inte rval, eac h of measure a, so that the sum of the measures of their p-fold inte rsections is minimum. If now X = {Slo . . \" SI/}' a solution to this minimum proble m, can be chose n so that aU its p-fold intersections have the same measure s, and if M is the maximum of the measures of the p-fold intersections of an arbitrary collection A to A 2, . , \" A n with all fL(A J = a, then","PeriodicalId":166823,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, Section B: Mathematical Sciences","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124928004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predictable Regular Continued Cotangent Expansions","authors":"J. Shallit","doi":"10.6028/JRES.080B.030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6028/JRES.080B.030","url":null,"abstract":"Le hme r called the x;s complete cotangents a nd the n;s incomplete or partial cotangents. He did not find a ny combination of familiar constant s whose regular co ntinued co tange nt ex pansion was in any way predic ta ble . He re we present an infinite seq ue nce of quadrati c irrationals with the prope rl y tha t eac h me mber of the seq ue nce has a predic table regular continued cota nge nt expa ns ion.","PeriodicalId":166823,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, Section B: Mathematical Sciences","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124606821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The dependence of inspection-system performance on levels of penalties and inspection resources","authors":"A. J. Goldman, M. Pearl","doi":"10.6028/JRES.080B.020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6028/JRES.080B.020","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents three s imple mathematical models, all of gametheoretic type, dealing with an inspector-inspectee relationship. The inspectee alw ays tries to max imize hi s ne t gain, whic h is the amount he obtain s by \"cheatin g\" less the amount he is penalized whe n ca ught. The first model assumes a zero-sum payoff and so the in spector tries to minimize the in spectee's ne t ga in . [n the second model, the ins pec tor tries to deter cheat ing wit hout concern fo r the ex tract ion of pe nalties. [n the third mode l we assume that the probabilistic patte rn of the ins pecto r' s stra tegy is know n to the in s pectee and that the inspector constructs hi s strategy with thi s in mind. Each of these mode ls is analyzed and op timal so lutions are obtained . Seve ral s imple exa mples are prese nt ed to show the re lat ion between the level of chea ting and the levels of in s pec tion reso urces and penalty.","PeriodicalId":166823,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, Section B: Mathematical Sciences","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122821559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Kronecker power of a permutation","authors":"R. Merris","doi":"10.6028/JRES.080B.027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6028/JRES.080B.027","url":null,"abstract":"Let Sn denote the full symmetric permutation group of degree n. For each a E e, let (J (a) be the corresponding permutation matrix, i.e., Q(a) = (0 iUU»)' If e is any subgroup of S n, then Q is a faithful representation of e whose c haracter, e, counts the number of fixed points . In trus note, we in vestigate a red uction of fr, the character of the rth Kronecker power of (J . The reduction of the Kronecker (or inner) product of two irred ucible representations is called a Clebsch-Gordon series. When e = S'\" the proble m of obtaining a Clebsch-Gordon series has been solved (see, e.g., [3],1 [4] or [7]). However, the solution does not eas ily lead to explicit formulas for the red uction of higher Kronecker powers of re presentations. When 1 :::; r :::; n , the problem naturally arises in connection with a ce rtain class of matrix function s: Let iI. be an irreducible character of e. If A = (au) is an n-square co mplex matrix, Je t","PeriodicalId":166823,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, Section B: Mathematical Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123772389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Iohvidov's proofs of the Fischer-Frobenius theorem","authors":"R. C. Thompson","doi":"10.6028/jres.080b.028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6028/jres.080b.028","url":null,"abstract":"then jT\"_1 is a Hankel matrix for all Toeplitz matrices TnI' Thi s proced ure, howe ver, does not carry Hermitian ToepLitz matrices to Hermitian (i.e., real) Hankel matrices. The theore m of FischerFroebenius asserts that a class of tran sformation s exist each of which uniformly carries Toeplitz matrices to Hankel matrices in such a way that Hermitian Toeplitz matrices are carried to Hermitian Hankel matrices. Recently I. C. Iohvidov has publi shed three proofs of this result. One of these proofs is a direct but somewhat intricate calculation; it may be found on pages 211-213 of [1]1. A second proof, to be found on page 217 of [1] and also in [2], makes a preliminary reduction to the case of positive definite ToepLitz matrices, then takes advantage of a decomposition of definite Toeplitz matrices known from the theory of the trigonometric moment problem. The third proof, in [2], avoids the .reduction to the positive definite case, and uses instead a more co mplicated decomposition of Toeplitz matrices due to Iohvidov and Krein [3, p. 338]. The purpose of this paper is to give a short and direct proof of the Fischer-Frobe nius theorem. Our proof is based on a simple decomposition of arbitrary Toeplitz matrices, for which the proof is almost a triviality and whic h was apparently not noticed in [1] and [2]. See equation (3). Iohvidov's techniques then may be applied to (3) to produce the des ired result rapidly.","PeriodicalId":166823,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, Section B: Mathematical Sciences","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124697894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}