Quasi-convex density and determining subgroups of compact abelian groups

For an abelian topological group G, let denote the dual group of all continuous characters endowed with the compact open topology. Given a closed subset X of an infinite compact abelian group G such that w(X)<w(G), and an open neighborhood U of 0 in T, we show that . (Here, w(G) denotes the weight of G.) A subgroup D of G determines G if the map defined by r(χ)=χ?D for , is an isomorphism between and . We prove that

     

A remark on Ricceri's conjecture for a class of nonlinear eigenvalue problems

Consider the eigenvalue problem : −Δu=λf(x,u) in Ω, u=0 on ∂Ω, where Ω is a bounded smooth domain in RN. Denote by the set of all Carathéodory functions f:Ω×R→R such that for a.e. x∈Ω, f(x,⋅) is Lipschitzian with Lipschitz constant L, f(x,0)=0 and , and denote by (resp. ) the set of λ>0 such that has at least one nonzero classical (resp. weak) solution. Let λ₁ be the first eigenvalue for the Laplacian-Dirichlet problem. We prove that and . Our result is a positive answer to Ricceri's conjecture if use f(x,u) instead of f(u) in the conjecture.     

On the Wiener integral with respect to a sub-fractional Brownian motion on an interval

The domain of the Wiener integral with respect to a sub-fractional Brownian motion , , k≠0, is characterized. The set is a Hilbert space which contains the class of elementary functions as a dense subset. If , any element of is a function and if , the domain is a space of distributions.     

An almost sure central limit theorem for products of sums of partial sums under association

Let be a strictly stationary positively or negatively associated sequence of positive random variables with EX₁=μ>0, and VarX₁=σ²<∞. Denote , and γ=σ/μ the coefficient of variation. Under suitable conditions, we show that

     

The oscillation of differential transforms - entire Jacobi expansions

Let L=(1−x²)D²−((β−α)−(α+β+2)x)D with , and . Let f∈C^∞[−1,1], , with normalized Jacobi polynomials and the Cn decrease sufficiently fast. Set Lk=L(Lk−1), k?2. Let ρ>1. If the number of sign changes of (Lkf)(x) in (−1,1) is O(k1/(ρ+1)), then f extends to be an entire function of logarithmic order . For Legendre expansions, the result holds with replaced with .     

Fixed points of dual quantum operations

Let ?A be a normal completely positive map on B(H) with Kraus operators . Denote M the subset of normal completely positive maps by . In this note, the relations between the fixed points of ?A and are investigated. We obtain that , where K(H) is the set of all compact operators on H and is the dual of ?A∈M. In addition, we show that the map is a bijection on M.     

Large deviations for martingales and derivatives

Fix a sequence of positive integers (mn) and a sequence of positive real numbers (wn). Two closely related sequences of linear operators (Tn) are considered. One sequence has given by the Lebesgue derivatives . The other sequence has given by the dyadic martingale when (l−1)/n²?x<l/n² for l=1,…,n². We prove both positive and negative results concerning the convergence of .     

On some geometric parameters in Banach spaces

Let X be a normed linear space and be the unit sphere of X. Let , , and J(X)=sup{‖x+y‖∧‖x−y‖}, x and y∈S(X) be the modulus of convexity, the modulus of smoothness, and the modulus of squareness of X, respectively. Let . In this paper we proved some sufficient conditions on δ(?), ρX(?), J(X), E(X), and , where the supremum is taken over all the weakly null sequence xn in X and all the elements x of X for the uniform normal structure.     

Normal families and shared values of meromorphic functions

Let be a positive integer, let F be a family of meromorphic functions in a domain D, all of whose zeros have multiplicity at least k+1, and let , be two holomorphic functions on D. If, for each f∈F, f=a(z)⇔f(k)=h(z), then F is normal in D.     

Tail behavior of random sums of negatively associated increments

Let be a sequence of negatively associated random variables with a common distribution function and finite expectation and let τ be a nonnegative integer-valued random variable independent of . In this paper we give unified form for the asymptotic behavior of the random sums in the case of . The results extend the earlier results of Aleškevi?iené et al. (2008) [2].     

Prevalence and structure of adding machines for cellular automata

Consider the collection of left permutive cellular automata Φ with no memory, defined on the space S of all doubly infinite sequences from a finite alphabet. There exists , a dense subset of S, such that is topologically conjugate to an odometer for all so long as Φm is not the identity map for any m. Moreover, Φ generates the same odometer for all . The set is a dense Gδ subset with full measure of a particular subspace of S.     

Markov interlacing property for exponential polynomials

Let Un be an extended Tchebycheff system on the real line. Given a point , where x₁<?<xn, we denote by the polynomial from Un, which has zeros x₁,…,xn. (It is uniquely determined up to multiplication by a constant.) The system Un has the Markov interlacing property (M) if the assumption that and interlace implies that the zeros of and interlace strictly, unless . We formulate a general condition which ensures the validity of the property (M) for polynomials from Un. We also prove that the condition is satisfied for some known systems, including exponential polynomials and . As a corollary we obtain that property (M) holds true for Müntz polynomials , too.     

Some classes of non-analytic Markov semigroups

We deal with Markov semigroups T_t corresponding to second order elliptic operators Au=Δu+〈Du,F〉, where F is an unbounded locally Lipschitz vector field on . We obtain new conditions on F under which T_t is not analytic in . In particular, we prove that the one-dimensional operator Au=u″−x³u′, with domain , , is not sectorial in . Under suitable hypotheses on the growth of F, we introduce a class of non-analytic Markov semigroups in , where μ is an invariant measure for T_t.     

Large deviation principles for sequences of logarithmically weighted means

In this paper we consider several examples of sequences of partial sums of triangular arrays of random variables {Xn:n?1}; in each case Xn converges weakly to an infinitely divisible distribution (a Poisson distribution or a centered Normal distribution). For each sequence we prove large deviation results for the logarithmically weighted means with speed function . We also prove a sample path large deviation principle for {Xn:n?1} defined by , where σ²∈(0,∞) and {Un:n?1} is a sequence of independent standard Brownian motions.     

Remarks on Hardy spaces defined by non-smooth approximate identity

We study in this paper some relations between Hardy spaces which are defined by non-smooth approximate identity ?(x), and the end-point Triebel-Lizorkin spaces (1?q?∞). First, we prove that for compact ? which satisfies a slightly weaker condition than Fefferman and Stein's condition. Then we prove that non-trivial Hardy space defined by approximate identity ? must contain Besov space . Thirdly, we construct certain functions and a function such that Daubechies wavelet function but .     

Existence of solutions to functional boundary value problem of second-order nonlinear differential equation

In this paper, a functional boundary value problem is studied. Based on Mawhin's coincidence degree theory, some existence theorems are obtained in the case of non-resonance and the cases of and at resonance. The results not only generalize and improve some known results of multi-point and integral boundary value problems, but also give some existence theorems for boundary value problems that all their boundary value conditions are relied on both x and x^′.     

Explicit formulas for Laplace transforms of certain functionals of some time inhomogeneous diffusions

We consider a process given by the SDE , t∈[0,T), with initial condition , where T∈(0,∞], α∈R, (Bt)_t∈[0,T) is a standard Wiener process, b:[0,T)→R?{0} and σ:[0,T)→(0,∞) are continuously differentiable functions. Assuming , t∈[0,T), with some K∈R, we derive an explicit formula for the joint Laplace transform of and for all t∈[0,T) and for all α∈R. Our motivation is that the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of α can be expressed in terms of these random variables. As an application, we show that in case of α=K, K≠0,

     

Positive integral operators in unbounded domains

We study positive integral operators in with continuous kernel k(x,y). We show that if the operator is compact and Hilbert-Schmidt. If in addition k(x,x)→0 as |x|→∞, k is represented by an absolutely and uniformly convergent bilinear series of uniformly continuous eigenfunctions and is trace class. Replacing the first assumption by the stronger then and the bilinear series converges also in L¹. Sharp norm bounds are obtained and Mercer's theorem is derived as a special case.     

Lifting fixed points of completely positive mappings

Let 1?n?∞, and let be a row contraction on some Hilbert space H. Let F(T) be the space of all X∈B(H) such that . We show that, if non-zero, this space is completely isometric to the commutant of the Cuntz part of the minimal isometric dilation of .