Determinants of classical SG‐pseudodifferential operators

We introduce a generalized trace functional TR in the spirit of Kontsevich and Vishik's canonical trace for classical SG‐pseudodifferential operators on and suitable manifolds, using a finite‐part integral regularization technique. This allows us to define a zeta‐regularized determinant for parameter‐elliptic operators , , . For , the asymptotics of as and of as are derived. For suitable pairs we show that coincides with the so‐called relative determinant .     

On an elementary operator with M‐hyponormal operator entries

A Hilbert space operator is M‐hyponormal if there exists a positive real number M such that for all . Let be M‐hyponormal and let denote either the generalized derivation or the elementary operator . We prove that if are M‐hyponormal, then satisfies the generalized Weyl's theorem and satisfies the generalized a‐Weyl's theorem for every f that is analytic on a neighborhood of .     

Dimension of images of subspaces under mappings in Triebel‐Lizorkin spaces

Let and let be a ‐quasicontinuous representative of a mapping in the Triebel‐Lizorkin space . We find an optimal value of such that for a.e. the Hausdorff dimension of is at most α. We construct examples to show that the value of β is optimal and we show that it does not increase once p goes below the critical value α.     

Volume estimates for sections of certain convex bodies

This paper deals with volume estimates for hyperplane sections of the simplex and for m‐codimensional sections of powers of m‐dimensional Euclidean balls. In the first part we consider sections through the centroid of the n‐dimensional regular simplex. We state a volume formula and give a lower bound for the volume of sections through the centroid. In the second part we study the extremal volumes of m‐codimensional sections “perpendicular” to of unit balls in the space for all . We give volume formulas and use them to show that the normal vector (1, 0, …, 0) yields the minimal volume. Furthermore we give an upper bound for the ‐dimensional volumes for natural numbers . This bound is asymptotically attained for the normal vector as .     

Bilinear decompositions for the product space

In this paper, we improve a recent result by Li and Peng on products of functions in and , where is a Schrödinger operator with V satisfying an appropriate reverse Hölder inequality. More precisely, we prove that such products may be written as the sum of two continuous bilinear operators, one from into , the other one from into , where the space is the set of distributions f whose grand maximal function satisfies      

Oscillation criteria for higher order nonlinear dynamic equations

In this paper, we will consider the higher‐order functional dynamic equations of the form on an above‐unbounded time scale , where and , . The function is a rd‐continuous function such that . The results extend and improve some known results in the literature on higher order nonlinear dynamic equations.     

Uniqueness results for semilinear elliptic systems on

In this paper we establish uniqueness criteria for positive radially symmetric finite energy solutions of semilinear elliptic systems of the form As an application we consider the nonlinear Schrödinger system for and exponents q which satisfy in case and in case . Generalizing the results of Wei and Yao for we find new sufficient conditions and necessary conditions on such that precisely one positive solution exists. Our results dealing with the special case are optimal. Finally, an application to a multi‐component nonlinear Schrödinger system is given.     

Precise rates of the first moment convergence in the LIL for NA sequences

Let be a strictly stationary sequence of negatively associated random variables with zero mean and finite variance. We set and , . If , then for any , we show the precise rates of the first moment convergence in the law of the iterated logarithm for a kind of weighted infinite series of and as , and as .     

Operators of Hadamard type on spaces of smooth functions

For an open set we study the algebra of continuous linear operators on admitting the monomials as eigenvectors. We give a concrete representation of these operators and evaluate it explicitly for the unit ball and the whole of . We also study the topology of and the algebra of eigenvalue sequences.     

Fractional integration operators of variable order: continuity and compactness properties

Let be a Lebesgue‐almost everywhere positive function. We consider the Riemann‐Liouville operator of variable order defined by as an operator from to . Our first aim is to study its continuity properties. For example, we show that is always bounded (continuous) in provided that . Surprisingly, this becomes false for . In order to be bounded in L₁[0, 1], the function has to satisfy some additional assumptions. In the second, central part of this paper we investigate compactness properties of . We characterize functions for which is a compact operator and for certain classes of functions we provide order‐optimal bounds for the dyadic entropy numbers .     

Regularity theory for a class of quasilinear equations

This paper addresses the analysis of the weak solution of in a bounded domain Ω subject to the boundary condition on , when the data f belongs to and . We prove existence and uniqueness of solution for this problem in the Nikolskii space . Moreover, we obtain energy estimates regarding the Nikolskii norm of ω in terms of the norm of f.     

Riesz minimal energy problems on ‐manifolds

In , , we study the constructive and numerical solution of minimizing the energy relative to the Riesz kernel , where , for the Gauss variational problem, considered for finitely many compact, mutually disjoint, boundaryless ‐dimensional ‐manifolds , , where , each being charged with Borel measures with the sign prescribed. We show that the Gauss variational problem over a convex set of Borel measures can alternatively be formulated as a minimum problem over the corresponding set of surface distributions belonging to the Sobolev–Slobodetski space , where and . An equivalent formulation leads in the case of two manifolds to a nonlinear system of boundary integral equations involving simple layer potential operators on Γ. A corresponding numerical method is based on the Galerkin–Bubnov discretization with piecewise constant boundary elements. Wavelet matrix compression is applied to sparsify the system matrix. Numerical results are presented to illustrate the approach.     

On unique continuation for Schrödinger operators of fractional and higher orders

In this note we study the property of unique continuation for solutions of , where V is in a function class of potentials including for . In particular, when , our result gives a unique continuation theorem for the fractional Schrödinger operator in the full range of α values.     

On index theory for non‐Fredholm operators: A (1 + 1)‐dimensional example

Using the general formalism of 12 , a study of index theory for non‐Fredholm operators was initiated in 9 . Natural examples arise from (1 + 1)‐dimensional differential operators using the model operator in of the type , where , and the family of self‐adjoint operators in studied here is explicitly given by Here has to be integrable on and tends to zero as and to 1 as (both functions are subject to additional hypotheses). In particular, , , has asymptotes (in the norm resolvent sense) as , respectively. The interesting feature is that violates the relative trace class condition introduced in 9 , Hypothesis 2.1 ]. A new approach adapted to differential operators of this kind is given here using an approximation technique. The approximants do fit the framework of 9 enabling the following results to be obtained. Introducing , , we recall that the resolvent regularized Witten index of , denoted by , is defined by whenever this limit exists. In the concrete example at hand, we prove Here denotes the spectral shift operator for the pair of self‐adjoint operators , and we employ the normalization, , .     

On the order of the automorphism group of foliations

Let be a holomorphic foliation with ample canonical bundle on a smooth projective surface X. We obtain an upper bound on the order of its automorphism group which depends only on and provided this group is finite. Here, and are the canonical bundles of and X, respectively.     

On massive sets for subordinated random walks

We study massive (reccurent) sets with respect to a certain random walk defined on the integer lattice , . Our random walk is obtained from the simple random walk S on by the procedure of discrete subordination. can be regarded as a discrete space and time counterpart of the symmetric α‐stable Lévy process in . In the case we show that some remarkable proper subsets of , e.g. the set of primes, are massive whereas some proper subsets of such as the Leitmann primes are massive/non‐massive depending on the function h. Our results can be regarded as an extension of the results of McKean (1961) about massiveness of the set of primes for the simple random walk in . In the case we study massiveness of thorns and their proper subsets. The case is presented in the recent paper Bendikov and Cygan 2 .     

Some properties of a class of symmetric functions and its applications

For , the symmetric functions are defined by where , and are non‐negative integers. In this paper, the Schur convexity, geometric Schur convexity and harmonic Schur convexity of are investigated. As applications, Schur convexity for the other symmetric functions is obtained by a bijective transformation of independent variable for a Schur convex function, some analytic and geometric inequalities are established by using the theory of majorization, in particular, we derive from our results a generalization of Sharpiro's inequality, and give a new generalization of Safta's conjecture in the n‐dimensional space and others.     

On the ‐action on G‐semistable locally free sheaves on

We show that the divisor of jumping lines of any , the moduli space of Gieseker‐semistable locally free sheaves of rank 2 on with , is reduced for . By a lemma of Artamkin this implies, that there are exactly ‐orbits in , the subset of those , which are trivial at a certain line .     

On convolution in weighted ‐spaces

A distributional generalization of Young's inequality was stated by L. Schwartz. It asserts that convolution yields a continuous bilinear map if A generalization to the weighted ‐spaces in the form was given by N. Ortner and the author in 1989. By means of interpolation theory, we improve this result with respect to the image space under certain restrictions on μ and ν. This implies limit relations in for the Poisson kernel and yields a solution of the Dirichlet problem for the half‐space with boundary values in the space By this we generalize a former result of J. Alvarez, M. Guzmán‐Partida and S. Pérez‐Esteva referring to the special case of