Asymptotic Behaviour of Iterates of Volterra Operators on L p (0, 1)

Given k ∈ L¹ (0,1) satisfying certain smoothness and growth conditions at 0, we consider the Volterra convolution operator V_k defined on L^p (0,1) by

On Uniform Exponential Stability of Exponentially Bounded Evolution Families

A result of Barbashin ([1], [15]) states that an exponentially bounded evolution family defined on a Banach space and satisfying some measurability conditions is uniformly exponentially stable if and only if for some 1 ≤ p < ∞, we have that:

Fourth order equations of critical Sobolev growth. Energy function and solutions of bounded energy in the conformally flat case

Given (M,g) a smooth compact Riemannian manifold of dimension n ≥ 5, we consider equations like

Compactness of Bochner representable operators on Orlicz spaces

We study compactness properties of linear operators from an Orlicz space L^Φ provided with a natural mixed topology to a Banach space (X, || · ||_X). We derive that every Bochner representable operator is -compact. In particular, it is shown that every Bochner representable operator is (τ(L^∞, L¹), || · ||_X)-compact.      

Image of the Spectral Measure of a Jacobi Field and the Corresponding Operators

By definition, a Jacobi field is a family of commuting selfadjoint three-diagonal operators in the Fock space The operators J(ϕ) are indexed by the vectors of a real Hilbert space H₊. The spectral measure ρ of the field J is defined on the space H₋ of functionals over H₊. The image of the measure ρ under a mapping is a probability measure ρ_K on T₋. We obtain a family J_K of operators whose spectral measure is equal to ρ_K. We also obtain the chaotic decomposition for the space L²(T₋, d_{ρ K}).     

Weighted estimates for multilinear commutators of Marcinkiewicz integral

Let μ be the n-dimensional Marcinkiewicz integral and μb the multilinear commutator of μ. In this paper, the following weighted inequalities are proved for ω ∈ A∞ and 0 〈 p 〈 ∞,
｜｜μ（f）｜｜LP（ω）≤C｜Mf｜LP（ω） and ｜｜μb（f）｜｜LP（ω）≤C｜｜ML（log L）^1/r f｜｜LP（ω）.
The weighted weak L（log L）^1/r -type estimate is also established when p=1 and ω∈A1.     

Bounds on Variation of Spectral Subspaces under J-Self-adjoint Perturbations

Let A be a self-adjoint operator on a Hilbert space . Assume that the spectrum of A consists of two disjoint components σ₀ and σ₁. Let V be a bounded operator on , off-diagonal and J-self-adjoint with respect to the orthogonal decomposition where and are the spectral subspaces of A associated with the spectral sets σ₀ and σ₁, respectively. We find (optimal) conditions on V guaranteeing that the perturbed operator L = A + V is similar to a self-adjoint operator. Moreover, we prove a number of (sharp) norm bounds on the variation of the spectral subspaces of A under the perturbation V. Some of the results obtained are reformulated in terms of the Krein space theory. As an example, the quantum harmonic oscillator under a -symmetric perturbation is discussed. This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Heisenberg-Landau Program, and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.     

Remarks on Gagliardo–Nirenberg type inequality with critical Sobolev space and BMO

We consider the generalized Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequality in in the homogeneous Sobolev space with the critical differential order s = n/r, which describes the embedding such as for all q with p ≦ q < ∞, where 1 < p < ∞ and 1 < r < ∞. We establish the optimal growth rate as q → ∞ of this embedding constant. In particular, we realize the limiting end-point r = ∞ as the space of BMO in such a way that with the constant C _n depending only on n. As an application, we make it clear that the well known John–Nirenberg inequality is a consequence of our estimate. Furthermore, it is clarified that the L ^∞-bound is established by means of the BMO-norm and the logarithm of the -norm with s > n/r, which may be regarded as a generalization of the Brezis–Gallouet–Wainger inequality.     

Concentration of mass on convex bodies

We establish sharp concentration of mass inequality for isotropic convex bodies: there exists an absolute constant c >  0 such that if K is an isotropic convex body in , then

On exact constant in a one-dimensional embedding theorem

In the case 1≤p<q≤∞, the question on the exact constant in the embedding of the space W _p ¹ (0,1) into the space L_q(0,1) is studied, i.e.,

Some Properties of Essential Spectra of a Positive Operator

Let E be a Banach lattice, T be a bounded operator on E. The Weyl essential spectrum σ_ew(T) of the operator T is a set , where is a set of all compact operators on E. In particular for a positive operator T next subsets of the spectrum

Beurling’s analyticity theorem for quantum differences

A theorem of Beurling states that if f satisfies , n = 1, 2,..., for some 0 < ρ < 2, on a real interval I, then f is analytic in a rhombus containing I. We study the corresponding problem for the quantum differences Δ _n f (q, x), q > 1, n = 1, 2,..., for functions defined on (0, ∞) and prove quantitative and qualitative analogues of Beurling’s result. We also characterize the analyticity of f on subintervals of (0, ∞) in q-analytic terms.     

On optimal condition numbers for Markov chains

Let T and be arbitrary nonnegative, irreducible, stochastic matrices corresponding to two ergodic Markov chains on n states. A function κ is called a condition number for Markov chains with respect to the (α, β)–norm pair if . Here π and are the stationary distribution vectors of the two chains, respectively. Various condition numbers, particularly with respect to the (1, ∞) and (∞, ∞)-norm pairs have been suggested in the literature. They were ranked according to their size by Cho and Meyer in a paper from 2001. In this paper we first of all show that what we call the generalized ergodicity coefficient , where e is the n-vector of all 1’s and A ^# is the group generalized inverse of A = I − T, is the smallest condition number of Markov chains with respect to the (p, ∞)-norm pair. We use this result to identify the smallest condition number of Markov chains among the (∞, ∞) and (1, ∞)-norm pairs. These are, respectively, κ ₃ and κ ₆ in the Cho–Meyer list of 8 condition numbers. Kirkland has studied κ ₃(T). He has shown that and he has characterized transition matrices for which equality holds. We prove here again that 2κ ₃(T) ≤ κ(6) which appears in the Cho–Meyer paper and we characterize the transition matrices T for which . There is actually only one such matrix: T = (J _n  − I)/(n − 1), where J _n is the n × n matrix of all 1’s. This research was supported in part by NSERC under Grant OGP0138251 and NSA Grant No. 06G–232.     

Spaces of compact operators and their dual spaces

Theω′-topology on the spaceL(X, Y) of bounded linear operators from the Banach spaceX into the Banach spaceY is discussed in [10]. Let ℒ^w' (X, Y) denote the space of allT∈L(X, Y) for which there exists a sequence of compact linear operators (T _n)⊂K(X, Y) such thatT=ω′−lim_nT_n and let . We show that is a Banach ideal of operators and that the continuous dual spaceK(X, Y)* is complemented in . This results in necessary and sufficient conditions forK(X, Y) to be reflexive, whereby the spacesX andY need not satisfy the approximation property. Similar results follow whenX andY are locally convex spaces. Financial support from the Potchefstroom University and Maseno University is greatly acknowledged. Financial support from the NRF and Potchefstroom University is greatly acknowledged.     

The limit as <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis> → ∞ in a nonlocal <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Laplacian evolution equation: a nonlocal approximation of a model for sandpiles

In this paper, we study the nonlocal ∞-Laplacian type diffusion equation obtained as the limit as p → ∞ to the nonlocal analogous to the p-Laplacian evolution,

An extension of Takahashi theorem for the linearized operators of the higher order mean curvatures

We study hypersurfaces in Euclidean space whose position vector x satisfies the condition L _k x = Ax + b, where L _k is the linearized operator of the (k + 1)th mean curvature of the hypersurface for a fixed , is a constant matrix and is a constant vector. For every k, we prove that the only hypersurfaces satisfying that condition are hypersurfaces with zero (k + 1)th mean curvature and open pieces of round hyperspheres and generalized right spherical cylinders of the form , with . This extends a previous classification for hypersurfaces in satisfying , where is the Laplacian operator of the hypersurface, given independently by Hasanis and Vlachos [J. Austral. Math. Soc. Ser. A 53, 377–384 (1991) and Chen and Petrovic [Bull. Austral. Math. Soc. 44, 117–129 (1991)].      

On the Multiplicity of Nodal Solutions to a Singularly Perturbed Neumann Problem

We consider the problem

Ultracontractivity and embedding into <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Superscript>∞</Superscript>

Given a self-adjoint semigroup e^−tA satisfying an ultracontractivity bound of the type , we find conditions on the sequence that imply that f is a bounded function. Sobolev’s classical embedding theorem says that, when A is the Laplace operator on , for some k > d/4 suffices to imply that f is bounded. In the cases we are interested in, the desired condition involves the whole sequence and depends on the behavior of the ultracontractivity function m. Research of A. Bendikov was supported by the Polish Goverment Scientific Research Fund, Grant 1 PO3 A 03129. Research of T. Coulhon was partially supported by the European Commission (IHP Network “Harmonic Analysis and Related Problems” 2002–2006, Contract HPRN-CT-2001-00273-HARP). Research of L. Saloff-Coste was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0102126.     

Stability of the generalized alternative cauchy equation

Let G be a commutative semigroup and letL be a complete Archimedean Riesz Space. Suppose thatF: G → L satisfies for somee ∈ L ₊ the inequality