On the connectedness of self-affine attractors

Let T = T(A, D) be a self-affine attractor in defined by an integral expanding matrix A and a digit set D. In the first part of this paper, in connection with canonical number systems, we study connectedness of T when D corresponds to the set of consecutive integers . It is shown that in and , for any integral expanding matrix A, T(A, D) is connected. In the second part, we study connectedness of Pisot dual tiles, which play an important role in the study of -expansions, substitutions and symbolic dynamical systems. It is shown that each tile of the dual tiling generated by a Pisot unit of degree 3 is arcwise connected. This is naturally expected since the digit set consists of consecutive integers as above. However surprisingly, we found families of disconnected Pisot dual tiles of degree 4. We even give a simple necessary and sufficient condition of connectedness of the Pisot dual tiles of degree 4. Detailed proofs will be given in [4]. Received: 2 March 2003     

The lattice of closed ideals in the Banach algebra of operators on certain Banach spaces

Very few Banach spaces E are known for which the lattice of closed ideals in the Banach algebra of all (bounded, linear) operators on E is fully understood. Indeed, up to now the only such Banach spaces are, up to isomorphism, Hilbert spaces and the sequence spaces c₀ and ?_p for 1?p<∞. We add a new member to this family by showing that there are exactly four closed ideals in for the Banach space E?(⊕?₂ⁿ)_c0, that is, E is the c₀-direct sum of the finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces ?₂¹,?₂²,…,?₂ⁿ,… .     

Transmission problems and spectral theory for singular integral operators on Lipschitz domains

We prove the well-posedness of the transmission problem for the Laplacian across a Lipschitz interface, with optimal non-tangential maximal function estimates, for data in Lebesgue and Hardy spaces on the boundary. As a corollary, we show that the spectral radius of the (adjoint) harmonic double layer potential K∗ in is less than , whenever is a bounded convex domain and 1<p?2.     

Well-posedness for a scalar conservation law with singular nonconservative source

We consider the Cauchy problem for the 2×2 strictly hyperbolic system

     

Synthesis of 4-phenyl-3,4-dihydro-β-carboline

4-Phenyl-3,4-dihydro--carboline was prepared using the Bischler—Napieralski reaction on -phenyltryptamine.Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 486–487, November–December, 2004.This revised version was published online in April 2005 with a corrected cover date.     

Construction of Pseudorandom Binary Sequences Using Additive Characters

In earlier papers the authors studied finite pseudorandom binary sequences, and they constructed sequences with strong pseudorandom properties. In these earlier constructions multiplicative characters were used. In this paper a new construction is presented which utilizes properties of additive characters. These new sequences can be computed fast, they are well-distributed relative to arithmetic progressions and their correlations of small order are small, but the price paid for the fast computation is that the correlations of large order can be large.     

Transmission Problems and Boundary Operator Algebras

We examine the operator algebra behind the boundary integral equation method for solving transmission problems. A new type of boundary integral operator, the rotation operator, is introduced, which is more appropriate than operators of double layer type for solving transmission problems for first order elliptic partial differential equations. We give a general invertibility criteria for operators in by defining a Clifford algebra valued Gelfand transform on . The general theory is applied to transmission problems with strongly Lipschitz interfaces for the two classical elliptic operators and . We here use Rellich techniques in a new way to estimate the full complex spectrum of the boundary integral operators. For we use the associated rotation operator to solve the Hilbert boundary value problem and a Riemann type transmission problem. For the Helmholtz equation, we demonstrate how Rellich estimates give an angular spectral estimate on the rotation operator, which with the general spectral mapping properties in translates to a hyperbolic spectral estimate for the double layer potential operator.     

Restrictions on symplectic fibrations

Moduli spaces of stable pseudoholomorphic curves can be defined parametrically, i.e., over total spaces of symplectic fibrations. This imposes several restrictions on the spectral sequence of a symplectic fibration. We prove, among others, that under certain assumptions the spectral sequence collapses at E₂. In the appendix, we prove nontriviality of certain Gromov-Witten invariant for blow-ups. As an application we obtain that any Hamiltonian fibration with the blow-up of  along four dimensional submanifold as a fibre c-splits. That is its spectral sequence collapses.     

Multiple equilibria,periodic solutions and a priori bounds for solutions in superlinear parabolic problems

Consider the Dirichlet problem for the parabolic equation in , where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in and f has superlinear subcritical growth in u. If f is independent of t and satisfies some additional conditions then using a dynamical method we find multiple (three, six or infinitely many) nontrivial stationary solutions. If f has the form where m is periodic, positive and m,g satisfy some technical conditions then we prove the existence of a positive periodic solution and we provide a locally uniform bound for all global solutions.