Ordinary and symbolic powers are Golod

Let S$S$ be a positively graded polynomial ring over a field of characteristic 0$0$, and I⊂S$I\subset S$ a proper graded ideal. In this note it is shown that S/I$S/I$ is Golod if ∂(I)²⊂I$\partial {\left(I\right)}^2\subset I$. Here ∂(I)$\partial \left(I\right)$ denotes the ideal generated by all the partial derivatives of elements of I$I$. We apply this result to find large classes of Golod ideals, including powers, symbolic powers, and saturations of ideals.     

Stable orbit equivalence of Bernoulli actions of free groups and isomorphism of some of their factor actions

We give an elementary proof for Lewis Bowen’s theorem saying that two Bernoulli actions of two free groups, each having arbitrary base probability spaces, are stably orbit equivalent. Our methods also show that for all compact groups K$K$ and every free product Γ$\Gamma$ of infinite amenable groups, the factor Γ?K^Γ/K$\Gamma ?K^{\Gamma }/K$ of the Bernoulli action Γ?K^Γ$\Gamma ?K^{\Gamma }$ by the diagonal K$K$-action is isomorphic with a Bernoulli action of Γ$\Gamma$.     

Logarithmic bump conditions and the two-weight boundedness of Calderón–Zygmund operators

We prove that if a pair of weights (u,v)$(u,v)$ satisfies a sharp _Ap$A_p$-bump condition in the scale of all log bumps or certain loglog bumps, then Haar shifts map L^p(v)$L^p(v)$ into L^p(u)$L^p(u)$ with a constant quadratic in the complexity of the shift. This in turn implies the two weight boundedness for all Calderón–Zygmund operators. This gives a partial answer to a long-standing conjecture. We also give a partial result for a related conjecture for weak-type inequalities. To prove our main results we combine several different approaches to these problems; in particular we use many of the ideas developed to prove the _A2$A_2$ conjecture. As a byproduct of our work we also disprove a conjecture by Muckenhoupt and Wheeden on weak-type inequalities for the Hilbert transform. This is closely related to the recent counterexamples of Reguera, Scurry and Thiele.     

Oscillation of harmonic functions for subordinate Brownian motion and its applications

In this paper, we establish an oscillation estimate of nonnegative harmonic functions for a pure-jump subordinate Brownian motion. The infinitesimal generator of such subordinate Brownian motion is an integro-differential operator. As an application, we give a probabilistic proof of the following form of relative Fatou theorem for such subordinate Brownian motion X$X$ in a bounded κ$\kappa$-fat open set; if u$u$ is a positive harmonic function with respect to X$X$ in a bounded κ$\kappa$-fat open set D$D$ and h$h$ is a positive harmonic function in D$D$ vanishing on D^c$D^c$, then the non-tangential limit of u/h$u/h$ exists almost everywhere with respect to the Martin-representing measure of h$h$.     

Uniqueness of the Cheeger set of a convex body

We prove that if C⊂R^N$C\subset {\mathbb{R}}^N$ is an open bounded convex set, then there is only one Cheeger set inside C$C$ and it is convex. A Cheeger set of C$C$ is a set which minimizes the ratio perimeter over volume among all subsets of C$C$.     

Large deviations of infinite intersections of events in Gaussian processes

Consider events of the form {_Zs≥ζ(s),s∈S}$\{Z_s\ge \zeta \left(s\right),s\in S\}$, where Z$Z$ is a continuous Gaussian process with stationary increments, ζ$\zeta$ is a function that belongs to the reproducing kernel Hilbert space R$R$ of process Z$Z$, and S⊂R$S\subset \mathbb{R}$ is compact. The main problem considered in this paper is identifying the function β^∗∈R${\beta }^{\ast }\in R$ satisfying β^∗(s)≥ζ(s)${\beta }^{\ast }\left(s\right)\ge \zeta \left(s\right)$ on S$S$ and having minimal R$R$-norm. The smoothness (mean square differentiability) of Z$Z$ turns out to have a crucial impact on the structure of the solution. As examples, we obtain the explicit solutions when ζ(s)=s$\zeta \left(s\right)=s$ for s∈[0,1]$s\in [0,1]$ and Z$Z$ is either a fractional Brownian motion or an integrated Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process.     

An upper bound for a valence of a face in a parallelohedral tiling

Consider a face-to-face parallelohedral tiling of R^d${\mathbb{R}}^d$ and a (d−k)$(d-k)$-dimensional face F$F$ of the tiling. We prove that the valence of F$F$ (i.e. the number of tiles containing F$F$ as a face) is not greater than 2^k$2^k$. If the tiling is affinely equivalent to a Voronoi tiling for some lattice (the so called Voronoi case), this gives a well-known upper bound for the number of vertices of a Delaunay k$k$-cell. Yet we emphasize that such an affine equivalence is not assumed in the proof.     

On truncated variation,upward truncated variation and downward truncated variation for diffusions

The truncated variation, TV^c${\text{TV}}^c$, is a fairly new concept introduced in ?ochowski (2008) [5]. Roughly speaking, given a càdlàg function f$f$, its truncated variation is “the total variation which does not pay attention to small changes of f$f$, below some threshold c>0$c>0$”. The very basic consequence of such approach is that contrary to the total variation, TV^c${\text{TV}}^c$ is always finite. This is appealing to the stochastic analysis where so-far large classes of processes, like semimartingales or diffusions, could not be studied with the total variation. Recently in ?ochowski (2011) [6], another characterization of TV^c${\text{TV}}^c$ has been found. Namely TV^c${\text{TV}}^c$ is the smallest possible total variation of a function which approximates f$f$ uniformly with accuracy c/2$c/2$. Due to these properties we envisage that TV^c${\text{TV}}^c$ might be a useful concept both in the theory and applications of stochastic processes.     

Asymptotic average shadowing property on compact metric spaces

We prove that if for a continuous map f$f$ on a compact metric space X$X$, the chain recurrent set, R(f)$R\left(f\right)$ has more than one chain component, then f$f$ does not satisfy the asymptotic average shadowing property. We also show that if a continuous map f$f$ on a compact metric space X$X$ has the asymptotic average shadowing property and if A$A$ is an attractor for f$f$, then A$A$ is the single attractor for f$f$ and we have A=R(f)$A=R\left(f\right)$. We also study diffeomorphisms with asymptotic average shadowing property and prove that if M$M$ is a compact manifold which is not finite with dimM=2$dimM=2$, then the C¹$C^1$ interior of the set of all C¹$C^1$ diffeomorphisms with the asymptotic average shadowing property is characterized by the set of Ω$\Omega$-stable diffeomorphisms.     

A note on Schweizer–Smital chaos

In this paper, we consider a continuous map f:X→X$f:X\to X$, where X$X$ is a compact metric space, and prove that for any positive integer N$N$, f$f$ is Schweizer–Smital chaotic if and only if f^N$f^N$ is too.     

Analysis of symmetric matrix valued functions I

For any symmetric function f:Rⁿ?Rⁿ$f:{\mathbb{R}}^n?{\mathbb{R}}^n$, one can define a corresponding function on the space of n×n$n\times n$ real symmetric matrices by applying f$f$ to the eigenvalues of the spectral decomposition. We show that this matrix valued function inherits from f$f$ the properties of continuity, Lipschitz continuity, strict continuity, directional differentiability, Frechet differentiability, continuous differentiability.     

Applications of equivariant degree for gradient maps to symmetric Newtonian systems

We consider G=Γ×S¹$G=\Gamma \times S^1$ with Γ$\Gamma$ being a finite group, for which the complete Euler ring structure in U(G)$U\left(G\right)$ is described. The multiplication tables for Γ=_D6$\Gamma =D_6$, _S4$S_4$ and _A5$A_5$ are provided in the Appendix. The equivariant degree for G$G$-orthogonal maps is constructed using the primary equivariant degree with one free parameter. We show that the G$G$-orthogonal degree extends the degree for G$G$-gradient maps (in the case of G=Γ×S¹$G=\Gamma \times S^1$) introduced by G?ba in [K. G?ba, W. Krawcewicz, J. Wu, An equivariant degree with applications to symmetric bifurcation problems I: Construction of the degree, Bull. London. Math. Soc. 69 (1994) 377–398]. The computational results obtained are applied to a Γ$\Gamma$-symmetric autonomous Newtonian system for which we study the existence of 2π$2\pi$-periodic solutions. For some concrete cases, we present the symmetric classification of the solution set for the systems considered.     

On solutions of second and fourth order elliptic equations with power-type nonlinearities

We study second and fourth order semilinear elliptic equations with a power-type nonlinearity depending on a power p$p$ and a parameter λ>0$\lambda >0$. For both equations we consider Dirichlet boundary conditions in the unit ball B⊂Rⁿ$B\subset {\mathbb{R}}^n$. Regularity of solutions strictly depends on the power p$p$ and the parameter λ$\lambda$. We are particularly interested in the radial solutions of these two problems and many of our proofs are based on an ordinary differential equation approach.