On Universality of Critical Behavior in the Focusing Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation, Elliptic Umbilic Catastrophe and the Tritronquée Solution to the Painlevé-I Equation

We argue that the critical behavior near the point of “gradient catastrophe” of the solution to the Cauchy problem for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation $i\epsilon \varPsi _{t}+\frac{\epsilon^{2}}{2}\varPsi _{xx}+|\varPsi |^{2}\varPsi =0We argue that the critical behavior near the point of “gradient catastrophe” of the solution to the Cauchy problem for the focusing nonlinear Schr?dinger equation , ε ≪1, with analytic initial data of the form is approximately described by a particular solution to the Painlevé-I equation.      

Factorial series connected with the Lambert function,and a problem posed by Ramanujan

Ramanujan’s sequence {y _n } _n=0^∞ defined by is expanded in factorial series derived from a series representing the Lambert W function. As a corollary, it is shown that the sequence {y _n } is completely monotonic.      

A generalization of Euler’s constant

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the limit γ(a) of the sequence , where a ∈ (0, + ∞ ).      

Extremes of Shepp statistics for Gaussian random walk

Let (ξ _i , i ≥ 1) be a sequence of independent standard normal random variables and let be the corresponding random walk. We study the renormalized Shepp statistic and determine asymptotic expressions for when u,N and T→ ∞ in a synchronized way. There are three types of relations between u and N that give different asymptotic behavior. For these three cases we establish the limiting Gumbel distribution of when T,N→ ∞ and present corresponding normalization sequences.      

Relations between different types of spectra and spectral characterizations

In the study of the asymptotic behaviour of solutions of differential-difference equations the -spectrum has been useful, where and implies Fourier transform , with given , φ∈L ^∞(ℝ,X), X a Banach space, (half)line. Here we study and related concepts, give relations between them, especially weak Laplace half-line spectrum of φ, and thus ⊂ classical Beurling spectrum = Carleman spectrum =  ; also  = Beurling spectrum of “φ modulo ” (Chill-Fasangova). If satisfies a Loomis type condition (L _U ), then countable and uniformly continuous ∈U are shown to imply ; here (L _U ) usually means , indefinite integral Pf of f in U imply Pf in (the Bohl-Bohr theorem for = almost periodic functions, U=bounded functions). This spectral characterization and other results are extended to unbounded functions via mean classes , ℳ ^m U ((2.1) below) and even to distributions, generalizing various recent results for uniformly continuous bounded φ. Furthermore for solutions of convolution systems S*φ=b with in some we show . With these above results, one gets generalizations of earlier results on the asymptotic behaviour of solutions of neutral integro-differential-difference systems. Also many examples and special cases are discussed.     

Reiterated homogenization of monotone parabolic problems

Reiterated homogenization is studied for divergence structure parabolic problems of the form . It is shown that under standard assumptions on the function a(y ₁,y ₂,t,ξ) the sequence of solutions converges weakly in to the solution u of the homogenized problem .      

Arithmetic mean of differences of Dedekind sums

Recently, Girstmair and Schoissengeier studied the asymptotic behavior of the arithmetic mean of Dedekind sums , as N → ∞. In this paper we consider the arithmetic mean of weighted differences of Dedekind sums in the form , where is a continuous function with , runs over , the set of Farey fractions of order Q in the unit interval [0,1] and are consecutive elements of . We show that the limit lim _Q→∞ A _h (Q) exists and is independent of h.     

Grandes valeurs du nombre de factorisations d’un entier en produit ordonné de facteurs premiers

Among various functions used to count the factorizations of an integer n, we consider here the number of ways of writing n as an ordered product of primes, which, if , is equal to the multinomial coefficient . The function P(s)=∑ _{p prime} p ^−s , sometimes called the prime zeta function, plays an important role in the study of the function h. We denote by λ=1.399433… the real number defined by P(λ)=1. The mean value of the function h satisfies . In this paper, we study how large h(n) can be. We prove that there exists a constant C ₁>0 such that, for all n≥3, holds. We also prove that there exists a constant C ₂ such that, for all n≥3, there exists m≤n satisfying . Let us call h-champion an integer N such that M<N implies h(M)<h(N). S. Ramanujan has called highly composite a τ-champion number, where τ(n)=∑ _d∣n 1 is the number of divisors of n. We give several results about the number of prime factors of an h-champion number N, about the exponents in the standard factorization into primes of such an N and about the number Q(X) of h-champion numbers N≤X. At the end of the paper, several open problems are listed. Recherche partiellement financée par le CNRS, Institut Camille Jordan, UMR 5208 et par l’action de coopération franco-algérienne 01 MDU 514, Arithmétique, Géométrie Algébrique et Applications.     

Book Reviews

For , let E(λ_*, λ^*) be the set It has been proved in [1] and [3] that E(λ_*, λ^*) is an uncountable set. In the present paper, we strengthen this result by showing that where dim denotes the Hausdorff dimension.     

Book Reviews

For , let E(λ_*, λ^*) be the set It has been proved in [1] and [3] that E(λ_*, λ^*) is an uncountable set. In the present paper, we strengthen this result by showing that where dim denotes the Hausdorff dimension.     

Realization of the mapping class group by homeomorphisms

In this paper, we show that the mapping class group of a closed surface can not be geometrically realized as a group of homeomorphisms of that surface. More precisely, let denote the standard projection of the group of homeomorphisms to the mapping class group of a closed surface M of genus g>5. We show that there is no homomorphism , such that is the identity. This answers a question by Thurston (see [11]). Mathematics Subject Classification (2000)  Primary 20H10, 37F30     

Irrationalité de certaines sommes de séries

Résumé Let with |q| > 1, and a be a rational number such that a ² is not equal to for . In this note, we prove that the sum is irrational.     

The cylinder over the Koras–Russell cubic threefold has a trivial Makar-Limanov invariant

In 1996 Makar-Limanov established that the Koras–Russell cubic threefold

Global error bounds for the extended vertical LCP

A new necessary and sufficient condition for the row -property is given. By using this new condition and a special row rearrangement, we provide two global error bounds for the extended vertical linear complementarity problem under the row -property, which extend the error bounds given in Chen and Xiang (Math. Program. 106:513–525, 2006) and Mathias and Pang (Linear Algebra Appl. 132:123–136, 1990) for the P-matrix linear complementarity problem, respectively. We show that one of the new error bounds is sharper than the other, and it can be computed easily for some special class of the row -property block matrix. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the error bounds. The work was in part supported by a Grant-in-Aid from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10671010).     

Fast and slow decay solutions for supercritical elliptic problems in exterior domains

We consider the elliptic problem Δu  +  u ^p  =  0, u  >  0 in an exterior domain, under zero Dirichlet and vanishing conditions, where is smooth and bounded in , N ≥ 3, and p is supercritical, namely . We prove that this problem has infinitely many solutions with slow decay at infinity. In addition, a solution with fast decay O(|x|^2-N ) exists if p is close enough from above to the critical exponent.     

Geometry of the mapping class groups I: Boundary amenability

We construct a geometric model for the mapping class group of a non-exceptional oriented surface S of genus g with k punctures and use it to show that the action of on the compact metrizable Hausdorff space of complete geodesic laminations for S is topologically amenable. As a consequence, the Novikov higher signature conjecture holds for every subgroup of .