Tauberian conditions for the $$(C, \alpha )$$ integrability of functions

For a real-valued continuous function f(x) on \([0,\infty )\), we define

$$\begin{aligned} s(x)=\int _{0}^{x} f(u)du\quad \text {and}\quad \sigma _{\alpha } (x)= \int _{0}^{x}\left( 1-\frac{u}{x}\right) ^{\alpha }f(u)du \end{aligned}$$

for \(x>0\). We say that \(\int _{0}^{\infty } f(u)du\) is \((C, \alpha )\) integrable to L for some \(\alpha >-1\) if the limit \(\lim _{x \rightarrow \infty } \sigma _{\alpha } (x)=L\) exists. It is known that \(\lim _{x \rightarrow \infty } s(x) =L\) implies \(\lim _{x \rightarrow \infty }\sigma _{\alpha } (x) =L\) for all \(\alpha >-1\). The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we introduce some new Tauberian conditions for the \((C, \alpha )\) integrability method under which the converse implication is satisfied, and improve classical Tauberian theorems for the \((C,\alpha )\) integrability method. Next we give short proofs of some classical Tauberian theorems as special cases of some of our results.

     

On the equation $${{\rm det}\,\nabla{u}=f}$$ with no sign hypothesis

We prove existence of \({u\in C^{k}(\overline{\Omega};\mathbb{R}^{n})}\) satisfying

$\left\{\begin{array}{ll} det\nabla u(x) =f(x) \, x\in \Omega\\ u(x) =x \quad\quad\quad\quad x\in\partial\Omega\end{array}\right.$

where k ≥ 1 is an integer, \({\Omega}\) is a bounded smooth domain and \({f\in C^{k}(\overline{\Omega}) }\) satisfies

$\int\limits_{\Omega}f(x) dx={\rm meas} \Omega$

with no sign hypothesis on f.

     

Least energy sign-changing solutions for a class of fourth order Kirchhoff-type equations in $$\mathbb {R}^{N}$$

In this article we study the problem

$$\begin{aligned} \Delta ^{2}u-\left( a+b\int _{\mathbb {R}^{N}}\left| \nabla u\right| ^{2}dx\right) \Delta u+V(x)u=\left| u\right| ^{p-2}u\ \text { in }\mathbb {R}^{N}, \end{aligned}$$

where \(\Delta ^{2}:=\Delta (\Delta )\) is the biharmonic operator, \(a,b>0\) are constants, \(N\le 7,\) \(p\in (4,2_{*})\) for \(2_{*}\) defined below, and \(V(x)\in C(\mathbb {R}^{N},\mathbb {R})\). Under appropriate assumptions on V(x), the existence of least energy sign-changing solution is obtained by combining the variational methods and the Nehari method.

     

$${\sigma_2}$$-Energy as a polyconvex functional on a space of self-maps of annuli in the multi-dimensional calculus of variations

Let \({\mathbb{X} \subset \mathbb {R}^n}\) be a bounded Lipschitz domain and consider the energy functional

$${{\mathbb F}_{\sigma_2}}[u; \mathbb{X}] := \int_\mathbb{X} {\mathbf F}(\nabla u) \, dx,$$

over the space of admissible maps

$${{\mathcal {A}_\varphi}(\mathbb{X}) :=\{u \in W^{1,4}(\mathbb{X}, {\mathbb{R}^n}) : {\rm det}\, \nabla u > 0\, {\rm for}\, {\mathcal {L}^n}{\rm -a.e. in}\, \mathbb{X}, u|_{\partial \mathbb{X}} =\varphi \}},$$

where the integrand \({{\mathbf F}\colon \mathbb M_{n\times n}\to \mathbb{R}}\) is quasiconvex and sufficiently regular. Here our attention is paid to the prototypical case when \({{\mathbf F}(\xi):=\frac{1}{2}\sigma_2(\xi)+\Phi(\det\xi)}\). The aim of this paper is to discuss the question of multiplicity versus uniqueness for extremals and strong local minimizers of \({\mathbb F_{\sigma_2}}\) and the relation it bares to the domain topology. In contrast, for constructing explicitly and directly solutions to the system of Euler–Lagrange equations associated to \({{\mathbb F}_{\sigma_2}}\), we use a topological class of maps referred to as generalised twists and relate the problem to extremising an associated energy on the compact Lie group \({\mathbf {SO}(n)}\). The main result is a surprising discrepancy between even and odd dimensions. In even dimensions the latter system of equations admits infinitely many smooth solutions amongst such maps whereas in odd dimensions this number reduces to one.

     

The nonlocal Liouville-type equation in $$\mathbb {}$$ and conformal immersions of the disk with boundary singularities

In this paper we perform a blow-up and quantization analysis of the fractional Liouville equation in dimension 1. More precisely, given a sequence \(u_k :\mathbb {R}\rightarrow \mathbb {R}\) of solutions to

$$\begin{aligned} (-\Delta )^\frac{1}{2} u_k =K_ke^{u_k}\quad \text {in} \quad \mathbb {R}, \end{aligned}$$

(1)

with \(K_k\) bounded in \(L^\infty \) and \(e^{u_k}\) bounded in \(L^1\) uniformly with respect to k, we show that up to extracting a subsequence \(u_k\) can blow-up at (at most) finitely many points \(B=\{a_1,\ldots , a_N\}\) and that either (i) \(u_k\rightarrow u_\infty \) in \(W^{1,p}_{{{\mathrm{loc}}}}(\mathbb {R}{\setminus } B)\) and \(K_ke^{u_k} {\mathop {\rightharpoonup }\limits ^{*}}K_\infty e^{u_\infty }+ \sum _{j=1}^N \pi \delta _{a_j}\), or (ii) \(u_k\rightarrow -\infty \) uniformly locally in \(\mathbb {R}{\setminus } B\) and \(K_k e^{u_k} {\mathop {\rightharpoonup }\limits ^{*}}\sum _{j=1}^N \alpha _j \delta _{a_j}\) with \(\alpha _j\ge \pi \) for every j. This result, resting on the geometric interpretation and analysis of (1) provided in a recent collaboration of the authors with T. Rivière and on a classical work of Blank about immersions of the disk into the plane, is a fractional counterpart of the celebrated works of Brézis–Merle and Li–Shafrir on the 2-dimensional Liouville equation, but providing sharp quantization estimates (\(\alpha _j=\pi \) and \(\alpha _j\ge \pi \)) which are not known in dimension 2 under the weak assumption that \((K_k)\) be bounded in \(L^\infty \) and is allowed to change sign.

     

Solutions of perturbed Schrödinger equations with critical nonlinearity

We consider the perturbed Schrödinger equation

$\left\{\begin{array}{ll}{- \varepsilon ^2 \Delta u + V(x)u = P(x)|u|^{p - 2} u + k(x)|u|^{2* - 2} u} &; {\text{for}}\, x \in {\mathbb{R}}^N\\ \qquad \qquad \quad {u(x) \rightarrow 0} &; \text{as}\, {|x| \rightarrow \infty} \end{array} \right.$

where \(N\geq 3, \ 2^*=2N/(N-2)\) is the Sobolev critical exponent, \(p\in (2, 2^*)\) , P(x) and K(x) are bounded positive functions. Under proper conditions on V we show that it has at least one positive solution provided that \(\varepsilon\leq{\mathcal{E}}\) ; for any \(m\in{\mathbb{N}}\) , it has m pairs of solutions if \(\varepsilon\leq{\mathcal{E}}_{m}\) ; and suppose there exists an orthogonal involution \(\tau:{\mathbb{R}}^{N}\to{\mathbb{R}}^{N}\) such that V(x), P(x) and K(x) are τ -invariant, then it has at least one pair of solutions which change sign exactly once provided that \(\varepsilon\leq{\mathcal{E}}\) , where \({\mathcal{E}}\) and \({\mathcal{E}}_{m}\) are sufficiently small positive numbers. Moreover, these solutions \(u_\varepsilon\to 0\) in \(H^1({\mathbb{R}}^N)\) as \(\varepsilon\to 0\) .

     

The identification problem for complex-valued Ornstein–Uhlenbeck operators in $$L^p(\mathbb {R}^d,\mathbb {C}^N)$$

In this paper we study perturbed Ornstein–Uhlenbeck operators

$$\begin{aligned} \left[ \mathcal {L}_{\infty } v\right] (x)=A\triangle v(x) + \left\langle Sx,\nabla v(x)\right\rangle -B v(x),\,x\in \mathbb {R}^d,\,d\geqslant 2, \end{aligned}$$

for simultaneously diagonalizable matrices \(A,B\in \mathbb {C}^{N,N}\). The unbounded drift term is defined by a skew-symmetric matrix \(S\in \mathbb {R}^{d,d}\). Differential operators of this form appear when investigating rotating waves in time-dependent reaction diffusion systems. We prove under certain conditions that the maximal domain \(\mathcal {D}(A_p)\) of the generator \(A_p\) belonging to the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck semigroup coincides with the domain of \(\mathcal {L}_{\infty }\) in \(L^p(\mathbb {R}^d,\mathbb {C}^N)\) given by

$$\begin{aligned} \mathcal {D}^p_{\mathrm {loc}}(\mathcal {L}_0)=\left\{ v\in W^{2,p}_{\mathrm {loc}}\cap L^p\mid A\triangle v + \left\langle S\cdot ,\nabla v\right\rangle \in L^p\right\} ,\,1<p<\infty . \end{aligned}$$

One key assumption is a new \(L^p\)-dissipativity condition

$$\begin{aligned} |z|^2\mathrm {Re}\,\left\langle w,Aw\right\rangle + (p-2)\mathrm {Re}\,\left\langle w,z\right\rangle \mathrm {Re}\,\left\langle z,Aw\right\rangle \geqslant \gamma _A |z|^2|w|^2\;\forall \,z,w\in \mathbb {C}^N \end{aligned}$$

for some \(\gamma _A>0\). The proof utilizes the following ingredients. First we show the closedness of \(\mathcal {L}_{\infty }\) in \(L^p\) and derive \(L^p\)-resolvent estimates for \(\mathcal {L}_{\infty }\). Then we prove that the Schwartz space is a core of \(A_p\) and apply an \(L^p\)-solvability result of the resolvent equation for \(A_p\). In addition, we derive \(W^{1,p}\)-resolvent estimates. Our results may be considered as extensions of earlier works by Metafune, Pallara and Vespri to the vector-valued complex case.

     

A Sharp Weak-Type $$(\infty ,\infty )$$ Inequality for the Hilbert Transform

The paper is devoted to sharp weak type \((\infty ,\infty )\) estimates for \({\mathcal {H}}^{\mathbb {T}}\) and \({\mathcal {H}}^{\mathbb {R}}\), the Hilbert transforms on the circle and real line, respectively. Specifically, it is proved that

$$\begin{aligned} \left\| {\mathcal {H}}^{\mathbb {T}}f\right\| _{W({\mathbb {T}})}\le \Vert f\Vert _{L^\infty ({\mathbb {T}})} \end{aligned}$$

and

$$\begin{aligned} \left\| {\mathcal {H}}^{\mathbb {R}}f\right\| _{W({\mathbb {R}})}\le \Vert f\Vert _{L^\infty ({\mathbb {R}})}, \end{aligned}$$

where \(W({\mathbb {T}})\) and \(W({\mathbb {R}})\) stand for the weak-\(L^\infty \) spaces introduced by Bennett, DeVore and Sharpley. In both estimates, the constant \(1\) on the right is shown to be the best possible.

     

Regularity for free interface variational problems in a general class of gradients

We present a way to study a wide class of optimal design problems with a perimeter penalization. More precisely, we address existence and regularity properties of saddle points of energies of the form

$$\begin{aligned} (u,A) \quad \mapsto \quad \int _\Omega 2fu \,\mathrm {d}x \; - \int _{\Omega \cap A} \sigma _1\mathscr {A}u\cdot \mathscr {A}u \, \,\mathrm {d}x \; - \int _{\Omega {\setminus } A} \sigma _2\mathscr {A}u\cdot \mathscr {A}u \, \,\mathrm {d}x \; + \; \text {Per }(A;\overline{\Omega }), \end{aligned}$$

where \(\Omega \) is a bounded Lipschitz domain, \(A\subset \mathbb {R}^N\) is a Borel set, \(u:\Omega \subset \mathbb {R}^N \rightarrow \mathbb {R}^d\), \(\mathscr {A}\) is an operator of gradient form, and \(\sigma _1, \sigma _2\) are two not necessarily well-ordered symmetric tensors. The class of operators of gradient form includes scalar- and vector-valued gradients, symmetrized gradients, and higher order gradients. Therefore, our results may be applied to a wide range of problems in elasticity, conductivity or plasticity models. In this context and under mild assumptions on f, we show for a solution (w, A), that the topological boundary of \(A \cap \Omega \) is locally a \(\mathrm {C}^1\)-hypersurface up to a closed set of zero \(\mathscr {H}^{N-1}\)-measure.

     

On one-dimensional superlinear indefinite problems involving the $$\phi $$-Laplacian

Let \(\Omega := ( a,b ) \subset \mathbb {R}\), \(m\in L^{1} ( \Omega ) \) and \(\phi :\mathbb {R\rightarrow R}\) be an odd increasing homeomorphism. We consider the existence of positive solutions for problems of the form

$$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array} [c]{ll} -\phi ( u^{\prime } ) ^{\prime }=m ( x ) f ( u) &{}\quad \text {in } \Omega ,\\ u=0 &{}\quad \text {on } \partial \Omega , \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}$$

where \(f: [ 0,\infty ) \rightarrow [ 0,\infty ) \) is a continuous function which is, roughly speaking, superlinear with respect to \(\phi \). Our approach combines the Guo-Krasnoselski? fixed-point theorem with some estimates on related nonlinear problems. We mention that our results are new even in the case \(m\ge 0\).

     

Multiplicity and bifurcation of positive solutions for nonhomogeneous semilinear fractional Laplacian problems

In this paper we consider the following nonhomogeneous semilinear fractional Laplacian problem

$$\begin{aligned} {\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} (-\Delta )^s u+u=\lambda (f(x,u)+h(x)) \,\, \text {in}\,\, \mathbb {R}^N,\\ u\in H^s(\mathbb {R}^N), u>0\,\, \text {in}\,\, \mathbb {R}^N, \end{array}\right. } \end{aligned}$$

where \(\lambda >0\) and \(\lim _{|x|\rightarrow \infty }f(x,u)=\overline{f}(u)\) uniformly on any compact subset of \([0,\infty )\). We prove that under suitable conditions on f and h, there exists \(0<\lambda ^*<+\infty \) such that the problem has at least two positive solutions if \(\lambda \in (0,\lambda ^*)\), a unique positive solution if \(\lambda =\lambda ^*\), and no solution if \(\lambda >\lambda ^*\). We also obtain the bifurcation of positive solutions for the problem at \((\lambda ^*,u^*)\) and further analyse the set of positive solutions.

     

Global $$C^{1,\al pha }$$ regularity and e xistence of multi ple solutions for singular p( x)-La placian equations

In this paper we study the following singular p(x)-Laplacian problem

$$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{l@{\quad }l} - \text{ div } \left( |\nabla u|^{p(x)-2} \nabla u\right) =\frac{ \lambda }{u^{\beta (x)}}+u^{q(x)}, &{} \text{ in }\quad \Omega , \\ u>0, &{} \text{ in }\quad \Omega , \\ u=0, &{} \text{ on }\quad \partial \Omega , \end{array}\right. \end{aligned}$$

where \(\Omega \) is a bounded domain in \(\mathbb {R}^N\), \(N\ge 2\), with smooth boundary \(\partial \Omega \), \(\beta \in C^1(\bar{\Omega })\) with \( 0< \beta (x) <1\), \(p\in C^1(\bar{\Omega })\), \(q \in C(\bar{\Omega })\) with \(p(x)>1\), \(p(x)< q(x) +1 <p^*(x)\) for \(x \in \bar{\Omega }\), where \( p^*(x)= \frac{Np(x)}{N-p(x)} \) for \(p(x) <N\) and \( p^*(x)= \infty \) for \( p(x) \ge N\). We establish \(C^{1,\alpha }\) regularity of weak solutions of the problem and strong comparison principle. Based on these two results, we prove the existence of multiple (at least two) positive solutions for a certain range of \(\lambda \).

     

Exact multiplicity for the perturbed Q-curvature problem in {\mathbb{R}^N,N \geq 5}

Let N ≥ 5 and \({{\mathcal{D}}^{2,2} (\mathbb{R}^N)}\) denote the closure of \({C_0^\infty (\mathbb{R}^N)}\) in the norm \({\|u\|_{{\mathcal{D}}^{2,2} (\mathbb{R}^N)}^2 := \int\nolimits_{\mathbb{R}^N} |\Delta u|^2.}\) Let \({K \in C^2 (\mathbb{R}^N).}\) We consider the following problem for ? ≥ 0: $$(P_\varepsilon) \left\{\begin{array}{llll}{\rm Find} \, u \in {\mathcal{D}}^{2, 2} (\mathbb{R}^N) \, \, {\rm solving} :\\ \left.\begin{array}{lll}\Delta^2 u = (1+ \varepsilon K (x)) u^{\frac{N+4}{N-4}}\\ u > 0 \end{array}\right\}{\rm in} \, \mathbb{R}^N.\end{array}\right.$$ We show an exact multiplicity result for (P _? ) for all small ? > 0.     

Intrinsic Hölder Continuity of Harmonic Functions

We consider the stochastic differential equation (SDE) of the form

$$\begin{array}{@{}rcl@{}} \left\{\begin{array}{rcl} dX^ x(t) &=& \sigma(X(t-)) dL(t) \\ X^ x(0)&=&x,\quad x\in{\mathbb{R}}^ d, \end{array}\right. \end{array} $$

where \(\sigma :{\mathbb {R}}^ d\to {\mathbb {R}}^ d\) is globally Lipschitz continuous and L={L(t):t≥0} is a Lévy process. Under this condition on σ it is well known that the above problem has a unique solution X. Let \((\mathcal {P}_{t})_{t\ge 0}\) be the Markovian semigroup associated to X defined by \(\left ({\mathcal {P}}_{t} f\right ) (x) := \mathbb {E} \left [ f(X^ x(t))\right ]\), t≥0, \(x\in {\mathbb {R}}^{d}\), \(f\in \mathcal {B}_{b}({\mathbb {R}}^{d})\). Let B be a pseudo–differential operator characterized by its symbol q. Fix \(\rho \in \mathbb {R}\). In this article we investigate under which conditions on σ, L and q there exist two constants γ>0 and C>0 such that

$$\left| B {\mathcal{P}}_{t} u \right|_{H^{\rho}_{2}} \le C \, t^{-\gamma} \,\left| u \right|_{H^{\rho}_{2}}, \quad \forall u \in {H^{\rho}_{2}}(\mathbb{R}^{d} ),\, t>0. $$

     

Infinitely many non-radial solutions for fractional Nirenberg problem

In this paper, the prescribed \(\sigma \)-curvature problem

$$\begin{aligned} P_{\sigma }^{g_0} u={\tilde{K}}(x)u^{\frac{N+2\sigma }{N-2\sigma }}, x\in {\mathbb {S}}^N,u>0 \end{aligned}$$

is considered. When \({\tilde{K}}(x)\) is some axis symmetric function on \({\mathbb {S}}^N\), by using singular perturbation method, it is proved that this problem possesses infinitely many non-radial solutions for \(0<\sigma \le 1\) and \(N> 2\sigma +2\).

     

Multiple complex-valued solutions for nonlinear magnetic Schrödinger equations

We study, in the semiclassical limit, the singularly perturbed nonlinear Schrödinger equations

$$\begin{aligned} L^{\hbar }_{A,V} u = f(|u|^2)u \quad \hbox {in}\quad \mathbb {R}^N \end{aligned}$$

(0.1)

where \(N \ge 3\), \(L^{\hbar }_{A,V}\) is the Schrödinger operator with a magnetic field having source in a \(C^1\) vector potential A and a scalar continuous (electric) potential V defined by

$$\begin{aligned} L^{\hbar }_{A,V}= -\hbar ^2 \Delta -\frac{2\hbar }{i} A \cdot \nabla + |A|^2- \frac{\hbar }{i}\mathrm{div}A + V(x). \end{aligned}$$

(0.2)

Here, f is a nonlinear term which satisfies the so-called Berestycki-Lions conditions. We assume that there exists a bounded domain \(\Omega \subset \mathbb {R}^N\) such that

$$\begin{aligned} m_0 \equiv \inf _{x \in \Omega } V(x) < \inf _{x \in \partial \Omega } V(x) \end{aligned}$$

and we set \(K = \{ x \in \Omega \ | \ V(x) = m_0\}\). For \(\hbar >0\) small we prove the existence of at least \({\mathrm{cupl}}(K) + 1\) geometrically distinct, complex-valued solutions to (0.1) whose moduli concentrate around K as \(\hbar \rightarrow 0\).

     

$${\varvec{\mathcal {}}}$$-minimaxness and local cohomology modules

Let R be a commutative Noetherian ring, \({\mathfrak {a}}\) an ideal of R, M a finitely generated R-module, and \({\mathcal {S}}\) a Serre subcategory of the category of R-modules. We introduce the concept of \({\mathcal {S}}\)-minimax R-modules and the notion of the \({\mathcal {S}}\)-finiteness dimension

$$\begin{aligned} f_{\mathfrak {a}}^{{\mathcal {S}}}(M):=\inf \lbrace f_{\mathfrak {a}R_{\mathfrak {p}}}(M_{\mathfrak {p}}) \vert \mathfrak {p}\in {\text {Supp}}_R(M/ \mathfrak {a}M) \text { and } R/\mathfrak {p}\notin {\mathcal {S}} \rbrace \end{aligned}$$

and we will prove that: (i) If \({\text {H}}_{\mathfrak {a}}^{0}(M), \cdots ,{\text {H}}_{\mathfrak {a}}^{n-1}(M)\) are \({\mathcal {S}}\)-minimax, then the set \(\lbrace \mathfrak {p}\in {\text {Ass}}_R( {\text {H}}_{\mathfrak {a}}^{n}(M)) \vert R/\mathfrak {p}\notin {\mathcal {S}}\rbrace \) is finite. This generalizes the main results of Brodmann–Lashgari (Proc Am Math Soc 128(10):2851–2853, 2000), Quy (Proc Am Math Soc 138:1965–1968, 2010), Bahmanpour–Naghipour (Proc Math Soc 136:2359–2363, 2008), Asadollahi–Naghipour (Commun Algebra 43:953–958, 2015), and Mehrvarz et al. (Commun Algebra 43:4860–4872, 2015). (ii) If \({\mathcal {S}}\) satisfies the condition \(C_{\mathfrak {a}}\), then

$$\begin{aligned} f_{\mathfrak {a}}^{{\mathcal {S}}}(M)= \inf \lbrace i\in {\mathbb {N}}_{0} \vert {\text {H}}_{\mathfrak {a}}^{i}(M) \text { is not } {\mathcal {S}}\hbox {-}minimax\rbrace . \end{aligned}$$

This is a formulation of Faltings’ Local-global principle for the \({\mathcal {S}}\)-minimax local cohomology modules. (iii) \( \sup \lbrace i\in {\mathbb {N}}_{0} \vert {\text {H}}_{\mathfrak {a}}^{i}(M) \text { is not } {\mathcal {S}}\text {-minimax} \rbrace = \sup \lbrace i\in {\mathbb {N}}_{0} \vert {\text {H}}_{\mathfrak {a}}^{i}(M) \text { is not in } {\mathcal {S}} \rbrace \).

     

Monotonicity of solutions for some nonlocal elliptic problems in half-spaces

In this paper we consider classical solutions u of the semilinear fractional problem \((-\Delta )^s u = f(u)\) in \({\mathbb {R}}^N_+\) with \(u=0\) in \({\mathbb {R}}^N {\setminus } {\mathbb {R}}^N_+\), where \((-\Delta )^s\), \(0<s<1\), stands for the fractional laplacian, \(N\ge 2\), \({\mathbb {R}}^N_+=\{x=(x',x_N)\in {\mathbb {R}}^N{:}\ x_N>0\}\) is the half-space and \(f\in C^1\) is a given function. With no additional restriction on the function f, we show that bounded, nonnegative, nontrivial classical solutions are indeed positive in \({\mathbb {R}}^N_+\) and verify

$$\begin{aligned} \frac{\partial u}{\partial x_N}>0 \quad \hbox {in } {\mathbb {R}}^N_+. \end{aligned}$$

This is in contrast with previously known results for the local case \(s=1\), where nonnegative solutions which are not positive do exist and the monotonicity property above is not known to hold in general even for positive solutions when \(f(0)<0\).

     

On $$\ell $$-regular bipartitions modulo $$\ell $$

Let \(B_\ell (n)\) denote the number of \(\ell \)-regular bipartitions of n. In this paper, we prove several infinite families of congruences satisfied by \(B_\ell (n)\) for \(\ell \in {\{5,7,13\}}\). For example, we show that for all \(\alpha >0\) and \(n\ge 0\),

$$\begin{aligned} B_5\left( 4^\alpha n+\frac{5\times 4^\alpha -2}{6}\right)\equiv & {} 0 \ (\text {mod}\ 5),\\ B_7\left( 5^{8\alpha }n+\displaystyle \frac{5^{8\alpha }-1}{2}\right)\equiv & {} 3^\alpha B_7(n)\ (\text {mod}\ 7) \end{aligned}$$

and

$$\begin{aligned} B_{13}\left( 5^{12\alpha }n+5^{12\alpha }-1\right) \equiv B_{13}(n)\ (\text {mod}\ 13). \end{aligned}$$

     

Harnack Inequality for Non-Local Schrödinger Operators

Let \(x \in \mathbb {R}^{d}\), d ≥ 3, and \(f: \mathbb {R}^{d} \rightarrow \mathbb {R}\) be a twice differentiable function with all second partial derivatives being continuous. For 1 ≤ i, j ≤ d, let \(a_{ij} : \mathbb {R}^{d} \rightarrow \mathbb {R}\) be a differentiable function with all partial derivatives being continuous and bounded. We shall consider the Schrödinger operator associated to

$$\mathcal{L}f(x) = \frac12 \sum\limits_{i=1}^{d} \sum\limits_{j=1}^{d} \frac{\partial}{\partial x_{i}} \left( a_{ij}(\cdot) \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_{j}}\right)(x) + {\int}_{\mathbb{R}^{d}\setminus{\{0\}}} [f(y) - f(x) ]J(x,y)dy $$

where \(J: \mathbb {R}^{d} \times \mathbb {R}^{d} \rightarrow \mathbb {R}\) is a symmetric measurable function. Let \(q: \mathbb {R}^{d} \rightarrow \mathbb {R}.\) We specify assumptions on a, q, and J so that non-negative bounded solutions to

$$\mathcal{L}f + qf = 0 $$

satisfy a Harnack inequality. As tools we also prove a Carleson estimate, a uniform Boundary Harnack Principle and a 3G inequality for solutions to \(\mathcal {L}f = 0.\)