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Let n and s be integers such that \(1\le s<\frac{n}{2}\), and let \(M_n(\mathbb {K})\) be the ring of all \(n\times n\) matrices over a field \(\mathbb {K}\). Denote by \([\frac{n}{s}]\) the least integer m with \(m\ge \frac{n}{s}\). In this short note, it is proved that if \(g:M_n(\mathbb {K})\rightarrow M_n(\mathbb {K})\) is a map such that \(g\left( \sum _{i=1}^{[\frac{n}{s}]}A_i\right) =\sum _{i=1}^{[\frac{n}{s}]}g(A_i)\) holds for any \([\frac{n}{s}]\) rank-s matrices \(A_1,\ldots ,A_{[\frac{n}{s}]}\in M_n(\mathbb {K})\), then \(g(x)=f(x)+g(0)\), \(x\in M_n(\mathbb {K})\), for some additive map \(f:M_n(\mathbb {K})\rightarrow M_n(\mathbb {K})\). Particularly, g is additive if \(char\mathbb {K}\not \mid \left( [\frac{n}{s}]-1\right) \).     

Some estimates for the Schrödinger type operators with nonnegative potentials

In this paper we consider the Schrödinger operator ?Δ + V on \({\mathbb R^d}\), where the nonnegative potential V belongs to the reverse Hölder class \({B_{q_{_1}}}\) for some \({q_{_1}\geq \frac{d}{2}}\) with d ≥ 3. Let \({H^1_L(\mathbb R^d)}\) denote the Hardy space related to the Schrödinger operator L = ?Δ + V and \({BMO_L(\mathbb R^d)}\) be the dual space of \({H^1_L(\mathbb R^d)}\). We show that the Schrödinger type operator \({\nabla(-\Delta +V)^{-\beta}}\) is bounded from \({H^1_L(\mathbb R^d)}\) into \({L^p(\mathbb R^d)}\) for \({p=\frac{d}{d-(2\beta-1)}}\) with \({ \frac{1}{2}<\beta<\frac{3}{2} }\) and that it is also bounded from \({L^p(\mathbb R^d)}\) into \({BMO_L(\mathbb R^d)}\) for \({p=\frac{d}{2\beta-1}}\) with \({ \frac{1}{2}<\beta< 2}\).     

Eichler’s commutation relation and some other invariant subspaces of Hecke operators

Let k be an odd positive integer, L a lattice on a regular positive definite k-dimensional quadratic space over \(\mathbb {Q}\), \(N_L\) the level of L, and \(\mathscr {M}(L)\)  be the linear space of \(\theta \)-series attached to the distinct classes in the genus of L. We prove that, for an odd prime \(p|N_L\), if \(L_p=L_{p,1}\,\bot \, L_{p,2}\), where \(L_{p,1}\) is unimodular, \(L_{p,2}\) is (p)-modular, and \(\mathbb {Q}_pL_{p,2}\) is anisotropic, then \(\mathscr {M}(L;p):=\) \(\mathscr {M}(L)\) \(+T_{p^2}.\) \(\mathscr {M}(L)\)  is stable under the Hecke operator \(T_{p^2}\). If \(L_2\) is isometric to \(\left( \begin{array}{ll}0&{}\frac{1}{2}\\ \frac{1}{2}&{}0\end{array}\right) ^{\kappa }\,\bot \, \langle \varepsilon \rangle \) or \(\left( \begin{array}{ll}0&{}\frac{1}{2}\\ \frac{1}{2}&{}0\end{array}\right) ^{\kappa }\,\bot \, \langle 2\varepsilon \rangle \) or \(\left( \begin{array}{ll}0&{}1\\ 1&{}0\end{array}\right) ^{\kappa }\,\bot \, \langle \varepsilon \rangle \) with \(\varepsilon \in \mathbb {Z}_2^{\times }\) and \(\kappa :=\frac{k-1}{2}\), then \(\mathscr {M}(L;2):=T_{2^2}.\mathscr {M}(L)+T_{2^2}^2.\,\mathscr {M}(L)\) is stable under the Hecke operator \(T_{2^2}\). Furthermore, we determine some invariant subspaces of the cusp forms for the Hecke operators.     

Some Estimates of Higher Order Riesz Transform Related to Schrödinger Type Operators

In this paper we consider the Schrödinger type operators \(H_2=(-\Delta)^2 +V^2\), where the nonnegative potential V belongs to the reverse Hölder class \(B_{q_{_1}}\) for \(q_{_1}\geq \frac{n}{2}, n\geq 5\). The L ^p and weak type (1, 1) estimates of higher order Riesz transform \(\nabla^2H^{-\frac{1}{2}}_2 \) related to Schrödinger type operators H ₂ are obtained. In particular, \(\nabla^2H^{-\frac{1}{2}}_2 \) is a Calderón-Zygmund operator if V?∈?B _2n or \(V\in B_\frac{n}{2}\) and there exists a constant C such that V(x)?≤?Cm(x,V)².     

Construction of sign-changing solutions for a harmonic equation with subcritical exponent

In this paper, we study the harmonic equation involving subcritical exponent \((P_{\varepsilon })\): \( \Delta u = 0 \), in \(\mathbb {B}^n\) and \(\displaystyle \frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu } + \displaystyle \frac{n-2}{2}u = \displaystyle \frac{n-2}{2} K u^{\frac{n}{n-2}-\varepsilon }\) on \( \mathbb {S}^{n-1}\) where \(\mathbb {B}^n \) is the unit ball in \(\mathbb {R}^n\), \(n\ge 5\) with Euclidean metric \(g_0\), \(\partial \mathbb {B}^n = \mathbb {S}^{n-1}\) is its boundary, K is a function on \(\mathbb {S}^{n-1}\) and \(\varepsilon \) is a small positive parameter. We construct solutions of the subcritical equation \((P_{\varepsilon })\) which blow up at two different critical points of K. Furthermore, we construct solutions of \((P_{\varepsilon })\) which have two bubbles and blow up at the same critical point of K.     

On the Number of Ordinary Circles Determined by <Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis> Points

In this paper we deal with the following problem: Given a set B consisting of n points, not all on a line or a circle. A circle passes through exactly three points of B is called an ordinary circle. What is the minimal possible number of ordinary circles determined by B? In this paper we improve the best-known lower bound \(\frac{22}{247}{n\choose2}\) to \(\frac{1}{9}{n\choose2}\).     

Fractional Differentiability for Solutions of Nonlinear Elliptic Equations

We study nonlinear elliptic equations in divergence form

$$\text {div }{\mathcal A}(x,Du)=\text {div } G.$$

When \({\mathcal A}\) has linear growth in D u, and assuming that \(x\mapsto {\mathcal A}(x,\xi )\) enjoys \(B^{\alpha }_{\frac {n}\alpha , q}\) smoothness, local well-posedness is found in \(B^{\alpha }_{p,q}\) for certain values of \(p\in [2,\frac {n}{\alpha })\) and \(q\in [1,\infty ]\). In the particular case \({\mathcal A}(x,\xi )=A(x)\xi \), G = 0 and \(A\in B^{\alpha }_{\frac {n}\alpha ,q}\), \(1\leq q\leq \infty \), we obtain \(Du\in B^{\alpha }_{p,q}\) for each \(p<\frac {n}\alpha \). Our main tool in the proof is a more general result, that holds also if \({\mathcal A}\) has growth s?1 in D u, 2 ≤ s ≤ n, and asserts local well-posedness in L ^q for each q > s, provided that \(x\mapsto {\mathcal A}(x,\xi )\) satisfies a locally uniform VMO condition.

     

Numerical semigroups whose fractions are of maximal embedding dimension

Each saturated (resp., Arf) numerical semigroup S has the property that each of its fractions \(\frac{S}{k}\) is saturated (resp., Arf), but the property of being of maximal embedding dimension (MED) is not stable under formation of fractions. If S is a numerical semigroup, then S is MED (resp., Arf; resp., saturated) if and only if, for each 2≤k∈?, \(S = \frac{T}{k}\) for infinitely many MED (resp., Arf; resp., saturated) numerical semigroups T. Let \(\mathcal{A}\) (resp., \(\mathcal{F}\)) be the class of Arf numerical semigroups (resp., of numerical semigroups each of whose fractions is of maximal embedding dimension). Then there exists an infinite strictly ascending chain \(\mathcal{A} =\mathcal{C}_{1} \subset\mathcal{C}_{2} \subset\mathcal{C}_{3}\subset \,\cdots\, \subset\mathcal{F}\), where, like \(\mathcal{A}\) and \(\mathcal{F}\), each \(\mathcal{C}_{n}\) is stable under the formation of fractions.     

Partial permutation decoding for binary linear and $$Z_4$$-linear Hadamard codes

In this paper, s-\({\text {PD}}\)-sets of minimum size \(s+1\) for partial permutation decoding for the binary linear Hadamard code \(H_m\) of length \(2^m\), for all \(m\ge 4\) and \(2 \le s \le \lfloor {\frac{2^m}{1+m}}\rfloor -1\), are constructed. Moreover, recursive constructions to obtain s-\({\text {PD}}\)-sets of size \(l\ge s+1\) for \(H_{m+1}\) of length \(2^{m+1}\), from an s-\({\text {PD}}\)-set of the same size for \(H_m\), are also described. These results are generalized to find s-\({\text {PD}}\)-sets for the \({\mathbb {Z}}_4\)-linear Hadamard codes \(H_{\gamma , \delta }\) of length \(2^m\), \(m=\gamma +2\delta -1\), which are binary Hadamard codes (not necessarily linear) obtained as the Gray map image of quaternary linear codes of type \(2^\gamma 4^\delta \). Specifically, s-PD-sets of minimum size \(s+1\) for \(H_{\gamma , \delta }\), for all \(\delta \ge 3\) and \(2\le s \le \lfloor {\frac{2^{2\delta -2}}{\delta }}\rfloor -1\), are constructed and recursive constructions are described.     

An asymptotic formula for the primitive of Hardy’s function

Let Z(t) be the classical Hardy function in the theory of Riemann’s zeta-function. An asymptotic formula with an error term O(T ^1/6log?T) is given for the integral of Z(t) over the interval [0,T], with special attention paid to the critical cases when the fractional part of \(\sqrt{T/2\pi }\) is close to \(\frac{1}{4}\) or \(\frac{3}{4}\).     

On the estimates of the upper and lower bounds of Ramanujan primes

For \(n\ge 1\), the nth Ramanujan prime is defined as the least positive integer \(R_{n}\) such that for all \(x\ge R_{n}\), the interval \((\frac{x}{2}, x]\) has at least n primes. Let \(p_{i}\) be the ith prime and \(R_{n}=p_{s}\). Sondow, Laishram, and other scholars gave a series of upper bounds of s. In this paper we establish several results giving estimates of upper and lower bounds of Ramanujan primes. Using these estimates, we discuss a conjecture on Ramanujan primes of Sondow–Nicholson–Noe and prove that if \(n>10^{300}\), then \(\pi (R_{mn})\le m\pi (R_{n})\) for \(m\ge 1\).     

Single and Double Layer Potentials on Domains with Conical Points I: Straight Cones

Let \({\Omega = \mathbb{R}^+ \omega}\) be an open straight cone in \({\mathbb{R}^n, n\geq3}\) , where \({\omega \subset S^{n-1}}\) is a smooth subdomain of the unit sphere. Denote by K and S the double and single layer potential operators associated to Ω and the Laplace operator Δ. Let r be the distance to the origin. We consider a natural class of dilation invariant operators on ?Ω, called Mellin convolution operators and show that \({K_a :=r^{a}Kr^{-a}}\) and \({S_b := r^{b-\frac{1}{2}}Sr^{-b-\frac{1}{2}}}\) are Mellin convolution operators for \({a \in (-1, n-1)}\) and \({b \in (\frac{1}{2}, n-\frac{3}{2})}\) . It is known that a Mellin convolution operator T is invertible if, and only if, its Mellin transform \({\hat T( \lambda)}\) is invertible for any real λ. We establish a reduction procedure that relates the Mellin transforms of K _a and S _b to the single and, respectively, double layer potential operators associated to some other elliptic operators on ω, which can be shown to be invertible using the classical theory of layer potential operators on smooth domains. This reduction procedure thus allows us to prove that \({\frac{1}{2}\pm K}\) and S are invertible between suitable weighted Sobolev spaces. A classical consequence of the invertibility of these operators is a solvability result in weighted Sobolev spaces for the Dirichlet problem on Ω.     

Goldbach’s conjecture in arithmetic progressions: number and size of exceptional prime moduli

Set \({T=N^{\frac{1}{3}-\epsilon}}\). It is proved that for all but \({\ll TL^{-H},\,H > 0}\), exceptional prime numbers \({k\leq T}\) and almost all integers b ₁, b ₂ co-prime to k, almost all integers \({n\sim N}\) satisfying \({n\equiv b_{1}+b_{2}(mod\,k)}\) can be written as the sum of two primes p ₁ and p ₂ satisfying \({p_{i}\equiv b_{i}(mod\,k),\,i=1,2}\). For prime numbers \({k\leq N^{\frac{5}{24}-\epsilon}}\), this result is even true for all but \({\ll (\log\,N)^{D}}\) primes k and all integers b ₁, b ₂ co-prime to k.     

A Neighborhood Union Condition for Fractional ID-[<Emphasis Type="Italic">a</Emphasis>, <Emphasis Type="Italic">b</Emphasis>]-factor-critical Graphs

Let a, b, r be nonnegative integers with \(1\leq{a}\leq{b}\) and \(r\geq2\). Let G be a graph of order n with \(n >\frac{(a+2b)(r(a+b)-2)}{b}\). In this paper, we prove that G is fractional ID-[a, b]-factor-critical if \(\delta(G)\geq\frac{bn}{a+2b}+a(r-1)\) and \(\mid N_{G}(x_{1}) \cup N_{G}(x_{2}) \cup \cdotp \cdotp \cdotp \cup N_{G}(x_{r})\mid\geq\frac{(a+b)n}{a+2b}\) for any independent subset {x₁, x₂, · · ·, x_r} in G. It is a generalization of Zhou et al.’s previous result [Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory, 36: 409–418 (2016)] in which r = 2 is discussed. Furthermore, we show that this result is best possible in some sense.     

The first moment of central values of symmetric square <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis>-functions in the weight aspect

We establish an asymptotic formula with arbitrary power saving for the first moment of the symmetric square L-functions \(L(s,\mathrm{sym}^2f)\) at \(s=\frac{1}{2}\) for \(f\in \mathcal {H}_k\) as even \(k\rightarrow \infty \), where \(\mathcal {H}_k\) is an orthogonal basis of weight-k Hecke eigen cusp forms for \(SL(2,\mathbb {Z})\). The approach taken allows us to extract two secondary main terms from the best-known error term \(O(k^{-\frac{1}{2}})\). Moreover, our result exhibits a connection between the symmetric square L-functions and quadratic fields, which is the main theme of Zagier’s work Modular forms whose coefficients involve zeta-functions of quadratic fields in 1977.     

Power Laws Variance Scaling of Boolean Random Varieties

Long fibers or stratified media show very long range correlations. These media can be simulated by models of Boolean random varieties and their iteration. They show non standard scaling laws with respect to the volume of domains K for the variance of the local volume fraction: on a large scale, the variance of the local volume fraction decreases according to power laws of the volume of K. The exponent γ is equal to \(\frac {n-k}{n}\) for Boolean varieties with dimension k in the space \( \mathbb {R}^{n}\): \(\gamma =\frac {2}{3}\) for Boolean fibers in 3D, and \(\gamma =\frac {1}{3}\) for Boolean strata in 3D. When working in 2D, the scaling exponent of Boolean fibers is equal to \(\frac {1}{2}\). From the results of numerical simulations, these scaling laws are expected to hold for the prediction of the effective properties of such random media.     

Stable CLTs and Rates for Power Variation of <Emphasis Type="Italic">α</Emphasis>-Stable Lévy Processes

In a central limit type result it has been shown that the pth power variations of an α-stable Lévy process along sequences of equidistant partitions of a given time interval have \(\frac{\alpha}{p}\)-stable limits. In this paper we give precise orders of convergence for the distances of the approximate power variations computed for partitions with mesh of order \(\frac{1}{n}\) and the limiting law, measured in terms of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov metric. In case 2α?<?p the convergence rate is seen to be of order \(\frac{1}{n}\), in case α?<?p?<?2α the order is \(n^{1-\frac{p}{\alpha}}.\)     

Local Inverse Scattering at a Fixed Energy for Radial Schrödinger Operators and Localization of the Regge Poles

We study inverse scattering problems at a fixed energy for radial Schrödinger operators on \({\mathbb{R}^n}\), \({n \geq 2}\). First, we consider the class \({\mathcal{A}}\) of potentials q(r) which can be extended analytically in \({\Re z \geq 0}\) such that \({\mid q(z)\mid \leq C \ (1+ \mid z \mid )^{-\rho}}\), \({\rho > \frac{3}{2}}\). If q and \({\tilde{q}}\) are two such potentials and if the corresponding phase shifts \({\delta_l}\) and \({\tilde{\delta}_l}\) are super-exponentially close, then \({q=\tilde{q}}\). Second, we study the class of potentials q(r) which can be split into q(r) = q ₁(r) + q ₂(r) such that q ₁(r) has compact support and \({q_2 (r) \in \mathcal{A}}\). If q and \({\tilde{q}}\) are two such potentials, we show that for any fixed \({a>0, {\delta_l - \tilde{\delta}_l \ = \ o \left(\frac{1}{l^{n-3}}\ \left({\frac{ae}{2l}}\right)^{2l}\right)}}\) when \({l \rightarrow +\infty}\) if and only if \({q(r)=\tilde{q}(r)}\) for almost all \({r \geq a}\). The proofs are close in spirit with the celebrated Borg–Marchenko uniqueness theorem, and rely heavily on the localization of the Regge poles that could be defined as the resonances in the complexified angular momentum plane. We show that for a non-zero super-exponentially decreasing potential, the number of Regge poles is always infinite and moreover, the Regge poles are not contained in any vertical strip in the right-half plane. For potentials with compact support, we are able to give explicitly their asymptotics. At last, for potentials which can be extended analytically in \({\Re z \geq 0}\) with \({\mid q(z)\mid \leq C (1+ \mid z \mid)^{-\rho}}\), \({\rho >1}\), we show that the Regge poles are confined in a vertical strip in the complex plane.     

Riesz Transform Characterizations of Hardy Spaces Associated to Degenerate Elliptic Operators

Let \({L_{w}}{:=-w^{-1}{\rm div}(A\nabla)}\) be the degenerate elliptic operator on the Euclidean space \({{\mathbb{R}^{n}}}\), where w is a Muckenhoupt \({A_{2}({\mathbb{R}^{n}})}\) weight. In this article, the authors establish the Riesz transform characterization of the Hardy space \({H^{p}_{L_{w}}({\mathbb{R}}^{n})}\) associated with L_w, for \({w \in A_{q}({\mathbb{R}}^{n}) \cap RH_{\frac{n}{n-2}}({\mathbb{R}^{n}})}\) with \({n \geq 3}\), \({q \in [1,2]}\) and \({p \in (q(\frac{1}{r}+\frac{q-1}{2}+\frac{1}{n})^{-1},1]}\) if, for some \({r \in (1,\,2]}\), \({{\{tL_w e^{-tL_w}\}}_{t\geq 0}}\) satisfies the weighted \({L^{r}-L^{2}}\) full off-diagonal estimates.     

Parity check matrices and product representations of squares

Let \(N_{\mathbb{F}} \)(n,k,r) denote the maximum number of columns in an n-row matrix with entries in a finite field \(\mathbb{F}\) in which each column has at most r nonzero entries and every k columns are linearly independent over \(\mathbb{F}\). We obtain near-optimal upper bounds for \(N_{\mathbb{F}} \)(n,k,r) in the case k > r. Namely, we show that \(N_\mathbb{F} (n,k,r) \ll n^{\frac{r}{2} + \frac{{cr}}{k}} \) where \(c \approx \frac{4}{3}\) for large k. Our method is based on a novel reduction of the problem to the extremal problem for cycles in graphs, and yields a fast algorithm for finding short linear dependencies. We present additional applications of this method to a problem on hypergraphs and a problem in combinatorial number theory.