Dimension-Independent Estimates for Heat Operators and Harmonic Functions

We establish dimension-independent estimates related to heat operators e ^tL on manifolds. We first develop a very general contractivity result for Markov kernels which can be applied to diffusion semigroups. Second, we develop estimates on the norm behavior of harmonic and non-negative subharmonic functions. We apply these results to two examples of interest: when L is the Laplace–Beltrami operator on a Riemannian manifold with Ricci curvature bounded from below, and when L is an invariant subelliptic operator of Hörmander type on a Lie group. In the former example, we also obtain pointwise bounds on harmonic and subharmonic functions, while in the latter example, we obtain pointwise bounds on harmonic functions when a generalized curvature-dimension inequality is satisfied.     

The green functions for weighted biharmonic operators of the form Δω−1Δ in the unit diskin the unit disk

In the unit disk of the complex plane, the Green functions for weighted biharmonic operators of the form Δω⁻¹Δ are studied. The Green function is nonnegative everywhere if the weight function w is radial, logarithmically subharmonic, and area integrable. In the case of weighted Bergman classes, this fact allows us to establish the existence of a factorization of functions similar to the interior-exterior factorization in Hardy classes. Bibliography: 6 titles. Translated fromProblemy Matematicheskogo Analiza, No. 16. 1997, pp. 266–277.     

Factorization of singular integral operators with a Carleman backward shift: The case of bounded measurable coefficients

In this paper, we generalize our recent results concerning scalar singular integral operators with a Carleman backward shift, allowing more general coefficients, bounded measurable functions on the unit circle. Our aim is to obtain an operator factorization for singular integral operators with a backward shift and bounded measurable coefficients, from which such Fredholm characteristics as the kernel and the cokernel can be described. The main tool is the factorization of matrix functions. In the course of the analysis performed, we obtain several useful representations, which allow us to characterize completely the set of invertible operators in that class, thus providing explicit examples of such operators Dedicated to Professor A. Ferreira dos Santos on the occasion of his seventieth birthday     

Accuracy of approximation of subharmonic functions by logarithms of moduli of analytic functions in the Chebyshev metrics

It is known that a subharmonic function of finite order ρ can be approximated by the logarithm of the modulus of an entire function at a point z outside an exceptional set up to C log |z|. In this paper, we prove that if such an approximation becomes more precise, i.e., the constant C decreases, then, beginning with C = ρ/4, the size of the exceptional set enlarges substantially. Similar results are proved for subharmonic functions of infinite order and for functions that are subharmonic in the unit disk. These theorems improve and complement a result by Yulmukhametov. Bibliography: 20 titles. __________ Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 327, 2005, pp. 55–73.     

On the Characterization of Harmonic and Subharmonic Functions via Mean-value Properties

We consider the different characterizations of harmonic and subharmonic functions in terms of their mean values in balls and on spheres. In particular, we prove a converse of an inequality of Beardon’s for subharmonic functions, and extend Rao’s integral inequalities of Harnack type between these two means in general domains.     

Minimal Fine Limits of Subharmonic Functions of Slow Growth

Two results are proved which show that a subharmonic functionon the unit disc which does not grow too quickly and which doesnot have asymptotic value at too many points, must have finiteminimal fine limits at boundary points forming a set of positivelinear measure. Similar methods are used to obtain an asymptoticPhragmén-Lindelöf theorem for subharmonic functions.These results generalize and improve on earlier results forholomorphic functions.     

The Genuine Bernstein-Durrmeyer Operator on a Simplex

In 1967 Durrmeyer introduced a modification of the Bernstein polynomials as a selfadjoint polynomial operator on L²[0,1] which proved to be an interesting and rich object of investigation. Incorporating Jacobi weights Berens and Xu obtained a more general class of operators, sharing all the advantages of Durrmeyer’s modification, and identified these operators as de la Vallée-Poussin means with respect to the associated Jacobi polynomial expansion. Nevertheless, all these modifications lack one important property of the Bernstein polynomials, namely the preservation of linear functions. To overcome this drawback a Bernstein-Durrmeyer operator with respect to a singular Jacobi weight will be introduced and investigated. For this purpose an orthogonal series expansion in terms generalized Jacobi polynomials and its de la Vallée-Poussin means will be considered. These Bernstein-Durrmeyer polynomials with respect to the singular weight combine all the nice properties of Bernstein-Durrmeyer polynomials with the preservation of linear functions, and are closely tied to classical Bernstein polynomials. Focusing not on the approximation behavior of the operators but on shape preserving properties, these operators we will prove them to converge monotonically decreasing, if and only if the underlying function is subharmonic with respect to the elliptic differential operator associated to the Bernstein as well as to these Bernstein-Durrmeyer polynomials. In addition to various generalizations of convexity, subharmonicity is one further shape property being preserved by these Bernstein-Durrmeyer polynomials. Finally, pointwise and global saturation results will be derived in a very elementary way.     

Classification of Toeplitz operators on hardy spaces of bounded domains in the plane

We construct an orthonormal basis for the class of square integrable functions on bounded domains in the plane in terms of the classical kernel functions in potential theory. Then we generalize the results of Brown and Halmos about algebraic properties of Toeplitz operators and Laurent operators on the unit disc to general bounded domains. This is a complete classification of Laurent operators and Toeplitz operators for bounded domains.     

Adams inequalities on measure spaces

In 1988 Adams obtained sharp Moser–Trudinger inequalities on bounded domains of Rn. The main step was a sharp exponential integral inequality for convolutions with the Riesz potential. In this paper we extend and improve Adams' results to functions defined on arbitrary measure spaces with finite measure. The Riesz fractional integral is replaced by general integral operators, whose kernels satisfy suitable and explicit growth conditions, given in terms of their distribution functions; natural conditions for sharpness are also given. Most of the known results about Moser–Trudinger inequalities can be easily adapted to our unified scheme. We give some new applications of our theorems, including: sharp higher order Moser–Trudinger trace inequalities, sharp Adams/Moser–Trudinger inequalities for general elliptic differential operators (scalar and vector-valued), for sums of weighted potentials, and for operators in the CR setting.     

Abschätzung der Normen von Operatoren analytischer Funktionen

This article investigates the norms of certain interpolation operators of analytic functions on the unit disc. In particular, it is shown that the norms of interpolation operators being the identical operator for all n -degree polynomials have a lower bound of order ln n . This result is compared with a recent result regarding trigonometric interpolation of continuous functions on the unit circle. It is shown that opposed to the operators of analytic functions on the unit disc, the method of oversampling can be applied in order to uniformly bound the interpolation operators. Moreover, some practical implications with regard to communication engineering are discussed. It is concluded that in practice the results lead to non-linear interpolation operators.     

Removable singularities for analytic or subharmonic functions

In this paper, results on removable singularities for analytic functions, harmonic functions and subharmonic functions by Besicovitch, Carleson, and Shapiro are extended. In each theorem, we need not assume thatf has the global property at any point, so we are able to allow dense sets of singularities. We do not state our results in terms of exceptional sets, but each one leads to a series of results implying that certain sets are removable for appropriate classes of functions.     

Differentiated shift-invariant integral operators,univariate case

In a recent paper [1] the author, along with H. Gonska, introduced some wavelet type integral operators over the whole real line and studied their properties such as shift-invariance, global smoothness preservation, convergence to the unit, and preservation of probability distribution functions. These operators are very general and they are introduced through a convolution-like iteration of another general operator with a scaling type function. In this paper the author provides sufficient conditions, so that the derivatives of the above operators enjoy the same nice properties as their originals. A sufficient condition is also given so that the “global smoothness preservation” related inequality becomes sharp. At the end several applications are given, where the derivatives of the very general specialized operators are shown to fulfill all the above properties. In particular it is shown that they preserve continuous probability density functions.     

Removable singularities for analytic or subharmonic functions

In this paper, results on removable singularities for analytic functions, harmonic functions and subharmonic functions by Besicovitch, Carleson, and Shapiro are extended. In each theorem, we need not assume thatf has the global property at any point, so we are able to allow dense sets of singularities. We do not state our results in terms of exceptional sets, but each one leads to a series of results implying that certain sets are removable for appropriate classes of functions. Partially supported by an NSF-Grant and an XL-Grant at Purdue respectively.     

Quasi-nearly subharmonic functions in locally uniformly homogeneous spaces

We define nonnegative quasi-nearly subharmonic functions on so called locally uniformly homogeneous spaces. We point out that this function class is rather general. It includes quasi-nearly subharmonic (thus also subharmonic, quasisubharmonic and nearly subharmonic) functions on domains of Euclidean spaces \mathbbRⁿ{{\mathbb{R}}^n}, n ≥ 2. In addition, quasi-nearly subharmonic functions with respect to various measures on domains of \mathbbRⁿ{{\mathbb{R}}^n}, n ≥ 2, are included. As examples we list the cases of the hyperbolic measure on the unit ball B ⁿ of \mathbbRⁿ{{\mathbb{R}}^n}, the M{{\mathcal{M}}}-invariant measure on the unit ball B ²ⁿ of \mathbbCⁿ{{\mathbb{C}}^n}, n ≥ 1, and the quasihyperbolic measure on any domain D ì \mathbbRⁿ{D\subset {\mathbb{R}}^n}, D 1 \mathbbRⁿ{D\ne {\mathbb{R}}^n}. Moreover, we show that if u is a quasi-nearly subharmonic function on a locally uniformly homogeneous space and the space satisfies a mild additional condition, then also u ^p is quasi-nearly subharmonic for all p > 0.     

How Fast can a Subharmonic Function Decay Along a Ray?

Much is known about the connection between the growth and decayof subharmonic functions. The results indicate that there isa general principle: asubharmonic function cannot decay ‘toofast’ relative to its growth.Three theorems are provedwhich, together with work previously published elsewhere, givea fairly complete account of how this principle works out fora subharmonic function having extremal decay along a ray. 1991Mathematics Subject Classification: 30D20, 31A05.     

On unified fractional integral operators

The present paper is in continuation to our recent paper [6] in these proceedings. Therein, three composition formulae for a general class of fractional integral operators had been established. In this paper, we develop the Mellin transforms and their inversions, the Mellin convolutions, the associated Parseval-Goldstein theorem and the images of the multivariableH-function together with applications for these operators. In all, seven theorems and two corollaries (involving the Konhauser biorthogonal polynomials and the Jacobi polynomials) have been established in this paper. On account of the most general nature of the polynomials S _n ^m [x] and the multivariableH-function whose product form the kernels of our operators, a large number of (new and known) interesting results involving simpler polynomials and special functions (involving one or more variables) obtained by several authors and hitherto lying scattered in the literature follow as special cases of our findings. We give here exact references to the results (in essence) of seven research papers which follow as simple special cases of our theorems.     

Statistical approximation by double complex Gauss–Weierstrass integral operators

In this paper, we introduce the complex Gauss–Weierstrass integral operators defined on a space of analytic functions in two variables on the Cartesian product of two unit disks. Then, we study the geometric properties and statistical approximation process of our operators.     

Operators in pre-Riesz spaces: moduli and homomorphisms

We focus on two topics that are related to moduli of elements in partially ordered vector spaces. First, we relate operators that preserve moduli to generalized notions of lattice homomorphisms, such as Riesz homomorphisms, Riesz* homomorphisms, and positive disjointness preserving operators. We also consider complete Riesz homomorphisms, which generalize order continuous lattice homomorphisms. Second, we characterize elements with a modulus by means of disjoint elements and apply this result to obtain moduli of functionals and operators in various settings. On spaces of continuous functions, we identify those differences of Riesz* homomorphisms that have a modulus. Many of our results for pre-Riesz spaces of continuous functions lead to results on order unit spaces, where the functional representation is used.

     

Summability on Mellin-type nonlinear integral operators

In this study, approximation properties of the Mellin-type nonlinear integral operators defined on multivariate functions are investigated. In order to get more general results than the classical aspects, we mainly use the summability methods defined by Bell. Considering the Haar measure with variation semi-norm in Tonelli's sense, we approach to the functions of bounded variation. Similar results are also obtained for uniformly continuous and bounded functions. Using suitable function classes we investigate the rate of convergence in the approximation. Finally, we give a non-trivial application verifying our approach.     

Operators with Singular Trace Conditions on a Manifold with Edges

We establish a new calculus of pseudodifferential operators on a manifold with smooth edges and study ellipticity with extra trace and potential conditions (as well as Green operators) at the edge. In contrast to the known scenario with conditions of that kind in integral form we admit in this paper ‘singular’ trace and Green operators. In contrast to standard conditions in the theory of elliptic boundary value problems (like Dirichlet or Neumann conditions) our singular trace conditions, in general, do not act on functions that are smooth up to the boundary, but admit a more general asymptotic structure. Their action is now associated with the Laurent coefficients of the meromorphic Mellin transforms of functions with respect to the half-axis variable, the distance to the edge.