On New Types of ω-Fibered Fitting Classes of Finite Groups

We construct an infinite set of new types of -fibered Fitting classes of finite groups that differ from -local classes. We also describe the structure of maximal inner -satellites for the main types and establish a relationship between -fibered and -foliated Fitting classes.     

On Locally Repeated Values of Certain Arithmetic Functions,IV

Let (n) denote the number of prime divisors of n and let (n) denote the number of prime power divisors of n. We obtain upper bounds for the lengths of the longest intervals below x where (n), respectively (n), remains constant. Similarly we consider the corresponding problems where the numbers (n), respectively (n), are required to be all different on an interval. We show that the number of solutions g(n) to the equation m+(m)=n is an unbounded function of n, thus answering a question posed in an earlier paper in this series. A principal tool is a Turán-Kubilius type inequality for additive functions on arithmetic progressions with a large modulus.     

Homogenization of Some Elasticity Problems with Rapidly Oscillating Convex Constraints on Displacements

The problem of homogenization is considered for an elastic body occupying a perforated domain = obtained from a fixed domain and an -contraction of a 1-periodic domain .     

Reguläre Differentialformen

The main object of this paper is the module _A of regular differential forms on a. finitely generated algebra or a local analytic algebra A over a field k, which was defined in [9]._A is a finitely generated module over the De Rham-algebra _A with an exterior differentiation d. In the reduced, pure dimensional, characteristic zero case A can be described as a submodule of the module Q(A)_AA of meromorphic differential forms, and it has the image of _A as submodule. Now in this case one can compare the De Rnam-cohomology of _A with the cohomology of _A, which is of interest in studying analytic or algebraic singularities.     

The conformal structure of Riemann surfaces with boundary parametrizing minimal surfaces

Let F denote a surface with boundary F, being contained in a Riemann surface R, such that R\F is somedisk. If we vary the boiundary curve _o parametrizing F, we will get a manifold of real dimension 6g–3, such that any bounds some F and any local deformation of F is conformally equivalent to just one F for .This result also implies that none of the conformal invariants of R will be an invariant of this F, since its neighbors {F|} cover all possible deformations of F at all.     

The canonical foliations of a locally conformal Kähler manifold

Summary Let M be a locally conformal Kähler manifold. Then the Kähler form of M satisfies d= for some closed 1 -form , called the Lee form of M. We show that M admits three canonical foliations (four if is parallel) and we prove several properties of them, improving previous results of I. Vaisman. In particular all of these foliations are totally geodesic and Riemannian, and one of them is also almost complex. If this latter foliation is regular on a compact M, then we prove that M is a locally trivial fiber bundle over a compact Kähler manifold M, and the fibers are totally geodesic flat 2-tori. Finally we study geometrical properties, the canonical class and the Godbillon-Vey class of the totally real foliation of a CR-submanifold N cM.Work done during a visit of the second author at Michigan State University; this visit was supported by C.N.R., Italy.     

An embedding theorem for a limiting exponent

We consider the function space B _p ^l () of functionsf(x), defined on the domain of a certain class and characterized by specific differential-difference properties in L_p(). We prove a theorem on the embedding B _p,q ^l () L_q in the case whenl=n/p –n/q >0 and its generalization for vectorl, p, q.Translated from Matematicheski Zametki, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 129–138, August, 1969.     

Perturbation of the poles of the scattering matrix under variation of the boundary condition

The behavior of the poles z_n(), n=1,2,... of the scattering matrix of the operatorl u=–u(x), x , (u/n)+(x)u|=0 as 0 is considered. It is proved that |z_n()–z_n|=0(^(1/2)qn), where q_n is the order of the pole of the scattering matrix for the operator ₀u=–u, u/=0.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 117, pp. 183–191, 1981.     

Sufficient Conditions for the Existence of Disintegrations

Let be a probability space and a partition of . A necessary and sufficient condition is given for the existence of a -additive and measurable disintegration of P on . It is also shown that P admits a -additive (but not measurable) disintegration on whenever is a standard space and the set (₁, ₂):₁ and ₂ are in the same element of } is coanalytic in ×. Finally, sufficient statistics (in the classical Fisherian sense) are investigated by using -additive disintegrations as conditional probabilities.     

Some remarks on the boundary regularity for minima of variational problems with obstacles

We minimize the Dirichlet-integral in a class of vector-valued functions u:^N defined by Dirichlet-boundary conditions and a side-condition of the form u()M with M bounded and open in ^N having smooth boundary M. If the boundary values are sufficiently regular we show that the minimizer can only have interior singularities, i.e. the solution is smooth in a neighborhood of .     

Scaling transformations for {0, 1}-valued sequences

Summary Let r2 be an integer and let : {0, 1} ^r {0,1} be a function. Let T be the transformation on ={0, 1}zgiven by (T)(i)=((ri), (ri +1), ..., (ri+r–1)) for all iZ. For P in the class of strongly-mixing shiftinvariant measures on , we investigate when P is invariant with respect to T and when T ⁿP converges. For example if r is odd and ( ₀,..., r–1)=1 iff >1/2r, the invariant measures are the Bernoulli measures with means 0, 1/2 or 1 and T ⁿP must converge to one of these three measures. Other choices of can give more complicated behaviour.Research supported in part by the National and Engineering Research Council of Canada.     

Sur un problème de Rényi

Let (n) be the number of all prime divisors ofn and (n) the number of distinct prime divisors ofn. We definev _q (x)=|{nx(n)–(n)=q}|. In this paper, we give an asymptotic development ofv _q (x); this improves on previous results.

     

A Construction of Non-Split Supermanifolds

A construction is presented associating with any closed (1,1)-form on a complex manifold M a supermanifold, whose retract is the split supermanifold (M,), where is the sheaf of holomorphic forms on M. This supermanifold is non-split whenever is not -exact. In particular, any complex line bundle L over M determines the supermanifold associated with the curvature form of a metric on L; it is non-split whenever the refined Chern class of L is non-zero. The case of a flag manifold M is studied in more details.     

Central orderings in fields of real meromorphic function germs

Let X_oR ⁿ be an irreducible analytic germ and the order space of its field of meromorphicfunetion germs. A formal half-branch in X_o is a kind of C-map germ c[0,)X_o; an ordering is centered at c if it contains the functions which are positive on c. We obtain a partition ¹,...,^d, d=dim X_o, of the set ^* of central (i.e.: centered at some half-branch) orderings, according to the dimension of half-branches. Then we show that all ^e, e= 1,.,d, as well as the set \^* of noncentral orderings, are dense in . Finally, we solve the 17th Hubert Problem for analytic germs.     

On semiregular conditional distributions

Let (,A,P) denote some probability space and some sub--algebra ofA. It is shown that there exists a semiregular versionQ (A),A, , of the conditional distributionP(A|), AA, i.e., Q (A), (AA fixed) is andAQ (A),AA ( fixed), is a probability charge satisfyingQ (N)=0, , for allP-zero setsN, if and only ifL ₁(,P|) has a lifting, which exists for any sub--algebra ofA ifL ₁(,A P) is separable. Separability ofL ₁(,A,P) implies also the existence of a strongly semiregular versionQ (A),A, , ofP(A|), A , i.e., Q (A), (AA fixed), is -measurable andAQ (A),A ( fixed), is a probability charge. Furthermore,P can be written as P ₁+(1–)P ₂, 01, whereP ₁ are probability measures onA such thatP ₁(A|),AA, has a semiregular version vanishing for anyP-zero setN andP ₂ is singular with respect to any probability measure onA of the type ofP ₁. In the case 0<<1 the probability measuresP _j ,j=1, 2, are uniquely determined. The decomposition can be carried over to the case, where the additional condition thatQ (N)=0 for all and anyP-zero setN is valid, is omitted respectively semiregularity is replaced by (i) strong semiregularity, or (ii) classical regularity. In the last mentioned case (ii) the decomposition is multiplicative.     

Computation of efficient solutions of discretely distributed stochastic optimization problems

In engineering and economics often a certain vectorx of inputs or decisions must be chosen, subject to some constraints, such that the expected costs (or loss) arising from the deviation between the outputA() x of a stochastic linear systemxA()x and a desired stochastic target vectorb() are minimal. Hence, one has the following stochastic linear optimization problem minimizeF(x)=Eu(A()x b()) s.t.xD, (1) whereu is a convex loss function on ^m , (A(), b()) is a random (m,n + 1)-matrix, E denotes the expectation operator andD is a convex subset of ⁿ . Concrete problems of this type are e.g. stochastic linear programs with recourse, error minimization and optimal design problems, acid rain abatement methods, problems in scenario analysis and non-least square regression analysis.Solving (1), the loss functionu should be exactly known. However, in practice mostly there is some uncertainty in assigning appropriate penalty costs to the deviation between the outputA ()x and the targetb(). For finding in this situation solutions hedging against uncertainty a set of so-called efficient points of (1) is defined and a numerical procedure for determining these compromise solutions is derived. Several applications are discussed.     

Uniform distribution of integral points on multidimensional ellipsoids

Let Q(X), X^T=(x₁,...,x_l), be a positive definite, integral-valued, primitive, quadratic form of l4 variables, let () be the number of solutions of Eq. Q(X)=n, let (,) be the number of the solution of the equation Q(X)=n such that X/, where is an arbitrary convex domain on Q(X)=1 with a piecewise smooth boundary. One investigates the asymptotic behavior of the quantity (,) (n). In the case of an even l4 the result is formulated in the following manner: for (n,N)=1 and n one has, >o, where() is the measure of the domain , normalized by the condition(E)=1, where E is the ellipsoid Q(X)=1. Weaker results have been obtained earlier by various authors. In the case of the simplest domains (belt, cap) the remainder in (1) can be brought to the form. The last estimate for large l is close to an unimprovable one. The proof makes use of the theory of modular forms and of Deligne's estimates.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 154, pp. 144–153, 1986.     

Torsion tensor and critical metrics on contact (2n+1)-manifolds

Contact Riemannian manifolds (M, ,g) satisfying the condition (1) =0, where is the torsion introduced byChern andHamilton [6] and is the characteristic vector field, have interesting geometric properties (see [6], [9], [11]). In this paper we give a variational characterization of compact contact Riemannian manifolds which satisfy (1). Moreover we study the tangent sphere bundles (T ₁ M, , g), where (,g) is the standard contact Riemannian structure, which satisfy the condition (1); in particular in the 3-dimensional case we find a surprising result (see Corollary 5.3).Supported by funds of the M.U.R.S.T.     

Construction in a piecewise smooth domain of a function of the class H2 from the value of the conormal derivative

The problem of the construction in a bounded domain ^m with a Lipschitz boundary of a function H²(), for which the conormal derivative on coincides with the normal component of a given vector field u H¹(,C ³), is discussed. The solution of this problem is given for piecewise smooth boundaries in the case m=3.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 163, pp. 17–28, 1987.     

On the reachable sets in linear systems

We consider the finite-dimensional linear control system, with minimal assumptions concerning the control restraint set . Specifically, we consider the set of reachable states and conclude that as far as controllability is concerned, can be replaced by convhull().