Quasi-Invariant Measures and Irreducible Representations of the Inductive Limit of Special Linear Groups

Unitary representations of the group are constructed. The construction uses G-quasi-invariant measures on some G-spaces that are subspaces of the space of two-way infinite real matrices. We give a criterion for the irreducibility of these representations.     

Homological Dimensions of the Algebra Formed by Entire Functions of Elements of a Nilpotent Lie Algebra

This note deals with homological characteristics of algebras of holomorphic functions of noncommuting variables generated by a finite-dimensional nilpotent Lie algebra . It is proved that the embedding of the universal enveloping algebra of into its Arens–Michael hull is an absolute localization in the sense of Taylor provided that      

Sharp Conditions for the CLT of Linear Processes in a Hilbert Space

In this paper we study the behavior of sums of a linear process associated to a strictly stationary sequence with values in a real separable Hilbert space and are linear operators from H to H. One of the results is that satisfies the CLT provided are i.i.d. centered having finite second moments and . We shall provide an example which shows that the condition on the operators is essentially sharp. Extensions of this result are given for sequences of weak dependent random variables under minimal conditions.     

A Constructive Proof of the Generalized Gelfand Isomorphism

Using an analog of the classical Frobenius recursion, we define the notion of a Frobenius -homomorphism. For , this is an ordinary ring homomorphism. We give a constructive proof of the following theorem. Let X be a compact Hausdorff space, the th symmetric power of X, and the algebra of continuous complex-valued functions on X with the sup-norm; then the evaluation map defined by the formula identifies the space with the space of all Frobenius -homomorphisms of the algebra into with the weak topology.     

On the Lipschitz Constant for a Nonisometric Bi-Lipschitz Transformation of a Cantor Set

A bi-Lipschitz continuous mapping of a space X is a bijection such that , where . We write if f is a Lipschitz (bi-Lipschitz) mapping of X into itself and denote by the set of all bi-Lipschitz mappings of X that are not isometry. Thus, if and blip . For X we consider a standard Cantor set K on the real line (with standard metric). The main result of this paper is formulated as follows: where Bibliography: 2 titles.     

Diffeomorphisms of the Circle and the Beurling–Helson Theorem

We consider the algebra of absolutely convergent Fourier series on the circle . According to the Beurling–Helson theorem, the condition , implies that is trivial: . We construct a nontrivial diffeomorphism of onto itself such that , where (n) is an arbitrary given sequence with . By analogy with a conjecture due to Kahane, it is natural to suppose that this rate of growth is the slowest possible.     

On the Irreducibility of Commuting Varieties Associated with Involutions of Simple Lie Algebras

Let be a reductive Lie algebra over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero and an arbitrary -grading. We consider the variety , which is called the commuting variety associated with the -grading. Earlier it was proved by the author that is irreducible, if the -grading is of maximal rank. Now we show that is irreducible for and (E₆,F₄). In the case of symmetric pairs of rank one, we show that the number of irreducible components of is equal to that of nonzero non--regular nilpotent G ₀-orbits in . We also discuss a general problem of the irreducibility of commuting varieties.     

Spectral Properties of Solutions of the Burgers Equation with Small Dissipation

We study the asymptotic behavior as of the Sobolev norm of the solution to the Cauchy problem for the one-dimensional quasilinear Burgers type equation (It is assumed that the problem is , the boundary conditions are periodic, and .) We show that the locally time-averaged Sobolev norms satisfy the estimate . The estimates obtained as a consequence for the Fourier coefficients justify Kolmogorov's spectral theory of turbulence for the case of the Burgers equation.     

Towards a Characterization of Self-Similar Tilings in Terms of Derived Voronoï Tessellations

In this paper, a technique for analyzing levels of hierarchy in a tiling of Euclidean space is presented. Fixing a central configuration P of tiles in , a `derived Voronoï' tessellation _P is constructed based on the locations of copies of P in . A family of derived Voronoï tilings is formed by allowing the central configurations to vary through an infinite number of possibilities. The family will normally be an infinite one, but we show that for a self-similar tiling it is finite up to similarity. In addition, we show that if the family is finite up to similarity, then is pseudo-self-similar. The relationship between self-similarity and pseudo-self-similarity is not well understood, and this is the obstruction to a complete characterization of self-similarity via our method. A discussion and conjecture on the connection between the two forms of hierarchy for tilings is provided.     

Sharp Pointwise Interpolation Inequalities for Derivatives

We prove new pointwise inequalities involving the gradient of a function , the modulus of continuity of the gradient , and a certain maximal function and show that these inequalities are sharp. A simple particular case corresponding to and is the Landau type inequality , where the constant 8/3 is best possible and

On Asymptotic Behavior of Increments of Sums Along Head Runs

Let be a sequence of independent equidistributed random vectors with . Let , where and denotes the indicator function of the event in brackets. If, for example, are the gains and are the indicators of success in repetitions of a game of chance, then is the maximal gain along head runs (sequences of successes without interruptions) of length j. We investigate the asymptotic behavior of the values , , where is the length of the longest head run in . We show that the asymptotics of the values depend significantly on the growth rate of j and that these asymptotics vary from the strong noninvariance (as in the ErdsRéenyi law of large numbers) to the strong invariance (as in the CsöorgRévész strong approximation laws). We also consider the Shepp-type statistics. Bibliography: 17 titles.     

Second-Order Subexponential Behavior of Subordinated Sequences

Suppose that , , and are three discrete probability distributions related by the equation (E): , where denotes the k-fold convolution of In this paper, we investigate the relation between the asymptotic behaviors of and . It turns out that, for wide classes of sequences and , relation (E) implies that , where is the mean of . The main object of this paper is to discuss the rate of convergence in this result. In our main results, we obtain O-estimates and exact asymptotic estimates for the difference .     

Absolute Continuity of the Spectrum of a Periodic Schrödinger Operator

We prove the absolute continuity of the spectrum of the Schrödinger operator in , , with periodic (with a common period lattice ) scalar and vector potentials for which either , , or the Fourier series of the vector potential converges absolutely, , where is an elementary cell of the lattice , for , and for , and the value of is sufficiently small, where and otherwise, , and .     

Monotonicity of Average Power Means

A new numerical inequality for average power means is presented. Let and let be a sequence of positive numbers. Consider the operator . We denote by the superposition of these operators. The following assertion is proved: if . Bibliography: 2 titles.     

Fixed Points of Multivalued Contractions

A fixed-point theorem is proved for a broad class of closed-valued -contractions with for any positive t and with .     

Uniform Convergence of Trigonometric Series with Rarely Changing Coefficients

We consider the series and whose coefficients satisfy the condition for , where the sequence can be expressed as the union of a finite number of lacunary sequences. The following results are obtained. If as , then the series is uniformly convergent. If for all , then the sequence of partial sums of this series is uniformly bounded. If the series is convergent for and as , then this series is uniformly convergent. If the sequence of partial sums of the series for is bounded and for all , then the sequence of partial sums of this series is uniformly bounded. In these assertions, conditions on the rates of decrease of the coefficients of the series are also necessary if the sequence is lacunary. In the general case, they are not necessary.     

Limiting Laws for Entrance Times of Critical Mappings of a Circle

A renormalization group transformation R ₁ has a single stable point in the space of the analytic circle homeomorphisms with a single cubic critical point and with the rotation number (the golden mean). Let a homeomorphism T be the C ¹-conjugate of . We let denote the sequence of distribution functions of the time of the kth entrance to the nth renormalization interval for the homeomorphism T. We prove that for any , the sequence has a finite limiting distribution function , which is continuous in , and singular on the interval [0,1]. We also study the sequence for k>1.     

Imprimitive Q-polynomial Association Schemes

It is well known that imprimitive P-polynomial association schemes with are either bipartite or antipodal, i.e., intersection numbers satisfy either for all for all . In this paper, we show that imprimitive -polynomial association schemes with are either dual bipartite or dual antipodal, i.e., dual intersection numbers satisfy either .     

A Note on Extremes of Concomitants of Order Statistics

Let be a sequence of identically distributed variables. We study the asymptotic distribution of , where Y _[r:n] denotes the concomitant of the rth order statistic X _r:n , corresponding to , and is held fixed while . Conditions are given for the and to have the same asymptotic behavior as that we would apply if were i.i.d. The result is illustrated with a simple linear regression model , where is a stationary sequence with extremal index .     

The Paley--Wiener Theorem for the Generalized Radon Transform on the Plane

We consider the problem of reconstructing a function on the disk from its integrals over curves close to straight lines, i.e., the inversion problem for the generalized Radon transform. Necessary and sufficient conditions on the range of the generalized Radon transform are obtained for functions supported in a smaller disk under the additional condition that the curves that do not meet coincide with the corresponding straight lines.