Sharp Affine and Improved Moser–Trudinger–Adams Type Inequalities on Unbounded Domains in the Spirit of Lions

The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we prove sharp singular affine Moser–Trudinger inequalities on both bounded and unbounded domains in \({\mathbb {R}}^{n}\). In particular, we will prove the following much sharper affine Moser–Trudinger inequality in the spirit of Lions (Rev Mat Iberoamericana 1(2):45–121, 1985) (see our Theorem 1.4): Let \(\alpha _{n}=n\left( \frac{n\pi ^{\frac{n}{2}}}{\Gamma (\frac{n}{2}+1)}\right) ^{\frac{1}{n-1}}\), \(0\le \beta <n\) and \(\tau >0\). Then there exists a constant \(C=C\left( n,\beta \right) >0\) such that for all \(0\le \alpha \le \left( 1-\frac{\beta }{n}\right) \alpha _{n}\) and \(u\in C_{0}^{\infty }\left( {\mathbb {R}}^{n}\right) \setminus \left\{ 0\right\} \) with the affine energy \(~{\mathcal {E}}_{n}\left( u\right) <1\), we have

$$\begin{aligned} {\displaystyle \int \nolimits _{{\mathbb {R}}^{n}}} \frac{\phi _{n,1}\left( \frac{2^{\frac{1}{n-1}}\alpha }{\left( 1+{\mathcal {E}}_{n}\left( u\right) ^{n}\right) ^{\frac{1}{n-1}}}\left| u\right| ^{\frac{n}{n-1}}\right) }{\left| x\right| ^{\beta }}dx\le C\left( n,\beta \right) \frac{\left\| u\right\| _{n}^{n-\beta }}{\left| 1-{\mathcal {E}}_{n}\left( u\right) ^{n}\right| ^{1-\frac{\beta }{n}}}. \end{aligned}$$

Moreover, the constant \(\left( 1-\frac{\beta }{n}\right) \alpha _{n}\) is the best possible in the sense that there is no uniform constant \(C(n, \beta )\) independent of u in the above inequality when \(\alpha >\left( 1-\frac{\beta }{n}\right) \alpha _{n}\). Second, we establish the following improved Adams type inequality in the spirit of Lions (Theorem 1.8): Let \(0\le \beta <2m\) and \(\tau >0\). Then there exists a constant \(C=C\left( m,\beta ,\tau \right) >0\) such that

$$\begin{aligned} \underset{u\in W^{2,m}\left( {\mathbb {R}}^{2m}\right) , \int _{ {\mathbb {R}}^{2m}}\left| \Delta u\right| ^{m}+\tau \left| u\right| ^{m} \le 1}{\sup } {\displaystyle \int \nolimits _{{\mathbb {R}}^{2m}}} \frac{\phi _{2m,2}\left( \frac{2^{\frac{1}{m-1}}\alpha }{\left( 1+\left\| \Delta u\right\| _{m}^{m}\right) ^{\frac{1}{m-1}}}\left| u\right| ^{\frac{m}{m-1}}\right) }{\left| x\right| ^{\beta }}dx\le C\left( m,\beta ,\tau \right) , \end{aligned}$$

for all \(0\le \alpha \le \left( 1-\frac{\beta }{2m}\right) \beta (2m,2)\). When \(\alpha >\left( 1-\frac{\beta }{2m}\right) \beta (2m,2)\), the supremum is infinite. In the above, we use

$$\begin{aligned} \phi _{p,q}(t)=e^{t}- {\displaystyle \sum \limits _{j=0}^{j_{\frac{p}{q}}-2}} \frac{t^{j}}{j!},\,\,\,j_{\frac{p}{q}}=\min \left\{ j\in {\mathbb {N}} :j\ge \frac{p}{q}\right\} \ge \frac{p}{q}. \end{aligned}$$

The main difficulties of proving the above results are that the symmetrization method does not work. Therefore, our main ideas are to develop a rearrangement-free argument in the spirit of Lam and Lu (J Differ Equ 255(3):298–325, 2013; Adv Math 231(6): 3259–3287, 2012), Lam et al. (Nonlinear Anal 95: 77–92, 2014) to establish such theorems. Third, as an application, we will study the existence of weak solutions to the biharmonic equation

$$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{l} \Delta ^{2}u+V(x)u=f(x,u)\text { in }{\mathbb {R}}^{4}\\ u\in H^{2}\left( {\mathbb {R}}^{4}\right) ,~u\ge 0 \end{array} \right. , \end{aligned}$$

where the nonlinearity f has the critical exponential growth.

     

Sharp Inequalities Involving $$(n!)^{1/n}$$

We prove that, for all integers \(n\ge 1\),

$$\begin{aligned} \Big (\sqrt{2\pi n}\Big )^{\frac{1}{n(n+1)}}\left( 1-\frac{1}{n+a}\right) <\frac{\root n \of {n!}}{\root n+1 \of {(n+1)!}}\le \Big (\sqrt{2\pi n}\Big )^{\frac{1}{n(n+1)}}\left( 1-\frac{1}{n+b}\right) \end{aligned}$$

and

$$\begin{aligned} \big (\sqrt{2\pi n}\big )^{1/n}\left( 1-\frac{1}{2n+\alpha }\right) <\left( 1+\frac{1}{n}\right) ^{n}\frac{\root n \of {n!}}{n}\le \big (\sqrt{2\pi n}\big )^{1/n}\left( 1-\frac{1}{2n+\beta }\right) , \end{aligned}$$

with the best possible constants

$$\begin{aligned}&a=\frac{1}{2},\quad b=\frac{1}{2^{3/4}\pi ^{1/4}-1}=0.807\ldots ,\quad \alpha =\frac{13}{6} \\&\text {and}\quad \beta =\frac{2\sqrt{2}-\sqrt{\pi }}{\sqrt{\pi }-\sqrt{2}}=2.947\ldots . \end{aligned}$$

     

SINGULAR PERTURBATION PROBLEMS FOR A CLASS OF ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS OF SECOND ORDER AS DEGENERATED OPERATOR HAS SINGULAR POINTS

In this paper we study the first and tiie third boundary value problems for the elliptic equation \[\begin{array}{l} \varepsilon \left( {\sum\limits_{i,j = 1}^m {{d_{i,j}}(x)\frac{{{\partial ^2}u}}{{\partial {x_i}\partial {x_j}}} + \sum\limits_{i = 1}^m {{d_i}(x)\frac{{\partial u}}{{\partial {x_i}}} + d(x)u} } } \right) + \sum\limits_{i = 1}^m {{a_i}(x)\frac{{\partial u}}{{\partial {x_i}}} + b(x) + c} \ = f(x),x \in G(0 < \varepsilon \le 1), \end{array}\] as the degenerated operator bas singular points, where \[\sum\limits_{i,j = 1}^m {{d_{i,j}}(x){\xi _i}{\xi _j}} \ge {\delta _0}\sum\limits_{i = 1}^m {\xi _i^2} ,({\delta _0} > 0,x \in G).\] The uniformly valid asymptotic solutions of boundary value problems have been obtained under the condition of \[\sum\limits_{i = 1}^m {{a_i}(x){n_i}(x){|_{\partial G}} > 0,or} \sum\limits_{i = 1}^m {{a_i}(x){n_i}(x){|_{\partial G}} < 0} ,\] where \(n = ({n_1}(x),{n_2}(x), \cdots ,{n_m}(x))\) is the interior normal to \({\partial G}\).     

On sums of binomial coefficients involving Catalan and Delannoy numbers modulo $$p^2$$

In this paper, we prove some congruences conjectured by Z.-W. Sun: For any prime \(p>3\), we determine

$$\begin{aligned} \sum \limits _{k = 0}^{p - 1} {\frac{{{C_k}C_k^{(2)}}}{{{{27}^k}}}} \quad {\text { and }}\quad \sum \limits _{k = 1}^{p - 1} {\frac{{\left( {\begin{array}{l} {2k} \\ {k - 1} \\ \end{array}} \right) \left( { \begin{array}{l} {3k} \\ {k - 1} \\ \end{array} } \right) }}{{{{27}^k}}}} \end{aligned}$$

modulo \(p^2\), where \(C_k=\frac{1}{k+1}\left( {\begin{array}{c}2k\\ k\end{array}}\right) \) is the k-th Catalan number and \(C_k^{(2)}=\frac{1}{2k+1}\left( {\begin{array}{c}3k\\ k\end{array}}\right) \) is the second-order Catalan numbers of the first kind. And we prove that

$$\begin{aligned} \sum _{k=1}^{p-1}\frac{D_k}{k}\equiv -q_p(2)+pq_p(2)^2\pmod {p^2}, \end{aligned}$$

where \(D_n=\sum _{k=0}^{n}\left( {\begin{array}{c}n\\ k\end{array}}\right) \left( {\begin{array}{c}n+k\\ k\end{array}}\right) \) is the n-th Delannoy number and \(q_p(2)=(2^{{p-1}}-1)/p\) is the Fermat quotient.

     

THE FIRST BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM FOR SOLUTIONS OF DEGENERATE QUASUJNEAR PARABOLIC EQUATIONS

In this paper, the author proves the existence and uniqueness of nonnegative solution for the first boundary value problem of uniform degenerated parabolic equation $$\[\left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {\frac{{\partial u}}{{\partial t}} = \sum {\frac{\partial }{{\partial {x_i}}}\left( {v(u){A_{ij}}(x,t,u)\frac{{\partial u}}{{\partial {x_j}}}} \right) + \sum {{B_i}(x,t,u)} \frac{{\partial u}}{{\partial {x_i}}}} + C(x,t,u)u\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {}&{(x,t) \in [0,T]} \end{array},}\{u{|_{t = 0}} = {u_0}(x),x \in \Omega ,}\{u{|_{x \in \partial \Omega }} = \psi (s,t),0 \le t \le T} \end{array}} \right.\]$$ $$\[\left( {\frac{1}{\Lambda }{{\left| \alpha \right|}^2} \le \sum {{A_{ij}}{\alpha _i}{\alpha _j}} \le \Lambda {{\left| \alpha \right|}^2},\forall a \in {R^n},0 < \Lambda < \infty ,v(u) > 0\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {and}&{v(u) \to 0\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {as}&{u \to 0} \end{array}} \end{array}} \right)\]$$ under some very weak restrictions, i.e. $\[{A_{ij}}(x,t,r),{B_i}(x,t,r),C(x,t,r),\sum {\frac{{\partial {A_{ij}}}}{{\partial {x_j}}}} ,\sum {\frac{{\partial {B_i}}}{{\partial {x_i}}} \in \overline \Omega } \times [0,T] \times R,\left| {{B_i}} \right| \le \Lambda ,\left| C \right| \le \Lambda ,\],\[\left| {\sum {\frac{{\partial {B_i}}}{{\partial {x_i}}}} } \right| \le \Lambda ,\partial \Omega \in {C^2},v(r) \in C[0,\infty ).v(0) = 0,1 \le \frac{{rv(r)}}{{\int_0^r {v(s)ds} }} \le m,{u_0}(x) \in {C^2}(\overline \Omega ),\psi (s,t) \in {C^\beta }(\partial \Omega \times [0,T]),0 < \beta < 1\],\[{u_0}(s) = \psi (s,0).\]$     

A Mean-Value Theorem for Multiplicative Functions on the Set of Shifted Primes

Let f be a complex-valued multiplicative function, letp denote a prime and let π(x) be the number of primes not exceeding x. Further put $$m_p (f): = \mathop {\lim }\limits_{x \to \infty } \frac{1}{{\pi (x)}}\sum\limits_{p \leqslant x} {f(p + 1)} {\text{, }}M(f): = \mathop {\lim }\limits_{x \to \infty } \frac{1}{x}\sum\limits_{n \leqslant x} {f(n)}$$ and suppose that $$\mathop {\lim \sup }\limits_{x \to \infty } \frac{1}{x}\sum\limits_{n \leqslant x} {\left| {f\left( n \right)} \right|^2 } < \infty ,\sum\limits_{p \leqslant x} {\left| {f\left( n \right)} \right|^2 } \ll x\left( {\ln x} \right)^{ - \varrho } ,$$ with some \varrho > 0. For such functions we prove: If there is a Dirichlet character χ_d such that the mean-value M(f χ_d) exists and is different from zero,then the mean-value m_p(f) exists. If the mean-value M(f) exists, then the same is true for the mean-valuem_p(f) .     

On the strong summation of Fourier series with variable exponents

Пустьf 2π-периодическ ая суммируемая функц ия, as _k (x) еë сумма Фурье порядк аk. В связи с известным ре зультатом Зигмунда о сильной суммируемости мы уст анавливаем, что если λn→∞, то сущес твует такая функцияf, что почти всюду $$\mathop {\lim \sup }\limits_{n \to \infty } \left\{ {\frac{1}{n}\mathop \sum \limits_{k = n + 1}^{2n} |s_k (x) - f(x)|^{\lambda _{2n} } } \right\}^{1/\lambda _{2n} } = \infty .$$ Отсюда, в частности, вы текает, что если λn?∞, т о существует такая фун кцияf, что почти всюду $$\mathop {\lim \sup }\limits_{n \to \infty } \left\{ {\frac{1}{n}\mathop \sum \limits_{k = 0}^n |s_k (x) - f(x)|^{\lambda _k } } \right\}^{1/\lambda _n } = \infty .$$ Пусть, далее, ω-модуль н епрерывности и $$H^\omega = \{ f:\parallel f(x + h) - f(x)\parallel _c \leqq K_f \omega (h)\} .$$ . Мы доказываем, что есл и λ _n ?∞, то необходимым и достаточным условие м для того, чтобы для всехf∈H ^ω выполнялос ь соотношение $$\mathop {\lim }\limits_{n \to \infty } \left\{ {\frac{1}{n}\mathop \sum \limits_{k = n + 1}^{2n} |s_k (x) - f(x)|^{\lambda _n } } \right\}^{1/\lambda _n } = 0(x \in [0;2\pi ])$$ является условие $$\omega \left( {\frac{1}{n}} \right) = o\left( {\frac{1}{{\log n}} + \frac{1}{{\lambda _n }}} \right).$$ Это же условие необхо димо и достаточно для того, чтобы выполнялось соотнош ение $$\mathop {\lim }\limits_{n \to \infty } \frac{1}{{n + 1}}\mathop \sum \limits_{k = 0}^n |s_k (x) - f(x)|^{\lambda _k } = 0(f \in H^\omega ,x \in [0;2\pi ]).$$      

Averaging and fluctuations for parabolic equations with rapidly oscillating random coefficients

In this paper we consider the parabolic equation with random coefficients:

Volume Formulas in Lp-Spaces

We extend classical volume formulas for ellipsoids and zonoids to p-sums of segments $${vol}\left( {\sum\limits_{i=1}^m { \oplus_p } [ -x_i ,x_i ]} \right)^{1/n} \sim_{c_p} n^{ - \frac{1}{{p'}}} \left( {\sum\limits_{card(I) = n} {|\det (x_i)_i |^p}} \right)^{\frac{1}{{pn}}}$$ where x1,...,xm are m vectors in $\mathbb{R}^n ,\frac{1}{p} + \frac{1}{{p\prime }} = 1$ . According to the definition of Firey, the Minkowski p-sum of segments is given by $$\sum\limits_{i = 1}^m { \oplus _p [ - x_{i,} x_i ]} = \left\{ {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^m {\alpha _i } x_i \left| {\left( {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^m {|\alpha _i |^{p^\prime } } } \right)} \right.^{\frac{1}{{p^\prime }}} \leqslant 1} \right\}.$$ We describe related geometric properties of the Lewis maps associated to classical operator norms.     

The generalized Roper-Suffridge extension operator in Banach spaces (III)

Suppose that X is a complex Banach space with the norm ‖·‖ and n is a positive integer with dim X ⩾ n ⩾ 2. In this paper, we consider the generalized Roper-Suffridge extension operator $ \Phi _{n,\beta _2 ,\gamma _2 , \ldots ,\beta _{n + 1} ,\gamma _{n + 1} } (f) $ \Phi _{n,\beta _2 ,\gamma _2 , \ldots ,\beta _{n + 1} ,\gamma _{n + 1} } (f) on the domain $ \Omega _{p_1 ,p_2 , \ldots ,p_{n + 1} } $ \Omega _{p_1 ,p_2 , \ldots ,p_{n + 1} } defined by

Inequalities and asymptotics for the Euler–Mascheroni constant based on DeTemple’s result

Let \(R_{n}={\sum }_{k=1}^{n}\frac {1}{k}-\ln \left (n+\frac {1}{2}\right )\). DeTemple proved the following inequality:     

On some congruences of certain binomial sums

For any prime \(p>3,\) we prove that

$$\begin{aligned} \sum _{k=0}^{p-1}\frac{3k+1}{(-8)^k}{2k\atopwithdelims ()k}^3\equiv p\left( \frac{-1}{p}\right) +p^3E_{p-3}\pmod {p^4}, \end{aligned}$$

where \(E_{0},E_{1},E_{2},\ldots \) are Euler numbers and \(\left( \frac{\cdot }{p}\right) \) is the Legendre symbol. This result confirms a conjecture of Z.-W. Sun. We also re-prove that for any odd prime \(p,\)

$$\begin{aligned} \sum _{k=0}^{\frac{p-1}{2}}\frac{6k+1}{(-512)^k}{2k\atopwithdelims ()k}^3\equiv p\left( \frac{-2}{p}\right) \pmod {p^2} \end{aligned}$$

using WZ method.

     

The Initial Value Problems and Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems for a Class of the Second order Quasilinear Parabolio Systems

In this paper initial value problems and nonlinear mixed boundary value problems for the quasilinear parabolic systems below $\[\frac{{\partial {u_k}}}{{\partial t}} - \sum\limits_{i,j = 1}^n {a_{ij}^{(k)}} (x,t)\frac{{{\partial ^2}{u_k}}}{{\partial {x_i}\partial {x_j}}} = {f_k}(x,t,u,{u_x}),k = 1, \cdots ,N\]$ are discussed.The boundary value conditions are $\[{u_k}{|_{\partial \Omega }} = {g_k}(x,t),k = 1, \cdots ,s,\]$ $\[\sum\limits_{i = 1}^n {b_i^{(k)}} (x,t)\frac{{\partial {u_k}}}{{\partial {x_i}}}{|_{\partial \Omega }} = {h_k}(x,t,u),k = s + 1, \cdots N.\]$ Under some "basically natural" assumptions it is shown by means of the Schauder type estimates of the linear parabolic equations and the embedding inequalities in Nikol'skii spaces,these problems have solutions in the spaces $\[{H^{2 + \alpha ,1 + \frac{\alpha }{2}}}(0 < \alpha < 1)\]$.For the boundary value problem with $\[b_i^{(k)}(x,t) = \sum\limits_{j = 1}^n {a_{ij}^{(k)}} (x,t)\cos (n,{x_j})\]$ uniqueness theorem is proved.     

A Theorem of Hardy-Bennett-Type

Recently G. Bennett described a new way of looking at classical inequalities. His method is a certain "factorization" of inequalities. The new results provide the best possible version of several well-known inequalities. We generalize one of Bennett's theorems which is the factorized restatement and generalization of the following classical Hardy inequality: $$\sum\limits_{n = 1}^\infty {\left( {\frac{1}{n}\sum\limits_{k = 1}^n {\left| {x_k } \right|} } \right)^p < \left( {\frac{p}{{p - 1}}} \right)^p \sum\limits_{n = 1}^\infty {\left| {x_n } \right|} ^p }$$ , which holds for any p > 1.     

THROREMS OF DISTORTION FOR SCHLICHT FUNCTIONS

Let \[f(z) = z + \sum\limits_{n = 1}^\infty {{a_n}{z^n} \in S} {\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} and{\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} \log \frac{{f(z) - f(\xi )}}{{z - \xi }} - \frac{{z\xi }}{{f(z)f(\xi )}} = \sum\limits_{m,n = 1}^\infty {{d_{m,n}}{z^m}{\xi ^n},} \], we denote \[{f_v} = f({z_v})\] , \[\begin{array}{l} {\varphi _\varepsilon }({z_u}{z_v}) = {\left| {\frac{{{f_u} - {f_v}}}{{{z_u} - {z_v}}}} \right|^\varepsilon }\frac{1}{{(1 - {z_u}{{\bar z}_v})}},\g_m^\varepsilon (z) = - {F_m}(\frac{1}{{f(z)}}) + \frac{1}{{{z^m}}} + \varepsilon {{\bar z}^m}, \end{array}\], where \({F_m}(t)\) is a Faber polynomial of degree m. Theorem 1. If \[f(z) \in S{\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} and{\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} \sum\limits_{u,v = 1}^N {{A_{u,v}}{x_u}{{\bar x}_v} \ge 0} \] and then \[\begin{array}{l} \sum\limits_{u,v = 1}^N {{A_{u,v}}{\lambda _u}{{\bar \lambda }_v}} {\left| {\frac{{{f_u} - {f_v}}}{{{z_u} - {z_v}}}} \right|^\varepsilon }\exp \{ \alpha {F_l}({z_u},{z_v})\} \ \le \sum\limits_{u,v = 1}^N {{A_{u,v}}{\lambda _u}{{\bar \lambda }_v}} \varphi _\varepsilon ^\alpha ({z_u}{z_v})l = 1,2,3, \end{array}\], where \[\begin{array}{l} {F_1}({z_u},{z_v}) = \frac{1}{2}\sum\limits_{n = 1}^\infty {\frac{1}{n}} g_n^\varepsilon ({z_u})\bar g_n^\varepsilon ({z_v}),\{F_2}({z_u},{z_v}) = \frac{1}{{1 + {\varepsilon _n}R{d_{n,n}}}}Rg_n^\varepsilon ({z_u})Rg_n^\varepsilon ({z_v}),\{F_3}({z_u},{z_v}) = \frac{1}{{1 - {\varepsilon _n}R{d_{n,n}}}}Rg_n^\varepsilon ({z_u})Rg_n^\varepsilon ({z_v}). \end{array}\] The \[F({z_u},{z_v}) = \frac{1}{2}{g_1}({z_u}){{\bar g}_2}({z_v})\] is due to Kungsun. Theorem 2. If \(f(z) \in S\) ,then \[P(z) + \left| {\sum\limits_{u,v = 1}^N {{A_{u,v}}{\lambda _u}{{\bar \lambda }_v}} {{\left| {\frac{{{f_u} - {f_v}}}{{{z_u} - {z_v}}}\frac{{{z_u}{z_v}}}{{{f_u}{f_v}}}} \right|}^\varepsilon }} \right| \le \sum\limits_{u,v = 1}^N {{\lambda _u}{{\bar \lambda }_v}} \frac{1}{{1 - {z_u}{{\bar z}_v}}}\], where \[\begin{array}{l} P(z) = \frac{1}{2}\sum\limits_{n = 1}^\infty {\frac{1}{n}} {G_n}(z),\{G_n}(z) = {\left| {\left| {\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {{\beta _u}({F_n}(\frac{1}{{f({z_u})}}) - \frac{1}{{z_u^n}})} } \right| - \left| {\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {{\beta _u}z_u^n} } \right|} \right|^2}, \end{array}\], \(P(z) \equiv 0\) is due to Xia Daoxing.     

Stability problem of Hyers-Ulam-Rassias for generalized forms of cubic functional equation

Let n≥2 be an integer number. In this paper, we investigate the generalized Hyers Ulam- Rassias stability in Banach spaces and also Banach modules over a Banach algebra and a C＊-algebra and the stability using the alternative fixed point of an n-dimensional cubic functional equation in Banach spaces：f（2∑j=1^n-1 xj＋xn）＋f（2∑j=1^n-1 xj-xn）＋4∑j=1^n-1f（xj）=16f（∑j=1^n-1 xj）＋2∑j=1^n-1（f（xj＋xn）＋f（xj-xn）     

Refined functional equations stemming from cubic,quadratic and additive mappings

Let n ≥ 2 be an integer. In this paper, we investigate the generalized Hyers-Ulam stability problem for the following functional equation f（n-1∑j=1 xj＋2xn）＋f（n-1∑j=1 xj-2xn）＋8 n-1∑j=1f（xj）=2f（n-1∑j=1 xj） ＋4 n-1∑j=1[f（xj＋xn）＋f（xj-xn）] which contains as solutions cubic, quadratic or additive mappings.     

Inequalities for combinatorial sums

For \(k,l\in \mathbf {N}\), let

$$\begin{aligned}&P_{k,l}=\Bigl (\frac{l}{k+l}\Bigr )^{k+l} \sum _{\nu =0}^{k-1} {k+l\atopwithdelims ()\nu } \Bigl (\frac{k}{l}\Bigr )^{\nu }\\&\quad \text{ and }\quad Q_{k,l}=\Bigl (\frac{l}{k+l}\Bigr )^{k+l} \sum _{\nu =0}^{k} {k+l\atopwithdelims ()\nu } \Bigl (\frac{k}{l}\Bigr )^{\nu }. \end{aligned}$$

We prove that the inequality

$$\begin{aligned} \frac{1}{4}\le P_{k,l} \end{aligned}$$

is valid for all natural numbers k and l. The sign of equality holds if and only if \(k=l=1\). This complements a result of Vietoris, who showed that

$$\begin{aligned} P_{k,l}<\frac{1}{2} \quad {(k,l\in \mathbf {N})}. \end{aligned}$$

An immediate corollary is that

$$\begin{aligned} \frac{1}{4}\le P_{k,l}<\frac{1}{2} <Q_{k,l}\le \frac{3}{4} \quad {(k,l\in \mathbf {N})}. \end{aligned}$$

The constant bounds are sharp.

     

Congruences involving $$g_n(x)=\sum \limits _{k=0}^n\left( {\begin{array}{c}n\\ k\end{array}}\right) ^2\left( {\begin{array}{c}2k\\ k\end{array}}\right) x^k$$

Define \(g_n(x)=\sum _{k=0}^n\left( {\begin{array}{c}n\\ k\end{array}}\right) ^2\left( {\begin{array}{c}2k\\ k\end{array}}\right) x^k\) for \(n=0,1,2,\ldots \). Those numbers \(g_n=g_n(1)\) are closely related to Apéry numbers and Franel numbers. In this paper we establish some fundamental congruences involving \(g_n(x)\). For example, for any prime \(p>5\) we have

$$\begin{aligned} \sum _{k=1}^{p-1}\frac{g_k(-1)}{k}\equiv 0\pmod {p^2}\quad \text {and}\quad \sum _{k=1}^{p-1}\frac{g_k(-1)}{k^2}\equiv 0\pmod p. \end{aligned}$$

This is similar to Wolstenholme’s classical congruences

$$\begin{aligned} \sum _{k=1}^{p-1}\frac{1}{k}\equiv 0\pmod {p^2}\quad \text {and}\quad \sum _{k=1}^{p-1}\frac{1}{k^2}\equiv 0\pmod p \end{aligned}$$

for any prime \(p>3\).

     

NONLINEAR BOUNDARY PROBLEMS WITH NONLOCAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

By means of the supersolution and subsolution method and monotone iteration technique, the following nonlinear elliptic boundary problem with the nonlocal boundary conditions is considerd. The sufficient conditions which ensure at least one solution are given. Furthermore, the estimate of the first nonzero eigenvalue for the following linear eigenproblem is obtained, that is λ_1≥2α/(nd~2).