Random Menshov spectra

We show that the spectra of frequencies obtained by random perturbations of the integers allows one to represent any measurable function on by an almost everywhere converging sum of harmonics:

     

On positive periodic solutions of Lotka-Volterra competition systems with deviating arguments

By using Krasnoselskii's fixed point theorem, we prove that the following periodic species Lotka-Volterra competition system with multiple deviating arguments

has at least one positive periodic solution provided that the corresponding system of linear equations

has a positive solution, where and are periodic functions with

Furthermore, when and , , are constants but , remain -periodic, we show that the condition on is also necessary for to have at least one positive periodic solution.

     

The expected norm of random polynomials

The results of this paper concern the expected norm of random polynomials on the boundary of the unit disc (equivalently of random trigonometric polynomials on the interval ). Specifically, for a random polynomial

let

Assume the random variables , are independent and identically distributed, have mean 0, variance equal to 1 and, if 2$">, a finite moment . Then

and

as .

In particular if the polynomials in question have coefficients in the set (a much studied class of polynomials), then we can compute the expected norms of the polynomials and their derivatives

and

This complements results of Fielding in the case, Newman and Byrnes in the case, and Littlewood et al. in the case.

     

A multiplicity theorem for the Neumann problem

Here is a particular case of the main result of this paper: Let be a bounded domain, with a boundary of class , and let be two continuous functions, , with 0$">, , with n$">. If

and if the set of all global minima of the function has at least connected components, then, for each 0$"> small enough, the Neumann problem

admits at least strong solutions in .

     

The yellow cake

In this paper we consider the following property:

For every function there are functions

(for ) such that

We show that, despite some expectation suggested by S. Shelah (1997), does not imply . Next, we introduce cardinal characteristics of the continuum responsible for the failure of .

     

Some remarks on totally imperfect sets

We prove the following two theorems.

Theorem 1. Let be a strongly meager subset of . Then it is dual Ramsey null.

We will say that a -ideal of subsets of satisfies the condition iff for every , if

then .

Theorem 2. The -ideals of perfectly meager sets, universally meager sets and perfectly meager sets in the transitive sense satisfy the condition .

     

Global Hölder regularity for discontinuous elliptic equations in the plane

-regularity up to the boundary is proved for solutions of boundary value problems for elliptic equations with discontinuous coefficients in the plane.

In particular, we deal with the Dirichlet boundary condition

where , 2$">, or with the following normal derivative boundary conditions:

where , 2$">, 0$"> and is the unit outward normal to the boundary .

     

Knot signature functions are independent

A Seifert matrix is a square integral matrix satisfying

To such a matrix and unit complex number there corresponds a signature,

Let denote the set of unit complex numbers with positive imaginary part. We show that is linearly independent, viewed as a set of functions on the set of all Seifert matrices.

If is metabolic, then unless is a root of the Alexander polynomial, . Let denote the set of all unit roots of all Alexander polynomials with positive imaginary part. We show that is linearly independent when viewed as a set of functions on the set of all metabolic Seifert matrices.

To each knot one can associate a Seifert matrix , and induces a knot invariant. Topological applications of our results include a proof that the set of functions is linearly independent on the set of all knots and that the set of two-sided averaged signature functions, , forms a linearly independent set of homomorphisms on the knot concordance group. Also, if is the root of some Alexander polynomial, then there is a slice knot whose signature function is nontrivial only at and . We demonstrate that the results extend to the higher-dimensional setting.

     

Weak properties of weighted convolution algebras

Suppose that is a weighted convolution algebra on with the weight normalized so that the corresponding space of measures is the dual space of the space of continuous functions. Suppose that is a continuous nonzero homomorphism, where is also a convolution algebra. If is norm dense in , we show that is (relatively) weak dense in , and we identify the norm closure of with the convergence set for a particular semigroup. When is weak continuous it is enough for to be weak dense in . We also give sufficient conditions and characterizations of weak continuity of . In addition, we show that, for all nonzero in , the sequence converges weak to 0. When is regulated, converges to 0 in norm.

     

Quasiconvexity and uniqueness of stationary points in the multi-dimensional calculus of variations

Let be a bounded starshaped domain. In this note we consider critical points of the functional

where of class satisfies the natural growth

for some and 0$">, is suitably rank-one convex and in addition is strictly quasiconvex at . We establish uniqueness results under the extra assumption that is stationary at with respect to variations of the domain. These statements should be compared to the uniqueness result of Knops & Stuart (1984) in the smooth case and recent counterexamples to regularity produced by Müller & Sverák (2003).

     

Sebestyén moment problem: The multi-dimensional case

Given a family of vectors in a Hilbert space we characterize the existence of a family of commuting contractions on having regular dilation and such that

The theorem is a multi-dimensional analogue for some well-known operator moment problems due to Sebestyén in case or, recently, to Gavruta and Paunescu in case .

     

Functorial equations for lexicographic products

We generalize the main result of an earlier paper by the authors (Exponentiation in power series fields, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 3177-3183) concerning the convex embeddings of a chain in a lexicographic power . For a fixed non-empty chain , we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of non-empty solutions to each of the lexicographic functorial equations

, (\Delta ^{\Gam... ...Gamma \mbox{ and } (\Delta ^{\Gamma})^{<0} \simeq \Gamma\;.\end{displaymath}">

     

A lower bound for sums of eigenvalues of the Laplacian

Let be the th Dirichlet eigenvalue of a bounded domain in . According to Weyl's asymptotic formula we have

The optimal in view of this asymptotic relation lower estimate for the sums has been proven by P.Li and S.T.Yau (Comm. Math. Phys. 88 (1983), 309-318). Here we will improve this estimate by adding to its right-hand side a term of the order of that depends on the ratio of the volume to the moment of inertia of .

     

Precise asymptotics for a series of T. L. Lai

Let be i.i.d. random variables with , and set . We prove that, for

under the assumption that and Necessary and sufficient conditions for the convergence of the sum above were established by Lai (1974).

     

On a subspace perturbation problem

We discuss the problem of perturbation of spectral subspaces for linear self-adjoint operators on a separable Hilbert space. Let and be bounded self-adjoint operators. Assume that the spectrum of consists of two disjoint parts and such that 0$">. We show that the norm of the difference of the spectral projections

for and is less than one whenever either (i) or (ii) and certain assumptions on the mutual disposition of the sets and are satisfied.

     

Trudinger type inequalities in and their best exponents

We study Trudinger type inequalities in and their best exponents . We show for , ( is the surface area of the unit sphere in ), there exists a constant such that

for all . Here is defined by

It is also shown that with is false, which is different from the usual Trudinger's inequalities in bounded domains.

     

On the strong maximum principle

This paper presents a necessary and sufficient condition on the convex function in order that continuous solutions to

satisfy a Strong Maximum Principle on any open connected .

     

Cofinality changes required for a large set of unapproachable ordinals below

In , assume that is a strong limit cardinal and . Let be the set of approachable ordinals less than . An open question of M. Foreman is whether can be non-stationary in some and preserving extension of . It is shown here that if is such an outer model, then is infinite, for each positive integer .

     

The Cheeger constant of simply connected, solvable Lie groups

We show that the Cheeger isoperimetric constant of a solvable simply connected Lie group with Lie algebra is