Maximal Monotone Multifunctions of Brøndsted–Rockafellar Type

We consider whether the “inequality-splitting” property established in the Brøndsted–Rockafellar theorem for the subdifferential of a proper convex lower semicontinuous function on a Banach space has an analog for arbitrary maximal monotone multifunctions. We introduce the maximal monotone multifunctions of type (ED), for which an “inequality-splitting” property does hold. These multifunctions form a subclass of Gossez"s maximal monotone multifunctions of type (D); however, in every case where it has been proved that a multifunction is maximal monotone of type (D) then it is also of type (ED). Specifically, the following maximal monotone multifunctions are of type (ED): ? ultramaximal monotone multifunctions, which occur in the study of certain nonlinear elliptic functional equations; ? single-valued linear operators that are maximal monotone of type (D); ? subdifferentials of proper convex lower semicontinuous functions; ? “subdifferentials” of certain saddle-functions. We discuss the negative alignment set of a maximal monotone multifunction of type (ED) with respect to a point not in its graph – a mysterious continuous curve without end-points lying in the interior of the first quadrant of the plane. We deduce new inequality-splitting properties of subdifferentials, almost giving a substantial generalization of the original Brøndsted–Rockafellar theorem. We develop some mathematical infrastructure, some specific to multifunctions, some with possible applications to other areas of nonlinear analysis: ? the formula for the biconjugate of the pointwise maximum of a finite set of convex functions – in a situation where the “obvious” formula for the conjugate fails; ? a new topology on the bidual of a Banach space – in some respects, quite well behaved, but in other respects, quite pathological; ? an existence theorem for bounded linear functionals – unusual in that it does not assume the existence of any a priori bound; ? the 'big convexification" of a multifunction.

     

Hermite–Hadamard’s type inequalities for convex functions of selfadjoint operators in Hilbert spaces

Some Hermite–Hadamard’s type inequalities for convex functions of selfadjoint operators in Hilbert spaces under suitable assumptions for the involved operators are given. Applications in relation with the celebrated Hölder–McCarthy’s inequality for positive operators and Ky Fan’s inequality for real numbers are given as well.     

On Wiener’s Theorem for functions periodic at infinity

We consider the functions periodic at infinity with values in a complex Banach space. The notions are introduced of the canonical and generalized Fourier series of a function periodic at infinity. We prove an analog of Wiener’s Theorem on absolutely convergent Fourier series for functions periodic at infinity whose Fourier series are summable with weight. The two criteria are given: for the function periodic at infinity to be the sum of a purely periodic function and a function vanishing at infinity and for a function to be periodic at infinity. The results of the article base on substantially use on spectral theory of isometric representations.     

A Banach–Zarecki Theorem for functions with values in Banach spaces

A Banach–Zarecki Theorem for a Banach space-valued function  \(F : [0,1] \rightarrow X\) with compact range is presented. We define the strong absolute continuity ( \(sAC_{||.||_{F}}\) ) and the bounded variation ( \(BV_{||.||_{F}}\) ) of \(F\) with respect to the Minkowski functional \(||.||_{F}\) associated to the closed absolutely convex hull \(C_{F}\) of \(F([0,1])\) . It is proved that \(F\) is \(sAC_{||.||_{F}}\) if and only if \(F\) is \(BV_{||.||_{F}}\) , weak continuous on \([0,1]\) and satisfies the weak property \((N)\) .     

On positive positive-definite functions and Bochner’s Theorem

We recall an open problem on the error of quadrature formulas for the integration of functions from some finite dimensional spaces of trigonometric functions posed by Novak (1999) in [8] ten years ago and summarised recently in Novak and Wo?niakowski (2008) [9]. It is relatively easy to prove an error formula for the best quadrature rules with positive weights which shows intractability of the tensor product problem for such rules. In contrast to that, the conjecture that also quadrature formulas with arbitrary weights cannot decrease the error is still open.We generalise Novak’s conjecture to a statement about positive positive-definite functions and provide several equivalent reformulations, which show the connections to Bochner’s Theorem and Toeplitz matrices.     

Around Jensen’s inequality for strongly convex functions

In this paper we use basic properties of strongly convex functions to obtain new inequalities including Jensen type and Jensen–Mercer type inequalities. Applications for special means are pointed out as well. We also give a Jensen’s operator inequality for strongly convex functions. As a corollary, we improve the Hölder-McCarthy inequality under suitable conditions. More precisely we show that if \(Sp\left( A \right) \subset \left( 1,\infty \right) \), then

$$\begin{aligned} {{\left\langle Ax,x \right\rangle }^{r}}\le \left\langle {{A}^{r}}x,x \right\rangle -\frac{{{r}^{2}}-r}{2}\left( \left\langle {{A}^{2}}x,x \right\rangle -{{\left\langle Ax,x \right\rangle }^{2}} \right) ,\quad r\ge 2 \end{aligned}$$

and if \(Sp\left( A \right) \subset \left( 0,1 \right) \), then

$$\begin{aligned} \left\langle {{A}^{r}}x,x \right\rangle \le {{\left\langle Ax,x \right\rangle }^{r}}+\frac{r-{{r}^{2}}}{2}\left( {{\left\langle Ax,x \right\rangle }^{2}}-\left\langle {{A}^{2}}x,x \right\rangle \right) ,\quad 0<r<1 \end{aligned}$$

for each positive operator A and \(x\in \mathcal {H}\) with \(\left\| x \right\| =1\).

     

Jensen’s inequality on convex spaces

We prove a Jensen’s inequality on $p$ -uniformly convex space in terms of $p$ -barycenters of probability measures with $(p-1)$ -th moment with $p\in ]1,\infty [$ under a geometric condition, which extends the results in Kuwae (Jensen’s inequality over CAT $(\kappa )$ -space with small diameter. In: Proceedings of Potential Theory and Stochastics, Albac Romania, pp. 173–182. Theta Series in Advanced Mathematics, vol. 14. Theta, Bucharest, 2009) , Eells and Fuglede (Harmonic maps between Riemannian polyhedra. In: Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, vol. 142. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001) and Sturm (Probability measures on metric spaces of nonpositive curvature. Probability measures on metric spaces of nonpositive curvature. In: Heat kernels and analysis on manifolds, graphs, and metric spaces (Paris, 2002), pp. 357–390. Contemporary Mathematics, vol. 338. American Mathematical Society, Providence, 2003). As an application, we give a Liouville’s theorem for harmonic maps described by Markov chains into $2$ -uniformly convex space satisfying such a geometric condition. An alternative proof of the Jensen’s inequality over Banach spaces is also presented.     

On algebraic relations for Ramanujan’s functions

Let P,Q, and R denote the Ramanujan Eisenstein series. We compute algebraic relations in terms of P(q ⁱ ) (i=1,2,3,4), Q(q ⁱ ) (i=1,2,3), and R(q ⁱ ) (i=1,2,3). For complex algebraic numbers q with 0<|q|<1 we prove the algebraic independence over ? of any three-element subset of {P(q),P(q ²),P(q ³),P(q ⁴)} and of any two-element subset of {Q(q),Q(q ²),Q(q ³)} and {R(q),R(q ²),R(q ³)}, respectively. For all the results we use some expressions of $P(q^{i_{1}}), Q(q^{i_{2}}) $ , and $R(q^{i_{3}}) $ in terms of theta constants. Computer-assisted computations of functional determinants and resultants are essential parts of our proofs.     

On furstenberg’s characterization of harmonic functions on symmetric spaces

We provide a necessary and sufficient condition on a radial probability measureμ on a symmetric space for whichf =f *μ, f bounded, implies thatf is harmonic. In particular, we obtain a short and elementary proof of a theorem of Furstenberg which says that iff is a bounded function on a symmetric space which satisfiesf =f *μ for some radialabsolutely continuous probability measureμ, thenf is harmonic.     

On Weyl’s Theorem for Functions of Operators

Let H be a complex separable infinite dimensional Hilbert space. In this paper, a variant of the Weyl spectrum is discussed. Using the new spectrum, we characterize the necessary and sufficient conditions for both T and f(T) satisfying Weyl's theorem, where f ∈ Hol(σ(T)) and Hol(σ(T)) is defined by the set of all functions f which are analytic on a neighbourhood of σ(T) and are not constant on any component of σ(T). Also we consider the perturbations of Weyl's theorem for f(T).     

The Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás Theorem for operators from c 0 to uniformly convex spaces

We show that the pair of Banach spaces (c ₀, Y) has the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás property when Y is uniformly convex. Further, when Y is strictly convex, if (c ₀, Y) has the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás property then Y is uniformly convex for the case of real Banach spaces. As a corollary, we show that the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás theorem holds for bilinear forms on c ₀ × ? _p (1 < p < ∞).     

Refinements of Fejér’s inequality for convex functions

In this paper, we establish some new refinements for the celebrated Fejér??s and Hermite-Hadamard??s integral inequalities for convex functions.     

On Dekster’s angle measure in Minkowski spaces

Recently, Dekster introduced a new angle measure for Minkowski spaces according to which the total angular measure τ around a point in a two-dimensional Minkowski space need not be 2π. In this paper, we shall show that while τ need not be 2π, τ always lies between and 8.     

On the isospectral orbifold–manifold problem for nonpositively curved locally symmetric spaces

An old problem asks whether a Riemannian manifold can be isospectral to a Riemannian orbifold with nontrivial singular set. In this short note we show that under the assumption of Schanuel’s conjecture in transcendental number theory, this is impossible whenever the orbifold and manifold in question are length-commensurable compact locally symmetric spaces of nonpositive curvature associated to simple Lie groups.     

Order of Selbergʼs and Ruelleʼs zeta functions for compact even-dimensional locally symmetric spaces

We prove that Selberg?s and Ruelle?s zeta functions considered by U. Bunke and M. Olbrich can be represented as quotients of two entire functions of order not larger than the dimension of the underlaying compact, even-dimensional, locally symmetric space.