The Space of subcontinua of a 2-dimensional continuum is infinite dimensional

Let be a metric continuum and let denote the space of subcontinua of with the Hausdorff metric. We settle a longstanding problem showing that if then . The special structure and properties of hereditarily indecomposable continua are applied in the proof.

     

Exactly -to-1 maps and hereditarily indecomposable tree-like continua

In 1947, W.H. Gottschalk proved that no dendrite is the continuous, exactly -to-1 image of any continuum if . Since that time, no other class of continua has been shown to have this same property. It is shown that no hereditarily indecomposable tree-like continuum is the continuous, exactly -to-1 image of any continuum if .

     

An extremal property of Fekete polynomials

The Fekete polynomials are defined as

where is the Legendre symbol. These polynomials arise in a number of contexts in analysis and number theory. For example, after cyclic permutation they provide sequences with smallest known norm out of the polynomials with coefficients.

The main purpose of this paper is to prove the following extremal property that characterizes the Fekete polynomials by their size at roots of unity.

Theorem 0.1. Let with odd and . If

then must be an odd prime and is . Here

This result also gives a partial answer to a problem of Harvey Cohn on character sums.

     

Universally meager sets

We study category counterparts of the notion of a universal measure zero set of reals.

We say that a set is universally meager if every Borel isomorphic image of is meager in . We give various equivalent definitions emphasizing analogies with the universally null sets of reals.

In particular, two problems emerging from an earlier work of Grzegorek are solved.

     

Tree-like continua do not admit expansive homeomorphisms

A homeomorphism is called expansive provided that for some fixed 0$"> and every there exists an integer , dependent only on and , such that c$">. It is shown that if is a tree-like continuum, then cannot be expansive.

     

Hyperspaces and open monotone maps of hereditarily indecomposable continua

We prove the following theorems:

Theorem 1. Let be an -dimensional hereditarily indecomposable continuum. Then there exist -dimensional hereditarily indecomposable continua and monotone maps such that is an embedding and the space of all subcontinua of is embeddable in by .

Theorem 2. For every open monotone map with non-trivial sufficiently small fibers on a finite dimensional hereditarily indecomposable continuum with there exists a -dimensional subcontinuum such that and the restriction of to is also monotone and open.

The connection between these theorems and other results in Hyperspace theory is studied.

     

Computational estimation of the constant

The paper describes a computational estimation of the constant characterizing the bounds of . It is known that as

with , while the truth of the Riemann hypothesis would also imply that . In the range , two sets of estimates of are computed, one for increasingly small minima and another for increasingly large maxima of . As increases, the estimates in the first set rapidly fall below and gradually reach values slightly below , while the estimates in the second set rapidly exceed and gradually reach values slightly above . The obtained numerical results are discussed and compared to the implications of recent theoretical work of Granville and Soundararajan.

     

On stable currents and positively curved hypersurfaces

We establish a nonexistence theorem for stable currents (or stable varifolds) in complete -pinched hypersurfaces of a real space form with nonnegative constant sectional curvature. This is a partial positive answer to the well-known conjecture of Lawson and Simons.

     

Self delta-equivalence of cobordant links

Self -equivalence is an equivalence relation for links, which is stronger than the link-homotopy defined by J. Milnor. It is known that cobordant links are link-homotopic and that they are not necessarily self -equivalent. In this paper, we will give a sufficient condition for cobordant links to be self -equivalent.

     

A normal countably compact not absolutely countably compact space

We construct an example of a normal countably compact not absolutely countably compact space. We also prove that every hereditarily normal countably compact space is absolutely countably compact and suggest a method for construction of hereditarily normal spaces without property .

     

The expected norm of random polynomials

The results of this paper concern the expected norm of random polynomials on the boundary of the unit disc (equivalently of random trigonometric polynomials on the interval ). Specifically, for a random polynomial

let

Assume the random variables , are independent and identically distributed, have mean 0, variance equal to 1 and, if 2$">, a finite moment . Then

and

as .

In particular if the polynomials in question have coefficients in the set (a much studied class of polynomials), then we can compute the expected norms of the polynomials and their derivatives

and

This complements results of Fielding in the case, Newman and Byrnes in the case, and Littlewood et al. in the case.

     

On approximately convex functions

A real valued function defined on a real interval is called -convex if it satisfies

The main results of the paper offer various characterizations for -convexity. One of the main results states that is -convex for some positive and if and only if can be decomposed into the sum of a convex function, a function with bounded supremum norm, and a function with bounded Lipschitz-modulus. In the special case , the results reduce to that of Hyers, Ulam, and Green obtained in 1952 concerning the so-called -convexity.

     

Martin's Axiom does not imply perfectly normal non-archimedean spaces are metrizable

In this paper we prove that in various models of Martin's Axiom there are perfectly normal, non-metrizable non-archimedean spaces of .

     

Degree-one maps between hyperbolic 3-manifolds with the same volume limit

Suppose that are degree-one maps between closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds with

Then, our main theorem, Theorem 2, shows that, for all but finitely many , is homotopic to an isometry. A special case of our argument gives a new proof of Gromov-Thurston's rigidity theorem for hyperbolic 3-manifolds without invoking any ergodic theory. An example in §3 implies that, if the degree of these maps is greater than 1, the assertion corresponding to our theorem does not hold.

     

The canonical solution operator to restricted to Bergman spaces

We first show that the canonical solution operator to restricted to -forms with holomorphic coefficients can be expressed by an integral operator using the Bergman kernel. This result is used to prove that in the case of the unit disc in the canonical solution operator to restricted to -forms with holomorphic coefficients is a Hilbert-Schmidt operator. In the sequel we give a direct proof of the last statement using orthonormal bases and show that in the case of the polydisc and the unit ball in 1,$"> the corresponding operator fails to be a Hilbert-Schmidt operator. We also indicate a connection with the theory of Hankel operators.

     

A reduction theorem for the topological degree for mappings of class

The reduction theorem for the Leray-Schauder degree provides an efficient tool to calculate the value of the degree in a suitable invariant subspace. We shall prove how the calculation of the value of the topological degree for a mapping of class from a real separable reflexive Banach space into the dual space can be reduced into the calculation of degree of mapping from a closed subspace into Since the Leray-Schauder mappings are acting from to and we are dealing with mappings from to the standard `invariant subspace' condition must be replaced by a less obvious one.

     

On a Littlewood-Paley type inequality

The following is proved: If is a function harmonic in the unit ball and if then the inequality

holds, where is the nontangential maximal function of This improves a recent result of Stoll. This inequality holds for polyharmonic and hyperbolically harmonic functions as well.

     

On the complexity of the description of -algebra representations by unbounded operators

We study the complexity of the problem to describe, up to unitary equivalence, representations of -algebras by unbounded operators on a Hilbert space. A number of examples are developed in detail.

     

Local automorphisms and derivations on certain -algebras

It is shown that continuous -local derivations on -algebras are derivations and surjective -local *-automorphisms on prime -algebras or on -algebras such that the identity element is properly infinite are *-automorphisms.