Asymptotic behavior of the p-torsion functions as p goes to 1

Let \({\Omega}\) be a Lipschitz bounded domain of \({\mathbb{R}^N}\), \({N\geq2}\), and let \({u_p\in W_0^{1,p}(\Omega)}\) denote the p-torsion function of \({\Omega}\), p > 1. It is observed that the value 1 for the Cheeger constant \({h(\Omega)}\) is threshold with respect to the asymptotic behavior of u_p, as \({p\rightarrow 1^+}\), in the following sense: when \({h(\Omega) > 1}\), one has \({\lim_{p\rightarrow 1^+}\left\|u_{p}\right\| _{L^\infty(\Omega)}=0}\), and when \({h(\Omega) < 1}\), one has \({\lim_{p\rightarrow 1^+}\left\|u_p\right\| _{L^\infty(\Omega)}=\infty}\). In the case \({h(\Omega)=1}\), it is proved that \({\limsup_{p\rightarrow1^+}\left\|u_p\right\|_{L^\infty(\Omega)}<\infty}\). For a radial annulus \({\Omega_{a,b}}\), with inner radius a and outer radius b, it is proved that \({\lim_{p\rightarrow 1^+}\left\|u_p\right\| _{L^\infty(\Omega_{a,b})}=0}\) when \({h(\Omega_{a,b})=1}\).     

On the connectivity of infinite graphs

Let \({\mu \geq \omega}\) be regular, assume the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis and the principle \({\square_\lambda}\) holds for every singular \({\lambda}\) with \({{\rm cf}(\lambda) \leq \mu}\). Let X be a graph with chromatic number greater than \({\mu^+}\). Then X contains a \({\mu}\)-connected subgraph Y of X whose chromatic number is greater than \({\mu^+}\).     

On countably {\mu}-paracompact spaces

A topological space X is countably paracompact if and only if X satisfies the condition (A): For any decreasing sequence {F_i} of non-empty closed sets with \({\bigcap_{i=1}^{\infty} F_{i} = \emptyset}\) there exists a sequence {G_i} of open sets such that \({\bigcap_{i=1}^{\infty}\overline{G_{i}}=\emptyset}\) and \({F_{i} \subset G_{i}}\) for every i. We will show, by an example, that this is not true in generalized topological spaces. In fact there is a \({\mu}\)-normal generalized topological space satisfying the analogue of A which is not even countably \({\mu}\)-metacompact. Then we study the relationships between countably \({\mu}\)-paracompactness, countably \({\mu}\)-metacompactness and the condition corresponding to condition A in generalized topological spaces.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">k</Emphasis>-Extreme Points in Symmetric Spaces of Measurable Operators

Let \({\mathcal{M}}\) be a semifinite von Neumann algebra with a faithful, normal, semifinite trace \({\tau}\) and E be a strongly symmetric Banach function space on \({[0,\tau({\bf 1}))}\) . We show that an operator x in the unit sphere of \({E(\mathcal{M}, \tau)}\) is k-extreme, \({k \in {\mathbb{N}}}\) , whenever its singular value function \({\mu(x)}\) is k-extreme and one of the following conditions hold (i) \({\mu(\infty, x) = \lim_{t\to\infty}\mu(t, x) = 0}\) or (ii) \({n(x)\mathcal{M}n(x^*) = 0}\) and \({|x| \geq \mu(\infty, x)s(x)}\) , where n(x) and s(x) are null and support projections of x, respectively. The converse is true whenever \({\mathcal{M}}\) is non-atomic. The global k-rotundity property follows, that is if \({\mathcal{M}}\) is non-atomic then E is k-rotund if and only if \(E(\mathcal{M}, \tau)\) is k-rotund. As a consequence of the noncommutative results we obtain that f is a k-extreme point of the unit ball of the strongly symmetric function space E if and only if its decreasing rearrangement \({\mu(f)}\) is k-extreme and \({|f| \geq \mu(\infty,f)}\) . We conclude with the corollary on orbits Ω(g) and Ω′(g). We get that f is a k-extreme point of the orbit \({\Omega(g),\,g \in L_1 + L_{\infty}}\) , or \({\Omega'(g),\,g \in L_1[0, \alpha),\,\alpha < \infty}\) , if and only if \({\mu(f) = \mu(g)}\) and \({|f| \geq \mu(\infty, f)}\) . From this we obtain a characterization of k-extreme points in Marcinkiewicz spaces.     

A Unified Framework for Linear Dimensionality Reduction in L1

For a family of interpolation norms \({\| \cdot \|_{1,2,s}}\) on \({\mathbb{R}^{n}}\), we provide a distribution over random matrices \({\Phi_s \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}}\) parametrized by sparsity level s such that for a fixed set X of K points in \({\mathbb{R}^{n}}\), if \({m \geq C s \log(K)}\) then with high probability, \({\frac{1}{2}\| \varvec{x} \|_{1,2,s} \leq \| \Phi_s (\varvec{x}) \|_1 \leq 2 \| \varvec{x} \|_{1,2,s}}\) for all \({\varvec{x} \in X}\). Several existing results in the literature roughly reduce to special cases of this result at different values of s: For s = n, \({\| \varvec{x} \|_{1,2,n}\equiv \| \varvec{x} \|_{1}}\) and we recover that dimension reducing linear maps can preserve the ?₁-norm up to a distortion proportional to the dimension reduction factor, which is known to be the best possible such result. For s = 1, \({\| \varvec{x} \|_{1,2,1}\equiv \| \varvec{x} \|_{2}}\), and we recover an ?₂/?₁ variant of the Johnson–Lindenstrauss Lemma for Gaussian random matrices. Finally, if \({\varvec{x}}\) is s- sparse, then \({\| \varvec{x} \|_{1,2,s} = \| \varvec{x} \|_1}\) and we recover that s-sparse vectors in \({\ell_1^n}\) embed into \({\ell_1^{\mathcal{O}(s \log(n))}}\) via sparse random matrix constructions.     

Conformally Covariant Differential Operators for the Diagonal Action of $$O(p,\,q)$$ on Real Quadrics

Let \(X=G/P\) be a real projective quadric, where \(G=O(p,\,q)\) and P is a parabolic subgroup of G. Let \((\pi _{\lambda ,\epsilon },\, \mathcal H_{\lambda ,\epsilon })_{ (\lambda ,\epsilon )\in {\mathbb {C}}\times \{\pm \}}\) be the family of (smooth) representations of G induced from the characters of P. For \((\lambda ,\, \epsilon ),\, (\mu ,\, \eta )\in {\mathbb {C}}\times \{\pm \},\) a differential operator \(\mathbf D_{(\mu ,\eta )}^\mathrm{reg}\) on \(X\times X,\) acting G-covariantly from \({\mathcal {H}}_{\lambda ,\epsilon } \otimes {\mathcal {H}}_{\mu , \eta }\) into \({\mathcal {H}}_{\lambda +1,-\epsilon } \otimes {\mathcal {H}}_{\mu +1, -\eta }\) is constructed.     

On complete sequences

A sequence A of nonnegative integers is called complete if all sufficiently large integers can be represented as the sum of distinct terms taken form A. For a sequence \({S=\{s_{1}, s_{2}, \dots\}}\) of positive integers and a positive real number α, let S _α denote the sequence \({\{\lfloor\alpha s_{1}\rfloor, \lfloor\alpha s_{2}\rfloor, \dots\}}\), where \({\lfloor x \rfloor}\) denotes the greatest integer not greater than x. Let \({{U_S = \{\alpha \mid S_\alpha} \, is complete\}}\). Hegyvári [6] proved that if \({\lim_{n\to\infty} (s_{n+1}-s_{n})=+ \infty}\), \({s_{n+1} < \gamma s_{n}}\) for all integers \({n \geqq n_{0}}\), where \({1 < \gamma < 2}\), and \({U_{S}\ne\emptyset}\), then \({\mu(U_{S}) > 0}\), where \({\mu(U_{S})}\) is the Lebesgue measure of U _S . Yong-Gao Chen and the first author [4] proved that, if \({s_{n+1} < \gamma s_{n}}\) for all integers \({n \geqq n_{0}}\), where \({1 < \gamma \leqq 7/4=1.75}\), then \({\mu(U_{S}) > 0}\). In this paper, we prove that the conclusion holds for \({1 < \gamma \leqq \sqrt[4]{13}=1.898\dots\;}\).     

Local Inverse Scattering at a Fixed Energy for Radial Schrödinger Operators and Localization of the Regge Poles

We study inverse scattering problems at a fixed energy for radial Schrödinger operators on \({\mathbb{R}^n}\), \({n \geq 2}\). First, we consider the class \({\mathcal{A}}\) of potentials q(r) which can be extended analytically in \({\Re z \geq 0}\) such that \({\mid q(z)\mid \leq C \ (1+ \mid z \mid )^{-\rho}}\), \({\rho > \frac{3}{2}}\). If q and \({\tilde{q}}\) are two such potentials and if the corresponding phase shifts \({\delta_l}\) and \({\tilde{\delta}_l}\) are super-exponentially close, then \({q=\tilde{q}}\). Second, we study the class of potentials q(r) which can be split into q(r) = q ₁(r) + q ₂(r) such that q ₁(r) has compact support and \({q_2 (r) \in \mathcal{A}}\). If q and \({\tilde{q}}\) are two such potentials, we show that for any fixed \({a>0, {\delta_l - \tilde{\delta}_l \ = \ o \left(\frac{1}{l^{n-3}}\ \left({\frac{ae}{2l}}\right)^{2l}\right)}}\) when \({l \rightarrow +\infty}\) if and only if \({q(r)=\tilde{q}(r)}\) for almost all \({r \geq a}\). The proofs are close in spirit with the celebrated Borg–Marchenko uniqueness theorem, and rely heavily on the localization of the Regge poles that could be defined as the resonances in the complexified angular momentum plane. We show that for a non-zero super-exponentially decreasing potential, the number of Regge poles is always infinite and moreover, the Regge poles are not contained in any vertical strip in the right-half plane. For potentials with compact support, we are able to give explicitly their asymptotics. At last, for potentials which can be extended analytically in \({\Re z \geq 0}\) with \({\mid q(z)\mid \leq C (1+ \mid z \mid)^{-\rho}}\), \({\rho >1}\), we show that the Regge poles are confined in a vertical strip in the complex plane.     

Nonarchimedean Green functions and dynamics on projective space

Let \({\varphi: \mathbb{P}^N_K\to\mathbb{P}^N_K}\) be a morphism of degree d ≥ 2 defined over a field K that is algebraically closed field and complete with respect to a nonarchimedean absolute value. We prove that a modified Green function \({\hat{g}_\varphi}\) associated to \({\varphi}\) is Hölder continuous on \({\mathbb{P}^N(K)}\) and that the Fatou set \({\mathcal{F}(\varphi)}\) of \({\varphi}\) is equal to the set of points at which \({\hat{g}_\Phi}\) is locally constant. Further, \({\hat{g}_\varphi}\) vanishes precisely on the set of points P such that \({\varphi}\) has good reduction at every point in the forward orbit \({\mathcal{O}_\varphi(P)}\) of P. We also prove that the iterates of \({\varphi}\) are locally uniformly Lipschitz on \({\mathcal{F}(\varphi)}\) .     

Uniform continuity in {\omega_\mu}-metric spaces and uc {\omega_\mu}-metric extendability

Generally, the term uc-ness means some continuity is uniform. A metric space X is uc when any continuous function fromX to [0, 1] is uniformly continuous and a metrizable space X is a Nagata space when it can be equipped with a uc metric. We consider natural forms of uc-ness for the \({\omega_\mu}\)-metric spaces, which fill a very large and interesting class of uniform spaces containing the usual metric ones, and extend to them various different formulations of the metric uc-ness, by additionaly proving their equivalence. Furthermore, since any \({\omega_\mu}\)-compact space is uc and any uc \({\omega_\mu}\)-metric space is complete, in the line of constructing dense extensions which preserve some structure, such as uniform completions, we focus on the existence for an \({\omega_\mu}\)-metrizable space of dense topological extensions carrying a uc \({\omega_\mu}\)-metric. In this paper we show that an \({\omega_\mu}\)-metrizable space X is uc-extendable if and only if there exists a compatible \({\omega_\mu}\)-metric d on X such that the set X′ of all accumulation points in X is crowded, i.e., any \({\omega_\mu}\)-sequence in X′ has a d-Cauchy \({\omega_\mu}\)-subsequence in X′.     

The Katchalski–Lewis transversal problem for regular polygons

If every k-membered subfamily of a family of plane convex bodies has a line transversal, then we say that this family has property T(k). We say that a family \({\mathcal{F}}\) has property \({T-m}\), if there exists a subfamily \({\mathcal{G} \subset \mathcal{F}}\) with \({|\mathcal{F} - \mathcal{G}| \le m}\) admitting a line transversal. Heppes [7] posed the problem whether there exists a convex body K in the plane such that if \({\mathcal{F}}\) is a finite T(3)-family of disjoint translates of K, then m = 3 is the smallest value for which \({\mathcal{F}}\) has property \({T-m}\). In this paper, we study this open problem in terms of finite T(3)-families of pairwise disjoint translates of a regular 2n-gon \({(n \ge 5)}\). We find out that, for \({5 \le n \le 34}\), the family has property \({T - 3}\) ; for \({n \ge 35}\), the family has property \({T - 2}\).     

Complex homomorphisms on self-conjugate algebras of functions

Let X be a non-void set and A be a subalgebra of \({\mathbb{C}^{X}}\) . We call a \({\mathbb{C}}\) -linear functional \({\varphi}\) on A a 1-evaluation if \({\varphi(f) \in f(X) }\) for all \({f\in A}\) . From the classical Gleason–Kahane–?elazko theorem, it follows that if X in addition is a compact Hausdorff space then a mapping \({\varphi}\) of \({C_{\mathbb{C}}(X) }\) into \({\mathbb{C}}\) is a 1-evaluation if and only if \({\varphi}\) is a \({\mathbb{C}}\) -homomorphism. In this paper, we aim to investigate the extent to which this equivalence between 1-evaluations and \({\mathbb{C}}\) -homomorphisms can be generalized to a wider class of self-conjugate subalgebras of \({\mathbb{C}^{X}}\) . In this regards, we prove that a \({\mathbb{C}}\) -linear functional on a self-conjugate subalgebra A of \({\mathbb{C}^{X}}\) is a positive \({\mathbb{C}}\) -homomorphism if and only if \({\varphi}\) is a \({\overline{1}}\) -evaluation, that is, \({\varphi(f) \in\overline{f\left(X\right)}}\) for all \({f\in A}\) . As consequences of our general study, we prove that 1-evaluations and \({\mathbb{C}}\) -homomorphisms on \({C_{\mathbb{C}}\left( X\right)}\) coincide for any topological space X and we get a new characterization of realcompact topological spaces.     

A stationary Fleming–Viot type Brownian particle system

We consider a system \({\{X_1,\ldots,X_N\}}\) of N particles in a bounded d-dimensional domain D. During periods in which none of the particles \({X_1,\ldots,X_N}\) hit the boundary \({\partial D}\) , the system behaves like N independent d-dimensional Brownian motions. When one of the particles hits the boundary \({\partial D}\) , then it instantaneously jumps to the site of one of the remaining N ? 1 particles with probability (N ? 1)^?1. For the system \({\{X_1,\ldots,X_N\}}\) , the existence of an invariant measure \({\nu\mskip-12mu \nu}\) has been demonstrated in Burdzy et al. [Comm Math Phys 214(3):679–703, 2000]. We provide a structural formula for this invariant measure \({\nu\mskip-12mu \nu}\) in terms of the invariant measure m of the Markov chain \({\xi}\) which returns the sites the process \({X:=(X_1,\ldots,X_N)}\) jumps to after hitting the boundary \({\partial D^N}\) . In addition, we characterize the asymptotic behavior of the invariant measure m of \({\xi}\) when N → ∞. Using the methods of the paper, we provide a rigorous proof of the fact that the stationary empirical measure processes \({\frac1N\sum_{i=1}^N\delta_{X_i}}\) converge weakly as N → ∞ to a deterministic constant motion. This motion is concentrated on the probability measure whose density with respect to the Lebesgue measure is the first eigenfunction of the Dirichlet Laplacian on D. This result can be regarded as a complement to a previous one in Grigorescu and Kang [Stoch Process Appl 110(1):111–143, 2004].     

Lifting Fixed Points of Completely Positive Semigroups

Let \({\{\phi_s\}_{s\in S}}\) be a commutative semigroup of completely positive, contractive, and weak*-continuous linear maps acting on a von Neumann algebra N. Assume there exists a semigroup \({\{\alpha_s\}_{s\in S}}\) of weak*-continuous *-endomorphisms of some larger von Neumann algebra \({M\supset N}\) and a projection \({p\in M}\) with N = pMp such that α _s (1 ? p) ≤ 1 ? p for every \({s\in S}\) and \({\phi_s(y)=p\alpha_s(y)p}\) for all \({y\in N}\). If \({\inf_{s \in S}\alpha_s(1-p)=0}\) then we show that the map \({E:M\to N}\) defined by E(x) = pxp for \({x\in M}\) induces a complete isometry between the fixed point spaces of \({\{\alpha_s\}_{s\in S}}\) and \({\{\phi_s\}_{s\in S}}\).     

Einstein solvmanifolds: existence and non-existence questions

The aim of this paper is to study the problem of which solvable Lie groups admit an Einstein left invariant metric. The space \({\mathcal{N}}\) of all nilpotent Lie brackets on \({\mathbb{R}^n}\) parametrizes a set of (n + 1)-dimensional rank-one solvmanifolds \({\{S_{\mu}:\mu\in\mathcal{N}\}}\), containing the set of all those which are Einstein in that dimension. The moment map for the natural GL _n -action on \({\mathcal{N}}\), evaluated at \({\mu\in\mathcal{N}}\), encodes geometric information on S _μ and suggests the use of strong results from geometric invariant theory. For instance, the functional on \({\mathcal{N}}\) whose critical points are precisely the Einstein S _μ ’s, is the square norm of this moment map. We use a GL _n -invariant stratification for the space \({\mathcal{N}}\) and show that there is a strong interplay between the strata and the Einstein condition on the solvmanifolds S _μ . As an application, we obtain criteria to decide whether a given nilpotent Lie algebra can be the nilradical of a rank-one Einstein solvmanifold or not. We find several examples of \({\mathbb{N}}\)-graded (even 2-step) nilpotent Lie algebras which are not. A classification in the 7-dimensional, 6-step case and an existence result for certain 2-step algebras associated to graphs are also given.     

Another characterization of the upper nil radical

In 2015 Halina France-Jackson introduced the notion of a \({\sigma}\)-ring i.e. a ring R with the property that if I and J are ideals of R and for all \({i\in I}\), \({{j\in J}}\), there exist natural numbers m, n such that \({i^{m}j^{n} =0}\), then I = 0 or J = 0. It is shown that \({\sigma}\) is a special class which coincides with the class \({\rho}\) of all prime nil-semisimple rings. This implies that the upper nil radical of any ring R is the intersection of all ideals I of the ring such that R/I is a \({\sigma}\)-ring. In this paper we introduce classes of rings equivalent to the \({\sigma}\)-rings and then give characterizations of the upper nil radical in terms of these rings.     

Some remarks on energy inequalities for harmonic maps with potential

We call the \({\delta}\)-vector of an integral convex polytope of dimension d flat if the \({\delta}\)-vector is of the form \({(1,0,\ldots,0,a,\ldots,a,0,\ldots,0)}\), where \({a \geq 1}\). In this paper, we give the complete characterization of possible flat \({\delta}\)-vectors. Moreover, for an integral convex polytope \({\mathcal{P}\subset \mathbb{R}^N}\) of dimension d, we let \({i(\mathcal{P},n)=|n\mathcal{P}\cap \mathbb{Z}^N|}\) and \({i^*(\mathcal{P},n)=|n(\mathcal{P} {\setminus}\partial \mathcal{P})\cap \mathbb{Z}^N|}\). By this characterization, we show that for any \({d \geq 1}\) and for any \({k,\ell \geq 0}\) with \({k+\ell \leq d-1}\), there exist integral convex polytopes \({\mathcal{P}}\) and \({\mathcal{Q}}\) of dimension d such that (i) For \({t=1,\ldots,k}\), we have \({i(\mathcal{P},t)=i(\mathcal{Q},t),}\) (ii) For \({t=1,\ldots,\ell}\), we have \({i^*(\mathcal{P},t)=i^*(\mathcal{Q},t)}\), and (iii) \({i(\mathcal{P},k+1) \neq i(\mathcal{Q},k+1)}\) and \({i^*(\mathcal{P},\ell+1)\neq i^*(\mathcal{Q},\ell+1)}\).     

Perturbation from symmetry for indefinite semilinear elliptic equations

We prove the existence of an unbounded sequence of solutions for an elliptic equation of the form \({-\Delta u=\lambda u + a(x)g(u)+f(x), u\in H^1_0(\Omega)}\), where \({\lambda \in \mathbb{R}, g(\cdot)}\) is subcritical and superlinear at infinity, and a(x) changes sign in Ω; moreover, g( ? s) =  ? g(s) \({\forall s}\). The proof uses Rabinowitz’s perturbation method applied to a suitably truncated problem; subsequent energy and Morse index estimates allow us to recover the original problem. We consider the case of \({\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N}\) bounded as well as \({\Omega=\mathbb{R}^N, \, N\geqslant 3}\).     

Note on Bernoulli numbers associated to some Dirichlet character of prime conductor

We fix an integer \({n \geq 1}\) and a divisor m of n such that n/m is odd. Let p be a prime number of the form \({p=2n\ell+1}\) for some odd prime number \({\ell}\) with \({\ell \nmid m}\). Let \({S=pB_{1,2m\ell}}\) be the p times of the generalised Bernoulli number associated to an odd Dirichlet character of conductor p and order \({2m\ell}\), which is an algebraic integer of the \({2m\ell}\)th cyclotomic field. It is known that \({S \neq 0}\). More strongly, we show that when \({\ell}\) is sufficiently large, the trace of \({\zeta^{-1}S}\) to the \({2m}\)th cyclotomic field does not vanish for any\({\ell}\)th root \({\zeta}\) of unity. We also show a related result on indivisibility of relative class numbers.     

Reducing Subspaces of Multiplication Operators on the Dirichlet Space

In this paper, we study the reducing subspaces for the multiplication operator by a finite Blaschke product \({\phi}\) on the Dirichlet space D. We prove that any two distinct nontrivial minimal reducing subspaces of \({M_\phi}\) are orthogonal. When the order n of \({\phi}\) is 2 or 3, we show that \({M_\phi}\) is reducible on D if and only if \({\phi}\) is equivalent to \({z^n}\). When the order of \({\phi}\) is 4, we determine the reducing subspaces for \({M_\phi}\), and we see that in this case \({M_\phi}\) can be reducible on D when \({\phi}\) is not equivalent to \({z^4}\). The same phenomenon happens when the order n of \({\phi}\) is not a prime number. Furthermore, we show that \({M_\phi}\) is unitarily equivalent to \({M_{z^n} (n > 1)}\) on D if and only if \({\phi = az^n}\) for some unimodular constant a.