On the Construction of Some New Harmonic Maps from ℝ m to ℍ m

In this note, we construct some new harmonic maps from ℝ ^m to ℍ ^m via symmetric methods. Supportedb y NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, China, and MCSEC.     

Estimates of C m-Capacity of Compact Sets in ℝ N

For a given homogeneous elliptic partial differential operator L with constant complex coefficients, the Banach space V of distributions in $\mathbb{R}^N $ and a compact set X in $\mathbb{R}^N $ , we study the quantity $\lambda _{V,L} (X)$ equal to the distance in V from the class of functions f ₀ satisfying the equation Lf ₀ = 1 in a neighborhood of X (depending on f ₀) to the solution space of the equation Lf= 0 in the neighborhoods of X. For V=BC ^m , we obtain upper and lower bounds for $\lambda _{V,L} (X)$ in terms of the metric properties of the set X, which allows us to obtain estimates for $\lambda _{V,L} (X)$ for a wide class of spaces V.     

Nilfactors of ℝ m and configurations in sets of positive upper density in ℝ m

We use ergodic theoretic tools to solve a classical problem in geometric Ramsey theory. LetE be a measurable subset of ℝ ^m , with . LetV = {0,v ₁,...,v _k} ⊂ ℝ^m. We show that fort large enough, we can find an isometric copy oftV arbitrarily close toE. This is a generalization of a theorem of Furstenberg, Katznelson and Weiss [FuKaW] showing a similar property form=k=2.     

Acute triangulations of polyhedra and ℝ N

We study the problem of acute triangulations of convex polyhedra and the space ? ⁿ . Here an acute triangulation is a triangulation into simplices whose dihedral angles are acute. We prove that acute triangulations of the n-cube do not exist for n≥4. Further, we prove that acute triangulations of the space ? ⁿ do not exist for n≥5. In the opposite direction, in ?³, we present a construction of an acute triangulation of the cube, the regular octahedron and a non-trivial acute triangulation of the regular tetrahedron. We also prove nonexistence of an acute triangulation of ?⁴ if all dihedral angles are bounded away from π/2.     

An extension of the Rådström cancellation theorem to cornets

Semigroup Forum - The aim of this paper is to introduce the notion of cornets, which form a particular subclass of ordered semigroups also equipped with a multiplication by natural numbers. The...     

Positivity and Negativity of Solutions to a Schrödinger Equation in ℝ N

Weak L ² -solutions u of the Schrödinger equation, –u + q(x) u – u = f(x) in L ² , are represented by a Fourier series using spherical harmonics in order to prove the following strong maximum and anti-maximum principles in (N 2): Let ₁ denote the positive eigenfunction associated with the principal eigenvalue ₁ of the Schrödinger operator . Assume that the potential q(x) is radially symmetric and grows fast enough near infinity, and f is a `sufficiently smooth' perturbation of a radially symmetric function, f 0 and 0 f / C const a.e. in . Then u is ₁-positive for - < < ₁ (i.e., u c ₁ with c const > 0) and ₁-negative for ₁ < < ₁ + (i.e., u –c₁ with c const > 0), where > 0 is a number depending on f. The constant c > 0 depends on both and f.     

The existence of two closed characteristics on every compact star-shaped hypersurface in ℝ4

Recently, Cristofaro-Gardiner and Hutchings proved that there exist at least two closed characteristics on every compact star-shaped hypersuface in R⁴. Then Ginzburg, Hein, Hryniewicz, and Macarini gave this result a second proof. In this paper, we give it a third proof by using index iteration theory, resonance identities of closed characteristics and a remarkable theorem of Ginzburg et al.     

An essential map approach for multimaps defined on closed subsets of Fréchet spaces

A number of new continuation theorems are presented for maps defined on closed subsets of a Fréchet space E. The proofs rely on the notion of an essential map and on viewing E as the projective limit of a sequence of Banach spaces.     

Exit times from cones in ℝ n of Brownian motion

Summary For a fairly general class of cones inn dimensions (n3) we determine the corresponding distributions of Brownian first exit times. Asymptotic results may then be read off.This paper is a generalization of the author's Ph.D. dissertation completed in May 1984 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Professor R.M. DudleyThis research was supported in part by NSF grant DMS-8301367     

Class of Trajectories ℝ3 in Most Remote from Observers

Doklady Mathematics - The set of extremal trajectories is completely described. Their construction is reduced to finding the best routes on a directed graph whose vertices are subsets (boxes) of...     

On a transformation of the wiener process in ℝ m by a functional of the local time type on a surface

A transformation of the Wiener process _t in ^m is considered. This transformation is realized by a multiplicative functional _l=u(_l/u(₀), where the functionu is constructed in a certain way by using a functional of the local time type on a surface. It is proved that this transformation is equivalent to the successive application of an absolutely continuous change of a measure and killing on the surface.Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 45, No. 6, pp. 863–866, June, 1993.     

An Elementary Approach to Quasi-Isometries of Tree x ℝ n

We prove by elementary means a regularity theorem for quasi-isometries of T x ⁿ (where T denotes an infinite tree), and of many other metric spaces with similar combinatorial properties, e.g. Cayley graphs of Baumslag–Solitar groups. For quasi-isometries of T x ⁿ, it states that the image of {x} x ⁿ (xT) is uniformly close to {y} x ⁿ for some yT, and there is a well-defined surjection . Even stronger, the image of a quasi-isometric embedding of ⁿ⁺¹ in T x ⁿ is close to (a geodesic in T)T)x ⁿ.     

Convergence and Stability of Locally ℝ N -Invariant Solutions of Ricci Flow

Valuable models for immortal solutions of Ricci flow that collapse with bounded curvature come from locally $\mathcal{G}Valuable models for immortal solutions of Ricci flow that collapse with bounded curvature come from locally G\mathcal{G} -invariant solutions on bundles G^N\hookrightarrowM \oversetp? Bⁿ\mathcal{G}^{N}\hookrightarrow\mathcal{M}\,\overset{\pi }{\mathcal{\longrightarrow}}\,\mathcal{B}^{n} , with G\mathcal{G} a nilpotent Lie group. In this paper, we establish convergence and asymptotic stability, modulo smooth finite-dimensional center manifolds, of certain ℝ ^N -invariant model solutions. In case N+n=3, our results are relevant to work of Lott classifying the asymptotic behavior of all 3-dimensional Ricci flow solutions whose sectional curvatures and diameters are respectively O(t^-1)\mathcal{O}(t^{-1}) and O(t^1/2)\mathcal{O}(t^{1/2}) as t→∞.     

An extension of Mercer’s theory to L p

Let X be a topological space, either locally compact or first countable, endowed with a strictly positive measure ?? and ${\mathcal{K}:L^2(X,\nu)\to L^2(X,\nu)}$ an integral operator generated by a Mercer like kernel K. In this paper we extend Mercer??s theory for K and ${\mathcal{K}}$ under the assumption that the function ${x\in X\to K(x,x)}$ belongs to some L ^p/2(X, ??), p??? 1. In particular, we obtain series representations for K and some powers of ${\mathcal{K}}$ , with convergence in the p-mean, and show that the range of certain powers of ${\mathcal{K}}$ contains continuous functions only. These results are used to estimate the approximation numbers of a modified version of ${\mathcal{K}}$ acting on L ^p (X, ??).