A new Pythagorean functional equation

The purpose of this paper is to solve the following Pythagorean functional equation:(e ^p(x,y) ) ² ) = q(x,y) ² + r(x, y) ², where each ofp(x,y), q(x, y) andr(x, y) is a real-valued unknown harmonic function of the real variablesx, y on the wholexy-planeR ².The result is as follows.     

Finding numerical solution of linear partial differential equations of first order with real coefficients

Applying Bittner's operational calculus we present a method to give approximate solutions of linear partial differential equations of first order

Jacobi elliptic functions and change of variable in a convolution

We solve the functional equation

On the error of compound quadrature formulas forr-convex functions

LetC _m be a compound quadrature formula, i.e.C _m is obtained by dividing the interval of integration [a, b] intom subintervals of equal length, and applying the same quadrature formulaQ _n to every subinterval. LetR _m be the corresponding error functional. Iff ^(r) > 0 impliesR _m [f] > 0 (orR _m [f] < 0),=" then=" we=" say=">C _m is positive definite (or negative definite, respectively) of orderr. This is the case for most of the well-known quadrature formulas. The assumption thatf ^(r) > 0 may be weakened to the requirement that all divided differences of orderr off are non-negative. Thenf is calledr-convex. Now letC _m be positive definite or negative definite of orderr, and letf be continuous andr-convex. We prove the following direct and inverse theorems for the errorR _m [f], where , denotes the modulus of continuity of orderr:

On the Spectra of Striped Sign Patterns

Sign patterns consisting of some positive and some negative columns, with at least one of each kind, are shown to allow any self-conjugate spectrum, and thus to allow any inertia. In the case of the n ×n sign pattern with all columns positive, given any self-conjugate multiset consisting of n -1 complex numbers supplemented by a sufficiently large positive number, it is shown how to construct a positive normal matrix whose spectrum is this multiset. Thus, the positive sign pattern allows any inertia with at least one positive eigenvalue.     

Normal ordering and quantum groups

The irreducible R-matrices associated with the quantum Liouville and sine-Gordon equations were classified by the su(2) index l, 2l integer. We find that the associated quantum field theories must have the following equal time operator product expansions in the lattice approximation

Quasi-interpolation with translates of a function having noncompact support

We establish a result related to a theorem of de Boor and Jia [1]. Their theorem, in turn, corrected and extended a result of Fix and Strang [5] concerning controlled approximation. In our result, the approximating functions are not required to have compact support, but satisfy instead conditions on their behavior at . Our theorem includes some recent results of Jackson [6] and is closely related to the work of Buhmann [2].Communicated by Carl de Boor     

Fourier analysis of the approximation power of principal shift-invariant spaces

The approximation order provided by a directed set {S _h } _h>0 of spaces, each spanned by thehZ ^d -translates of one function, is analyzed. The nearoptimal approximants of [R2] from eachs _h to the exponential functions are used to establish upper bounds on the approximation order. These approximants are also used on the Fourier transform domain to yield approximations for other smooth functions, and thereby provide lower bounds on the approximation order. As a special case, the classical Strang-Fix conditions are extended to bounded summable generating functions.The second part of the paper consists of a detailed account of various applications of these general results to spline and radial function theory. Emphasis is given to the case when the scale {s _h } is obtained froms ₁ by means other than dilation. This includes the derivation of spectral approximation orders associated with smooth positive definite generating functions.     

Remez-, Nikolskii-, and Markov-type inequalities for generalized nonnegative polynomials with restricted zeros

Sharp Remez-, Nikolskii-, and Markov-type inequalities are proved for functions of the form

Oscillations of certain second order nonlinear differential equations

A second order nonlinear differential equation