Uniqueness for boundary blow-up problems with continuous weights

In this paper, we prove that for the problem in a bounded domain of has a unique positive solution with on . The nonnegative weight is continuous in , but is only assumed to verify a ``bounded oscillations" condition of local nature near , in contrast with previous works, where a definite behavior of near was imposed.

     

Banach-Stone theorem for Banach lattice valued continuous functions

Let and be compact Hausdorff spaces, be a Banach lattice and be an AM space with unit. Let be a Riesz isomorphism such that if and only if for each . We prove that is homeomorphic to and is Riesz isomorphic to . This generalizes some known results.

     

Linear bijections preserving the Hölder seminorm

Let be a compact metric space and let be a real number with The aim of this paper is to solve a linear preserver problem on the Banach algebra of Hölder functions of order from into We show that each linear bijection having the property that for every where

is of the form for every where with is a surjective isometry and is a linear functional.

     

On local irreducibility of the spectrum

Let be the algebra of complex matrices, and for denote by and the spectrum and spectral radius of respectively. Let be a domain in containing 0, and let be a holomorphic map. We prove: (1) if for , then for ; (2) if for , then again for . Both results are special cases of theorems expressing the irreducibility of the spectrum near .

     

Unprovability of sharp versions of Friedman's sine-principle

For every and every function of one argument, we introduce the statement : ``for all , there is such that for any set of rational numbers, there is of size such that for any two -element subsets and in , we have

We prove that for and any function eventually dominated by , the principle is not provable in . In particular, the statement is not provable in Peano Arithmetic. In dimension 2, the result is: does not prove , where and is the inverse of the Ackermann function.

     

On a nonhomogeneous quasilinear eigenvalue problem in Sobolev spaces with variable exponent

We consider the nonlinear eigenvalue problem

in , on , where is a bounded open set in with smooth boundary and , are continuous functions on such that , , and for all . The main result of this paper establishes that any sufficiently small is an eigenvalue of the above nonhomogeneous quasilinear problem. The proof relies on simple variational arguments based on Ekeland's variational principle.

     

Order-weakly compact operators from vector-valued function spaces to Banach spaces

Let be an ideal of over a  -finite measure space , and let stand for the order dual of . For a real Banach space let be a subspace of the space of -equivalence classes of strongly -measurable functions and consisting of all those for which the scalar function belongs to . For a real Banach space a linear operator is said to be order-weakly compact whenever for each the set is relatively weakly compact in . In this paper we examine order-weakly compact operators . We give a characterization of an order-weakly compact operator in terms of the continuity of the conjugate operator of with respect to some weak topologies. It is shown that if is an order continuous Banach function space, is a Banach space containing no isomorphic copy of and is a weakly sequentially complete Banach space, then every continuous linear operator is order-weakly compact. Moreover, it is proved that if is a Banach function space, then for every Banach space any continuous linear operator is order-weakly compact iff the norm is order continuous and is reflexive. In particular, for every Banach space any continuous linear operator is order-weakly compact iff is reflexive.

     

Perturbations and Weyl's theorem

A Banach space operator is completely hereditarily normaloid, , if either every part, and (also) for every invertible part , of is normaloid or if for every complex number every part of is normaloid. Sufficient conditions for the perturbation of by an algebraic operator to satisfy Weyl's theorem are proved. Our sufficient conditions lead us to the conclusion that the conjugate operator satisfies -Weyl's theorem.

     

Extensions of orthosymmetric lattice bimorphisms revisited

This note furnishes an example illustrating the following two facts. On the one hand, there exist Archimedean Riesz spaces and with Dedekind-complete and an orthosymmetric lattice bimorphism with lattice bimorphism extension which is not orthosymmetric, where denotes the Dedekind-completion of . On the other hand, there is an associative -multiplication in the same Archimedean Riesz space which extends to a -multiplication in which is not associative. The existence of such an example provides counterexamples to assertions in Toumi, 2005.

     

Mapping properties of analytic functions on the disk

There is a universal constant with the following property. Suppose that is an analytic function on the unit disk , and suppose that there exists a constant so that the Euclidean area, counting multiplicity, of the portion of which lies over the disk , centered at and of radius , is strictly less than the area of . Then must send into . This answers a conjecture of Don Marshall.

     

Equilibrium points of logarithmic potentials on convex domains

Let be a convex domain in . Let be summable constants and let . If the converge sufficiently rapidly to from within an appropriate Stolz angle, then the function has infinitely many zeros in . An example shows that the hypotheses on the are not redundant and that two recently advanced conjectures are false.

     

A new proof and generalizations of Gearhart's theorem

Let be a Hilbert space, let be the space of almost periodic functions from to , and let be a closed densely defined linear operator on . For a closed subset , let be the subspace of consisting of functions with spectrum contained in . We prove that the following properties are equivalent: (i) for every function there exists a unique mild solution of equation ; (ii) and . The case yields a new proof of the well-known Gearhart's spectral mapping theorem.

     

The distribution functions of and

Let be the sum of the positive divisors of . We show that the natural density of the set of integers satisfying is given by , where denotes Euler's constant. The same result holds when is replaced by , where is Euler's totient function.

     

-isomorphisms, Jordan isomorphisms, and numerical range preserving maps

Let or , where is the algebra of a bounded linear operator acting on the Hilbert space , and is the set of self-adjoint operators in . Denote the numerical range of by It is shown that a surjective map satisfies

if and only if there is a unitary operator such that has the form

where is the transpose of with respect to a fixed orthonormal basis. In other words, the map or is a -isomorphism on and a Jordan isomorphism on . Moreover, if has finite dimension, then the surjective assumption on can be removed.

     

Cofinality changes required for a large set of unapproachable ordinals below

In , assume that is a strong limit cardinal and . Let be the set of approachable ordinals less than . An open question of M. Foreman is whether can be non-stationary in some and preserving extension of . It is shown here that if is such an outer model, then is infinite, for each positive integer .

     

On zeros of Eisenstein series for genus zero Fuchsian groups

Let SL be a genus zero Fuchsian group of the first kind with as a cusp, and let be the holomorphic Eisenstein series of weight on that is nonvanishing at and vanishes at all the other cusps (provided that such an Eisenstein series exists). Under certain assumptions on and on a choice of a fundamental domain , we prove that all but possibly of the nontrivial zeros of lie on a certain subset of . Here is a constant that does not depend on the weight, is the upper half-plane, and is the canonical hauptmodul for

     

Hereditary and maximal crossed product orders

We first deal with classical crossed products , where is a finite group acting on a Dedekind domain and (the -invariant elements in ) a DVR, admitting a separable residue fields extension. Here is a 2-cocycle. We prove that is hereditary if and only if is semi-simple. In particular, the heredity property may hold even when is not tamely ramified (contradicting standard textbook references). For an arbitrary Krull domain , we use the above to prove that under the same separability assumption, is a maximal order if and only if its height one prime ideals are extended from . We generalize these results by dropping the residual separability assumptions. An application to non-commutative unique factorization rings is also presented.

     

Exponential growth of Lie algebras of finite global dimension

Let be a connected finite type graded Lie algebra. If dim and gldim , then log index . If, moreover, , then for some ,    dim where log index as

     

A new estimate in optimal mass transport

Let be a bounded Lipschitz regular open subset of and let be two probablity measures on . It is well known that if is absolutely continuous, then there exists, for every , a unique transport map pushing forward on and which realizes the Monge-Kantorovich distance . In this paper, we establish an bound for the displacement map which depends only on , on the shape of and on the essential infimum of the density .

     

Some exact sequences for Toeplitz algebras of spherical isometries

A family of commuting bounded operators on a Hilbert space is said to be a spherical isometry if in the weak operator topology. We show that every commuting family of spherical isometries is jointly subnormal, which means that it has a commuting normal extension on some Hilbert space Suppose now that the normal extension is minimal. Then we show that every bounded operator in the commutant of has a unique norm preserving extension to an operator in the commutant of Moreover, if is the commutator ideal in then is *-isomorphic to We also show that the commutant of the minimal normal extension is completely isometric, via the compression mapping, to the space of Toeplitz-type operators associated to We apply these results to construct exact sequences for Toeplitz algebras on generalized Hardy spaces associated to strictly pseudoconvex domains.