Let Ω⊂$R$^{$n$}be an arbitrary open set. In this paper it is shown that if a Sobolev function$f$∈$W$^{1,$p$}(Ω) possesses a zero trace (in the sense of Lebesgue points) on ϖΩ, then$f$is weakly zero on ϖΩ in the sense that$f$∈$W$_{0}^{1,$p$}(Ω).

We study the ergodic properties of fibered rational maps of the Riemann sphere. In particular we compute the topological entropy of such mappings and construct a measure of maximal relative entropy. The measure is shown to be the unique one with this property. We apply the results to selfmaps of ruled surfaces and to certain holomorphic mapping of the complex projective plane$P$^{2}.

The cosmological observations provide a strong evidence that there is a positive cosmological constant in our universe and thus the spacetime is asymptotical de Sitter space. The conjecture of gravity as the weakest force in the asymptotical dS space leads to a lower bound on the U(1) gauge coupling $g$, or equivalently, the positive cosmological constant gets an upper bound $\rho_V \leq g^2 M_p^4$ in order that the U(1) gauge theory can survive in four dimensions. This result has a simple explanation in string theory, i.e. the string scale $\sqrt{\alpha '}$ should not be greater than the size of the cosmic horizon. Our proposal in string theory can be generalized to U(N) gauge theory and gives a guideline to the microscopic explanation of the de Sitter entropy. The similar results are also obtained in the asymptotical anti-de Sitter space.

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.

Let X be a compact toric Kaehler manifold with $-K_X$ nef. Let $L\subset X$ be a regular fiber of the moment map of the Hamiltonian torus action on X. Fukaya-Oh-Ohta-Ono defined open Gromov-Witten (GW) invariants of X as virtual counts of holomorphic discs with Lagrangian boundary condition L. We prove a formula which equates such open GW invariants with closed GW invariants of certain X-bundles over $\mathbb{P}^1$ used to construct the Seidel representations for $X$. We apply this formula and degeneration techniques to explicitly calculate all these open GW invariants. This yields a formula for the disc potential of X, an enumerative meaning of mirror maps, and a description of the inverse of the ring isomorphism of Fukaya-Oh-Ohta-Ono.