Weighted Harmonic Bloch Spaces on the Ball

We study the family of weighted harmonic Bloch spaces \(b_\alpha , \alpha \in {\mathbb {R}}\), on the unit ball of \({\mathbb {R}}^n\). We provide characterizations in terms of partial and radial derivatives and certain radial differential operators that are more compatible with reproducing kernels of harmonic Bergman–Besov spaces. We consider a class of integral operators related to harmonic Bergman projection and determine precisely when they are bounded on \(L^\infty _\alpha \). We define projections from \(L^\infty _\alpha \) to \(b_\alpha \) and as a consequence obtain integral representations. We solve the Gleason problem and provide atomic decomposition for all \(b_\alpha , \alpha \in {\mathbb {R}}\). Finally we give an oscillatory characterization of \(b_\alpha \) when \(\alpha >-1\).     

On Reachable Families of the Loewner Differential Equation in Several Complex Variables

Graham, Hamada, Kohr and Kohr studied the normalized time \(T\) reachable families \(\widetilde{\mathcal {R}}_T(id_{{\mathbb {B}}^n},\Omega )\) of the Loewner differential equation, which are generated by the Carathéodory mappings with values in a subfamily \(\Omega \) of the Carathéodory family \({\mathcal {N}}_A\) for the Euclidean unit ball \({\mathbb {B}}^n\), where \(A\) is a linear operator with \(k_+(A)<2m(A)\) (\(k_+(A)\) is the Lyapunov index of \(A\) and \(m(A)=\min \{\mathfrak {R}\left\langle Az,z\right\rangle \big |z\in {\mathbb {C}}^n,\Vert z\Vert =1\}\)). They obtained some compactness and density results, as generalizations of related results due to Roth, and conjectured that if \(\Omega \) is compact and convex, then \(\widetilde{\mathcal {R}}_T(id_{{\mathbb {B}}^n},\Omega )\) is compact and \(\widetilde{\mathcal {R}}_T(id_{{\mathbb {B}}^n},ex\,\Omega )\) is dense in \(\widetilde{\mathcal {R}}_T(id_{{\mathbb {B}}^n},\Omega )\), where \(ex\,\Omega \) denotes the corresponding set of extreme points and \(T\in [0,\infty ]\). We confirm this, by embedding the Carathéodory mappings in a suitable Bochner space.     

Extremal Problems for Mappings with Generalized Parametric Representation in $${{\mathbb {C}}}^{n}$$

In this paper we are concerned with the family \(\widetilde{S}^t_A(\mathbb {B}^n)\) (\(t\ge 0\)) of normalized biholomorphic mappings on the Euclidean unit ball \(\mathbb {B}^n\) in \({\mathbb {C}}^n\) that can be embedded in normal Loewner chains whose normalizations are given by time-dependent operators \(A\in \widetilde{\mathcal {A}}\), where \(\widetilde{\mathcal {A}}\) is a family of measurable mappings from \([0,\infty )\) into \(L({\mathbb {C}}^n)\) which satisfy certain natural assumptions. In particular, we consider extreme points and support points associated with the compact family \(\widetilde{S}^t_A(\mathbb {B}^n)\), where \(A\in \widetilde{\mathcal {A}}\). We prove that if \(f(z,t)=V(t)^{-1}z+\cdots \) is a normal Loewner chain such that \(V(s)f(\cdot ,s)\in \mathrm{ex}\,\widetilde{S}^s_A(\mathbb {B}^n)\) (resp. \(V(s)f(\cdot ,s)\in \mathrm{supp}\,\widetilde{S}^s_A(\mathbb {B}^n)\)), then \(V(t)f(\cdot ,t)\in \mathrm{ex}\, \widetilde{S}^t_A(\mathbb {B}^n)\), for all \(t\ge s\) (resp. \(V(t)f(\cdot ,t)\in \mathrm{supp}\,\widetilde{S}^t_A(\mathbb {B}^n)\), for all \(t\ge s\)), where V(t) is the unique solution on \([0,\infty )\) of the initial value problem: \(\frac{d V}{d t}(t)=-A(t)V(t)\), a.e. \(t\ge 0\), \(V(0)=I_n\). Also, we obtain an example of a bounded support point for the family \(\widetilde{S}_A^t(\mathbb {B}^2)\), where \(A\in \widetilde{\mathcal {A}}\) is a certain time-dependent operator. We also consider the notion of a reachable family with respect to time-dependent linear operators \(A\in \widetilde{\mathcal {A}}\), and obtain characterizations of extreme/support points associated with these families of bounded biholomorphic mappings on \(\mathbb {B}^n\). Useful examples and applications yield that the study of the family \(\widetilde{S}^t_A(\mathbb {B}^n)\) for time-dependent operators \(A\in \widetilde{\mathcal {A}}\) is basically different from that in the case of constant time-dependent linear operators.     

Willmore surfaces of constant Möbius curvature

We study Willmore surfaces of constant Möbius curvature \({\mathcal{K}}\) in \({\mathbb{S}}^4\) . It is proved that such a surface in \({\mathbb{S}}^3\) must be part of a minimal surface in \({\mathbb{R}}^3\) or the Clifford torus. Another result in this paper is that an isotropic surface (hence also Willmore) in \({\mathbb{S}}^4\) of constant \({\mathcal{K}}\) could only be part of a complex curve in \({\mathbb{C}}^2 \cong {\mathbb{R}}^4\) or the Veronese 2-sphere in \({\mathbb{S}}^4\) . It is conjectured that they are the only possible examples. The main ingredients of the proofs are over-determined systems and isoparametric functions.     

The Whitney Extension Theorem for $$C^1$$, Horizontal Curves in the Heisenberg Group

For a real-valued function defined on a compact set \(K \subset {\mathbb {R}}^m\), the classical Whitney Extension Theorem from 1934 gives necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a \(C^k\) extension to \({\mathbb {R}}^m\). In this paper, we prove a version of the Whitney Extension Theorem in the case of \(C^1\), horizontal extensions for mappings defined on compact subsets of \({\mathbb {R}}\) taking values in the sub-Riemannian Heisenberg group \(\mathbb {H}^n\).     

Regularity for Inhomogeneous Dirichlet Problems of Some Schrödinger Equations on Domains

Let \(n\ge 3, \Omega \) be a bounded, simply connected and semiconvex domain in \({\mathbb {R}}^n\) and \(L_{\Omega }:=-\Delta +V\) a Schrödinger operator on \(L^2 (\Omega )\) with the Dirichlet boundary condition, where \(\Delta \) denotes the Laplace operator and the potential \(0\le V\) belongs to the reverse Hölder class \(RH_{q_0}({\mathbb {R}}^n)\) for some \(q_0\in (\max \{n/2,2\},\infty ]\). Assume that the growth function \(\varphi :\,{\mathbb {R}}^n\times [0,\infty ) \rightarrow [0,\infty )\) satisfies that \(\varphi (x,\cdot )\) is an Orlicz function and \(\varphi (\cdot ,t)\in {\mathbb {A}}_{\infty }({\mathbb {R}}^n)\) (the class of uniformly Muckenhoupt weights). Let \(H_{\varphi ,\,L_{{\mathbb {R}}^n},\,r}(\Omega )\) be the Musielak–Orlicz–Hardy space whose elements are restrictions of elements of the Musielak–Orlicz–Hardy space, associated with \(L_{{\mathbb {R}}^n}:=-\Delta +V\) on \({\mathbb {R}}^n\), to \(\Omega \). In this article, the authors show that the operators \(VL^{-1}_\Omega \) and \(\nabla ^2L^{-1}_\Omega \) are bounded from \(L^1(\Omega )\) to weak-\(L^1(\Omega )\), from \(L^p(\Omega )\) to itself, with \(p\in (1,2]\), and also from \(H_{\varphi ,\,L_{{\mathbb {R}}^n},\,r}(\Omega )\) to the Musielak–Orlicz space \(L^\varphi (\Omega )\) or to \(H_{\varphi ,\,L_{{\mathbb {R}}^n},\,r}(\Omega )\) itself. As applications, the boundedness of \(\nabla ^2{\mathbb {G}}_D\) on \(L^p(\Omega )\), with \(p\in (1,2]\), and from \(H_{\varphi ,\,L_{{\mathbb {R}}^n},\,r}(\Omega )\) to \(L^\varphi (\Omega )\) or to \(H_{\varphi ,\,L_{{\mathbb {R}}^n},\,r}(\Omega )\) itself is obtained, where \({\mathbb {G}}_D\) denotes the Dirichlet Green operator associated with \(L_\Omega \). All these results are new even for the Hardy space \(H^1_{L_{{\mathbb {R}}^n},\,r}(\Omega )\), which is just \(H_{\varphi ,\,L_{{\mathbb {R}}^n},\,r}(\Omega )\) with \(\varphi (x,t):=t\) for all \(x\in {\mathbb {R}}^n\) and \(t\in [0,\infty )\).     

A Global Approximation Result by Bert Alan Taylor and the Strong Openness Conjecture in $${\mathbb {C}}^n$$

We improve a global approximation result by Bert Alan Taylor in \({\mathbb {C}}^n\) for holomorphic functions in weighted Hilbert spaces. The main tools are a variation of the theorem of Hörmander on weighted \(L^2\)-estimates for the \({\overline{\partial }}\)-equation together with the solution of the strong openness conjecture. A counterexample to a global strong openness conjecture in \({\mathbb {C}}^n \) is also given here.     

Why there is no an existence theorem for a convex polytope with prescribed directions and perimeters of the faces?

We choose some special unit vectors \({\mathbf {n}}_1,\ldots ,{\mathbf {n}}_5\) in \({\mathbb {R}}^3\) and denote by \({\mathscr {L}}\subset {\mathbb {R}}^5\) the set of all points \((L_1,\ldots ,L_5)\in {\mathbb {R}}^5\) with the following property: there exists a compact convex polytope \(P\subset {\mathbb {R}}^3\) such that the vectors \({\mathbf {n}}_1,\ldots ,{\mathbf {n}}_5\) (and no other vector) are unit outward normals to the faces of P and the perimeter of the face with the outward normal \({\mathbf {n}}_k\) is equal to \(L_k\) for all \(k=1,\ldots ,5\). Our main result reads that \({\mathscr {L}}\) is not a locally-analytic set, i.e., we prove that, for some point \((L_1,\ldots ,L_5)\in {\mathscr {L}}\), it is not possible to find a neighborhood \(U\subset {\mathbb {R}}^5\) and an analytic set \(A\subset {\mathbb {R}}^5\) such that \({\mathscr {L}}\cap U=A\cap U\). We interpret this result as an obstacle for finding an existence theorem for a compact convex polytope with prescribed directions and perimeters of the faces.     

Corona problem with data in ideal spaces of sequences

Let E be a Banach lattice on \({\mathbb {Z}}\) with order continuous norm. We show that for any function \(f = \{f_j\}_{j \in {\mathbb {Z}}}\) from the Hardy space \(\mathrm H_{\infty }\left( E \right) \) such that \(\delta \leqslant \Vert f (z)\Vert _E \leqslant 1\) for all z from the unit disk \({\mathbb {D}}\) there exists some solution \(g = \{g_j\}_{j \in {\mathbb {Z}}} \in \mathrm H_{\infty }\left( E' \right) \), \(\Vert g\Vert _{\mathrm H_{\infty }\left( E' \right) } \leqslant C_\delta \) of the Bézout equation \(\sum _j f_j g_j = 1\), also known as the vector-valued corona problem with data in \(\mathrm H_{\infty }\left( E \right) \).     

Oscillation of holomorphic Bergman–Besov kernels on the ball

We estimate the oscillation of holomorphic Bergman–Besov reproducing kernels on the unit ball of \(\mathbb {C}^n\). As an application of this estimate we characterize holomorphic Bergman–Besov spaces \(A_\alpha ^p\,(\alpha \in \mathbb {R})\) in terms of double integrals of the fractions \(|f(z)-f(w)|/|z-w|\) and \(|f(z)-f(w)|/|1-\langle z,w \rangle |\) and complete the earlier works done on this subject. Our results provide, when \(\alpha \le -1\), a derivative-free characterization of \(A_\alpha ^p\).     

Unitary Equivalence of Composition C$$^*$$-Algebras on the Hardy and Weighted Bergman Spaces

Let \(\varphi \) be an arbitrary linear-fractional self-map of the unit disk \({\mathbb {D}}\) and consider the composition operator \(C_{-1, \varphi }\) and the Toeplitz operator \(T_{-1,z}\) on the Hardy space \(H^2\) and the corresponding operators \(C_{\alpha , \varphi }\) and \(T_{\alpha , z}\) on the weighted Bergman spaces \(A^2_{\alpha }\) for \(\alpha >-1\). We prove that the unital C\(^*\)-algebra \(C^*(T_{\alpha , z}, C_{\alpha , \varphi })\) generated by \(T_{\alpha , z}\) and \(C_{\alpha , \varphi }\) is unitarily equivalent to \(C^*(T_{-1, z}, C_{-1, \varphi }),\) which extends a known result for automorphism-induced composition operators. For maps \(\varphi \) that are not automorphisms of \({\mathbb {D}}\), we show that \(C^*(C_{\alpha , \varphi }, {\mathcal {K}}_{\alpha })\) is unitarily equivalent to \(C^*(C_{-1, \varphi }, {\mathcal {K}}_{-1})\), where \({\mathcal {K}}_{\alpha }\) and \({\mathcal {K}}_{-1}\) denote the ideals of compact operators on \(A^2_{\alpha }\) and \(H^2\), respectively, and apply existing structure theorems for \(C^*(C_{-1, \varphi }, {\mathcal {K}}_{-1})/{\mathcal {K}}_{-1}\) to describe the structure of \(C^*(C_{\alpha , \varphi }, {\mathcal {K}}_{\alpha })/\mathcal {K_{\alpha }}\), up to isomorphism. We also establish a unitary equivalence between related weighted composition operators induced by maps \(\varphi \) that fix a point on the unit circle.     

Normes cyclotomiques naïves et unités logarithmiques

We compute the \({\mathbb {Z}}\)-rank of the subgroup \(\widetilde{E}_K =\bigcap _{n\in {\mathbb {N}}} N_{K_n/K}(K_n^\times )\) of elements of the multiplicative group of a number field K that are norms from every finite level of the cyclotomic \({\mathbb {Z}}_\ell \)-extension \(K^c\) of K. Thus we compare its \(\ell \)-adification \({\mathbb {Z}}_\ell \otimes _{\mathbb {Z}}\widetilde{E}_K\) with the group of logarithmic units \(\widetilde{\varepsilon }_K\). By the way we point out an easy proof of the Gross–Kuz’min conjecture for \(\ell \)-undecomposed extensions of abelian fields.     

On homogeneous hypersurfaces in $${\mathbb {C}}^3$$

We consider a family \(M_t^n\), with \(n\geqslant 2\), \(t>1\), of real hypersurfaces in a complex affine n-dimensional quadric arising in connection with the classification of homogeneous compact simply connected real-analytic hypersurfaces in  \({\mathbb {C}}^n\) due to Morimoto and Nagano. To finalize their classification, one needs to resolve the problem of the embeddability of \(M_t^n\) in  \({\mathbb {C}}^n\) for \(n=3,7\). In our earlier article we showed that \(M_t^7\) is not embeddable in  \({\mathbb {C}}^7\) for every t and that \(M_t^3\) is embeddable in  \({\mathbb {C}}^3\) for all \(1<t<1+10^{-6}\). In the present paper, we improve on the latter result by showing that the embeddability of \(M_t^3\) in fact takes place for \(1<t<\sqrt{(2+\sqrt{2})/3}\). This is achieved by analyzing the explicit totally real embedding of the sphere \(S^3\) in \({\mathbb {C}}^3\) constructed by Ahern and Rudin. For \(t\geqslant {\sqrt{(2+\sqrt{2})/3}}\), the problem of the embeddability of \(M_t^3\) remains open.     

Generalized Hénon Mappings and Foliation by Injective Brody Curves

We consider a finite composition of generalized Hénon mappings \({\mathfrak {f}}:{\mathbb {C}}^2\rightarrow {\mathbb {C}}^2\) and its Green function \({\mathfrak {g}}^+:{\mathbb {C}}^2\rightarrow {\mathbb {R}}_{\ge 0}\) (see Sect. 2). It is well known that each level set \(\{{\mathfrak {g}}^+=c\}\) for \(c>0\) is foliated by biholomorphic images of \({\mathbb {C}}\) and each leaf is dense. In this paper, we prove that each leaf is actually an injective Brody curve in \(\mathbb {P}^2\) (see Sect. 4). We also study the behavior of the level sets of \({\mathfrak {g}}^+\) near infinity.     

Heat Kernel Empirical Laws on $${\mathbb {U}}_N$$ and $${\mathbb {GL}}_N$$GLN

This paper studies the empirical laws of eigenvalues and singular values for random matrices drawn from the heat kernel measures on the unitary groups \({\mathbb {U}}_N\) and the general linear groups \({\mathbb {GL}}_N\), for \(N\in {\mathbb {N}}\). It establishes the strongest known convergence results for the empirical eigenvalues in the \({\mathbb {U}}_N\) case, and the first known almost sure convergence results for the eigenvalues and singular values in the \({\mathbb {GL}}_N\) case. The limit noncommutative distribution associated with the heat kernel measure on \({\mathbb {GL}}_N\) is identified as the projection of a flow on an infinite-dimensional polynomial space. These results are then strengthened from variance estimates to \(L^p\) estimates for even integers p.     

Harmonic Analysis on the Möbius Gyrogroup

In this paper we propose to develop harmonic analysis on the Poincaré ball \({{\mathbb {B}}_{t}^{n}}\), a model of the \(n\)-dimensional real hyperbolic space. The Poincaré ball \({{\mathbb {B}}_{t}^{n}}\) is the open ball of the Euclidean \(n\)-space \(\mathbb {R}^n\) with radius \(t >0\), centered at the origin of \(\mathbb {R}^n\) and equipped with Möbius addition, thus forming a Möbius gyrogroup where Möbius addition in the ball plays the role of vector addition in \(\mathbb {R}^n.\) For any \(t>0\) and an arbitrary parameter \(\sigma \in \mathbb {R}\) we study the \((\sigma ,t)\)-translation, the \((\sigma ,t)\)-convolution, the eigenfunctions of the \((\sigma ,t)\)-Laplace–Beltrami operator, the \((\sigma ,t)\)-Helgason Fourier transform, its inverse transform and the associated Plancherel’s Theorem, which represent counterparts of standard tools, thus, enabling an effective theory of hyperbolic harmonic analysis. Moreover, when \(t \rightarrow +\infty \) the resulting hyperbolic harmonic analysis on \({{\mathbb {B}}_{t}^{n}}\) tends to the standard Euclidean harmonic analysis on \(\mathbb {R}^n,\) thus unifying hyperbolic and Euclidean harmonic analysis. As an application we construct diffusive wavelets on \({{\mathbb {B}}_{t}^{n}}\).     

Borel globalizations of partial actions of Polish groups

We show that the enveloping space \({\mathbb {X}}_G\) of a partial action of a Polish group G on a Polish space \({\mathbb {X}}\) is a standard Borel space, that is to say, there is a topology \(\tau \) on \({\mathbb {X}}_G\) such that \(({\mathbb {X}}_G, \tau )\) is Polish and the quotient Borel structure on \({\mathbb {X}}_G\) is equal to \(Borel({\mathbb {X}}_G,\tau )\). To prove this result we show a generalization of a theorem of Burgess about Borel selectors for the orbit equivalence relation induced by a group action and also show that some properties of the Vaught’s transform are valid for partial actions of groups.     

Central Limit Theorem for Linear Eigenvalue Statistics for a Tensor Product Version of Sample Covariance Matrices

For \(k,m,n\in {\mathbb {N}}\), we consider \(n^k\times n^k\) random matrices of the form

$$\begin{aligned} {\mathcal {M}}_{n,m,k}({\mathbf {y}})=\sum _{\alpha =1}^m\tau _\alpha {Y_\alpha }Y_\alpha ^T,\quad {Y}_\alpha ={\mathbf {y}}_\alpha ^{(1)}\otimes \cdots \otimes {\mathbf {y}}_\alpha ^{(k)}, \end{aligned}$$

where \(\tau _{\alpha }\), \(\alpha \in [m]\), are real numbers and \({\mathbf {y}}_\alpha ^{(j)}\), \(\alpha \in [m]\), \(j\in [k]\), are i.i.d. copies of a normalized isotropic random vector \({\mathbf {y}}\in {\mathbb {R}}^n\). For every fixed \(k\ge 1\), if the Normalized Counting Measures of \(\{\tau _{\alpha }\}_{\alpha }\) converge weakly as \(m,n\rightarrow \infty \), \(m/n^k\rightarrow c\in [0,\infty )\) and \({\mathbf {y}}\) is a good vector in the sense of Definition 1.1, then the Normalized Counting Measures of eigenvalues of \({\mathcal {M}}_{n,m,k}({\mathbf {y}})\) converge weakly in probability to a nonrandom limit found in Marchenko and Pastur (Math USSR Sb 1:457–483, 1967). For \(k=2\), we define a subclass of good vectors \({\mathbf {y}}\) for which the centered linear eigenvalue statistics \(n^{-1/2}{{\mathrm{Tr}}}\varphi ({\mathcal {M}}_{n,m,2}({\mathbf {y}}))^\circ \) converge in distribution to a Gaussian random variable, i.e., the Central Limit Theorem is valid.

     

An Invariant Subspace Theorem and Invariant Subspaces of Analytic Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces - II

This paper is a follow-up contribution to our work (Sarkar in J Oper Theory, 73:433–441, 2015) where we discussed some invariant subspace results for contractions on Hilbert spaces. Here we extend the results of (Sarkar in J Oper Theory, 73:433–441, 2015) to the context of n-tuples of bounded linear operators on Hilbert spaces. Let \(T = (T_1, \ldots , T_n)\) be a pure commuting co-spherically contractive n-tuple of operators on a Hilbert space \({\mathcal {H}}\) and \({\mathcal {S}}\) be a non-trivial closed subspace of \({\mathcal {H}}\). One of our main results states that: \({\mathcal {S}}\) is a joint T-invariant subspace if and only if there exists a partially isometric operator \(\Pi \in {\mathcal {B}}(H^2_n({\mathcal {E}}), {\mathcal {H}})\) such that \({\mathcal {S}}= \Pi H^2_n({\mathcal {E}})\), where \(H^2_n\) is the Drury–Arveson space and \({\mathcal {E}}\) is a coefficient Hilbert space and \(T_i \Pi = \Pi M_{z_i}\), \(i = 1, \ldots , n\). In particular, it follows that a shift invariant subspace of a “nice” reproducing kernel Hilbert space over the unit ball in \({{\mathbb {C}}}^n\) is the range of a “multiplier” with closed range. Our work addresses the case of joint shift invariant subspaces of the Hardy space and the weighted Bergman spaces over the unit ball in \({{\mathbb {C}}}^n\).