Decay Estimates for Solutions of Porous Medium Equations with Advection

In this paper, we show that bounded weak solutions of the Cauchy problem for general degenerate parabolic equations of the form

$$ u_{t} + \operatorname{div}f(x,t,u) = \operatorname{div}\bigl( |u|^{\alpha } \nabla u\bigr), \quad x \in \mathbb{R}^{n} , \ t > 0, $$

where \(\alpha > 0 \) is constant, decrease to zero, under fairly broad conditions on the advection flux \(f\). Besides that, we derive a time decay rate for these solutions.

     

$$\pi $$π-Formulas and Gray code

In previous papers we introduced a class of polynomials which follow the same recursive formula as the Lucas–Lehmer numbers, studying the distribution of their zeros and remarking that this distribution follows a sequence related to the binary Gray code. It allowed us to give an order for all the zeros of every polynomial \(L_n\). In this paper, the zeros, expressed in terms of nested radicals, are used to obtain two formulas for \(\pi \): the first can be seen as a generalization of the known formula

$$\begin{aligned} \pi =\lim _{n\rightarrow \infty } 2^{n+1}\cdot \sqrt{2-\underbrace{\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2+\cdots +\sqrt{2}}}}}_{n}}, \end{aligned}$$

related to the smallest positive zero of \(L_n\); the second is an exact formula for \(\pi \) achieved thanks to some identities valid for \(L_n\).

     

On the Coincidence of the Classes of Finite Groups $ E_{\pi_{x}} $ and $ D_{\pi_{x}} $

Let \( \pi_{x} \) be the set of primes greater than \( x \). We prove that for all \( x\in{??} \) the classes of finite groups \( D_{\pi_{x}} \) and \( E_{\pi_{x}} \) coincide; i.e., a finite group \( G \) possesses a \( \pi_{x} \)-Hall subgroup if and only if \( G \) satisfies the complete analog of the Sylow Theorems for a \( \pi_{x} \)-subgroup.

     

Inequalities for sine sums with more variables

A result of Vietoris states that if the real numbers \(a_1,\ldots ,a_n\) satisfy

$$\begin{aligned} \text{(*) } \qquad a_1\ge \frac{a_2}{2} \ge \cdots \ge \frac{a_n}{n}>0 \quad \text{ and } \quad a_{2k-1}\ge a_{2k} \quad (1\le k\le n/2), \end{aligned}$$

then, for \(x_1,\ldots ,x_m>0\) with \(x_1+\cdots +x_m <\pi \),

$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} \text{(**) } \qquad \sum _{k=1}^n a_k \frac{\sin (k x_1) \cdots \sin (k x_m)}{k^m}>0. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$

We prove that \((**)\) (with “\(\ge \)” instead of “>”) holds under weaker conditions. It suffices to assume, instead of \((*)\), that

$$\begin{aligned} \sum _{k=1}^N a_k \frac{\sin (kt)}{k}>0 \quad (N=1,\ldots ,n; \, 0<t<\pi ), \end{aligned}$$

and, moreover, \((**)\) is valid for a larger region, namely, \(x_1,\ldots ,x_m\in (0,\pi )\).

     

On the Hawkes Graphs of Finite Groups

We study the properties and applications of the directed graph, introduced by Hawkes in 1968, of a finite group \( G \). The vertex set of \( \Gamma_{H}(G) \) coincides with \( \pi(G) \) and \( (p,q) \) is an edge if and only if \( q\in\pi(G/O_{p^{\prime},p}(G)) \). In the language of properties of this graph we obtain commutation conditions for all \( p \)-elements with all \( r \)-elements of \( G \), where \( p \) and \( r \) are distinct primes. We estimate the nilpotence length of a solvable finite group in terms of subgraphs of its Hawkes graph. Given an integer \( n>1 \), we find conditions for reconstructing the Hawkes graph of a finite group \( G \) from the Hawkes graphs of its \( n \) pairwise nonconjugate maximal subgroups. Using these results, we obtain some new tests for the membership of a solvable finite group in the well-known saturated formations.

     

Regularity of Weak Solutions to the 3D Magneto-Micropolar Equations in Besov Spaces

This paper deals with the regularity of weak solutions to the 3D magneto-micropolar fluid equations in Besov spaces. It is shown that for \(0\le\alpha\le1\) if \(u\in L^{\frac{2}{1+\alpha}}(0,T; \dot{B}_{\infty,\infty}^{\alpha})\), then the weak solution \((u,\omega ,b)\) is regular on \((0,T]\).

     

Extended Relativistic Toda Lattice,L-Orthogonal Polynomials and Associated Lax Pair

When a measure \(\varPsi(x)\) on the real line is subjected to the modification \(d\varPsi^{(t)}(x) = e^{-tx} d \varPsi(x)\), then the coefficients of the recurrence relation of the orthogonal polynomials in \(x\) with respect to the measure \(\varPsi^{(t)}(x)\) are known to satisfy the so-called Toda lattice formulas as functions of \(t\). In this paper we consider a modification of the form \(e^{-t(\mathfrak{p}x+ \mathfrak{q}/x)}\) of measures or, more generally, of moment functionals, associated with orthogonal L-polynomials and show that the coefficients of the recurrence relation of these L-orthogonal polynomials satisfy what we call an extended relativistic Toda lattice. Most importantly, we also establish the so called Lax pair representation associated with this extended relativistic Toda lattice. These results also cover the (ordinary) relativistic Toda lattice formulations considered in the literature by assuming either \(\mathfrak{p}=0\) or \(\mathfrak{q}=0\). However, as far as Lax pair representation is concern, no complete Lax pair representations were established before for the respective relativistic Toda lattice formulations. Some explicit examples of extended relativistic Toda lattice and Langmuir lattice are also presented. As further results, the lattice formulas that follow from the three term recurrence relations associated with kernel polynomials on the unit circle are also established.

     

A Heroin Epidemic Model: Very General Non Linear Incidence,Treat-Age,and Global Stability

The aim of this work is to establish the existence of multi-peak solutions for the following class of quasilinear problems

$$ - \mbox{div} \bigl(\epsilon^{2}\phi\bigl(\epsilon|\nabla u|\bigr)\nabla u \bigr) + V(x)\phi\bigl(\vert u\vert\bigr)u = f(u)\quad\mbox{in } \mathbb{R}^{N}, $$

where \(\epsilon\) is a positive parameter, \(N\geq2\), \(V\), \(f\) are continuous functions satisfying some technical conditions and \(\phi\) is a \(C^{1}\)-function.

     

The Berry–Esseen bounds of the weighted estimator in a nonparametric regression model

Consider the following nonparametric model: \(Y_{ni}=g(x_{ni})+ \varepsilon _{ni},1\le i\le n,\) where \(x_{ni}\in {\mathbb {A}}\) are the nonrandom design points and \({\mathbb {A}}\) is a compact set of \({\mathbb {R}}^{m}\) for some \(m\ge 1\), \(g(\cdot )\) is a real valued function defined on \({\mathbb {A}}\), and \(\varepsilon _{n1},\ldots ,\varepsilon _{nn}\) are \(\rho ^{-}\)-mixing random errors with zero mean and finite variance. We obtain the Berry–Esseen bounds of the weighted estimator of \(g(\cdot )\). The rate can achieve nearly \(O(n^{-1/4})\) when the moment condition is appropriate. Moreover, we carry out some simulations to verify the validity of our results.

     

Functional Matrix Multipliers for Parseval Gabor Multi-frame Generators

We consider the problem of characterizing the bounded linear operator multipliers on \(L^{2}(\mathbb{R})\) that map Gabor frame generators to Gabor frame generators. We prove that a functional matrix \(M(t)=[f_{ij}(t)]_{m \times m}\) (where \(f_{ij}\in L^{\infty}(\mathbb{R})\)) is a multiplier for Parseval Gabor multi-frame generators with parameters \(a, b >0\) if and only if \(M(t)\) is unitary and \(M^{*}(t)M(t+\frac{1}{b})= \lambda(t)I\) for some unimodular \(a\)-periodic function \(\lambda(t)\). As a special case (\(m =1\)) this recovers the characterization of functional multipliers for Parseval Gabor frames with single function generators.

     

The Dual Kaczmarz Algorithm

The Kaczmarz algorithm is an iterative method for solving a system of linear equations. It can be extended so as to reconstruct a vector \(x\) in a (separable) Hilbert space from the inner-products \(\{\langle x, \phi _{n} \rangle \}\). The Kaczmarz algorithm defines a sequence of approximations from the sequence \(\{\langle x, \phi _{n} \rangle \}\); these approximations only converge to \(x\) when \(\{\phi _{n}\}\) is effective. We dualize the Kaczmarz algorithm so that \(x\) can be obtained from \(\{\langle x, \phi _{n} \rangle \}\) by using a second sequence \(\{\psi _{n}\}\) in the reconstruction. This allows for the recovery of \(x\) even when the sequence \(\{\phi _{n}\}\) is not effective; in particular, our dualization yields a reconstruction when the sequence \(\{\phi _{n}\}\) is almost effective. We also obtain some partial results characterizing when the sequence of approximations from \(\{\langle x, \phi _{n} \rangle \}\) using \(\{\psi _{n}\}\) converges to \(x\), in which case \(\{(\phi _{n}, \psi _{n})\}\) is called an effective pair.

     

On Categoricity Spectra for Locally Finite Graphs

Under study is the algorithmic complexity of isomorphisms between computable copies of locally finite graphs \( G \) (undirected graphs whose every vertex has finite degree). We obtain the following results: If \( G \) has only finitely many components then \( G \) is \( {\mathbf{d}} \)-computably categorical for every Turing degree \( {\mathbf{d}} \) from the class \( PA({\mathbf{0}}^{\prime}) \). If \( G \) has infinitely many components then \( G \) is \( {\mathbf{0}}^{\prime\prime} \)-computably categorical. We exhibit a series of examples showing that the obtained bounds are sharp.

     

Multilinear Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund Inequalities

We extend to the multilinear setting classical inequalities of Marcinkiewicz and Zygmund on \(\ell ^r\)-valued extensions of linear operators. We show that for certain \(1 \le p, q_1, \dots , q_m, r \le \infty \), there is a constant \(C\ge 0\) such that for every bounded multilinear operator \(T:L^{q_1}(\mu _1) \times \cdots \times L^{q_m}(\mu _m) \rightarrow L^p(\nu )\) and functions \(\{f_{k_1}^1\}_{k_1=1}^{n_1} \subset L^{q_1}(\mu _1), \dots , \{f_{k_m}^m\}_{k_m=1}^{n_m} \subset L^{q_m}(\mu _m)\), the following inequality holds

$$\begin{aligned} \left\| \left( \sum _{k_1, \dots , k_m} |T(f_{k_1}^1, \dots , f_{k_m}^m)|^r\right) ^{1/r} \right\| _{L^p(\nu )} \le C \Vert T\Vert \prod _{i=1}^m \left\| \left( \sum _{k_i=1}^{n_i} |f_{k_i}^i|^r\right) ^{1/r} \right\| _{L^{q_i}(\mu _i)}. \end{aligned}$$ (1)

In some cases we also calculate the best constant \(C\ge 0\) satisfying the previous inequality. We apply these results to obtain weighted vector-valued inequalities for multilinear Calderón-Zygmund operators.

     

Weighted $$L^2$$ L 2 -norms of Gegenbauer polynomials

We study integrals of the form

$$\begin{aligned} \int _{-1}^1(C_n^{(\lambda )}(x))^2(1-x)^\alpha (1+x)^\beta {{\,\mathrm{\mathrm {d}}\,}}x, \end{aligned}$$

where \(C_n^{(\lambda )}\) denotes the Gegenbauer-polynomial of index \(\lambda >0\) and \(\alpha ,\beta >-1\). We give exact formulas for the integrals and their generating functions, and obtain asymptotic formulas as \(n\rightarrow \infty \).

     

Frames and Finite-Rank Integral Representations of Positive Operator-Valued Measures

Discrete and continuous frames can be considered as positive operator-valued measures (POVMs) that have integral representations using rank-one operators. However, not every POVM has an integral representation. One goal of this paper is to examine the POVMs that have finite-rank integral representations. More precisely, we present a necessary and sufficient condition under which a positive operator-valued measure \(F: \varOmega \to B(H)\) has an integral representation of the form

$$ F(E) =\sum_{k=1}^{m} \int _{E} G_{k}(\omega )\otimes G_{k}(\omega )\, d \mu (\omega ) $$

for some weakly measurable maps \(G_{k}\ (1\leq k\leq m) \) from a measurable space \(\varOmega \) to a Hilbert space ℋ and some positive measure \(\mu \) on \(\varOmega \). Similar characterizations are also obtained for projection-valued measures. As special consequences of our characterization we settle negatively a problem of Ehler and Okoudjou about probability frame representations of probability POVMs, and prove that an integral representable probability POVM can be dilated to a integral representable projection-valued measure if and only if the corresponding measure is purely atomic.

     

Superlinear Elliptic Equations with Variable Exponent via Perturbation Method

We are concerned with the following \(p(x)\)-Laplacian equations in \(\mathbb{R}^{N}\)

$$ -\triangle _{p(x)} u+|u|^{p(x)-2}u= f(x,u)\quad \mbox{in } \mathbb{R} ^{N}. $$

The nonlinearity is superlinear but does not satisfy the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz type condition. Our main difficulty is that the weak limit of (PS) sequence is not always the weak solution of this problem. To overcome this difficulty, by adding potential term and using mountain pass theorem, we get the weak solution \(u_{\lambda }\) of perturbation equations. First, we prove that \(u_{\lambda }\rightharpoonup u\) as \(\lambda \rightarrow 0\). Second, by using vanishing lemma, we get that \(u\) is a nontrivial solution of the original problem.

     

On Weak Invariance Principles for Partial Sums

Given a sequence of random functionals \(\bigl \{X_k(u)\bigr \}_{k \in \mathbb {Z}}\), \(u \in \mathbf{I}^d\), \(d \ge 1\), the normalized partial sums \(\check{S}_{nt}(u) = n^{-1/2}\bigl (X_1(u) + \cdots + X_{\lfloor n t \rfloor }(u)\bigr )\), \(t \in [0,1]\) and its polygonal version \({S}_{nt}(u)\) are considered under a weak dependence assumption and \(p > 2\) moments. Weak invariance principles in the space of continuous functions and càdlàg functions are established. A particular emphasis is put on the process \(\check{S}_{nt}(\widehat{\theta })\), where \(\widehat{\theta } \xrightarrow {\mathbb {P}} \theta \), and weaker moment conditions (\(p = 2\) if \(d = 1\)) are assumed.     

On Neyman–Pearson minimax detection of Poisson process intensity

The problem of the minimax testing of the Poisson process intensity \({\mathbf{s}}\) is considered. For a given intensity \({\mathbf{p}}\) and a set \(\mathcal{Q}\), the minimax testing of the simple hypothesis \(H_{0}: {\mathbf{s}} = {\mathbf{p}}\) against the composite alternative \(H_{1}: {\mathbf{s}} = {\mathbf{q}},\,{\mathbf{q}} \in \mathcal{Q}\) is investigated. The case, when the 1-st kind error probability \(\alpha \) is fixed and we are interested in the minimal possible 2-nd kind error probability \(\beta ({\mathbf{p}},\mathcal{Q})\), is considered. What is the maximal set \(\mathcal{Q}\), which can be replaced by an intensity \({\mathbf{q}} \in \mathcal{Q}\) without any loss of testing performance? In the asymptotic case (\(T\rightarrow \infty \)) that maximal set \(\mathcal{Q}\) is described.

     

On univariate slash distributions,continuous and discrete

In this article, I explore in a unified manner the structure of uniform slash and \(\alpha \)-slash distributions which, in the continuous case, are defined to be the distributions of Y / U and \( Y_\alpha /U^{1/\alpha }\) where Y and \(Y_\alpha \) follow any distribution on \(\mathbb {R}^+\) and, independently, U is uniform on (0, 1). The parallels with the monotone and \(\alpha \)-monotone distributions of \( Y \times U\) and \(Y_\alpha \times U^{1/\alpha }\), respectively, are striking. I also introduce discrete uniform slash and \(\alpha \)-slash distributions which arise from a notion of negative binomial thinning/fattening. Their specification, although apparently rather different from the continuous case, seems to be a good one because of the close way in which their properties mimic those of the continuous case.

     

Littlewood–Paley and Finite Atomic Characterizations of Anisotropic Variable Hardy–Lorentz Spaces and Their Applications

Let \(p(\cdot ):\ {{\mathbb {R}}}^n\rightarrow (0,\infty ]\) be a variable exponent function satisfying the globally log-Hölder continuous condition, \(q\in (0,\infty ]\) and A be a general expansive matrix on \({\mathbb {R}}^n\). Let \(H_A^{p(\cdot ),q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^n)\) be the anisotropic variable Hardy–Lorentz space associated with A defined via the radial grand maximal function. In this article, the authors characterize \(H_A^{p(\cdot ),q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^n)\) by means of the Littlewood–Paley g-function or the Littlewood–Paley \(g_\lambda ^*\)-function via first establishing an anisotropic Fefferman–Stein vector-valued inequality on the variable Lorentz space \(L^{p(\cdot ),q}({\mathbb {R}}^n)\). Moreover, the finite atomic characterization of \(H_A^{p(\cdot ),q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^n)\) is also obtained. As applications, the authors then establish a criterion on the boundedness of sublinear operators from \(H^{p(\cdot ),q}_A({\mathbb {R}}^n)\) into a quasi-Banach space. Applying this criterion, the authors show that the maximal operators of the Bochner–Riesz and the Weierstrass means are bounded from \(H^{p(\cdot ),q}_A({\mathbb {R}}^n)\) to \(L^{p(\cdot ),q}({\mathbb {R}}^n)\) and, as consequences, some almost everywhere and norm convergences of these Bochner–Riesz and Weierstrass means are also obtained. These results on the Bochner–Riesz and the Weierstrass means are new even in the isotropic case.