Exact value of the resistance exponent for four dimensional random walk trace

Let S be a simple random walk starting at the origin in ${\mathbb{Z}^{4}}$ . We consider ${{\mathcal G}=S[0,\infty)}$ to be a random subgraph of the integer lattice and assume that a resistance of unit 1 is put on each edge of the graph ${{\mathcal G}}$ . Let ${R_{{\mathcal G}}(0,S_{n})}$ be the effective resistance between the origin and S _n . We derive the exact value of the resistance exponent; more precisely, we prove that ${n^{-1}E(R_{{\mathcal G}}(0,S_{n}))\approx (\log n)^{-\frac{1}{2}}}$ . As an application, we obtain sharp heat kernel estimates for random walk on ${\mathcal G}$ at the quenched level. These results give the answer to the problem raised by Burdzy and Lawler (J Phys A Math Gen 23:L23–L28, 1990) in four dimensions.     

Invariant submanifolds of Sasakian space forms

In the present study, we consider isometric immersions ${f : M \rightarrow \tilde{M}(c)}$ of (2n + 1)-dimensional invariant submanifold M ²ⁿ⁺¹ of (2m + 1) dimensional Sasakian space form ${\tilde{M}^{2m+1}}$ of constant ${ \varphi}$ -sectional curvature c. We have shown that if f satisfies the curvature condition ${\overset{\_}{R}(X, Y) \cdot \sigma =Q(g, \sigma)}$ then either M ²ⁿ⁺¹ is totally geodesic, or ${||\sigma||^{2}=\frac{1}{3}(2c+n(c+1)),}$ or ${||\sigma||^{2}(x) > \frac{1}{3}(2c+n(c+1)}$ at some point x of M ²ⁿ⁺¹. We also prove that ${\overset{\_ }{R}(X, Y)\cdot \sigma = \frac{1}{2n}Q(S, \sigma)}$ then either M ²ⁿ⁺¹ is totally geodesic, or ${||\sigma||^{2}=-\frac{2}{3}(\frac{1}{2n}\tau -\frac{1}{2}(n+2)(c+3)+3)}$ , or ${||\sigma||^{2}(x) > -\frac{2}{3}(\frac{1}{2n} \tau (x)-\frac{1}{2} (n+2)(c+3)+3)}$ at some point x of M ²ⁿ⁺¹.     

Isolated boundary singularities of semilinear elliptic equations

Given a smooth domain ${\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N}$ such that ${0 \in \partial\Omega}$ and given a nonnegative smooth function ?? on ???, we study the behavior near 0 of positive solutions of ???u?=?u ^q in ?? such that u =? ?? on ???\{0}. We prove that if ${\frac{N+1}{N-1} < q < \frac{N+2}{N-2}}$ , then ${u(x)\leq C |x|^{-\frac{2}{q-1}}}$ and we compute the limit of ${|x|^{\frac{2}{q-1}} u(x)}$ as x ?? 0. We also investigate the case ${q= \frac{N+1}{N-1}}$ . The proofs rely on the existence and uniqueness of solutions of related equations on spherical domains.     

A Tight Bound for the Delaunay Triangulation of Points on a Polyhedron

We show that the Delaunay triangulation of a set of n points distributed nearly uniformly on a p-dimensional polyhedron (not necessarily convex) in d-dimensional Euclidean space is $O(n^{\frac{d-k+1}{p}})$ , where $k = \lceil\frac{d+1}{p+1} \rceil$ . This bound is tight in the worst case and improves on the prior upper bound for most values of?p.     

A sharp equivalence between H ∞ functional calculus and square function estimates

Let (T _t ) _{t?≥ 0} be a bounded analytic semigroup on L ^p (Ω), with 1?<?p?<?∞. Let ?A denote its infinitesimal generator. It is known that if A and A ^* both satisfy square function estimates ${\bigl\|\bigl(\int_{0}^{\infty} \vert A^{\frac{1}{2}} T_t(x)\vert^2 {\rm d}t \bigr)^{\frac{1}{2}}\bigr\|_{L^p} \lesssim \|x\|_{L^p}}$ and ${\bigl\|\bigl(\int_{0}^{\infty} \vert A^{*\frac{1}{2}} T_t^*(y) \vert^2 {\rm d}t \bigr)^{\frac{1}{2}}\bigr\|_{L^{p^\prime}} \lesssim \|y\|_{L^{p^\prime}}}$ for ${x\in L^p(\Omega)}$ and ${y\in L^{p^\prime}(\Omega)}$ , then A admits a bounded ${H^{\infty}(\Sigma_\theta)}$ functional calculus for any ${\theta>\frac{\pi}{2}}$ . We show that this actually holds true for some ${\theta<\frac{\pi}{2}}$ .     

On averages of Fourier coefficients of Maass cusp forms

Let φ be a primitive Maass cusp form and t _φ (n) be its nth Fourier coefficient at the cusp infinity. In this short note, we are interested in the estimation of the sums ${\sum_{n \leq x}t_{\varphi}(n)}$ and ${\sum_{n \leq x}t_{\varphi}(n^2)}$ . We are able to improve the previous results by showing that for any ${\varepsilon > 0}$ $$\sum_{n \leq x}t_{\varphi}(n) \ll\, _{\varphi, \varepsilon} x^{\frac{1027}{2827} + \varepsilon} \quad {and}\quad\sum_{n \leq x}t_{\varphi}(n^2) \ll\,_{\varphi, \varepsilon} x^{\frac{489}{861} + \varepsilon}.$$      

Antimatroids and Balanced Pairs

We generalize the $\frac{1}{3}$ – $\frac{2}{3}$ conjecture from partially ordered sets to antimatroids: we conjecture that any antimatroid has a pair of elements x,y such that x has probability between $\frac{1}{3}$ and $\frac{2}{3}$ of appearing earlier than y in a uniformly random basic word of the antimatroid. We prove the conjecture for antimatroids of convex dimension two (the antimatroid-theoretic analogue of partial orders of width two), for antimatroids of height two, for antimatroids with an independent element, and for the perfect elimination antimatroids and node search antimatroids of several classes of graphs. A computer search shows that the conjecture is true for all antimatroids with at most six elements.     

The second pinching theorem for hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature in a sphere

We generalize the second pinching theorem for minimal hypersurfaces in a sphere due to Peng–Terng, Wei–Xu, Zhang, and Ding–Xin to the case of hypersurfaces with small constant mean curvature. Let $M^n$ be a compact hypersurface with constant mean curvature $H$ in $S^{n+1}$ . Denote by $S$ the squared norm of the second fundamental form of $M$ . We prove that there exist two positive constants $\gamma (n)$ and $\delta (n)$ depending only on $n$ such that if $|H|\le \gamma (n)$ and $\beta (n,H)\le S\le \beta (n,H)+\delta (n)$ , then $S\equiv \beta (n,H)$ and $M$ is one of the following cases: (i) $S^{k}\Big (\sqrt{\frac{k}{n}}\Big )\times S^{n-k}\Big (\sqrt{\frac{n-k}{n}}\Big )$ , $\,1\le k\le n-1$ ; (ii) $S^{1}\Big (\frac{1}{\sqrt{1+\mu ^2}}\Big )\times S^{n-1}\Big (\frac{\mu }{\sqrt{1+\mu ^2}}\Big )$ . Here $\beta (n,H)=n+\frac{n^3}{2(n-1)}H^2+\frac{n(n-2)}{2(n-1)} \sqrt{n^2H^4+4(n-1)H^2}$ and $\mu =\frac{n|H|+\sqrt{n^2H^2+ 4(n-1)}}{2}$ .     

Large triangles contained in the unit disk of a Minkowski plane

We prove that the unit disk C of an arbitrary Minkowski plane contains an equilateral triangle in at least one of the orientations, whose oriented side lengths are ${\frac{3}{2}}$ . We also prove that C permits to inscribe a triangle whose sides are of lengths at least ${\frac{3}{2}}$ in the positive orientation, or that they are of lengths at least ${\frac{3}{2}}$ in the negative orientation. The ratio ${\frac{3}{2}}$ in both the theorems is best possible.     

A Bernstein function related to Ramanujan’s approximations of exp(n)

Ramanujan’s sequence θ(n),n=0,1,2,…?, is defined by $\frac{e^{n}}{2}=\sum_{j=0}^{n-1}\frac{n^{j}}{j!}+\frac{n^{n}}{n!} \theta(n)$ . It is possible to define, in a simple manner, the function θ(x) for all nonnegative real numbers x. We show that the function $\lambda(x):=x (\theta(x)-\frac{1}{3} )$ is a Bernstein function on [0,∞), that is, λ(x) is nonnegative with completely monotonic derivative on [0,∞). This implies some earlier results concerning complete monotonicity of the function θ(x) on [0,∞).     

A Multivariate CLT for Bounded Decomposable Random Vectors with the Best Known Rate

We prove a multivariate central limit theorem with explicit error bound in a non-smooth function distance for sums of bounded decomposable \(d\)-dimensional random vectors. The decomposition structure is similar to that of Barbour et al. (J Combin Theory Ser 47:125–145, 1989) and is more general than the local dependence structure considered in Chen and Shao (Ann Probab 32:1985–2028, 2004). The error bound is of the order \(d^{\frac{1}{4}} n^{-\frac{1}{2}}\), where \(d\) is the dimension and \(n\) is the number of summands. The dependence on \(d\), namely \(d^{\frac{1}{4}}\), is the best known dependence even for sums of independent and identically distributed random vectors, and the dependence on \(n\), namely \(n^{-\frac{1}{2}}\), is optimal. We apply our main result to a random graph example.     

Symplectic mean curvature flow in CP 2

Let Σ be an immersed symplectic surface in CP ² with constant holomorphic sectional curvature k > 0. Suppose Σ evolves along the mean curvature flow in CP ². In this paper, we show that the symplectic mean curvature flow exists for long time and converges to a holomorphic curve if the initial surface satisfies ${|A|^2 \leq \lambda|H|^2 + \frac{2\lambda-1}{\lambda}k}$ and ${\cos\alpha\geq\sqrt{\frac{7\lambda-3}{3\lambda}}\left(\frac{1}{2} < \lambda\leq\frac{2}{3}\right) {\rm or} |A|^2\leq \frac{2}{3}|H|^2+\frac{4}{5}k\cos\alpha\, {\rm and} \cos\alpha\geq 1-\varepsilon}$ , for some ${\varepsilon}$ .     

Insider trading equilibrium in a market with memory

We consider the Kyle-Back model for insider trading, with the difference that the classical Brownian motion noise of the noise traders is replaced by the noise of a fractional Brownian motion B ^H with Hurst parameter ${H>\frac{1}{2}}$ (when ${H=\frac{1}{2}, B^H}$ coincides with the classical Brownian motion). Heuristically, for ${H>\frac{1}{2}}$ this means that the noise traders has some ??memory??, in the sense that any increment from time t on has a positive correlation with its value at t. (In other words, the noise trading is a persistent stochastic process). It also means that the paths of the noise trading process are more egular than in the classical Brownian motion case. We obtain an equation for the optimal (relative) trading intensity for the insider in this setting, and we show that when ${H\rightarrow\frac{1}{2}}$ the solution converges to the solution in the classical case. Finally, we discuss how the size of the Hurst coefficient H influences the optimal performance and portfolio of the insider.     

Primal-dual interior-point algorithm for semidefinite optimization based on a new kernel function with trigonometric barrier term

In this paper we propose primal-dual interior-point algorithms for semidefinite optimization problems based on a new kernel function with a trigonometric barrier term. We show that the iteration bounds are $O(\sqrt{n}\log(\frac{n}{\epsilon}))$ for small-update methods and $O(n^{\frac{3}{4}}\log(\frac{n}{\epsilon}))$ for large-update, respectively. The resulting bound is better than the classical kernel function. For small-update, the iteration complexity is the best known bound for such methods.     

Well-posedness of a semilinear heat equation with weak initial data

This article mainly consists of two parts. In the first part the initial value problem (IVP) of the semilinear heat equation $$\begin{gathered} \partial _t u - \Delta u = \left| u \right|^{k - 1} u, on \mathbb{R}^n x(0,\infty ), k \geqslant 2 \hfill \\ u(x,0) = u_0 (x), x \in \mathbb{R}^n \hfill \\ \end{gathered} $$ with initial data in $\dot L_{r,p} $ is studied. We prove the well-posedness when $$1< p< \infty , \frac{2}{{k(k - 1)}}< \frac{n}{p} \leqslant \frac{2}{{k - 1}}, and r =< \frac{n}{p} - \frac{2}{{k - 1}}( \leqslant 0)$$ and construct non-unique solutions for $$1< p< \frac{{n(k - 1)}}{2}< k + 1, and r< \frac{n}{p} - \frac{2}{{k - 1}}.$$ In the second part the well-posedness of the avove IVP for k=2 with μ₀?H ^s (? ⁿ ) is proved if $$ - 1< s, for n = 1, \frac{n}{2} - 2< s, for n \geqslant 2.$$ and this result is then extended for more general nonlinear terms and initial data. By taking special values of r, p, s, and u₀, these well-posedness results reduce to some of those previously obtained by other authors [4, 14].     

Meromorphic Functions That Share One Finite Value CM or IM with Their k-th Derivative

In this paper we shall prove that if a non-constant meromorphic f and its k-th derivative f ^(k) (k ≥ 2) share the value ${a\not= 0,\infty\; CM}$ (IM) and if ${\bar{N}(r,\frac{1}{f})=S(r,f)\;\left(\bar{N}\left(r,\frac{1}{f}\right)+\bar{N}\left(r,\frac{1}{f^{(k)}}\right)=S(r,f)\right)}$ , then ${f \equiv f^{(k)}}$ . These results extend the results in Al-Khaladi (J Al-Anbar Univ Pure Sci 3:69–73, 2009).     

Curvature estimates for submanifolds with prescribed Gauss image and mean curvature

We study that the n-graph defined by a smooth map ${f:\Omega\subset\mathbb R^{n}\to \mathbb R^{m}, m\ge 2,}$ in ${\mathbb R^{m+n}}$ of the prescribed mean curvature and the Gauss image. Under the condition $$\Delta_f=\left[\text{det}\left(\delta_{ij}+\sum_\alpha{\frac {\partial {f^\alpha}}{\partial {x^i}}}{\frac {\partial {f^\alpha}}{\partial {x^j}}}\right)\right]^{\frac{1}{2}} < 2,$$ we derive the interior curvature estimates $$\sup_{D_R(x)}|B|^2\le{\frac{C}{R^2}}$$ when 2 ≤ n ≤ 5 with constant C depending on the given geometric data. If there is no dimension limitation we obtain $$\sup_{D_R(x)}|B|^2\le CR^{-a}\sup_{D_{2R}(x)}(2-\Delta_f)^{-\left({\frac{3}{2}}+{\frac{1}{s}}\right)},\quad s=\min(m, n)$$ with a < 1. If the image under the Gauss map is contained in a geodesic ball of the radius ${{\frac{\sqrt{2}}{4}}\pi}$ in G _n,m we also derive corresponding estimates.     

On prime numbers of special kind on short intervals

Suppose that the Riemann hypothesis holds. Suppose that $$\psi _1 (x) = \mathop \sum \limits_{\begin{array}{*{20}c} {n \leqslant x} \\ {\{ (1/2)n^{1/c} \} < 1/2} \\ \end{array} } \Lambda (n)$$ where c is a real number, 1 < c ≤ 2. We prove that, for H>N ^1/2+10ε, ε > 0, the following asymptotic formula is valid: $$\psi _1 (N + H) - \psi _1 (N) = \frac{H}{2}\left( {1 + O\left( {\frac{1}{{N^\varepsilon }}} \right)} \right)$$ .     

A Note on the Largest Size of Families of Sets with a Forbidden Poset

Consider families of subsets of [n]:?=?{1,2,...,n} that do no contain a given poset P as a subposet. Let La(n, P) denote the largest size of such families and h(P) denote the height of P. The best known general upper bound for La(n, P) is $\left(\frac{1}{2}(|P|+h(P))-1\right)\left( \begin{array}{l}\,\,\,n \\ \lfloor \frac{n}{2} \rfloor\end{array}\right)$ , due to Bursi and Nagy (2012). This paper provides an improved upper bound $\frac{1}{m+1} \left(|P|+\frac{1}{2}(m^2+3m-2)(h(P)-1)-1\right) \left( \begin{array}{l} \,\,\,n \\ \lfloor \frac{n}{2} \rfloor\end{array}\right) $ , where m can be any positive integer less than $\lceil \frac{n}{2}\rceil$ .