The problem of differentiating an asymptotic expansion in real powers. Part I: Unsatisfactory or partial results by classical approaches

In two papers, the problem of formal differentiation of an asymptotic expansion in the real domain of type $$ f(x) - a_1 x^{\alpha _1 } + \cdots + a_n x^{\alpha _n } + o(x^{\alpha _n } ),x \to + \infty , $$ is amply studied. In Part I, we show that the classical viewpoints and techniques concerning formal differentiation of an asymptotic relation $$ f(x) - ax^\alpha + o(x^\alpha ),x \to + \infty , $$ give either unsatisfactory or partial results when applied to an asymptotic expansion with at least two meaningful terms. Simple examples show that some of these results are the best possible in the classical context. Hence a change of viewpoint is necessary to arrive at useful results.     

Lower Bounds for the Perron Root of a Sum of Nonnegative Matrices

Let $A^{(l)} (l = 1, \ldots ,k)$ be $n \times n$ nonnegative matrices with right and left Perron vectors $u^{(l)} $ and $v^{(l)} $ , respectively, and let $D^{(l)} $ and $E^{(l)} (l = 1, \ldots ,k)$ be positive-definite diagonal matrices of the same order. Extending known results, under the assumption that $$u^{(1)} \circ v^{(1)} = \ldots = u^{(k)} \circ v^{(k)} \ne 0$$ (where `` $ \circ $ '' denotes the componentwise, i.e., the Hadamard product of vectors) but without requiring that the matrices $A^{(l)} $ be irreducible, for the Perron root of the sum $\sum\nolimits_{l = 1}^k {D^{(l)} A^{(l)} E^{(l)} } $ we derive a lower bound of the form $$\rho \left( {\sum\limits_{l = 1}^k {D^{(l)} A^{(l)} E^{(l)} } } \right) \geqslant \sum\limits_{l = 1}^k {\beta _{l\rho } (A^{(l)} ),{\text{ }}\beta _l >0.} $$ Also we prove that, for arbitrary irreducible nonnegative matrices $A^{{\text{ (}}l{\text{)}}} (l = 1, \ldots ,k),$ , $$\rho \left( {\sum\limits_{l = 1}^k {A^{(l)} } } \right) \geqslant \sum\limits_{l = 1}^k {\alpha _{l\rho } (A^{(l)} ),} $$ where the coefficients ∝₁>0 are specified using an arbitrarily chosen normalized positive vector. The cases of equality in both estimates are analyzed, and some other related results are established. Bibliography: 8 titles.     

On oscillatory integral Hilbert transformation with trigonometric polynomial phase

Let $ \mathcal{P}_n $ denote the set of algebraic polynomials of degree n with the real coefficients. Stein and Wpainger [1] proved that $$ \mathop {\sup }\limits_{p( \cdot ) \in \mathcal{P}_n } \left| {p.v.\int_\mathbb{R} {\frac{{e^{ip(x)} }} {x}dx} } \right| \leqslant C_n , $$ where C _n depends only on n. Later A. Carbery, S. Wainger and J. Wright (according to a communication obtained from I. R. Parissis), and Parissis [3] obtained the following sharp order estimate $$ \mathop {\sup }\limits_{p( \cdot ) \in \mathcal{P}_n } \left| {p.v.\int_\mathbb{R} {\frac{{e^{ip(x)} }} {x}dx} } \right| \sim \ln n. $$ . Now let $ \mathcal{T}_n $ denote the set of trigonometric polynomials $$ t(x) = \frac{{a_0 }} {2} + \sum\limits_{k = 1}^n {(a_k coskx + b_k sinkx)} $$ with real coefficients a _k , b _k . The main result of the paper is that $$ \mathop {\sup }\limits_{t( \cdot ) \in \mathcal{T}_n } \left| {p.v.\int_\mathbb{R} {\frac{{e^{it(x)} }} {x}dx} } \right| \leqslant C_n , $$ with an effective bound on C _n . Besides, an analog of a lemma, due to I. M. Vinogradov, is established, concerning the estimate of the measure of the set, where a polynomial is small, via the coefficients of the polynomial.     

Pointwise estimates for Lagrange interpolation polynomials

Let f ∈ C[?1, 1]. Let the approximation rate of Lagrange interpolation polynomial of f based on the nodes $ \left\{ {\cos \frac{{2k - 1}} {{2n}}\pi } \right\} \cup \{ - 1,1\} $ be Δ _{n + 2}(f, x). In this paper we study the estimate of Δ _{n + 2}(f,x), that keeps the interpolation property. As a result we prove that $$ \Delta _{n + 2} (f,x) = \mathcal{O}(1)\left\{ {\omega \left( {f,\frac{{\sqrt {1 - x^2 } }} {n}} \right)\left| {T_n (x)} \right|\ln (n + 1) + \omega \left( {f,\frac{{\sqrt {1 - x^2 } }} {n}\left| {T_n (x)} \right|} \right)} \right\}, $$ where T _n (x) = cos (n arccos x) is the Chebeyshev polynomial of first kind. Also, if f ∈ C ^r [?1, 1] with r ≧ 1, then $$ \Delta _{n + 2} (f,x) = \mathcal{O}(1)\left\{ {\frac{{\sqrt {1 - x^2 } }} {{n^r }}\left| {T_n (x)} \right|\omega \left( {f^{(r)} ,\frac{{\sqrt {1 - x^2 } }} {n}} \right)\left( {\left( {\sqrt {1 - x^2 } + \frac{1} {n}} \right)^{r - 1} \ln (n + 1) + 1} \right)} \right\}. $$      

On certain properties of linear summation methods of Fourier series on the classesC(ɛ)

Для линейных методов суммирования рядов Ф урье (1) $$L_n (f;x) = \frac{1}{\pi }\mathop \smallint \limits_{ - \pi }^\pi f(x + t)\left( {\frac{1}{2} + \sum\limits_{k = 1}^n {\lambda _{k,n} } \cos kt} \right)dt$$ на классах $$C(\varepsilon ) = \{ f:E_n (f) \leqq \varepsilon _n ;\forall n \geqq 0\} ,\varepsilon = \{ \varepsilon _n \} _{n = 0.}^\infty \varepsilon _n \downarrow 0,$$ доказываются:

1. оценки для порядка р оста норм ∥{L_n∥, если из вестен порядок приближения операторами (1) некоторого классаС (?) (при этом, если опера торы (1) приближают класс С(е) с наилучшим порядком, то находится точная а симптотика возрастания норм {∥ L_n∥);
2. сравнительные оцен ки порядков приближе ния классовС(?) операторами (1), если известен порядок при ближения ими некотор ого более узкого класса С(?*).

В том случае, когда опе раторы (1) приближают кл асс С(?*) с наилучшим порядком, получаются точные по рядковые оценки для л юбого более широкого класса С(?).     

Kolmogorov-type inequalities and the best formulas for numerical differentiation

For a certain class of complex-valued functionsf(x), ?∞ $$u_N = \mathop {\inf }\limits_{\parallel A\parallel \leqslant N_\parallel f^{(n)} \parallel _{L_2 \leqslant } 1} \parallel f^{(k)} - A(f)\parallel C$$ of a differential operator by linear operators A with the norm ∥A∥ _L2 ^C ≤N,N,>0. Using the value u_N, the smallest constant Q in the inequality $$\parallel f^{(k)} \parallel _Q \leqslant Q\parallel f\parallel _{L_2 }^\alpha \parallel f^{(n)} \parallel _{L_2 }^\beta $$ is found.     

Finiteness of φ-order of solutions of linear differential equations in the unit disc

If φ: [0, 1) → (0,∞) is a non-decreasing unbounded function, then the φ-order of a meromorphic function f in the unit disc is defined as $$ \sigma _\phi (f) = \mathop {\lim \sup }\limits_{r \to 1^ - } \frac{{\log ^ + T(r,f)}} {{\log \phi (r)}}, $$ where T(r, f) is the Nevanlinna characteristic of f. In particular, $ \sigma _{\tfrac{1} {{1 - r}}} $ f is the order of f, and $ \sigma _{\log \tfrac{1} {{1 - r}}} $ f is the logarithmic order of f. Several results on the finiteness of the φ-order of solutions of $$ f^{(k)} + A_{k - 1} (z)f^{(k - 1)} + \cdots + A_1 (z)f' + A_0 (z)f = 0 $$ are obtained in the case when the coefficients A ₀(z), ...,A _k?1(z) are analytic functions in the unit disc. This paper completes some earlier results by various authors.     

Stability of the Derivative of a Canonical Product

With each sequence \(\alpha =(\alpha _n)_{n\in \mathbb{N }}\) of pairwise distinct and non-zero points which are such that the canonical product $$\begin{aligned} P_\alpha (z) := \lim _{r\rightarrow \infty }\prod _{|\alpha _n|\le r}\left( 1-\frac{z}{\alpha _n}\right) \end{aligned}$$ converges, the sequence $$\begin{aligned} \alpha ^{\prime } := \bigl (P_\alpha ^{\prime }(\alpha _n)\bigr )_{n\in \mathbb{N }} \end{aligned}$$ is associated. We give conditions on the difference \(\beta -\alpha \) of two sequences which ensure that \(\beta ^{\prime }\) and \(\alpha ^{\prime }\) are comparable in the sense that $$\begin{aligned} \exists \,c,C>0:\quad c|\alpha ^{\prime }_n| \le |\beta ^{\prime }_n| \le C|\alpha ^{\prime }_n|, \quad n\in \mathbb{N }. \end{aligned}$$ The values \(\alpha ^{\prime }_n\) play an important role in various contexts. As a selection of applications we present: an inverse spectral problem, a class of entire functions and a continuation problem.     

Height of a Superposition

We observe that, given a poset ${\left( {E,{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}} \right)}$ and a finite covering ${\user1{\mathcal{R}}} = {\user1{\mathcal{R}}}_{1} \cup \cdots \cup {\user1{\mathcal{R}}}_{n} $ of its ordering, the height of the poset does not exceed the natural product of the heights of the corresponding sub-relations: $$\mathfrak{h}{\left( {E,{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}} \right)} \leqslant \mathfrak{h}{\left( {E,{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}_{1} } \right)} \otimes \cdots \otimes \mathfrak{h}{\left( {E,{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}_{n} } \right)}.$$ Conversely for every finite sequence $(\xi_1,\cdots,\xi_n)$ of ordinals, every poset ${\left( {E,{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}} \right)}$ of height at most $\xi_1\otimes\cdots\otimes\xi_n$ admits a partition ${\left( {{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}_{1} , \cdots ,{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}_{n} } \right)}$ of its ordering ${\user1{\mathcal{R}}}$ such that each ${\left( {E,{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}_{k} } \right)}$ has height at most $\xi_k$ . In particular for every finite sequence $(\xi_1,\cdots,\xi_n)$ of ordinals, the ordinal $$\xi _{1} \underline{ \otimes } \cdots \underline{ \otimes } \xi _{n} : = \sup {\left\{ {{\left( {\xi ^{\prime }_{1} \otimes \cdots \otimes \xi ^{\prime }_{n} } \right)} + 1:\xi ^{\prime }_{1} < \xi _{1} , \cdots ,\xi ^{\prime }_{n} < \xi _{n} } \right\}}$$ is the least $\xi$ for which the following partition relation holds $$\mathfrak{H}_{\xi } \to {\left( {\mathfrak{H}_{{\xi _{1} }} , \cdots ,\mathfrak{H}_{{\xi _{n} }} } \right)}^{2} $$ meaning: for every poset ${\left( {A,{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}} \right)}$ of height at least $\xi$ and every finite covering ${\left( {{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}_{1} , \cdots ,{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}_{n} } \right)}$ of its ordering ${\user1{\mathcal{R}}}$ , there is a $k$ for which the relation ${\left( {A,{\user1{\mathcal{R}}}_{k} } \right)}$ has height at least $\xi_k$ . The proof will rely on analogue properties of vertex coverings w.r.t. the natural sum.     

On the approximation by de la Vallée Poussin sums and interpolatory polynomials in Lipschitz norms

ПустьM ^m,α - множество 2π-п ериодических функци йf с конечной нормой $$||f||_{p,m,\alpha } = \sum\limits_{k = 1}^m {||f^{(k)} ||_{_p } + \mathop {\sup }\limits_{h \ne 0} |h|^{ - \alpha } ||} f^{(m)} (o + h) - f^{(m)} (o)||_{p,} $$ где1 ≦ p ≦ ∞, 0≦α≦1. Рассмотр им средние Bалле Пуссе на $$(\sigma _{n,1} f)(x) = \frac{1}{\pi }\int\limits_0^{2x} {f(u)K_{n,1} (x - u)du} $$ и $$(L_{n,1} f)(x) = \frac{2}{{2n + 1}}\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{2n} {f(x_k )K_{n,1} } (x - x_k ),$$ де0≦l≦n и x _k=2kπ/(2n+1). В работе по лучены оценки для вел ичин \(||f - \sigma _{n,1} f||_{p,r,\beta } \) и $$||f - L_{n,1} f||_{p,r,\beta } (r + \beta \leqq m + \alpha ).$$      

A general LIL for trimmed sums of random fields in banach spaces

Given a field of independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables $ \left\{ {X_{\bar n} ;\bar n \in \aleph ^d } \right\} $ indexed by d-tuples of positive integers and taking values in a separable Banach space B, let $ X_{\bar n}^{(r)} = X_{\bar m} $ is the r-th maximum of $ \left\{ {\left\| {X_{\bar k} } \right\|;\bar k \leqq \bar n} \right\} $ and let $ ^{(r)} S_{\bar n} = S_{\bar n} - \left( {X_{\bar n}^{(1)} + \cdots + X_{\bar n}^{(r)} } \right) $ be the trimmed sums, where $ S_{\bar n} = \sum\nolimits_{\bar k \leqq \bar n} {X_{\bar k} } $ . This paper aims to obtain a general law of the iterated logarithm (LIL) for the trimmed sums which improves previous works.     

On the divergence of de la Vallée Poussin means of Fourier series

Пусть {λ _{n 1} ^t8 — монотонн ая последовательнос ть натуральных чисел. Дл я каждой функции fεL(0, 2π) с рядом Фурье строятся обобщенные средние Bалле Пуссена $$V_n^{(\lambda )} (f;x) = \frac{{a_0 }}{2} + \mathop \sum \limits_{k = 1}^n (a_k \cos kx + b_k \sin kx) + \mathop \sum \limits_{k = n + 1}^{n + \lambda _n } \left( {1 - \frac{{k - n}}{{\lambda _n + 1}}} \right)\left( {a_k \cos kx + b_k \sin kx} \right).$$ Доказываются следую щие теоремы.

1. Если λ_n=o(n), то существуе т функция fεL(0, 2π), для кот орой последовательность {V_n ^(λ)(?;x)} расходится почти вс юду.
2. Если λ_n=o(n), то существуе т функция fεL(0, 2π), для кот орой последовательность $$\left\{ {\frac{1}{\pi }\mathop \smallint \limits_{ - \pi /\lambda _n }^{\pi /\lambda _n } f(x + t)\frac{{\sin (n + \tfrac{1}{2})t}}{{2\sin \tfrac{1}{2}t}}dt} \right\}$$ расходится почти всю ду

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Solvability for Some Higher Order Multi-Point Boundary Value Problems at Resonance

In this paper, by using the Mawhin’s continuation theorem, we obtain an existence theorem for some higher order multi-point boundary value problems at resonance in the following form: $$\begin{array}{lll}x^{(n)}(t) = f(t,x(t),x'(t),\ldots,x^{(n-1)}(t))+e(t),\ t\in(0,1),\\x^{(i)}(0) = 0, i=0,1,\ldots,n-1,\ i\neq p, \\x^{(k)}(1) = \sum\limits_{j=1}^{m-2}{\beta_j}x^{(k)}(\eta_j),\end{array}$$ where ${f:[0,1]\times \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}=(-\infty,+\infty)}$ is a continuous function, ${e(t)\in L^1[0,1], p, k\in\{0,1,\ldots,n-1\}}$ are fixed, m ≥ 3 for p ≤ k (m ≥ 4 for p > k), ${\beta_j \in \mathbb{R}, j=1,2,\ldots,m-2, 0 < \eta_1 < \eta_2 < \cdots < \eta_{m-2} <1 }$ . We give an example to demonstrate our results.     

Some extremal properties of positive trigonometric polynomials

For n=8 an upper bound is given for the functional $$V_n = \mathop {\inf }\limits_{t_n } \frac{{\alpha _1 + \alpha _2 + \cdots + \alpha _n }}{{\left( {\sqrt {\alpha _1 } - \sqrt {\alpha _0 } } \right)^2 }}$$ , which is defined on the class of even, nonnegative, trigonometric polynomials \(t_n (\phi ) = \sum\nolimits_{k = 0}^n {\alpha _k } cos k\phi \) , such that α _k ? 0 (k=0, ...,n) α₁>α₀ :V _s ? 34.54461566.     

Some approximation theorems for modified Bernstein-Durrmeyer operators

The modified Bernstein-Durrmeyer operators discussed in this paper are given byM_nf≡M_n(f,x)=(n+2)P_(n,k)∫_0~1p_n+1.k(t)f(t)dt,whereWe will show,for 0<α<1 and 1≤p≤∞     

Strong convergence in nonparametric estimation of regression functions

The nonparametric regression problem has the objective of estimating conditional expectation. Consider the model $$Y = R(X) + Z$$ , where the random variableZ has mean zero and is independent ofX. The regression functionR(x) is the conditional expectation ofY givenX = x. For an estimator of the form $$R_n (x) = \sum\limits_{i = 1}^n {Y_i K{{\left[ {{{\left( {x - X_i } \right)} \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{\left( {x - X_i } \right)} {c_n }}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} {c_n }}} \right]} \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{\left[ {{{\left( {x - X_i } \right)} \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{\left( {x - X_i } \right)} {c_n }}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} {c_n }}} \right]} {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^n {K\left[ {{{\left( {x - X_i } \right)} \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{\left( {x - X_i } \right)} {c_n }}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} {c_n }}} \right]} }}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^n {K\left[ {{{\left( {x - X_i } \right)} \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{\left( {x - X_i } \right)} {c_n }}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} {c_n }}} \right]} }}} $$ , we obtain the rate of strong uniform convergence $$\mathop {\sup }\limits_{x\varepsilon C} \left| {R_n (x) - R(x)} \right|\mathop {w \cdot p \cdot 1}\limits_ = o({{n^{{1 \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {1 {(2 + d)}}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} {(2 + d)}}} } \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{n^{{1 \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {1 {(2 + d)}}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} {(2 + d)}}} } {\beta _n \log n}}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} {\beta _n \log n}}),\beta _n \to \infty $$ . HereX is ad-dimensional variable andC is a suitable subset ofR ^d .     

On the Non-Commutative Neutrix Product of the Distributions x＋^λ and x^＋μ

Let f and g be distributions and let gn = （g ＊ δn）（x）, where δn （x） is a certain converging to the Dirac delta function. The non-commutative neutrix product fog of f and g to be the limit of the sequence {fgn }, provided its limit h exists in the sense that sequence is defined N-lim n-∞（f（x）g,, （x）, φ（x）〉 = （h（x）, φ（x）},for all functions p in 2. It is proved that （x^λ＋1n^px＋）0（x^μ＋1n^qx＋）=x＋^λμ1n^p＋qx＋,（x^λ-1n^qx-）=x-^λ＋μ1n^p＋qx-,for λ＋μ〈-1; λ,μ, λ＋μ≠-1,-2…and p,q=0,1,2……     

A decomposition of the universal embedding space for the near polygon {{\mathbb H}_n}

Let ${{\mathbb H}_n, n \geq 1}$ , be the near 2n-gon defined on the 1-factors of the complete graph on 2n?+?2 vertices, and let e denote the absolutely universal embedding of ${{\mathbb H}_n}$ into PG(W), where W is a ${\frac{1}{n+2} \left(\begin{array}{c}2n+2 \\ n+1\end{array}\right)}$ -dimensional vector space over the field ${{\mathbb F}_2}$ with two elements. For every point z of ${{\mathbb H}_n}$ and every ${i \in {\mathbb N}}$ , let Δ _i (z) denote the set of points of ${{\mathbb H}_n}$ at distance i from z. We show that for every pair {x, y} of mutually opposite points of ${{\mathbb H}_n, W}$ can be written as a direct sum ${W_0 \oplus W_1 \oplus \cdots \oplus W_n}$ such that the following four properties hold for every ${i \in \{0,\ldots,n \}}$ : (1) ${\langle e(\Delta_i(x) \cap \Delta_{n-i}(y)) \rangle = {\rm PG}(W_i)}$ ; (2) ${\left\langle e \left( \bigcup_{j \leq i} \Delta_j(x) \right) \right\rangle = {\rm PG}(W_0 \oplus W_1 \oplus \cdots \oplus W_i)}$ ; (3) ${\left\langle e \left( \bigcup_{j \leq i} \Delta_j(y) \right) \right\rangle = {\rm PG}(W_{n-i}\oplus W_{n-i+1} \oplus \cdots \oplus W_n)}$ ; (4) ${\dim(W_i) = |\Delta_i(x) \cap \Delta_{n-i}(y)| = \left(\begin{array}{c}n \\ i\end{array}\right)^2 - \left(\begin{array}{c}n \\ i-1\end{array}\right) \cdot \left(\begin{array}{c}n \\ i+1\end{array}\right)}$ .     

On simultaneous approximation by lagrange interpolating polynomials

This paper considers to replace △_m(x)=(1-x~2)~2(1/2)/n +1/n~2 in the following result for simultaneousLagrange interpolating approximation with (1-x~2)~2(1/2)/n: Let f∈C_(-1.1)~0 and r=[(q+2)/2],then|f~(k)(x)-P_~(k)(f,x)|=O(1)△_(n)~(a-k)(x)ω(f~(a),△(x))(‖L_n-‖+‖L_n‖),0≤k≤q,where P_n( f ,x)is the Lagrange interpolating polynomial of degree n+ 2r-1 of f on the nodes X_nU Y_n(see the definition of the text), and thus give a problem raised in [XiZh] a complete answer.