Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences - Mathematical Sciences

Kandaswamy, P.

doi: 10.1007/BF02840594pmid: N/A

A study is made of over-reflection of acoustic-gravity waves incident upon a magnetic shear layer in an isothermal compressible electrically conducting fluid in the presence of an external magnetic field. The reflection and transmission coefficients of hydromagnetic acoustic-gravity waves incident upon magnetic shear layer are calculated. The invariance of wave-action flux is used to investigate the properties of reflection, transmission and absorption of the waves incident upon the shear layer, and then to discuss how these properties depend on the wavelength, length scale of the shear layers, and the ratio of the flow speed and phase speed of the waves. Special attention is given to the relationship between the wave-amplification and critical-level behaviour. It is shown that there exists a critical level within the shear layer and the wave incident upon the shear layer is over-reflected, that is, more energy is reflected back towards the source than was originally emitted. The mechanism of the over-reflection (or wave amplification) is due to the fact that the excess reflected energy is extracted by the wave from the external magnetic field. It is also found that the absence of critical level within the shear layer leads to non-amplification of waves. For the case of very large vertical wavelength of waves, the coefficients of incident, reflected and transmitted energy are calculated. In this limiting situation, the wave is neither amplified nor absorbed by the shear layer. Finally, it is shown that resonance occurs at a particular value of the phase velocity of the wave.

Kumar, F.; Sen, S.

doi: 10.1007/BF02840591pmid: N/A

A symmetrizer of a nonsymmetric matrix A is the symmetric matrixX that satisfies the equationXA =A tX, wheret indicates the transpose. A symmetrizer is useful in converting a nonsymmetric eigenvalue problem into a symmetric one which is relatively easy to solve and finds applications in stability problems in control theory and in the study of general matrices. Three designs based on VLSI parallel processor arrays are presented to compute a symmetrizer of a lower Hessenberg matrix. Their scope is discussed. The first one is the Leiserson systolic design while the remaining two, viz., the double pipe design and the fitted diagonal design are the derived versions of the first design with improved performance.

Sulaiman, W.

doi: 10.1007/BF02840590pmid: N/A

In this paper a new theorem which covers many methods of summability is proved. Several results are also deduced.

Reid, Les; Roberts, Leslie; Singh, Balwant

doi: 10.1007/BF02840585pmid: N/A

In order to give an elementwise characterization of a subintegral extension of ℚ-algebras, a family of generic ℚ-algebras was introduced in [3]. This family is parametrized by two integral parameters p ⩾ 0,N ⩾ 1, the member corresponding top, N being the subalgebraR = ℚ [{γn¦n ⩾ N}] of the polynomial algebra ℚ[x1,…,x p, z] inp + 1 variables, where $$\gamma _n = z^n + \sum\nolimits_{i = 1}^p {(_i^n )} x_i z^{n - i} $$ . This is graded by weight (z) = 1, weight (x i) =i, and it is shown in [2] to be finitely generated. So these algebras provide examples of geometric objects. In this paper we study the structure of these algebras. It is shown first that the ideal of relations among all the γn’s is generated by quadratic relations. This is used to determine an explicit monomial basis for each homogeneous component ofR, thereby obtaining an expression for the Poincaré series ofR. It is then proved thatR has Krull dimension p+1 and embedding dimensionN + 2p, and that in a presentation ofR as a graded quotient of the polynomial algebra inN + 2p variables the ideal of relations is generated minimally by $$\left( \begin{gathered} N + p \\ 2 \\ \end{gathered} \right)$$ elements. Such a minimal presentation is found explicitly. As corollaries, it is shown thatR is always Cohen-Macaulay and that it is Gorenstein if and only if it is a complete intersection if and only ifN + p ⩽ 2. It is also shown thatR is Hilbertian in the sense that for everyn ⩾ 0 the value of its Hilbert function atn coincides with the value of the Hilbert polynomial corresponding to the congruence class ofn.