We show that a properly immersed minimal hypersurface in M × R+ equals some M×{c} when M is a complete, recurrent ndimensional Riemannian manifold with bounded curvature. If on the other hand,M is not necessarily recurrent but has nonnegative Ricci curvature with curvature bounded below, the same result holds for any positive entire minimal graph over M.

We investigate the angular distribution of Ly$\alpha$ photons transferring in or emergent from an optically thick medium. Since the evolutions of specific intensity $I$ in the frequency space and the angular space are coupled with each other, we first develop the WENO numerical solver in order to find the time-dependent solutions of the integro-differential equation of $I$ in frequency and angular space simultaneously. We first show that the solutions with the Eddington approximation, which assume $I$ to be linearly dependent on the angular variable $\mu$, yield similar frequency profiles of the photon flux as that without the Eddington approximation. However, the solutions of the $\mu$ distribution evolution are significantly different from that given by Eddington approximation. First, the angular distribution of $I$ are found to be substantially dependent on the frequency of photons. For photons with the resonant frequency $\nu_0$, $I$ contains only a linear term of $\mu$. For photons with frequency at the double peaks of the flux, the $\mu$-distribution is highly anisotropic, in which most photons are in the direction of radial forward. Moreover, either at $\nu_0$ or at the double peaks, the $\mu$ distributions actually are independent of the initial $\mu$ distribution of photons of the source. This is because the photons with frequency either of $\nu_0$ or of the double peaks undergo the process of forgetting their initial conditions due to the resonant scattering. We also show that the optically thick medium is a collimator of photons at the double peaks. Photons from the double peaks form a forward beam with very small spread angle.

To easily generalize the maximum-principle-satisfying schemes for scalar conservation laws to convection diffusion equations, we propose a non-conventional high order finite volume weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme which can be proven maximum-principle-satisfying. Two-dimensional extensions are straightforward. We also show that the same idea can be used to construct high order schemes preserving the maximum principle for two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the vorticity stream-function formulation. Numerical tests for the fifth order WENO schemes are reported.

To characterize the complete structure of the Fucik spectrum of the p-Laplacian on higher dimensional domains is a long-standing problem. In this paper, we study the p-Laplacian with integrable potentials on an interval under the Dirichlet or the Neumann boundary conditions. Based on the strong continuity and continuous differentiability of solutions in potentials, we will give a comprehensive characterization of the corresponding Fucik spectra: each of them is composed of two trivial lines and a double-sequence of differentiable, strictly decreasing, hyperbolic-like curves; all asymptotic lines of these spectral curves are precisely described by using eigenvalues of the p-Laplacian with potentials; and moreover, all these spectral curves have strong continuity in potentials, i.e. as potentials vary in the weak topology, these spectral curves are continuously dependent on potentials in a certain sense.

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