Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of positive solutions to algebraic Riccati equations with indefinite quadratic term

Necessary and sufficient conditions are established in this paper for the existence of positive- and/or negative-definite solutions to the algebraic Riccati equation with indefinite coefficient. An iterative procedure is also given for computing such a solution.Project supported by the National Science Foundation of China and by the special program of the State Education Commission of China under grant 9033507.     

New necessary conditions on the existence of abelian difference sets

In this paper we develop a new method to obtain identities in a group algebraGF(p)G if an abelian difference set of ordern0 (modp) exists inG. We give an explicit formula ifp ² orp ³ is the exactp-power dividingn. This generalizes the approach of Wilbrink, Arasu and the author. The proof presented here uses some knowledge about field extensions of thep-adic numbers.     

The number of edges of many faces in a line segment arrangement

We show that the maximum number of edges boundingm faces in an arrangement ofn line segments in the plane isO(m ^2/3 n ^2/3+n(n)+nlogm). This improves a previous upper bound of Edelsbrunner et al. [5] and almost matches the best known lower bound which is (m ^2/3 n ^2/3+n(n)). In addition, we show that the number of edges bounding anym faces in an arrangement ofn line segments with a total oft intersecting pairs isO(m ^2/3 t ^1/3+n(t/n)+nmin{logm,logt/n}), almost matching the lower bound of (m ^2/3 t ^1/3+n(t/n)) demonstrated in this paper.Work on this paper by the first and fourth authors has been partially supported by Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-87-K-0129, by National Science Foundation Grants DCR-83-20085 and CCR-89-01484. Work by the first author has also been supported by an AT&T Bell Laboratories Ph.D. scholarship at New York University and by DIMACS (Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science), a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center (NSF-STC88-09648). Work by the second author has been supported by NSF under Grants CCR-87-14565 and CCR-89-21421. Work by the fourth author has additionally been supported by grants from the U.S.-Israeli Binational Science Foundation, the NCRD (the Israeli National Council for Research and Development) and the Fund for Basic Research in Electronics, Computers and Communication, administered by the Israeli National Academy of Sciences.     

Comparison of location models for stochastic processes

Summary Let (Q) be the statistical experiment based on the observation of an unknown function in the presence of an additive noise process with distributionQ. The (possible) loss of information whenQ is replaced by some other noise distributionP is measured by the deficiency of (P) relative to (Q). This deficiency and its relation to the variational distance ofP andQ are studied mainly for Gaussian noise processes. Gaussian diffusion processes and special set-indexed processes are treated in detail.Research supported by a Heisenberg grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft     

Small transversals in hypergraphs

For each positive integerk, we consider the setA _k of all ordered pairs [a, b] such that in everyk-graph withn vertices andm edges some set of at mostam+bn vertices meets all the edges. We show that eachA _k withk2 has infinitely many extreme points and conjecture that, for every positive , it has only finitely many extreme points [a, b] witha. With the extreme points ordered by the first coordinate, we identify the last two extreme points of everyA _k , identify the last three extreme points ofA ₃, and describeA ₂ completely. A by-product of our arguments is a new algorithmic proof of Turán's theorem.     

On a problem of Erdős and Lovász: Random lines in a projective plane

Letn(k) be the least size of an intersecting family ofk-sets with cover numberk, and let _k denote any projective plane of orderk–1.Theorem There is a constant A such that ifH is a random set ofm Aklogk lines from _k then P_r(H<)0(k).Corollary If there exists a _k thenn(k)=O(klogk). These statements were conjectured by P. Erds and L. Lovász in 1973.Supported in part by NSF-DMS87-83558 and AFOSR grants 89-0066, 89-0512 and 90-0008     

Toeplitz and Hankel type operators on the upper half-plane

An orthogonal decomposition of admissible wavelets is constructed via the Laguerre polynomials, it turns to give a complete decomposition of the space of square integrable functions on the upper half-plane with the measurey dxdy. The first subspace is just the weighted Bergman (or Dzhrbashyan) space. Three types of Ha-plitz operators are defined, they are the generalization of classical Toeplitz, small and big Hankel operators respectively. Their boundedness, compactness and Schatten-von Neumann properties are studied.Research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.     

Designs as maximum codes in polynomial metric spaces

Finite and infinite metric spaces % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqqrpepC0xbbL8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaWefv3ySLgzgj% xyRrxDYbqeguuDJXwAKbIrYf2A0vNCaGqbaiab-Xa8nbaa!427C!\[\mathfrak{M}\] that are polynomial with respect to a monotone substitution of variable t(d) are considered. A finite subset (code) W % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafeart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGGipm0dc9vqaqpepu0xbbG8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaGaeyOHI0maaa!36D8!\[ \subseteq \] % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqqrpepC0xbbL8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaWefv3ySLgzgj% xyRrxDYbqeguuDJXwAKbIrYf2A0vNCaGqbaiab-Xa8nbaa!427C!\[\mathfrak{M}\] is characterized by the minimal distance d(W) between its distinct elements, by the number l(W) of distances between its distinct elements and by the maximal strength (W) of the design generated by the code W. A code W % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafeart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGGipm0dc9vqaqpepu0xbbG8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaGaeyOHI0maaa!36D8!\[ \subseteq \] % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqqrpepC0xbbL8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaWefv3ySLgzgj% xyRrxDYbqeguuDJXwAKbIrYf2A0vNCaGqbaiab-Xa8nbaa!427C!\[\mathfrak{M}\] is called a maximum one if it has the greatest cardinality among subsets of % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqqrpepC0xbbL8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaWefv3ySLgzgj% xyRrxDYbqeguuDJXwAKbIrYf2A0vNCaGqbaiab-Xa8nbaa!427C!\[\mathfrak{M}\] with minimal distance at least d(W), and diametrical if the diameter of W is equal to the diameter of the whole space % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqqrpepC0xbbL8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaWefv3ySLgzgj% xyRrxDYbqeguuDJXwAKbIrYf2A0vNCaGqbaiab-Xa8nbaa!427C!\[\mathfrak{M}\]. Delsarte codes are codes W % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafeart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGGipm0dc9vqaqpepu0xbbG8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaGaeyOHI0maaa!36D8!\[ \subseteq \] % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqqrpepC0xbbL8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaWefv3ySLgzgj% xyRrxDYbqeguuDJXwAKbIrYf2A0vNCaGqbaiab-Xa8nbaa!427C!\[\mathfrak{M}\] with (W)2l(W)–1 or (W)=2l(W)–2>0 and W is a diametrical code. It is shown that all parameters of Delsarte codes W) % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafeart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGGipm0dc9vqaqpepu0xbbG8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaGaeyOHI0maaa!36D8!\[ \subseteq \] % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqqrpepC0xbbL8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaWefv3ySLgzgj% xyRrxDYbqeguuDJXwAKbIrYf2A0vNCaGqbaiab-Xa8nbaa!427C!\[\mathfrak{M}\] are uniquely determined by their cardinality |W| or minimal distance d(W) and that the minimal polynomials of the Delsarte codes W % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafeart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGGipm0dc9vqaqpepu0xbbG8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaGaeyOHI0maaa!36D8!\[ \subseteq \] % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqqrpepC0xbbL8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaWefv3ySLgzgj% xyRrxDYbqeguuDJXwAKbIrYf2A0vNCaGqbaiab-Xa8nbaa!427C!\[\mathfrak{M}\] are expansible with positive coefficients in an orthogonal system of polynomials {Q _i(t)} corresponding to % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqqrpepC0xbbL8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaWefv3ySLgzgj% xyRrxDYbqeguuDJXwAKbIrYf2A0vNCaGqbaiab-Xa8nbaa!427C!\[\mathfrak{M}\]. The main results of the present paper consist in a proof of maximality of all Delsarte codes provided that the system {Q _i)} satisfies some condition and of a new proof confirming in this case the validity of all the results on the upper bounds for the maximum cardinality of codes W % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafeart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGGipm0dc9vqaqpepu0xbbG8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaGaeyOHI0maaa!36D8!\[ \subseteq \]% MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqqrpepC0xbbL8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaWefv3ySLgzgj% xyRrxDYbqeguuDJXwAKbIrYf2A0vNCaGqbaiab-Xa8nbaa!427C!\[\mathfrak{M}\] with a given minimal distance, announced by the author in 1978. Moreover, it appeared that this condition is satisfied for all infinite polynomial metric spaces as well as for distance-regular graphs, decomposable in a sense defined below. It is also proved that with one exception all classical distance-regular graphs are decomposable. In addition for decomposable distance-regular graphs an improvement of the absolute Delsarte bound for diametrical codes is obtained. For the Hamming and Johnson spaces, Euclidean sphere, real and complex projective spaces, tables containing parameters of known Delsarte codes are presented. Moreover, for each of the above-mentioned infinite spaces infinite sequences (of maximum) Delsarte codes not belonging to tight designs are indicated.     

Primes,irreducibles and extremal lattices

This paper studies certain types of join and meet-irreducibles called coprimes and primes. These elements can be used to characterize certain types of lattices. For example, a lattice is distributive if and only if every join-irreducible is coprime. Similarly, a lattice is meet-pseudocomplemented if and only if each atom is coprime. Furthermore, these elements naturally decompose lattices into sublattices so that often properties of the original lattice can be deduced from properties of the sublattice. Not every lattice has primes and coprimes. This paper shows that lattices which are long enough must have primes and coprimes and that these elements and the resulting decompositions can be used to study such lattices.The length of every finite lattice is bounded above by the minimum of the number of meet-irreducibles (meet-rank) and the number of join-irreducibles (join-rank) that it has. This paper studies lattices for which length=join-rank or length=meet-rank. These are called p-extremal lattices and they have interesting decompositions and properties. For example, ranked, p-extremal lattices are either lower locally distributive (join-rank=length), upper locally distributive (meet-rank=length) or distributive (join-rank=meet-rank=length). In the absence of the Jordan-Dedekind chain condition, p-extremal lattices still have many interesting properties. Of special interest are the lattices that satisfy both equalities. Such lattices are called extremal; this class includes distributive lattices and the associativity lattices of Tamari. Even though they have interesting decompositions, extremal lattices cannot be characterized algebraically since any finite lattice can be embedded as a subinterval into an extremal lattice. This paper shows how prime and coprime elements, and the poset of irreducibles can be used to analyze p-extremal and other types of lattices.The results presented in this paper are used to deduce many key properties of the Tamari lattices. These lattices behave much like distributive lattices even though they violate the Jordan-Dedekind chain condition very strongly having maximal chains that vary in length from N-1 to N(N-1)/2 where N is a parameter used in the construction of these lattices.     

Some properties of the riesz charge associated with a δ-subharmonic function

The first property is a refinement of earlier results of Ch. de la Vallée Poussin, M. Brelot, and A. F. Grishin. Let w=u–v with u, v superharmonic on a suitable harmonic space (for example an open subset of R ⁿ ), and let [w]=[u]–[v] denote the associated Riesz charge. If w0, and if E denotes the set of those points of at which the lim inf of w in thefine topology is 0, then the restriction of [w] to E is 0. Another property states that, if e denotes a polar subset of such that the fine lim inf of |w| at each point of e is finite, then the restriction of [w] to e is 0.