In this paper, we will develop a new staggered hybridization technique for discontinuous Galerkin methods to discretize linear elastodynamic equations. The idea of hybridization is used extensively in many discontinuous Galerkin methods, but the idea of staggered hybridization is new. Our new approach offers several advantages, namely energy conservation, high-order optimal convergence, preservation of symmetry for the stress tensor, block diagonal mass matrices as well as low dispersion error. The key idea is to use two staggered hybrid variables to enforce the continuity of the velocity and the continuity of the normal component of the stress tensor on a staggered mesh. We prove the stability and the convergence of the proposed scheme in both the semi-discrete and the fully-discrete settings. Numerical results confirm the optimal rate of convergence and show that the method has a superconvergent property for dispersion. Furthermore, an application of this method to Rayleigh wave propagation is presented.

"In this paper we consider a variation of the classical Turán-type extremal problems. Let $S$ be an $n$ -term graphical sequence, and $\sigma(S)$ be the sum of the terms in $S$ . Let $H$ be a graph. The problem is to determine the smallest even $l$ such that any $n$ -term graphical sequence $S$ having $\sigma(S)\geq l$ has a realization containing $H$ as a subgraph. Denote this value $l$ by $\sigma(H,n)$ . We show $\sigma(C_{2m+1},n)=m(2n-m-1)+2$ , for $m\geq 3$ , $n\geq 3m$ ; $\sigma(C_{2m+2},n)=m(2n-m-1)+4$ , for $m\geq 3$ , $n\geq 5m-2$ .''

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The fundamental problem of nonlinear filtering theory is how to solve robust D-M-Z equation in real time and in memoryless manner. This paper describes a new real time algorithm which reduces the nonlinear filtering problem to off-line computations. Our algorithm gives convergent solutions in both pointwise sense and L/sup 2/ in case that the drift term and observation dynamic term have linear growths. The algorithm presented is slightly better than that given in our previous paper (2000).

We compute the partition function on the hemisphere of a class of two-dimensional (2,2) supersymmetric field theories including gauged linear sigma models. The result provides a general exact formula for the central charge of the D-brane placed at the boundary. It takes the form of Mellin-Barnes integral and the question of its convergence leads to the grade restriction rule concerning branes near the phase boundaries. We find expressions in various phases including the large volume formula in which a characteristic class called the Gamma class shows up. The two sphere partition function factorizes into two hemispheres glued by inverse to the annulus. The result can also be written in a form familiar in mirror symmetry, and suggests a way to find explicit mirror correspondence between branes.