On the rank of incidence matrices in projective Hjelmslev spaces

Let \(R\) be a finite chain ring with \(|R|=q^m\) , \(R/{{\mathrm{Rad}}}R\cong \mathbb {F}_q\) , and let \(\Omega ={{\mathrm{PHG}}}({}_RR^n)\) . Let \(\tau =(\tau _1,\ldots ,\tau _n)\) be an integer sequence satisfying \(m=\tau _1\ge \tau _2\ge \cdots \ge \tau _n\ge 0\) . We consider the incidence matrix of all shape \(\varvec{m}^s=(\underbrace{m,\ldots ,m}_s)\) versus all shape \(\tau \) subspaces of \(\Omega \) with \(\varvec{m}^s\preceq \tau \preceq \varvec{m}^{n-s}\) . We prove that the rank of \(M_{\varvec{m}^s,\tau }(\Omega )\) over \(\mathbb {Q}\) is equal to the number of shape \(\varvec{m}^s\) subspaces. This is a partial analog of Kantor’s result about the rank of the incidence matrix of all \(s\) dimensional versus all \(t\) dimensional subspaces of \({{\mathrm{PG}}}(n,q)\) . We construct an example for shapes \(\sigma \) and \(\tau \) for which the rank of \(M_{\sigma ,\tau }(\Omega )\) is not maximal.     

Pointwise convergence in Pringsheim’s sense of the summability of Fourier transforms on Wiener amalgam spaces

New multi-dimensional Wiener amalgam spaces \(W_c(L_p,\ell _\infty )(\mathbb{R }^d)\) are introduced by taking the usual one-dimensional spaces coordinatewise in each dimension. The strong Hardy-Littlewood maximal function is investigated on these spaces. The pointwise convergence in Pringsheim’s sense of the \(\theta \) -summability of multi-dimensional Fourier transforms is studied. It is proved that if the Fourier transform of \(\theta \) is in a suitable Herz space, then the \(\theta \) -means \(\sigma _T^\theta f\) converge to \(f\) a.e. for all \(f\in W_c(L_1(\log L)^{d-1},\ell _\infty )(\mathbb{R }^d)\) . Note that \(W_c(L_1(\log L)^{d-1},\ell _\infty )(\mathbb{R }^d) \supset W_c(L_r,\ell _\infty )(\mathbb{R }^d) \supset L_r(\mathbb{R }^d)\) and \(W_c(L_1(\log L)^{d-1},\ell _\infty )(\mathbb{R }^d) \supset L_1(\log L)^{d-1}(\mathbb{R }^d)\) , where \(1 . Moreover, \(\sigma _T^\theta f(x)\) converges to \(f(x)\) at each Lebesgue point of \(f\in W_c(L_1(\log L)^{d-1},\ell _\infty )(\mathbb{R }^d)\) .     

Measure of Self-Affine Sets and Associated Densities

Let \(B\) be an \(n\times n\) real expanding matrix and \(\mathcal {D}\) be a finite subset of \(\mathbb {R}^n\) with \(0\in \mathcal {D}\) . The self-affine set \(K=K(B,\mathcal {D})\) is the unique compact set satisfying the set-valued equation \(BK=\bigcup _{d\in \mathcal {D}}(K+d)\) . In the case where \(\#\mathcal D=|\det B|,\) we relate the Lebesgue measure of \(K(B,\mathcal {D})\) to the upper Beurling density of the associated measure \(\mu =\lim _{s\rightarrow \infty }\sum _{\ell _0, \ldots ,\ell _{s-1}\in \mathcal {D}}\delta _{\ell _0+B\ell _1+\cdots +B^{s-1}\ell _{s-1}}.\) If, on the other hand, \(\#\mathcal D<|\det B|\) and \(B\) is a similarity matrix, we relate the Hausdorff measure \(\mathcal {H}^s(K)\) , where \(s\) is the similarity dimension of \(K\) , to a corresponding notion of upper density for the measure \(\mu \) .     

Une preuve de la conjecture d’Erdős,Joò et Komornik dans le cas des séries formelles

Properties of Pisot numbers have long been of interest. One line of questioning, initiated by Erdös, Joò and Komornik in (Bull Soc Math France 118:377–390, 1990), is the study of the set \(\Lambda _{m}(\beta )\) the spectrum of \(\beta \) and the determination of \(l^{m}(\beta )\) for Pisot number \(\beta \) , where \(\Lambda _{m}(\beta )\) denotes the set of numbers having at least one representation of the form \(\omega =\varepsilon _{n} \beta ^{n}+\varepsilon _{n-1}\beta ^{n-1}+\cdots +\varepsilon _{1}\beta +\varepsilon _{0},\) such that the \(\varepsilon _{i}\in \{-m,\ldots ,0,\ldots ,m\}\) , for all \(0\le i\le n\) , and \(l^{m}(\beta )=\inf \{|\omega |:\omega \in \Lambda _{m},\omega \ne 0\}.\) In this paper, we consider \(\Lambda _{m}(\beta )\) , where \(\beta \) is a formal power series over a finite field and the \(\varepsilon _{i}\) are polynomials of degree at most \(m\) for all \(0\le i\le n\) . Our main result is to give a full answer in the Laurent series case, to an old question of Erd?s and Komornik (Acta Math Hungar 79:57–83, 1998), as to whether \(l^{1}(\beta )=0\) for all non-Pisot numbers. More generally, we characterize the inequalities \(l^{m}(\beta )>0\) .     

Compactness and sequential completeness in some spaces of operators

Let \(X\) be a completely regular Hausdorff space and \(C_b(X)\) be the Banach lattice of all real-valued bounded continuous functions on \(X\) , endowed with the strict topologies \(\beta _\sigma ,\) \(\beta _\tau \) and \(\beta _t\) . Let \(\mathcal{L}_{\beta _z,\xi }(C_b(X),E)\) \((z=\sigma ,\tau ,t)\) stand for the space of all \((\beta _z,\xi )\) -continuous linear operators from \(C_b(X)\) to a locally convex Hausdorff space \((E,\xi ),\) provided with the topology \(\mathcal{T}_s\) of simple convergence. We characterize relative \(\mathcal{T}_s\) -compactness in \(\mathcal{L}_{\beta _z,\xi }(C_b(X),E)\) in terms of the representing Baire vector measures. It is shown that if \((E,\xi )\) is sequentially complete, then the spaces \((\mathcal{L}_{\beta _z,\xi }(C_b(X),E),\mathcal{T}_s)\) are sequentially complete whenever \(z=\sigma \) ; \(z=\tau \) and \(X\) is paracompact; \(z=t\) and \(X\) is paracompact and ?ech complete. Moreover, a Dieudonné–Grothendieck type theorem for operators on \(C_b(X)\) is given.     

Optimal initial value conditions for the existence of strong solutions of the Boussinesq equations

Consider the instationary Boussinesq equations in a smooth bounded domain \(\Omega \subseteq \mathbb {R}^3\) with initial values \(u_0 \in L^2_{\sigma }(\Omega )\) , \( \theta _0 \in L^2(\Omega )\) and gravitational force \(g\) . We call \((u,\theta )\) strong solution if \((u,\theta )\) is a weak solution and additionally Serrin’s condition \(u \in L^s(0,T; L^q(\Omega ))\) holds where \( 1 satisfy \(\frac{2}{s} + \frac{3}{q} =1\) . In this paper we show that \(\int _0^{\infty } \Vert e^{-tA} u_0 \Vert _q^s \, dt < \infty \) is necessary and sufficient for the existence of such a strong solution \((u,\theta )\) in a sufficiently small interval \([0,T[\, , 0 < T\le \infty \) . Furthermore we show that strong solutions are uniquely determined and that they are smooth if the data are smooth. The crucial point is the fact that we have required no additional integrability condition for \(\theta \) in the definition of a strong solution \((u,\theta )\) .     

Limit theorems for von Mises statistics of a measure preserving transformation

For a measure preserving transformation \(T\) of a probability space \((X,\mathcal{F },\mu )\) and some \(d \ge 1\) we investigate almost sure and distributional convergence of random variables of the form $$\begin{aligned} x \rightarrow \frac{1}{C_n} \sum _{0\le i_1,\ldots ,\,i_d where \(C_1, C_2,\ldots \) are normalizing constants and the kernel \(f\) belongs to an appropriate subspace in some \(L_p(X^d\!,\, \mathcal{F }^{\otimes d}\!,\,\mu ^d)\) . We establish a form of the individual ergodic theorem for such sequences. Using a filtration compatible with \(T\) and the martingale approximation, we prove a central limit theorem in the non-degenerate case; for a class of canonical (totally degenerate) kernels and \(d=2\) , we also show that the convergence holds in distribution towards a quadratic form \(\sum _{m=1}^{\infty } \lambda _m\eta ^2_m\) in independent standard Gaussian variables \(\eta _1, \eta _2, \ldots \) .     

A difference version of Nori’s theorem

We consider (Frobenius) difference equations over \((\mathbb {F}\!_q(s,t), \phi _q)\) where \(\phi _q\) fixes \(t\) and acts on \(\mathbb {F}\!_q(s)\) as the Frobenius endomorphism. We prove that every semisimple, simply-connected linear algebraic group \(\mathcal {G}\) defined over \(\mathbb {F}\!_q\) can be realized as a difference Galois group over \((\mathbb {F} \! _{q^i} (s,t),\phi _{q^i})\) for some \(i \in \mathbb {N}\) . The proof uses upper and lower bounds on the Galois group scheme of a Frobenius difference equation that are developed in this paper. The result can be seen as a difference analogue of Nori’s theorem which states that \(\mathcal {G}(\mathbb {F}\!_q)\) occurs as a (finite) Galois group over \(\mathbb {F}\!_q(s)\) .     

Gaussian Integral Means of Entire Functions

For an entire function \(f:\mathbb C\mapsto \mathbb C\) and a triple \((p,\alpha , r)\in (0,\infty )\times (-\infty ,\infty )\times (0,\infty ]\) , the Gaussian integral mean of \(f\) (with respect to the area measure \(dA\) ) is defined by $$\begin{aligned} {\mathsf M}_{p,\alpha }(f,r)=\left( \,\, {\int \limits _{|z| Via deriving a maximum principle for \({\mathsf M}_{p,\alpha }(f,r)\) , we establish not only Fock–Sobolev trace inequalities associated with \({\mathsf M}_{p,p/2}(z^m f(z),\infty )\) (as \(m=0,1,2,\ldots \) ), but also convexities of \(r\mapsto \ln {\mathsf M}_{p,\alpha }(z^m,r)\) and \(r\mapsto {\mathsf M}_{2,\alpha <0}(f,r)\) in \(\ln r\) with \(0 .     

Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Helmholtz decompositions in general domains

Consider a general domain \(\varOmega \subseteq {\mathbb {R}}^n, n\ge 2\) , and let \(1 < q <\infty \) . Our first result is based on the estimate for the gradient \(\nabla p \in G^q(\varOmega )\) in the form \(\Vert \nabla p\Vert _q \le C \,\sup |\langle \nabla p,\nabla v\rangle _{\varOmega }|/\Vert \nabla v\Vert _{q'}\) , \(\nabla v \in G^{q'}(\varOmega ), q' = \frac{q}{q-1}\) , with some constant \(C=C(\varOmega ,q)>0\) . This estimate was introduced by Simader and Sohr (Mathematical Problems Relating to the Navier–Stokes Equations. Series on Advances in Mathematics for Applied Sciences, vol. 11, pp. 1–35. World Scientific, Singapore, 1992) for smooth bounded and exterior domains. We show for general domains that the validity of this gradient estimate in \(G^q(\varOmega )\) and in \(G^{q'}(\varOmega )\) is necessary and sufficient for the validity of the Helmholtz decomposition in \(L^q(\varOmega )\) and in \(L^{q'}(\varOmega )\) . A new aspect concerns the estimate for divergence free functions \(f_0 \in L^q_{\sigma }(\varOmega )\) in the form \(\Vert f_0\Vert _q \le C \sup |\langle f_0,w\rangle _{\varOmega }|/ \Vert w\Vert _{q'}, w\in L^{q'}_{\sigma }(\varOmega )\) , for the second part of the Helmholtz decomposition. We show again for general domains that the validity of this estimate in \(L^q_{\sigma }(\varOmega )\) and in \(L^{q'}_{\sigma }(\varOmega )\) is necessary and sufficient for the validity of the Helmholtz decomposition in \(L^q(\varOmega )\) and in \(L^{q'}(\varOmega )\) .     

On Artin Algebras Arising from Morita Contexts

We study Morita rings \(\Lambda _{(\phi ,\psi )}=\left (\begin {array}{cc}A &_{A}N_{B} \\ _{B}M_{A} & B \end {array}\right )\) in the context of Artin algebras from various perspectives. First we study covariantly finite, contravariantly finite, and functorially finite subcategories of the module category of a Morita ring when the bimodule homomorphisms \(\phi \) and \(\psi \) are zero. Further we give bounds for the global dimension of a Morita ring \(\Lambda _{(0,0)}\) , as an Artin algebra, in terms of the global dimensions of A and B in the case when both \(\phi \) and \(\psi \) are zero. We illustrate our bounds with some examples. Finally we investigate when a Morita ring is a Gorenstein Artin algebra and then we determine all the Gorenstein-projective modules over the Morita ring \(\Lambda _{\phi ,\psi }\) in case \(A=N=M=B\) and A an Artin algebra.     

Construction of relative difference sets and Hadamard groups

‘There exist normal \((2m,2,2m,m)\) relative difference sets and thus Hadamard groups of order \(4m\) for all \(m\) of the form $$\begin{aligned} m= x2^{a+t+u+w+\delta -\epsilon +1}6^b 9^c 10^d 22^e 26^f \prod _{i=1}^s p_i^{4a_i} \prod _{i=1}^t q_i^2 \prod _{i=1}^u \left( (r_i+1)/2)r_i^{v_i}\right) \prod _{i=1}^w s_i \end{aligned}$$ under the following conditions: \(a,b,c,d,e,f,s,t,u,w\) are nonnegative integers, \(a_1,\ldots ,a_r\) and \(v_1,\ldots ,v_u\) are positive integers, \(p_1,\ldots ,p_s\) are odd primes, \(q_1,\ldots ,q_t\) and \(r_1,\ldots ,r_u\) are prime powers with \(q_i\equiv 1\ (\mathrm{mod}\ 4)\) and \(r_i\equiv 1\ (\mathrm{mod}\ 4)\) for all \(i, s_1,\ldots ,s_w\) are integers with \(1\le s_i \le 33\) or \(s_i\in \{39,43\}\) for all \(i, x\) is a positive integer such that \(2x-1\) or \(4x-1\) is a prime power. Moreover, \(\delta =1\) if \(x>1\) and \(c+s>0, \delta =0\) otherwise, \(\epsilon =1\) if \(x=1, c+s=0\) , and \(t+u+w>0, \epsilon =0\) otherwise. We also obtain some necessary conditions for the existence of \((2m,2,2m,m)\) relative difference sets in partial semidirect products of \(\mathbb{Z }_4\) with abelian groups, and provide a table cases for which \(m\le 100\) and the existence of such relative difference sets is open.     

Inequalities for zeros of Jacobi polynomials via Sturm’s theorem: Gautschi’s conjectures

Let \(x_{n,k}^{(\alpha ,\beta )}\) , \(k=1,\ldots ,n\) , be the zeros of Jacobi polynomials \(P_{n}^{(\alpha ,\beta )}(x)\) arranged in decreasing order on \((-1,1)\) , where \(\alpha ,\beta >-1\) , and \(\theta _{n,k}^{(\alpha ,\beta )}=\arccos x_{n,k}^{(\alpha ,\beta )}\) . Gautschi, in a series of recent papers, conjectured that the inequalities $$n\theta_{n,k}^{(\alpha,\beta)}<(n+1)\theta_{n+1,k}^{(\alpha,\beta)} $$ and $$(n+(\alpha+\beta+3)/2)\theta_{n+1,k}^{(\alpha,\beta)}<(n+(\alpha+\beta+1)/2)\theta_{n,k}^{(\alpha,\beta)}, $$ hold for all \(n\geq 1\) , \(k=1,\ldots ,n\) , and certain values of the parameters \(\alpha \) and \(\beta \) . We establish these conjectures for large domains of the \((\alpha ,\beta )\) -plane by using a Sturmian approach.     

On Sharp Aperture-Weighted Estimates for Square Functions

Let \(S_{\alpha ,\psi }(f)\) be the square function defined by means of the cone in \({\mathbb R}^{n+1}_{+}\) of aperture \(\alpha \) , and a standard kernel \(\psi \) . Let \([w]_{A_p}\) denote the \(A_p\) characteristic of the weight \(w\) . We show that for any \(1<p<\infty \) and \(\alpha \ge 1\) , $$\begin{aligned} \Vert S_{\alpha ,\psi }\Vert _{L^p(w)}\lesssim \alpha ^n[w]_{A_p}^{\max \left( \frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{p-1}\right) }. \end{aligned}$$ For each fixed \(\alpha \) the dependence on \([w]_{A_p}\) is sharp. Also, on all class \(A_p\) the result is sharp in \(\alpha \) . Previously this estimate was proved in the case \(\alpha =1\) using the intrinsic square function. However, that approach does not allow to get the above estimate with sharp dependence on \(\alpha \) . Hence we give a different proof suitable for all \(\alpha \ge 1\) and avoiding the notion of the intrinsic square function.     

Classical limit of the tensor product of holomorphic discrete series representations

For three coadjoint orbits \(\mathcal {O}_1, \mathcal {O}_2\) and \(\mathcal {O}_3\) in \(\mathfrak {g}^*\) , the Corwin–Greenleaf function \(n(\mathcal {O}_1 \times \mathcal {O}_2, \mathcal {O}_3)\) is given by the number of \(G\) -orbits in \(\{(\lambda , \mu ) \in \mathcal {O}_1 \times \mathcal {O}_2 \, : \, \lambda + \mu \in \mathcal {O}_3 \}\) under the diagonal action. In the case where \(G\) is a simple Lie group of Hermitian type, we give an explicit formula of \(n(\mathcal {O}_1 \times \mathcal {O}_2, \mathcal {O}_3)\) for coadjoint orbits \(\mathcal {O}_1\) and \(\mathcal {O}_2\) that meet \(\left( [\mathfrak {k}, \mathfrak {k}] + \mathfrak {p}\right) ^{\perp }\) , and show that the formula is regarded as the ‘classical limit’ of a special case of Kobayashi’s multiplicity-free theorem (Progr. Math. 2007) in the branching law to symmetric pairs.     

Nonlinear Schrödinger equations near an infinite well potential

The paper deals with standing wave solutions of the dimensionless nonlinear Schrödinger equation where the potential \(V_\lambda :\mathbb {R}^N\rightarrow \mathbb {R}\) is close to an infinite well potential \(V_\infty :\mathbb {R}^N\rightarrow \mathbb {R}\) , i. e. \(V_\infty =\infty \) on an exterior domain \(\mathbb {R}^N\setminus \Omega \) , \(V_\infty |_\Omega \in L^\infty (\Omega )\) , and \(V_\lambda \rightarrow V_\infty \) as \(\lambda \rightarrow \infty \) in a sense to be made precise. The nonlinearity may be of Gross–Pitaevskii type. A standing wave solution of \((NLS_\lambda )\) with \(\lambda =\infty \) vanishes on \(\mathbb {R}^N\setminus \Omega \) and satisfies Dirichlet boundary conditions, hence it solves We investigate when a standing wave solution \(\Phi _\infty \) of the infinite well potential \((NLS_\infty )\) gives rise to nearby solutions \(\Phi _\lambda \) of the finite well potential \((NLS_\lambda )\) with \(\lambda \gg 1\) large. Considering \((NLS_\infty )\) as a singular limit of \((NLS_\lambda )\) we prove a kind of singular continuation type results.     

Vertex transitive graphs from injective linear mappings

Based on a motivation coming from the study of the metric structure of the category of finite dimensional vector spaces over a finite field \(\mathbb {F}\) , we examine a family of graphs, defined for each pair of integers \(1 \le k \le n\) , with vertex set formed by all injective linear transformations \(\mathbb {F}^k \rightarrow \mathbb {F}^n\) and edges corresponding to pairs of mappings, \(f\) and \(g\) , with \(\lambda (f,g)= \dim \mathrm{Im }(f-g)=1 \) . For \(\mathbb {F}\cong \mathrm{GF }(q)\) , this graph will be denoted by \(\mathrm{INJ }_q(k,n)\) . We show that all such graphs are vertex transitive and Hamiltonian and describe the full automorphism group of each \(\mathrm{INJ }_q (k,n)\) for \(k . Using the properties of line-transitive groups, we completely determine which of the graphs \(\mathrm{INJ }_q (k,n)\) are Cayley and which are not. The Cayley ones consist of three infinite families, corresponding to pairs \((1,n),\,(n-1,n)\) , and \((n,n)\) , with \(n\) and \(q\) arbitrary, and of two sporadic examples \(\mathrm{INJ }_{2} (2,5)\) and \(\mathrm{INJ }_{2}(3,5)\) . Hence, the overwhelming majority of our graphs is not Cayley.     

Stationary and invariant densities and disintegration kernels

Let \(G\) be a locally compact topological group, acting measurably on some Borel spaces \(S\) and \(T\) , and consider some jointly stationary random measures \(\xi \) on \(S\times T\) and \(\eta \) on \(S\) such that \(\xi (\cdot \times T)\ll \eta \) a.s. Then there exists a stationary random kernel \(\zeta \) from \(S\) to \(T\) such that \(\xi =\eta \otimes \zeta \) a.s. This follows from the existence of an invariant kernel \(\varphi \) from \(S\times {\mathcal {M}}_{S\times T}\times {\mathcal {M}}_S\) to \(T\) such that \(\mu =\nu \otimes \varphi (\cdot ,\mu ,\nu )\) whenever \(\mu (\cdot \times T)\ll \nu \) . Also included are some related results on stationary integration, absolute continuity, and ergodic decomposition.