Blow-up of <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Laplacian evolution equations with variable source power

We study the blow-up and/or global existence of the following p-Laplacian evolution equation with variable source power

$${s_j} = {\beta _j} + \overline {{\beta _{n - j}}}p$$

where Ω is either a bounded domain or the whole space ? ^N , q(x) is a positive and continuous function defined in Ω with 0 < q _? = inf q(x) ? q(x) ? sup q(x) = q+ < ∞. It is demonstrated that the equation with variable source power has much richer dynamics with interesting phenomena which depends on the interplay of q(x) and the structure of spatial domain Ω, compared with the case of constant source power. For the case that Ω is a bounded domain, the exponent p ? 1 plays a crucial role. If q+ > p ? 1, there exist blow-up solutions, while if q ₊ < p ? 1, all the solutions are global. If q _? > p ? 1, there exist global solutions, while for given q _? < p ? 1 < q ₊, there exist some function q(x) and Ω such that all nontrivial solutions will blow up, which is called the Fujita phenomenon. For the case Ω = ? ^N , the Fujita phenomenon occurs if 1 < q _? ? q ₊ ? p ? 1 + p/N, while if q _? > p ? 1 + p/N, there exist global solutions.

     

The exponents in the prime decomposition of factorials

Let ν_p(n) be the exponent of p in the prime decomposition of n. We show that for different primes p, q satisfying some mild constraints the integers ν_p(n!) and ν_q(n!) cannot both be of a rather special form.     

On multiple zeros of a partial theta function

We consider the partial theta function θ(q, x) := ∑_j=0^∞q^j(j+1)/2x^j, where x ∈ ? is a variable and q ∈ ?, 0 < |q| < 1, is a parameter. We show that, for any fixed q, if ζ is a multiple zero of the function θ(q, · ), then |ζ| ≤ 8¹¹.     

On the continuity of solutions to elliptic equations with variable order of nonlinearity

We study the p-Laplacian with variable exponent p(x) bounded away from unity and infinity. We obtain a sufficient condition on p(x) under which all solutions of the p-Laplace equation are continuous at a fixed point of a domain, and find an estimate for the modulus of continuity of solutions.     

Nilpotent residual of fixed points

Let q be a prime and A a finite q-group of exponent q acting by automorphisms on a finite \(q'\)-group G. Assume that A has order at least \(q^3\). We show that if \(\gamma _{\infty } (C_{G}(a))\) has order at most m for any \(a \in A^{\#}\), then the order of \(\gamma _{\infty } (G)\) is bounded solely in terms of m and q. If \(\gamma _{\infty } (C_{G}(a))\) has rank at most r for any \(a \in A^{\#}\), then the rank of \(\gamma _{\infty } (G)\) is bounded solely in terms of r and q.     

Differentiability of Mappings of the Sobolev Space <Emphasis Type="Italic">W</Emphasis><Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis>−1</Subscript><Superscript>1</Superscript> with Conditions on the Distortion Function

We define two scales of the mappings that depend on two real parameters p and q, with n?1 ≤ q ≤ p < ∞, as well as a weight function θ. The case q = p = n and θ ≡ 1 yields the well-known mappings with bounded distortion. The mappings of a two-index scale are applied to solve a series of problems of global analysis and applications. The main result of the article is the a.e. differentiability of mappings of two-index scales.     

Continued fractions for square series generating functions

We consider new series expansions for variants of the so-termed ordinary geometric square series generating functions originally defined in the recent article titled “Square Series Generating Function Transformations” (arXiv:1609.02803). Whereas the original square series transformations article adapts known generating function transformations to construct integral representations for these square series functions enumerating the square powers of \(q^{n^2}\) for some fixed non-zero q with \(|q| < 1\), we study the expansions of these special series through power series generated by Jacobi-type continued fractions, or J-fractions. We prove new exact expansions of the hth convergents to these continued fraction series and show that the limiting case of these convergent generating functions exists as \(h \rightarrow \infty \). We also prove new infinite q-series representations of special square series expansions involving square-power terms of the series parameter q, the q-Pochhammer symbol, and double sums over the q-binomial coefficients. Applications of the new results we prove within the article include new q-series representations for the ordinary generating functions of the special sequences, \(r_p(n)\), and \(\sigma _1(n)\), as well as parallels to the examples of the new integral representations for theta functions, series expansions of infinite products and partition function generating functions, and related unilateral special function series cited in the first square series transformations article.     

On the geometric mean operator with variable limits of integration

A new criterion for the weighted L _p ?L _q boundedness of the Hardy operator with two variable limits of integration is obtained for 0 < q < q + 1 ≤ p < ∞. This criterion is applied to the characterization of the weighted L _p ?L _q boundedness of the corresponding geometric mean operator for 0 < q < p < ∞.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Superscript>2</Superscript>(ℝ<Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis></Superscript>) boundedness for Calderón commutator with rough variable kernel

For b ∈ Lip(?ⁿ); the Calderón commutator with variable kernel is defined by

$$[b,{T_1}]f(x) = p.v.\int_{{R n}} {\frac{{\Omega (x,x - y)}}{{|x - y{| {n + 1}}}}(b(x) - b(y))f(y)dy} $$

In this paper, we establish the L²(?ⁿ) boundedness for [b, T₁] with Ω(x, z′) ∈ L^∞(?ⁿ)-L^q(S^n-1) (q > 2(n-1)=n) satisfying certain cancellation conditions. Moreover, the exponent q > 2(n-1)/n is optimal. Our main result improves a previous result of Calderón.

     

Strong factorization property of Macdonald polynomials and higher-order Macdonald’s positivity conjecture

We prove a strong factorization property of interpolation Macdonald polynomials when q tends to 1. As a consequence, we show that Macdonald polynomials have a strong factorization property when q tends to 1, which was posed as an open question in our previous paper with Féray. Furthermore, we introduce multivariate q, t-Kostka numbers and we show that they are polynomials in q, t with integer coefficients by using the strong factorization property of Macdonald polynomials. We conjecture that multivariate q, t-Kostka numbers are in fact polynomials in q, t with nonnegative integer coefficients, which generalizes the celebrated Macdonald’s positivity conjecture.     

On full-rank perfect codes over finite fields

We propose a construction of full-rank q-ary 1-perfect codes. This is a generalization of the construction of full-rank binary 1-perfect codes by Etzion and Vardy (1994). The properties of the i-components of q-ary Hamming codes are investigated, and the construction of full-rank q-ary 1-perfect codes is based on these properties. The switching construction of 1-perfect codes is generalized to the q-ary case. We propose a generalization of the notion of an i-component of a 1-perfect code and introduce the concept of an (i, σ)-component of a q-ary 1-perfect code. We also present a generalization of the Lindström–Schönheim construction of q-ary 1-perfect codes and provide a lower bound for the number of pairwise distinct q-ary 1-perfect codes of length n.     

On the optimal robust solution of IVPs with noisy information

We investigate the optimal solution of systems of initial-value problems with smooth right-hand side functions f from a Hölder class \(F^{r,\varrho }_{\text {reg}}\), where r ≥ 0 is the number of continuous derivatives of f, and ? ∈ (0, 1] is the Hölder exponent of rth partial derivatives. We consider algorithms that use n evaluations of f, the ith evaluation being corrupted by a noise δ_i of deterministic or random nature. For δ ≥ 0, in the deterministic case the noise δ_i is a bounded vector, ∥δ_i∥≤δ. In the random case, it is a vector-valued random variable bounded in average, (E(∥δ_i∥^q))^1/q ≤ δ, q ∈ [1, + ∞). We point out an algorithm whose L_p error (p ∈ [0, + ∞]) is O(n ^{? (r + ?)} + δ), independently of the noise distribution. We observe that the level n ^{? (r + ?)} + δ cannot be improved in a class of information evaluations and algorithms. For ε > 0, and a certain model of δ-dependent cost, we establish optimal values of n(ε) and δ(ε) that should be used in order to get the error at most ε with minimal cost.     

Regularization of Mickelsson generators for nonexceptional quantum groups

Let g′ ? g be a pair of Lie algebras of either symplectic or orthogonal infinitesimal endomorphisms of the complex vector spaces C ^N?2 ? C ^N and U _q (g′) ? U _q (g) be a pair of quantum groups with a triangular decomposition U _q (g) = U _q (g_-)U _q (g₊)U _q (h). Let Z _q (g, g′) be the corresponding step algebra. We assume that its generators are rational trigonometric functions h ? → U _q (g_±). We describe their regularization such that the resulting generators do not vanish for any choice of the weight.     

Fujita type conditions to heat equation with variable source

This paper studies heat equation with variable exponent u _t = Δu + u^p(x) + u ^q in ? ^N × (0, T), where p(x) is a nonnegative continuous, bounded function, 0 < p_? = inf p(x) ≤ p(x) ≤ sup p(x) = p₊. It is easy to understand for the problem that all nontrivial nonnegative solutions must be global if and only if max {p₊, q} ≤ 1. Based on the interaction between the two sources with fixed and variable exponents in the model, some Fujita type conditions are determined that that all nontrivial nonnegative solutions blow up in finite time if 0 < q ≤ 1 with p₊ > 1, or 1 < q < 1 + \(\frac{2}{N}\). In addition, if q > 1 + \(\frac{2}{N}\), then (i) all solutions blow up in finite time with 0 < p_? ≤ p₊ ≤ 1 + \(\frac{2}{N}\); (ii) there are both global and nonglobal solutions for p_? > 1 + \(\frac{2}{N}\); and (iii) there are functions p(x) such that all solutions blow up in finite time, and also functions p(x) such that the problem possesses global solutions when p_? < 1 + \(\frac{2}{N}\) < p₊.     

Hochschild cohomology ring modulo nilpotence of a one point extension of a quiver algebra defined by two cycles and a quantum-like relation

We consider a one point extension algebra B of a quiver algebra A _q over a field k defined by two cycles and a quantum-like relation depending on a nonzero element q in k. We determine the Hochschild cohomology ring of B modulo nilpotence and show that if q is a root of unity, then B is a counterexample to Snashall-Solberg’s conjecture.     

Schur positivity and the <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-log-convexity of the Narayana polynomials

We prove two recent conjectures of Liu and Wang by establishing the strong q-log-convexity of the Narayana polynomials, and showing that the Narayana transformation preserves log-convexity. We begin with a formula of Brändén expressing the q-Narayana numbers as a specialization of Schur functions and, by deriving several symmetric function identities, we obtain the necessary Schur-positivity results. In addition, we prove the strong q-log-concavity of the q-Narayana numbers. The q-log-concavity of the q-Narayana numbers N _q (n,k) for fixed k is a special case of a conjecture of McNamara and Sagan on the infinite q-log-concavity of the Gaussian coefficients.     

Finite Groups with a Given Set of Character Degrees

Let G be a finite group with {1, q, r, qm, q ² m, rqm} as the character degree set, where r and q are distinct primes and m>1 is an integer not divisible by q or r. We show that G is solvable and the derived length of G equals 3.     

Intrinsic Ultracontractivity for Schrödinger Operators Based on Fractional Laplacians

We study the Feynman-Kac semigroup generated by the Schrödinger operator based on the fractional Laplacian ??(???Δ)^α/2???q in R ^d , for q?≥?0, α?∈?(0,2). We obtain sharp estimates of the first eigenfunction φ ₁ of the Schrödinger operator and conditions equivalent to intrinsic ultracontractivity of the Feynman-Kac semigroup. For potentials q such that lim_{|x| →?∞?} q(x)?=?∞ and comparable on unit balls we obtain that φ ₁(x) is comparable to (|x|?+?1)^???d???α (q(x)?+?1)^???1 and intrinsic ultracontractivity holds iff lim_{|x| →?∞?} q(x)/log|x|?=?∞. Proofs are based on uniform estimates of q-harmonic functions.     

On the embedding of constant-weight codes into perfect codes

We show that each q-ary constant-weight code of weight 3, minimum distance 4, and length m embeds in a q-ary 1-perfect code of length n = (q ^m ? 1)/(q ? 1).     

Regularity of the <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Poisson equation in the plane

We study the regularity of the p-Poisson equation

$${\Delta _p}u = h,h \in {L^q},$$

in the plane. In the case p > 2 and 2 < q < ∞, we obtain the sharp Hölder exponent for the gradient. In the other cases, we come arbitrarily close to the sharp exponent.