Principal values for the Cauchy integral and rectifiability

We give a geometric characterization of those positive finite measures on with the upper density finite at -almost every , such that the principal value of the Cauchy integral of ,

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exists for -almost all . This characterization is given in terms of the curvature of the measure . In particular, we get that for , -measurable (where is the Hausdorff -dimensional measure) with , if the principal value of the Cauchy integral of exists -almost everywhere in , then is rectifiable.

     

-semigroups generated by second order differential operators with general Wentzell boundary conditions

Let us consider the operator where is positive and continuous in and is equipped with the so-called generalized Wentzell boundary condition which is of the form at each boundary point, where This class of boundary conditions strictly includes Dirichlet, Neumann and Robin conditions.

Under suitable assumptions on , we prove that generates a positive -semigroup on and, hence, many previous (linear or nonlinear) results are extended substantially.

     

Fixed point and selection theorems in hyperconvex spaces

It is shown that a set-valued mapping of a hyperconvex metric space which takes values in the space of nonempty externally hyperconvex subsets of always has a lipschitzian single valued selection which satisfies for all . (Here denotes the usual Hausdorff distance.) This fact is used to show that the space of all bounded -lipschitzian self-mappings of is itself hyperconvex. Several related results are also obtained.

     

Weak type estimates for cone multipliers on

We consider operators associated with the Fourier multipliers and show that is of weak type on , , for the critical value .

     

Complemented isometric copies of in dual Banach spaces

Let be a real or complex Banach space and . Then contains a -complemented, isometric copy of if and only if contains a -complemented, isometric copy of if and only if contains a subspace -asymptotic to .

     

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 .

     

Composition operators on Dirichlet-type spaces

The Dirichlet-type space ) is the Banach space of functions analytic in the unit disc with derivatives belonging to the Bergman space . Let be an analytic self-map of the disc and define for . The operator is bounded (respectively, compact) if and only if a related measure is Carleson (respectively, compact Carleson). If is bounded (or compact) on , then the same behavior holds on ) and on the weighted Dirichlet space . Compactness on implies that is compact on the Hardy spaces and the angular derivative exists nowhere on the unit circle. Conditions are given which, together with the angular derivative condition, imply compactness on the space . Inner functions which induce bounded composition operators on are discussed briefly.

     

A counterexample for approximable functions

Let be the unit disk. We show that for some relatively closed set there is a function that can be uniformly approximated on by functions of , but such that cannot be written as , with and uniformly continuous on . This answers a question of Stray.

     

Existence and uniqueness theorems for singular anisotropic quasilinear elliptic boundary value problems

On bounded domains we consider the anisotropic problems in with 1$"> and on and in with and on . Moreover, we generalize these boundary value problems to space-dimensions 2$">. Under geometric conditions on and monotonicity assumption on we prove existence and uniqueness of positive solutions.     

Trudinger type inequalities in and their best exponents

We study Trudinger type inequalities in and their best exponents . We show for , ( is the surface area of the unit sphere in ), there exists a constant such that

for all . Here is defined by

It is also shown that with is false, which is different from the usual Trudinger's inequalities in bounded domains.

     

A hereditarily subspace of without the Schur property

Let p_1 > p_2 > \cdots > 1$">. We construct an easily determined -symmetric basic sequence in , which spans a hereditarily subspace without the Schur property. An immediate consequence is the existence of hereditarily subspaces of without the Schur property.

     

Similarity to a contraction and hypercontractivity of composition operators

On the Hardy spaces with , we consider the composition operators induced by analytic self-maps of the open unit disc . First, we characterize those which are similar to contractions. Then, we give some necessary and sufficient conditions for them to be hypercontractive. Finally, we prove that, among those ones, only the zero-symbol composition operator sends into with a norm less than or equal to .

     

A remark on irregularity of the -Neumann problem on non-smooth domains

It is an observation due to J. J. Kohn that for a smooth bounded pseudoconvex domain in there exists such that the -Neumann operator on maps (the space of -forms with coefficient functions in -Sobolev space of order ) into itself continuously. We show that this conclusion does not hold without the smoothness assumption by constructing a bounded pseudoconvex domain in , smooth except at one point, whose -Neumann operator is not bounded on for any .

     

On conjugation invariants in the dual Steenrod algebra

We investigate the canonical conjugation, , of the mod dual Steenrod algebra, , with a view to determining the subspace, , of elements invariant under . We give bounds on the dimension of this subspace for each degree and show that, after inverting , it becomes polynomial on a natural set of generators. Finally we note that, without inverting , is far from being polynomial.

     

Minimal index of a -crossed product by a finite group

Let be the -crossed product of a simple unital -algebra by a finite group . In this paper we show that the canonical conditional expectation from to has the minimal index if is simple. It is also proved that if is an outer action, then the canonical one is the unique conditional expectation of index-finite type from to , while there are infinitely many conditional expectations when a nontrivial subgroup of acts innerly on .

     

On the divergence of the means of double Walsh-Fourier series

In 1992, Móricz, Schipp and Wade proved the a.e. convergence of the double means of the Walsh-Fourier series () for functions in ( is the unit square). This paper aims to demonstrate the sharpness of this result. Namely, we prove that for all measurable function we have a function such as and does not converge to a.e. (in the Pringsheim sense).

     

Linear discrete operators on the disk algebra

Let be the disk algebra. In this paper we address the following question: Under what conditions on the points do there exist operators such that

and , , for every ? Here the convergence is understood in the sense of norm in . Our first result shows that if satisfy Carleson condition, then there exists a function such that , . This is a non-trivial generalization of results of Somorjai (1980) and Partington (1997). It also provides a partial converse to a result of Totik (1984). The second result of this paper shows that if are required to be projections, then for any choice of the operators do not converge to the identity operator. This theorem generalizes the famous theorem of Faber and implies that the disk algebra does not have an interpolating basis.

     

Universal -lattices of minimal rank

Let be the minimal rank of -universal -lattices, by which we mean positive definite -lattices which represent all positive -lattices of rank . It is a well known fact that for . In this paper, we determine and find all -universal lattices of rank for .