We introduce a new troubled-cell indicator for the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for solving hyperbolic conservation laws. This indicator can be defined on unstructured meshes for high order DG methods and depends only on data from the target cell and its immediate neighbors. It is able to identify shocks without PDE sensitive parameters to tune. Extensive one- and two-dimensional simulations on the hyperbolic systems of Euler equations indicate the good performance of this new troubled-cell indicator coupled with a simple minmod-type TVD limiter for the Runge-Kutta DG (RKDG) methods.

Denote by Mnthe set of n ×ncomplex matrices. Let f:Mn→[0, ∞)be a continuous map such that f(μUAU∗) =f(A)for any complex unit μ, A ∈Mnand unitary U∈Mn, f(X) =0if and only if X=0and the induced map t →f(tX)is monotonically increasing on [0, ∞)for any rank onenilpotent X∈Mn. Characterization is given for surjective maps φon Mnsatisfying f(AB−BA) =f(φ(A)φ(B) −φ(B)φ(A)). The general theorem isthen used to deduce results on special cases when the function is the pseudo spectrum and the pseudo spectral radius.

We count the number$S$($x$) of quadruples $ {\left( {x_{1} ,x_{2} ,x_{3} ,x_{4} } \right)} \in \mathbb{Z}^{4} $ for which $$ p = x^{2}_{1} + x^{2}_{2} + x^{2}_{3} + x^{2}_{4} \leqslant x $$ is a prime number and satisfying the determinant condition:$x$_{1}$x$_{4}−$x$_{2}$x$_{3}= 1. By means of the sieve, one shows easily the upper bound$S$($x$) ≪$x$/log$x$. Under a hypothesis about prime numbers, which is stronger than the Bombieri–Vinogradov theorem but is weaker than the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture, we prove that this order is correct, that is$S$($x$) ≫$x$/log$x$.

We study smooth toroidal compactifications of Siegel varieties thoroughly from the viewpoints of mixed Hodge theory and K\"ahler-Einstein metric. We observe that any cusp of a Siegel space can be identified as a set of certain weight one polarized mixed Hodge structures. We then study the infinity boundary divisors of toroidal compactifications, and obtain a global volume form formula of an arbitrary smooth Siegel variety $\sA_{g,\Gamma}(g>1)$ with a smooth toroidal compactification $\overline{\sA}_{g,\Gamma}$ such that $D_\infty:=\overline{\sA}_{g,\Gamma}\setminus \sA_{g,\Gamma}$ is normal crossing. We use this volume form formula to show that the unique group-invariant K\"ahler-Einstein metric on $\sA_{g,\Gamma}$ endows some restraint combinatorial conditions for all smooth toroidal compactifications of $\sA_{g,\Gamma}.$ Again using the volume form formula, we study the asymptotic behaviour of logarithmical canonical line bundle on any smooth toroidal compactification of $\sA_{g,\Gamma}$ carefully and we obtain that the logarithmical canonical bundle degenerate sharply even though it is big and numerically effective.

For a random quantum state on $\cH=\C^d \otimes \C^d$ obtained by partial tracing a random pure state on $\cH \otimes \C^s$, we consider the question whether it is typically separable or typically entangled. For this problem, we show the existence of a sharp threshold $s_0=s_0(d)$ of order roughly $d^3$. More precisely, for any $\e>0$ and for $d$ large enough, such a random state is entangled with very large probability when $s \leq (1-\e)s_0$, and separable with very large probability when $s \geq (1+\e) s_0$. One consequence of this result is as follows: for a system of $N$ identical particles in a random pure state, there is a threshold $k_0 = k_0(N)\sim N/5$ such that two subsystems of $k$ particles each typically share entanglement if $k>k_0$, and typically do not share entanglement if $k<k_0$. Our methods work also for multipartite systems and for ``unbalanced'' systems such as $\C^{d_1} \otimes \C^{d_2} $, ${d_1} \neq {d_2} $. The arguments rely on random matrices, classical convexity, high-dimensional probability and geometry of Banach spaces; some of the auxiliary results may be of reference value.