Covering and packing in ${\Bbb Z}^n$ and ${\Bbb R}^n$, (I)

Given a finite subset of an additive group such as or , we are interested in efficient covering of by translates of , and efficient packing of translates of in . A set provides a covering if the translates with cover (i.e., their union is ), and the covering will be efficient if has small density in . On the other hand, a set will provide a packing if the translated sets with are mutually disjoint, and the packing is efficient if has large density. In the present part (I) we will derive some facts on these concepts when , and give estimates for the minimal covering densities and maximal packing densities of finite sets . In part (II) we will again deal with , and study the behaviour of such densities under linear transformations. In part (III) we will turn to . Authors’ address: Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Campus Box 395, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0395, USA The first author was partially supported by NSF DMS 0074531.     

Inequalities for irregular Gabor frames

In [C.K. Chui and X.L. Shi, Inequalities of Littlewood-Paley type for frames and wavelets, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 24 (1993), 263–277], the authors proved that if is a Gabor frame for with frame bounds A and B, then the following two inequalities hold: and . In this paper, we show that similar inequalities hold for multi-generated irregular Gabor frames of the form , where Δ _k and Λ _k are arbitrary sequences of points in and , 1 ≤ k ≤ r. Corresponding author for second author Authors’ address: Lili Zang and Wenchang Sun, Department of Mathematics and LPMC, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China     

Intersections and Unions of Orthogonal Polygons Starshaped Via Staircase n-Paths

For n ≥ 1, define p (n) to be the smallest natural number r for which the following is true: For any finite family of simply connected orthogonal polygons in the plane and points x and y in , if every r (not necessarily distinct) members of contain a common staircase n-path from x to y, then contains such a path. We show that p(1) = 1 and p(n) = 2 (n − 1) for n ≥ 2. The numbers p(n) yield an improved Helly theorem for intersections of sets starshaped via staircase n-paths. Moreover, we establish the following dual result for unions of these sets: Let be any finite family of orthogonal polygons in the plane, with simply connected. If every three (not necessarily distinct) members of have a union which is starshaped via staircase n-paths, then T is starshaped via staircase (n + 1)-paths. The number n + 1 in the theorem is best for every n ≥ 2.     

Geometric progressions in sumsets over finite fields

Given two sets , the set of d dimensional vectors over the finite field with q elements, we show that the sumset contains a geometric progression of length k of the form vΛ ^j , where j = 0,…, k − 1, with a nonzero vector and a nonsingular d × d matrix Λ whenever . We also consider some modifications of this problem including the question of the existence of elements of sumsets on algebraic varieties.     

Conjugates of Rational Equivariant Holomorphic Maps of Symmetric Domains

Let be an equivariant holomorphic map of symmetric domains associated to a homomorphism of semisimple algebraic groups defined over . If and are torsion-free arithmetic subgroups with , the map induces a morphism : of arithmetic varieties and the rationality of is defined by using symmetries on and as well as the commensurability groups of and . An element determines a conjugate equivariant holomorphic map of which induces the conjugate morphism of . We prove that is rational if is rational.     

Constant angle surfaces in $ {\Bbb S}^2\times {\Bbb R} $

In this article we study surfaces in for which the unit normal makes a constant angle with the -direction. We give a complete classification for surfaces satisfying this simple geometric condition.     

Dirichlet and Bergman Spaces of Holomorphic Functions on the Unit Ball of ℂ<Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis></Superscript>

Let B denote the unit ball in ⁿ, n 1, and let and denote the volume measure and gradient with respect to the Bergman metric on B. In the paper we consider the weighted Dirichlet spaces , , and weighted Bergman spaces , , , of holomorphic functions f on B for which and respectively are finite, where and The main result of the paper is the following theorem.Theorem 1. Let f be holomorphic on B and .(a) If for some , then for all p, , with .(b) If for some p, , then for all with . Combining Theorem 1 with previous results of the author we also obtain the following.Theorem 2. Suppose is holomorphic in B. If for some p, , and , then . Conversely, if for some p, , then the series in * converges.     

A Characteristic Property of Injective Holomorphic Germs

Let X ₀ be the germ at 0 of a complex variety and let be a holomorphic germ. We say that f is pseudoimmersive if for any such that , we have . We prove that f is pseudoimmersive if and only if it is injective. Some results about the real case are also considered.     

Arithmetic mean of differences of Dedekind sums

Recently, Girstmair and Schoissengeier studied the asymptotic behavior of the arithmetic mean of Dedekind sums , as N → ∞. In this paper we consider the arithmetic mean of weighted differences of Dedekind sums in the form , where is a continuous function with , runs over , the set of Farey fractions of order Q in the unit interval [0,1] and are consecutive elements of . We show that the limit lim _Q→∞ A _h (Q) exists and is independent of h.     

New spaces of functions and hyperfunctions for Hankel transforms and convolutions

In this paper we study the Hankel transformation and convolution on certain spaces of entire functions and its dual that is a space of hyperfunctions and contains the (even)-Schwartz space S _e ′. We prove that the Hankel transform is an automorphism of . Also the Hankel convolutors of are investigated. Authors’ addresses: Jorge J. Betancor, Claudio Jerez and Lourdes Rodríguez-Mesa, Departamento de Análisis Matemático, Universidad de la Laguna, Campus de Anchieta, Avda. Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez, s/n, 38271 La Laguna (Sta. Cruz de Tenerife), Espa?a; Sandra M. Molina, Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Funes 3350 (7600), Mar del Plata, Argentina     

Porosity and diametrically maximal sets in C(K)

This paper is motivated by recent attempts to investigate classical notions from finite-dimensional convex geometry in spaces of continuous functions. Let be the family of all closed, convex and bounded subsets of C(K) endowed with the Hausdorff metric. A completion of is a diametrically maximal set satisfying A ⊂ D and diam A = diam D. Using properties of semicontinuous functions and an earlier result by Papini, Phelps and the author [12], we characterize the family γ(A) of all possible completions of . We give also a formula which calculates diam γ(A) and prove finally that, if K is a Hausdorff compact space with card K > 1, then the family of those elements of having a unique completion is uniformly very porous in with a constant of lower porosity greater than or equal to 1/3.     

Smooth Universal Taylor Series

Let be a simply connected domain in , such that is connected. If g is holomorphic in Ω and every derivative of g extends continuously on , then we write g ∈ A^∞ (Ω). For g ∈ A^∞ (Ω) and we denote . We prove the existence of a function f ∈ A^∞(Ω), such that the following hold:

Singular limits in Liouville-type equations

We consider the boundary value problem in a bounded, smooth domain in with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. Here 0,k(x) $$ " align="middle" border="0"> is a non-negative, not identically zero function. We find conditions under which there exists a solution which blows up at exactly m points as and satisfies . In particular, we find that if , 0 $" align="middle" border="0"> and is not simply connected then such a solution exists for any given Received: 11 February 2004, Accepted: 17 August 2004, Published online: 22 December 2004     

Shift coordinates,stretch lines and polyhedral structures for Teichmüller space

This paper has two parts. In the first part, we study shift coordinates on a sphere S equipped with three distinguished points and a triangulation whose vertices are the distinguished points. These coordinates parametrize a space that we call an unfolded Teichmüller space. This space contains Teichmüller spaces of the sphere with boundary components and cusps (which we call generalized pairs of pants), for all possible values of and satisfying . The parametrization of by shift coordinates equips this space with a natural polyhedral structure, which we describe more precisely as a cone over an octahedron in . Each cone over a simplex of this octahedron is interpreted as a Teichmüller space of the sphere with boundary components and cusps, for fixed and , the sphere being furthermore equipped with an orientation on each boundary component. There is a natural linear action of a finite group on whose quotient is an augmented Teichmüller space in the usual sense. We describe several aspects of the geometry of the space . Stretch lines and earthquakes can be defined on this space. In the second part of the paper, we use the shift coordinates to obtain estimates on the behaviour of stretch lines in the Teichmüller space of a surface obtained by gluing hyperbolic pairs of pants. We also use the shift coordinates to give formulae that express stretch lines in terms of Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates. We deduce the disjointness of some stretch lines in Teichmüller space. We study in more detail the case of a closed surface of genus 2. Authors’ addresses: A. Papadopoulos, Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, Université Louis Pasteur and CNRS, 7 rue René Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France and Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Vivatsgasse 7, 53111 Bonn, Germany; G. Théret, Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, Université Louis Pasteur and CNRS, 7 rue René Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France and Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade, Building 1530, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark     

(Almost) primitivity of Hecke <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis>-functions

Let f be a cusp form of the Hecke space and let L _f be the normalized L-function associated to f. Recently it has been proved that L _f belongs to an axiomatically defined class of functions . We prove that when λ ≤ 2, L _f is always almost primitive, i.e., that if L _f is written as product of functions in , then one factor, at least, has degree zeros and hence is a Dirichlet polynomial. Moreover, we prove that if then L _f is also primitive, i.e., that if L _f = F ₁ F ₂ then F ₁ (or F ₂) is constant; for the factorization of non-primitive functions is studied and examples of non-primitive functions are given. At last, the subset of functions f for which L _f belongs to the more familiar extended Selberg class is characterized and for these functions we obtain analogous conclusions about their (almost) primitivity in .     

Minkowski Arrangements of Spheres

Let be a non-negative number not greater than 1. Consider an arrangement of (not necessarily congruent) spheres with positive homogenity in the n-dimensional Euclidean space, i.e., in which the infimum of the radii of the spheres divided by the supremum of the radii of the spheres is a positive number. With each sphere S of associate a concentric sphere of radius times the radius of S. We call this sphere the -kernel of S. The arrangement is said to be a Minkowski arrangement of order if no sphere of overlaps the -kernel of another sphere. The problem is to find the greatest possible density of n-dimensional Minkowski sphere arrangements of order . In this paper we give upper bounds on for .     

Typical <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis></Superscript>-Dimensions of Measures

For a probability measure μ on a subset of , the lower and upper L^q-dimensions of order are defined by We study the typical behaviour (in the sense of Baire’s category) of the L^q-dimensions and . We prove that a typical measure μ is as irregular as possible: for all q ≥ 1, the lower L^q-dimension attains the smallest possible value and the upper L^q-dimension attains the largest possible value.     

Unlösbarkeit der Gleichung $\alpha x^n + \beta y^n = z^n$ und Gleichverteilung von $\root n \of{\alpha x^n + \beta y^n}$

We show that the unsolvability of the Diophantine equation is equivalent to a good uniform distribution of the set . The proof depends on the asymptotic evaluation of the Gauss sum .     

Numerical Integration over Spheres of Arbitrary Dimension

In this paper we study the worst-case error (of numerical integration) on the unit sphere for all functions in the unit ball of the Sobolev space where More precisely, we consider infinite sequences of m(n)-point numerical integration rules where: (i) is exact for all spherical polynomials of degree and (ii) has positive weights or, alternatively to (ii), the sequence satisfies a certain local regularity property. Then we show that the worst-case error (of numerical integration) in has the upper bound where the constant c depends on s and d (and possibly the sequence This extends the recent results for the sphere by K. Hesse and I.H. Sloan to spheres of arbitrary dimension by using an alternative representation of the worst-case error. If the sequence of numerical integration rules satisfies an order-optimal rate of convergence is achieved.     

The Variety of Near-Rings is Generated by Its Finite Members

We show that the variety of near-rings and the variety of zero-symmetric near-rings are both generated by their finite members. We show this in a more general context: if a variety is generated by a class of algebras , then the variety of -composition algebras is generated by the class of all full function algebras on direct products of finitely many copies of algebras in .