On extremal quasiconformal extensions of conformal mappings

Letf(t, z)=z+tω(1/z) be schlicht for ⋎z⋎>1, ω(z) = Σ _n ^{= 0/∞} a _n z ⁿ ,t>0. The paper considers first-order estimates for the dilatation of extremal quasiconformal extensions off ast→0. This work was initiated during the Special Year in Complex Analysis at the Technion, and was supported in parts by the Samuel Neaman Fund, the Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik, ETH, Zürich, and the National Science Foundation.     

A unified approach for univalent functions with negative coefficients using the Hadamard product

For given analytic functions ϕ(z) = z + Σ _n=2^∞ λ _n z ⁿ , Ψ(z) = z + Σ _n=2^∞ μ with λ _n ≥ 0, μ _n ≥ 0, and λ _n ≥ μ _n and for α, β (0≤α<1, 0<β≤1), let E(φ,ψ; α, β) be of analytic functions ƒ(z) = z + Σ _n=2^∞ a _n z ⁿ in U such that f(z)*ψ(z)≠0 and

On generalized shift bases for the wiener disc algebra

LetW(D) denote the set of functionsf(z)=Σ _n=0 ^∞ A _n Z ⁿ a _nzⁿ for which Σ_n=0 ^∞|a _n |<+∞. Given any finite set lcub;f _i (z)rcub; _i=1 ⁿ inW(D) the following are equivalent: (i) The generalized shift sequence lcub;f ₁(z)z ^kn ,f ₂(z)z ^kn+1, …,f _n (z)z ^(k+1)n−1rcub; _k=0 ^∞ is a basis forW(D) which is equivalent to the basis lcub;z ^m rcub; _m=0 ^∞ . (ii) The generalized shift sequence is complete inW(D), (iii) The function has no zero in |z|≦1, wherew=e ^2πiti /n.     

On a nontraditional method of approximation

We study the approximation of functions f(z) that are analytic in a neighborhood of zero by finite sums of the form H _n (z) = H _n (h, f, {λ _k }; z) = Σ _k=1 ⁿ λ _k h(λ _k z), where h is a fixed function that is analytic in the unit disk |z| < 1 and the numbers λ _k (which depend on h, f, and n) are calculated by a certain algorithm. An exact value of the radius of the convergence H _n (z) → f(z), n → ∞, and an order-sharp estimate for the rate of this convergence are obtained; an application to numerical analysis is given.     

Certain asymptotic expansions for laguerre polynomials and Charlier polynomials

Here proposed are certain asympotic expansion formulas for L _n ^(∞-1) (λz) and C _n ^(∞) (λz) in which 0<w=0(λ) and C_n/(^w)(λz), z being a complex number. Also presented are certain estimates for the remainders (error bounds) of the asymptotic expansions within the regions D₁(-∞<R_ez<=1/2(ω/λ) and D₂(1/2(ω/λ)<=Re_z<∞), respectively. Supported by NSERC (Canada) and also by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.     

The Maximal Operator Associated to a Nonsymmetric Ornstein–Uhlenbeck Semigroup

Let (ℋ _t ) _t≥0 be the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck semigroup on ℝ ^d with covariance matrix I and drift matrix λ(R−I), where λ>0 and R is a skew-adjoint matrix, and denote by γ _∞ the invariant measure for (ℋ _t ) _t≥0. Semigroups of this form are the basic building blocks of Ornstein–Uhlenbeck semigroups which are normal on L ²(γ _∞). We prove that if the matrix R generates a one-parameter group of periodic rotations, then the maximal operator ℋ_* f(x)=sup  _t≥o |ℋ _t f(x)| is of weak type 1 with respect to the invariant measure γ _∞. We also prove that the maximal operator associated to an arbitrary normal Ornstein–Uhlenbeck semigroup is bounded on L ^p (γ _∞) if and only if 1<p≤∞.      

Grow-up of critical solutions for a non-local porous medium problem with Ohmic heating source

We investigate the behaviour of solution u = u(x, t; λ) at λ =  λ* for the non-local porous medium equation ${u_t = (u^n)_{xx} + {\lambda}f(u)/({\int_{-1}^1} f(u){\rm d}x)^2}We investigate the behaviour of solution u = u(x, t; λ) at λ =  λ* for the non-local porous medium equation u_t = (uⁿ)_xx + lf(u)/(ò_-1¹ f(u)dx)²{u_t = (u^n)_{xx} + {\lambda}f(u)/({\int_{-1}^1} f(u){\rm d}x)^2} with Dirichlet boundary conditions and positive initial data. The function f satisfies: f(s),−f ′ (s) > 0 for s ≥ 0 and s ^n-1 f(s) is integrable at infinity. Due to the conditions on f, there exists a critical value of parameter λ, say λ*, such that for λ > λ* the solution u = u(x, t; λ) blows up globally in finite time, while for λ ≥ λ* the corresponding steady-state problem does not have any solution. For 0 < λ < λ* there exists a unique steady-state solution w = w(x; λ) while u = u(x, t; λ) is global in time and converges to w as t → ∞. Here we show the global grow-up of critical solution u* =  u(x, t; λ*) (u* (x, t) → ∞, as t → ∞ for all x ? (-1,1){x\in(-1,1)}.     

Embeddings ofl p m intol ∞ n , 1≦p≦2

Isomorphic embeddings ofl _l ^m intol _∞ ⁿ are studied, and ford(n, k)=inf{‖T ‖ ‖T ⁻¹ ‖;T varies over all isomorphic embeddings ofl ₁ ^[klog2n] intol _∞ ⁿ we have that lim _n→∞ d(n, k)=γ(k)⁻¹,k>1, whereγ(k) is the solution of (1+γ)ln(1+γ)+(1 −γ)ln(1 −γ)=k ⁻¹ln4. Here [x] denotes the integer part of the real numberx.     

On zeros of functions of given proximate formal order analytic in a half-plane

We describe sequences of zeros of functionsf≢0 that are analytic in the half-plane ℂ₊={z:Rez> and satisfy the condition

Almost sure central limit theorems for random functions

Let {Xn,-∞< n <∞} be a sequence of independent identically distributed random variables with EX1 = 0, EX12 = 1 and let Sn =∑k=1∞Xk, and Tn = Tn(X1,…,Xn) be a random function such that Tn = ASn Rn, where supn E|Rn| <∞and Rn = o(n~(1/2)) a.s., or Rn = O(n1/2-2γ) a.s., 0 <γ< 1/8. In this paper, we prove the almost sure central limit theorem (ASCLT) and the function-typed almost sure central limit theorem (FASCLT) for the random function Tn. As a consequence, it can be shown that ASCLT and FASCLT also hold for U-statistics, Von-Mises statistics, linear processes, moving average processes, error variance estimates in linear models, power sums, product-limit estimators of a continuous distribution, product-limit estimators of a quantile function, etc.     

On the growth of an entire dirichlet series

We establish the relation between the increase of the quantityM(σ,F) = ∣a ₀∣ + ∑ _n=1 ^∞ ∣a _n ∣ exp (σλ _n ) and the behavior of sequences (|a _n |) and (λ _n ), where (λ _n ) is a sequence of nonnegative numbers increasing to + ∞, andF(s) =a ₀ + ∑ _n=1 ^∞ a _n e ^sλn ,s=σ+it, is the Dirichlet entire series. Lviv University, Lviv. Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurmal, Vol. 51, No. 8, pp. 1149–1153, August, 1999.     

Convergence of mock Fourier series

For certain Cantor measures μ on ℝⁿ, it was shown by Jorgensen and Pedersen that there exists an orthonormal basis of exponentialse ^2πiγ·x for λεΛ. a discrete subset of ℝⁿ called aspectrum for μ. For anyL ¹ functionf, we define coefficientsc _γ(f)=∝f(y)e ^−2πiγiy dμ(y) and form the Mock Fourier series ∑_λ∈Λ^cλ(f)e ^2πiλ·x . There is a natural sequence of finite subsets Λ_n increasing to Λ asn→∞, and we define the partial sums of the Mock Fourier series by We prove, under mild technical assumptions on μ and Λ, thats _n(f) converges uniformly tof for any continuous functionf and obtain the rate of convergence in terms of the modulus of continuity off. We also show, under somewhat stronger hypotheses, almost everywhere convergence forfεL ¹. Research supported in part by the National Science Foundation, Grant DMS-0140194.     

On the degree growth of birational mappings in higher dimension

Let ƒ be a birational map of C ^d ,and consider the degree complexity or asymptotic degree growth rate δ(ƒ) = lim_n → ∞ (deg(ƒⁿ))^1/n.We introduce a family of elementary maps, which have the form ƒ = L o J, where L is (invertible) linear, and J(x ₁ ⁻¹ ,..., x_d) = (x ₁ ⁻¹ ,...,x _d ⁻¹ .We develop a method of regularization and show how it can be used to compute δ for an elementary map.     

On conditions for Dirichlet series absolutely convergent in a half-plane to belong to the class of convergence

Let M(σ) = sup{|F(σ + it)|: t ∈ ℝ} and μ(σ) = max {|a _n |exp(σλ_n): n ≥ 0}, σ < 0, for a Dirichlet series {fx995-01} with abscissa of absolute convergence σ_a = 0. We prove that the condition ln ln n = o(ln λ_n), n → ∞, is necessary and sufficient for the equivalence of the relations {fx995-02}, for each series of this type. Translated from Ukrains'kyi Matematychnyi Zhurnal, Vol. 60, No. 6, pp. 851–856, June, 2008.     

Growth and Hölder conditions for the sample paths of Feller processes

Let (A,D(A)) be the infinitesimal generator of a Feller semigroup such that C _c ^∞(ℝ ⁿ )⊂D(A) and A|C _c ^∞(ℝ ⁿ ) is a pseudo-differential operator with symbol −p(x,ξ) satisfying |p(•,ξ)|_∞≤c(1+|ξ|²) and |Imp(x,ξ)|≤c ₀Rep(x,ξ). We show that the associated Feller process {X _t } _{t ≥0} on ℝ ⁿ is a semimartingale, even a homogeneous diffusion with jumps (in the sense of [21]), and characterize the limiting behaviour of its trajectories as t→0 and ∞. To this end, we introduce various indices, e.g., β_∞ ^x :={λ>0:lim _{|ξ|→∞ | x − y |≤2/|ξ|}|p(y,ξ)|/|ξ|^λ=0} or δ_∞ ^x :={λ>0:liminf _{|ξ|→∞ | x − y |≤2/|ξ| |ε|≤1}|p(y,|ξ|ε)|/|ξ|^λ=0}, and obtain a.s. (ℙ ^x ) that lim _{t →0} t ^−1/λ _{s ≤ t} |X _s −x|=0 or ∞ according to λ>β_∞ ^x or λ<δ_∞ ^x . Similar statements hold for the limit inferior and superior, and also for t→∞. Our results extend the constant-coefficient (i.e., Lévy) case considered by W. Pruitt [27]. Received: 21 July 1997 / Revised version: 26 January 1998     

On meromorphic univalent functions omitting a disc

The class Σ_b is defined to consist of meromorphic univalent functionsH omitting a disc with the radiusb:H(z)=z+ Σ ₀ ^∞ A _n z ⁻ⁿ ,z>1,H(b)>b ∈ (0, 1). By aid of FitzGerald inequalities the inverse coefficients of odd Σ_b-functions are maximized. The result extends the corresponding estimation, due to Netanyahu and Schober, fromb=0 to the whole interval (0, 1). The author wishes to express her gratitude to Professor O. Tammi for valuable discussions connected with the problem. This work was supported by a grant from the Finnish Ministry of Education.     

Real moments of the restrictive factor

Let λ be a real number such that 0 < λ < 1. We establish asymptotic formulas for the weighted real moments Σ _n≤x R ^λ (n)(1 − n/x), where R(n) =$ \prod\nolimits_{\nu = 1}^k {p_\nu ^{\alpha _\nu - 1} } $ \prod\nolimits_{\nu = 1}^k {p_\nu ^{\alpha _\nu - 1} } is the Atanassov strong restrictive factor function and n =$ \prod\nolimits_{\nu = 1}^k {p_\nu ^{\alpha _\nu } } $ \prod\nolimits_{\nu = 1}^k {p_\nu ^{\alpha _\nu } } is the prime factorization of n.     

Correlation structure of intermittency in the parabolic Anderson model

Consider the Cauchy problem ∂u(x, t)/∂t = ℋu(x, t) (x∈ℤ^d, t≥ 0) with initial condition u(x, 0) ≡ 1 and with ℋ the Anderson Hamiltonian ℋ = κΔ + ξ. Here Δ is the discrete Laplacian, κ∈ (0, ∞) is a diffusion constant, and ξ = {ξ(x): x∈ℤ ^d } is an i.i.d.random field taking values in ℝ. G?rtner and Molchanov (1990) have shown that if the law of ξ(0) is nondegenerate, then the solution u is asymptotically intermittent. In the present paper we study the structure of the intermittent peaks for the special case where the law of ξ(0) is (in the vicinity of) the double exponential Prob(ξ(0) > s) = exp[−e ^{s /θ}] (s∈ℝ). Here θ∈ (0, ∞) is a parameter that can be thought of as measuring the degree of disorder in the ξ-field. Our main result is that, for fixed x, y∈ℤ ^d and t→∈, the correlation coefficient of u(x, t) and u(y, t) converges to ∥w _ρ∥⁻² _ℓ2Σ_{z ∈ℤd} w _ρ(x+z)w _ρ(y+z). In this expression, ρ = θ/κ while w _ρ:ℤ^d→ℝ⁺ is given by w _ρ = (v _ρ)^{⊗ d} with v _ρ: ℤ→ℝ⁺ the unique centered ground state (i.e., the solution in ℓ²(ℤ) with minimal l ²-norm) of the 1-dimensional nonlinear equation Δv + 2ρv log v = 0. The uniqueness of the ground state is actually proved only for large ρ, but is conjectured to hold for any ρ∈ (0, ∞). empty It turns out that if the right tail of the law of ξ(0) is thicker (or thinner) than the double exponential, then the correlation coefficient of u(x, t) and u(y, t) converges to δ _{x, y} (resp.the constant function 1). Thus, the double exponential family is the critical class exhibiting a nondegenerate correlation structure. Received: 5 March 1997 / Revised version: 21 September 1998     

Penultimate limiting forms in extreme value theory

Summary Let {X _n}_n≧1 be a sequence of independent, identically distributed random variables. If the distribution function (d.f.) ofM _n=max (X ₁,…,X _n), suitably normalized with attraction coefficients {α_n}_n≧1(α_n>0) and {b _n}_n≧1, converges to a non-degenerate d.f.G(x), asn→∞, it is of interest to study the rate of convergence to that limit law and if the convergence is slow, to find other d.f.'s which better approximate the d.f. of(M _n−b_n)/a_n thanG(x), for moderaten. We thus consider differences of the formF ⁿ(a_nx+b_n)−G(x), whereG(x) is a type I d.f. of largest values, i.e.,G(x)≡Λ(x)=exp (-exp(−x)), and show that for a broad class of d.f.'sF in the domain of attraction of Λ, there is a penultimate form of approximation which is a type II [Ф _α(x)=exp (−x^−α), x>0] or a type III [Ψ _α(x)= exp (−(−x)^α), x<0] d.f. of largest values, much closer toF ⁿ(a_nx+b_n) than the ultimate itself.     

Higher order Riesz transforms associated with Bessel operators

In this paper we investigate Riesz transforms R _μ ^(k) of order k≥1 related to the Bessel operator Δ_μ f(x)=-f”(x)-((2μ+1)/x)f’(x) and extend the results of Muckenhoupt and Stein for the conjugate Hankel transform (a Riesz transform of order one). We obtain that for every k≥1, R _μ ^(k) is a principal value operator of strong type (p,p), p∈(1,∞), and weak type (1,1) with respect to the measure dλ(x)=x ^2μ+1  dx in (0,∞). We also characterize the class of weights ω on (0,∞) for which R _μ ^(k) maps L ^p (ω) into itself and L ¹(ω) into L ^1,∞(ω) boundedly. This class of weights is wider than the Muckenhoupt class of weights for the doubling measure dλ. These weighted results extend the ones obtained by Andersen and Kerman.