On some hypersurfaces of the homogeneous nearly Kähler

In this paper, we study hypersurfaces of the homogeneous nearly Kähler manifold with typical properties. We first show that in the NK there exist neither totally umbilical hypersurfaces nor hypersurfaces of parallel second fundamental form. Then we investigate hypersurfaces of such that its shape operator A and induced almost contact structure ϕ satisfy the condition , and as the main result, a complete classification of this remarkable family of hypersurfaces in is presented.     

New gap results on the 4‐dimensional sphere

A result showed by M. Gursky in 4 ensures that any metric g on the 4‐dimensional sphere satisfying and is isometric to the round metric. In this note, we prove that there exists a universal number i ₀ such that any metric g on the 4‐dimensional sphere satisfying and is isometric to the round metric. Moreover, there exists a universal such that any metric g on the 4‐dimensional sphere with nonnegative sectional curvature, and is isometric to the round metric. This last result slightly improves a rigidity theorem also proved in 4 .     

New minimal hypersurfaces in and

We find a class of minimal hypersurfaces as the zero level set of Pfaffians, resp. determinants of real dimensional antisymmetric matrices. While and are congruent to the quadratic cone resp. Hsiang's cubic invariant in , (special harmonic ‐invariant cones of degree ⩾4) seem to be new.     

Low dimensional instability for quasilinear problems of weighted exponential nonlinearity

We prove a sharp Liouville type theorem for stable solutions of the equation on the entire Euclidean space , where and f is a continuous and nonnegative function in such that as , where and . Our theorem holds true for and is sharp in the case .     

On a generalized nonlinear heat equation in Besov and Triebel–Lizorkin spaces

The paper deals with solutions of the Cauchy problem of a nonlinear generalized heat equation in the context of Besov and Triebel–Lizorkin spaces and where and with initial data belonging to some spaces where and .     

Concave univalent functions and Dirichlet finite integral

The article deals with the class consisting of non‐vanishing functions f that are analytic and univalent in such that the complement is a convex set, and the angle at ∞ is less than or equal to for some . Related to this class is the class of concave univalent mappings in , but this differs from with the standard normalization A number of properties of these classes are discussed which includes an easy proof of the coefficient conjecture for settled by Avkhadiev et al. 3 . Moreover, another interesting result connected with the Yamashita conjecture on Dirichlet finite integral for is also presented.     

Boundedness in a fully parabolic chemotaxis‐consumption system with nonlinear diffusion and sensitivity,and logistic source

In this paper we study the zero‐flux chemotaxis‐system Ω being a convex smooth and bounded domain of , , and where , and . For any the chemotactic sensitivity function is assumed to behave as the prototype , with and . We prove that for nonnegative and sufficiently regular initial data and , the corresponding initial‐boundary value problem admits a unique globally bounded classical solution provided μ is large enough.     

Hardy spaces for Bessel–Schrödinger operators

Consider the Bessel operator with a potential on , namely We assume that and is a nonnegative function. By definition, a function belongs to the Hardy space if Under certain assumptions on V we characterize the space in terms of atomic decompositions of local type. In the second part we prove that this characterization can be applied to for with no additional assumptions on the potential V.     

Four‐dimensional contact ‐submanifolds in

The analogue of ‐submanifolds in (almost) Kählerian manifolds is the concept of contact ‐submanifolds in Sasakian manifolds. These are submanifolds for which the structure vector field ξ is tangent to the submanifold and for which the tangent bundle of M can be decomposed as , where is invariant with respect to the endomorphism φ and is antiinvariant with respect to φ. The lowest possible dimension for M in which this decomposition is non trivial is the dimension 4. In this paper we obtain a complete classification of four‐dimensional contact ‐submanifolds in and for which the second fundamental form restricted to and vanishes identically.     

On Fejér's inequalities for the Legendre polynomials

We present various inequalities for the sum where denotes the Legendre polynomial of degree k . Among others we prove that the inequalities hold for all and . The constant factors 2/5 and are sharp. This refines a classical result of Fejér, who proved in 1908 that is nonnegative for all and .     

CMC hypersurfaces with canonical principal direction in space forms

A hypersurface of the space form has a canonical principal direction (CPD) relative to the closed and conformal vector field Z of if the projection of Z to M is a principal direction of M . We show that CPD hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature are foliated by isoparametric hypersurfaces. In particular, we show that a CPD surface with constant mean curvature of space form is invariant by the flow of a Killing vector field whose action is polar on . As consequence we show that a compact CPD minimal surface of the sphere is a Clifford torus. Finally, we consider the case when a CPD Euclidean hypersurface has zero Gauss–Kronecker curvature.     

Some characterizations of BLO space

For , a real‐valued function belongs to space if In this paper, we establish a version of John–Nirenberg inequality suitable for the space with . As a corollary, it is proved that spaces are independent of the scale in sense of norm. Also, we characterize the space through weighted Lebesgue spaces and variable Lebesgue spaces, respectively.     

Flat connections and cohomology invariants

The main goal of this article is to construct some geometric invariants for the topology of the set of flat connections on a principal G‐bundle . Although the characteristic classes of principal bundles are trivial when , their classical Chern–Weil construction can still be exploited to define a homomorphism from the set of homology classes of maps to the cohomology group , where S is null‐cobordant ‐manifold, once a G‐invariant polynomial p of degree r on is fixed. For , this gives a homomorphism . The map is shown to be globally gauge invariant and furthermore it descends to the moduli space of flat connections , modulo cohomology with integer coefficients. The construction is also adapted to complex manifolds. In this case, one works with the set of connections with vanishing (0, 2)‐part of the curvature, and the Dolbeault cohomology. Some examples and applications are presented.     

Boundedness and compactness of Hardy operators on Lorentz‐type spaces

Given non‐negative measurable functions on we study the high dimensional Hardy operator between Orlicz–Lorentz spaces , where f is a measurable function of and is the ball of radius t in . We give sufficient conditions of boundedness of and . We investigate also boundedness and compactness of between weighted and classical Lorentz spaces. The function spaces considered here do not need to be Banach spaces. Specifying the weights and the Orlicz functions we recover the existing results as well as we obtain new results in the new and old settings.     

Ridigity of Ricci solitons with weakly harmonic Weyl tensors

In this paper, we prove rigidity results on gradient shrinking or steady Ricci solitons with weakly harmonic Weyl curvature tensors. Let be a compact gradient shrinking Ricci soliton satisfying with constant. We show that if satisfies , then is Einstein. Here denotes the Weyl curvature tensor. In the case of noncompact, if M is complete and satisfies the same condition, then M is rigid in the sense that M is given by a quotient of product of an Einstein manifold with Euclidean space. These are generalizations of the previous known results in 10 , 14 and 19 . Finally, we prove that if is a complete noncompact gradient steady Ricci soliton satisfying , and if the scalar curvature attains its maximum at some point in the interior of M, then either is flat or isometric to a Bryant Ricci soliton. The final result can be considered as a generalization of main result in 3 .     

Spectral gaps for the Dirichlet‐Laplacian in a 3‐D waveguide periodically perturbed by a family of concentrated masses

We consider a spectral problem for the Laplace operator in a periodic waveguide perturbed by a family of “heavy concentrated masses”; namely, Π contains small regions of high density, which are periodically distributed along the z axis. Each domain has a diameter and the density takes the value in and 1 outside; m and ε are positive parameters, , . Considering a Dirichlet boundary condition, we study the band‐gap structure of the essential spectrum of the corresponding operator as . We provide information on the width of the first bands and find asymptotic formulas for the localization of the possible gaps.     

Littlewood–Paley characterizations of higher‐order Sobolev spaces via averages on balls

In this article, the authors characterize higher‐order Sobolev spaces , with , and , or with , and , via the Lusin area function and the Littlewood–Paley ‐function in terms of ball averages, where denotes the maximal integer not greater than . Moreover, the authors also complement the above results in the endpoint cases of p via establishing some weak type estimates. These improve and develop the corresponding known results for Sobolev spaces with smoothness order .     

The Brezis–Nirenberg problem for fractional elliptic operators

Let be a uniformly elliptic operator in divergence form in a bounded open subset Ω of . We study the effect of the operator on the existence and nonexistence of positive solutions of the nonlocal Brezis–Nirenberg problem where denotes the fractional power of with zero Dirichlet boundary values on , , and λ is a real parameter. By assuming for all and near some point , we prove existence theorems for any , where denotes the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of . Our existence result holds true for and in the interior case () and for and in the boundary case (). Nonexistence for star‐shaped domains is obtained for any .     

Upper bound for the ratios of eigenvalues of Schrödinger operators with nonnegative single‐barrier potentials

In this paper we prove the optimal upper bound for one‐dimensional Schrödinger operators with a nonnegative differentiable and single‐barrier potential , such that , where . In particular, if satisfies the additional condition , then for . For this result, we develop a new approach to study the monotonicity of the modified Prüfer angle function.     

Rigidity of ‐quasi Einstein manifolds

This paper deals with the study on ‐quasi Einstein manifolds. First, we give some characterizations of an ‐quasi Einstein manifold admitting closed conformal or parallel vector field. Then, we obtain some rigidity conditions for this class of manifolds. We prove that an ‐quasi Einstein manifold with a closed conformal vector field has a warped product structure of the form , where I is a real interval, is an ‐dimensional Riemannian manifold and q is a smooth function on I . Finally, a non‐trivial example of an ‐quasi Einstein manifold verifying our results in terms of the potential function is presented.