Distinguishability and Disturbance in the Quantum Key Distribution Protocol Using the Mean Multi-Kings’ Problem

We introduce a quantum key distribution protocol using mean multi-kings’ problem. Using this protocol, a sender can share a bit sequence as a secret key with receivers. We consider a relation between information gain by an eavesdropper and disturbance contained in legitimate users’ information. In BB84 protocol, such relation is known as the so-called information disturbance theorem. We focus on a setting that the sender and two receivers try to share bit sequences and the eavesdropper tries to extract information by interacting legitimate users’ systems and an ancilla system. We derive trade-off inequalities between distinguishability of quantum states corresponding to the bit sequence for the eavesdropper and error probability of the bit sequence shared with the legitimate users. Our inequalities show that eavesdropper’s extracting information regarding the secret keys inevitably induces disturbing the states and increasing the error probability.     

Bounded sets structure of CpX and quasi‐(DF)‐spaces

For wide classes of locally convex spaces, in particular, for the space $C_p(X)$ of continuous real‐valued functions on a Tychonoff space X equipped with the pointwise topology, we characterize the existence of a fundamental bounded resolution (i.e., an increasing family of bounded sets indexed by the irrationals which swallows the bounded sets). These facts together with some results from Grothendieck's theory of $(DF)$‐spaces have led us to introduce quasi‐ $(DF)$‐spaces, a class of locally convex spaces containing $(DF)$‐spaces that preserves subspaces, countable direct sums and countable products. Regular $(LM)$‐spaces as well as their strong duals are quasi‐ $(DF)$‐spaces. Hence the space of distributions $D^{\prime }(\mathrm{\Omega })$ provides a concrete example of a quasi‐ $(DF)$‐space not being a $(DF)$‐space. We show that $C_p(X)$ has a fundamental bounded resolution if and only if $C_p(X)$ is a quasi‐ $(DF)$‐space if and only if the strong dual of $C_p(X)$ is a quasi‐ $(DF)$‐space if and only if X is countable. If X is metrizable, then $C_k(X)$ is a quasi‐ $(DF)$‐space if and only if X is a σ‐compact Polish space.     

Existence of strong minimizers for the Griffith static fracture model in dimension two

We consider the Griffith fracture model in two spatial dimensions, and prove existence of strong minimizers, with closed jump set and continuously differentiable deformation fields. One key ingredient, which is the object of the present paper, is a generalization to the vectorial situation of the decay estimate by De Giorgi, Carriero, and Leaci. This is based on replacing the coarea formula by a method to approximate $SB{D}^p$ functions with small jump set by Sobolev functions, and is restricted to two dimensions. The other two ingredients will appear in companion papers and consist respectively in regularity results for vectorial elliptic problems of the elasticity type and in a method to approximate in energy $GSB{D}^p$ functions by $SB{V}^p$ ones.     

1980—2018年镇赉县湿地景观格局变化与人为干扰的关系

以吉林省最大湿地保留区镇赉县为研究区，基于1980—2018年8期土地利用数据，采用网格分析法研究湿地景观格局变化规律及景观指数与人为干扰度的关系。结果表明：（1）镇赉县湿地面积减少290.7 km2，水体、滩地、沼泽变化率分别为-0.45，-2.97和-4.84 km²·a^-1。（2）镇赉县湿地率（PLAND）下降6.1%，且从西北部向东南部逐渐递增；斑块数量（NP）与斑块平均面积（AREA_MN）均呈先上升后下降的趋势，东南部湿地景观破碎化加剧，中部破碎化减缓；湿地连通度的空间分布格局为西北向东南递增，斑块结合度指数（COHESION）在中部地区显著增加，在东南部地区缓慢降低。（3）镇赉县湿地人为干扰度逐渐增强、耕地面积的增加和交通网的扩张是镇赉县湿地面积萎缩、景观破碎化加剧和连通度降低的主要人为原因。人为干扰度与NP呈显著正相关，与PLAND、AREA_MN、COHESION均呈负相关。稳定西南部和东北部耕地中湿地斑块，进一步加强中部湿地水体连通性，排查东南部湿地核心区违规建筑，实施分区治理，加强对镇赉县现有湿地的保护，以期实现区域可持续发展。     

BMO‐ and VMO‐spaces of slice hyperholomorphic functions

In this paper we continue the study of important Banach spaces of slice hyperholomorphic functions on the quaternionic unit ball by investigating the BMO‐ and VMO‐spaces of slice hyperholomorphic functions. We discuss in particular conformal invariance and a refined characterization of these spaces in terms of Carleson measures. Finally we show the relations with the Bloch and Dirichlet space and the duality relation with the Hardy space . The importance of these spaces in the classical theory is well known. It is therefore worthwhile to study their slice hyperholomorphic counterparts, in particular because slice hyperholomorphic functions were found to have several applications in operator theory and Schur analysis.     

A Buzano type inequality for two Hermitian forms and applications

A Buzano type inequality for two nonnegative Hermitian forms is obtained. Applications to inequalities for norm and numerical radius of bounded linear operators in complex Hilbert spaces are given.     

Amalgams and χ‐Boundedness

A class of graphs is hereditary if it is closed under isomorphism and induced subgraphs. A class of graphs is χ‐bounded if there exists a function such that for all graphs , and all induced subgraphs H of G, we have that . We prove that proper homogeneous sets, clique‐cutsets, and amalgams together preserve χ‐boundedness. More precisely, we show that if and are hereditary classes of graphs such that is χ‐bounded, and such that every graph in either belongs to or admits a proper homogeneous set, a clique‐cutset, or an amalgam, then the class is χ‐bounded. This generalizes a result of [J Combin Theory Ser B 103(5) (2013), 567–586], which states that proper homogeneous sets and clique‐cutsets together preserve χ‐boundedness, as well as a result of [European J Combin 33(4) (2012), 679–683], which states that 1‐joins preserve χ‐boundedness. The house is the complement of the four‐edge path. As an application of our result and of the decomposition theorem for “cap‐free” graphs from [J Graph Theory 30(4) (1999), 289–308], we obtain that if G is a graph that does not contain any subdivision of the house as an induced subgraph, then .