Almost orthogonal operators on the bitorus II

We prove that the operator ${Tf(x,y)=\int^\pi_{-\pi}\int_{|x^{\prime}|<|y^{\prime}|} \frac{e^{iN(x,y) x^{\prime}}}{x^{\prime}}\frac{e^{iN(x,y) y^{\prime}}}{y^{\prime}}f(x-x^{\prime}, y-y^{\prime}) dx^{\prime} dy^{\prime}}$ , with ${x,y \in[0,2\pi]}$ and where the cut off ${|x^{\prime}|<|y^{\prime}|}$ is performed in a smooth and dyadic way, is bounded from L ² to weak- ${L^{2-\epsilon}}$ , any ${\epsilon > 0 }$ , under the basic assumption that the real-valued measurable function N(x, y) is “mainly” a function of y and the additional assumption that N(x, y) is non-decreasing in x, for every y fixed. This is an extension to 2D of C. Fefferman’s proof of a.e. convergence of Fourier series of L ² functions.     

Nash equilibria on topological semilattices

A function ${u : X \to \mathbb{R}}$ defined on a partially ordered set is quasi-Leontief if, for all ${x \in X}$ , the upper level set ${\{x\prime \in X : u(x\prime) \geq u(x)\}}$ has a smallest element; such an element is an efficient point of u. An abstract game ${u_{i} : \prod^{n}_{j=1} X_j \to \mathbb{R}, i \in \{1, \ldots , n\}}$ , is a quasi-Leontief game if, for all i and all ${(x_{j})_{j \neq i} \in \prod_{j \neq i} X_{j}, u_{i}((x_{j})_{j \neq i};-) : X_{i} \to \mathbb{R}}$ is quasi-Leontief; a Nash equilibrium x* of an abstract game ${u_{i} :\prod^{n}_{j=1} X_{j} \to \mathbb{R}}$ is efficient if, for all ${i, x^{*}_{i}}$ is an efficient point of the partial function ${u_{i}((x^{*}_{j})_{j \neq i};-) : X_{i} \to \mathbb{R}}$ . We establish the existence of efficient Nash equilibria when the strategy spaces X _i are topological semilattices which are Peano continua and Lawson semilattices.     

On a problem concerning the Banach algebra generated by the maps n\mapsto\lambda^{\binom{n}{k}}

In Jabbari and Namioka (Milan J. Math. 78:503?C522, 2010), the authors characterized the spectrum M(W) of the Weyl algebra W, i.e. the norm closure of the algebra generated by the family of functions $\{n\mapsto x^{n^{k}}; x\in\mathbb{T}, k\in\mathbb{N}\}$ , ( $\mathbb{T}$ the unit circle), with a closed subgroup of $E(\mathbb{T})^{\mathbb{N}}$ where $E(\mathbb{T})$ denotes the family of the endomorphisms of the multiplicative group $\mathbb{T}$ . But the size of M(W) in $E(\mathbb{T})^{\mathbb{N}}$ as well as the induced group operation were left as a problem. In this paper, we will give a solution to this problem.     

Classical and Sobolev orthogonality of the nonclassical Jacobi polynomials with parameters \alpha =\beta =-1

In this paper, we consider the second-order differential expression $$\begin{aligned} \ell [y](x)=(1-x^{2})(-(y^{\prime }(x))^{\prime }+k(1-x^{2})^{-1} y(x))\quad (x\in (-1,1)). \end{aligned}$$ This is the Jacobi differential expression with nonclassical parameters $\alpha =\beta =-1$ in contrast to the classical case when $\alpha ,\beta >-1$ . For fixed $k\ge 0$ and appropriate values of the spectral parameter $\lambda ,$ the equation $\ell [y]=\lambda y$ has, as in the classical case, a sequence of (Jacobi) polynomial solutions $\{P_{n}^{(-1,-1)} \}_{n=0}^{\infty }.$ These Jacobi polynomial solutions of degree $\ge 2$ form a complete orthogonal set in the Hilbert space $L^{2}((-1,1);(1-x^{2})^{-1})$ . Unlike the classical situation, every polynomial of degree one is a solution of this eigenvalue equation. Kwon and Littlejohn showed that, by careful selection of this first-degree solution, the set of polynomial solutions of degree $\ge 0$ are orthogonal with respect to a Sobolev inner product. Our main result in this paper is to construct a self-adjoint operator $T$ , generated by $\ell [\cdot ],$ in this Sobolev space that has these Jacobi polynomials as a complete orthogonal set of eigenfunctions. The classical Glazman–Krein–Naimark theory is essential in helping to construct $T$ in this Sobolev space as is the left-definite theory developed by Littlejohn and Wellman.     

Planar Beurling Transform and Bergman Type Spaces

In this paper we describe the actions of the operator $S_\mathbb{D }$ or its adjoint $S_\mathbb{D }^*$ on the poly-Bergman spaces of the unit disk $\mathbb{D }.$ Let $k$ and $j$ be positive integers. We prove that $(S_\mathbb{D })^{j}$ is an isometric isomorphism between the true poly-Bergman subspace $\mathcal{A }_{(k)}^2(\mathbb{D })\ominus N_{(k),j}$ onto the true poly-Bergman space $\mathcal{A }_{(j+k)}^2(\mathbb{D }),$ where the linear space $N_{(k),j}$ have finite dimension $j.$ The action of $(S_\mathbb{D })^{j-1}$ on the canonical Hilbert base for the Bergman subspace $\mathcal{A }^2(\mathbb{D })\ominus \mathcal{P }_{j-1},$ gives a Hilbert base $\{ \phi _{ j , k } \}_{ k }$ for $\mathcal{A }_{(j)}^2(\mathbb{D }).$ It is shown that $\{ \phi _{ j , k } \}_{ j, k }$ is a Hilbert base for $L^2(\mathbb{D },d A)$ such that whenever $j$ and $k$ remain constant we obtain a Hilbert base for the true poly-Bergman space $\mathcal{A }_{(j)}^2(\mathbb{D })$ and $\mathcal{A }_{(-k)}^2(\mathbb{D }),$ respectively. The functions $\phi _{ j , k }$ are polynomials in $z$ and $\overline{z}$ and are explicitly given in terms of the $(2,1)$ -hypergeometric polynomials. We prove explicit representations for the true poly-Bergman kernels and the Koshelev representation for the poly-Bergman kernels of $\mathbb{D }.$ The action of $S_\Pi $ on the true poly-Bergman spaces of the upper half-plane $\Pi $ allows one to introduce Hilbert bases for the true poly-Bergman spaces, and to give explicit representations of the true poly-Bergman and poly-Bergman kernels.     

AW*-algebras Which are Enveloping C*-algebras of JC-algebras

In the given article, enveloping C*-algebras of AJW-algebras are considered. Conditions are given, when the enveloping C*-algebra of an AJW-algebra is an AW*-algebra, and corresponding theorems are proved. In particular, we proved that if $\mathcal{A}$ is a real AW*-algebra, $\mathcal{A}_{sa}$ is the JC-algebra of all self-adjoint elements of $\mathcal{A}$ , $\mathcal{A}+i\mathcal{A}$ is an AW*-algebra and $\mathcal{A}\cap i\mathcal{A} = \{0\}$ then the enveloping C*-algebra $C^*(\mathcal{A}_{sa})$ of the JC-algebra $\mathcal{A}_{sa}$ is an AW*-algebra. Moreover, if $\mathcal{A}+i\mathcal{A}$ does not have nonzero direct summands of type I₂, then $C^*(\mathcal{A}_{sa})$ coincides with the algebra $\mathcal{A}+i\mathcal{A}$ , i.e. $C^*(\mathcal{A}_{sa})= \mathcal{A}+i\mathcal{A}$ .     

Hypercentralizing generalized skew derivations on left ideals in prime rings

Let $\mathcal{R }$ be a prime ring of characteristic different from $2, \mathcal{Q }_r$ the right Martindale quotient ring of $\mathcal{R }, \mathcal{C }$ the extended centroid of $\mathcal{R }, \mathcal{I }$ a nonzero left ideal of $\mathcal{R }, F$ a nonzero generalized skew derivation of $\mathcal{R }$ with associated automorphism $\alpha $ , and $n,k \ge 1$ be fixed integers. If $[F(r^n),r^n]_k=0$ for all $r \in \mathcal{I }$ , then there exists $\lambda \in \mathcal{C }$ such that $F(x)=\lambda x$ , for all $x\in \mathcal{I }$ . More precisely one of the following holds: (1) $\alpha $ is an $X$ -inner automorphism of $\mathcal{R }$ and there exist $b,c \in \mathcal{Q }_r$ and $q$ invertible element of $\mathcal{Q }_r$ , such that $F(x)=bx-qxq^{-1}c$ , for all $x\in \mathcal{Q }_r$ . Moreover there exists $\gamma \in \mathcal{C }$ such that $\mathcal{I }(q^{-1}c-\gamma )=(0)$ and $b-\gamma q \in \mathcal{C }$ ; (2) $\alpha $ is an $X$ -outer automorphism of $\mathcal{R }$ and there exist $c \in \mathcal{Q }_r, \lambda \in \mathcal{C }$ , such that $F(x)=\lambda x-\alpha (x)c$ , for all $x\in \mathcal{Q }_r$ , with $\alpha (\mathcal{I })c=0$ .     

Heavy tail phenomenon and convergence to stable laws for iterated Lipschitz maps

We consider the Markov chain ${\{X_n^x\}_{n=0}^\infty}$ on ${\mathbb{R}^d}$ defined by the stochastic recursion ${X_{n}^{x}= \psi_{\theta_{n}} (X_{n-1}^{x})}$ , starting at ${x\in\mathbb{R}^d}$ , where ?? ₁, ?? ₂, . . . are i.i.d. random variables taking their values in a metric space ${(\Theta, \mathfrak{r})}$ , and ${\psi_{\theta_{n}} :\mathbb{R}^d\mapsto\mathbb{R}^d}$ are Lipschitz maps. Assume that the Markov chain has a unique stationary measure ??. Under appropriate assumptions on ${\psi_{\theta_n}}$ , we will show that the measure ?? has a heavy tail with the exponent ???>?0 i.e. ${\nu(\{x\in\mathbb{R}^d: |x| > t\})\asymp t^{-\alpha}}$ . Using this result we show that properly normalized Birkhoff sums ${S_n^x=\sum_{k=1}^n X_k^x}$ , converge in law to an ??-stable law for ${\alpha\in(0, 2]}$ .     

Generalized Complex Spherical Harmonics, Frame Functions, and Gleason Theorem

Consider a finite dimensional complex Hilbert space ${\mathcal{H}}$ , with ${dim(\mathcal{H}) \geq 3}$ , define ${\mathbb{S}(\mathcal{H}):= \{x\in \mathcal{H} \:|\: \|x\|=1\}}$ , and let ${\nu_\mathcal{H}}$ be the unique regular Borel positive measure invariant under the action of the unitary operators in ${\mathcal{H}}$ , with ${\nu_\mathcal{H}(\mathbb{S}(\mathcal{H}))=1}$ . We prove that if a complex frame function ${f : \mathbb{S}(\mathcal{H})\to \mathbb{C}}$ satisfies ${f \in \mathbb{L}^2(\mathbb{S}(\mathcal{H}), \nu_\mathcal{H})}$ , then it verifies Gleason’s statement: there is a unique linear operator ${A: \mathcal{H} \to \mathcal{H}}$ such that ${f(u) = \langle u| A u\rangle}$ for every ${u \in \mathbb{S}(\mathcal{H}).\,A}$ is Hermitean when f is real. No boundedness requirement is thus assumed on f a priori.     

Palindromes in linear recurrence sequences

We prove that for any base $b\ge 2$ and for any linear homogeneous recurrence sequence $\{a_n\}_{n\ge 1}$ satisfying certain conditions, there exits a positive constant $c>0$ such that $\# \{n\le x:\ a_n \;\text{ is} \text{ palindromic} \text{ in} \text{ base}\; b\} \ll x^{1-c}$ .     

A Note on Classical and p-adic Fréchet Functional Equations with Restrictions

Given X,Y two ${\mathbb{Q}}$ -vector spaces, and f : X → Y, we study under which conditions on the sets ${B_{k} \subseteq X, k=1,\ldots,s}$ , if ${\Delta_{h_1h_2 \cdots h_s}f(x) = 0}$ for all ${x \in X}$ and ${h_k \in B_k, k = 1,2,\ldots,s}$ , then ${\Delta_{h_1h_2\cdots h_{s}}f(x) = 0}$ for all ${(x,h_{1},\ldots,h_{s}) \in X^{s+1}}$ .     

Supports of (\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{k})-modules of finite type

Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a semisimple Lie algebra and $\mathfrak{k}$ be a reductive subalgebra in $\mathfrak{g}$ . We say that a $\mathfrak{g}$ -module M is a $(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{k})$ -module if M, considered as a $\mathfrak{k}$ -module, is a direct sum of finite-dimensional $\mathfrak{k}$ -modules. We say that a $(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{k})$ -module M is of finite type if all $\mathfrak{k}$ -isotopic components of M are finite-dimensional. In this paper we prove that any simple $(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{k})$ -module of finite type is holonomic. A simple $\mathfrak{g}$ -module M is associated with the invariants V(M), V(LocM), and L(M) reflecting the ??directions of growth of M.?? We also prove that for a given pair $(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{k})$ the set of possible invariants is finite.     

Fermat-type equations of signature (13,13,p) via Hilbert cuspforms

In this paper we prove that for $p > 13649$ equations of the form $x^{13} + y^{13} = Cz^{p}$ have no non-trivial primitive solutions $(a,b,c)$ such that $13 \not \mid c$ for an infinite family of values for $C$ . Our method consists on relating a solution $(a,b,c)$ to the previous equation to a solution $(a,b,c_1)$ of another Diophantine equation with coefficients in $\mathbb Q (\sqrt{13})$ . Then we attach to $(a,b,c_1)$ a Frey curve $E_{(a,b)}$ defined over $\mathbb Q (\sqrt{13})$ that is not a $\mathbb Q $ -curve. We prove a modularity result of independent interest for certain elliptic curves over totally real abelian number fields satisfying some local conditions at $3$ . This theorem, in particular, implies modularity of $E_{(a,b)}$ . This enables us to use level lowering results and apply the modular approach via Hilbert cuspforms over $\mathbb Q (\sqrt{13})$ to prove the non-existence of $(a,b,c_1)$ and, consequently, of $(a,b,c)$ .     

Harmonic lifts of modular forms

It is shown that each complex conjugate of a meromorphic modular form for $\mathrm{SL}_{2}(\mathbb{Z})$ of any complex weight p occurs as the image of a harmonic modular form under the operator $2i y^{p} \partial_{\bar{z}}$ . These harmonic lifts occur in holomorphic families with the weight as the parameter.     

Hausdorff measures of subgroups of \mathbb{R }/\mathbb{Z } and \mathbb{R }

For a sequence $\underline{u}=(u_n)_{n\in \mathbb{N }}$ of integers, let $t_{\underline{u}}(\mathbb{T })$ be the group of all topologically $\underline{u}$ -torsion elements of the circle group $\mathbb{T }:=\mathbb{R }/\mathbb{Z }$ . We show that for any $s\in ]0,1[$ and $m\in \{0,+\infty \}$ there exists $\underline{u}$ such that $t_{\underline{u}}(\mathbb{T })$ has Hausdorff dimension $s$ and $s$ -dimensional Hausdorff measure equal to $m$ (no other values for $m$ are possible). More generally, for dimension functions $f,g$ with $f(t)\prec g(t), f(t)\prec \!\!\!\prec t$ and $g(t)\prec \!\!\!\prec t$ we find $\underline{u}$ such that $t_{\underline{u}}(\mathbb{T })$ has at the same time infinite $f$ -measure and null $g$ -measure.     

Uniqueness properties of degenerate elliptic operators

Let ?? be an open subset of R ^d and ${ K=-\sum^d_{i,j=1}\partial_i\,c_{ij}\,\partial_j+\sum^d_{i=1}c_i\partial_i+c_0}$ a second-order partial differential operator with real-valued coefficients ${c_{ij}=c_{ji}\in W^{1,\infty}_{\rm loc}(\Omega),c_i,c_0\in L_{\infty,{\rm loc}}(\Omega)}$ satisfying the strict ellipticity condition ${C=(c_{ij}) >0 }$ . Further let ${H=-\sum^d_{i,j=1} \partial_i\,c_{ij}\,\partial_j}$ denote the principal part of K. Assuming an accretivity condition ${C\geq \kappa (c\otimes c^{\,T})}$ with ${\kappa >0 }$ , an invariance condition ${(1\!\!1_\Omega, K\varphi)=0}$ and a growth condition which allows ${\|C(x)\|\sim |x|^2\log |x|}$ as |x| ?? ?? we prove that K is L ₁-unique if and only if H is L ₁-unique or Markov unique.     

Averaged Pointwise Bounds for Deformations of Schrödinger Eigenfunctions

Let (M,g) be an n-dimensional, compact Riemannian manifold and ${P_0(\hbar) = -\hbar{^2} \Delta_g + V(x)}$ be a semiclassical Schrödinger operator with ${\hbar \in (0,\hbar_0]}$ . Let ${E(\hbar) \in [E-o(1),E+o(1)]}$ and ${(\phi_{\hbar})_{\hbar \in (0,\hbar_0]}}$ be a family of L ²-normalized eigenfunctions of ${P_0(\hbar)}$ with ${P_0(\hbar) \phi_{\hbar} = E(\hbar) \phi_{\hbar}}$ . We consider magnetic deformations of ${P_0(\hbar)}$ of the form ${P_u(\hbar) = - \Delta_{\omega_u}(\hbar) + V(x)}$ , where ${\Delta_{\omega_u}(\hbar) = (\hbar d + i \omega_u(x))^*({\hbar}d + i \omega_u(x))}$ . Here, u is a k-dimensional parameter running over ${B^k(\epsilon)}$ (the ball of radius ${\epsilon}$ ), and the family of the magnetic potentials ${(w_u)_{u\in B^k(\epsilon)}}$ satisfies the admissibility condition given in Definition 1.1. This condition implies that k ≥ n and is generic under this assumption. Consider the corresponding family of deformations of ${(\phi_{\hbar})_{\hbar \in (0, \hbar_0]}}$ , given by ${(\phi^u_{\hbar})_{\hbar \in(0, \hbar_0]}}$ , where $$\phi_{\hbar}^{(u)}:= {\rm e}^{-it_0 P_u(\hbar)/\hbar}\phi_{\hbar}$$ for ${|t_0|\in (0,\epsilon)}$ ; the latter functions are themselves eigenfunctions of the ${\hbar}$ -elliptic operators ${Q_u(\hbar): ={\rm e}^{-it_0P_u(\hbar)/\hbar} P_0(\hbar) {\rm e}^{it_0 P_u(\hbar)/\hbar}}$ with eigenvalue ${E(\hbar)}$ and ${Q_0(\hbar) = P_{0}(\hbar)}$ . Our main result, Theorem1.2, states that for ${\epsilon >0 }$ small, there are constants ${C_j=C_j(M,V,\omega,\epsilon) > 0}$ with j = 1,2 such that $$C_{1}\leq \int\limits_{\mathcal{B}^k(\epsilon)} |\phi_{\hbar}^{(u)}(x)|^2 \, {\rm d}u \leq C_{2}$$ , uniformly for ${x \in M}$ and ${\hbar \in (0,h_0]}$ . We also give an application to eigenfunction restriction bounds in Theorem 1.3.     

Weak solutions of the stationary Navier–Stokes equations for a viscous incompressible fluid past an obstacle

Consider the stationary Navier–Stokes equations in an exterior domain $\varOmega \subset \mathbb{R }^3 $ with smooth boundary. For every prescribed constant vector $u_{\infty } \ne 0$ and every external force $f \in \dot{H}_2^{-1} (\varOmega )$ , Leray (J. Math. Pures. Appl., 9:1–82, 1933) constructed a weak solution $u $ with $\nabla u \in L_2 (\varOmega )$ and $u - u_{\infty } \in L_6(\varOmega )$ . Here $\dot{H}^{-1}_2 (\varOmega )$ denotes the dual space of the homogeneous Sobolev space $\dot{H}^1_{2}(\varOmega ) $ . We prove that the weak solution $u$ fulfills the additional regularity property $u- u_{\infty } \in L_4(\varOmega )$ and $u_\infty \cdot \nabla u \in \dot{H}_2^{-1} (\varOmega )$ without any restriction on $f$ except for $f \in \dot{H}_2^{-1} (\varOmega )$ . As a consequence, it turns out that every weak solution necessarily satisfies the generalized energy equality. Moreover, we obtain a sharp a priori estimate and uniqueness result for weak solutions assuming only that $\Vert f\Vert _{\dot{H}^{-1}_2(\varOmega )}$ and $|u_{\infty }|$ are suitably small. Our results give final affirmative answers to open questions left by Leray (J. Math. Pures. Appl., 9:1–82, 1933) about energy equality and uniqueness of weak solutions. Finally we investigate the convergence of weak solutions as $u_{\infty } \rightarrow 0$ in the strong norm topology, while the limiting weak solution exhibits a completely different behavior from that in the case $u_{\infty } \ne 0$ .