Bernstein-Walsh inequalities and the exponential curve in

It is shown that for the pluripolar set in there is a global Bernstein-Walsh inequality: If is a polynomial of degree on and on , this inequality gives an upper bound for which grows like . The result is used to obtain sharp estimates for .

     

On a proposed characterization of Schatten-class composition operators

For an analytic function which maps the open unit disc to itself, let be the operator of composition with on the Bergman space . It has been a longstanding problem to determine whether or not the membership of in the Schatten class , , is equivalent to the condition that the function has a finite integral with respect to the Möbius-invariant measure on . We show that the answer is negative when .

     

The Nevanlinna counting functions for Rudin's orthogonal functions

and denote the Hardy spaces on the open unit disc . Let be a function in and . If is an inner function and , then is orthogonal in . W.Rudin asked if the converse is true and C. Sundberg and C. Bishop showed that the converse is not true. Therefore there exists a function such that is not an inner function and is orthogonal in . In this paper, the following is shown: is orthogonal in if and only if there exists a unique probability measure on [0,1] with supp such that for nearly all in where is the Nevanlinna counting function of . If is an inner function, then is a Dirac measure at .

     

Extremal metrics for the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian in a conformal class

Let be a compact manifold. First, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for a Riemannian metric on to be extremal for with respect to conformal deformations of fixed volume. In particular, these conditions show that for any lattice of , the flat metric induced on from the standard metric of is extremal (in the previous sense). In the second part, we give, for any , an upper bound of on the conformal class of and exhibit a class of lattices for which the metric maximizes on its conformal class.

     

Extended Cesàro operators on mixed norm spaces

We define an extended Cesàro operator with holomorphic symbol in the unit ball of as

where is the radial derivative of . In this paper we characterize those for which is bounded (or compact) on the mixed norm space .

     

Vanishing of cohomology over Gorenstein rings of small codimension

We prove that if , are finite modules over a Gorenstein local ring of codimension at most , then the vanishing of for is equivalent to the vanishing of for . Furthermore, if has no embedded deformation, then such vanishing occurs if and only if or has finite projective dimension.

     

On polynomial products in nilpotent and solvable Lie groups

We are dealing with Lie groups which are diffeomorphic to , for some . After identifying with , the multiplication on can be seen as a map . We show that if is a polynomial map in one of the two (sets of) variables or , then is solvable. Moreover, if one knows that is polynomial in one of the variables, the group is nilpotent if and only if is polynomial in both its variables.

     

On approximately convex functions

A real valued function defined on a real interval is called -convex if it satisfies

The main results of the paper offer various characterizations for -convexity. One of the main results states that is -convex for some positive and if and only if can be decomposed into the sum of a convex function, a function with bounded supremum norm, and a function with bounded Lipschitz-modulus. In the special case , the results reduce to that of Hyers, Ulam, and Green obtained in 1952 concerning the so-called -convexity.

     

Adjoints of a class of composition operators

Adjoints of certain operators of composition type are calculated. Specifically, on the classical Hardy space of the open unit disk operators of the form are considered, where is a finite Blaschke product. is obtained as a finite linear combination of operators of the form where and are rational functions, are associated Toeplitz operators and is defined by

     

Existence of local solutions of the complex Monge-Ampère equation

We prove the local solvability of the -dimensional complex Monge-Ampère equation , 0$">, in a neighborhood of any point where but .

     

Segal-Bargmann transforms of one-mode interacting Fock spaces associated with Gaussian and Poisson measures

Let and denote the Gaussian and Poisson measures on , respectively. We show that there exists a unique measure on such that under the Segal-Bargmann transform the space is isomorphic to the space of analytic -functions on with respect to . We also introduce the Segal-Bargmann transform for the Poisson measure and prove the corresponding result. As a consequence, when and have the same variance, and are isomorphic to the same space under the - and -transforms, respectively. However, we show that the multiplication operators by on and on act quite differently on .

     

On strong convergence to common fixed points of nonexpansive semigroups in Hilbert spaces

In this paper, we prove the following strong convergence theorem: Let be a closed convex subset of a Hilbert space . Let be a strongly continuous semigroup of nonexpansive mappings on such that . Let and be sequences of real numbers satisfying , 0$"> and . Fix and define a sequence in by for . Then converges strongly to the element of nearest to .

     

Ordered group invariants for nonorientable one-dimensional generalized solenoids

Let be an edge-wrapping rule which presents a one-dimensional generalized solenoid , and let be the adjacency matrix of . When is a wedge of circles and leaves the unique branch point fixed, we show that the stationary dimension group of is an invariant of homeomorphism of even if is not orientable.

     

Directional convexity of level lines for functions convex in a given direction

Let be the class of functions which are holomorphic and convex in direction in the unit disk , i.e. the domain is such that the intersection of and any straight line is a connected or empty set. In this note we determine the radius of the biggest disk with the property that each function maps this disk onto the convex domain in the direction .

     

Every set of finite Hausdorff measure is a countable union of sets whose Hausdorff measure and content coincide

A set is -straight if has finite Hausdorff -measure equal to its Hausdorff -content, where is continuous and non-decreasing with . Here, if satisfies the standard doubling condition, then every set of finite Hausdorff -measure in is shown to be a countable union of -straight sets. This also settles a conjecture of Foran that when , every set of finite -measure is a countable union of -straight sets.

     

Some finiteness conditions on the set of overrings of an integral domain

Let be an integral domain with quotient field and integral closure . An overring of is a subring of containing , and denotes the set of overrings of . We consider primarily two finiteness conditions on : (FO), which states that is finite, and (FC), the condition that each chain of distinct elements of is finite. (FO) is strictly stronger than (FC), but if , each of (FO) and (FC) is equivalent to the condition that is a Prüfer domain with finite prime spectrum. In general satisfies (FC) iff satisfies (FC) and all chains of subrings of containing have finite length. The corresponding statement for (FO) is also valid.

     

Applications of a theorem of H. Cramér to the Selberg class

We prove two results on the nature of the Dirichlet coefficients of the -functions in the extended Selberg class . The first result asserts that if for some entire function of order 1 and finite type, then is constant. The second result states, roughly, that if are still the coefficients of some -function from , then with and . The proofs are based on an old result by Cramér and on the characterization of the functions of degree 1 of .

     

On quasi-affine transforms of Read's operator

We show that C. J. Read's example of an operator on which does not have any non-trivial invariant subspaces is not the adjoint of an operator on a predual of . Furthermore, we present a bounded diagonal operator such that even though is unbounded, the operator is a bounded operator on with invariant subspaces, and is adjoint to an operator on .

     

On a theorem of R. Steinberg on rings of coinvariants

Let be a representation of a finite group over the field . Denote by the algebra of polynomial functions on the vector space . The group acts on and hence also on . The algebra of coinvariants is , where is the ideal generated by all the homogeneous -invariant forms of strictly positive degree. If the field has characteristic zero, then R. Steinberg has shown (this is the formulation of R. Kane) that is a Poincaré duality algebra if and only if is a pseudoreflection group. In this note we explore the situation for fields of nonzero characteristic. We prove an analogue of Steinberg's theorem for the case and give a counterexample in the modular case when .

     

Games and general distributive laws in Boolean algebras

The games and are played by two players in -complete and max -complete Boolean algebras, respectively. For cardinals such that or , the -distributive law holds in a Boolean algebra iff Player 1 does not have a winning strategy in . Furthermore, for all cardinals , the -distributive law holds in iff Player 1 does not have a winning strategy in . More generally, for cardinals such that , the -distributive law holds in iff Player 1 does not have a winning strategy in . For regular and , implies the existence of a Suslin algebra in which is undetermined.