Primes in arithmetic progressions with friable indices

We consider the numberπ(x,y;q,a)of primes p≤such that p≡a(mod q)and(p-a)/q is free of prime factors greater than y.Assuming a suitable form of Elliott-Halberstam conjecture,it is proved thatπ(x,y:q,a)is asymptotic to p(log(x/q)/log y)π(x)/φ(q)on average,subject to certain ranges of y and q,where p is the Dickman function.Moreover,unconditional upper bounds are also obtained via sieve methods.As a typical application,we may control more effectively the number of shifted primes with large prime factors.     

Blowing up of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the generalized Zakharov system with combined power-type nonlinearities

This paper deals with blowing up of solutions to the Cauchy problem for a class of general- ized Zakharov system with combined power-type nonlinearities in two and three space dimensions. On the one hand, for c0 = +∞ we obtain two finite time blow-up results of solutions to the aforementioned system. One is obtained under the condition α≥ 0 and 1 + 4/N ≤ p N +2/N-2 or α 0 and 1 p 1 + 4/N (N = 2, 3); the other is established under the condition N = 3, 1 p N +2/N-2 and α(p-3) ≥ 0. On the other hand, for c0 +∞ and α(p-3) ≥ 0, we prove a blow-up result for solutions with negative energy to the Zakharov system under study.     

High-dimensional D. H. Lehmer problem over short intervals

Letk be a positive integer and n a nonnegative integer,0 λ1,...,λk+1 ≤ 1 be real numbers and w =(λ1,λ2,...,λk+1).Let q ≥ max{[1/λi ]:1 ≤ i ≤ k + 1} be a positive integer,and a an integer coprime to q.Denote by N(a,k,w,q,n) the 2n-th moment of(b1··· bk c) with b1··· bk c ≡ a(mod q),1 ≤ bi≤λiq(i = 1,...,k),1 ≤ c ≤λk+1 q and 2(b1+ ··· + bk + c).We first use the properties of trigonometric sum and the estimates of n-dimensional Kloosterman sum to give an interesting asymptotic formula for N(a,k,w,q,n),which generalized the result of Zhang.Then we use the properties of character sum and the estimates of Dirichlet L-function to sharpen the result of N(a,k,w,q,n) in the case ofw =(1/2,1/2,...,1/2) and n = 0.In order to show our result is close to the best possible,the mean-square value of N(a,k,q) φk(q)/2k+2and the mean value weighted by the high-dimensional Cochrane sum are studied too.     

Notes on the Borwein-Choi conjecture of Littlewood cyclotomic polynomials

Borwein and Choi conjectured that a polynomial P（x） with coefficients ±1 of degree N - 1 is cyclotomic iff
P（x）=±Φp1（±x）ΦP2（±x^p1）…Φpr（±x^p1p2…pr-1）,
where N = P1P2 … pτ and the pi are primes, not necessarily distinct. Here Φ（x） ：= （x^p - 1）/（x - 1） is the p-th cyclotomic polynomial. They also proved the conjecture for N odd or a power of 2. In this paper we introduce a so-called E-transformation, by which we prove the conjecture for a wider variety of cases and present the key as well as a new approach to investigate the coniecture.     

On the largest prime factor of shifted primes

For any integer n ≥ 2, let P(n) be the largest prime factor of n. In this paper, we prove that the number of primes p ≤ x with P(p-1) ≥ p~c is more than(1-c + o(1))π(x) for 0 c 1/2. This extends a recent result of Luca, Menares and Madariaga for1/4≤ c ≤1/2. We also pose two conjectures for further research.     

Gaussian fluctuations of eigenvalues in log-gas ensemble: Bulk case I

We study the central limit theorem of the k-th eigenvalue of a random matrix in the log-gas ensemble with an external potential V = q2mx2 m. More precisely, let Pn(d H) = Cne-nTrV(H)dH be the distribution of n × n Hermitian random matrices, ρV(x)dx the equilibrium measure, where Cnis a normalization constant, V(x) = q2mx2m with q2m=Γ(m)Γ(12)/Γ(2m+1/2), and m ≥ 1. Let x1 ≤···≤ xnbe the eigenvalues of H. Let k := k(n) be such that k(n)/n∈ [a, 1- a] for n large enough, where a ∈(0,12).Define G(s) :=∫s-1ρV(x)dx,- 1 ≤ s ≤ 1,and set t := G-1(k/n). We prove that, as n →∞,xk- t log n1/2 2π21/2nρV(t)→ N(0, 1)in distribution. Multi-dimensional central limit theorem is also proved. Our results can be viewed as natural extensions of the bulk central limit theorems for GUE ensemble established by J. Gustavsson in 2005.     

On the canonical map of surfaces with q≥6

We carry out an analysis of the canonical system of a minimal complex surface S of general type with irregularity q > 0.Using this analysis,we are able to sharpen in the case q > 0 the well-known Castelnuovo inequality KS2≥3pg(S) + q(S)-7.Then we turn to the study of surfaces with pg=2q-3 and no fibration onto a curve of genus > 1.We prove that for q≥6 the canonical map is birational.Combining this result with the analysis of the canonical system,we also prove the inequality:KS2≥7χ(S) + 2.This improves an e...     

On the diophantine equation x 2 − Dy 2 = n

We propose a method to determine the solvability of the diophantine equation x2-Dy2=n for the following two cases:(1) D = pq,where p,q ≡ 1 mod 4 are distinct primes with(q/p)=1 and(p/q)4(q/p)4=-1.(2) D=2p1p2 ··· pm,where pi ≡ 1 mod 8,1≤i≤m are distinct primes and D=r2+s2 with r,s ≡±3 mod 8.     

Kloosterman sums with multiplicative coefficients

Let f(n)be a multiplicative function satisfying |f(n)|≤1,q(≤N~2)be a positive integer and a be an integer with(a,q)= 1.In this paper,we shall prove that ∑n≤N(n,q)=1f(n)e(an/q)■(1/2)(τ(q)/q)N loglog(6N)+ q~(1/4+ε/2)N~(2/1)(log(6N))~(1/2)+N/(1/2)(loglog(6N)),where n is the multiplicative inverse of n such that nn ≡ 1(mod q),e(x)= exp(2πix),and τ(·)is the divisor function.     

Nonexistence of time-periodic solutions of the Dirac equation in non-extreme Kerr-Newman-AdS spacetime

In non-extreme Kerr-Newman-Ad S spacetime, we prove that there is no nontrivial Dirac particle which is Lpfor 0 p≤ 4/3 with arbitrary eigenvalue λ, and for 4/3 p≤ 4/(3-2q), 0 q 3/2 with eigenvalue|λ| |Q| + qκ, outside and away from the event horizon. By taking q =1/2, we show that there is no normalizable massive Dirac particle with mass greater than |Q| +κ/2 outside and away from the event horizon in non-extreme Kerr-Newman-Ad S spacetime, and they must either disappear into the black hole or escape to infinity, and this recovers the same result of Belgiorno and Cacciatori in the case of Q = 0 obtained by using spectral methods.Furthermore, we prove that any Dirac particle with eigenvalue |λ| κ/2 must be L~2 outside and away from the event horizon.     

A note on skew characters of symmetric groups

In this paper we establish the following estimate:

$$\omega \left( {\left\{ {x \in {\mathbb{R}^n}:\left| {\left[ {b,T} \right]f\left( x \right)} \right| > \lambda } \right\}} \right) \leqslant \frac{{{c_T}}}{{{\varepsilon ^2}}}\int_{{\mathbb{R}^n}} {\Phi \left( {{{\left\| b \right\|}_{BMO}}\frac{{\left| {f\left( x \right)} \right|}}{\lambda }} \right){M_{L{{\left( {\log L} \right)}^{1 + \varepsilon }}}}} \omega \left( x \right)dx$$

where ω ≥ 0, 0 < ε < 1 and Φ(t) = t(1 + log⁺(t)). This inequality relies upon the following sharp L ^p estimate:

$${\left\| {\left[ {b,T} \right]f} \right\|_{{L^p}\left( \omega \right)}} \leqslant {c_T}{\left( {p'} \right)^2}{p^2}{\left( {\frac{{p - 1}}{\delta }} \right)^{\frac{1}{{p'}}}}{\left\| b \right\|_{BMO}}{\left\| f \right\|_{{L^p}\left( {{M_{L{{\left( {{{\log }_L}} \right)}^{2p - 1 + {\delta ^\omega }}}}}} \right)}}$$

where 1 < p < ∞, ω ≥ 0 and 0 < δ < 1. As a consequence we recover the following estimate essentially contained in [18]:

$$\omega \left( {\left\{ {x \in {\mathbb{R}^n}:\left| {\left[ {b,T} \right]f\left( x \right)} \right| > \lambda } \right\}} \right) \leqslant {c_T}{\left[ \omega \right]_{{A_\infty }}}{\left( {1 + {{\log }^ + }{{\left[ \omega \right]}_{{A_\infty }}}} \right)^2}\int_{{\mathbb{R}^n}} {\Phi \left( {{{\left\| b \right\|}_{BMO}}\frac{{\left| {f\left( x \right)} \right|}}{\lambda }} \right)M} \omega \left( x \right)dx.$$

We also obtain the analogue estimates for symbol-multilinear commutators for a wider class of symbols.

     

A new approximate proximal point algorithm for maximal monotone operator

The problem concerned in this paper is the set-valued equation 0 ∈T(z) where T is a maximal monotone operator. For given xk and βk > 0, some existing approximate proximal point algorithms take x~(k+1) = xk such thatwhere {ηk} is a non-negative summable sequence. Instead of xk+1 = xk , the new iterate of the proposing method is given bywhere Ω is the domain of T and PΩ(·) denotes the projection on Ω. The convergence is proved under a significantly relaxed restriction supk>0 ηk<1.     

On multiplicative functions on consecutive integers

Let f and g be multiplicative functions of modulus 1. Assume that \( {\lim_{x \to \infty }}\frac{1}{x}\left| {\sum\nolimits_{n \leqslant x} {f(n)} } \right| = A > 0 \) and \( {\lim_{x \to \infty }}\frac{1}{x}\left| {\sum\nolimits_{n \leqslant x} {g(n)} } \right| = 0 \). We prove that, under these conditions,

$ \mathop {\lim }\limits_{x \to \infty } \frac{1}{x}\sum\limits_{n \leqslant x} {f(n)g(n + 1) = 0.}$

Concerning the Liouville function λ, we find an upper estimate for \( \frac{1}{x}\left| {\sum\limits_{n \leqslant x} {\lambda (n)\lambda (n + 1)} } \right| \) under the unproved hypothesis that L(s, χ) have Siegel zeros for an infinite sequence of L-functions.

     

On the equiconvergence rate with the Fourier integral of the spectral expansion associated with the self-adjoint extension of the Sturm-Liouville operator with uniformly locally integrable potential

In the space L ₂(?), we consider the self-adjoint extension \(\mathcal{L}\) of the Sturm-Liouville operator ly = ?y″ + q(x)y whose potential q is uniformly locally integrable on ?, i.e., satisfies the condition

$\omega _q (h) = \mathop {\sup }\limits_{x \in \mathbb{R}} \int\limits_x^{x + h} {\left| {q(t)} \right|dt < + \infty ,h > 0.} $

. We study the problem on the equiconvergence rate of the spectral expansion associated with \(\mathcal{L}\) of a function f ∈ L ₁(?) with the Fourier integral on the entire real line. We obtain uniform estimates of the equiconvergence rate under some additional conditions on f or q.

     

A note on some results of Hua in short intervals

In this paper, we improve the previous results of the authors [G. Lü and H. Tang, On some results of Hua in short intervals, Lith. Math. J., 50(1):54–70, 2010] by proving that each sufficiently large integer N satisfying some congruence conditions can be written as

$ \left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {N = p_1^2 + p_2^2 + p_3^2 + p_4^2 + {p^k},} \hfill \\ {\left| {{p_j} - \sqrt {{\frac{N}{5}}} } \right| \leqslant U,\quad \left| {p - {{\left( {\frac{N}{5}} \right)}^{\frac{1}{k}}}} \right| \leqslant U\,{N^{ - \frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{k}}},\quad j = 1,\,2,\,\,3,\,4,} \hfill \\ \end{array} } \right. $

where U = N ^1/2?η+ε with \( \eta = \frac{1}{{2k\left( {{K^2} + 1} \right)}} \) and K = 2k ^?1, k ? 2.

     

A remark on the existence of entire large and bounded solutions to a (<Emphasis Type="Italic">k</Emphasis><Subscript>1</Subscript>, <Emphasis Type="Italic">k</Emphasis><Subscript>2</Subscript>)-Hessian system with gradient term

In this paper, we study the existence of positive entire large and bounded radial positive solutions for the following nonlinear system

$$\left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}c}{S_{k_1 } \left( {\lambda \left( {D^2 u_1 } \right)} \right) + a_1 \left( {\left| x \right|} \right)\left| {\nabla u_1 } \right|^{k_1 } = p_1 \left( {\left| x \right|} \right)f_1 \left( {u_2 } \right)} & {for x \in \mathbb{R}^N ,} \\{S_{k_2 } \left( {\lambda \left( {D^2 u_2 } \right)} \right) + a_2 \left( {\left| x \right|} \right)\left| {\nabla u_2 } \right|^{k_2 } = p_2 \left( {\left| x \right|} \right)f_2 \left( {u_1 } \right)} & {for x \in \mathbb{R}^N .} \\\end{array} } \right.$$

Here \({S_{{k_i}}}\left( {\lambda \left( {{D^2}{u_i}} \right)} \right)\) is the k _i -Hessian operator, a ₁, p ₁, f ₁, a ₂, p ₂ and f ₂ are continuous functions.

     

Some Zygmund type inequalities for the <Emphasis Type="Italic">s</Emphasis>th derivative of polynomials

For a polynomial P(z) of degree n having no zeros in |z| < 1, it was recently proved in [9] that

$$\left| {{z^s}{P^{\left( s \right)}}\left( z \right) + \beta \frac{{n\left( {n - 1} \right)...\left( {n - s + 1} \right)}}{{{2^s}}}P\left( z \right)} \right| \leqslant \frac{{n\left( {n - 1} \right)...\left( {n - s + 1} \right)}}{2}\left( {\left| {1 + \frac{\beta }{{{2^s}}}} \right| + \left| {\frac{\beta }{{{2^s}}}} \right|} \right)\mathop {\max }\limits_{\left| z \right| = 1} \left| {P\left( z \right)} \right|$$

for every β ∈ C with |β| ≤ 1, 1 ≤ s ≤ n and |z| = 1. In this paper, we obtain the L _p mean extension of the above and other related results for the sth derivative of polynomials.

     

Existence of Positive Ground-State Solution for Choquard-Type Equations

In this paper, we are concerned with the following nonlocal problem

$$\begin{aligned} -\Delta u+u=q(x)\left( \int _{\mathbb {R}^N}\frac{q(y)|u(y)|^p}{|x-y|^{N-\alpha }}\mathrm{d}y\right) |u|^{p-2}u,\quad x\in \mathbb {R}^N, \end{aligned}$$

where \(N\ge 3, \alpha \in ((N-4)_+,N), 2\le p<\frac{N+\alpha }{N-2}\) and q(x) is a given potential. Using comparison arguments and variational approach, we obtain the existence of positive ground-state solution for the Choquard-type equations with some restrictions on the potential q.

     

Inequalities for the derivative of a polynomial

Let P(z) be a polynomial of degreen which does not vanish in ¦z¦ <k, wherek > 0. Fork ≤ 1, it is known that

$$\mathop {\max }\limits_{|z| = 1} |P'(z)| \leqslant \frac{n}{{1 + k^n }}\mathop {\max }\limits_{|z| = 1} |P(z)|$$

, provided ¦P’(z)¦ and ¦Q’(z)¦ become maximum at the same point on ¦z¦ = 1, where\(Q(z) = z^n \overline {P(1/\bar z)} \). In this paper we obtain certain refinements of this result. We also present a refinement of a generalization of the theorem of Tu?an.

     

Multiple solutions to a magnetic nonlinear Choquard equation

We consider the stationary nonlinear magnetic Choquard equation

$(- {\rm i}\nabla+ A(x))^{2}u + V (x)u = \left(\frac{1}{|x|^{\alpha}}\ast |u|^{p}\right) |u|^{p-2}u,\quad x\in\mathbb{R}^{N}$

where A is a real-valued vector potential, V is a real-valued scalar potential, N ≥ 3, \({\alpha \in (0, N)}\) and 2 ? (α/N) < p < (2N ? α)/(N?2). We assume that both A and V are compatible with the action of some group G of linear isometries of \({\mathbb{R}^{N}}\) . We establish the existence of multiple complex valued solutions to this equation which satisfy the symmetry condition

$u(gx) = \tau(g)u(x)\quad{\rm for\, all }\ g \in G,\;x \in \mathbb{R}^{N},$

where \({\tau : G \rightarrow \mathbb{S}^{1}}\) is a given group homomorphism into the unit complex numbers.