CR extension from hypersurfaces of higher type

We prove extension of CR functions from a hypersurface M of CN in presence of the so-called sector property. If M has finite type in the Bloom-Graham sense, then our result is already contained in [C. Rea, Prolongement holomorphe des fonctions CR, conditions suffisantes, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 297 (1983) 163-166] by Rea. We think however, that the argument of our proof carries an expressive geometric meaning and deserves interest on its own right. Also, our method applies in some case to hypersurfaces of infinite type; note that for these, the classical methods fail. CR extension is treated by many authors mainly in two frames: extension in directions of iterated of commutators of CR vector fields (cf., for instance, [A. Boggess, J. Pitts, CR extension near a point of higher type, Duke Math. J. 52 (1) (1985) 67-102; A. Boggess, J.C. Polking, Holomorphic extension of CR functions, Duke Math. J. 49 (1982) 757-784. [4]; M.S. Baouendi, L. Rothschild, Normal forms for generic manifolds and holomorphic extension of CR functions, J. Differential Geom. 25 (1987) 431-467. [1]]); extension through minimality towards unprecised directions [A.E. Tumanov, Extension of CR-functions into a wedge, Mat. Sb. 181 (7) (1990) 951-964. [6]; A.E. Tumanov, Analytic discs and the extendibility of CR functions, in: Integral Geometry, Radon Transforms and Complex Analysis, Venice, 1996, in: Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 1684, Springer, Berlin, 1998, pp. 123-141].     

Ultradifferentiable functions on smooth plane curves

The regularity, in the sense of ultradifferentiability, of real functions of two variables is determined in terms of the regularity of their restrictions to a given family of smooth plane curves. The special case of line segments reduces to the main result in [Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127 (1999) 2099-2104]. As a consequence, the Bochnak-Siciak theorem on real analyticity is obtained. A formal analog of one of the results provides a generalization of the two-variable case of the Abhyankar and Moh [J. Reine Angew. Math. 241 (1970) 27-33] theorem.     

Factoring and recognition of read-once functions using cographs and normality and the readability of functions associated with partial k-trees

An approach for factoring general boolean functions was described in Golumbic and Mintz [Factoring logic functions using graph partitioning, in: Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, November 1999, pp. 195-198] and Mintz and Golumbic [Factoring Boolean functions using graph partitioning, Discrete Appl. Math. 149 (2005) 131-153] which is based on graph partitioning algorithms. In this paper, we present a very fast algorithm for recognizing and factoring read-once functions which is needed as a dedicated factoring subroutine to handle the lower levels of that factoring process. The algorithm is based on algorithms for cograph recognition and on checking normality.For non-read-once functions, we investigate their factoring based on their corresponding graph classes. In particular, we show that if a function F is normal and its corresponding graph is a partial k-tree, then F is a read 2^k function and a read 2^k formula for F can be obtained in polynomial time.     

On meromorphically harmonic starlike functions with respect to symmetric conjugate points

In a previous paper M.P. Chen, Z.-R. Wu and Z.-Z. Zou [M.P. Chen, Z.-R. Wu, Z.-Z. Zou, On functions α-starlike with respect to symmetric conjugate points, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 201 (1996) 25-34] developed a method, using some operators, to deal with functions analytic and starlike with respect to symmetric conjugate points in the unit disc. Then, the same method is employed to functions meromorphic by Z.Z. Zou and Z.-R. Wu [Zhong Zhu Zou, Zhuo-Ren Wu, On meromorphically starlike functions and functions meromorphically starlike with respect to symmetric conjugate points, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 261 (2001) 17-27]. Now, the method can be employed to functions meromorphic harmonic in the punctured disc 0<|z|<1. Especially, a sharp coefficient estimate and a structural representation of such functions are obtained.     

Sharp approximations to the Bernoulli periodic functions by trigonometric polynomials

We obtain optimal trigonometric polynomials of a given degree N that majorize, minorize and approximate in the Bernoulli periodic functions. These are the periodic analogues of two works of Littmann [F. Littmann, Entire majorants via Euler–Maclaurin summation, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 358 (7) (2006) 2821–2836; F. Littmann, Entire approximations to the truncated powers, Constr. Approx. 22 (2) (2005) 273–295] that generalize a paper of Vaaler [J.D. Vaaler, Some extremal functions in Fourier analysis, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1985) 183–215]. As applications we provide the corresponding Erdös–Turán-type inequalities, approximations to other periodic functions and bounds for certain Hermitian forms.     

Refinable functions with non-integer dilations

Refinable functions and distributions with integer dilations have been studied extensively since the pioneer work of Daubechies on wavelets. However, very little is known about refinable functions and distributions with non-integer dilations, particularly concerning its regularity. In this paper we study the decay of the Fourier transform of refinable functions and distributions. We prove that uniform decay can be achieved for any dilation. This leads to the existence of refinable functions that can be made arbitrarily smooth for any given dilation factor. We exploit the connection between algebraic properties of dilation factors and the regularity of refinable functions and distributions. Our work can be viewed as a continuation of the work of Erdös [P. Erdös, On the smoothness properties of a family of Bernoulli convolutions, Amer. J. Math. 62 (1940) 180-186], Kahane [J.-P. Kahane, Sur la distribution de certaines séries aléatoires, in: Colloque de Théorie des Nombres, Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux, 1969, Mém. Soc. Math. France 25 (1971) 119-122 (in French)] and Solomyak [B. Solomyak, On the random series ∑±λn (an Erdös problem), Ann. of Math. (2) 142 (1995) 611-625] on Bernoulli convolutions. We also construct explicitly a class of refinable functions whose dilation factors are certain algebraic numbers, and whose Fourier transforms have uniform decay. This extends a classical result of Garsia [A.M. Garsia, Arithmetic properties of Bernoulli convolutions, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 102 (1962) 409-432].     

On some applications of the Briot-Bouquet differential subordination

Recently Srivastava et al. [J. Dziok, H.M. Srivastava, Certain subclasses of analytic functions associated with the generalized hypergeometric function, Integral Transforms Spec. Funct. 14 (2003) 7-18; J. Dziok, H.M. Srivastava, Classes of analytic functions associated with the generalized hypergeometric function, Appl. Math. Comput. 103 (1999) 1-13; Y.C. Kim, H.M. Srivastava, Fractional integral and other linear operators associated with the Gaussian hypergeometric function, Complex Var. Theory Appl. 34 (1997) 293-312] introduced and studied a class of analytic functions associated with the generalized hypergeometric function. In the present paper, by using the Briot-Bouquet differential subordination, new results in this class are obtained.     

Sobolev's inequality for Riesz potentials with variable exponent satisfying a log-Hölder condition at infinity

Our aim in this paper is to deal with the boundedness of maximal functions in generalized Lebesgue spaces Lp(⋅) when p(⋅) satisfies a log-Hölder condition at infinity that is weaker than that of Cruz-Uribe, Fiorenza and Neugebauer [D. Cruz-Uribe, A. Fiorenza, C.J. Neugebauer, The maximal function on variable Lp spaces, Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. Math. 28 (2003) 223-238; 29 (2004) 247-249]. Our result extends the recent work of Diening [L. Diening, Maximal functions on generalized Lp(⋅) spaces, Math. Inequal. Appl. 7 (2004) 245-254] and the authors Futamura and Mizuta [T. Futamura, Y. Mizuta, Sobolev embeddings for Riesz potential space of variable exponent, preprint]. As an application of the boundedness of maximal functions, we show Sobolev's inequality for Riesz potentials with variable exponent.     

Continuous ranking of zeros of special functions

We reexamine and continue the work of J. Vosmansky [J. Vosmanský, Zeros of solutions of linear differential equations as continuous functions of the parameter k, in: J. Wiener, J.K. Hale (Eds.), Partial Differential Equations, Proceedings of Conference, Edinburg, TX, 1991, in: Pitman Res. Notes Math. Ser., vol. 273, 1992, pp. 253-257] on the concept of continuous ranking of zeros of certain special functions from the point of view of the transformation theory of second-order linear differential equations. This leads to results on higher monotonicity of such zeros with respect to the rank and to the evaluation of some definite integrals. The applications are to Airy, Bessel and Hermite functions.     

A note on three-parameter families and generalized convex functions

The concept of generalized convex functions introduced by Beckenbach [E.F. Beckenbach, Generalized convex functions, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (1937) 363–371] is extended to the two-dimensional case. Using three-parameter families, we define generalized convex (midconvex, M-convex) functions and show some continuity properties of them.     

On the Characterization of Preinvex Functions

In Refs. [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 258:287–308, [2001]; J. Math. Anal. Appl. 256:229–241, [2001]], Yang and Li presented a characterization of preinvex functions and semistrictly preinvex functions under a certain set of conditions. In this note, we show that the same results or even more general ones can be obtained under weaker assumptions; we also give a characterization of strictly preinvex functions under mild conditions. This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 70671064 and 60673177, and the Education Department Foundation of Zhejiang Province Grant 20070306. The authors thank Professor F. Giannessi for valuable comments on the original version of this paper.     

Criteria for univalence of the Dziok-Srivastava and the Srivastava-Wright operators in the class A

In the geometric function theory (GFT) much attention is paid to various linear integral operators mapping the class S of the univalent functions and its subclasses into themselves. In [12] and [13] Hohlov obtained sufficient conditions that guarantee such mappings for the operator defined by means of Hadamard product with the Gauss hypergeometric function. In our earlier papers as [20], [19], [17] and [18], etc., we extended his method to the operators of the generalized fractional calculus (GFC, [16]). These operators have product functions of the forms _m+1F_m and _m+1Ψ_m and integral representations by means of the Meijer G- and Fox H-functions. Here we propose sufficient conditions that guarantee mapping of the univalent, respectively of the convex functions, into univalent functions in the case of the celebrated Dziok-Srivastava operator ([8] : J. Dziok, H.M. Srivastava, Classes of analytic functions associated with the generalized hypergeometric function, Appl. Math. Comput.103, No 1 (1999), pp. 1-13) defined as a Hadamard product with an arbitrary generalized hypergeometric function _pF_q. Similar conditions are suggested also for its extension involving the Wright _pΨ_q-function and called the Srivastava-Wright operator (Srivastava, [36]). Since the discussed operators include the above-mentioned GFC operators and many their particular cases (operators of the classical FC), from the results proposed here one can derive univalence criteria for many named operators in the GFT, as the operators of Hohlov, Carlson and Shaffer, Saigo, Libera, Bernardi, Erdélyi-Kober, etc., by giving particular values to the orders p ? q + 1 of the generalized hypergeometric functions and to their parameters.     

Canonical basis linearity regions arising from quiver representations

In this paper we show that there is a link between the combinatorics of the canonical basis of a quantized enveloping algebra and the monomial bases of the second author [Math. Z. 237 (2001) 639] arising from representations of quivers. We prove that some reparametrization functions of the canonical basis, arising from the link between Lusztig's approach to the canonical basis and the string parametrization of the canonical basis, are given on a large cone by linear functions arising from these monomial bases for a quantized enveloping algebra.     

On a question of Gross

Using the notion of weighted sharing of sets we prove two uniqueness theorems which improve the results proved by Fang and Qiu [H. Qiu, M. Fang, A unicity theorem for meromorphic functions, Bull. Malaysian Math. Sci. Soc. 25 (2002) 31-38], Lahiri and Banerjee [I. Lahiri, A. Banerjee, Uniqueness of meromorphic functions with deficient poles, Kyungpook Math. J. 44 (2004) 575-584] and Yi and Lin [H.X. Yi, W.C. Lin, Uniqueness theorems concerning a question of Gross, Proc. Japan Acad. Ser. A 80 (2004) 136-140] and thus provide an answer to the question of Gross [F. Gross, Factorization of meromorphic functions and some open problems, in: Proc. Conf. Univ. Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 1976, in: Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 599, Springer, Berlin, 1977, pp. 51-69], under a weaker hypothesis.     

Magic determinants of Somos sequences and theta functions

By means of an almost trivial statement of matrix algebra, we prove two conjectures proposed by Gosper and Schroeppel [R.W. Gosper, R. Schroeppel, Somos sequence near-addition formulas and modular theta functions, arXiv:math.NT/0703470v1, 15 March 2007.] on near-addition formulas for 4- and 5-Somos sequences. A simplified proof for an elliptic analogue of this conjecture recently shown by Cooper and Toh in [S. Cooper, P.C. Toh, Determinant identities for theta functions, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 347 (2008) 1-7] is also presented.     

On vector variational-like inequality problems

In this paper, we establish some relationships between vector variational-like inequality and vector optimization problems under the assumptions of α-invex functions. We identify the vector critical points, the weakly efficient points and the solutions of the weak vector variational-like inequality problems, under pseudo-α-invexity assumptions. These conditions are more general than those of existing ones in the literature. In particular, this work extends the earlier work of Ruiz-Garzon et al. [G. Ruiz-Garzon, R. Osuna-Gomez, A. Rufian-Lizan, Relationships between vector variational-like inequality and optimization problems, European J. Oper. Res. 157 (2004) 113-119] to a wider class of functions, namely the pseudo-α-invex functions studied in a recent work of Noor [M.A. Noor, On generalized preinvex functions and monotonicities, J. Inequal. Pure Appl. Math. 5 (2004) 1-9].     

Notes on generalization of the Bernoulli type polynomials

Recently, Srivastava et al. introduced a new generalization of the Bernoulli, Euler and Genocchi polynomials (see [H.M. Srivastava, M. Garg, S. Choudhary, Russian J. Math. Phys. 17 (2010) 251-261] and [H.M. Srivastava, M. Garg, S. Choudhary, Taiwanese J. Math. 15 (2011) 283-305]). They established several interesting properties of these general polynomials, the generalized Hurwitz-Lerch zeta functions and also in series involving the familiar Gaussian hypergeometric function. By the same motivation of Srivastava’s et al. [11] and [12], we introduce and derive multiplication formula and some identities related to the generalized Bernoulli type polynomials of higher order associated with positive real parameters a, b and c. We also establish multiple alternating sums in terms of these polynomials. Moreover, by differentiating the generating function of these polynomials, we give a interpolation function of these polynomials.     

Uniqueness and value-sharing of entire functions

In this paper, we study the uniqueness problems on entire functions sharing one value with the same multiplicities. We generalize and unify some previous results of Fang and Hua [M.L. Fang, X.H. Hua, Entire functions that share one value, J. Nanjing Univ. Math. Biquarterly 13 (1) (1996) 44-48], Yang and Hua [C.C. Yang, X.H. Hua, Uniqueness and value-sharing of meromorphic functions, Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. Math. 22 (2) (1997) 395-406] and Fang [M.L. Fang, Uniqueness and value-sharing of entire functions, Comput. Math. Appl. 44 (2002) 828-831].     

Applications of minor summation formula III, Plücker relations, lattice paths and Pfaffian identities

The initial purpose of the present paper is to provide a combinatorial proof of the minor summation formula of Pfaffians in [Ishikawa, Wakayama, Minor summation formula of Pfaffians, Linear and Multilinear Algebra 39 (1995) 285-305] based on the lattice path method. The second aim is to study applications of the minor summation formula for obtaining several identities. Especially, a simple proof of Kawanaka's formula concerning a q-series identity involving the Schur functions [Kawanaka, A q-series identity involving Schur functions and related topics, Osaka J. Math. 36 (1999) 157-176] and of the identity in [Kawanaka, A q-Cauchy identity involving Schur functions and imprimitive complex reflection groups, Osaka J. Math. 38 (2001) 775-810] which is regarded as a determinant version of the previous one are given.     

Unicity of meromorphic functions concerning derivatives-differences and small functions

In this paper, we mainly prove: Let $f$ be a transcendental entire function of finite order with a Borel exceptional entire small function $a$, and let $\eta$ be a nonzero finite complex number such that $\Delta^{n+1}\eta f\not \equiv0$. If $\Delta^{n+1}_\eta f$ and $\Delta^n_\eta f$ share $b$ CM, where $b$ is a small function of $f$, then $f(z)=a(z)+Be^{Az},$ where $A$ and $B$ are two nonzero constants and $a(z)$ is a polynomial with $\deg a\leq n-1$. This improves the results due to Chen and Zhang [Ann. Math. Ser. A (Chinese version) 2021] and Liu and Chen [J. Korean Soc. Math. Educ. Ser. B: Pure Apple. Math. 2023]. Meanwhile, we give negative answer to the problems posed by Chen and Xu [Comput. Methods Funct. Theory, 2022], Banerjee and Maity [Bull. Korean Math. Soc., 2021].