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E. Zhizhina

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Negative spectrum of non-local operators with periodic potential

The paper deals with spectral analysis of non-local operators arising in population dynamics models. We consider negative periodic perturbations of non-local operators of the convolution type. Such operators describe evolutions of the first correlation function in the stochastic birth and death dynamcis in the presence of suppression forces that increase mortality. We consider the case when the birth kernel can be non-symmetric and spatially heterogeneous. It has been proven that any negative periodic perturbation of the equilibrium dynamics generator shifts the spectrum to the left half-plane and, consequently, such a perturbation of mortality leads to the population extinction in any dimension.

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On operator estimates in homogenization of non-local operators of convolution type

The paper studies a bounded symmetric operator ${\mathbf{A}}_\varepsilon$ in $L_2(\mathbf{R}^d)$ with $$ ({\mathbf{A}}_\varepsilon u) (x) = \varepsilon^{-d-2} \int_{\mathbf{R}^d} a((x-y)/\varepsilon) μ(x/\varepsilon, y/\varepsilon) \left( u(x) - u(y) \right)\,dy; $$ here $\varepsilon$ is a small positive parameter. It is assumed that $a(x)$ is a non-negative $L_1(\mathbf{R}^d)$ function such that $a(-x)=a(x)$ and the moments $M_k =\int_{\mathbf{R}^d} |x|^k a(x)\,dx$, $k=1,2,3$, are finite. It is also assumed that $μ(x,y)$ is $\mathbf{Z}^d$-periodic both in $x$ and $y$ function such that $μ(x,y) = μ(y,x)$ and $0< μ_- \leq μ(x,y) \leq μ_+< \infty$. Our goal is to study the limit behaviour of the resolvent $({\mathbf{A}}_\varepsilon + I)^{-1}$, as $\varepsilon\to0$. We show that, as $\varepsilon \to 0$, the operator $({\mathbf{A}}_\varepsilon + I)^{-1}$ converges in the operator norm in $L_2(\mathbf{R}^d)$ to the resolvent $({\mathbf{A}}^0 + I)^{-1}$ of the effective operator ${\mathbf{A}}^0$ being a second order elliptic differential operator with constant coefficients of the form ${\mathbf{A}}^0= - \operatorname{div} g^0 \nabla$. We then obtain sharp in order estimates of the rate of convergence.

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Mathematical multi-scale model of water purification

In this work we consider a mathematical model of the water treatment process and determine the effective characteristics of this model. At the microscopic length scale we describe our model in terms of a lattice random walk in a high-contrast periodic medium with absorption. Applying then the upscaling procedure we obtain the macroscopic model for total mass evolution. We discuss both the dynamic and the stationary regimes, and show how the efficiency of the purification process depends on the characteristics of the macroscopic model.

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Long-time Behavior for the Stochastic Ising Model with Unbounded Random Couplings

We consider the ferromagnetic Ising model with Glauber spin flip dynamics in one dimension. The external magnetic field vanishes and the couplings are i.i.d. random variables. If their distribution has compact support, the disorder averaged spin auto-correlation function has an exponential decay in time. We prove that, if the couplings are unbounded, the decay switches to either a power law or a stretched exponential, in general.

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