On the value distribution of <Emphasis Type="Italic">ƒ</Emphasis> + <Emphasis Type="Italic">a</Emphasis>(<Emphasis Type="Italic">ƒ</Emphasis>′)<Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis></Superscript>

Let ƒ be a transcendental meromorphic function, a a nonzero finite complex number, and n ⩾ 2 a positive integer. Then ƒ + a(ƒ′) ⁿ assumes every complex value infinitely often. This answers a question of Ye for n = 2. A related normality criterion is also given. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10771076), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China (Grant No. 07006700) and by the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (Grant No. G-809-234.6/2003)     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Subscript>-mixed intersection bodies

In this paper the author first introduce a new concept of L _p -dual mixed volumes of star bodies which extends the classical dual mixed volumes. Moreover, we extend the notions of L _p intersection body to L _p -mixed intersection body. Inequalities for L _p -dual mixed volumes of L _p -mixed intersection bodies are established and the results established here provide new estimates for these type of inequalities. This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province of China (Grant No. Y605065) and the Foundation of the Education Department of Zhejiang Province of China (Grant No. 20050392)     

Frame Wavelets with Compact Supports for L^2（R^n）

The construction of frame wavelets with compact supports is a meaningful problem in wavelet analysis. In particular, it is a hard work to construct the frame wavelets with explicit analytic forms. For a given n × n real expansive matrix A, the frame-sets with respect to A are a family of sets in R^n. Based on the frame-sets, a class of high-dimensional frame wavelets with analytic forms are constructed, which can be non-bandlimited, or even compactly supported. As an application, the construction is illustrated by several examples, in which some new frame wavelets with compact supports are constructed. Moreover, since the main result of this paper is about general dilation matrices, in the examples we present a family of frame wavelets associated with some non-integer dilation matrices that is meaningful in computational geometry.     

Some remarks on <Emphasis Type="Italic">S</Emphasis>-paracompact spaces

Some characterizations of S-paracompact spaces are given. We introduce a class of S-expandable spaces and study topological properties of S-expandable spaces. The second author acknowledges the support from the NSFC (No. 10571081) and the Natural Science Foundation of Jingsu Higher Education Institutions of China (Grant No. 07KJB110055).     

Ideals and atoms of <Emphasis Type="Italic">BZ</Emphasis>-algebras

Ideals and atoms are studied by various authors from different point of views. In different algebras there are studied different ideals, but obtained results are similar. Below we present a new method of study of ideals in BZ-algebras. Using this method we describe the connection between ideals of various types. Supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60775038).     

Pointwise characterization for combinations of Szász-Mirakjan operators

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the pointwise rate of convergence for the combinations of Szász-Mirakjan operators using Ditzian-Totik modulus of smoothness.     

Some results on 4<Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">m</Emphasis></Superscript>2<Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis></Superscript> designs with clear two-factor interaction components

Clear effects criterion is one of the important rules for selecting optimal fractional factorial designs, and it has become an active research issue in recent years. Tang et al. derived upper and lower bounds on the maximum number of clear two-factor interactions (2fi’s) in 2 ^n−(n−k) fractional factorial designs of resolutions III and IV by constructing a 2 ^n−(n−k) design for given k, which are only restricted for the symmetrical case. This paper proposes and studies the clear effects problem for the asymmetrical case. It improves the construction method of Tang et al. for 2 ^n−(n−k) designs with resolution III and derives the upper and lower bounds on the maximum number of clear two-factor interaction components (2fic’s) in 4 ^m 2 ⁿ designs with resolutions III and IV. The lower bounds are achieved by constructing specific designs. Comparisons show that the number of clear 2fic’s in the resulting design attains its maximum number in many cases, which reveals that the construction methods are satisfactory when they are used to construct 4 ^m 2 ⁿ designs under the clear effects criterion. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10571093, 10671099 and 10771123), the Research Foundation for Doctor Programme (Grant No. 20050055038) and the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China (Grant No. Q2007A05). Zhang’s research was also supported by the Visiting Scholar Program at Chern Institute of Mathematics.     

Bloch constant of holomorphic mappings on the unit polydisk of ℂ<Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis></Superscript>

In this paper, we give a definition of Bloch mappings defined in the unit polydisk D ⁿ , which generalizes the concept of Bloch functions defined in the unit disk D. It is known that Bloch theorem fails unless we have some restrictive assumption on holomorphic mappings in several complex variables. We shall establish the corresponding distortion theorems for subfamilies β(K) and β _loc(K) of Bloch mappings defined in the polydisk D ⁿ , which extend the distortion theorems of Liu and Minda to higher dimensions. As an application, we obtain lower and upper bounds of Bloch constants for various subfamilies of Bloch mappings defined in D ⁿ . In particular, our results reduce to the classical results of Ahlfors and Landau when n = 1. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10571164) and Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (SRFDP) (Grant No. 20050358052)     

Ultra <Emphasis Type="Italic">LI</Emphasis>-ideals in lattice implication algebras and <Emphasis Type="Italic">MTL</Emphasis>-algebras

A mistake concerning the ultra LI-ideal of a lattice implication algebra is pointed out, and some new sufficient and necessary conditions for an LI-ideal to be an ultra LI-ideal are given. Moreover, the notion of an LI-ideal is extended to MTL-algebras, the notions of a (prime, ultra, obstinate, Boolean) LI-ideal and an ILI-ideal of an MTL-algebra are introduced, some important examples are given, and the following notions are proved to be equivalent in MTL-algebra: (1) prime proper LI-ideal and Boolean LI-ideal, (2) prime proper LI-ideal and ILI-ideal, (3) proper obstinate LI-ideal, (4) ultra LI-ideal. This work was supported by the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. Y605389) and K. C. Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University.     

Entire solutions of certain partial differential equations in<Emphasis Type="Bold">C</Emphasis><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis></Superscript>

We describe entire solutions inC ⁿ of non-linear partial differential equations of the form (∂w/∂z _j ) ^k =f(w), wheref is a meromorphic function in the complex plane andk is a positive integer. Supported in part by the National Science Foundation (USA) Grant DMS-0100486.     

Orthogonal separable Hamiltonian systems on <Emphasis Type="Italic">T</Emphasis><Superscript>2</Superscript>

In this paper we characterize the Liouvillian integrable orthogonal separable Hamiltonian systems on T ² for a given metric, and prove that the Hamiltonian flow on any compact level hypersurface has zero topological entropy. Furthermore, by examples we show that the integrable Hamiltonian systems on T ² can have complicated dynamical phenomena. For instance they can have several families of invariant tori, each family is bounded by the homoclinic-loop-like cylinders and heteroclinic-loop-like cylinders. As we know, it is the first concrete example to present the families of invariant tori at the same time appearing in such a complicated way. This work is partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10671123, 10231020), “Dawn” Program of Shanghai Education Comission of China (Grant No. 03SG10) and Program for New Century Excellent Tatents in University of China (Grant No. 050391)     

A new proof of <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Superscript> estimates for the parabolic polyharmonic equations

In this paper we obtain local L ^p estimates for the parabolic polyharmonic equations by a straightforward approach. Yao was supported by the Innovation Foundation of Shanghai University (Grant No. A10-0101-08-905), Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (Grant No. J50101) and Key Disciplines of Shanghai Municipality (Grant No. S30104). Zhou was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2006CB705700), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60532080), and the Key Project of Chinese Ministry of Education (Grant No. 306017)     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">W</Emphasis><Superscript>1,<Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Superscript>(R<Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis></Superscript>)-boundedness for maximal functions

In this paper, we get W ^1,p (R ⁿ )-boundedness for tangential maximal function and nontangential maximal function, which improves J.Kinnunen, P.Lindqvist and Tananka’s results. Supported by the key Academic Discipline of Zhejiang Province of China under Grant No.2005 and the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China.     

Finite 2-generator equilibrated p-groups

Following Blackburn, Deaconescu and Mann, a group G is called an equilibrated group if for any subgroups H,K of G with HK = KH, either H≤NG(K) or K≤NG(H). Continuing their work and based on the classification of metacyclic p-groups given by Newman and Xu, we give a complete classification of 2-generator equilibrated p-groups in this note.     

Existence of Z-cyclic 3PDTWh(<Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>) for Prime <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis> ≡ 1 (mod 4)

A directed triplewhist tournament on p players over Z _p is said to have the three-person property if no two games in the tournament have three common players. We briefly denote such a design as a 3PDTWh(p). In this paper, we investigate the existence of a Z-cyclic 3PDTWh(p) for any prime p ≡ 1 (mod 4) and show that such a design exists whenever p ≡ 5, 9, 13 (mod 16) and p ≥ 29. This result is obtained by applying Weil’s theorem. In addition, we also prove that a Z-cyclic 3PDTWh(p) exists whenever p ≡ 1 (mod 16) and p < 10, 000 except possibly for p = 257, 769. Gennian Ge’s Research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 10471127, Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. R604001, and the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry.     

SUPPORT SIZES OF COMPLETELY DECOMPOSABLE TS （ν, 4）

In this article the spectrum of support sizes of a completely decomposable TS(ν,,4)for any positive integer ν≡1,3 (mod 6) is determined.     

Finite p-Groups Whose Abelian Subgroups Have a Trivial Intersection

A subgroup H of a finite group G is called a TI-subgroup if H ∩ H^x = 1 or H for all x ∈ G. In this paper, a complete classification for finite p-groups, in which all abelian subgroups are TI-subgroups, is given.     

Exact traveling wave solutions and dynamical behavior for the (<Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis> + 1)-dimensional multiple sine-Gordon equation

Using the methods of dynamical systems for the (n + 1)-dimensional multiple sine-Gordon equation, the existences of uncountably infinite many periodic wave solutions and breaking bounded wave solutions are obtained. For the double sine-Gordon equation, the exact explicit parametric representations of the bounded traveling solutions are given. To guarantee the existence of the above solutions, all parameter conditions are determined. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11671179) and the Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province (Grant No. 2005A0092M).     

The spectrum of (<Emphasis Type="Italic">gv</Emphasis>, <Emphasis Type="Italic">g</Emphasis>, 3, λ)-DF in <Emphasis Type="Italic">Z</Emphasis><Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">gv</Emphasis></Subscript>

In this paper, the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a (gv, g, 3, λ)-difference family in Z _gv are established. As a consequence, the existence spectrum of a cyclic (3, λ)-GDD of type g ^v without short orbits is determined. This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants Nos. 10771013, 10831002)     

2-(<Emphasis Type="Italic">v,k</Emphasis>,1) Designs and PSL (3,<Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>) where <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis> is ODD

Let G be a block-primitive automorphism group of a 2-(v,k,1) design. If G is isomorphic to PSL (3,q) where q is odd, then G is also point-primitive. Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10171089).