Entropy numbers of Sobolev embeddings of radial Besov spaces

Let be the radial subspace of the Besov space . We prove the independence of the asymptotic behavior of the entropy numbers

from the difference s₀−s₁ as long as the embedding itself is compact. In fact, we shall show that

This is in a certain contrast to earlier results on entropy numbers in the context of Besov spaces B_p,q^s(Ω) on bounded domains Ω.     

An answer to Hermann's conjecture on Bleimann–Butzer–Hahn operators

We give a negative answer to the conjecture of Hermann [On the operator of Bleimann, Butzer and Hahn, in: J. Szabados, K. Tandori (Eds.), Approximation Theory, Proc. Conf., Kecskemét/Hung., 1990, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1991, Colloq. Math. Soc. János Bolyai 58 (1991) 355–360] on Bleimann–Butzer–Hahn operators L_n. Our main result states that for each locally bounded positive function h there exists a continuous positive function f defined on [0,∞) with L_nf→f(n→∞), pointwise on [0,∞), such that

Moreover we construct an explicit counterexample function to Hermann's conjecture.     

BV solutions to a degenerate parabolic equation for image denoising

In this article, the authors consider equation ut = div(ψ(Гu)A(|Du|2)Du) -(u- I), where ψ is strictly positive and Г is a known vector-valued mapping, A: R → R is decreasing and A(s) ～ 1/√a as s → ∞. This kind of equation arises naturally from image denoising. For an initial datum I ∈ BVloc ∩ L∞, the existence of BV solutions to the initial value problem of the equation is obtained.     

Characterizations of spaces in the unit ball of

Let B denote the unit ball of . For 0<p<∞, the holomorphic function spaces Q_p and Q_p,0 on the unit ball of are defined as

and

In this paper, we give some derivative-free, mixture and oscillation characterizations for Q_p and Q_p,0 spaces in the unit ball of .     

Hardy–Sobolev critical elliptic equations with boundary singularities

Unlike the non-singular case s=0, or the case when 0 belongs to the interior of a domain Ω in (n3), we show that the value and the attainability of the best Hardy–Sobolev constant on a smooth domain Ω,

when 0<s<2, , and when 0 is on the boundary ∂Ω are closely related to the properties of the curvature of ∂Ω at 0. These conditions on the curvature are also relevant to the study of elliptic partial differential equations with singular potentials of the form:

where f is a lower order perturbative term at infinity and f(x,0)=0. We show that the positivity of the sectional curvature at 0 is relevant when dealing with Dirichlet boundary conditions, while the Neumann problems seem to require the positivity of the mean curvature at 0.     

Marcinkiewicz–Zygmund strong laws for -statistics of weakly dependent observations

We prove the Marcinkiewicz–Zygmund Strong Law of Large Numbers for U-statistics of strictly stationary, absolutely regular observations (ξ_i)_i≥1. Under suitable moment conditions and conditions on the mixing rate, we show that

for some γ≥0, in the non-degenerate case, and

in the degenerate case.     

Estimates for n-widths of the Hardy-type operators (Addendum to “Improved estimates for the approximation numbers of the Hardy-type operators”)

Consider the Hardy-type operator T : L^p(a,b)→L^p(a,b),-∞a<b∞, which is defined by

It is shown that

where ρ_n(T) stands for any of the following: the Kolmogorov n-width, the Gel’fand n-width, the Bernstein n-width or the nth approximation number of T.     

Uniform persistence for Lotka–Volterra-type delay differential systems

Consider the uniform persistence (permanence) of models governed by the following Lotka–Volterra-type delay differential system:

where each r_i(t) is a nonnegative continuous function on [0,+∞), r_i(t)0, each a_i0 and τ_ij^k(t)t, 1i,jn, 0km.In this paper, we establish sufficient conditions of the uniform persistence and contractivity for solutions (and global asymptotic stability). In particular, we extend the results in Wang and Ma (J. Math. Anal. Appl. 158 (1991) 256) for a predator–prey system and Lu and Takeuchi (Nonlinear Anal. TMA 22 (1994) 847) for a competitive system in the case n=2, to the above system with n2.     

On existence of singular solutions

In the paper sufficient conditions are given under which the differential equation y⁽ⁿ⁾=f(t,y,…,y⁽ⁿ⁻²⁾)g(y⁽ⁿ⁻¹⁾) has a singular solution y :[T,τ)→R, τ<∞ fulfilling

     

A note on asymptotic behavior for negative drift random walk with dependent heavy-tailed steps and its application to risk theory

In this article, the dependent steps of a negative drift random walk are modelled as a two-sided linear process Xn =-μ ∞∑j=-∞ψn-jεj, where {ε, εn; -∞＜ n ＜ ∞}is a sequence of independent, identically distributed random variables with zero mean, μ＞0 is a constant and the coefficients {ψi;-∞＜ i ＜∞} satisfy 0 ＜∞∑j=-∞|jψj| ＜∞. Under the conditions that the distribution function of |ε| has dominated variation and ε satisfies certain tail balance conditions, the asymptotic behavior of P{supn≥0(-nμ ∞∑j=-∞εjβnj) ＞ x}is discussed. Then the result is applied to ultimate ruin probability.     

Weighted Hardy inequalities

For bounded Lipschitz domains D in it is known that if 1<p<∞, then for all β[0,β₀), where β₀=p−1>0, there is a constant c<∞ with

for all . We show that if D is merely assumed to be a bounded domain in that satisfies a Whitney cube-counting condition with exponent λ and has plump complement, then the same inequality holds with β₀ now taken to be . Further, we extend the known results (see [H. Brezis, M. Marcus, Hardy's inequalities revisited, Dedicated to Ennio De Giorgi, Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci. (4) 25 (1997–1998) 217–237; M. Hoffmann-Ostenhof, T. Hoffmann-Ostenhof, A. Laptev, A geometrical version of Hardy's inequality, J. Funct. Anal. 189 (2002) 537–548; J. Tidblom, A geometrical version of Hardy's inequality for W^1,p(Ω), Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004) 2265–2271]) concerning the improved Hardy inequality

c=c(n,p), by showing that the class of domains for which the inequality holds is larger than that of all bounded convex domains.     

Blow-up analysis for a system of heat equations with nonlinear flux which obey different laws

We consider a system of heat equations u_t=Δu and v_t=Δv in Ω×(0,T) completely coupled by nonlinear boundary conditions

We prove that the solutions always blow up in finite time for non-zero and non-negative initial values. Also, the blow-up only occurs on ∂Ω with

for p,q>0, 0≤α<1 and 0≤β<p.     

RELATIONS BETWEEN PACKING PREMEASURE AND MEASURE ON METRIC SPACE

Let X be a metric space andμa finite Borel measure on X. Let pμq,t and pμq,t be the packing premeasure and the packing measure on X, respectively, defined by the gauge (μB(x,r))q(2r)t, where q, t∈R. For any compact set E of finite packing premeasure the authors prove: (1) if q≤0 then pμq,t(E)=pμq,t(E);(2)if q>0 andμis doubling on E then pμq,t(E) and pμq,t(E) are both zero or neither.     

On positive solutions of some nonlinear fourth-order beam equations

The existence, uniqueness and multiplicity of positive solutions of the following boundary value problem is considered:

u⁽⁴⁾(t)−λf(t,u(t))=0, for 0<t<1,u(0)=u(1)=u″(0)=u″(1)=0,

where λ>0 is a constant, f :[0,1]×[0,+∞)→[0,+∞) is continuous.     

Stability and instability of periodic standing wave solutions for some Klein–Gordon equations

In the present paper we show some results concerning the orbital stability of dnoidal standing wave solutions and orbital instability of cnoidal standing wave solutions to the following Klein–Gordon equation:

u_tt−u_xx+u−|u|²u=0.

We also present a result of orbital instability of snoidal standing wave solutions to the Klein–Gordon equation

u_tt−u_xx+|u|²u=0.

The main tool to obtain these results is the classical Grillakis, Shatah and Strauss' theory in the periodic context.     

Remark on a double-inequality for the Riemann zeta function

Let ζ be the Riemann zeta function and δ(x)=1/(2^x-1). For all x>0 we have

(1-δ(x))ζ(x)+αδ(x)<ζ(x+1)<(1-δ(x))ζ(x)+βδ(x),

with the best possible constant factors

This improves a recently published result of Cerone et al., J. Inequalities Pure Appl. Math. 5(2) (43) (2004), who showed that the double-inequality holds with and .     

Lower bounds for the merit factors of trigonometric polynomials from Littlewood classes

With the notation ,

we prove the following result.Theorem 1. Assume that p is a trigonometric polynomial of degree at most n with real coefficients that satisfies

||p||_L2(K)An^1/2 and ||p′||_L2(K)Bn^3/2.

Then

M₄(p)−M₂(p)M₂(p)

with

We also prove that

and

M₂(p)−M₁(p)10⁻³¹M₂(p)

for every , where denotes the collection of all trigonometric polynomials of the form

     

Bounds on margin distributions in learning problems

Let be a probability space and let P_n be the empirical measure based on i.i.d. sample (X₁,…,X_n) from P. Let be a class of measurable real valued functions on For define F_f(t):=P{ft} and F_n,f(t):=P_n{ft}. Given γ(0,1], define _n,γ(δ):=1/(n^1−γ/2δ^γ). We show that if the L₂(P_n)-entropy of the class grows as ^−α for some α(0,2), then, for all and all δ(0,Δ_n), Δ_n=O(n^1/2),

and

where and c(σ)↓1 as σ↓0 (the above inequalities hold for any fixed σ(0,1] with a high probability). Also, define

Then for all

uniformly in and with probability 1 (for the above ratio is bounded away from 0 and from ∞). The results are motivated by recent developments in machine learning, where they are used to bound the generalization error of learning algorithms. We also prove some more general results of similar nature, show the sharpness of the conditions and discuss the applications in learning theory.     

Existence of multiple positive solutions for nonlinear m-point boundary-value problems

In this paper, we afford some sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of multiple positive solutions for the nonlinear m-point boundary-value problem for the one-dimensional p-Laplacian

(φ_p(u^′))^′+f(t,u)=0, t(0,1),

     

Curves of positive solutions of boundary value problems on time-scales

Let TR be a time-scale, with a=infT, b=supT. We consider the nonlinear boundary value problem

(2)

(4)

u(a)=u(b)=0,