-convexity of Orlicz-Bochner spaces

A characterization of -convexity of arbitrary Banach space is given. Moreover, it is proved that the Orlicz-Bochner function space is P-convex if and only if both spaces and are -convex. In particular, the Lebesgue-Bochner space with is -convex iff is -convex.

     

Conjugate Hardy's inequalities with decreasing weights

We prove that for a decreasing weight on , the conjugate Hardy transform is bounded on () if and only if it is bounded on the cone of all decreasing functions of . This property does not depend on .

     

On the Deleted Product Criterion For Embeddability in

For a space let . Let act on and on by exchanging factors and antipodes respectively. We present a new short proof of the following theorem by Weber: For an -polyhedron and , if there exists an equivariant map , then is embeddable in . We also prove this theorem for a peanian continuum and . We prove that the theorem is not true for the 3-adic solenoid and .

     

Vector bundles on log terminal varieties

Let be an -dimensional variety and an ample vector bundle on of rank . We give a complete classification of pairs , with log terminal and such that is not ample. The results we obtain were conjectured by Fujita, and recently by Zhang.

     

Asymptotics for Sobolev orthogonal polynomials with coherent pairs: The Jacobi case, type 1

Define and as the th monic orthogonal polynomials with respect to and respectively. The pair is called a coherent pair if there exist non-zero constants such that

One can divide the coherent pairs into two cases: the Jacobi case and the Laguerre case. There are two types for each case: type 1 and 2. We investigate the asymptotic properties and zero distribution of orthogonal polynomials with respect to Sobolev inner product

for the coherent pair : the Jacobi case, type 1.

     

Zero divisors and

Let be a discrete group, the group ring of over and the Lebesgue space of with respect to Haar measure. It is known that if is torsion free elementary amenable, and , then . We will give a sufficient condition for this to be true when , and in the case we will give sufficient conditions for this to be false when .

     

Some extremal problems in

Fix a positive integer and . We provide expressions for the weighted distance

where is normalized Lebesgue measure on the unit circle, is a nonnegative integrable function, and ranges over the trigonometric polynomials with frequencies in

or

These distances are related to other extremal problems, and are shown to be positive if and only if is integrable. In some cases they are expressed in terms of the series coefficients of the outer functions associated with .

     

A decreasing operator function associated with the Furuta inequality

Let with and let and . As a generalization of a result due to Furuta, it is shown that the operator function

is decreasing for and if . Moreover, if and , then is decreasing for and . The latter result is an extension of an earlier result of Furuta.

     

Ideal and subalgebra coefficients

For an ideal or -subalgebra of , consider subfields , where is generated - as ideal or -subalgebra - by polynomials in . It is a standard result for ideals that there is a smallest such . We give an algorithm to find it. We also prove that there is a smallest such for -subalgebras. The ideal results use reduced Gröbner bases. For the subalgebra results we develop and then use subduced SAGBI (bases), the analog to reduced Gröbner bases.

     

Norms of embeddings of logarithmic Bessel potential spaces

Let be a subset of with finite volume, let and let be a Young function with for large . We show that the norm on the Orlicz space is equivalent to

We also obtain estimates of the norms of the embeddings of certain logarithmic Bessel potential spaces in which are sharp in their dependences on provided that is large enough.

     

First order differential operators in white noise analysis

Let be the space of test white noise functionals. We first introduce a family of products on including Wiener and Wick products, and then show that with each product , we can associate a first order differential operator, called a first order -differential operator. We next show that a first order -differential operator is indeed a continuous derivation under the product . We finally characterize by means of rotation-invariance and continuous derivation under the product . Here and are the Gross Laplacian and the number operator on , respectively.

     

A note on Greenberg's conjecture and the abc conjecture

For any totally real number field and any prime number , Greenberg's conjecture for asserts that the Iwasawa invariants and are both zero. For a fixed real abelian field , we prove that the conjecture is ``affirmative' for infinitely many (which split in if we assume the abc conjecture for .

     

Certain invariant subspace structure of

In this note, we study certain structure of an invariant subspace of . Considering the largest -invariant (resp. -invariant) subspace in the wandering subspace of with respect to the shift operator , we give an alternative characterization of Beurling-type invariant subspaces. Furthermore, we consider a certain class of invariant subspaces.

     

Paraexponentials, Muckenhoupt weights, and resolvents of paraproducts

We analyze the stability of Muckenhoupt's and classes of weights under a nonlinear operation, the -operation. We prove that the dyadic doubling reverse Hölder classes are not preserved under the -operation, but the dyadic doubling classes are preserved for . We give an application to the structure of resolvent sets of dyadic paraproduct operators.

     

A note on Kamenev type theorems for second order matrix differential systems

Some oscillation criteria are given for the second order matrix differential system , where and are real continuous matrix functions with symmetric, . These results improve oscillation criteria recently discovered by Erbe, Kong and Ruan by using a generalized Riccati transformation , where is the identity matrix, is a given function on and .

     

Extendibility of homogeneous polynomials on Banach spaces

We study the -homogeneous polynomials on a Banach space that can be extended to any space containing . We show that there is an upper bound on the norm of the extension. We construct a predual for the space of all extendible -homogeneous polynomials on and we characterize the extendible 2-homogeneous polynomials on when is a Hilbert space, an -space or an -space.

     

Banach spaces failing the almost isometric universal extension property

If is an infinite dimensional, separable, uniformly smooth Banach space, then there is an , a Banach space containing as a closed subspace and a norm one map from to a space which does not extend to an operator from to with .

     

Lipschitz images with fractal boundaries and their small surface wrapping

Assume and is a Lipschitz -mapping; and denote the volume and the surface area of . We verify that there exists a figure with , and, of course, , where depends only on the dimension and on . We also give an example when is a square and ; in fact, the boundary of can contain a fractal of Hausdorff dimension exceeding one.

     

Analytic subgroups of the reals

We prove that every analytic proper subgroup of the reals can be covered by an null set. We also construct a proper Borel subgroup of the reals that cannot be covered by countably many sets such that is nowhere dense for every

     

On certain character sums over

Let be the finite field with elements and let denote the ring of polynomials in one variable with coefficients in . Let be a monic polynomial irreducible in . We obtain a bound for the least degree of a monic polynomial irreducible in ( odd) which is a quadratic non-residue modulo . We also find a bound for the least degree of a monic polynomial irreducible in which is a primitive root modulo .