Kirwan-Novikov inequalities on a manifold with boundary

We extend the Novikov Morse-type inequalities for closed 1-forms in 2 directions. First, we consider manifolds with boundary. Second, we allow a very degenerate structure of the critical set of the form, assuming only that the form is non-degenerated in the sense of Kirwan. In particular, we obtain a generalization of a result of Floer about the usual Morse inequalities on a manifold with boundary. We also obtain an equivariant version of our inequalities.

Our proof is based on an application of the Witten deformation technique. The main novelty here is that we consider the neighborhood of the critical set as a manifold with a cylindrical end. This leads to a considerable simplification of the local analysis. In particular, we obtain a new analytic proof of the Morse-Bott inequalities on a closed manifold.

     

Inequalities based on a generalization of concavity

The concept of concavity is generalized to functions, , satisfying order differential inequalities, , and homogeneous two-point boundary conditions, , for some . A piecewise polynomial, which bounds the function, , below, is constructed, and then is employed to obtain that , where max and denotes the supremum norm. An analogous inequality for a related Green's function is also obtained. These inequalities are useful in applications of certain cone theoretic fixed point theorems.

     

General criteria for redundant and nonredundant linear inequalities

A system of linear inequalities subject to nonnegativity restrictions is considered. General criteria which are necessary and sufficient for a linear inequality to be redundant are derived. This general characterization provides a basis for unifying some of the existing techniques. After taking into consideration the existence of redundant linear inequalities, general necessary and sufficient criteria for a linear inequality to be nonredundant are also obtained. An example is given to illustrate the application of these new criteria.The author wishes to thank the referee for his comments.     

On a class of weighted anisotropic Sobolev inequalities

In this article, motivated by a work of Caffarelli and Cordoba in phase transitions analysis, we prove new weighted anisotropic Sobolev type inequalities where different derivatives have different weight functions. These inequalities are also intimately connected to weighted Sobolev inequalities for Grushin type operators, the weights being not necessarily Muckenhoupt. For example we consider Sobolev inequalities on finite cylinders, the weight being a power of the distance function from the top or the bottom of the cylinder. We also prove similar inequalities in the more general case in which the weight is a power of the distance function from a higher codimension part of the boundary.     

On a generalized sup-inf problem

In this paper, necessary and sufficient conditions for solvability of nonlinear inequality systems are given using certain generalized convexity concepts. Our results imply some theorems of Kirszbraun, Fan, Minty, Simons, Sebestyén, and Gwinner-Oettli.The authors are grateful to the referees for their helpful comments. They thank one of the referees, who emphasized the connection between the Wald minimax theorem and Theorem 2.1, and suggested an alternative proof of Theorem 2.1 in Section 4.     

Discrete Jackson-type Operators via a Boolean Sum Approach

In the present paper we consider Jackson-type operators obtained via a Boolean sum, as studied by Cao, Gonska et al. We also present an alternative to their classical method of discretization using appropriate quadrature formulas. Our goal is to obtain for the discretized operators the same degree of approximation as Cao and Gonska (in particular, DeVore-Gopengauz inequalities), at the same time making sure that the operators discretized by means of our method will inherit more properties from the initial operators than by using quadrature formulas. As an example, we will consider convolution-type operators that preserve convexity up to a certain order, and we will show that the operators discretized with our technique also preserve monotonicity and convexity.     

Hamilton-type gradient estimates for a nonlinear parabolic equation on Riemannian manifolds

Let (M,g) be a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold. In this note, we derive a local Hamilton-type gradient estimate for positive solution to a simple nonlinear parabolic equation

Proximal-Point Algorithm Using a Linear Proximal Term

Proximal-point algorithms (PPAs) are classical solvers for convex optimization problems and monotone variational inequalities (VIs). The proximal term in existing PPAs usually is the gradient of a certain function. This paper presents a class of PPA-based methods for monotone VIs. For a given current point, a proximal point is obtained via solving a PPA-like subproblem whose proximal term is linear but may not be the gradient of any functions. The new iterate is updated via an additional slight calculation. Global convergence of the method is proved under the same mild assumptions as the original PPA. Finally, profiting from the less restrictions on the linear proximal terms, we propose some parallel splitting augmented Lagrangian methods for structured variational inequalities with separable operators. B.S. He was supported by NSFC Grant 10571083 and Jiangsu NSF Grant BK2008255.     

On a conjecture on the symmetric means

In this paper, we study some inequalities involving the symmetric means. The main result is a proof of a conjecture of Alzer et al.     

Sharp Sobolev inequalities in Lorentz spaces for a mean oscillation

We exhibit the optimal constant for Sobolev inequalities in Lorentz spaces for a mean oscillation, and its relation with a boundedness of the Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator in Sobolev spaces. Some applications to a scale invariant form of Hardy?s inequality in a limiting case are also considered.     

Rosenthal inequalities in noncommutative symmetric spaces

We give a direct proof of the ‘upper’ Khintchine inequality for a noncommutative symmetric (quasi-)Banach function space with nontrivial upper Boyd index. This settles an open question of C. Le Merdy and the fourth named author (Le Merdy and Sukochev, 2008 [24]). We apply this result to derive a version of Rosenthal?s theorem for sums of independent random variables in a noncommutative symmetric space. As a result we obtain a new proof of Rosenthal?s theorem for (Haagerup) Lp-spaces.     

Existence of solutions for a generalized vector quasivariational inequality

The paper deals with a generalization of a vector quasivariational inequality. An existence theorem for its solutions is established; it is based on a kind of minimax inequality, which is here established for continuous affine mappings and differs from previous results. Fan's section theorem for set-valued mappings is extended. An application for an equilibrium problem of a network with vector-valued cost functions is given.This research was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China.     

Some complements to the Jensen and Chebyshev inequalities and a problem of W. Walter

Motivated by an integral inequality conjectured by W. Walter, we prove some general integral inequalities on finite intervals of the real line. In addition to supplying new proofs of Walter's conjecture, the general inequalities furnish a reverse Jensen inequality under appropriate conditions and provide generalizations of Chebyshev's integral inequality.     

Continuous dependence results for a class of nonlinear heat equations in a cylindrical region

In this paper, we derive bounds for the solutions of a quasilinear heat equation in a finite cylindrical region if the far end and the lateral surface are held at zero temperature, and a nonzero temperature is applied at the near end. Some continuous dependence inequalities are also obtained. We also investigate the case in which a given heat flux is prescribed at the near end, instead of a given temperature. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Consistency of a linear system of inequalities

We show that a consistency check of a linear system of inequalitiesAxb reduces to check whetherQb0 for a certain matrixQ. It is a direct consequence of the Farkas-Minkowski theorem. Thus, when one has to check consistency for different values ofb, one need not run a numerical algorithm for eachb.On leave at the Electronics Research Laboratory of the University of California at Berkeley in a CNRS/NSF Exchange Program.     

Note on a Littlewood-Paley inequality

We show that a recent result of Littlewood-Paley type, due to the author, is essentially best-possible.     

Symmetric conditions for a weighted Fourier transform inequality

We discuss conditions on weight functions, necessary or sufficient, so that the Fourier transform is bounded from one weighted Lebesgue space to another. The sufficient condition and the primary necessary condition presented are similar, one being phrased is terms of arbitrary measurable sets and the other in terms of cubes. We believe that the symmetry amongst the two conditions helps frame how a single condition, necessary and sufficient, might appear.     

随机环境下上临界分值过程的偏差不等式

令$\{Z_{n}, n\ge 0\}$为独立同分布随机环境下的上临界分支过程$\xi=(\xi_n)_{n\geq 0}$.本文给出了$\ln (Z_{n+n_{0}}/Z_{n_{0}})$的一些偏差不等式及其在构造置信区间上的一些应用.