Smooth approximation of convex functions in Banach spaces

This paper shows that every extended-real-valued lower semi-continuous proper (respectively Lipschitzian) convex function defined on an Asplund space can be represented as the point-wise limit (respectively uniform limit on every bounded set) of a sequence of Lipschitzian convex functions which are locally affine (hence, C^∞) at all points of a dense open subset; and shows an analogous for w^∗-lower semi-continuous proper (respectively Lipschitzian) convex functions defined on dual spaces whose pre-duals have the Radon-Nikodym property.     

Excess函数的应用

在本文中，我们研究了曲率有下界的开流形的拓扑，并推广了文[7]中的结果，证明了截曲率有下界的开流形如果它的excess函数被它的临界半径的某个函数所界定时，它就具有有限拓扑型或者微分同胚于R^n．     

Remarks on affine complete distributive lattices

We characterise the Priestley spaces corresponding to affine complete bounded distributive lattices. Moreover we prove that the class of affine complete bounded distributive lattices is closed under products and free products. We show that every (not necessarily bounded) distributive lattice can be embedded in an affine complete one and that ℚ ∩ [0, 1] is initial in the class of affine complete lattices.     

Ratios of affine functions

Aratio of affine functions is a function which can be expressed as the ratio of a vector valued affine function and a scalar affine functional. The purpose of this note is to examine properties of sets which are preserved under images and inverse images of such functions. Specifically, we show that images and inverse images of convex sets under such functions are convex sets. Also, images of bounded, convex polytopes under such functions are bounded, convex polytopes. In addition, we provide sufficient conditions under which the extreme points of images of convex sets are images of extreme points of the underlying domains. Of course, this result is useful when one wishes to maximize a convex function over a corresponding set. The above assertions are well known for affine functions. Applications of the results include a problem that concerns the control of stochastic eigenvectors of stochastic matrices.     

Bornes effectives des fonctions d'approximation des solutions formelles d'équations binomiales

The aim of this paper is to give an effective version of the Strong Artin Approximation Theorem for binomial equations. First we give an effective version of the Greenberg Approximation Theorem for polynomial equations, then using the Weierstrass Preparation Theorem, we apply this effective result to binomial equations. We prove that the Artin function of a system of binomial equations is bounded by a doubly exponential function in general and that it is bounded by an affine function if the order of the approximated solutions is bounded.     

Sur la hauteur de Faltings des variétés abéliennes à multiplication complexe

Motivated by a result of Bost, we use the relationship between Faltings' heights of abelian varieties with complex multiplication and logarithmic derivatives of Artin L-functions at s=0 to investigate these heights. In particular, we prove that the height of an elliptic curve with complex multiplication by Q-d is bounded from below by an effective affine function of log d.     

Uniformly bounded Nemytskij operators between the Banach spaces of functions of bounded n-th variation

The main result says that the generator of any uniformly bounded composition operator acting between Banach algebras of functions of bounded n-th variation is an affine function with respect to the function variable.     

The averaged Dehn function relative to a given probability measure

We prove that under some not overrestrictive assumptions the relative averaged Dehn function is bounded above and below by constants.     

Uniformly bounded set-valued Nemytskij operators acting between generalized Hölder function spaces

We show that the generator of any uniformly bounded set-valued Nemytskij composition operator acting between generalized Hölder function metric spaces, with nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex values, is an affine function.     

Weakly prime sets for function spaces

We define and study weakly prime sets for a function space and show that it coincides with the known concept of weakly prime sets for function algebras and spaces of affine functions.     

小Excess与开流形的拓扑

本文中，我们应用比较几何的方法研究开流形的Excess与其拓扑之间的关系，我们证明了对于一个曲率下有界的开流形，当它的Excess被临界半径的某个函数所界定时，它就有有限拓扑型或微分同胚于n维z欧氏空间。     

An affine interpretation of Bäcklund transformations

The paper is devoted to an affine interpretation of Bäcklundmaps (Bäcklund transformations are a particular case of Bäcklund maps) for second order differential equations with unknown function of two arguments. Note that up to now there are no papers where Bäcklund transformations are interpreted as transformations of surfaces in a space other than Euclidean space. In this paper, we restrict our considerations to the case of so-called Bäcklund maps of class 1. The solutions of a differential equation are represented as surfaces of an affine space with induced connection determining a representation of zero curvature. We show that, in the case when a second order partial differential equation admits a Bäcklund map of class 1, for each solution of the equation there is a congruence of straight lines in an affine space formed by the tangents to the affine image of the solution. This congruence is an affine analog of a parabolic congruence in Euclidean space. The Bäcklund map can be interpreted as a transformation of surfaces of an affine space under which the affine image of a solution of the differential equation is mapped into a particular boundary surface of the congruence.     

Bounding reflection length in an affine Coxeter group

In any Coxeter group, the conjugates of elements in the standard minimal generating set are called reflections, and the minimal number of reflections needed to factor a particular element is called its reflection length. In this article we prove that the reflection length function on an affine Coxeter group has a uniform upper bound. More precisely, we prove that the reflection length function on an affine Coxeter group that naturally acts faithfully and cocompactly on ℝ ⁿ is bounded above by 2n, and we also show that this bound is optimal. Conjecturally, spherical and affine Coxeter groups are the only Coxeter groups with a uniform bound on reflection length.     

A generalization of Lelieuvre’s formula to equiaffine immersions of general codimension

A non-degenerate equiaffine immersion of codimension one into an equiaffine space is locally expressed in terms of its conormal map and its affine fundamental form. The expression is called the Lelieuvre’s formula. We recently defined the notions of an equiaffine immersion of general codimension and its transversal volume element map. In this paper, we locally express a non-degenerate equiaffine immersion of general codimension into an equiaffine space in terms of its transversal volume element map and its affine fundamental form.     

小Excess与具负下界Ricci曲率开流形的拓扑

In this paper,we study the relation between the excess of open manifolds and their topology by using the methods of comparison geometry.We prove that a complete open Riemmannian manifold with Ricci curvature negatively lower bounded is of finite topological type provided that the conjugate radius is bounded from below by a positive constant and its Excess is bounded by some function of its conjugate radius,which improves some results in [4].     

Non-branching geodesics and optimal maps in strong CD(K,\infty )-spaces

We prove that in metric measure spaces where the entropy functional is \(K\) -convex along every Wasserstein geodesic any optimal transport between two absolutely continuous measures with finite second moments lives on a non-branching set of geodesics. As a corollary we obtain that in these spaces there exists only one optimal transport plan between any two absolutely continuous measures with finite second moments and this plan is given by a map. The results are applicable in metric measure spaces having Riemannian Ricci curvature bounded below, and in particular they hold also for Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Riemannian manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded from below by some constant.     

Uniformly Bounded Composition Operators on the Space of Bounded Variation Functions in the Sense of Waterman

In this paper, we demonstrate under some general assumptions, that a generator of any uniformly bounded composition operator, mapping spaces of bounded variation (Waterman) functions into other spaces of this type, must be an affine function in the functional variable.

     

Subdifferential properties for a class of minimal time functions with moving target sets in normed spaces

In a normed vector space, we study the minimal time function determined by a moving target set and a differential inclusion, where the set-valued mapping involved has constant values of a bounded closed convex set U. After establishing a characterization of ?-subdifferential of the minimal time function, we obtain that the limiting subdifferential of the minimal time function is representable by virtue of the corresponding normal cones of sublevel sets of the function and level or sublevel sets of the support function of U. The known results require the set U to have the origin as an interior point and the target set is a fixed set.     

An Interior Point Method for Linear Programming

In this paper we present an interior point method which solves a linear programming problem by using an affine transformation. We prove under certain assumptions that the algorithm converges to an optimal solution even if the dual problem is degenerate as long as the prime is bounded, or to a ray direction if the optimal value of the objective function is unbounded.