-convexity of Orlicz-Bochner spaces

A characterization of -convexity of arbitrary Banach space is given. Moreover, it is proved that the Orlicz-Bochner function space is P-convex if and only if both spaces and are -convex. In particular, the Lebesgue-Bochner space with is -convex iff is -convex.

     

Conjugate Hardy's inequalities with decreasing weights

We prove that for a decreasing weight on , the conjugate Hardy transform is bounded on () if and only if it is bounded on the cone of all decreasing functions of . This property does not depend on .

     

Vector bundles on log terminal varieties

Let be an -dimensional variety and an ample vector bundle on of rank . We give a complete classification of pairs , with log terminal and such that is not ample. The results we obtain were conjectured by Fujita, and recently by Zhang.

     

Certain invariant subspace structure of

In this note, we study certain structure of an invariant subspace of . Considering the largest -invariant (resp. -invariant) subspace in the wandering subspace of with respect to the shift operator , we give an alternative characterization of Beurling-type invariant subspaces. Furthermore, we consider a certain class of invariant subspaces.

     

Automorphic-differential identities and actions of pointed coalgebras on rings

In this paper, we prove the following two results which generalize the theorem concerning automorphic-differential endomorphisms asserted by J. Bergen. Let be a ring, its left Martindale quotient ring and a right ideal of having no nonzero left annihilator. (1) Let be a pointed coalgebra which measures such that the group-like elements of act as automorphisms of . If is prime and for , then . Furthermore, if the action of extends to and if such that , then . (2) Let be an endomorphism of given as a sum of composition maps of left multiplications, right multiplications, automorphisms and skew-derivations. If is semiprime and , then .

     

Norms of embeddings of logarithmic Bessel potential spaces

Let be a subset of with finite volume, let and let be a Young function with for large . We show that the norm on the Orlicz space is equivalent to

We also obtain estimates of the norms of the embeddings of certain logarithmic Bessel potential spaces in which are sharp in their dependences on provided that is large enough.

     

Some extremal problems in

Fix a positive integer and . We provide expressions for the weighted distance

where is normalized Lebesgue measure on the unit circle, is a nonnegative integrable function, and ranges over the trigonometric polynomials with frequencies in

or

These distances are related to other extremal problems, and are shown to be positive if and only if is integrable. In some cases they are expressed in terms of the series coefficients of the outer functions associated with .

     

Zero divisors and

Let be a discrete group, the group ring of over and the Lebesgue space of with respect to Haar measure. It is known that if is torsion free elementary amenable, and , then . We will give a sufficient condition for this to be true when , and in the case we will give sufficient conditions for this to be false when .

     

Asymptotics for Sobolev orthogonal polynomials with coherent pairs: The Jacobi case, type 1

Define and as the th monic orthogonal polynomials with respect to and respectively. The pair is called a coherent pair if there exist non-zero constants such that

One can divide the coherent pairs into two cases: the Jacobi case and the Laguerre case. There are two types for each case: type 1 and 2. We investigate the asymptotic properties and zero distribution of orthogonal polynomials with respect to Sobolev inner product

for the coherent pair : the Jacobi case, type 1.

     

Ideal and subalgebra coefficients

For an ideal or -subalgebra of , consider subfields , where is generated - as ideal or -subalgebra - by polynomials in . It is a standard result for ideals that there is a smallest such . We give an algorithm to find it. We also prove that there is a smallest such for -subalgebras. The ideal results use reduced Gröbner bases. For the subalgebra results we develop and then use subduced SAGBI (bases), the analog to reduced Gröbner bases.

     

The geography of irreducible 4-manifolds

In this paper we investigate the existence and the uniqueness problems for simply connected irreducible -manifolds. By taking fiber sums along an embedded surface of square and by a rational blow-down procedure, we construct many new irreducible -manifolds which have infinitely many distinct smooth structures. Furthermore, we prove that all but at most finitely many lattice points lying in the non-positive signature region with are covered by these irreducible -manifolds.

     

Extendibility of homogeneous polynomials on Banach spaces

We study the -homogeneous polynomials on a Banach space that can be extended to any space containing . We show that there is an upper bound on the norm of the extension. We construct a predual for the space of all extendible -homogeneous polynomials on and we characterize the extendible 2-homogeneous polynomials on when is a Hilbert space, an -space or an -space.

     

Some results on finite Drinfeld modules

Let be a global function field, a degree one prime divisor of and let be the Dedekind domain of functions in regular outside . Let be the Hilbert class field of , the integral closure of in . Let be a rank one normalized Drinfeld -module and let be a prime ideal in . We explicitly determine the finite -module structure of . In particular, if , is an odd prime number and is the Carlitz -module, then the finite -module is always cyclic.

     

On the Mergelyan approximation property on pseudoconvex domains in

Let be a smoothly bounded pseudoconvex domain of finite type in . We prove the Mergelyan approximation property in various topologies on when the estimates for -equation are known in the corresponding topologies.

     

A note on Greenberg's conjecture and the abc conjecture

For any totally real number field and any prime number , Greenberg's conjecture for asserts that the Iwasawa invariants and are both zero. For a fixed real abelian field , we prove that the conjecture is ``affirmative' for infinitely many (which split in if we assume the abc conjecture for .

     

Banach spaces failing the almost isometric universal extension property

If is an infinite dimensional, separable, uniformly smooth Banach space, then there is an , a Banach space containing as a closed subspace and a norm one map from to a space which does not extend to an operator from to with .

     

Relative to any nonrecursive set

There is a countable first order structure such that for any set of integers , is not recursive if and only if there is a presentation of which is recursive in .

     

A characterization for spaces of sections

The space of smooth sections of a bundle over a compact smooth manifold can be equipped with a manifold structure, called an -manifold, where represents the Fréchet algebra of real valued smooth functions on . We prove that the -manifold structure characterizes the spaces of sections of bundles over and its open subspaces. We also describe the -maps between -manifolds.

     

On certain character sums over

Let be the finite field with elements and let denote the ring of polynomials in one variable with coefficients in . Let be a monic polynomial irreducible in . We obtain a bound for the least degree of a monic polynomial irreducible in ( odd) which is a quadratic non-residue modulo . We also find a bound for the least degree of a monic polynomial irreducible in which is a primitive root modulo .

     

Probability measures in -algebras in Hilbert spaces with conjugation

Let be a real -algebra of -real bounded operators containing no central summand of type in a complex Hilbert space with conjugation . Denote by the quantum logic of all -orthogonal projections in the von Neumann algebra . Let be a probability measure. It is shown that contains a finite central summand and there exists a normal finite trace on such that , .