On Harmonic Functions on Trees

We study the asymptotic behaviour of harmonic and p-harmonic functions (1<p<) on trees, obtaining estimates about the Hausdorff dimension of radial limits.     

Order Dimension of Orthomodular Amalgamations Over Trees

We consider the amalgamation of bounded involution posets over a strictly directed graph as applied to orthomodular lattices, orthomodular posets or orthoalgebras. In the finite setting, we show that the order dimension of the amalgamation does not exceed that of the amalgamated structures by more than one. We also present conditions under which equality obtains.      

Biharmonic Green Functions on Homogeneous Trees

The study of biharmonic functions under the ordinary (Euclidean) Laplace operator on the open unit disk \mathbbD{\mathbb{D}} in \mathbbC{\mathbb{C}} arises in connection with plate theory, and in particular, with the biharmonic Green functions which measure, subject to various boundary conditions, the deflection at one point due to a load placed at another point. A homogeneous tree T is widely considered as a discrete analogue of the unit disk endowed with the Poincaré metric. The usual Laplace operator on T corresponds to the hyperbolic Laplacian. In this work, we consider a bounded metric on T for which T is relatively compact and use it to define a flat Laplacian which plays the same role as the ordinary Laplace operator on \mathbbD{\mathbb{D}}. We then study the simply-supported and the clamped biharmonic Green functions with respect to both Laplacians.     

Universal Polynomial Expansions of Harmonic Functions

Let Ω be a domain in ? ^N such that $\left(\mathbb{R}^{N}\cup\lbrace\infty\rbrace\right)\setminus\Omega$ is connected. It is known that, for each w?∈?Ω, there exist harmonic functions on Ω that are universal at w, in the sense that partial sums of their homogeneous polynomial expansion about w approximate all plausibly approximable functions in the complement of Ω. Under the assumption that Ω omits an infinite cone, it is shown that the connectedness hypothesis on $\left(\mathbb{R}^{N}\cup\lbrace\infty\rbrace\right)\setminus\Omega$ is essential, and that a harmonic function which is universal at one point is actually universal at all points of Ω.     

Universal Affine Classification of Boolean Functions

In this paper we advance a practical solution of the classification problem of Boolean functions by the affine group – the largest group of linear transformations of variables. We show that the affine types (equivalence classes) can be arranged in a unique infinite sequence which contains all previous lists of types. The types are specified by their minimal representatives, spectral invariants, and stabilizer orders. A brief survey of the fundamental transformation groups is included.     

On the Range of Universal Functions

We examine the range of universal Taylor series. We prove thatevery universal Taylor series on the unit disc assumes everycomplex number, with one possible exception, infinitely often.On the other hand, we prove that on any simply connected domainthere exist universal functions that omit one value. 2000 MathematicsSubject Classification 30B10.     

Comparing the Likelihood Functions of Phylogenetic Trees

DNA sequence data provide a good source of information on the evolutionary history of organisms. Among the proposed methods, the maximum likelihood methods require an explicit probabilistic model of nucleotide substitution that makes the assumption clear. However, procedures for testing hypotheses on topologies have not been well developed. We propose a revised version of the maximum likelihood estimator of a tree and derive some of its properties. Then we present tests to compare given trees and to derive the most likely candidates for the true topology, applying to maximum likelihoods the notion of contrast, as defined in the framework of the analysis of variance, and the procedures used in multiple comparison. Finally, an example is presented.     

Universal Functions on Complex General Linear Groups

In 1929, Birkhoff proved the existence of an entire function F on with the property that for any entire function f there exists a sequence {a_k} of complex numbers such that {F(ζ+a_k)} converges to f (ζ) uniformly on compact sets. Luh proved a variant of Birkhoff's theorem and the second author proved a theorem analogous to that of Luh for the multiplicative group *. In this paper extensions of the above results to the multi-dimensional case are proved. Let M(n,  ) be the set of all square matrices of degree n with complex coefficients, and let G=GL(n,  ) be the general linear group of degree n over . We denote by (G) the set of all holomorphic functions on G. Similarly, we define ( ). Let K be the (G)-hull of a compact set K in G. Finally we denote by B(G) the set of all compact subsets K of G with K=K such that there exists a holomorphic function f on M(n,  ) with f(0)(f(K)), where (f(K)) is the ( )-hull of f(K). Our main result is the following. There exists a holomorphic function F on G such that for any KB(G), for any function f holomorphic in some neighbourhood of K, and for any >0, there exists CG with max_ZK |F(CZ)−f(Z)|<.     

Tangential Boundary Behaviour of Harmonic Functions on Trees

We study the behaviour of harmonic functions on a homogeneous tree from the point of view of the tangential boundary covergence.     

Exchangeable Random Ordered Trees by Positive Definite Functions

We prove that the set of exchangeable random totally ordered trees is a Bauer simplex whose extreme points are the generalized paint-box processes. The method is based on semigroups, analogous to Hirth and Ressel,^{(2, 3)} and is readily also applied to inverse trees.     

Universal Overconvergence of Polynomial Expansions of Harmonic Functions

For each compact subset K of ^N let (K) denote the space of functions that are harmonic on some neighbourhood of K. The space (K) is equipped with the topology of uniform convergence on K. Let Ω be an open subset of ^N such that 0Ω and ^N\Ω is connected. It is shown that there exists a series ∑H_n, where H_n is a homogeneous harmonic polynomial of degree n on ^N, such that (i) ∑H_n converges on some ball of centre 0 to a function that is continuous on Ω and harmonic on Ω, (ii) the partial sums of ∑H_n are dense in (K) for every compact subset K of ^N\Ω with connected complement. Some refinements are given and our results are compared with an analogous theorem concerning overconvergence of power series.     

On the Existence and Structure of Universal Functions

Doklady Mathematics - The existence of functions the Fourier–Walsh series of which are universal in the sense of signs for the class of almost everywhere finite measurable functions, and the...     

Hardy Spaces of Harmonic Functions on Homogeneous Isotropic Trees

A variational method for operator equations of the form Pu + δβ(u) ? f has been given in Dinca [1]. Here P is a (generally) nonlinear operator in a Hilbert space, β: H → ? ∞ is a convex, proper (β ≠ + ∞) and lower-semicontinuous functional and δβ(u) stands for the subdifferential of β at the point u. The present paper has two parts. The first part contents the main results of Dinca [1] without proofs. The second part discusses particular cases and applications to mechanics among which “the climatisation problem for non-linear elliptic equations” and its applications.     

Carleson Measures for Non-negative Subharmonic Functions on Homogeneous Trees

Potential Analysis - In Cohen et al. (Potential Anal. 44(4), 745–766, 2016), we introduced several classes of Carleson-type measures with respect to a radial reference measure σ on a...     

Computability of String Functions Over Algebraic Structures Armin Hemmerling

We present a model of computation for string functions over single-sorted, total algebraic structures and study some basic features of a general theory of computability within this framework. Our concept generalizes the Blum-Shub-Smale setting of computability over the reals and other rings. By dealing with strings of arbitrary length instead of tuples of fixed length, some suppositions of deeper results within former approaches to generalized recursion theory become superfluous. Moreover, this gives the basis for introducing computational complexity in a BSS-like manner. Relationships both to classical computability and to Friedman's concept of eds computability are established. Two kinds of nondeterminism as well as several variants of recognizability are investigated with respect to interdependencies on each other and on properties of the underlying structures. For structures of finite signatures, there are universal programs with the usual characteristics. For the general case of not necessarily finite signature, this subject will be studied in a separate, forthcoming paper.     

Homogeneous Functions Of Modules Over Local Rings,Ii

In this paper we continue our investigation of the transfer of structural information between a module V over a local ring R and its associated near-ring M _r(V) of homogeneous functions. We consider the structure of the subnear-ring Dist(M_r(V)) of distributive elements of M _r(V) and also determine conditions under which every homogeneous function on V _r is locally an R-endomorphism of V.