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Concerns have been voiced about the correctness of certain technical points in DiPerna’s paper (Comm. Math. Phys. 91 (1983), 1–30) related to the vacuum state. In this note, we provide clarifications. Our conclusion is that these concerns mainly arise from the statement of a lemma for constructing the viscous approximate solutions and some typos; however, the gap can be either fixed by correcting the statement of the lemma and the typos or bypassed by employing the finite difference methods. In [Di], DiPerna found a global entropy solution of the isentropic Euler equations for the following exponents in the equation of state for the pressure: γ = 1 + 2/(2m+ 1), m ≥ 2 integer. (1) He divided his arguments into the following two steps. 1. Compactness framework Assume that a sequence of approximate solutions (ρ (x, t),m (x, t)), 0 ≤ t ≤ T , satisfies: (i). There exists a constant C(T ) > 0, independent of > 0, such that 0 ≤ ρ (x, t) ≤ C, |m (x, t)/ρ (x, t)| ≤ C; (ii). For all weak entropy pairs (η, q) of the isentropic Euler equations, the measure sequence η(ρ ,m )t + q(ρ ,m )x is contained in a compact subset of H −1 loc (R× [0, T ]). If γ satisfies (1), then the sequence (ρ (x, t),m (x, t)) is compact in Lloc(R× [0, T ]). The reason for the restriction on the number γ is that, in such a case, any weak entropy function is a polynomial function of the Riemann invariants (w, z). This is the key step in DiPerna’s arguments and is also his main contribution to the compensated compactness method in this aspect. Received by the editors May 16, 1996. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 35K55, 35L65; Secondary 76N15, 35L60, 65M06.

Recently Cameron and Storvick introduced and studied an operator valued function space integral related to the Feynman integral. The main theorems of their study establish the existence of the function space integral as a weak operator limit of operators defined at the first stage by finite-dimensional integrals. This paper provides a substantial strengthening of their existence theorem giving the function space integrals as strong operator limits rather than as weak operator limits.

Submitted by Vitor Silverio Rodrigues (vitorsrodrigues@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2014-05-27T11:25:28Z No. of bitstreams: 0Bitstream added on 2014-05-27T14:41:41Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 2-s2.0-79951846250.pdf: 494002 bytes, checksum: 56b6ee8beddda3e7dae971355d44a19f (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-27T11:25:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-03-01 Item merged in doublecheck by Felipe Arakaki (arakaki@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2015-12-11T17:28:11Z Item was identical to item(s): 71803, 21370 at handle(s): http://hdl.handle.net/11449/72321, http://hdl.handle.net/11449/21804 Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) The simplest necessary conditions for an entire function ψ(x) =∞ ∑ k=0 γk xk/k! to be in the Laguerre-Pólya class are the Turán inequalities γ2 k- γk+1γk-1 ≥ 0. These are in fact necessary and sufficient conditions for the second degree generalized Jensen polynomials associated with ψ to be hyperbolic. The higher order Turán inequalities 4(γ2 n - γn-1γn+1)(γ2n +1 - γnγn+2) - (γnγn+1 - γn-1γn+2) 2 ≥ 0 are also necessary conditions for a function of the above form to belong to the Laguerre-Pólya class. In fact, these two sets of inequalities guarantee that the third degree generalized Jensen polynomials are hyperbolic. Pólya conjectured in 1927 and Csordas, Norfolk and Varga proved in 1986 that the Turán inequalities hold for the coefficients of the Riemann ψ-function. In this short paper, we prove that the higher order Turán inequalities also hold for the ψ-function, establishing the hyperbolicity of the associated generalized Jensen polynomials of degree three. © 2010 American Mathematical Society. Departamento de Ciências de Computação e Estatística IBILCE, Universidade Estadual Paulista, 15054-000 São José do Rio Preto, SP Departamento de matemática Aplicada IMECC UNICAMP, 13083-859 Campinas, SP Departamento de Ciências de Computação e Estatística IBILCE, Universidade Estadual Paulista, 15054-000 São José do Rio Preto, SP FAPESP: 03/01874-2 FAPESP: 06/60420-0 CNPq: 305622/2009-9 CAPES: DGU-160

We are concerned with the study of the Lane-Emden equation with variable exponent and Dirichlet boundary condition. The feature of this paper is that the analysis that we develop does not assume any subcritical hypotheses and the reaction can fulfill a mixed regime (subcritical, critical and supercritical). We consider the radial and the nonradial cases, as well as a singular setting. The proofs combine variational and analytic methods with a version of the Palais principle of symmetric criticality., The final version this paper will be published in Proc. AMS

In his seminal paper, A. N. Varchenko precisely investigates the leading term of the asymptotic expansion of an oscillatory integral with real analytic phase. He expresses the order of this term by means of the geometry of the Newton polyhedron of the phase. The purpose of this paper is to generalize and improve his result. We are especially interested in the cases that the phase is smooth and that the amplitude has a zero at a critical point of the phase. In order to exactly treat the latter case, a weight function is introduced in the amplitude. Our results show that the optimal rates of decay for weighted oscillatory integrals whose phases and weights are contained in a certain class of smooth functions, including the real analytic class, can be expressed by the Newton distance and multiplicity defined in terms of geometrical relationship of the Newton polyhedra of the phase and the weight. We also compute explicit formulae of the coefficient of the leading term of the asymptotic expansion in the weighted case. Our method is based on the resolution of singularities constructed by using the theory of toric varieties, which naturally extends the resolution of Varchenko. The properties of poles of local zeta functions, which are closely related to the behavior of oscillatory integrals, are also studied under the associated situation. The investigation of this paper improves on the earlier joint work with K. Cho.

We will show that two functions in the extended Selberg class satisfying the same functional equation must be identically equal if they have sufficiently many common zeros. This paper concerns the question of how L-functions are determined by their zeros. L-functions are Dirichlet series with the Riemann zeta function ζ(s) = ∑∞ n=1 1 ns as the prototype and are important objects in number theory. The Selberg class S of L-functions is the set of all Dirichlet series L(s) = ∑∞ n=1 a(n) ns of a complex variable s = σ + it with a(1) = 1, satisfying the following axioms (see [7]): (i) (Dirichlet series) For σ > 1, L(s) is an absolutely convergent Dirichlet series. (ii) (Analytic continuation) There is a nonnegative integer k such that (s − 1)L(s) is an entire function of finite order. (iii) (Functional equation) L satisfies a functional equation of type ΛL(s) = ωΛL(1− s), where ΛL(s) = L(s)Q s ∏K j=1 Γ(λjs+μj) with positive real numbers Q, λj and with complex numbers μj , ω with Reμj ≥ 0 and |ω| = 1. (iv) (Ramanujan hypothesis) a(n) n for every e > 0; (v) (Euler product) logL(s) = ∑∞ n=1 b(n) ns , where b(n) = 0 unless n is a positive power of a prime and b(n) n for some θ < 12 . The degree dL of an L-function L is defined to be dL = 2 ∑K j=1 λj , where K, λj are the numbers in axiom (iii). The Selberg class includes the Riemann zeta-function ζ and essentially those Dirichlet series where one might expect the analogue of the Riemann hypothesis. At the same time, there are a whole host of interesting Dirichlet series not possessing a Euler product (see e.g. [3], [8]). Throughout the paper, all L-functions are assumed to be functions from the extended Selberg class of those only satisfying the axioms (i)-(iii) (see [3]). Thus, the results obtained in the present paper particularly apply to L-functions in the Selberg class. Received by the editors October 5, 2011 and, in revised form, February 12, 2012. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 11M36, 30D30.

This paper is inspired by the work of Nagel and Stein in which the L p L^p ( 1 > p > ∞ ) (1>p>\infty ) theory has been developed in the setting of the product Carnot-Carathéodory spaces M ~ = M 1 × ⋯ × M n \widetilde {M}=M_1\times \cdots \times M_n formed by vector fields satisfying Hörmander’s finite rank condition. The main purpose of this paper is to provide a unified approach to develop the multiparameter Hardy space theory on product spaces of homogeneous type. This theory includes the product Hardy space, its dual, the product B M O BMO space, the boundedness of singular integral operators and Calderón-Zygmund decomposition and interpolation of operators. As a consequence, we obtain the endpoint estimates for those singular integral operators considered by Nagel and Stein (2004). In fact, we will develop most of our theory in the framework of product spaces of homogeneous type which only satisfy the doubling condition and some regularity assumption on the metric. All of our results are established by introducing certain Banach spaces of test functions and distributions, developing discrete Calderón identity and discrete Littlewood-Paley-Stein theory. Our methods do not rely on the Journé-type covering lemma which was the main tool to prove the boundedness of singular integrals on the classical product Hardy spaces.

In this paper we present two-sided estimates of Chernoff type for the weighted L w 2 L_{w}^{2} -distance of a smooth function to the k k -dimensional space of all polynomials of degree less than k k , whenever the weight function w w solves the Pearson differential equation and generates a finite or infinite sequence of classical orthogonal polynomials. These inequalities are simple corollaries of a unified general theorem, which is the main result of the paper.

Let Ω C ℝ N be a compact imbedded Riemannian manifold of dimension d > 1 and define the (d + 1)-dimensional Riemannian manifold M := {(x, r(x)w): x ∈ ℝ, ω ∈ Ω} with r > 0 and smooth, and the natural metric ds 2 = (1 + r'(x) 2 )dx 2 + r 2 (x)ds 2 Ω . We require that M has conical ends: r(x) = |x| + O(x -1 ) as x → ±∞. The Hamiltonian flow on such manifolds always exhibits trapping. Dispersive estimates for the Schrodinger evolution e itΔ M and the wave evolution e it √ -Δ M are obtained for data of the form f (x, ω) = y n (ω)u(x), where Y n are eigenfunctions of -Δ Ω with eigenvalues u 2 n . In this paper we discuss all cases d + n > 1. If n ≠ 0 there is the following accelerated local decay estimate: with 0 1, ∥ω σ e itΔM Y n f ∥ L ∞ (M) ≤ C (n, M, σ) t - d+1 / 2 -σ ∥w -1 σ f ∥ L 1 (M) , where w σ (x) = 〈x〉 -σ , and similarly for the wave evolution. Our method combines two main ingredients: (A) A detailed scattering analysis of Schrodinger operators of the form -∂ 2 ξ + (v 2 - 1 / 4 )〈ξ〉 -2 + U(ξ) on the line where U is real-valued and smooth with U (l) (ξ) = 0( ξ-3-l ) for all l ≥ 0 as ξ → ±∞ and v > 0. In particular, we introduce the notion of a zero energy resonance for this class and derive an asymptotic expansion of the Wronskian between the outgoing Jost solutions as the energy tends to zero. In particular, the division into Part I and Part II can be explained by the former being resonant at zero energy, where the present paper deals with the nonresonant case. (B) Estimation of oscillatory integrals by (non)stationary phase.

We study the transverse Lusternik-Schnirelmann category theory of a Riemannian foliation F on a closed manifold M. The essential transverse category cat e (M, F) is introduced in this paper, and we prove that cat e (M, F) is always finite for a Riemannian foliation. Necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for when the usual transverse category cat (M, F) is finite, and thus cat e (M, F) = cat(M, F) holds. A fundamental point of this paper is to use properties of Riemannian submersions and the Molino Structure Theory for Riemannian foliations to transform the calculation of cat e (M, F) into a standard problem about O(q)-equivariant LS category theory. A main result, Theorem 1.6, states that for an associated O(q)-manifold W, we have that cat e (M, F) = cat O(q) (Ŵ). Hence, the traditional techniques developed for the study of smooth compact Lie group actions can be effectively employed for the study of the LS category of Riemannian foliations. A generalization of the Lusternik-Schnirelmann theorem is derived: given a C 1 -function f: M → R which is constant along the leaves of a Riemannian foliation F, the essential transverse category cat e (M, F) is a lower bound for the number of critical leaf closures of f.

By the celebrated Weierstrass Theorem the set of algebraic polynomials is dense in the space of continuous functions on a compact set in R d . In this paper we study the following question: does the density hold if we approximate only by homogeneous polynomials? Since the set of homogeneous polynomials is nonlinear this leads to a nontrivial problem. It is easy to see that: 1) density may hold only on star-like 0-symmetric surfaces; 2) at least 2 homogeneous polynomials are needed for approximation. The most interesting special case of a star-like surface is a convex surface. It has been conjectured by the second author that functions continuous on 0-symmetric convex surfaces in R d can be approximated by a pair of homogeneous polynomials. This conjecture is not resolved yet but we make substantial progress towards its positive settlement. In particular, it is shown in the present paper that the above conjecture holds for 1) d = 2, 2) convex surfaces in R d with C 1+ǫ boundary.

In a former paper we studied transformations on the set of all n n -dimensional subspaces of a Hilbert space H H which preserve the principal angles. In the case when dim ⁡ H ≠ 2 n \dim H\neq 2n , we could determine the general form of all such maps. The aim of this paper is to complete our result by considering the problem in the remaining case dim ⁡ H = 2 n \dim H=2n .

Let L be the infinitesimal generator of an analytic semigroup on L 2 (R n ) with suitable upper bounds on its heat kernels. In Auscher, Duong, and McIntosh (2005) and Duong and Yan (2005), a Hardy space H1 L(R n ) and a BMO L (R n ) space associated with the operator L were introduced and studied. In this paper we define a class of H p L (R n ) spaces associated with the operator L for a range of p < 1 acting on certain spaces of Morrey-Campanato functions defined in New Morrey-Campanato spaces associated with operators and applications by Duong and Yan (2005), and they generalize the classical H p (R n ) spaces. We then establish a duality theorem between the H p L (R n ) spaces and the Morrey-Campanato spaces in that same paper. As applications, we obtain the boundedness of fractional integrals on H p L (R n ) and give the inclusion between the classical H p (R n ) spaces and the H p L (R n ) spaces associated with operators.

Standing wave solutions of the one-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation \[ i ∂ t ψ + ∂ x 2 ψ = − | ψ | 2 σ ψ i\partial _t \psi + \partial _{x}^2 \psi = -|\psi |^{2\sigma } \psi \] with σ > 2 \sigma >2 are well known to be unstable. In this paper we show that asymptotic stability can be achieved provided the perturbations of these standing waves are small and chosen to belong to a codimension one Lipschitz surface. Thus, we construct codimension one asymptotically stable manifolds for all supercritical NLS in one dimension. The considerably more difficult L 2 L^2 -critical case, for which one wishes to understand the conditional stability of the pseudo-conformal blow-up solutions, is studied in the authors’ companion paper Non-generic blow-up solutions for the critical focusing NLS in 1-d, preprint, 2005.

We consider the initial value problem for the fourth order nonlinear Schrodinger type equation (4NLS) related to the theory of vortex filament. In this paper we prove the time local well-posedness for (4NLS) in the Sobolev space, which is an improvement of our previous paper.

In this paper we examine when the order of a pole of Igusa's local zeta function associated to a polynomial f is smaller than expected. We carry out this study in the case that f is sufficiently non-degenerate with respect to its Newton polyhedron Γ(f), and the main result of this paper is a proof of one of the conjectures of Denef and Sargos. Our technique consists in reducing our question about the polynomial f to the same question about polynomials f μ , where μ are faces of Γ(f) depending on the examined pole and f μ is obtained from f by throwing away all monomials of f whose exponents do not belong to μ. Secondly, we obtain a formula for Igusa's local zeta function associated to a polynomial f μ , with μ unstable, which shows that, in this case, the upperbound for the order of the examined pole is obviously smaller than expected.

Weighted Opial-type inequalities are shown to be equivalent to weighted norm inequalities for sublinear operators and for nearly positive operators. Examples involving the Hardy-Littlewood maximal function and the non-increasing rearrange- ment are presented. Opial-type inequalities are related to norm inequalities much as quadratic forms are related to bilinear forms. A linear operator T on Hilbert space gives rise to the bilinear form (f,g) 7! hTf,gi and the quadratic form f 7! hTf,fi. Duality shows that the norm of T and the norm of the bilinear form coincide and a standard polarization argument shows that this norm is equivalent to but not necessarily equal to the norm of the quadratic form, called the numerical radius of T. In this paper, far from the luxuries of Hilbert spaces and linear operators, we show that the equivalence of operator norm and numerical radius persists. The work is in response to Richard Brown's suggestion that Steven Bloom's result (2, The- orem 1) which gives the equivalence for positive operators should apply in greater generality. Opial-type inequalities have been much studied since Opial's original paper in 1960 and the papers (2), (3) and (4) include many references. After the main theorem showing equivalence of Opial-type and norm inequali- ties, an example involving the Hardy-Littlewood maximal function is included to illustrate that the equivalence cannot be taken in a pointwise sense. To show that the method can be readily applied to generate non-trivial inequal- ities from known norm inequalities we give a simple weight characterization of an Opial-type inequality for the non-increasing rearrangement.

In an upcoming paper, Chang and Skoug used a generalized Brownian motion process to define a generalized analytic Feynman integral and a generalized analytic Fourier-Feynman transform. In this paper we establish several integration by parts formulas involving generalized Feynman integrals, generalized Fourier-Feynman transforms, and the first variation of functionals of the form F ( x ) = f ( ⟨ α 1 , x ⟩ , … , ⟨ α n , x ⟩ ) F(x)=f(\langle \alpha _{1} , x\rangle , \dots , \langle \alpha _{n} , x\rangle ) where ⟨ α , x ⟩ \langle {\alpha ,x}\rangle denotes the Paley-Wiener-Zygmund stochastic integral ∫ 0 T α ( t ) d x ( t ) \int _{0}^{T} \alpha (t) d x(t) .

A new identity is given in this paper for estimating the norm of the product of nonexpansive operators in Hilbert space. This identity can be applied for the design and analysis of the method of alternating projections and the method of subspace corrections. The method of alternating projections is an iterative algorithm for determining the best approximation to any given point in a Hilbert space from the intersection of a finite number of subspaces by alternatively computing the best approximations from the individual subspaces which make up the intersection. The method of subspace corrections is an iterative algorithm for finding the solution of a linear equation in a Hilbert space by approximately solving equations restricted on a number of closed subspaces which make up the entire space. The new identity given in the paper provides a sharpest possible estimate for the rate of convergence of these algorithms. It is also proved in the paper that the method of alternating projections is essentially equivalent to the method of subspace corrections. Some simple examples of multigrid and domain decomposition methods are given to illustrate the application of the new identity.

This paper is a sequel to a paper by the second author on regular linear systems (1994), referred to here as Part I. We introduce the system operator of a well-posed linear system, which for a finite-dimensional system described by x = Ax + Bu, y = Cx + Du would be the s-dependent matrix S Σ (s) = [A-Si/C B D ]. In the general case, S Σ (s) is an unbounded operator, and we show that it can be split into four blocks, as in the finite-dimensional case, but the splitting is not unique (the upper row consists of the uniquely determined blocks A-sI and B, as in the finite-dimensional case, but the lower row is more problematic). For weakly regular systems (which are introduced and studied here), there exists a special splitting of S Σ (s) where the right lower block is the feedthrough operator of the system. Using S Σ (0), we give representation theorems which generalize those from Part I to well-posed linear systems and also to the situation when the initial time is -∞, We also introduce the Lax-Phillips semigroup T induced by a well-posed linear system, which is in fact an alternative representation of a system, used in scattering theory. Our concept of a Lax-Phillips semigroup differs in several respects from the classical one, for example, by allowing an index ω ∈ R which determines an exponential weight in the input and output spaces. This index allows us to characterize the spectrum of A and also the points where S Σ (s) is not invertible, in terms of the spectrum of the generator of? (for various values of ω). The system Σ is dissipative if and only if? (with index zero) is a contraction semigroup.

In this paper, we study the sign-changing Kazdan-Warner's problem on two dimensional closed Riemannian manifold with negative Euler number $\chi(M)

The first section of this paper provides an improvement upon known finiteness theorems for Riemannian submersions; that is, theorems which conclude that there are only finitely many isomorphism types of fiber bundles among Riemannian submersions whose total spaces and base spaces both satisfy certain geometric bounds. The second section of this paper provides a sharpening of some recent theorems which conclude that, for an open manifold of nonnegative curvature satisfying certain geometric bounds near its soul, there are only finitely many possibilities for the isomorphism class of a normal bundle of the soul. A common theme to both sections is a reliance on basic facts about Riemannian submersions whose A A and T T tensors are both bounded in norm.

Let B denote the unit ball in RI. This paper characterizes the subsets E of B with the property that supE h = SUPB h for all harmonic functions h on B which have finite Dirichlet integral. It also examines, in the spirit of a celebrated paper of Brelot and Doob, the associated question of the connection between non-tangential and fine cluster sets of functions on B at points of the boundary.

We prove new results on the stability of the absolutely cont;inuous spectrum for perturbed Stark operators with decaying or satisfying certain smoothness assumption perturbation. We show that the absolutely continuous spectrum of the Stark operator is stable if the perturbing potential decays at the rate (1 + x) 3 -e or if it is continuously differentiable with derivative from the H6lder space C, (R), with any ae > 0. 0. INTRODUCTION In this paper, we study the stability of the absolutely continuous spect;rum of one-dimensional Stark operators under various classes of perturbations. Stark Schr6dinger operators describe behavior of the charged particle in the constant electric field. The absolutely continuous spectrum is a manifestation of the fact that the particle described by the operator propagates to infinity at a rather fast rate (see, e.g. [2], [12]). It is therefore interesting to describe the classes of perturbations which preserve the absolutely continuous spectrum of the Stark operators. In the first part of this work, we study perturbations of Stark operators by decaying potentials. This part is inspired by the recent work of Naboko and Pushnitski [14]. The general picture that we prove is very similar to the case of perturbatiorns of free Schr6dinger operators [9]. In accordance with physical intuition, however, the absolutely continuous spectrum is stable under stronger perturbations than in the free case. If in the free case the short range potentials preserving purely absolutely continuous spectrum of the free operator are given by condition (on the power scale) lq(x)l < C(1 + xKl)'E, in the Stark operator case the corresponding condition reads lq(x)l < C(1 + IXD)-2-E. If c is allowed to be zero in the above bounds, imbedded eigenvalues may occur in both cases (see, e.g. [14], [151). Moreover, in both cases if we allow potential to decay slower by an arbitrary function growing to infinity, very rich singular spectrum, such as a dense set of eigenvalues, -may occur (see [13] for the free case and [141 for the Stark case for precise formulation and proofs of these results). The first part of this work draws the parallel further, showing that the absolutely continuous spectrum of Stark operators is preserved under perturbations satisfying lq(x)l < C(1 + Jxl)-3-E, in particular even in the regimes where a dense set of eigenvalues occurs; hence in such cases these eigenvalues are genuinely imbedded. Similar results for the free case were proven in [9], Received by the editors April 14, 1997. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 34L40, 81Q10. ?)1999 American Mathematical Society 243 This content downloaded from 207.46.13.156 on Sat, 10 Sep 2016 04:57:39 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 244 ALEXANDER KISELEV [10]. Our main strategy of the proof here is similar to that in [9] and [10]: we study the asymptotics of the generalized eigenfunctions and then apply Gilbert-Pearson theory [7] to derive spectral consequences. While the main new tool we introduce in our treatment of Stark operators is the same as in the free case, namely the a.e. convergence of the Fourier-type integral operators, there are some major differences. First of all, the spectral parameter enters the final equations that we study in a different way and this makes analysis more complicated. Secondly, we employ a different method to analyze the asymptotics. Instead of Harris-Lutz asymptotic method we study appropriate Prilfer transform variables, simplifying the overall consideration. In the second part of the work we discuss perturbations by potentials having some additional smoothness properties, but without decay. It turns out that for Stark operators the effects of decay or of additional smoothness of potential on the spectral properties are somewhat similar. It was known for a long time that if a potential perturbing Stark operator has two bounded derivatives the spectrum remains purely absolutely continuous (actually, certain growth of derivatives is also allowed, see Section 2 for details or Walter [21] for the original result). We note that the results similar to Walter's on the preservation of absolutely continuous spectrum were also obtained in [4] by applying different types of technique (Mourre method instead of studying asymptotics of solutions). On the other hand, if the perturbing potential is a sequence of derivatives of 6 functions in integer points on R with certain couplings, the spectrum may turn pure point [3], [5], [1]. In some sense, the 6' interaction is the most singular and least "differentiable" among all available natural perturbations of one-dimensional Schrbdinger operators [11]. Hence we have very different spectral properties on the very opposite sides of the smoothness scale. This work closes part of the gap. We improve the well-known results of Walter [21] concerning the minimal smoothness required for the preservation of the absolutely continuous spectrum and show that in fact existence and minimal smoothness of the first derivative is sufficient to imply absolute continuity of the spectrum. After submitting this paper, the author learned about the work of J. Sahbani [17], where, in particular, the results related to Theorem 2.1 of the present work are proven. Sahbani's results are slightly stronger than Theorem 2.1: the derivative of potential V'(x) is required to be bounded and Dini continuous in order for the absolutely continuous spectrum to be preserved. In addition, he shows that the imbedded singular spectrum in this case may only consist of isolated eigenvalues. The approach employed in [17] is an extension of conjugate operator method. 1. DECAYING PERTURBATIONS Consider a self-adjoint operator Hq defined by the differential expression Hqu =-u" -xu + q(x)u on the L2(-oo, oo). Let us introduce some notation. For the function f C L2 we denote by bf its Fourier transform

In this paper, we study the topology of spaces of n n -tuples of positive divisors on (punctured) Riemann surfaces which have no points in common (the divisor spaces). These spaces arise in connection with spaces of based holomorphic maps from Riemann surfaces to complex projective spaces. We find that there are Eilenberg-Moore type spectral sequences converging to their homology. These spectral sequences collapse at the E 2 E^2 term, and we essentially obtain complete homology calculations. We recover for instance results of F. Cohen, R. Cohen, B. Mann and J. Milgram, The topology of rational functions and divisors of surfaces, Acta Math. 166 (1991), 163–221. We also study the homotopy type of certain mapping spaces obtained as a suitable direct limit of the divisor spaces. These mapping spaces, first considered by G. Segal, were studied in a special case by F. Cohen, R. Cohen, B. Mann and J. Milgram, who conjectured that they split. In this paper, we show that the splitting does occur provided we invert the prime two.

In this paper, the authors establish a multiplier theorem for Herz type Hardy spaces. Let Tm be a multiplier operator defined in terms of Fourier transforms by Tmf Q) = M(W for suitable functions f. It is well-known that there is a multiplier theorem for H1 (Rn) (see [FS]): if a > n/2 and (1) J ID3m(e)12d d 0, let us denote m6QW) = M(6077(0) It is easy to check that (1) is equivalent to (2) sup |m6||Ka 2(Rn) < 0, 6 2 where K2'2 2(R) is a non-homogeneous Herz space (see [BS]). By using some embedding relations on Herz spaces, A. Baernstein II and E. T. Sawyer [BS] weakened (2) into (3) sup iM6i||Kf1l (Rn) < 0, 6 where 0 < E < an2. In fact, this is just a special case of their theorem. In [BS], Baernstein and Sawyer showed that m is a bounded multiplier of H1 (Rn) under an even weaker condition than (3); see Theorem 3b in [BS, page 21]. By using the technique of Herz type Hardy spaces developed by the authors in [LY1]-[LY3] and [Y], in this paper, we shall first establish a multiplier theorem for the homogeneous Herz type Hardy space Hk n(1-1/q), 1(IRn) which is introduced by y ~~~q the authors of this paper in [LY1]. Then as simple consequences of this theorem, a multiplier theorem for the corresponding non-homogeneous version of the space Received by the editors April 13, 1995 and, in revised form, April 5, 1997. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 42B15; Secondary 42B30.

We study the elliptic equation Δ u + k u − K u p = 0 \Delta u + ku - Ku^{p} = 0 on complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds with K K nonnegative. Three fundamental theorems for this equation are proved in this paper. Complete analyses of this equation on the Euclidean space R n {\mathbf {R}}^{n} and the hyperbolic space H n {\mathbf {H}}^{n} are carried out when k k is a constant. Its application to the problem of conformal deformation of nonpositive scalar curvature will be done in the second part of this paper.

If a smooth manifold has a Riemannian metric with positive scalar curvature, it follows immediately that the universal covering also has such a metric. The paper establishes a converse if the manifold in question is closed of dimension at least 5 and the fundamental group is an elementary abelian p-group of rank 2, where p is an odd prime. A conjecture of J. Rosenberg [Rs3] states that a closed smooth manifold with odd order fundamental group and dimension ≥ 5 admits a Riemannian metric with positive scalar curvature if and only if its universal covering admits such a metric. Standard considerations involving transfers (cf. [KS1]) reduce the conjecture to the special case of p-groups (where p is an odd prime). Results of Rosenberg [Rs1]– [Rs3] and S. Kwasik and the author [KS1] prove the conjecture if the fundamental group G is a cyclic p-group. In this work we study the conjecture when G is a finite abelian p-group. The following interim conclusion reflects many of the basic ideas and disposes of the first examples not covered by [KS1], [Rs1]–[Rs3]. Theorem. Let p be an odd prime, and let M be a closed smooth manifold of dimension n ≥ 5 with fundamental group Zp × Zp. Then M admits a Riemannian metric with positive scalar curvature if and only if its universal covering M does. In [RsS] J. Rosenberg and S. Stolz prove a stable result that yields a weaker conclusion for G ∼= Zp × Zp but applies to all finite groups. In particular, if G is a finite group of odd order and M is a closed smooth manifold with fundamental group G, their result states that the universal covering M has a Riemannian metric with positive scalar curvature if and only if some product M ×X × · · · ×X does, where X is an 8-dimensional Bott manifold; i.e., it is a spin manifold whose Â-genus is equal to 1. Although the methods should yield quantitative information on the number of factors of X that are needed, it is not clear how precise such estimates would be. Our result implies that if G ≈ Zp×Zp, then no copies of X are needed if n ≥ 5 and at most one copy of X is needed if n < 5. A more geometric proof of this result in dimensions ≤ 2p− 2 was obtained independently by Stolz (unpublished). It seems likely that the methods of this paper can be combined with the multiple Kunneth formula decomposition of [Hn] and finite induction to prove at least a semistable version of Rosenberg’s conjecture for all elementary abelian p-groups Received by the editors February 13, 1995 and, in revised form, September 13, 1995. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 53C21, 55N15, 57R75; Secondary 53C20, 57R85. c ©1997 American Mathematical Society

In this paper we demonstrate various reducible examples of the scheme I d , g , r ′ \mathcal {I}{’ _{d,g,r}} of smooth curves of degee d and genus g in P r {\mathbb {P}^r} with positive Brill-Noether number. An example of a reducible I d , g , r ′ \mathcal {I}{’ _{d,g,r}} with positive ρ ( d , g , r ) \rho (d,g,r) , namely, the example I 2 g − 8 , g , g − 8 ′ , \mathcal {I}{’ _{2g - 8,g,g - 8}}, , has been known to some people and seems to have first appeared in the literature in Eisenbud and Harris, Irreducibility of some families of linear series with Brill-Noether number − 1 -1 , Ann. Sci. École Norm. Sup. (4) 22 (1989), 33-53. The purpose of this paper is to add a wider class of examples to the list of such reducible examples by using general k-gonal curves. We also show that I d , g , r ′ \mathcal {I}{’ _{d,g,r}} is irreducible for the range of d ≥ 2 g − 7 d \geq 2g - 7 and g − d + r ≤ 0 g - d + r \leq 0 .

This paper studies a minimax problem for functionals in Hilbert space in the form of G ( u ) = 1 2 ρ | | u | | 2 − g ( u ) G(u) = \frac {1} {2}\rho ||u|{|^2} - g(u) , where g ( u ) g(u) is Fréchet differentiable with weakly continuous derivative. If G G has a "mountain pass geometry" it does not necessarily have a critical point. Such a case is called, in this paper, a "mountain impasse". This paper states that in a case of mountain impasse, there exists a sequence u j ∈ H {u_j} \in H such that \[ g ′ ( u j ) = ρ j u j , ρ j → ρ , | | u j | | → ∞ , g\prime ({u_j}) = {\rho _j}{u_j},\quad {\rho _j} \to \rho ,||{u_j}|| \to \infty , \] and G ( u j ) G({u_j}) approximates the minimax value from above. If \[ γ ( t ) = sup | | u | | 2 = t g ( u ) \gamma (t) = \sup \limits _{||u|{|^2} = t} \;g(u) \] and \[ J 0 = ( 2 inf t 2 > t 1 > 0 γ ( t 2 ) − γ ( t 1 ) t 2 − t 1 , 2 sup t 2 > t 1 > 0 γ ( t 2 ) − γ ( t 1 ) t 2 − t 1 ) , {J_0} = \left ( {2\inf \limits _{{t_2} > {t_1} > 0} \frac {{\gamma ({t_2}) - \gamma ({t_1})}} {{{t_2} - {t_1}}},2\sup \limits _{{t_2} > {t_1} > 0} \frac {{\gamma ({t_2}) - \gamma ({t_1})}} {{{t_2} - {t_1}}}} \right ), \] then g ′ ( u ) = ρ u g\prime (u) = \rho u has a nonzero solution u u for a dense subset of ρ ∈ J 0 \rho \in {J_0} .

In this paper, we have obtained two main results by using probabilistic methods: (i) For a domain, we obtained a representation formula of the bounded solution to the first boundary value problem for Schrödinger equation; (ii) For α ∈ R 1 \alpha \in {R^1} , under certain conditions, we proved that the bounded solution having limit α \alpha at infinity to the generalized first boundary value problem for Schrödinger equation exists and is unique, and it is represented in explicit formula. The results of this paper are generalizations of Chung and Rao.

In an earlier work [T 1], the author described a technique for constructing rigid analytic modular forms on the p-adic upper half plane by means of an integral transform (a "Poisson Kernel"). In this paper, we apply these methods to the study of rigid analytic modular forms on the upper half plane over a complete local field k of characteristic p. Arising out of the theory of Drinfeld modules [D], these modular forms, first studied by Goss (see [Gol, Go2]), are in many ways analogous to the classical modular forms for SL2 (Z). For a brief, but effective, introduction to the theory of these "characteristic p " modular forms, see the introduction to Gekeler's paper [Gekl]. Also useful is Gekeler's book [Gek2]. We establish three main results. First of all, we show that if, k is the function field of a complete, geometrically irreducible curve C over the finite field lFq with q elements, k is a completion of k, F is an arithmetic subgroup of GL2(k), and ,u is a measure on Pi coming from a "harmonic cocycle of weight n for I," (see Definition 1 below) then

In this paper, we consider strictly positive solutions of competing species systems with diffusion under Dirichlet boundary conditions. We obtain a good understanding of when strictly positive solutions exist, obtain new nonuniqueness results and a number of other results, showing how complicated these equations can be. In particular, we consider how the shape of the underlying domain affects the behaviour of the equations. The purpose of this paper is to obtain much better results on the existence and uniqueness of strictly positive stationary (that is time-independent) solutions of

Multiplication by the independent variable on H 2 ( R ) {H^2}(R) for R R a bounded open region in the complex plane C \mathbb {C} is a subnormal operator. This paper characterizes its minimal normal extension N N . Any normal operator is determined by a scalar-valued spectral measure and a multiplicity function. It is a consequence of some standard operator theory that a scalar-valued spectral measure for N N is harmonic measure for R R , ω \omega . This paper investigates the multiplicity function m m for N N . It is shown that m m is bounded above by two ω \omega -a.e., and necessary and sufficient conditions are given for m m to attain this upper bound on a set of positive harmonic measure. Examples are given which indicate the relationship between N N and the boundary of R R .

In this paper the dual Orlicz–Minkowski problem, a generalization of the L p L_p dual Minkowski problem, is studied. By studying a flow involving the Gauss curvature and support function, we obtain a new existence result of solutions to this problem for smooth measures.

In this paper, we study Lagrangian mean curvature flow (LMCF) of asymptotically conical (AC) Lagrangian submanifolds asymptotic to a union of special Lagrangian cones. Since these submanifolds are non-compact, we establish a short-time existence theorem for AC LMCF first. Then we focus on the equivariant, almost-calibrated case and prove long-time existence and convergence results. In particular, under certain smallness assumptions on the initial data, we show that the equivariant, almost-calibrated AC LMCF converges to a Lagrangian catenoid or an Anciaux’s expander.

For an infinite Blaschke product B B , does there necessarily exist δ > 0 \delta >0 such that each w w satisfying | w | > δ |w|>\delta is assumed infinitely often by B B ? Stephenson raised this question in 1979 and then constructed a counterexample in 1988 to prove that the answer to his problem is negative. In this paper, we find two sufficient conditions under which the answer to the problem is positive.

In this paper, we prove an exponential integral formula for the Fourier transform of Bessel functions over complex numbers, along with a radial exponential integral formula. The former will enable us to develop the complex spectral theory of the relative trace formula for the Shimura–Waldspurger correspondence and extend the Waldspurger formula from totally real fields to arbitrary number fields.

The approximation of a general d-variate function f by the shifts �(� − �), � ∈ � ⊂ R d , of a fixed functionoccurs in many applications such as data fit- ting, neural networks, and learning theory. When � = hZ d is a dilate of the integer lattice, there is a rather complete understanding of the approximation problem (6, 18) using Fourier techniques. However, in most applications the center set � is either given, or can be chosen with complete freedom. In both of these cases, the shift-invariant setting is too restrictive. This paper studies the approximation problem in the caseis arbitrary. It establishes approximation theorems whose error bounds reflect the local density of the points in �. Two different settings are analyzed. The first is when the setis prescribed in advance. In this case, the theorems of this paper show that, in analogy with the classical univariate spline ap- proximation, improved approximation occurs in regions where the density is high. The second setting corresponds to the problem of non-linear approximation. In that setting the setcan be chosen using information about the target function f. We discuss how to 'best' make these choices and give estimates for the approximation error.

Spatial spread and front propagation dynamics is one of the most important dynamical issues in KPP models. Such dynamics of KPP models in time independent or periodic media has been widely studied. Recently, the author of the current paper with Huang established some theoretical foundation for the study of spatial spread and front propagation dynamics of KPP models in time almost periodic and space periodic media. A notion of spreading speed intervals for such models was introduced in the above-mentioned paper and was shown to be the natural extension of the classical concept of the spreading speeds for time independent or periodic KPP models and that it could be used for more general time dependent KPP models. A notion of generalized propagating speed intervals of front solutions and a notion of traveling wave solutions to time almost periodic and space periodic KPP models were also introduced, which are the generalizations of wave speeds and traveling wave solutions in time independent or periodic KPP models. The aim of the current paper is to gain some further qualitative and quantitative understanding of the spatial spread and front propagation dynamics of KPP models in time almost periodic and space periodic media. By applying the principal Lyapunov exponent and the principal Floquet bundle theory for time almost periodic parabolic equations, we provide various useful estimates for spreading and generalized propagating speeds for such KPP models. Under the so-called linear determinacy condition, we show that the spreading speed interval in any given direction is a singleton (called the spreading speed). Moreover, in such a case we establish a variational principle for the spreading speed and prove that there is a front solution of speed c in a given direction if and only if c is greater than or equal to the spreading speed in that direction. Both the estimates and variational principle provide important and efficient tools for the spreading speeds analysis as well as the spreading speeds computation. Based on the variational principle, the influence of time and space variation of the media on the spreading speeds is also discussed in this paper. It is shown that the time and space variation cannot slow down the spatial spread and that it indeed speeds up the spatial spread except in certain degenerate cases, which provides deep insights into the understanding of the influence of the inhomogeneity of the underline media on the spatial spread in KPP models.

In this paper, we consider the long time behavior of solution to the quadratic gauge invariant nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation (NLKG) in two space dimensions. For a given asymptotic profile, we construct a solution to (NLKG) which converges to given asymptotic profile as t goes infinity. Here the asymptotic profile is given by the leading term of the solution to the linear Klein-Gordon equation with a logarithmic phase correction. Construction of a suitable approximate solution is based on Fourier series expansion of the nonlinearity.

International audience; This paper deals with global dispersive properties of Schrödinger equations with realvalued potentials exhibiting critical singularities, where our class of potentials is more general than inverse-square type potentials and includes several anisotropic potentials. We first prove weighted resolvent estimates, which are uniform with respect to the energy, with a large class of weight functions in Morrey-Campanato spaces. Uniform Sobolev inequalities in Lorentz spaces are also studied. The proof employs the iterated resolvent identity and a classical multiplier technique. As an application, the full set of global-in-time Strichartz estimates including the endpoint case is derived. In the proof of Strichartz estimates, we develop a general criterion on perturbations ensuring that both homogeneous and inhomogeneous endpoint estimates can be recovered from resolvent estimates. Finally, we also investigate uniform resolvent estimates for long range repulsive potentials with critical singularities by using an elementary version of the Mourre theory.

This paper deals with the oscillatory behavior of solutions of difference equations corresponding to second-order nonlinear differential equations of Euler type. The obtained results are represented as a pair of oscillation and nonoscillation criteria, and are best possible in a certain sense. Linear difference equations corresponding to the Riemann–Weber version of the Euler differential equation and its extended equations play an important role in proving our results. The proofs of our results are based on the Riccati technique and the phase plane analysis of a system.

In this paper, we consider the existence and uniqueness of singular solutions of degenerate parabolic equations with absorption for zero homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. Moreover, we also get some estimates of the short time behavior of singular solutions.

In this paper, we obtain boundary Harnack estimates and comparison theorem for nonnegative solutions to the linearized Monge-Ampère equations under natural assumptions on the domain, Monge-Ampère measures and boundary data. Our results are boundary versions of Caffarelli and Gutiérrez’s interior Harnack inequality for the linearized Monge-Ampère equations. As an application, we obtain sharp upper bound and global L p L^p -integrability for Green’s function of the linearized Monge-Ampère operator.

For $m\ge 2$, let $\pi$ be an irreducible cuspidal automorphic representation of $GL_m(\mathbb{A}_{\mathbb{Q}})$ with unitary central character. Let $a_\pi(n)$ be the $n^{th}$ coefficient of the $L$-function attached to $\pi$. Goldfeld and Sengupta have recently obtained a bound for $\sum_{n\le x} a_\pi(n)$ as $x \rightarrow \infty$. For $m\ge 3$ and $\pi$ not a symmetric power of a $GL_2(\mathbb{A}_{\mathbb{Q}})$-cuspidal automorphic representation with not all finite primes unramified for $\pi$, their bound is better than all previous bounds. In this paper, we further improve the bound of Golfeld and Sengupta. We also prove a quantitative result for the number of sign changes of the coefficients of certain automorphic $L$-functions, provided the coefficients are real numbers.

In this paper, from the non-linear difference equation \[ ( w ¯ + w ) ( w + w _ ) = P ( z , w ) Q ( z , w ) (\overline {w}+w)(w+\underline {w})=\frac {P(z,w)}{Q(z,w)} \] where P ( z , w ) P(z,w) and Q ( r , w ) Q(r,w) are polynomials in w ( z ) w(z) without common factors having small function coefficients related to w ( z ) w(z) , we present the form of difference Painlevé equation IV \[ ( w ¯ + w ) ( w + w _ ) = ( w 2 − a 2 ) ( w 2 − b 2 ) ( w + ( α z + β ) ) 2 + π , (\overline {w}+w)(w+\underline {w})=\frac {(w^2-a^2)(w^2-b^2)}{(w+(\alpha z+\beta ))^2+\pi }, \] where a a , b b , α \alpha , β \beta and π \pi are period small functions related to w w . It shows that if the above difference equation admits at least one meromorphic solution w ( z ) w(z) of finite order, then the difference equation can be transformed by Möbius tranformation in w w to difference Painlevé IV, unless w w is the solution of difference Riccati equations.

In this note we discuss the problem of finding an upper bound on the length of the shortest closed geodesic in a closed Riemannian 3-manifold in terms of the volume. More precisely, we show that there exists a positive universal constant C C such that, for every Riemannian 3-manifold ( M 3 , g ) (M^3,g) with R i c g ≥ 0 Ric_g\geq 0 , at least one of the following assertions holds: (i). S y s g ( M ) ≤ C V o l g ( M ) 1 3 Sys_g(M)\leq C Vol_g(M)^{\frac 13} , where S y s g ( M ) Sys_g(M) denotes the length of the shortest closed geodesic in M 3 M^3 ; (ii). M 3 M^3 is diffeomorphic to S 3 \mathbb {S}^3 and there exists a closed minimal surface Σ 0 \Sigma _0 embedded in M 3 M^3 , with index 1, and A g ( Σ 0 ) ≤ C V o l g ( M ) 2 3 A_g(\Sigma _0)\leq C Vol_g(M)^{\frac {2}{3}} . This gives a partial answer to the problem proposed in Gromov’s paper written in 1983.