Combinatorial congruences modulo prime powers

Let be any prime, and let and be nonnegative integers. Let and . We establish the congruence

(motivated by a conjecture arising from algebraic topology) and obtain the following vast generalization of Lucas' theorem: If is greater than one, and are nonnegative integers with , then

We also present an application of the first congruence to Bernoulli polynomials and apply the second congruence to show that a -adic order bound given by the authors in a previous paper can be attained when .

     

A version of Bourgain's theorem

Let satisfy We construct an orthonormal basis for such that and are both uniformly bounded in . Here . This generalizes a theorem of Bourgain and is closely related to recent results on the Balian-Low theorem.

     

On the correlations of directions in the Euclidean plane

Let denote the repartition of the -level correlation measure of the finite set of directions , where is the fixed point and is an integer lattice point in the square . We show that the average of the pair correlation repartition over in a fixed disc converges as . More precisely we prove, for every and , the estimate

We also prove that for each individual point , the -level correlation diverges at any point as , and we give an explicit lower bound for the rate of divergence.

     

An improved Mordell type bound for exponential sums

For a sparse polynomial , with and , we show that

thus improving upon a bound of Mordell. Analogous results are obtained for Laurent polynomials and for mixed exponential sums.

     

On a Liouville-type theorem and the Fujita blow-up phenomenon

The main purpose of this paper is to obtain the well-known results of H.Fujita and K.Hayakawa on the nonexistence of nontrivial nonnegative global solutions for the Cauchy problem for the equation

with on the half-space as a consequence of a new Liouville theorem of elliptic type for solutions of () on . This new result is in turn a consequence of other new phenomena established for nonlinear evolution problems. In particular, we prove that the inequality

has no nontrivial solutions on when We also show that the inequality

has no nontrivial nonnegative solutions for , and it has no solutions on bounded below by a positive constant for 1.$">

     

Uniform Sobolev inequalities and absolute continuity of periodic operators

We establish certain uniform inequalities for a family of second order elliptic operators of the form on the -torus, where and is a symmetric, positive definite matrix with real constant entries. Using these Sobolev type inequalities, we obtain the absolute continuity of the spectrum of the periodic Dirac operator on with singular potential. The absolute continuity of the elliptic operator div on with a positive periodic scalar function is also studied.

     

On algebraic polynomials with random coefficients

The expected number of real zeros and maxima of the curve representing algebraic polynomial of the form

where , are independent standard normal random variables, are known. In this paper we provide the asymptotic value for the expected number of maxima which occur below a given level. We also show that most of the zero crossings of the curve representing the polynomial are perpendicular to the axis. The results show a significant difference in mathematical behaviour between our polynomial and the random algebraic polynomial of the form which was previously the most studied.

     

Fundamental groups of moduli and the Grothendieck-Teichmüller group

Let denote the moduli space of Riemann spheres with ordered marked points. In this article we define the group of quasi-special symmetric outer automorphisms of the algebraic fundamental group for all to be the group of outer automorphisms respecting the conjugacy classes of the inertia subgroups of and commuting with the group of outer automorphisms of obtained by permuting the marked points. Our main result states that is isomorphic to the Grothendieck-Teichmüller group for all .

     

Weak type estimates for cone multipliers on

We consider operators associated with the Fourier multipliers and show that is of weak type on , , for the critical value .

     

Explicit merit factor formulae for Fekete and Turyn polynomials

We give explicit formulas for the norm (or equivalently for the merit factors) of various sequences of polynomials related to the Fekete polynomials

where is the Legendre symbol. For example for an odd prime,

where is the class number of . Similar explicit formulas are given for various polynomials including an example of Turyn's that is constructed by cyclically permuting the first quarter of the coefficients of . This is the sequence that has the largest known asymptotic merit factor. Explicitly,

where denotes the nearest integer, satisfies

where

Indeed we derive a closed form for the norm of all shifted Fekete polynomials

Namely

and if .

     

Weak amenability of triangular Banach algebras

Let and be unital Banach algebras, and let be a Banach -module. Then becomes a triangular Banach algebra when equipped with the Banach space norm . A Banach algebra is said to be -weakly amenable if all derivations from into its dual space are inner. In this paper we investigate Arens regularity and -weak amenability of a triangular Banach algebra in relation to that of the algebras , and their action on the module .

     

Damped wave equation with a critical nonlinearity

We study large time asymptotics of small solutions to the Cauchy problem for nonlinear damped wave equations with a critical nonlinearity

where 0,$"> and space dimensions . Assume that the initial data

where \frac{n}{2},$"> weighted Sobolev spaces are

Also we suppose that

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where

Then we prove that there exists a positive such that the Cauchy problem above has a unique global solution satisfying the time decay property

for all 0,$"> where

     

Differentiability of spectral functions for symmetric -stable processes

Let be a signed Radon measure in the Kato class and define a Schrödinger type operator on . We show that its spectral bound is differentiable if and is Green-tight.

     

A probabilistic approach to positive harmonic functions in a slab with alternating Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions

Let , , be a dimensional slab. Denote points by , where and . Denoting the boundary of the slab by , let

where is an ordered sequence of intervals on the right half line (that is, b_{n}$">). Assume that the lengths of the intervals are bounded and that the spaces between consecutive intervals are bounded and bounded away from zero. Let . Let and denote respectively the cone of bounded, positive harmonic functions in and the cone of positive harmonic functions in which satisfy the Dirichlet boundary condition on and the Neumann boundary condition on .

Letting , the main result of this paper, under a modest assumption on the sequence , may be summarized as follows when :

1. If , then and are both one-dimensional (as in the case of the Neumann boundary condition on the entire boundary). In particular, this occurs if with 2$">.

2. If and , then and is one-dimensional. In particular, this occurs if .

3. If , then and the set of minimal elements generating is isomorphic to (as in the case of the Dirichlet boundary condition on the entire boundary). In particular, this occurs if with .

When , as soon as there is at least one interval of Dirichlet boundary condition. The dichotomy for is as above.

     

Semi-classical limit for random walks

Let be a discrete symmetric random walk on a compact Lie group with step distribution and let be the associated transition operator on . The irreducibles of the left regular representation of on are finite dimensional invariant subspaces for and the spectrum of is the union of the sub-spectra on the irreducibles, which consist of real eigenvalues . Our main result is an asymptotic expansion for the spectral measures

along rays of representations in a positive Weyl chamber , i.e. for sequences of representations , with . As a corollary we obtain some estimates on the spectral radius of the random walk. We also analyse the fine structure of the spectrum for certain random walks on (for which is essentially a direct sum of Harper operators).

     

A reduced Tits quadratic form and tameness of three-partite subamalgams of tiled orders

Let be a complete discrete valuation domain with the unique maximal ideal . We suppose that is an algebra over an algebraically closed field and . Subamalgam -suborders of a tiled -order are studied in the paper by means of the integral Tits quadratic form . A criterion for a subamalgam -order to be of tame lattice type is given in terms of the Tits quadratic form and a forbidden list of minor -suborders of presented in the tables.

     

A new result on the Pompeiu problem

A nonempty bounded open set () is said to have the Pompeiu property if and only if the only continuous function on for which the integral of over is zero for all rigid motions of is . We consider a nonempty bounded open set with Lipschitz boundary and we assume that the complement of is connected. We show that the failure of the Pompeiu property for implies some geometric conditions. Using these conditions we prove that a special kind of solid tori in , , has the Pompeiu property. So far the result was proved only for solid tori in . We also examine the case of planar domains. Finally we extend the example of solid tori to domains in bounded by hypersurfaces of revolution.

     

One-dimensional asymptotic classes of finite structures

A collection of finite -structures is a 1-dimensional asymptotic class if for every and every formula , where :

(i)

There is a positive constant and a finite set such that for every and , either , or for some ,

(ii)

For every , there is an -formula , such that is precisely the set of with

One-dimensional asymptotic classes are introduced and studied here. These classes come equipped with a notion of dimension that is intended to provide for the study of classes of finite structures a concept that is central in the development of model theory for infinite structures. Connections with the model theory of infinite structures are also drawn.

     

On the behavior of the algebraic transfer

Let be the algebraic transfer, which is defined by W. Singer as an algebraic version of the geometrical transfer . It has been shown that the algebraic transfer is highly nontrivial and, more precisely, that is an isomorphism for . However, Singer showed that is not an epimorphism. In this paper, we prove that does not detect the nonzero element for every . As a consequence, the localized given by inverting the squaring operation is not an epimorphism. This gives a negative answer to a prediction by Minami.

     

Impulsive fractional boundary value problem with <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Laplace operator

In the present paper, we deal with the existence and multiplicity of solutions for the following impulsive fractional boundary value problem

$$\begin{aligned} {_{t}}D_{T}^{\alpha }\left( \left| {_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t)\right| ^{p-2}{_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t)\right) + a(t)|u(t)|^{p-2}u(t)= & {} f(t,u(t)),\;\;t\ne t_j,\;\;\hbox {a.e.}\;\;t\in [0,T],\\ \Delta \left( {_{t}}I_{T}^{1-\alpha }\left( \left| {_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t_j)\right| ^{p-2}{_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t_j)\right) \right)= & {} I_j(u(t_j))\;\;j=1,2,\ldots ,n,\\ u(0)= & {} u(T) = 0. \end{aligned}$$

where \(\alpha \in (1/p, 1]\), \(1<p<\infty \), \(0 = t_0<t_1< t_2< \cdots< t_n < t_{n+1} = T\), \(f:[0,T]\times \mathbb {R} \rightarrow \mathbb {R}\) and \(I_j : \mathbb {R} \rightarrow \mathbb {R}\), \(j = 1, \ldots , n\), are continuous functions, \(a\in C[0,T]\) and

$$\begin{aligned} \Delta \left( {_{t}}I_{T}^{1-\alpha }\left( \left| {_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t_j)\right| ^{p-2}{_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t_j)\right) \right)= & {} {_{t}}I_{T}^{1-\alpha }\left( \left| {_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u\left( t_j^+\right) \right| ^{p-2}{_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u\left( t_j^+\right) \right) \\&- {_{t}}I_{T}^{1-\alpha }\left( \left| {_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t_j^-)\right| ^{p-2}{_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u\left( t_j^-\right) \right) ,\\ {_{t}}I_{T}^{1-\alpha }\left( \left| {_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u\left( t_j^+\right) \right| ^{p-2}{_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u\left( t_j^+\right) \right)= & {} \lim _{t \rightarrow t_j^+} {_{t}}I_{T}^{1-\alpha }\left( \left| {_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t)\right| ^{p-2}{_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t)\right) ,\\ {_{t}}I_{T}^{1-\alpha }\left( \left| {_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t_j^-)\right| ^{p-2}{_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t_j^-)\right)= & {} \lim _{t\rightarrow t_j^-}{_{t}}I_{T}^{1-\alpha }\left( \left| {_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t)\right| ^{p-2}{_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t)\right) . \end{aligned}$$

By using variational methods and critical point theory, we give some criteria to guarantee that the above-mentioned impulsive problems have at least one weak solution and a sequences of weak solutions.