A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of an exponential attractor

We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of an exponential attractor. The condition is formulated in the context of metric spaces. It also captures the quantitative properties of the attractor, i.e., the dimension and the rate of attraction. As an application, we show that the evolution operator for the wave equation with nonlinear damping has an exponential attractor.     

Generalized Analytic Spaces, Completeness and Fragmentability

Classical analytic spaces can be characterized as projections of Polish spaces. We prove analogous results for three classes of generalized analytic spaces that were introduced by Z. Frolik, D. Fremlin and R. Hansell. We use the technique of complete sequences of covers. We explain also some relations of analyticity to certain fragmentability properties of topological spaces endowed with an additional metric.     

Randomized algorithm for the k-server problem on decomposable spaces

We study the randomized k-server problem on metric spaces consisting of widely separated subspaces. We give a method which extends existing algorithms to larger spaces with the growth rate of the competitive quotients being at most O(logk). This method yields o(k)-competitive algorithms solving the randomized k-server problem for some special underlying metric spaces, e.g. HSTs of “small” height (but unbounded degree). HSTs are important tools for probabilistic approximation of metric spaces.     

K-spaces property of product spaces

LetK be a class of spaces which are eigher a pseudo-opens-image of a metric space or ak-space having a compact-countable closedk-network. LetK′ be a class of spaces which are either a Fréchet space with a point-countablek-network or a point-G _δ k-space having a compact-countablek-network. In this paper, we obtain some sufficient and necessary conditions that the products of finitely or countably many spaces in the classK orK′ are ak-space. The main results are that

Randomized k-server algorithms for growth-rate bounded graphs

The k-server problem is a fundamental online problem where k mobile servers should be scheduled to answer a sequence of requests for points in a metric space as to minimize the total movement cost. While the deterministic competitive ratio is at least k, randomized k-server algorithms have the potential of reaching o(k)-competitive ratios. Prior to this work only few specific cases of this problem were solved. For arbitrary metric spaces, this goal may be approached by using probabilistic metric approximation techniques. This paper gives the first results in this direction, obtaining o(k)-competitive ratio for a natural class of metric spaces, including d-dimensional grids, and wide range of k.     

On weak-open π-images of metric spaces

In this paper, we give some characterizations of metric spaces under weak-open π-mappings, which prove that a space is g-developable (or Cauchy) if and only if it is a weak-open π-image of a metric space.     

K-Theory of Stratified Vector Bundles

We show that the Atiyah–Hirzebruch K-theory of spaces admits a canonical generalization for stratified spaces. For this we study algebraic constructions on stratified vector bundles. In particular the tangent bundle of a stratified manifold is such a stratified vector bundle.     

On Differentiability of Metric Projections onto Moving Convex Sets

We consider properties of the metric projections onto moving convex sets in normed linear spaces. Under certain conditions about the norm, directional differentiability of first and higher order of the metric projections at boundary points is characterized. The conditions are formulated in terms of differentiability of multifunctions and properties of the set-derivatives are shown.     

Weak-open compact images of metric spaces

The main results of this paper are that (1) a space X is g-developable if and only if it is a weak-open π image of a metric space, one consequence of the result being the correction of an error in the paper of Z. Li and S. Lin (2) characterizations of weak-open compact images of metric spaces, which is another answer to a question in in the paper of Y. Ikeda, C. liu and Y. Tanaka.     

Weak convergence of Dirichlet processes

Weak convergence of Markov processes is studied by means of Dirichlet forms and two theorems for weak convergence of Hunt processes on general metric spaces are established. As applications, examples for weak conver gence of symmetric or non-symmetric Dirichlet processes on finite and infinite spaces are given. Project partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Tianyuan Mathematics Foundation.     

Infinite Distance Components of the Boundary of Moduli Spaces of Conformal Structures

We continue the investigation of the L ²-geometry of moduli spaces of conformal structures, where the L ²-metric is induced from the canonical metrics for conformal structures that supports a positive scalar curvature metric introduced in previous papers.     

Common fixed points in cone metric spaces

In this paper we consider a notion of g-weak contractive mappings in the setting of cone metric spaces and we give results of common fixed points. This results generalize some common fixed points results in metric spaces and some of the results of Huang and Zhang in cone metric spaces. Supported by Universitá degli Studi di Palermo, R. S. ex 60%.     

The coarse geometric Novikov conjecture for subspaces of non-positively curved manifolds

In this paper, we prove the coarse geometric Novikov conjecture for metric spaces with bounded geometry which admit a coarse embedding into a simply connected complete Riemannian manifold of non-positive sectional curvature.     

Notes on symmetric g-functions

A number of generalized metric spaces have been defined or characterized in terms of g-functions. Symmetric g-functions are discussed by C. Good, D. Jennings and A. M. Mohamad. In this paper, some questions about symmetric g-functions are answered, particularly it is shown that every sym-wg-space is expandable. The project is supported by the NNSF (10571151) and NSF (2006J0397) of Fujian Province of China.     

The strong Ekeland variational principle

In this paper, we consider the strong Ekeland variational principle due to Georgiev [P.G. Georgiev, The strong Ekeland variational principle, the strong drop theorem and applications, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 131 (1988) 1–21]. We discuss it for functions defined on Banach spaces and on compact metric spaces. We also prove the τ-distance version of it.     

The Product Formula in Unitary Deformation K-theory

For finitely generated groups G and H, we prove that there is a weak equivalence G H (G × H) of ku-algebra spectra, where denotes the “unitary deformation K-theory” functor. Additionally, we give spectral sequences for computing the homotopy groups of G and HG in terms of connective K-theory and homology of spaces of G-representations.     

Kolmogorov Entropy for Classes of Convex Functions

Kolmogorov ε-entropy of a compact set in a metric space measures its metric massivity and thus replaces its dimension which is usually infinite. The notion quantifies the compactness property of sets in metric spaces, and it is widely applied in pure and applied mathematics. The ε-entropy of a compact set is the most economic quantity of information that permits a recovery of elements of this set with accuracy ε. In the present article we study the problem of asymptotic behavior of the ε-entropy for uniformly bounded classes of convex functions in L _p -metric proposed by A.I.   Shnirelman. The asymptotic of the Kolmogorov ε-entropy for the compact metric space of convex and uniformly bounded functions equipped with L _p -metric is ε ^−1/2, ε→0₊.      

k-systems, k-networks and k-covers

The concepts of k-systems, k-networks and k-covers were defined by A. Arhangel’skii in 1964, P. O’Meara in 1971 and R. McCoy, I. Ntantu in 1985, respectively. In this paper the relationships among k-systems, k-networks and k-covers are further discussed and are established by mk-systems. As applications, some new characterizations of quotients or closed images of locally compact metric spaces are given by means of mk-systems.