Invariant imbedding applied to a class of freholm integral equations

The objective of this paper is the rigorous derivation of an invariant imbedding algorithm for the solution of the integral equation

$\text{ø(z)g(z)+γ?}{}^{\mathrm{\infty }}{}_0\text{K}\text{(∣z-z′∣)ø(z′)dz′}$

for

$\text{z?0}$

, under suitable restrictions on g, K, and γ. First a set of conditions is determined under which Eq. (1) has a unique solution. The function ø(z) is shown to be approximated almost uniformly for Y=0 and as x→∞ by the solution of     

Kolmogorov-Landau inequalities for monotone functions

Presented in this report are two further applications of very elementary formulae of approximate differentiation. The first is a new derivation in a somewhat sharper form of the following theorem of V. M. Olovyani?nikov: LetN_n (n ? 2) be the class of functionsg(x) such thatg(x), g′(x),…, g⁽ⁿ⁾(x) are ? 0, bounded, and nondecreasing on the half-line ?∞ < x ? 0. A special element ofN_nis

$\text{g}{}_1\text{(x) = 0}\text{if}\text{?∞ < x < ?1, g}{}_1\text{(x) = (1 + x)}{}^{\mathrm{n}}\text{if}\text{?1 ? x ? 0}$

. Ifg(x) ∈ N_nis such that

$\text{g(0) ? g}{}_1\text{(0) = 1, g}{}^{\mathrm{(n)}}\text{(0) ? g}{}_1{}^{\mathrm{(n)}}\text{(0) = n!}$

, then

$\text{g}{}^{\mathrm{(v)}}\text{(0) ? g}{}_1{}^{\mathrm{(v)}}\text{(0)}$

for

1$\text{v = 1,…, n ? 1}$

. Moreover, if we have equality in (1) for some value of v, then we have there equality for all v, and this happens only if $\text{g(x) = g}{}_1\text{(x)}$ in (?∞, 0].The second application gives sufficient conditions for the differentiability of asymptotic expansions (Theorem 4).     

Concavity of certain maps on positive definite matrices and applications to Hadamard products

If f is a positive function on (0, ∞) which is monotone of order n for every n in the sense of Löwner and if Φ₁ and Φ₂ are concave maps among positive definite matrices, then the following map involving tensor products:

$\text{(A,B)?f[Φ}{}_1\text{(A)}{}^{\mathrm{?1}}\text{?Φ}{}_2\text{(B)]·(Φ}{}_1\text{(A)?I)}$

is proved to be concave. If Φ₁ is affine, it is proved without use of positivity that the map

$\text{(A,B)?f[Φ}{}_1\text{(A)?Φ}{}_2\text{(B)}{}^{\mathrm{?1}}\text{]·(Φ}{}_1\text{(A)?I)}$

is convex. These yield the concavity of the map

$\text{(A,B)?A}{}^{\mathrm{1?p}}\text{?B}{}^{\mathrm{p}}$

(0<p?1) (Lieb's theorem) and the convexity of the map

$\text{(A,B)?A}{}^{\mathrm{1+p}}\text{?B}{}^{\mathrm{?p}}$

(0<p?1), as well as the convexity of the map

$\text{(A,B)?(A·log[A])?I?A?log[B]}$

.These concavity and convexity theorems are then applied to obtain unusual estimates, from above and below, for Hadamard products of positive definite matrices.     

On the number of zeros of diagonal cubic forms

Let M_s, be the number of solutions of the equation

$\text{X}{}_1{}^3\text{+ X}{}_2{}^3\text{+ … + X}{}_{\mathrm{s}}{}^3\text{=0}$

in the finite field GF(p). For a prime p ≡ 1(mod 3),

$\text{∑}\text{s=1}\text{∞}\text{M}{}_{\mathrm{s}}\text{X}{}^{\mathrm{s}}\text{=}\text{x}\text{1 ? px}\text{+}\text{x}{}^2\text{(p ? 1)(2 + dx)}\text{1 ? 3px}{}^2\text{? pdx}{}^3$

,

$\text{M}{}_3\text{= p}{}^2\text{+ d(p ? 1)}$

, and

$\text{M}{}_4\text{= p}{}^2\text{+ 6(p}{}^2\text{? p)}$

. Here d is uniquely determined by

$\text{4}{}_{\mathrm{p}}\text{= d}{}^2\text{+ 27b}{}^2\text{and}\text{d ≡ 1(}\text{mod}\text{3)}$

.     

Deterministic version of Wigner's semicircle law for the distribution of matrix eigenvalues

It is proved that Wigner's semicircle law for the distribution of eigenvalues of random matrices, which is important in the statistical theory of energy levels of heavy nuclei, possesses the following completely deterministic version. Let A_n=(a_ij), 1?i, ?n, be the nth section of an infinite Hermitian matrix, {λ⁽ⁿ⁾}_1?k?n its eigenvalues, and {u_k⁽ⁿ⁾}_1?k?n the corresponding (orthonormalized column) eigenvectors. Let $\text{v}{}^1{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{=(a}{}_{\mathrm{n1}}\text{,a}{}_{\mathrm{n2}}\text{,?,a}{}_{\mathrm{n,n?1}}\text{)}$, put

$\text{X}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{(t)=[n(n-1)]}{}^{\mathrm{<mtext>-1</mtext><mtext>2</mtext>}}\text{∑}\text{k=1}\text{[(n-1)t]}\text{|v}{}_{\mathrm{n}}{}^1\text{u}{}_{\mathrm{f}}{}^{\mathrm{(n-1)}}\text{|}{}^2\text{,}\text{0?t?1}$

(bookeeping function for the length of the projections of the new row v¹_n of A_n onto the eigenvectors of the preceding matrix A_n?1), and let finally

$\text{F}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{(x)=n}{}^{-1}\text{(}\text{number of}\text{λ}{}_{\mathrm{k}}{}^{\mathrm{(n)}}\text{?x}\text{n}\text{,1?k?n)}$

(empirical distribution function of the eigenvalues of $\text{A}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{n}$. Suppose (i) $\text{lim}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{a}{}_{\mathrm{nn}}\text{n}\text{=0}$, (ii) lim_nX_n(t)=Ct(0<C<∞,0?t?1). Then

$\text{F}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{?W(·,C)}\text{(n→∞)}$

,where W is absolutely continuous with (semicircle) density

$\text{w(x,C)=}\text{(2Cπ)}{}^{-1}\text{(4C-x}{}^2{}^{\mathrm{<mtext>1</mtext><mtext>2</mtext>}}\text{for}\text{|x|?2}\text{C}\text{0}\text{for}\text{|x|?2}\text{C}$

     

On a conjecture by D. Ž. D̄okovic

It is shown that if $\text{A?Ω}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{?{J}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{}}$ satisfies

$\text{nkσ}{}_{\mathrm{k}}\text{(A)?(n?k+1)}{}^2\text{σ}{}_{\mathrm{k?1}}\text{(A)}$

$\text{(k=1,2,…,n)}$

, where σ_k(A) denotes the sum of all kth order subpermanent of A, then Per[λJ_n+(1?λ)A] is strictly decreasing in the interval 0<λ<1.     

A complete set of invariants for finite groups and other results

For a finite group G and a set I ? {1, 2,…, n} let

${}_{\mathrm{G}}\text{(n,I) = ∑}{}_{\mathrm{g\; \in \; G}}\text{ε}{}_1\text{(g)?ε}{}_2\text{(g)???ε}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{(g)}$

,where

$\text{ε}{}_{\mathrm{i}}\text{(g)=g}\text{if}\text{i=∈ I,}$

$\text{ε}{}_{\mathrm{l}}\text{(g)=l}\text{if}\text{i=∈ I.}$

We prove, among other results, that the positive integers

$\text{tr}\text{(e}{}_{\mathrm{G}}\text{(n,I}{}_1\text{)+?+e}{}_{\mathrm{G}}\text{(n,I}{}_{\mathrm{r}}\text{))}{}^{\mathrm{k}}\text{:n,r,k,?1, I}{}_{\mathrm{j}}\text{?{1,…,n}, 1?|i}{}_{\mathrm{j}}\text{|?3}$

for 1 ? j ? r, I_j1 ∩ I_j2 ∩ I_j3 ∩ I_j4 = Ø for any 1 ? j₁ <j₂ <j₃ <j₄ ? r, determine G up to isomorphism. We also show that under certain assumptions finite groups are determined up to isomorphism by the number of their subgroups.     

Cardinal interpolation and spline fucntions V. The B-splines for cardinal Hermite interpolation

In the third paper of this series on cardinal spline interpolation [4] Lipow and Schoenberg study the problem of Hermite interpolation

$\text{S(v) = Y}{}_{\mathrm{v}}\text{, S′(v) = Y}{}_{\mathrm{v}}\text{′,…,S}{}^{\mathrm{(r?1)}}\text{(v) = Y}{}_{\mathrm{v}}{}^{\mathrm{(r?1)}}\text{for all}\text{v}$

. The B-splines are there conspicuous by their absence, although they were found very useful for the case γ = 1 of ordinary (or Lagrange) interpolation (see [5–10]). The purpose of the present paper is to investigate the B-splines for the case of Hermite interpolation (γ > 1). In this sense the present paper is a supplement to [4] and is based on its results. This is done in Part I. Part II is devoted to the special case when we want to solve the problem

$\text{S(v) = Y}{}_{\mathrm{v}}\text{, S′(v) = Y}{}_{\mathrm{v}}\text{′}\text{for all}\text{v}$

by quintic spline functions of the class C?(– ∞, ∞). This is the simplest nontrivial example for the general theory. In Part II we derive an explicit solution for the problem (1), where v = 0, 1,…, n.     

On the asymptotic number of tournament score sequences

An n-tournament is a complete labelled digraph on n vertices without loops or multiple arcs. A tournament's score sequence is the sequence of the out-degrees of its vertices arranged in nondecreasing order. The number S_n of distinct score sequences arising from all possible n-tournaments, as well as certain generalizations are investigated. A lower bound of the form

$\text{S}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{>}\text{C}{}_1\text{4}{}^{\mathrm{n}}\text{n}{}^{\mathrm{<mtext>5</mtext><mtext>2</mtext>}}$

(C₁ a constant) and an upper bound of the form $\text{S}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{<}\text{C}{}_2\text{4}{}^{\mathrm{n}}\text{n}{}^2$ are proved. A q-extension of the Catalan numbers

$\text{c}{}_1\text{(q)=1}\text{and}\text{c}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{(q)=}\text{∑}\text{i?1}\text{n?1}\text{c}{}_{\mathrm{i}}\text{(q)c}{}_{\mathrm{n?1}}\text{(q)q}{}^{\mathrm{i(n?i?1)}}$

is defined. It is conjectured that all coefficients in the polynomial C_n(q) are at most $\text{O(}\text{4}{}^{\mathrm{n}}\text{n}{}^3\text{)}$. It is shown that if this conjecture is true, then

$\text{S}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{<}\text{C}{}_3\text{4}{}^{\mathrm{n}}\text{n}{}^{\mathrm{<mtext>5</mtext><mtext>2</mtext>}}$

     

Strong approximation theorems for density dependent Markov chains

A variety of continuous parameter Markov chains arising in applied probability (e.g. epidemic and chemical reaction models) can be obtained as solutions of equations of the form

$\text{X}{}_{\mathrm{N}}\text{(t)=x}{}_0\text{+∑}\text{1}\text{N}\text{lY}{}_1\text{N ∫}{}^{\mathrm{t}}{}_0\text{f}{}_1\text{(X}{}_{\mathrm{N}}\text{(s))ds}$

where $\text{l∈}\text{Z}{}^{\mathrm{t}}$, the Y₁ are independent Poisson processes, and N is a parameter with a natural interpretation (e.g. total population size or volume of a reacting solution).The corresponding deterministic model, satisfies

$\text{X(t)=x}{}_0\text{+ ∫}{}^{\mathrm{t}}{}_0\text{∑ lf}{}_1\text{(X(s))ds}$

Under very general conditions lim_N→∞X_N(t)=X(t) a.s. The process X_N(t) is compared to the diffusion processes given by

$\text{Z}{}_{\mathrm{N}}\text{(t)=x}{}_0\text{+∑}\text{1}\text{N}\text{lB}{}_1\text{N∫}{}^{\mathrm{t}}{}_0\text{ft(Z}{}_{\mathrm{N}}\text{(s))ds}$

and

$\text{V(t)=∑ l∫}{}^{\mathrm{t}}{}_0\text{f}{}_1\text{(X(s))}\text{d}\text{W}\text{?}{}_1\text{+∫}{}^{\mathrm{t}}{}_0\text{?F(X(s))·V(s)}\text{ds.}$

Under conditions satisfied by most of the applied probability models, it is shown that X_N,Z_N and V can be constructed on the same sample space in such a way that

$\text{X}{}_{\mathrm{N}}\text{(t)=Z}{}_{\mathrm{N}}\text{(t)+O}\text{logN}\text{N}$

and

$\text{N}\text{(X}{}_{\mathrm{N}}\text{(t)?X(t))=V(t)+O}\text{log N}\text{N}$

     

Binomial self-inverse sequences and tangent coefficients

This paper treats the class of sequences {a_n} that satisfy the recurrence relation

$\text{a}{}_{\mathrm{2n+1}}\text{=∑}{}_{\mathrm{<mtext>k=0</mtext>}}{}^{\mathrm{<mtext>n</mtext>}}\text{(?1)}{}^{\mathrm{<mtext>k</mtext>}}\text{(}\text{n}\text{k}\text{a}{}_{\mathrm{k}}\text{d}{}^{\mathrm{n?k}}$

between the odd and even terms of {a_n} that involves the coefficients of tan(t), namely

$\text{a}{}_{\mathrm{2n+1}}\text{=∑}{}_{\mathrm{<mtext>k=0</mtext>}}{}^{\mathrm{<mtext>n</mtext>}}\text{(?1)}{}^{\mathrm{<mtext>k</mtext>}}\text{(}\text{2}\text{n}\text{+1}\text{2}\text{k}\text{+1}\text{)}\text{T}{}_{\mathrm{k}}\text{(d/2)}{}^{\mathrm{2k+1}}\text{a}{}_{\mathrm{2n?2k}}$

A combinatorial setting is then provided to elucidate the appearance of the tangent coefficients in this equation.     

Pairs of additive equations II. Large odd degree

Let k be an odd positive integer. Davenport and Lewis have shown that the equations

$\text{a}{}_1\text{x}{}_1{}^{\mathrm{k}}\text{+…+a}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{x}{}_{\mathrm{n}}{}^{\mathrm{k}}\text{=0}$

with integer coefficients, have a nontrivial solution in integers x₁,…, x_N provided that

$\text{N?[36klog6k]}$

Here it is shown that for any ? > 0 and k > k₀(?) the equations have a nontrivial solution provided that

$\text{N?}\text{8}\text{log 2}\text{+?}\text{k log k.}$

     

On the van der Waerden conjecture and zeros of polynomials

Let

$\text{F(x) =}\text{∑}\text{k=o}\text{n}\text{n}\text{k}\text{A}{}_{\mathrm{k}}\text{x}{}^{\mathrm{k}}$

$\text{A}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{≠ 0,}$

and

$\text{G(x) =}\text{∑}\text{k=o}\text{n}\text{n}\text{k}\text{B}{}_{\mathrm{k}}\text{x}{}^{\mathrm{k}}$

$\text{B}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{≠ 0,}$

be polynomials with real zeros satisfying A_n?1 = B_n?1 = 0, and let

$\text{H(x) =}\text{∑}\text{k=o}\text{n-2}\text{n}\text{k}\text{A}{}_{\mathrm{k}}\text{B}{}_{\mathrm{k}}\text{x}{}^{\mathrm{k}}\text{.}$

Using the recently proved validity of the van der Waerden conjecture on permanents, some results on the real zeros of H(x) are obtained. These results are related to classical results on composite polynomials.     

Construction of a recurrence relation for modified moments

In this paper we are constructing a recurrence relation of the form

$\text{∑}\text{i=0}\text{r}\text{ω}{}_{\mathrm{i}}\text{(k)m}{}_{\mathrm{k+i}}{}^{\mathrm{\{\lambda \}}}\text{[f] = ω(k)}$

for integrals (called modified moments)

$\text{m}{}_{\mathrm{k}}{}^{\mathrm{\{\lambda \}}}\text{[f]df=}\text{∫}\text{?1}\text{1}\text{f(x)C}{}_{\mathrm{k}}{}^{\mathrm{(\lambda )}}\text{(x)dx (k = 0,1,…)}$

in which C_k^(λ) is the k-th Gegenbauer polynomial of order $\text{λ(λ > ?}\text{1}\text{2}\text{)}$, and f is a function satisfying the differential equation

$\text{∑}\text{i=0}\text{n}\text{P}{}_{\mathrm{i}}\text{(x)f}{}^{\mathrm{(i)}}\text{(x) = p(x) (?1?x?1)}$

of order n, where p₀, p₁, …, p_n ? 0 are polynomials, and m_k^〈λ〉[p] is known for every k. We give three methods of construction of such a recurrence relation. The first of them (called Method I) is optimum in a certain sense.     

Sur quelques résultats de convergence dans l'inférence d'une classe de processus ponctuelsConvergence results for point processes estimators

Our aim is to generalize some results obtained for a Poisson point process in [7], to a general point process. Those results are in field of complete convergence of two like Parzen–Rosenblatt estimates of density of mean measure function and regression curves. Those estimates are defined from the superposition of n i.i.d. point processes as:

$\text{f}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{(x)=}\text{1}\text{nh}\text{∑}\text{i=1}\text{m}\text{K}\text{x?X}{}_{\mathrm{i}}{}^{\mathrm{(n)}}\text{h(n)}\text{and}\text{Ψ}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{(x)=}\text{∑}{}_{\mathrm{i=1}}{}^{\mathrm{m}}\text{Y}{}_{\mathrm{i}}\text{K}\text{x?X}{}_{\mathrm{i}}{}^{\mathrm{(n)}}\text{h(n)}\text{∑}{}_{\mathrm{i=1}}{}^{\mathrm{m}}\text{K}\text{x?X}{}_{\mathrm{i}}{}^{\mathrm{(n)}}\text{h(n)}\text{,}$

where m is the number of seem generics points of the superposition. We give some sufficient conditions for the convergence of those kernel-like estimators. To cite this article: A. Diakhaby, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 334 (2002) 597–602.     

Sur les équations de Lane–Emden avec opérateurs non linéaires

In this Note we consider nonnegative solutions for the nonlinear equation

$\text{M}{}^{\mathrm{+}}{}_{\mathrm{\lambda ,\Lambda }}\text{D}{}^2\text{u}\text{+|x|}{}^{\mathrm{\alpha }}\text{u}{}^{\mathrm{p}}\text{=0}$

in $\text{R}{}^{\mathrm{N}}$, where $\text{M}{}^{\mathrm{+}}{}_{\mathrm{\lambda ,\Lambda }}\text{(D}{}^2\text{u)}$ is the so called Pucci operator

$\text{M}{}^{\mathrm{+}}{}_{\mathrm{\lambda ,\Lambda }}\text{(M)=λ}\text{∑}\text{e}{}_{\mathrm{i}}\text{<0}\text{e}{}_{\mathrm{i}}\text{+Λ}\text{∑}\text{e}{}_{\mathrm{i}}\text{>0}\text{e}{}_{\mathrm{i}}\text{,}$

and the e_i are the eigenvalues of M et Λ?λ>0. We prove that if u satisfies the decreasing estimate

$\text{lim}\text{|x|→+∞}\text{|x|}{}^{\mathrm{\beta ?1}}\text{u(x)=0}$

for some β satisfying (β?1)(p?1)>2+α then u is radial. In a second time we prove that if $\text{p<}\text{N+2α+2}\text{N?2}$ and u is a nonnegative radial solution of (1), u(x)=g(r), such that g″ changes sign at most once, then u is zero. To cite this article: I. Birindelli, F. Demengel, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 336 (2003).     

Size Ramsey numbers involving stars

We calculate some size Ramsey numbers involving stars. For example we prove that for t ? k ? 2 and n sufficiently large the size Ramsey number.

$\text{r}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{(K}{}_{\mathrm{1,k}}\text{K}{}_{\mathrm{t}}\text{+}\text{K}{}_{\mathrm{n}}\text{=}\text{k(t?1)+1}\text{2}\text{+(k(t?1)+1)(n+k?1).}$

     

Asymptotic results for partitions (II) and a conjecture of Bateman and Erdös

Asymptotic results are obtained for p_A^(k)(n), the kth difference of the function p_A(n) which is the number of partitions of n into integers from A. Under certain restrictions on A it is shown that

$\text{P}{}_{\mathrm{A}}{}^{\mathrm{(k+1)}}\text{(n)}\text{P}{}_{\mathrm{A}}{}^{\mathrm{(k)}}\text{(n)}\text{= O(n}{}^{\mathrm{?1/2}}\text{) (n→ ∫)}$

thereby verifying for these A a conjecture of Bateman and Erdös.     

Homogenization in open sets with holes

Let Q^r be a cylindrical bar with r cylindrical cavities having generators parallel to those of Q^r. Let Ω be the cross-section of the bar, Ω1 the cross-section of the domain occupied by the material and $\text{Ω}{}^{\mathrm{i}}\text{(i = 1,…, r)}$ the cross- sections of the cavities:

$\text{Ω}\text{?}{}^{\mathrm{i}}\text{? Ω}\text{Ω}\text{?}{}^{\mathrm{i}}\text{∩}\text{Ω}\text{?}{}^{\mathrm{k}}\text{= φ, i ≠ k}$

. The study of the elastic torsion of this bar leads to the following problem [see 2., 3., 267–320)]:

$\text{Δ?}{}_{\mathrm{r}}\text{+ 2μα = 0 in Ω1}$

$\text{?}{}_{\mathrm{r¦?\Omega }}\text{= 0}$

(1)

$\text{?}{}_{\mathrm{r}}\text{=}\text{constant on}\text{?Ω}{}^{\mathrm{i}}\text{; i = 1,…, r}$

where μ is the shear modulus of the material, α is the angle of twist and $\text{?}{}_{\mathrm{r}}$ represents the stress function. In this paper the problem (1) with an increasing number of holes which are distributed periodically is considered. One would like to know if $\text{?}{}_{\mathrm{r}}$ has a limit $\text{?}{}_{\mathrm{\infty }}\text{as}\text{r → + ∞}$, and if so, the equation satisfied by this limit. This is an “homogenization” problem — the heterogeneous bar Q^r is replaced by a homogeneous one, the response of which under torsion approximates as closely as possible that of Q^r. A more general problem will be studied and the case of elastic torsion will be obtained as an application. The proof uses the energy method [see Lions (Collège de France, 1975–1977), Tartar (Collège de France, 1977)] and extension theorems. A related problem is the homogenization of a perforated plate [cf. Duvaut (to appear)].