Nonexistence of single blow-up solutions for a nonlinear Schrödinger equation involving critical Sobolev exponent

In this paper we shall consider the critical elliptic equation where and a(x) is a real continuous, non negative function, not identically zero. By using a local Pohozaev identity, we show that problem (0.1) does not admit a family of solutions which blows-up and concentrates as at some zero point x₀ of a(x) if the order of flatness of the function a(x) at x₀ is      

Uniqueness of entropy solutions for nonlinear degenerate parabolic problems

We consider the general degenerate parabolic equation: We prove existence of Kruzkhov entropy solutions of the associated Cauchy problem for bounded data where the flux function F is supposed to be continuous. Uniqueness is established under some additional assumptions on the modulus of continuity of F and b.     

Maximal regularity for evolution equations in weighted <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Subscript>-spaces

Let X be a Banach space and let A be a closed linear operator on X. It is shown that the abstract Cauchy problem enjoys maximal regularity in weighted L _p -spaces with weights , where , if and only if it has the property of maximal L _p -regularity. Moreover, it is also shown that the derivation operator admits an -calculus in weighted L _p -spaces. Received: 26 February 2003     

A cohomological property of <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-groups

Let p be a prime, a finite p-group, any finite group with order divisible by p, and any action of on . We show that the cardinality of the set of all derivations with respect to this action is a multiple of p. This generalises theorems of Frobenius and Hall. Received: 16 June 2003     

Non-collision periodic solutions for singular Hamiltonian systems

We study the existence of classical (non-collision) T-periodic solutions of the Hamiltonian system where and is a T-periodic function in t which has a singularity at like Under suitable conditions on H, we prove that if then (HS) possesses at least one non-collision solution and if then the generalized solution of (HS) obtained in [5] has at most one time of collision in its period.     

On Fraenkel’s <Emphasis Type="Italic">N</Emphasis>-Heap Wythoff’s Conjectures

The N-heap Wythoffs game is a two-player impartial game with N piles of tokens of sizes Players take turns removing any number of tokens from a single pile, or removing (a₁,..., a_N) from all piles - a_i tokens from the i-th pile, providing that where is the nim addition. The first player that cannot make a move loses. Denote all the P-positions (i.e., losing positions) by Two conjectures were proposed on the game by Fraenkel [7]. When are fixed, i) there exists an integer N₁ such that when . ii) there exist integers N₂ and _2 such that when , the golden section.In this paper, we provide a sufficient condition for the conjectures to hold, and subsequently prove them for the three-heap Wythoffs game with the first piles having up to 10 tokens.AMS Subject Classification: 91A46, 68R05.     

Spectral triangles of Schrödinger operators with complex potentials

Consider the Schrödinger operator with a complex-valued potential v of period Let and be the eigenvalues of L that are close to respectively, with periodic (for n even), antiperiodic (for n odd), and Dirichelet boundary conditions on [0,1], and let be the diameter of the spectral triangle with vertices We prove the following statement: If then v(x) is a Gevrey function, and moreover      

Coloured Permutations Containing and Avoiding Certain Patterns

Let be the set of all coloured permutations on the symbols 1, 2, . . . , n with colours 1, 2, . . . , r, which is the analogous of the symmetric group when r = 1, and the hyperoctahedral group when r = 2. Let be a subset of d colours; we define to be the set of all coloured permutations . We prove that the number of -avoiding coloured permutations in . We then prove that for any , the number of coloured permutations in which avoid all patterns in except for and contain exactly once equals . Finally, for any , this number equals . These results generalize recent results due to Mansour, Mansour and West, and Simion.AMS Subject Classification: 05A05, 05A15.     

A class of bounded operators on Sobolev spaces

We describe a class of nonlinear operators which are bounded on the Sobolev spaces , for and 1 < p < . As a corollary, we prove that the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator is bounded on , for and 1 < p < ; this extends the result of J. Kinnunen [7], valid for s = 1. Received: 5 December 2000     

Set Systems with few Disjoint Pairs

Let X = {1, . . . , n}, and let be a family of subsets of X. Given the size of , at least how many pairs of elements of must be disjoint? In this paper we give a lower bound for the number of disjoint pairs in . The bound we obtain is essentially best possible. In particular, we give a new proof of a result of Frankl and of Ahlswede, that if satisfies then contains at least as many disjoint pairs as X^(r).The situation is rather different if we restrict our attention to : then we are asking for the minimum number of edges spanned by a subset of the Kneser graph of given size. We make a conjecture on this lower bound, and disprove a related conjecture of Poljak and Tuza on the largest bipartite subgraph of the Kneser graph.* Research partially supported by NSF grant DMS-9971788     

The dimension of the kernel in finite and infinite intersections of starshaped sets

Summary. We establish the following Helly-type result for infinite families of starshaped sets in Define the function f on {1, 2} by f(1) = 4, f(2) = 3. Let be a fixed positive number, and let be a uniformly bounded family of compact sets in the plane. For k = 1, 2, if every f(k) (not necessarily distinct) members of intersect in a starshaped set whose kernel contains a k-dimensional neighborhood of radius , then is a starshaped set whose kernel is at least k-dimensional. The number f(k) is best in each case. In addition, we present a few results concerning the dimension of the kernel in an intersection of starshaped sets in Some of these involve finite families of sets, while others involve infinite families and make use of the Hausdorff metric.     

Convex Embeddings and Bisections of 3-Connected Graphs1

Given two disjoint subsets T ₁ and T ₂ of nodes in an undirected 3-connected graph G = (V, E) with node set V and arc set E, where and are even numbers, we show that V can be partitioned into two sets V ₁ and V ₂ such that the graphs induced by V ₁ and V ₂ are both connected and holds for each j = 1,2. Such a partition can be found in time. Our proof relies on geometric arguments. We define a new type of convex embedding of k-connected graphs into real space R ^k-1 and prove that for k = 3 such an embedding always exists. ¹ A preliminary version of this paper with title Bisecting Two Subsets in 3-Connected Graphs appeared in the Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC 99, (A. Aggarwal, C. P. Rangan, eds.), Springer LNCS 1741, 425&ndash;434, 1999.     

Asymptotic properties of solutions of the viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation

The purpose of the paper is to study properties of solutions of the Cauchy problem for the equation under the assumption . General selfsimilar solutions are constructed. Moreover, for initial data with some decay at infinity, we determine the leading term of the asymptotics of solutions in which is described by either solutions of the linear heat equation or by particular selfsimilar solutions of the original equation.     

Multiplicity of Solutions to a Boundary-Value Problem with Nonlinear Neumann Condition

We consider the boundary-value problem

When an algebraic frame is regular

It is shown that an algebraic frame L is regular if and only if its compact elements are complemented. More generally, it is shown that each pseudocomplemented element is regular if and only if each , with c compact, is complemented. With a mild assumption on L, each , with c compact, is regular precisely when for any two minimal primes p and q of L. These results are then interpreted in various frames of subobjects of lattice-ordered groups and f-rings.     

Supersaturation For Ramsey-Turán Problems

For an l-graph , the Turán number is the maximum number of edges in an n-vertex l-graph containing no copy of . The limit is known to exist [8]. The Ramsey–Turán density is defined similarly to except that we restrict to only those with independence number o(n). A result of Erdős and Sós [3] states that as long as for every edge E of there is another edge E′of for which |E∩E′|≥2. Therefore a natural question is whether there exists for which . Another variant proposed in [3] requires the stronger condition that every set of vertices of of size at least εn (0<ε<1) has density bounded below by some threshold. By definition, for every . However, even is not known for very many l-graphs when l>2. We prove the existence of a phenomenon similar to supersaturation for Turán problems for hypergraphs. As a consequence, we construct, for each l≥3, infinitely many l-graphs for which . We also prove that the 3-graph with triples 12a, 12b, 12c, 13a, 13b, 13c, 23a, 23b, 23c, abc, satisfies . The existence of a hypergraph satisfying was conjectured by Erdős and Sós [3], proved by Frankl and R?dl [6], and later by Sidorenko [14]. Our short proof is based on different ideas and is simpler than these earlier proofs. * Research supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grants DMS-9970325 and DMS-0400812, and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. † Research supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grants DMS-0071261 and DMS-0300529.     

The Laplacian on $$ C(\overline \Omega) $$ with generalized Wentzell boundary conditions

In this note we prove that the Laplacian with generalized Wentzell boundary conditions on an open bounded regular domain in defined by generates an analytic semigroup of angle on for every > 0 and (for the definition of cf. (1.3)).Received: 13 July 2002     

Schrödinger equations with concave and convex nonlinearities

We obtain the existence of infinitely many nodal solutions for the Schrödinger type equation on with Here, The nonlinearity f is symmetric in the sense of being odd in u, and may involve a combination of concave and convex terms.Received: November 11, 2003; revised: December 12, 2004Supported by NSFC:10441003