On some ‘duality’ of the Nikodym property and the Hahn property

Drewnowski and Paúl proved in [L. Drewnowski, P.J. Paúl, The Nikodým property for ideals of sets defined by matrix summability methods, Rev. R. Acad. Cienc. Exactas Fís. Nat. (Esp.) 94 (2000) 485-503] that for any strongly nonatomic submeasure η on the power set P(N) of N the ideal Z(η)={N∈P(N)|η(N)=0} has the Nikodym property (NP); in particular, this result applies to densities dA defined by strongly regular matrices A. Grahame Bennett and the authors stated in [G. Bennett, J. Boos, T. Leiger, Sequences of 0's and 1's, Studia Math. 149 (2002) 75-99] that the strong null domain ₀|A| of any strongly regular matrix A has the Hahn property (HP). Moreover, Stuart and Abraham [C.E. Stuart, P. Abraham, Generalizations of the Nikodym boundedness and Vitali-Hahn-Saks theorems, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 300 (2) (2004) 351-361] pointed out that the said results are in some sense dual and that the last one follows from the first one by considering the density dA (defined by A) as submeasure on P(N) and the ideal Z(dA) as well by identifying P(N) with the set χ of sequences of 0's and 1's. In this paper we aim at a better understanding of the intimated duality and at a characterization of those members of special classes of matrices A such that Z(dA) has NP (equivalently, ₀|A| has HP).     

Strongly nonatomic densities defined by certain matrices

Drewnowski and Paúl proved about ten years ago that for any strongly nonatomic submeasure η on the power set P(?) of the set ? of all natural numbers the ideal of all null sets of η has the Nikodym property (NP). They stated the problem whether the converse is true in general. By presenting an example, Alon, Drewnowski and ?uczak proved recently that the answer is negative. Nevertheless, it is of mathematical interest to identify classes of submeasures η such that η is strongly nonatomic if and only if the set of all null sets of η has the Nikodym property. In this context, the authors proved some years ago that this equivalence holds, for instance, if one restricts the attention to the case of densities defined by regular Riesz matrices or by nonnegative regular Hausdorff methods. Also sufficient and necessary conditions in terms of the matrix coefficients are given, that the defined density is strongly nonatomic. In this paper we extend these investigations to the class of generalized Riesz matrices, introduced by Drewnowski, Florencio and Paúl in 1994.     

On the finiteness property for rational matrices

We analyze the periodicity of optimal long products of matrices. A set of matrices is said to have the finiteness property if the maximal rate of growth of long products of matrices taken from the set can be obtained by a periodic product. It was conjectured a decade ago that all finite sets of real matrices have the finiteness property. This “finiteness conjecture” is now known to be false but no explicit counterexample is available and in particular it is unclear if a counterexample is possible whose matrices have rational or binary entries. In this paper, we prove that all finite sets of nonnegative rational matrices have the finiteness property if and only if pairs of binary matrices do and we state a similar result when negative entries are allowed. We also show that all pairs of 2×2 binary matrices have the finiteness property. These results have direct implications for the stability problem for sets of matrices. Stability is algorithmically decidable for sets of matrices that have the finiteness property and so it follows from our results that if all pairs of binary matrices have the finiteness property then stability is decidable for nonnegative rational matrices. This would be in sharp contrast with the fact that the related problem of boundedness is known to be undecidable for sets of nonnegative rational matrices.     

New criterion of the approximation property

This paper is concerned with the approximation property which is an important property in Banach space theory. We show that a Banach space X has the approximation property if (and only if), for every Banach space Y, the set of finite rank operators from X to Y is dense in the corresponding space of compact operators, in the usual topology of uniform convergence on compact sets.     

Monotonic analysis: convergence of sequences of monotone functions

In this article we examine various kinds of convergence of sequences of increasing positively homogeneous (IPH) functions and nonnegative decreasing functions defined on the interior of a pointed closed solid convex cone K. We show that five different types of convergency (including pointwise and epi-convergence) coincide for IPH functions. If the space under consideration is finite dimensional then the sixth type can be added: uniform convergence on bounded subsets of itn K. Using IPH functions, we study epi-convergence of sequences of lower semi-continuous (lsc) nonnegative decreasing functions.     

某些一致分布的点集序列

本文借助于“倒根函数”和矩阵构造定义了［０,１）Ｓ（Ｓ≥１）中的一些有限点集,给出了它们的偏差的上界估计,从而证明了由它们组成的点集序列是一致分布的．     

Almost convergence and a core theorem for double sequences

The idea of almost convergence was introduced by Moricz and Rhoades [Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 104 (1988) 283-294] and they also characterized the four dimensional strong regular matrices. In this paper we define the M-core for double sequences and determine those four dimensional matrices which transform every bounded double sequence x=[x_jk] into one whose core is a subset of the M-core of x.     

A structural characterization of real k-potent matrices

Some well-known characterizations of nonnegative k-potent matrices have been obtained by Flor [P. Flor, On groups of nonnegative matrices, Compositio Math. 21 (1969), pp. 376–382.] and Jeter and Pye [M. Jeter and W. Pye, Nonnegative (s,?t)-potent matrices, Linear Algebra Appl. 45 (1982), pp. 109–121.]. In this article, we obtain a structural characterization of a real k-potent matrix A, provided that (sgn(A)) ^k+1 is unambiguously defined, regardless of whether A is nonnegative or not.     

Distortion and stability of the fixed point property for non-expansive mappings

Let X be a Banach space. We say that X satisfies the fixed point property (weak fixed point property) if every non-expansive mapping defined from a convex closed bounded (convex weakly compact) subset of X into itself has a fixed point. We say that X satisfies the stable fixed point property (stable weak fixed point property) if the same is true for every equivalent norm which is close enough to the original one. Denote by P(X) the set formed by all equivalent norms with the topology of the uniform convergence on the unit ball of X. We prove that the subset of P(X) formed by the norms failing the fixed point property is dense in P(X) when X is a non-distortable space which fails the fixed point property. In particular, no renorming of ?₁ can satisfy the stable fixed point property. Furthermore, we show some examples of distortable spaces failing the weak fixed point property, which can be renormed to satisfy the stable weak fixed point property. As a consequence we prove that every separable Banach space can be renormed to satisfy the stable weak fixed point property.     

Almost strongly regular matrices and a core theorem for double sequences

The idea of almost convergence for double sequences was introduced by Moricz and Rhoades [Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 104 (1988) 283-294] and they also characterized the four dimensional strong regular matrices. In this paper we define and characterize the almost strongly regular matrices for double sequences and apply these matrices to establish a core theorem.     

Two valued measure and summability of double sequences in asymmetric context

We extend the ideas of convergence and Cauchy condition of double sequences extended by a two valued measure (called ??-statistical convergence/Cauchy condition and convergence/Cauchy condition in ??-density, studied for real numbers in our recent paper [7]) to a very general structure like an asymmetric (quasi) metric space. In this context it should be noted that the above convergence ideas naturally extend the idea of statistical convergence of double sequences studied by Móricz [15] and Mursaleen and Edely [17]. We also apply the same methods to introduce, for the first time, certain ideas of divergence of double sequences in these abstract spaces. The asymmetry (or rather, absence of symmetry) of asymmetric metric spaces not only makes the whole treatment different from the real case [7] but at the same time, like [3], shows that symmetry is not essential for any result of [7] and in certain cases to get the results, we can replace symmetry by a genuinely asymmetric condition called (AMA).     

Functor of extension in Hilbert cube and Hilbert space

It is shown that if Ω = Q or Ω = ? ₂, then there exists a functor of extension of maps between Z-sets in Ω to mappings of Ω into itself. This functor transforms homeomorphisms into homeomorphisms, thus giving a functorial setting to a well-known theorem of Anderson [Anderson R.D., On topological infinite deficiency, Michigan Math. J., 1967, 14, 365–383]. It also preserves convergence of sequences of mappings, both pointwise and uniform on compact sets, and supremum distances as well as uniform continuity, Lipschitz property, nonexpansiveness of maps in appropriate metrics.     

The weak specification property and distributional chaos

In this paper, we first discuss almost periodic points in a compact dynamical system with the weak specification property. On the basis of this discussion, we draw two conclusions: (i) the weak specification property implies a dense Mycielski uniform distributionally scrambled set; (ii) the weak specification property and a fixed point imply a dense Mycielski uniform invariant distributionally scrambled set. These conclusions improve on some of the latest results concerning the specification property, and give a final positive answer to an open problem posed in [P. Oprocha, Invariant scrambled sets and distributional chaos, Dyn. Syst. 24 (2009), 31–43].     

Spaces of Densely Continuous Forms

The set C(X,Y) of continuous functions from a topological space X into a topological space Y is extended to the set D(X,Y) of densely continuous forms from X to Y, such form being a kind of multifunction from X to Y. The topologies of pointwise convergence, uniform convergence, and uniform convergence on compact sets are defined for D(X,Y), for locally compact spaces X and metric spaces Y having a metric satisfying the Heine–Borel property. Under these assumptions, D(X,Y) with the uniform topology is shown to be completely metrizable. In addition, if X is compact, D(X,Y) is completely metrizable under the topology of uniform convergence on compact sets. For this latter topology, an Ascoli theorem is established giving necessary and sufficient conditions for a subset of D(X,Y) to be compact.     

Strict density topology on the plane. Measure case

We present a density-type topology on the plane generated by the strict convergence of double sequences. The point of restricted density of a measurable set A??×? is defined using a convergence in a restricted sense of a sequence of a form

$$s_{n,m}=\frac{\lambda _{2}( A\cap ( [ -\frac{1}{n};\frac{1}{n}] \times [ -\frac{1}{m};\frac{1}{m}] ) ) }{4\frac{1}{n}\frac{1}{m}}.$$     

Operator martingale decompositions and the Radon-Nikodým property in Banach spaces

We consider submartingales and uniform amarts of maps acting between a Banach lattice and a Banach lattice or a Banach space. In this measure-free setting of martingale theory, it is known that a Banach space Y has the Radon-Nikodým property if and only if every uniformly norm bounded martingale defined on the Chaney-Schaefer l-tensor product , where E is a suitable Banach lattice, is norm convergent. We present applications of this result. Firstly, an analogues characterization for Banach lattices Y with the Radon-Nikodým property is given in terms of a suitable set of submartingales (supermartingales) on . Secondly, we derive a Riesz decomposition for uniform amarts of maps acting between a Banach lattice and a Banach space. This result is used to characterize Banach spaces with the Radon-Nikodým property in terms of uniformly norm bounded uniform amarts of maps that are norm convergent. In the case 1<p<∞, our results yield Lp(μ,Y)-space analogues of some of the well-known results on uniform amarts in L¹(μ,Y)-spaces.     

On the integrality of an extreme solution to pluperfect graph and balanced systems

Let A be a nonnegative integer matrix, and let e denote the vector all of whose components are equal to 1. The pluperfect graph theorem states that if for all integer vectors b the optimal objective value of the linear program minse′xvbAx ? b, x ? 0 s is integer, then those linear programs possess optimal integer solutions. We strengthen this theorem and show that any lexicomaximal optimal solution to the above linear program (under any arbitrary ordering of the variables) is integral and an extreme point of sxvbAx ? b, x ? 0 s. We note that this extremality property of integer solutions is also shared by covering as well as packing problems defined by a balanced matrix A.     

Multiplier convergent series and uniform convergence of mapping series

In this paper, we introduce the frame property of complex sequence sets and study the uniform convergence of nonlinear mapping series in β-dual of spaces consisting of multiplier convergent series.     

Four dimensional matrix that induces the double Gibbs phenomenon

In 1930 Knopp presented the following matrix characterization for the core of ordinary sequences. If A is a nonnegative regular matrix then the core of [Ax] is contained in the core of [x], provided that [Ax] exists. Patterson in 1999 extended Knopp’s results to double sequences via four dimensional matrices. In a manner similar to the Knopp’s and Patterson’s results we present multidimensional extensions of Bustoz’s singular dimensional Gibbs phenomenon results. These results include a notion of what it means for a four dimensional matrix transformation to induce the double Gibbs phenomenon in s. In addition, necessary and sufficient conditions for a four dimensional matrix to induce the double Gibbs phenomenon is also presented.     

Statistical convergence and ideal convergence for sequences of functions

Let I⊂P(N) stand for an ideal containing finite sets. We discuss various kinds of statistical convergence and I-convergence for sequences of functions with values in R or in a metric space. For real valued measurable functions defined on a measure space (X,M,μ), we obtain a statistical version of the Egorov theorem (when μ(X)<∞). We show that, in its assertion, equi-statistical convergence on a big set cannot be replaced by uniform statistical convergence. Also, we consider statistical convergence in measure and I-convergence in measure, with some consequences of the Riesz theorem. We prove that outer and inner statistical convergences in measure (for sequences of measurable functions) are equivalent if the measure is finite.