Principal values for the Cauchy integral and rectifiability

We give a geometric characterization of those positive finite measures on with the upper density finite at -almost every , such that the principal value of the Cauchy integral of ,

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exists for -almost all . This characterization is given in terms of the curvature of the measure . In particular, we get that for , -measurable (where is the Hausdorff -dimensional measure) with , if the principal value of the Cauchy integral of exists -almost everywhere in , then is rectifiable.

     

Equlibrium measure of a product subset of

In this note we show that an equilibrium measure of a product of two subsets of and , respectively, is a product of their equilibrium measures. We also obtain a formula for , where are locally bounded plurisubharmonic functions and .

     

Operators with bounded conjugation orbits

For a bounded invertible operator on a complex Banach space let be the set of operators in for which Suppose that and is in A bound is given on in terms of the spectral radius of the commutator. Replacing the condition in by the weaker condition as for every 0$">, an extension of the Deddens-Stampfli-Williams results on the commutant of is given.

     

Cardinal spline interpolation from

Let be the discrete Hardy space, consisting of those sequences , such that , where , , is the discrete Hilbert transform of . For a sequence , let be the unique cardinal spline of degree interpolating to at the integers. The norm of this operator, , is called a Lebesgue constant from to , and it was proved that .

It is proved in this paper that

     

Hilbert modules over a class of semicrossed products

Given the disk algebra and an automorphism , there is associated a non-self-adjoint operator algebra called the semicrossed product of with . Buske and Peters showed that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the contractive Hilbert modules over and pairs of contractions and on satisfying . In this paper, we show that the orthogonally projective and Shilov Hilbert modules over correspond to pairs of isometries on satisfying . The problem of commutant lifting for is left open, but some related results are presented.     

On conjugation invariants in the dual Steenrod algebra

We investigate the canonical conjugation, , of the mod dual Steenrod algebra, , with a view to determining the subspace, , of elements invariant under . We give bounds on the dimension of this subspace for each degree and show that, after inverting , it becomes polynomial on a natural set of generators. Finally we note that, without inverting , is far from being polynomial.

     

Existence and uniqueness theorems for singular anisotropic quasilinear elliptic boundary value problems

On bounded domains we consider the anisotropic problems in with 1$"> and on and in with and on . Moreover, we generalize these boundary value problems to space-dimensions 2$">. Under geometric conditions on and monotonicity assumption on we prove existence and uniqueness of positive solutions.     

On a Sobolev inequality with remainder terms

In this note we consider the Sobolev inequality

where is the best Sobolev constant and is the space obtained by taking the completion of with the norm . We prove here a refined version of this inequality,

where is a positive constant, the distance is taken in the Sobolev space , and is the set of solutions which attain the Sobolev equality. This generalizes a result of Bianchi and Egnell (A note on the Sobolev inequality, J. Funct. Anal. 100 (1991), 18-24), which was posed by Brezis and Lieb (Sobolev inequalities with remainder terms, J. Funct. Anal. 62 (1985), 73-86). regarding the classical Sobolev inequality

A key ingredient in our proof is the analysis of eigenvalues of the fourth order equation

where and is the unique radial function in with . We will show that the eigenvalues of the above equation are discrete:

and the corresponding eigenfunction spaces are

     

Fundamental theorem of geometry without the 1-to-1 assumption

It is proved that any mapping of an -dimensional affine space over a division ring onto itself which maps every line into a line is semi-affine, if and . This result seems to be new even for the real affine spaces. Some further generalizations are also given. The paper is self-contained, modulo some basic terms and elementary facts concerning linear spaces and also - if the reader is interested in other than , , or - division rings.

     

On conditions for polyconvexity

We give an example of a smooth function , which is not polyconvex and which has the property that its restriction to any ball of radius one can be extended to a smooth polyconvex function . In particular, it implies that there exists no `local condition' which is necessary and sufficient for polyconvexity of functions , where , . We also briefly discuss connections with quasiconvexity.

     

Weak type estimates for cone multipliers on

We consider operators associated with the Fourier multipliers and show that is of weak type on , , for the critical value .

     

Topological entropy, embeddings and unitaries in nuclear quasidiagonal -algebras

Using topological entropy of automorphisms of -algebras, it is shown that some important facts from the theory of AF algebras do not carry over to the class of algebras.

It is shown that in general one cannot perturb a basic building block into a larger one which almost contains it. The same entropy obstruction used to prove this fact also provides a new obstruction to the known fact that two injective homomorphisms from a building block into an algebra need not differ by an (inner) automorphism when they agree on K-theory.

     

Sufficient conditions for one domain to contain another in a space of constant curvature

As an application of the analogue of C-S. Chen's kinematic formula in the 3-dimensional space of constant curvature , that is, Euclidean space , -sphere , hyperbolic space (, respectively), we obtain sufficient conditions for one domain to contain another domain in either an Euclidean space , or a -sphere or a hyperbolic space .

     

A topological property of integrable systems

If we are given real-valued smooth functions on which are in involution, then, under some mild hypotheses, the subset of where these functions are linearly independent is not simply connected.

     

Menger curvature and regularity of fractals

We show that if is an -regular set in for which the triple integral of the Menger curvature is finite and if , then almost all of can be covered with countably many curves. We give an example to show that this is false for .

     

The Dedekind-Mertens lemma and the contents of polynomials

Let be a commutative ring, let be an indeterminate, and let . There has been much recent work concerned with determining the Dedekind-Mertens number =min , especially on determining when = . In this note we introduce a universal Dedekind-Mertens number , which takes into account the fact that deg() + for any ring containing as a subring, and show that behaves more predictably than .

     

-semigroups generated by second order differential operators with general Wentzell boundary conditions

Let us consider the operator where is positive and continuous in and is equipped with the so-called generalized Wentzell boundary condition which is of the form at each boundary point, where This class of boundary conditions strictly includes Dirichlet, Neumann and Robin conditions.

Under suitable assumptions on , we prove that generates a positive -semigroup on and, hence, many previous (linear or nonlinear) results are extended substantially.

     

Universal -lattices of minimal rank

Let be the minimal rank of -universal -lattices, by which we mean positive definite -lattices which represent all positive -lattices of rank . It is a well known fact that for . In this paper, we determine and find all -universal lattices of rank for .

     

Trudinger type inequalities in and their best exponents

We study Trudinger type inequalities in and their best exponents . We show for , ( is the surface area of the unit sphere in ), there exists a constant such that

for all . Here is defined by

It is also shown that with is false, which is different from the usual Trudinger's inequalities in bounded domains.

     

On the divergence of the means of double Walsh-Fourier series

In 1992, Móricz, Schipp and Wade proved the a.e. convergence of the double means of the Walsh-Fourier series () for functions in ( is the unit square). This paper aims to demonstrate the sharpness of this result. Namely, we prove that for all measurable function we have a function such as and does not converge to a.e. (in the Pringsheim sense).