In this paper, we present an efficient \GQR\ algorithm for solving the linear response eigenvalue problem $\scrH\bx ={\lambda}\bx $, where $\scrH$ is $\bPi^-$-symmetric with respect to $\Gamma_0 = \diag(I_n,-I_n)$. Based on newly introduced $\Gamma$-orthogonal transformations, the \GQR\ algorithm preserves the $\bPi^-$-symmetric structure of $\scrH$ throughout the whole process, which guarantees the computed eigenvalues to appear pairwise $(\lambda,-\lambda)$ as they should. With the help of a newly established implicit $\Gamma$-orthogonality theorem, we incorporate the implicit multi-shift technique to accelerate the convergence of the \GQR\ algorithm. Numerical experiments are given to show the effectiveness of the algorithm.

The positivity-preserving property is an important and challenging issue for the numerical solution of radiative transfer equations. In the past few decades, different numerical techniques have been proposed to guarantee positivity of the radiative intensity in several schemes, however it is difficult to maintain both high order accuracy and positivity. The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method is a high order numerical method which is widely used to solve the neutron/photon transfer equations, due to its distinguished advantages such as high order accuracy, geometric flexibility, suitability for $h$- and $p$-adaptivity, parallel efficiency, and a good theoretical foundation for stability and error estimates. In this paper, we construct arbitrarily high order accurate DG schemes which preserve positivity of the radiative intensity in the simulation of both steady and unsteady radiative transfer equations in one- and two-dimensional geometry by using a combined technique of the scaling positivity-preserving limiter in \cite{ZS2} and a new rotational positivity-preserving limiter. This combined limiter is simple to implement and we prove the properties of positivity-preserving and high order accuracy rigorously. One- and two-dimensional numerical results are provided to verify the good properties of the positivity-preserving DG schemes.

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In this expository note we discuss some arithmetic aspects of the mirror symmetry for plane cubic curves. We also explain how the Picard-Fuchs equation can be used to reveal part of these arithmetic properties. The application of Picard-Fuchs equations in studying the genus zero Gromov-Witten invariants of more general Calabi-Yau varieties and the Weil-Petersson geometry on their moduli spaces will also be discussed.

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