The pressure equation for fluid flow in a stochastic medium

An equation modelling the pressurep(x) =p(x, w) atx ∈D ⊂R ^d of an incompressible fluid in a heterogeneous, isotropic medium with a stochastic permeabilityk(x, w) ≥ 0 is the stochastic partial differential equation

On the number of faces of centrally-symmetric simplicial polytopes

I. Bárány and L. Lovász [Acta Math. Acad. Sci. Hung.40, 323–329 (1982)] showed that ad-dimensional centrally-symmetric simplicial polytopeP has at least 2 ^d facets, and conjectured a lower bound for the numberf _i ofi-dimensional faces ofP in terms ofd and the numberf ₀ =2n of vertices. Define integers A. Björner conjectured (unpublished) that (which generalizes the result of Bárány-Lovász sincef _d–1 = h _i ), and more strongly that , which is easily seen to imply the conjecture of Bárány-Lovász. In this paper the conjectures of Björner are proved.Partially supported by NSF grant MCS-8104855. The research was performed when the author was a Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at Caltech.     

A Littlewood-Paley type inequality

In this note we prove the following theorem: Let u be a harmonic function in the unit ball and . Then there is a constant C = C(p, n) such that

Concentration phenomena in weakly coupled elliptic systems with critical growth*

In this paper we consider the weakly coupled elliptic system with critical growth

Behaviour at the non-positive integers of Dirichlet series associated to polynomials of several variables

In this paper, we relate the special values at a non-positive integer \({\underline{\mathbf{s}}=(s_{1},\ldots, s_{r})= -\underline{\mathbf{N}}= (-N_{1},\ldots, -N_{r})}\) obtained by meromorphic continuation of the multiple Dirichlet series \({{Z(\underline{\mathbf{P}}, \underline{\mathbf{s}})=\sum_{\underline{m}\in {\mathbb{N}}^{*n}}{\frac{1}{\prod_{i=1}^{r}{P_{i}^{ s_{i}}(\underline{m})}}}}}\) to special values of the function \({Y(\underline{\mathbf{P}}, \underline{\mathbf{s}})=\int_{[1, +\infty[^{n}} {\prod_{i=1}^{r}{P_{i}^{- s_{i}}(\underline{\mathbf{x}})}\; d{\underline{\mathbf{x}}}}}\) where \({\underline{\mathbf{P}}=(P_{1},..., P_{r}),\; (r\geq 1)}\) are elliptic polynomials in “\({n}\) ” variables. We prove a simple relation between \({Z(\underline{\mathbf{P}}_{\underline{\mathbf{a}}}, -\underline{\mathbf{N}})}\) and \({Y(\underline{\mathbf{P}}_{\underline{\mathbf{a}}}, -\underline{\mathbf{N}})}\), such that for all \({\underline{\mathbf{a}} \in {\mathbb{R}}^{n}_{+}}\), we denote \({\underline{\mathbf{P}}_{\underline{\mathbf{a}}}:=(P_{1 \underline{\mathbf{a}}},\ldots, P_{r \underline{\mathbf{a}}})}\), where \({P_{i\;\underline{\mathbf{a}}}(\underline{\mathbf{x}}):= P_i(\underline{\mathbf{x}}+ \underline{\mathbf{a}})\; (1\leq i\leq r)}\) is the shifted polynomial.     

Counting the number of isotone selfmappings of crowns

Letn>1. The number of all strictly increasing selfmappings of a 2n-element crown is . The number of all order-preserving selfmappings of a 2n-element crown is

Critical Nonlinear Nonlocal Equations on a Half-Line

We study nonlinear nonlocal equations on a half-line in the critical case

Heat content and Brownian motion for some regions with a fractal boundary

LetD be an open, bounded set in euclidean space ^m (m=2, 3, ...) with boundary D. SupposeD has temperature 0 at timet=0, while D is kept at temperature 1 for allt>0. We use brownian motion to obtain estimates for the solution of corresponding heat equation and to obtain results for the asymptotic behaviour ofE _D (t), the amount of heat inD at timet, ast0⁺. For the triadic von Koch snowflakeK our results imply that

Comparison of Exact Constants in Inequalities for Derivatives of Functions Defined on the Real Axis and a Circle

We investigate the relationship between the constants K(R) and K(T), where is the exact constant in the Kolmogorov inequality, R is the real axis, T is a unit circle,

Sums of Five, Seven and Nine Squares

Let r _k(n) denote the number of representations of an integer n as a sum of k squares. We prove that

Sharp Estimates for Deviations of Linear Approximation Methods for Periodic Functions by Linear Combinations of Moduli of Continuity of Different Order

Estimates for deviations are established for a large class of linear methods of approximation of periodic functions by linear combinations of moduli of continuity of different orders. These estimates are sharp in the sense of constants in the uniform and integral metrics. In particular, the following assertion concerning approximation by splines is proved: Suppose that is odd, . Then

Precise asymptotics in the law of the iterated logarithm*

Let X₁, X₂, ... be i.i.d. random variables with EX₁ = 0 and positive, finite variance σ², and set S_n = X₁ + ... + X_n. For any α > −1, β > −1/2 and for κ_n(ε) a function of ε and n such that κ_n(ε) log log n → λ as n ↑ ∞ and , we prove that

Some generalizations of Knopp's identity*

For integers a, b and n > 0, define

Existence results for nonlinear parabolic equations via strong convergence of truncations

Summary  We prove existence results for the initial-boundary value problem for parabolic equations of the type

On the almost sure (a.s.) central limit theorem for random variables with infinite variance

We give criteria for a sequence (X _n ) of i.i.d.r.v.'s to satisfy the a.s. central limit theorem, i.e.,

The true order of magnitude of Lamé rounding error sums

Let (z ∈ ℝ). Further let λ denote a large real parameter. We show that for arbitrary real numbersk and α withk>=2.7013 and 0<α≦1,

Partial regularity for minimisers of certain functionals having nonquadratic growth

We prove partial regularity results for local minimisers of

On Existence and Multiplicity of Solutions for Elliptic Equations Involving the p-Laplacian

In the present paper, the following Dirichlet problem and Neumann problem involving the p-Laplacian