On the generalized Ball bases

The Ball basis was introduced for cubic polynomials by Ball, and two different generalizations for higher degree m polynomials have been called the Said–Ball and the Wang–Ball basis, respectively. In this paper, we analyze some shape preserving and stability properties of these bases. We prove that the Wang–Ball basis is strictly monotonicity preserving for all m. However, it is not geometrically convexity preserving and is not totally positive for m>3, in contrast with the Said–Ball basis. We prove that the Said–Ball basis is better conditioned than the Wang–Ball basis and we include a stable conversion between both generalized Ball bases. The Wang–Ball basis has an evaluation algorithm with linear complexity. We perform an error analysis of the evaluation algorithms of both bases and compare them with other algorithms for polynomial evaluation.     

Critical Length for Design Purposes and Extended Chebyshev Spaces

We analyze the connection between two ideas of apparently different nature. On one hand, the existence of an extended Chebyshev basis, which means that the Hermite interpolation problem has always a unique solution. On the other hand, the existence of a normalized totally positive basis, which means that the space is suitable for design purposes. We prove that the intervals where the existence of a normalized totally positive basis is guaranteed are those intervals where the existence of an extended Chebyshev basis of the space of derivatives can be ensured. We apply our results to the spaces C _n generated by 1,t, , t ^n-2, cos t, sin t. In particular, C ₅ is a space suitable for design which permits the exact reproduction of remarkable parametric curves, including lines and circles with a single control polygon. We prove that this space has the minimal dimension for this purpose.     

Extremal Properties of Bases for Representations of Semisimple Lie Algebras

Let be a complex semisimple Lie algebra with specified Chevalley generators. Let V be a finite dimensional representation of with weight basis . The supporting graph P of is defined to be the directed graph whose vertices are the elements of and whose colored edges describe the supports of the actions of the Chevalley generators on V. Four properties of weight bases are introduced in this setting, and several families of representations are shown to have weight bases which have or are conjectured to have each of the four properties. The basis can be determined to be edge-minimizing (respectively, edge-minimal) by comparing P to the supporting graphs of other weight bases of V. The basis is solitary if it is the only basis (up to scalar changes) which has P as its supporting graph. The basis is a modular lattice basis if P is the Hasse diagram of a modular lattice. The Gelfand-Tsetlin bases for the irreducible representations of sl(n, ) serve as the prototypes for the weight bases sought in this paper. These bases, as well as weight bases for the fundamental representations of sp(2n, ) and the irreducible one-dimensional weight space representations of any semisimple Lie algebra, are shown to be solitary and edge-minimal and to have modular lattice supports. Tools developed here are used to construct uniformly the irreducible one-dimensional weight space representations. Similar results for certain irreducible representations of the odd orthogonal Lie algebra o(2n + 1, ), the exceptional Lie algebra G ₂, and for the adjoint and short adjoint representations of the simple Lie algebras are announced.     

Positive Refinable Operators

Recently, linear positive operators of Bernstein–Schoenberg type, relative to B-splines bases, have been considered. The properties of these operators are derived mainly from the total positivity of normalized B-spline bases. In this paper we shall construct a generalization of the operator considered in [15] by means of normalized totally positive bases generated by a particular class of totally positive scaling functions. Next, we shall study its approximation properties. Our results can be established also for more general sequences of normalized totally positive bases.     

The Uniformity of Non-Uniform Gabor Bases

There have been extensive studies on non-uniform Gabor bases and frames in recent years. But interestingly there have not been a single example of a compactly supported orthonormal Gabor basis in which either the frequency set or the translation set is non-uniform. Nor has there been an example in which the modulus of the generating function is not a characteristic function of a set. In this paper, we prove that in the one dimension and if we assume that the generating function g(x) of an orthonormal Gabor basis is supported on an interval, then both the frequency and the translation sets of the Gabor basis must be lattices. In fact, the Gabor basis must be the trivial one in the sense that |g(x)|=c(x) for some fundamental interval of the translation set. We also give examples showing that compactly supported non-uniform orthonormal Gabor bases exist in higher dimensions.     

Spaces with Almost Strictly Totally Positive Bases

In spline spaces there are often totally positive bases possessing a strong property called almost strictly total positivity. In this paper, it is proved that, for totally positive bases of continuous functions B, the following concepts are equivalent: (i) B is almost strictly totally positive, (ii) B satifies a Schoenberg-Whitney Theorem, (iii) The functions in B are locally linearly independent. Some classical examples of almost strictly totally positive bases are given, completing the knowledge of their properties known in the mathematical literature. Some criteria to know the existence of almost strictly totally positive bases are also derived.     

A generalization of the variation diminishing property

For totally positive matrices, a new variation diminishing property on the sign of consecutive minors is obtained. this property is used to show shape preserving properties of curves generated by totally positive bases and, in particular, of B-spline curves.     

Group automorphisms with finite entropy

A compact metrie abelian group X with the normalized Haar measure is a Lebesgue probability space. A group automorphism ofX is an invertible measure preserving transformation of the probability space. This paper is to show that if the entropy of is finite, then there exist totally disconnected subgroupsH andN, a finite-dimensional subgroupS and a subgroupT satisfying the conditions: (i)H, N, S andT are strictly -invariant, (ii)N=HST, (iii)h(| _N )=0, (iv) ifS/N is non-trivial then it is a finite-dimensional solenoidal group with condition (**) (see the definition in §1), (v) ifT/N is non-trivial then it is connected and locally connected, such thatX/N splits into a direct sumX/N=H/NS/NT/N. This result characterizes the structure of finite entropy automorphisms.     

Converse Sturm–Hurwitz–Kellogg theorem and related results

We prove that if Vⁿ is a Chebyshev system on the circle and f is a continuous real-valued function with at least n + 1 sign changes then there exists an orientation preserving diffeomorphism of S¹ that takes f to a function L²-orthogonal to V. We also prove that if f is a function on the real projective line with at least four sign changes then there exists an orientation preserving diffeomorphism of that takes f to the Schwarzian derivative of a function on . We show that the space of piecewise constant functions on an interval with values ± 1 and at most n + 1 intervals of constant sign is homeomorphic to n-dimensional sphere. To V. I. Arnold for his 70th birthday     

Wavelets as unconditional bases inL p (ℝ)

We present weak sufficient conditions for decay of a wavelet so that the wavelet basis is an unconditional basis in L_p(), 1 <p < . We also prove that some unimodular wavelets yield unconditional bases in L_p().