Asymptotic stability at infinity of planar vector fields

Let >0 andX be aC ¹ vector field on the plane such that: (i) for allq², Det(DX(q))>0; and (ii) for allp², with p, Trace(D(X(p))<0. IfX has a singularity and ² Trace(DX)dxdy is less than 0 (resp. greater or equal than 0), then the point at infinity of the Riemann sphere ²{} is a repellor (resp. an attractor) ofX.     

On a Class of Convex Sets and Functions

Given a convex subset C of ⁿ, the set-valued mapping C (where 0C is, by convention, the recession cone of C) is increasing on ₊ if and only if C contains the origin, and decreasing on ₊ if and only if C is contained in its recession cone. This simple fact enables us to define a binary operation which combines a concave or convex function on ^m with a convex subset of ⁿ to produce a convex subset of ^n+m. This binary operation is the set theoretic counterpart of a functional operation introduced by the author. In this paper, we present a detailed study of the class of convex subsets which are contained in their recession cones, and we establish some remarkable properties of our binary operation.Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000) 26A51, 26B25, 26E25.     

Subclasses of regular and schlicht functions with fixed coefficient

In the open unit disk E={z, ¦z¦<1} we consider the class of regular functions q(z) = 1 + 2(1 = )e¹zⁿ + 2p_n+kz^n+k + ..., Re q(z)>, , [0, 1), [0, 2] and fixed, n, kN; fixing zE, we construct the range of the functional I₀=q(z). We find an analog of V. A. Zmorovich's variational formula for the expression zp'(z) and point out some applications.Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 813–820, June, 1991.     

Asymptotic behavior of a functional Gaussian integral

Functional Gaussian integrals relative to a Wiener measure are considered, where both the integrand and the integration measure depend on some parameter . Asymptotic relations are obtained for such integrals for ^–1/2 ( is the deviation), when and tend to 0. Such relations are useful in the investigation of the asymptotic behavior of expressions of the partition function type tr exp (—tH) for t 0.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova Akademii Nauk SSSR, Vol. 184, pp. 26–36, 1990.     

Stellare Abänderungen und Schälbarkeit von Komplexen und Polytopen

Brugesser and Mani proved that the boundary-complex of a convex polytope can be shelled. This result lead to McMullen's proof of the Upper-bound-conjecture. We show that the shellability of complexes has a close connection to the theory of stellar operations. Several results on special shelling procedures and on non-shellable complexes are obtained.     

Fractional Brownian Density Process and Its Self-Intersection Local Time of Order k

The fractional Brownian density process is a continuous centered Gaussian ( ^d )-valued process which arises as a high-density fluctuation limit of a Poisson system of independent d-dimensional fractional Brownian motions with Hurst parameter H. ( ( ^d ) is the space of tempered distributions). The main result proved in the paper is that if the intensity measure of the (initial) Poisson random measure on ^d is either the Lebesgue measure or a finite measure, then the density process has self-intersection local time of order k 2 if and only if Hd < k/(k – 1). The latter is also the necessary and sufficient condition for existence of multiple points of order k for d-dimensional fractional Brownian motion, as proved by Talagrand¹². This result extends to a non-Markovian case the relationship known for (Markovian) symmetric -stable Lévy processes and their corresponding density processes. New methods are used in order to overcome the lack of Markov property. Other properties of the fractional Brownian density process are also given, in particular the non-semimartingale property in the case H 1/2, which is obtained by a general criterion for the non-semimartingale property of real Gaussian processes that we also prove.     

On Tyler's M-Functional of Scatter in High Dimension

Let y¹, y²,..., yⁿ R^q be independent, identically distributed random vectors with nonsingular covariance matrix , and let S = S(y¹,..., yⁿ) be an estimator for . A quantity of particular interest is the condition number of ^-1 S. If the yⁱ are Gaussian and S is the sample covariance matrix, the condition number of ^-1 S, i.e. the ratio of its extreme eigenvalues, equals 1 + O^p((q/n)^1/2) as q and q/n 0. The present paper shows that the same result can be achieved with two estimators based on Tyler's (1987, Ann. Statist., 15, 234-251) M-functional of scatter, assuming only elliptical symmetry of (yⁱ) or less. The main tool is a linear expansion for this M-functional which holds uniformly in the dimension q. As a by-product we obtain continuous Fréchet-differentiability with respect to weak convergence.     

Two-sided polynomial approximation of functions

Conditions are established when the collocation polynomials P_m(x) and P_M(x), m M, constructed respectively using the system of nodes x_j of multiplicities a_j 1, j = O,, n, and the system of nodes x_-r,,x_o,,x_n,,x_n+r1, r O, r₁ O, of multiplicities a_-r,,(a_o + y_o),,(a_n + y_n),,a_n+r1, a_j + y_j 1, are two sided-approximations of the function f on the intervals , x_j[, j = O,...,n + 1, and on unions of any number of these intervals. In this case, the polynomials P_m (x), P_M ^(l) (x) with l a_j are two-sided approximations of the function f⁽¹⁾ in the neighborhood of the node x_j and the integrals of the polynomials P_m(x), P_M(x) over D_j are two-sided approximations of the integral of the function f (over D_j). If the multiplicities a_j a_j + y_j of the nodes x_j are even, then this is also true for integrals over the set _j= _µ ^k D_j µ 1, k n. It is shown that noncollocation polynomials (Fourier polynomials, etc.) do not have these properties.Kiev University. Translated from Vychislitel'naya i Prikladnaya Matematika, No. 67, pp. 31–37, 1989.     

A Bernstein Property of Affine Maximal Hypersurfaces

Let x: M A ^{n + 1} be a locally strongly convex hypersurface, given as a graph of a locally strongly convexfunction x _{n + 1} =f(x ₁, ..., x _n )defined in a domain A ⁿ . We introduce a Riemannian metricG ^# = (² f/x _i x _j )dx _i dx _j on M. In this paper, we investigate the affine maximalhypersurfaces which are complete with respect to the metricG ^# and prove a Bernstein property for the affine maximalhypersurfaces.     

Representation of distributions with compact support

Distributions having compact support are represented as the boundary value of Cauchy and Poisson integrals corresponding to tubular radial domains T^C in ⁿ where C is an open convex cone. The Cauchy integral of U is shown to be an analytic function in T^C which satifies a certain boundedness condition. All analytic functions in T^C having this boundedness condition have a distributional boundary value which can be used to determine an distribution. The results are extended to vector valued distributions.     

On the factor-thickness of regular graphs

For eachr-regular graphG, define a binary sequence(G) = ( ₁, ₂,..., _r-1) by _k = 0 ifG has ak-factor, and _k = 1 otherwise. A binary sequence = ( _i |i = 1, 2,...,r – 1) is said to be realizable if there exists anr-regular graphG such that(G) = . In this paper we characterize all binary sequences which are realizable.     

Lattice of subgroups

Let D be a subgroup of the group G. The lattice of intermediate subgroups is studied. The subgroup F (D F G) is said to be D-complete, if D^F=u:u F>=F. Let F be the subset of all D-complete intermediate subgroups. The system {F, N_G(F)} is a fan for D in G (RZhMat, 1980, 5A208) if and only if D^x> is a D-complete subgroup for any x G. The set {F_ga} coincides with the collection of subgroups of the form D^A (1 A C G) if and only if for any x G the subgroup D, D^x is D-complete. The last condition holds, for example, for a pronormal subgroup D.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 103, pp. 13–19, 1980.     

Orthogonality and additivity modulo a subgroup

Summary LetE be a real inner product space of dimension at least 2,F a topological Abelian group, andK a discrete subgroup ofF. Assume also thatF is continuously divisible by 2 (that is, the functionu 2u is a homeomorphism ofF ontoF). Iff: E F fulfils the conditionf(x + y) – f(x) – f(y) K for all orthogonalx, y E and is continuous at the origin then there exist continuous additive functionsa: R F andA: E F such thatf(x) – a(x ²)– A(x) K for everyx E. Dedicated to the memory of Alexander M. Ostrowski on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth.     

A note on a nonlinear eigenvalue problem

Summary In this paper a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of negative eigenvalues for the problem-u – u=(x)¦u¦^p–2u in u¦=0 is given. Here Rⁿ is supposed a smooth bounded domain, 0 a bounded nonnegative function, (₁, ₂), ₁ and ₁ being the first and the second eigenvalue of - in with zero Dirichlet boundary data, p2 and, if n 3, p < 2n¦(n–2). Moreover in the linear case (p=2) a uniqueness result is proved.Work supported by G.N.A.F.A. and by M.P.I, of Italy Fondi 40% Equazioni Differenziali e Calcolo delle Variazioni and Fondi 60% Analisi matematica.     

Infinite Dimensional Isoperimetric Inequalities in Product Spaces with the Supremum Distance

We study the isoperimetric problem for product probability measures with respect to the uniform enlargement. We construct several examples of measures for which the isoperimetric function of coincides with the one of the infinite product . This completes earlier works by Bobkov and Houdré.     

Growth of length of sequential derivation transformed into natural one

We consider the (&, )-fragment of the intuitionistic propositional calculus. It is proved that under the standard transformation of a Gentzen derivation into a natural derivation(), the length of (())2^2·length( ). There is constructed a sequence of Gentzen derivations of length _i, for which the length of (( _i))2^{1/3·length(i}), which shows that the upper bound obtained is not too weak.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 88, pp. 192–196, 1979.     

Central limit theorem for shot noise fields

One investigates the asymptotic normality of integrals over unboundedly increasing sets of a random field, describing a shot noise in ^d ,d1. One shows how important here are roles played by the growth character of the considered sets and by the dimension d.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova Akademii Nauk SSSR, Vol. 177, pp. 28–36, 1989.     

Manifolds of Maps in Riemannian Foliations

Let (M,F) and (M,F) be two (compact or not) foliated manifolds, C _F (M, M) the space of smooth maps which send leaves into leaves. In this paper we prove that C _F (M, M) admits a structure of an infinite-dimensional manifold modeled on LF-spaces, provided that F is a Riemannian foliation or, more generally, when it admits an adapted local addition.     

An automatic integration procedure for infinite range integrals involving oscillatory kernels

Let the real functionsK(x) andL(x) be such thatM(x)=K(x)+iL(x)=e^ix g(x), whereg(x) is infinitely differentiable for all largex and is non-oscillatory at infinity. We develop an efficient automatic quadrature procedure for numerically computing the integrals _a K(t)f(t) and _a L(t)f(t)dt, where the functionf(t) is smooth and nonoscillatory at infinity. One such example for which we also provide numerical results is that for whichK(x)=J (x) andL(x)=Y (x), whereJ (x) andY (x) are the Bessel functions of order . The procedure involves the use of an automatic scheme for Fourier integrals and the modified W-transformation which is used for computing oscillatory infinite integrals.