The weak vorticity formulation of the 2-d euler equations and concentration-cancellation

The weak limit of a sequence of approximate solutions of the 2-D Euler equations will be a solution if the approximate vorticities concentrate only along a curve x(t) that is Holder continuous with exponent ½.

A new proof is given of the theorem of DiPerna and Majda that weak limits of steady approximate solutions are solutions provided that the singularities of the inhomogeneous forcing term are sufficiently mild. An example shows that the weaker condition imposed here on the forcing term is sharp.

A simplified formula for the kernel in Delort's weak vorticity formulation of the two-dimensional Euler equations makes the properties of that kernel readily apparent, thereby simplying Delort's proof of the existence of one-signed vortex sheets.     

Yan Theorem in L∞ with Applications to Asset Pricing

We prove an L~∞ version of the Yan theorem and deduce from it a necessary condition for theabsence of free lunches in a model of financial markets,in which asset prices are a continuous R~d valued processand only simple investment strategies are admissible.Our proof is based on a new separation theorem for convexsets of finitely additive measures.     

Periodicity of some classes of holomorphic difference equations

In this paper, we investigate the periodicity character of some classes of difference equations. Among other results, we give a simpler proof of an Open Problem addressed in Csörnyei and Laczkovich, 2001, “Some periodic and non-periodic recursions”, Monath. Math., 132, 215–236. We also consider Open Problem 2.8 in Grove and Ladas, 2005, Periodicities in Nonlinear Difference Equations, (Chapman and Hall/CRC), and the case when a difference equation has periodic solutions depending on arbitrary parameters.     

On the differentiability of the solution to the Hamilton–Jacobi equation with critical fractional diffusion

We prove that the Hamilton–Jacobi equation for an arbitrary Hamiltonian H (locally Lipschitz but not necessarily convex) and fractional diffusion of order one (critical) has classical C1,α solutions. The proof is achieved using a new Hölder estimate for solutions of advection–diffusion equations of order one with bounded vector fields that are not necessarily divergence free.     

Continuous family of invariant subspaces for R–diagonal operators

We show that every R–diagonal operator x has a continuous family of invariant subspaces relative to the von Neumann algebra generated by x. This allows us to find the Brown measure of x and to find a new conceptual proof that Voiculescu’s S–transform is multiplicative. Our considerations base on a new concept of R–diagonality with amalgamation, for which we give several equivalent characterizations. Oblatum 16-XI-2000 & 23-V-2001?Published online: 13 August 2001     

Extrinsic diameter of immersed flat tori in <Emphasis Type="Italic">S</Emphasis><Superscript>3</Superscript>

Enomoto, Weiner and the first author showed the rigidity of the Clifford torus amongst the class of embedded flat tori in S ³. In the proof of that result, an estimate of extrinsic diameter of flat tori plays a crucial role. It is reasonable to expect that the same rigidity holds in the class of immersed flat tori in S ³. In this paper, we give a new method for characterizing immersed flat tori in S ³ with extrinsic diameter π, which is a somewhat similar technique to the proof of the 6-vertex theorem for certain closed plane curves given by the second author. As an application, we show that the Clifford torus is rigid in the class of immersed flat tori whose mean curvature functions do not change sign. Recently, the global behaviour of flat surfaces in H ³ and R ³ regarded as wave fronts has been studied. We also give here a formulation of flat tori in S ³ as wave fronts. As an application, we shall exhibit a flat torus as a wave front whose extrinsic diameter is less than π.     

Linear Maps Preserving the Closure of Numerical Range on Nest Algebras with Maximal Atomic Nest

Let be a maximal atomic nest on Hilbert space H and denote the associated nest algebra. We prove that a weakly continuous and surjective linear map preserves the closure of numerical range if and only if there exists a unitary operator such that for every or for every , where denotes the transpose of T relative to an arbitrary but fixed base of H. As applications, we get the characterizations of the numerical range or numerical radius preservers on . The surjective linear maps on the diagonal algebras of atomic nest algebras preserving the closure of numerical range or preserving the numerical range (radius) are also characterized. Submitted: January 3, 2001?Revised: December 2, 2001     

Stochastic Differential Equations Driven by Fractional Brownian Motion and Standard Brownian Motion

Abstract

We prove an existence and uniqueness theorem for solutions of multidimensional, time dependent, stochastic differential equations driven simultaneously by a multidimensional fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter H > 1/2 and a multidimensional standard Brownian motion. The proof relies on some a priori estimates, which are obtained using the methods of fractional integration and the classical Itô stochastic calculus. The existence result is based on the Yamada–Watanabe theorem.     

A New Proof for the Equivalence of Weak and Viscosity Solutions for the p-Laplace Equation

In this paper, we give a new proof for the fact that the distributional weak solutions and the viscosity solutions of the p-Laplace equation ?div(|Du| ^p?2 Du) = 0 coincide. Our proof is more direct and transparent than the original proof of Juutinen et al. [8 Juutinen , P. , Lindqvist , P. , Manfredi , J.J. ( 2001 ). On the equivalence of viscosity solutions and weak solutions for a quasi-linear equation . SIAM J. Math. Anal. 33 : 699 – 717 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]], which relied on the full uniqueness machinery of the theory of viscosity solutions. We establish a similar result also for the solutions of the non-homogeneous version of the p-Laplace equation.     

A remark on the incomparability of two criteria for a uniform convergence of probability measures

Summary This paper connects with Theorem 3 of the author’s paper [1], in which two criteria for type (B) _d convergence ([3]) are shown to be incomparable to each other by presenting two examples. However, the statement of the theorem is not complete. In the present paper, we shall modify the statement of the theorem and give a proof by presenting a new example.     

A general regularity theory for weak mean curvature flow

We give a new proof of Brakke’s partial regularity theorem up to $C^{1,\varsigma }$ for weak varifold solutions of mean curvature flow by utilizing parabolic monotonicity formula, parabolic Lipschitz approximation and blow-up technique. The new proof extends to a general flow whose velocity is the sum of the mean curvature and any given background flow field in a dimensionally sharp integrability class. It is a natural parabolic generalization of Allard’s regularity theorem in the sense that the special time-independent case reduces to Allard’s theorem.     

H‐self‐adjoint matrices. Application to radiosity

In computer graphics, in the radiosity context, a linear system Φx=b must be solved and there exists a diagonal positive matrix H such that H Φ is symmetric. In this article, we extend this property to complex matrices: we are interested in matrices which lead to Hermitian matrices under premultiplication by a Hermitian positive‐definite matrix H. We shall prove that these matrices are self‐adjoint with respect to a particular innerproduct defined on ?ⁿ. As a result, like Hermitian matrices, they have real eigenvalues and they are diagonalizable. We shall also show how to extend the Courant–Fisher theorem to this class of matrices. Finally, we shall give a new preconditioning matrix which really improves the convergence speed of the conjugate gradient method used for solving the radiosity problem. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Boundary blow-up solutions for a class of quasilinear elliptic equations

For a given bounded domain Ω in R ^N with smooth boundary ?Ω, we give sufficient conditions on f so that the m-Laplacian equation △ _m u = f(x, u, ?u) admits a boundary blow-up solution u ∈ W ^1,p (Ω). Our main results are new and extend the results in J.V. Concalves and Angelo Roncalli [Boundary blow-up solutions for a class of elliptic equations on a bounded domain, Appl. Math. Comput. 182 (2006), pp. 13–23]. Our approach employs the method of lower–upper solution theorem, fixed point theory and weak comparison principle.     

Global weak solutions of the wave map system to compact homogeneous spaces

We construct global weak solutions of the wave map problem in the class of maps with bounded energy, with values in an arbitrary compact homogeneous space, for arbitrary initial data inH _c ¹ . The proof proceeds by a ‘penalty approximation’ method, which generalizes J.Shatah's [5] argument for the case of maps with values in then-sphere. Supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation and Science Alliance.     

Dedekind Finite Rings and a Theorem of Kaplansky

Abstract

A ring Ris Dedekind Finite(=DF) if xy = 1 implies yx = 1 for all x, yin R. Obviously any subring of a DFring Ris DF. The object of the paper is to generalize, and give a radically new proof of a theorem of Kaplansky on group algebras that are Dedekind finite. We shall prove that all right subrings of right and left self-injective (in fact, continuous) rings are DF.     

Approximations of almost periodic functions by entire ones

In this paper we propose a new proof of the well-known theorem by S. N. Bernstein, according to which among entire functions which give on (−∞,∞) the best uniform approximation of order σ of periodic functions there exists a trigonometric polynomial whose order does not exceed σ. We also prove an analog of this Bernstein theorem and an analog of the Jackson theorem for uniform almost periodic functions with an arbitrary spectrum.     

A GAME-THEORETIC PROOF OF ANALYTIC RAMSEY THEOREM

We give a simple game-theoretic proof of Silver's theorem that every analytic set is Ramsey. A set P of subsets of ω is called Ramsey if there exists an infinite set H such that either all infinite subsets of H are in P or all out of P. Our proof clarifies a strong connection between the Ramsey property of partitions and the determinacy of infinite games.     

Monoid varieties defined byx n+1 =x are local

We offer a new proof of the theorem in the title. In fact, we prove that for any varietyH of groups of finite exponent, the varietyCR(H) of all completely regular monoids with subgroups fromH, is local. The analogous result holds for pseudovarieties. A previously published proof of the theorem in the title has been found deficient.     

A primary obstruction to topological embeddings¶and its applications

For a proper continuous map f:M→N between topological manifolds M and N with m≡ dimM < dimN≡m+k, a primary obstruction to topological embeddings θ(f) ∈H ^c _{m − k} (M; Z ₂) has been defined and studied by the authors in {9, 8, 2, 3], where H ^c _* denotes the singular homology with closed support. In this paper, we study the obstruction from the viewpoint of differential topology and give various applications. We first give some characterizations of embeddings among generic differentiable maps, which are refinements of the results in [9, 10]. Then we give a result concerning the number of connected components of the complement of the image of a codimension-1 continuous map with a normal crossing point, which generalizes the results in [6, 4, 5, 9]. Finally we give a simple proof of a theorem of Li and Peterson [20] about immersions of m-manifolds into (2m-1)-manifolds. Received: 3 December 1999 / Revised version: 10 October 2000