Random self-affine multifractal Sierpinski sponges in $${\mathbb{R}^d}$$

In this paper we study the Hausdorff and packing dimensions and the Rényi dimensions of random self-affine multifractal Sierpinski sponges in \({\mathbb{R}^{d}}\).     

Strong Central Limit Theorem for isotropic random walks in {\mathbb{R}^d}

We prove an optimal Gaussian upper bound for the densities of isotropic random walks on ${\mathbb{R}^d}$ in spherical case (d ?? 2) and ball case (d ?? 1). We deduce the strongest possible version of the Central Limit Theorem for the isotropic random walks: if ${\tilde S_n}$ denotes the normalized random walk and Y the limiting Gaussian vector, then ${\mathbb{E} f(\tilde S_{n}) \rightarrow \mathbb{E} f(Y)}$ for all functions f integrable with respect to the law of Y. We call such result a ??Strong CLT??. We apply our results to get strong hypercontractivity inequalities and strong Log-Sobolev inequalities.     

The Monge problem in $ {\mathbb{R}^d} $: Variations on a theme

In a recent paper, the authors proved that, under natural assumptions on the first marginal, the Monge problem in \mathbbR^d {\mathbb{R}^d} for the cost given by a general norm admits a solution. Although the basic idea of the proof is simple, it involves some complex technical results. Here we will give a proof of the result in the simpler case of a uniformly convex norm, and we will also use very recent results by Ahmad, Kim, and McCann. This allows us to reduce the technical burdens while still giving the main ideas of the general proof. The proof of the density of the transport set in the particular case considered in this paper is original. Bibliography: 22 titles.     

Suitable families of boxes and kernels of staircase starshaped sets in {\mathbb{R}^d}

Let S be an orthogonal polytope in ${\mathbb{R}^d}$ . There exists a suitable family ${\mathcal{C}}$ of boxes with ${S = \cup \{C : C {\rm in} \mathcal{C}\}}$ such that the following properties hold:

The staircase kernel Ker S is a union of boxes in ${\mathcal{C}}$ . Let ${\mathcal{V}}$ be the family of vertices of boxes in ${\mathcal{C}}$ , and let ${v_o\, \epsilon \mathcal{V}}$ . Point v _o belongs to Ker S if and only if v _o sees via staircase paths in S every point w in ${\mathcal{V}}$ . Moreover, these staircase paths may be selected to consist of edges of boxes in ${\mathcal{C}}$ . Let B be a box in ${\mathcal{C}}$ with vertices of B in Ker S. Box B lies in Ker S if and only if, for some b in rel int B and for every translate H of a coordinate hyperplane at ${b, b \epsilon}$ Ker (H ∩ S). For point p in S, p belongs to Ker S if and only if, for every x in S, there exist some p ? x geodesic λ (p, x) and some corresponding ${\mathcal{C}}$ - chain D containing λ (p, x) such that D is staircase starshaped at p.

     

Convergence of symmetric Markov chains on {\mathbb{Z}^d}

For each n let ${Y^{(n)}_t}$ be a continuous time symmetric Markov chain with state space ${n^{-1} \mathbb{Z}^d}$ . Conditions in terms of the conductances are given for the convergence of the ${Y^{(n)}_t}$ to a symmetric Markov process Y _t on ${\mathbb{R}^d}$ . We have weak convergence of $\{{Y^{(n)}_t: t \leq t_0\}}$ for every t ₀ and every starting point. The limit process Y has a continuous part and may also have jumps.     

Upper large deviations for the maximal flow in first-passage percolation

We consider the standard first-passage percolation in Z^d${\mathbb{Z}}^d$ for d≥2$d\ge 2$ and we denote by _?nd−1,h(n)${?}_{n^{d-1},h\left(n\right)}$ the maximal flow through the cylinder ]0,n]^d−1×]0,h(n)]${]0,n]}^{d-1}\times ]0,h\left(n\right)]$ from its bottom to its top. Kesten proved a law of large numbers for the maximal flow in dimension 3: under some assumptions, _?nd−1,h(n)/n^d−1${?}_{n^{d-1},h\left(n\right)}/n^{d-1}$ converges towards a constant ν$\nu$. We look now at the probability that _?nd−1,h(n)/n^d−1${?}_{n^{d-1},h\left(n\right)}/n^{d-1}$ is greater than ν+ε$\nu +\epsilon$ for some ε>0$\epsilon >0$, and we show under some assumptions that this probability decays exponentially fast with the volume n^d−1h(n)$n^{d-1}h\left(n\right)$ of the cylinder. Moreover, we prove a large deviation principle for the sequence (_?nd−1,h(n)/n^d−1,n∈N)$({?}_{n^{d-1},h\left(n\right)}/n^{d-1},n\in \mathbb{N})$.     

On Weak*-Convergence in \boldsymbol{H^1_L(\boldsymbol{\mathbb R}^d)}

Let L?=???Δ?+?V be a Schrödinger operator on $\mathbb R^d$ , d?≥?3, where V is a nonnegative function, $V\ne 0$ , and belongs to the reverse Hölder class RH _d/2. In this paper, we prove a version of the classical theorem of Jones and Journé on weak*-convergence in the Hardy space $H^1_L(\mathbb R^d)$ .     

On Quadratic Differentials and Twisted Normal Maps of Surfaces in {\mathbb{S}^{2} \times\mathbb{R}} and {\mathbb{H}^{2} \times\mathbb{R}}

Given a Lie group G with a bi-invariant metric and a compact Lie subgroup K, Bittencourt and Ripoll used the homogeneous structure of quotient spaces to define a Gauss map ${\mathcal{N}:M^{n}\rightarrow{\mathbb{S}}}$ on any hypersupersurface ${M^{n}\looparrowright G/K}$ , where ${{\mathbb{S}}}$ is the unit sphere of the Lie algebra of G. It is proved in Bittencourt and Ripoll (Pacific J Math 224:45–64, 2006) that M ⁿ having constant mean curvature (CMC) is equivalent to ${\mathcal{N}}$ being harmonic, a generalization of a Ruh–Vilms theorem for submanifolds in the Euclidean space. In particular, when n = 2, the induced quadratic differential ${\mathcal{Q}_{\mathcal{N}}:=(\mathcal{N}^{\ast}g)^{2,0}}$ is holomorphic on CMC surfaces of G/K. In this paper, we take ${G/K={\mathbb{S}}^{2}\times{\mathbb{R}}}$ and compare ${\mathcal{Q}_{\mathcal{N}}}$ with the Abresch–Rosenberg differential ${\mathcal{Q}}$ , also holomorphic for CMC surfaces. It is proved that ${\mathcal{Q}=\mathcal{Q}_{\mathcal{N}}}$ , after showing that ${\mathcal{N}}$ is the twisted normal given by (1.5) herein. Then we define the twisted normal for surfaces in ${{\mathbb{H}}^{2}\times{\mathbb{R}}}$ and prove that ${\mathcal{Q}=\mathcal{Q}_{\mathcal{N}}}$ as well. Within the unified model for the two product spaces, we compute the tension field of ${\mathcal{N}}$ and extend to surfaces in ${{\mathbb{H}}^{2}\times{\mathbb{R}}}$ the equivalence between the CMC property and the harmonicity of ${\mathcal{N}.}$      

Fusion: a general framework for hierarchical tilings of \mathbb{R }^d

We introduce a formalism for handling general spaces of hierarchical tilings, a category that includes substitution tilings, Bratteli–Vershik systems, S-adic transformations, and multi-dimensional cut-and-stack transformations. We explore ergodic, spectral and topological properties of these spaces. We show that familiar properties of substitution tilings carry over under appropriate assumptions, and give counter-examples where these assumptions are not met. For instance, we exhibit a minimal tiling space that is not uniquely ergodic, with one ergodic measure having pure point spectrum and another ergodic measure having mixed spectrum. We also exhibit a 2-dimensional tiling space that has pure point measure-theoretic spectrum but is topologically weakly mixing.     

A Note on the Tight Spherical 7-Design in {\mathbb R}^{23} and 5-Design in {\mathbb R}^{7*}

In this note we prove the uniqueness of the tight spherical 7-design in consisting of 4600 vectors and with automorphism group 2 × Co₂ as well as the uniqueness of the tight spherical 5-design in on 112 vectors and with automorphism group 2 × Sp₆(2).To the memory of Jaap Seidel     

The harmonic mean curvature flow of nonconvex surfaces in {\mathbb{R}^3}

We consider a compact star-shaped mean convex hypersurface ${\Sigma^2\subset \mathbb{R}^3}$ . We prove that in some cases the flow exists until it shrinks to a point. We also prove that in the case of a surface of revolution which is star-shaped and mean convex, a smooth solution always exists up to some finite time T < ∞ at which the flow shrinks to a point asymptotically spherically.     

Multibubble analysis on N-Laplace equation in {\mathbb{R}^N}

In this note, we describe the asymptotic behavior of sequences of solutions to N-Laplace equations with critical exponential growth in smooth bounded domain in ${\mathbb{R}^N}$ . Precisely we prove multibubble phenomena and obtain an energy inequality for those concentrating solutions. In fact we partly extend the corresponding two-dimensional results of Adimurthi and Struwe (J Funct Anal 175:125?C167, 2000) and Druet (Duke Math J 132:217?C269, 2006) to high dimensional case.     

Existence of solutions for a perturbation sublinear elliptic equation in {\mathbb {R}^N}

In this paper we consider the following problem $\left\{\begin{array}{l} -\Delta u=u-\left|u\right|^{-2\theta}u+f \\u \in H^1(\mathbb{R}^N)\cap L^{2(1-\theta)}(\mathbb{R}^N)\end{array}\right.$ ${f \in L^2(\mathbb{R}^N)\cap L^\frac{2(1-\theta)}{1-2\theta}(\mathbb{R}^N),\, N\geq 3,\, f\geq 0,\, f \neq 0}In this paper we consider the following problem

{l -Du=u-|u|-2qu+f u ? H1(\mathbbRN)?L2(1-q)(\mathbbRN)\left\{\begin{array}{l} -\Delta u=u-\left|u\right|^{-2\theta}u+f \\u \in H^1(\mathbb{R}^N)\cap L^{2(1-\theta)}(\mathbb{R}^N)\end{array}\right.      16. Reachable sets for contact sub-Lorentzian structures on {\mathbb{R}^3} . Application to control affine systems on {\mathbb{R}^3} with a scalar input      M. Grochowski 《Journal of Mathematical Sciences》2011,177(3):383-394 In this paper, we investigate the structure of reachable sets for general contact sub-Lorentzian metrics on $ {\mathbb{R}^3} $ . In some particular cases, the presented method leads to explicit formulas for functions describing reachable sets. We also compute the image under exponential mapping and prove that the sub-Lorentzian distance is continuous for the mentioned structures. All presented results concerning reachable sets can be directly applied to generic control affine systems in $ {\mathbb{R}^3} $ with a scalar input u and constraints |u|??????.      17. Geometric complexity of embeddings in {\mathbb{R}^{d}}      Michael Freedman  Vyacheslav Krushkal 《Geometric And Functional Analysis》2014,24(5):1406-1430 Given a simplicial complex K, we consider several notions of geometric complexity of embeddings of K in a Euclidean space \({\mathbb{R}^d}\) : thickness, distortion, and refinement complexity (the minimal number of simplices needed for a PL embedding). We show that any n-complex with N simplices which topologically embeds in \({\mathbb{R}^{2n}, n > 2}\) , can be PL embedded in \({\mathbb{R}^{2n}}\) with refinement complexity \({O(e^{N^{4+{\epsilon}}})}\) . Families of simplicial n-complexes K are constructed such that any embedding of K into \({\mathbb{R}^{2n}}\) has an exponential lower bound on thickness and refinement complexity as a function of the number of simplices of K. This contrasts embeddings in the stable range, \({K\subset \mathbb{R}^{2n+k}, k > 0}\) , where all known bounds on geometric complexity functions are polynomial. In addition, we give a geometric argument for a bound on distortion of expander graphs in Euclidean spaces. Several related open problems are discussed, including questions about the growth rate of complexity functions of embeddings, and about the crossing number and the ropelength of classical links.      18. Dimensions of random self-affine multifractal Sierpinski sponges in {{\mathbb{R}}^d}      Lars Olsen 《Aequationes Mathematicae》2013,86(1-2):23-56 In this paper we study the Hausdorff and packing dimensions and the Rényi dimensions of random self-affine multifractal Sierpinski sponges in ${{\mathbb{R}}^{d}}$ .      19. On the Multifractal Analysis of the Branching Random Walk in \mathbb{R }^d      Najmeddine Attia 《Journal of Theoretical Probability》2014,27(4):1329-1349 We establish the almost sure validity of the multifractal formalism for \(\mathbb{R }^d\) -valued branching random walks on the whole relative interior of the natural convex domain of study.      20. Classification of rotational special Weingarten surfaces of minimal type in {\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{R}} and {\mathbb{H}^2 \times \mathbb{R}}      Filippo Morabito  M. Magdalena Rodríguez 《Mathematische Zeitschrift》2013,273(1-2):379-399 In this paper we classify the complete rotational special Weingarten surfaces in ${\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{R}}$ and ${\mathbb{H}^2 \times \mathbb{R}}$ ; i.e. rotational surfaces in ${\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{R}}$ and ${\mathbb{H}^2 \times \mathbb{R}}$ whose mean curvature H and extrinsic curvature K e satisfy H = f(H 2 ? K e ), for some function ${f \in \mathcal{C}^1([0,+\infty))}$ such that f(0) = 0 and 4x(f′(x))2 < 1 for any x ≥ 0. Furthermore we show the existence of non-complete examples of such surfaces.

Reachable sets for contact sub-Lorentzian structures on {\mathbb{R}^3} . Application to control affine systems on {\mathbb{R}^3} with a scalar input

In this paper, we investigate the structure of reachable sets for general contact sub-Lorentzian metrics on $ {\mathbb{R}^3} $ . In some particular cases, the presented method leads to explicit formulas for functions describing reachable sets. We also compute the image under exponential mapping and prove that the sub-Lorentzian distance is continuous for the mentioned structures. All presented results concerning reachable sets can be directly applied to generic control affine systems in $ {\mathbb{R}^3} $ with a scalar input u and constraints |u|??????.     

Geometric complexity of embeddings in {\mathbb{R}^{d}}

Given a simplicial complex K, we consider several notions of geometric complexity of embeddings of K in a Euclidean space \({\mathbb{R}^d}\) : thickness, distortion, and refinement complexity (the minimal number of simplices needed for a PL embedding). We show that any n-complex with N simplices which topologically embeds in \({\mathbb{R}^{2n}, n > 2}\) , can be PL embedded in \({\mathbb{R}^{2n}}\) with refinement complexity \({O(e^{N^{4+{\epsilon}}})}\) . Families of simplicial n-complexes K are constructed such that any embedding of K into \({\mathbb{R}^{2n}}\) has an exponential lower bound on thickness and refinement complexity as a function of the number of simplices of K. This contrasts embeddings in the stable range, \({K\subset \mathbb{R}^{2n+k}, k > 0}\) , where all known bounds on geometric complexity functions are polynomial. In addition, we give a geometric argument for a bound on distortion of expander graphs in Euclidean spaces. Several related open problems are discussed, including questions about the growth rate of complexity functions of embeddings, and about the crossing number and the ropelength of classical links.     

Dimensions of random self-affine multifractal Sierpinski sponges in {{\mathbb{R}}^d}

In this paper we study the Hausdorff and packing dimensions and the Rényi dimensions of random self-affine multifractal Sierpinski sponges in ${{\mathbb{R}}^{d}}$ .     

On the Multifractal Analysis of the Branching Random Walk in \mathbb{R }^d

We establish the almost sure validity of the multifractal formalism for \(\mathbb{R }^d\) -valued branching random walks on the whole relative interior of the natural convex domain of study.     

Classification of rotational special Weingarten surfaces of minimal type in {\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{R}} and {\mathbb{H}^2 \times \mathbb{R}}

In this paper we classify the complete rotational special Weingarten surfaces in ${\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{R}}$ and ${\mathbb{H}^2 \times \mathbb{R}}$ ; i.e. rotational surfaces in ${\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{R}}$ and ${\mathbb{H}^2 \times \mathbb{R}}$ whose mean curvature H and extrinsic curvature K _e satisfy H = f(H ² ? K _e ), for some function ${f \in \mathcal{C}^1([0,+\infty))}$ such that f(0) = 0 and 4x(f′(x))² < 1 for any x ≥ 0. Furthermore we show the existence of non-complete examples of such surfaces.