A Landesman-Lazer Type Theorem for Periodic Solutions of the Resonant Asymmetric ρ-Laplacian Equation

In this paper, we give a Landesman-Lazer type theorem for periodic solutions of the asymmetric 1-dimensional p-Laplacian equation -（｜x＇｜^p-2x＇）＇=λ｜x｜^p-2x＋＋μ｜x｜^p-2x-＋f（t,x）with periodic boundary value.     

Non-Uniformity and Generalised Sacks Splitting

We show that there do not exist computable functions f ₁(e, i), f ₂(e, i), g ₁(e, i), g ₂(e, i) such that for all e, i ∈ ω, (1) $ {\left( {W_{{f_{1} {\left( {e,i} \right)}}} - W_{{f_{2} {\left( {e,i} \right)}}} } \right)} \leqslant _{{\rm T}} {\left( {W_{e} - W_{i} } \right)}; $ (2) $ {\left( {W_{{g_{1} {\left( {e,i} \right)}}} - W_{{g_{2} {\left( {e,i} \right)}}} } \right)} \leqslant _{{\rm T}} {\left( {W_{e} - W_{i} } \right)}; $ (3) $ {\left( {W_{e} - W_{i} } \right)} \not\leqslant _{{\rm T}} {\left( {W_{{f_{1} {\left( {e,i} \right)}}} - W_{{f_{2} {\left( {e,i} \right)}}} } \right)} \oplus {\left( {W_{{g_{1} {\left( {e,i} \right)}}} - W_{{g_{2} {\left( {e,i} \right)}}} } \right)}; $ (4) $ {\left( {W_{e} - W_{i} } \right)} \not\leqslant _{{\rm T}} {\left( {W_{{f_{1} {\left( {e,i} \right)}}} - W_{{f_{2} {\left( {e,i} \right)}}} } \right)}{\text{unless}}{\left( {W_{e} - W_{i} } \right)} \leqslant _{{\rm T}} {\emptyset};{\text{and}} $ (5) $ {\left( {W_{e} - W_{i} } \right)} \leqslant _{{\rm T}} {\left( {W_{{g_{1} {\left( {e,i} \right)}}} - W_{{g_{2} {\left( {e,i} \right)}}} } \right)}{\text{unless}}{\left( {W_{e} - W_{i} } \right)} \leqslant _{{\rm T}} {\emptyset}. $ It follows that the splitting theorems of Sacks and Cooper cannot be combined uniformly.     

Periodic solution to p-Laplacian neutral Liénard type equation with variable parameter

Using Mawhin’s continuation theorem we obtain some existence results of periodic solutions for a type of p-Laplacian neutral Liénard equation $$\left( {\phi _p \left( {\left( {x\left( t \right) - c\left( t \right)x\left( {t - \tau } \right)} \right)^\prime } \right)} \right)^\prime + f\left( {x\left( t \right)} \right)x'\left( t \right) + g\left( {x\left( {t - \gamma \left( t \right)} \right)} \right) = e\left( t \right).$$ It is worth noting that c(t) is no longer a constant which is different from the corresponding ones of past work.     

Regularity for solutions to anisotropic obstacle problems

For Ω a bounded subset of R n,n 2,ψ any function in Ω with values in R∪{±∞}andθ∈W1,(q i)(Ω),let K(q i)ψ,θ(Ω)={v∈W1,(q i)(Ω):vψ,a.e.and v-θ∈W1,(q i)0(Ω}.This paper deals with solutions to K(q i)ψ,θ-obstacle problems for the A-harmonic equation-divA(x,u(x),u(x))=-divf(x)as well as the integral functional I(u;Ω)=Ωf(x,u(x),u(x))dx.Local regularity and local boundedness results are obtained under some coercive and controllable growth conditions on the operator A and some growth conditions on the integrand f.     

On a result of Hardy and Littlewood concerning Fourier series

Let f ∈ L ¹( $ \mathbb{T} $ ) and assume that $$ f\left( t \right) \sim \frac{{a_0 }} {2} + \sum\limits_{k = 1}^\infty {\left( {a_k \cos kt + b_k \sin kt} \right)} $$ Hardy and Littlewood [1] proved that the series $ \sum\limits_{k = 1}^\infty {\frac{{a_k }} {k}} $ converges if and only if the improper Riemann integral $$ \mathop {\lim }\limits_{\delta \to 0^ + } \int_\delta ^\pi {\frac{1} {x}} \left\{ {\int_{ - x}^x {f(t)dt} } \right\}dx $$ exists. In this paper we prove a refinement of this result.     

Decay estimates for nonlinear nonlocal diffusion problems in the whole space

In this paper, we obtain bounds for the decay rate in the L ^r (? ^d )-norm for the solutions of a nonlocal and nonlinear evolution equation, namely, $$u_t \left( {x,t} \right) = \int_{\mathbb{R}^d } {K\left( {x,y} \right)\left| {u\left( {y,t} \right) - u\left( {x,t} \right)} \right|^{p - 2} \left( {u\left( {y,t} \right) - u\left( {x,t} \right)} \right)dy, x \in \mathbb{R}^d , t > 0.}$$ . We consider a kernel of the form K(x, y) = ψ(y?a(x)) + ψ(x?a(y)), where ψ is a bounded, nonnegative function supported in the unit ball and a is a linear function a(x) = Ax. To obtain the decay rates, we derive lower and upper bounds for the first eigenvalue of a nonlocal diffusion operator of the form $$T\left( u \right) = - \int_{\mathbb{R}^d } {K\left( {x,y} \right)\left| {u\left( y \right) - u\left( x \right)} \right|^{p - 2} \left( {u\left( y \right) - u\left( x \right)} \right)dy, 1 \leqslant p < \infty .}$$ . The upper and lower bounds that we obtain are sharp and provide an explicit expression for the first eigenvalue in the whole space ? ^d : $$\lambda _{1,p} \left( {\mathbb{R}^d } \right) = 2\left( {\int_{\mathbb{R}^d } {\psi \left( z \right)dz} } \right)\left| {\frac{1} {{\left| {\det A} \right|^{1/p} }} - 1} \right|^p .$$ Moreover, we deal with the p = ∞ eigenvalue problem, studying the limit of λ _1,p ^1/p as p→∞.     

On the discrepancy function in arbitrary dimension, close to L 1

Let A _N to be N points in the unit cube in dimension d, and consider the discrepancy function $$ D_N (\vec x): = \sharp \left( {\mathcal{A}_N \cap \left[ {\vec 0,\vec x} \right)} \right) - N\left| {\left[ {\vec 0,\vec x} \right)} \right| $$ Here, $$ \vec x = \left( {\vec x,...,x_d } \right),\left[ {0,\vec x} \right) = \prod\limits_{t = 1}^d {\left[ {0,x_t } \right),} $$ and $ \left| {\left[ {0,\vec x} \right)} \right| $ denotes the Lebesgue measure of the rectangle. We show that necessarily $$ \left\| {D_N } \right\|_{L^1 (log L)^{(d - 2)/2} } \gtrsim \left( {log N} \right)^{\left( {d - 1} \right)/2} . $$ In dimension d = 2, the ‘log L’ term has power zero, which corresponds to a Theorem due to [11]. The power on log L in dimension d ≥ 3 appears to be new, and supports a well-known conjecture on the L ¹ norm of D _N . Comments on the discrepancy function in Hardy space also support the conjecture.     

Oscillation criteria for nonlinear neutral functional dynamic equations on time scales

In this paper, we establish some new sufficient conditions for oscillation of the second-order neutral functional dynamic equation $$\left[ {r\left( t \right)\left[ {m\left( t \right)y\left( t \right) + p\left( t \right)y\left( {\tau \left( t \right)} \right)} \right]^\Delta } \right]^\Delta + q\left( t \right)f\left( {y\left( {\delta \left( t \right)} \right)} \right) = 0$$ on a time scale $\mathbb{T}$ which is unbounded above, where m, p, q, r, T and δ are real valued rd-continuous positive functions defined on $\mathbb{T}$ . The main investigation of the results depends on the Riccati substitutions and the analysis of the associated Riccati dynamic inequality. The results complement the oscillation results for neutral delay dynamic equations and improve some oscillation results for neutral delay differential and difference equations. Some examples illustrating our main results are given.     

Sharp weak-type inequalities for Hilbert transform and Riesz projection

The paper is devoted to the study of the weak norms of the classical operators in the vector-valued setting.

1. Let S, H denote the singular integral involution operator and the Hilbert transform on $L^p \left( {\mathbb{T}, \ell _\mathbb{C}^2 } \right)$ , respectively. Then for 1 ≤ p ≤ 2 and any f, $$\left\| {\mathcal{S}f} \right\|_{p,\infty } \leqslant \left( {\frac{1} {\pi }\int_{ - \infty }^\infty {\frac{{\left| {\tfrac{2} {\pi }\log \left| t \right|} \right|^p }} {{t^2 + 1}}dt} } \right)^{ - 1/p} \left\| f \right\|p,$$ $$\left\| {\mathcal{H}f} \right\|_{p,\infty } \leqslant \left( {\frac{1} {\pi }\int_{ - \infty }^\infty {\frac{{\left| {\tfrac{2} {\pi }\log \left| t \right|} \right|^p }} {{t^2 + 1}}dt} } \right)^{ - 1/p} \left\| f \right\|p.$$ Both inequalities are sharp.
2. Let P ₊ and P _? stand for the Riesz projection and the co-analytic projection on $L^p \left( {\mathbb{T}, \ell _\mathbb{C}^2 } \right)$ , respectively. Then for 1 ≤ p ≤ 2 and any f, $$\left\| {P + f} \right\|_{p,\infty } \leqslant \left\| f \right\|_p ,$$ $$\left\| {P - f} \right\|_{p,\infty } \leqslant \left\| f \right\|_p .$$ Both inequalities are sharp.
3. We establish the sharp versions of the estimates above in the nonperiodic case.

The results are new even if the operators act on complex-valued functions. The proof rests on the construction of an appropriate plurisubharmonic function and probabilistic techniques.     

New Orlicz variants of Hardy type inequalities with power, power-logarithmic, and power-exponential weights

We obtain Hardy type inequalities $$\int_0^\infty {M\left( {\omega \left( r \right)\left| {u\left( r \right)} \right|} \right)\rho \left( r \right)dr} \leqslant C_1 \int_0^\infty {M\left( {\left| {u\left( r \right)} \right|} \right)\rho \left( r \right)dr + C_2 \int_0^\infty {M\left( {\left| {u'\left( r \right)} \right|} \right)\rho \left( r \right)dr,} }$$ and their Orlicz-norm counterparts $$\left\| {\omega u} \right\|_{L^M (\mathbb{R}_ + ,\rho )} \leqslant \tilde C_1 \left\| u \right\|_{L^M (\mathbb{R}_ + ,\rho )} + \tilde C_2 \left\| {u'} \right\|_{L^M (\mathbb{R}_ + ,\rho )} ,$$ with an N-function M, power, power-logarithmic and power-exponential weights ??, ??, holding on suitable dilation invariant supersets of C ₀ ^?? (?₊). Maximal sets of admissible functions u are described. This paper is based on authors?? earlier abstract results and applies them to particular classes of weights.     

Some remarks on the moments of \left| {\varsigma \left( {\tfrac{1} {2} + it} \right)} \right| in short intervals

Some new results on power moments of the integral $$ J_k (t,G) = \frac{1} {{\sqrt {\pi G} }}\int_{ - \infty }^\infty { \left| {\varsigma \left( {\tfrac{1} {2} + it + iu} \right)} \right|^{2k} } e^{ - (u/G)^2 } du $$ (t ? T, T ^? ≦ G ? T, κ ∈ N) are obtained when κ = 1. These results can be used to derive bounds for moments of $ \left| {\varsigma \left( {\tfrac{1} {2} + it} \right)} \right| $ .     

Criterion of polynomial increase of a function and its derivatives

ДОкАжАНО, ЧтО Дль тОгО, ЧтОБы Дльr РАж ДИФФЕРЕНцИРУЕМОИ НА пРОМЕжУткЕ [А, + ∞) ФУНкцИИf сУЩЕстВОВА л тАкОИ МНОгОЧлЕН (1) $$P(x) = \mathop \Sigma \limits_{\kappa = 0}^{r - 1} a_k x^k ,$$ , ЧтО (2) $$\mathop {\lim }\limits_{x \to + \infty } (f(x) - P(x))^{(k)} = 0,k = 0,1,...,r - 1,$$ , НЕОБхОДИМО И ДОстАтО ЧНО, ЧтОБы схОДИлсь ИН тЕгРАл (3) $$\int\limits_a^{ + \infty } {dt_1 } \int\limits_{t_1 }^{ + \infty } {dt_2 ...} \int\limits_{t_{r - 1} }^{ + \infty } {f^{(r)} (t)dt.}$$ ЕслИ ЁтОт ИНтЕгРАл сх ОДИтсь, тО Дль кОЁФФИц ИЕНтОВ МНОгОЧлЕНА (1) ИМЕУт МЕс тО ФОРМУлы $$\begin{gathered} a_{r - m} = \frac{1}{{(r - m)!}}\left( {\mathop \Sigma \limits_{j = 1}^m \frac{{( - 1)^{m - j} f^{(r - j)} (x_0 )}}{{(m - j)!}}} \right.x_0^{m - j} + \hfill \\ + ( - 1)^{m - 1} \left. {\mathop \Sigma \limits_{l = 0}^{m - 1} \frac{{x_0^l }}{{l!}}\int\limits_a^{ + \infty } {dt_1 } \int\limits_{t_1 }^{ + \infty } {dt_2 ...} \int\limits_{t_{m - l - 1} }^{ + \infty } {f^{(r)} (t_{m - 1} )dt_{m - 1} } } \right),m = 1,2,...,r. \hfill \\ \end{gathered}$$ ДОстАтОЧНыМ, НО НЕ НЕОБхОДИМыМ Усл ОВИЕМ схОДИМОстИ кРА тНОгО ИНтЕгРАлА (3) ьВльЕтсь схОДИМОсть ИНтЕгРАл А \(\int\limits_a^{ + \infty } {x^{r - 1} f^{(r)} (x)dx}\)      

On the regular convergence of multiple series of numbers and multiple integrals of locally integrable functions over ℝ̄ + m

We investigate the regular convergence of the m-multiple series (*) $$\sum\limits_{j_1 = 0}^\infty {\sum\limits_{j_2 = 0}^\infty \cdots \sum\limits_{j_m = 0}^\infty {c_{j_1 ,j_2 } , \ldots j_m } }$$ of complex numbers, where m ≥ 2 is a fixed integer. We prove Fubini’s theorem in the discrete setting as follows. If the multiple series (*) converges regularly, then its sum in Pringsheim’s sense can also be computed by successive summation. We introduce and investigate the regular convergence of the m-multiple integral (**) $$\int_0^\infty {\int_0^\infty { \cdots \int_0^\infty {f\left( {t_1 ,t_2 , \ldots ,t_m } \right)dt_1 } } } dt_2 \cdots dt_m ,$$ where f : ?? ₊ ^m → ? is a locally integrable function in Lebesgue’s sense over the closed nonnegative octant ?? ₊ ^m := [0,∞) ^m . Our main result is a generalized version of Fubini’s theorem on successive integration formulated in Theorem 4.1 as follows. If f ∈ L _loc ¹ (?? ₊ ^m ), the multiple integral (**) converges regularly, and m = p + q, where p and q are positive integers, then the finite limit $$\mathop {\lim }\limits_{v_{_{p + 1} } , \cdots ,v_m \to \infty } \int_{u_1 }^{v_1 } {\int_{u_2 }^{v_2 } { \cdots \int_0^{v_{p + 1} } { \cdots \int_0^{v_m } {f\left( {t_1 ,t_2 , \ldots t_m } \right)dt_1 dt_2 } \cdots dt_m = :J\left( {u_1 ,v_1 ;u_2 v_2 ; \ldots ;u_p ,v_p } \right)} , 0 \leqslant u_k \leqslant v_k < \infty } ,k = 1,2, \ldots p,}$$ exists uniformly in each of its variables, and the finite limit $$\mathop {\lim }\limits_{v_1 ,v_2 \cdots ,v_p \to \infty } J\left( {0,v_1 ;0,v_2 ; \ldots ;0,v_p } \right) = I$$ also exists, where I is the limit of the multiple integral (**) in Pringsheim’s sense. The main results of this paper were announced without proofs in the Comptes Rendus Sci. Paris (see [8] in the References).     

Height of a Superposition

We observe that, given a poset ${\left( {E,{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}} \right)}$ and a finite covering ${\user1{\mathcal{R}}} = {\user1{\mathcal{R}}}_{1} \cup \cdots \cup {\user1{\mathcal{R}}}_{n} $ of its ordering, the height of the poset does not exceed the natural product of the heights of the corresponding sub-relations: $$\mathfrak{h}{\left( {E,{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}} \right)} \leqslant \mathfrak{h}{\left( {E,{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}_{1} } \right)} \otimes \cdots \otimes \mathfrak{h}{\left( {E,{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}_{n} } \right)}.$$ Conversely for every finite sequence $(\xi_1,\cdots,\xi_n)$ of ordinals, every poset ${\left( {E,{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}} \right)}$ of height at most $\xi_1\otimes\cdots\otimes\xi_n$ admits a partition ${\left( {{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}_{1} , \cdots ,{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}_{n} } \right)}$ of its ordering ${\user1{\mathcal{R}}}$ such that each ${\left( {E,{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}_{k} } \right)}$ has height at most $\xi_k$ . In particular for every finite sequence $(\xi_1,\cdots,\xi_n)$ of ordinals, the ordinal $$\xi _{1} \underline{ \otimes } \cdots \underline{ \otimes } \xi _{n} : = \sup {\left\{ {{\left( {\xi ^{\prime }_{1} \otimes \cdots \otimes \xi ^{\prime }_{n} } \right)} + 1:\xi ^{\prime }_{1} < \xi _{1} , \cdots ,\xi ^{\prime }_{n} < \xi _{n} } \right\}}$$ is the least $\xi$ for which the following partition relation holds $$\mathfrak{H}_{\xi } \to {\left( {\mathfrak{H}_{{\xi _{1} }} , \cdots ,\mathfrak{H}_{{\xi _{n} }} } \right)}^{2} $$ meaning: for every poset ${\left( {A,{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}} \right)}$ of height at least $\xi$ and every finite covering ${\left( {{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}_{1} , \cdots ,{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}_{n} } \right)}$ of its ordering ${\user1{\mathcal{R}}}$ , there is a $k$ for which the relation ${\left( {A,{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}_{k} } \right)}$ has height at least $\xi_k$ . The proof will rely on analogue properties of vertex coverings w.r.t. the natural sum.     

Estimation of the remainder of a cubature formula on a Chebyshev grid for two-variable functions

For a cubature formula of the form $$\int\limits_0^{2\pi } {\int\limits_0^{2\pi } {f(x,y)dxdy = \frac{{4\pi ^2 }} {{mn}}\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{n - 1} {\sum\limits_{j = 0}^{m - 1} {f\left( {\frac{{2\pi i}} {n},\frac{{2\pi j}} {m}} \right) + R_{n,m} (f)} } } }$$ on a Chebyshev grid, the remainder R _n,m (f) is proved to satisfy the sharp estimate $$\mathop {\sup }\limits_{f \in H\left( {r_1 ,r_2 } \right)} \left| {R_{n,m} (f)} \right| = O\left( {n^{ - r_1 + 1} + m^{ - r_1 + 1} } \right)$$ in some class of functions H(r ₁, r ₂) defined by a generalized shift operator. Here, r ₁, r ₂ > 1; ??^?1 ?? n/m ?? ?? with ?? > 0; and the constant in the O-term depends only on ??.     

On the best constants in the Khintchine inequality for Steinhaus variables

Let S _j : (Ω, P) → S ¹ ? ? be an i.i.d. sequence of Steinhaus random variables, i.e. variables which are uniformly distributed on the circle S ¹. We determine the best constants a _p in the Khintchine-type inequality $${a_p}{\left\| x \right\|_2} \leqslant {\left( {{\text{E}}{{\left| {\sum\limits_{j = 1}^n {{x_j}{S_j}} } \right|}^p}} \right)^{1/p}} \leqslant {\left\| x \right\|_2};{\text{ }}x = ({x_j})_{j = 1}^n \in {{\Bbb C}^n}$$ for 0 < p < 1, verifying a conjecture of U. Haagerup that $${a_p} = \min \left( {\Gamma {{\left( {\frac{p}{2} + 1} \right)}^{1/p}},\sqrt 2 {{\left( {{{\Gamma \left( {\frac{{p + 1}}{2}} \right)} \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{\Gamma \left( {\frac{{p + 1}}{2}} \right)} {\left[ {\Gamma \left( {\frac{p}{2} + 1} \right)\sqrt \pi } \right]}}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} {\left[ {\Gamma \left( {\frac{p}{2} + 1} \right)\sqrt \pi } \right]}}} \right)}^{1/p}}} \right)$$ . Both expressions are equal for p = p ₀ }~ 0.4756. For p ≥ 1 the best constants a _p have been known for some time. The result implies for a norm 1 sequence x ∈ ? ⁿ , ‖x‖₂ = 1, that $${\text{E}}\ln \left| {\frac{{{S_1} + {S_2}}}{{\sqrt 2 }}} \right| \leqslant {\text{E}}\ln \left| {\sum\limits_{j = 1}^n {{x_j}{S_j}} } \right|$$ , answering a question of A. Baernstein and R. Culverhouse.     

A Tauberian theorem for ℓ-adic sheaves on \mathbb{A} 1

Let K ∈ L ¹(?) and let f ∈ L ^∞(?) be two functions on ?. The convolution $$ \left( {K*F} \right)\left( x \right) = \int_\mathbb{R} {K\left( {x - y} \right)f\left( y \right)dy} $$ can be considered as an average of f with weight defined by K. Wiener’s Tauberian theorem says that under suitable conditions, if $$ \mathop {\lim }\limits_{x \to \infty } \left( {K*F} \right)\left( x \right) = \mathop {\lim }\limits_{x \to \infty } \int_\mathbb{R} {\left( {K*A} \right)\left( x \right)} $$ for some constant A, then $$ \mathop {\lim }\limits_{x \to \infty } f\left( x \right) = A $$ We prove the following ?-adic analogue of this theorem: Suppose K, F, G are perverse ?-adic sheaves on the affine line $ \mathbb{A} $ over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p (p ≠ ?). Under suitable conditions, if $ \left( {K*F} \right)|_{\eta _\infty } \cong \left( {K*G} \right)|_{\eta _\infty } $ , then $ F|_{\eta _\infty } \cong G|_{\eta _\infty } $ , where η _∞ is the spectrum of the local field of $ \mathbb{A} $ at ∞.     

Stability of the Derivative of a Canonical Product

With each sequence \(\alpha =(\alpha _n)_{n\in \mathbb{N }}\) of pairwise distinct and non-zero points which are such that the canonical product $$\begin{aligned} P_\alpha (z) := \lim _{r\rightarrow \infty }\prod _{|\alpha _n|\le r}\left( 1-\frac{z}{\alpha _n}\right) \end{aligned}$$ converges, the sequence $$\begin{aligned} \alpha ^{\prime } := \bigl (P_\alpha ^{\prime }(\alpha _n)\bigr )_{n\in \mathbb{N }} \end{aligned}$$ is associated. We give conditions on the difference \(\beta -\alpha \) of two sequences which ensure that \(\beta ^{\prime }\) and \(\alpha ^{\prime }\) are comparable in the sense that $$\begin{aligned} \exists \,c,C>0:\quad c|\alpha ^{\prime }_n| \le |\beta ^{\prime }_n| \le C|\alpha ^{\prime }_n|, \quad n\in \mathbb{N }. \end{aligned}$$ The values \(\alpha ^{\prime }_n\) play an important role in various contexts. As a selection of applications we present: an inverse spectral problem, a class of entire functions and a continuation problem.     

Estimation of Kloosterman sums with primes and its application

Suppose that p is a large prime. In this paper, we prove that, for any natural number N < p the following estimate holds: $$ \left. {\mathop {\max }\limits_{\left( {a,p} \right) = 1} } \right|\left. {\sum\limits_{q \leqslant N} {e^{{{2\pi iaq*} \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{2\pi iaq*} p}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} p}} } } \right| \leqslant \left( {N^{{{15} \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{15} {16}}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} {16}}} + N^{{2 \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {2 3}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} 3}} p^{{1 \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {1 4}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} 4}} } \right)p^{0\left( 1 \right)} , $$ where q is a prime and q* is the least natural number satisfying the congruence qq* ≡ 1 (modp). This estimate implies the following statement: if p > N > p ^16/17+? , where ? > 0, and if we have λ ? 0 (modp), then the number J of solutions of the congruence $$ q_1 \left( {q_2 + q_3 } \right) \equiv \lambda \left( {\bmod p} \right) $$ for the primes q ₁, q ₂, q ₃ ≤ N can be expressed as $$ J = \frac{{\pi \left( N \right)^3 }} {p}\left( {1 + O\left( {p^{ - \delta } } \right)} \right), \delta = \delta \left( \varepsilon \right) > 0. $$ This statement improves a recent result of Friedlander, Kurlberg, and Shparlinski in which the condition p > N > p ^38/39+? was required.     

Asymptotic properties for the loglog laws under positive association

Let {X _n : n ?? 1} be a strictly stationary sequence of positively associated random variables with mean zero and finite variance. Set $S_n = \sum\limits_{k = 1}^n {X_k }$ , $Mn = \mathop {\max }\limits_{k \leqslant n} \left| {S_k } \right|$ , n ?? 1. Suppose that $0 < \sigma ^2 = EX_1^2 + 2\sum\limits_{k = 2}^\infty {EX_1 X_k < \infty }$ . In this paper, we prove that if E|X ₁|^2+?? < for some ?? ?? (0, 1], and $\sum\limits_{j = n + 1}^\infty {Cov\left( {X_1 ,X_j } \right) = O\left( {n^{ - \alpha } } \right)}$ for some ?? > 1, then for any b > ?1/2 $$\mathop {\lim }\limits_{\varepsilon \searrow 0} \varepsilon ^{2b + 1} \sum\limits_{n = 1}^\infty {\frac{{(\log \log n)^{b - 1/2} }} {{n^{3/2} \log n}}} E\left\{ {M_n - \sigma \varepsilon \sqrt {2n\log \log n} } \right\}_ + = \frac{{2^{ - 1/2 - b} E\left| N \right|^{2(b + 1)} }} {{(b + 1)(2b + 1)}}\sum\limits_{k = 0}^\infty {\frac{{( - 1)^k }} {{(2k + 1)^{2(b + 1)} }}}$$ and $$\mathop {\lim }\limits_{\varepsilon \nearrow \infty } \varepsilon ^{ - 2(b + 1)} \sum\limits_{n = 1}^\infty {\frac{{(\log \log n)^b }} {{n^{3/2} \log n}}E\left\{ {\sigma \varepsilon \sqrt {\frac{{\pi ^2 n}} {{8\log \log n}}} - M_n } \right\}} _ + = \frac{{\Gamma (b + 1/2)}} {{\sqrt 2 (b + 1)}}\sum\limits_{k = 0}^\infty {\frac{{( - 1)^k }} {{(2k + 1)^{2b + 2} }}} ,$$ where x ₊ = max{x, 0}, N is a standard normal random variable, and ??(·) is a Gamma function.