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This is a corrigendum to our paper, “On a class of prime entire functions”, published in Acta Math. Sin., Engl. Ser., 25, 1647–1652 (2009).

The abstract results and applications presented in “Controllability of fractional neutral stochastic functional differential systems, Z. Angew. Math. Phys. 65 (2014), no. 5, 941–959, are not correct. Moreover, the class of differential control problems studied in [1] is not H-controllable.

It is shown that an approach earlier used by the author for classification of closed simply connected 6-manifolds (reduction to the problem of calculating certain bordism groups) can also be applied for easily obtaining the results by Barden (1965) on classification of closed simply connected 5-manifolds. Bibliography: 11 titles.

Zannier proved that for a Laurent series f(x) satisfying the functional equation of type f(x m ) = P(x, f(x)), where \( P(x, y) \in {\Bbb C}(x)[y] \), if f(x) is not rational the set of such m consists of the powers of a single integer. He mentioned that the case f(x) = P(x, f(x m )) should be proved in a similar way. In this paper we first verify this statement and second we show a theorem which is useful for proving the transcendence of a Laurent series satisfying a certain functional equation. This theorem is a generalization of the result that a Laurent series which satisfiesf(x m ) = P(x, f(x)), where\( P(x, y) \in {\Bbb C}(x, y),\,m \geq 2 \)cannot represent an algebraic function unless it is rational (Ke. Nishioka [1], Zannier [8], Section 3).

In Sec. 1 a correction is given of the estimate of the Hausdorff dimension and an estimate of the fractal dimension of a bounded subset of a Hilbert space, semiinvariant with respect to a flattening transformation. In Sec. 2 the results, proved by the author for semigroups with a continuous group parameter t∈R+≡[0, ∞), are carried over to the case when t runs through the semigroup ℑ+≡{t∈ℑ∣t⩾0} of some additive group ℑ⊂R=(−∞, ∞).

Let A be a partition of the segment [0, 1] into a countable number of disjoint subsets of positive measure, let t∈L1(0,1), let Nt be the smallest rearrangement-invariant order ideal vector lattice in L1(0,1), containing t. In the paper one investigates the properties of the image E(Nt¦A) of the averaging operator with respect to A. In particular, one elucidates under what conditions there exists a function g, g∈L1(0,1), such that E(Nt¦A)⊂Ng. One formulates a generalization of the known Hardy-Littlewood inequality, namely Theorem E(t∣A)≺QE(t*∣A*), where ≺ is the Hardy-Littlewood preorder, t* and A* are the decreasing rearrangements of the function ¦t¦ and (in a special sense) of the partition A, while Q is an absolute constant, 1⩽Q⩽25. One formulates the problem of the smallest value of Q.

A regular system is a Delone set in Euclidean space with a transitive group of symmetries or, in other words, the orbit of a crystallographic group. The local theory for regular systems, created by the geometric school of B. N. Delone, was aimed, in particular, to rigorously establish the “local-global-order” link, i.e., the link between the arrangement of a set around each of its points and symmetry/regularity of the set as a whole. The main result of this paper is a proof of the so-called 10R-theorem. This theorem asserts that identity of neighborhoods within a radius 10R of all points of a Delone set (in other words, an (r, R)-system) in 3D Euclidean space implies regularity of this set. The result was obtained and announced long ago independently by M. Shtogrin and the author of this paper. However, a detailed proof remains unpublished for many years. In this paper, we give a proof of the 10R-theorem. In the proof, we use some recent results of the author, which simplify the proof.

It is known that Julia sets, as a rule, have a fractal structure. In this paper, we give examples of smooth Julia sets, among them: a circle, a segment, an infinite interval, a straight line, and the complex plane. It is shown that the functions studied in the paper are chaotic on their Julia sets. The results obtained by analytical research are visualized using computer programs. The algorithms for constructing the Julia sets being considered are indicated.

In a previous paper (Funct. Anal. Appl., 3 (2015), 205–209), we defined quantum Markov states. Here we recall this definition and present a proof of the results from that paper (which are given there without proofs). We give a definition of a quantum hidden Markov state generated by a function of a quantum Markov process and show how it is related to other definitions of such states. Our definitions work for quantum Markov fields on ℤN and on graphs. We consider an example with the Cayley tree.

The main goal of this paper is to study algorithmic properties of countable linear orders by constructing effective presentations of these structures on the set of natural numbers. In 1991, C. Jockusch and R. Soare constructed a low linear order without computable presentations. Earlier, in 1989, R. Downey and M. Moses showed that each low discrete linear order has a computable copy. It is natural to ask for which order types of low presentations the existence of a computable presentation is sufficient. This question (namely, research program) was stated by R. Downey in 1998: Describe the order property P such that, for any low linear order L, P(L) implies the existence of a computable presentation of L. In this paper, we give a detailed review of the main results in this direction. These results are mostly obtained by the author or in co-authorship.

The Hermite–Hadamard inequality was extended using iterated integrals by Retkes [Acta Sci Math (Szeged) 74:95–106, 2008]. In this paper we further extend the main results of the above paper for convex and also for s-convex functions in the second sense.

In this paper our aim is to show some new inequalities of the Redheffer type for Bessel and modified Bessel functions of the first kind. The key tools in our proofs are some classical results on the monotonicity of quotients of differentiable functions as well as on the monotonicity of quotients of two power series. We also use some known results on the quotients of Bessel and modified Bessel functions of the first kind, and by using the monotonicity of the Dirichlet eta function we prove a sharp inequality for the tangent function. At the end of the paper a conjecture is stated, which may be of interest for further research.

The notion of a p-convergent operator on a Banach space was originally introduced in 1993 by Castillo and Sanchez in the paper entitled “Dunford–Pettis-like properties of continuous vector function spaces”. In the present paper we consider the p-convergent operators on Banach lattices, prove some domination properties of the same and consider their applications (together with the notion of a weak p-convergent operator, which we introduce in the present paper) to a study of the Schur property of order p. Also, the notion of a disjoint p-convergent operator on Banach lattices is introduced, studied and its applications to a study of the positive Schur property of order p are considered.

A map (S,G) is a closed Riemann surface S with embedded graph G such that S \G is the disjoint union of connected components, called faces, each of which is homeomorphic to an open disk. Tutte began a systematic study of maps in the 1960s and contemporary authors are actively developing it. In the present paper, after recalling the concept of a circular map introduced by the author and Mednykh, a relationship between bipartite maps and circular maps is demonstrated via the concept of the duality of maps. In this way an enumeration formula for the number of bipartite maps with a given number of edges is obtained. A hypermap is a map whose vertices are colored black and white in such a way that every edge connects vertices of different colors. The hypermaps are also known as dessins d’enfants (or Grothendieck’s dessins). A hypermap is self-equivalent with respect to reversing the colors of vertices if it is equivalent to the hypermap obtained by reversing the colors of its vertices. The main result of the present paper is an enumeration formula for the number of unrooted hypermaps, regardless of genus, which have n edges and are self-equivalent with respect to reversing the colors of vertices. Bibliography: 13 titles.

In this paper, the authors first construct a dynamical system which is strongly mixing but has no weak specification property. Then the authors introduce two new concepts which are called the quasi-weak specification property and the semi-weak specification property in this paper, respectively, and the authors prove the equivalence of quasi-weak specification property, semi-weak specification property and strongly mixing.

The quadratic Vieta formulas (x, y) ↦ (u, v) = (x + y, xy) in the complex geometry define a two-fold branched covering ℂ2 → ℂ2 ramified over the parabola u 2 = 4v. Thinking about topics considered in Arnold’s paper Topological content of the Maxwell theorem on multipole representation of spherical functions, I came to a very simple idea: in fact, these formulas describe the algebraic structure, i.e., addition and multiplication, of complex numbers. What if, instead of the field of complex numbers, we consider an arbitrary ring? Namely for an arbitrary ring A (commutative, with unity) consider the mapping Φ: A 2 → A 2 defined by the Vieta formulas (x, y) ↦ (u, v) = (x + y, xy). What kind of algebraic properties of the ring itself does this map reflect? At first, it is interesting to investigate the simplest finite rings A = ℤ m and A = ℤ k ×ℤ m . Recently, it has been very popular to consider graphs associated to rings (the zero-divisor graph, the Cayley graph, etc.). In the present paper, we study the directed graph defined by the Vieta mapping Φ.

In this paper we develop the theory of anti-compact sets we introduced earlier. We describe the class of Frechet spaces where anti-compact sets exist. They are exactly the spaces that have a countable set of continuous linear functionals. In such spaces we prove an analogue of the Hahn–Banach theorem on extension of a continuous linear functional from the original space to a space generated by some anti-compact set. We obtain an analogue of the Lyapunov theorem on convexity and compactness of the range of vector measures, which establishes convexity and a special kind of relative weak compactness of the range of an atomless vector measure with values in a Frechet space possessing an anti-compact set. Using this analogue of the Lyapunov theorem, we prove the solvability of an infinite-dimensional analogue of the problem of fair division of resources. We also obtain an analogue of the Lyapunov theorem for nonadditive analogues of measures that are vector quasi-measures valued in an infinite-dimensional Frechet space possessing an anti-compact set. In the class of Frechet spaces possessing an anti-compact set, we obtain analogues of the Krein–Milman theorem on extreme points for convex bounded sets that are not necessarily compact. A special place is occupied by analogues of the Krein–Milman theorem in terms of extreme sequences introduced in the paper (the so-called sequential analogues of the Krein–Milman theorem).

Let λK m,n be a complete bipartite multigraph with two partite sets having m and n vertices, respectively. A K p,q -factorization of λK m,n is a set of edge-disjoint K p,q -factors of λK m,n which partition the set of edges of λK m,n . When p = 1 and q is a prime number, Wang, in his paper [On K 1,q -factorization of complete bipartite graph, Discrete Math., 126: (1994), 359-364], investigated the K 1,q -factorization of K m,n and gave a sufficient condition for such a factorization to exist. In papers [K 1,k -factorization of complete bipartite graphs, Discrete Math., 259: 301-306 (2002),; K p,q -factorization of complete bipartite graphs, Sci. China Ser. A-Math., 47: (2004), 473-479], Du and Wang extended Wang’s result to the case that p and q are any positive integers. In this paper, we give a sufficient condition for λK m,n to have a K p,q -factorization. As a special case, it is shown that the necessary condition for the K p,q -factorization of λK m,n is always sufficient when p : q = k : (k + 1) for any positive integer k.

The goal of this paper is to point out that the results obtained in the recent papers (Chen and Song in Nonlinear Anal 72:1895–1901, 2010; Chu in J Math Anal Appl 327:1041–1045, 2007; Chu et al. in Nonlinear Anal 59:1001–1011, 2004a, J. Math Anal Appl 289:666–672, 2004b) can be seriously strengthened in the sense that we can significantly relax the assumptions of the main results so that we still get the same conclusions. In order to do this first, we prove that for $$n \ge 3$$ any transformation which preserves the n-norm of any n vectors is automatically plus-minus linear. This will give a re-proof of the well-known Mazur–Ulam-type result that every n-isometry is automatically affine ( $$n \ge 2$$ ) which was proven in several papers, e.g. in Chu et al. (Nonlinear Anal 70:1068–1074, 2009). Second, following the work of Rassias and Semrl (Proc Am Math Soc 118:919–925, 1993), we provide the solution of a natural Aleksandrov-type problem in n-normed spaces, namely, we show that every surjective transformation which preserves the unit n-distance in both directions ( $$n\ge 2$$ ) is automatically an n-isometry.

The paper deals with geometric invariants of an algebraic curve such as the minimal number of crucial values of rational functions and the minimal transcendence degree of definition fields. The main question is if the difference of these two invariants is always equal to 3 for any curve with genus g > 0. For curves defined over an algebraic number field, a positive answer is given by Belyi’s theorem. In the paper, the main question is answered in the affirmative for some other cases.

In this paper, we study the Lp mapping properties of certain class of maximal oscillatory singular integral operators. We prove a general theorem for a class of maximal functions along surfaces. As a consequence of such theorem, we establish the Lp boundedness of various maximal oscillatory singular integrals provided that their kernels belong to the natural space Llog L(Sn−1). Moreover, we highlight some additional results concerning operators with kernels in certain block spaces. The results in this paper substantially improve previously known results.

The paper is devoted to the master thesis on “information theory” which was written by the author in 1956–57. The topic was suggested by his advisor A. A. Bobrov (a student of A. Ya. Khinchin and A. N. Kolmogorov), and the thesis was written under the influence of lectures by N. I. Gavrilov (a student of I. G. Petrovskii) on the qualitative theory of differential equations, which included the statement of Birkhoff’s theorem for ergodic dynamical systems. In the thesis, the author used the concept of Shannon entropy in the study of ergodic dynamical systems f(p, t) in a separable compact metric space R with an invariant measure μ (where μ(R) = 1) and introduced the notion of the (ϵ, T)-entropy of a system as a quantitative characteristic of the degree of mixing. In the work, not only partitions of R were considered, but also partitions of the interval (−∞,∞) into subintervals of length T > 0. In particular, f(p, T) was regarded as an automorphism S of X = R, and the (ϵ, T)-entropy is essentially the e-entropy of S. But, despite some “oversights” in the definition of the (ϵ, T)-entropy and many years that have passed, the author decided to publish the corresponding chapter of the thesis in connection with the following: 1) There is a number of papers that refer to this work in the explanation of the history of the concept of Kolmogorov’s entropy. 2) Recently, B. M. Gurevich obtained new results on the ϵ-entropy hϵ(S), which show that for two ergodic automorphisms with equal finite entropies their ϵ-entropies also coincide for all ϵ, but, on the other hand, there are unexpected nonergodic automorphisms with equal finite entropies, but different ϵ-entropies for some ϵ. This shows that the concept of ϵ-entropy is of scientific value.

The present paper is devoted to graph-links with many components and consists of two parts. In the first part of the paper we classify vertices of a labeled graph according to the component they belong to. Using this classification, we construct an invariant of graph-links. This invariant shows that the labeled second Bouchet graph generates a nonrealizable graph-link. In the second part of the work we introduce the notion of an oriented graph-link. We define a writhe number for the oriented graph-link and we get an invariant of oriented graph-links, the Jones polynomial, by normalizing the Kauffman bracket with the writhe number.

The paper generalizes the results by E. Janvresse, T. de la Rue, and Y. Velenik on fluctuations in ergodic sums for the Pascal adic transformation in the case of the Lebesgue measure for a wide class of functions. In particular, we answer several questions from that paper.

This paper gives the concepts of finite dimensional irreducible operators ((FDI) operators) and infinite dimensional irreducible operators ((IDI) operators). Discusses the relationships of (FDI) operators, (IDI) operators and strongly irreducible operators ((SI) operators) and illustrates some properties of the three classes of operators. Some sufficient conditions for the finite-dimensional irreducibility of operators which have the forms of upper triangular operator matrices are given. This paper proves that every operator with a singleton spectrum is a small compact perturbation of an (FDI) operator on separable Banach spaces and shows that every bounded linear operator T can be approximated by operators in (ΣFDI)(X) with respect to the strong-operator topology and every compact operator K can be approximated by operators in (ΣFDI)(X) with respect to the norm topology on a Banach space X with a Schauder basis, where (ΣFDI)(X):= {T ∈ B(X): T = Σ =1 ⊕T i , T i ∈ (FDI), k ∈ ℕ}.

In this paper, we study the joint Laplace transform and probability generating functions of two pairs of random variables: (1) the two-sided first-exit time and the number of claims by this time; (2) the two-sided smooth exit-recovery time and its associated number of claims. The joint transforms are expressed in terms of the so-called doubly-killed scale function that is defined in this paper. We also find explicit expressions for the joint density function of the two-sided first-exit time and the number of claims by this time. Numerical examples are presented for exponential claims.

This paper is concerned with problems in the context of the theoretical foundation of adaptive algorithms for the numerical treatment of operator equations. It is well-known that the analysis of such schemes naturally leads to function spaces of Besov type. But, especially when dealing with equations on non-smooth manifolds, the definition of these spaces is not straightforward. Nevertheless, motivated by applications, recently Besov-type spaces $$B^\alpha _{\Psi ,q}(L_p(\Gamma ))$$ on certain two-dimensional, patchwise smooth surfaces were defined and employed successfully. In the present paper, we extend this definition (based on wavelet expansions) to a quite general class of d-dimensional manifolds and investigate some analytical properties of the resulting quasi-Banach spaces. In particular, we prove that different prominent constructions of biorthogonal wavelet systems $$\Psi $$ on domains or manifolds $$\Gamma $$ which admit a decomposition into smooth patches actually generate the same Besov-type function spaces $$B^\alpha _{\Psi ,q}(L_p(\Gamma ))$$ , provided that their univariate ingredients possess a sufficiently large order of cancellation and regularity. For this purpose, a theory of almost diagonal matrices on related sequence spaces $$b^\alpha _{p,q}(\nabla )$$ of Besov type is developed.

The present paper is a survey aiming at characterizing all solutions of the discrete phase retrieval problem. Restricting ourselves to discrete signals with finite support, this problem can be stated as follows. We want to recover a complex-valued discrete signal $$\mathbf{x} :\mathbb {Z}\rightarrow \mathbb {C}$$ with support $$\{ 0, \ldots , N-1 \}$$ from the modulus of its discrete-time Fourier transform $$\widehat{x}(\omega )$$ . We will give a full classification of all trivial and nontrivial ambiguities of the discrete phase retrieval problem. In our classification, trivial ambiguities are caused either by signal shifts in space, by multiplication with a rotation factor $$\mathrm {e}^{\mathrm {i}\alpha }$$ , $$\alpha \in [-\pi , \pi )$$ , or by conjugation and reflection of the signal. Furthermore, we show that all nontrivial ambiguities of the finite discrete phase retrieval problem can be characterized by signal convolutions. In the second part of the paper, we examine the usually employed a priori conditions regarding their ability to reduce the number of ambiguities of the phase retrieval problem or even to ensure uniqueness. For the corresponding proofs we can employ our findings on the ambiguity classification. The considerations on the structure of ambiguities also show clearly the ill-posedness of the phase retrieval problem even in cases where uniqueness is theoretically shown.

Let \(\Gamma \) be a closed co-compact subgroup of a second countable locally compact abelian (LCA) group \(G\). In this paper we study translation-invariant (TI) subspaces of \(L^2(G)\) by elements of \(\Gamma \). We characterize such spaces in terms of range functions extending the results from the Euclidean and LCA setting. The main innovation of this paper, which contrasts with earlier works, is that we do not require that \(\Gamma \) be discrete. As a consequence, our characterization of TI-spaces is new even in the classical setting of \(G=\mathbb {R}^n\). We also extend the notion of the spectral function in \(\mathbb {R}^n\) to the LCA setting. It is shown that spectral functions, initially defined in terms of \(\Gamma \), do not depend on \(\Gamma \). Several properties equivalent to the definition of spectral functions are given. In particular, we show that the spectral function scales nicely under the action of epimorphisms of \(G\) with compact kernel. Finally, we show that for a large class of LCA groups, the spectral function is given as a pointwise limit.

Let $X,X_1,\ldots,X_n$ be independent identically distributed random variables. The paper deals with the question about the behavior of the concentration function of the random variable $\sum\limits_{k=1}^{n}X_k a_k$ according to the arithmetic structure of vectors $a_k$. Recently, the interest to this question has increased significantly due to the study of distributions of eigenvalues of random matrices. In this paper we formulate and prove multidimensional generalizations of the results Eliseeva and Zaitsev (2012). They are also the refinements of the results of Friedland and Sodin (2007) and Rudelson and Vershynin (2009)., Comment: 13 pages

The purpose of this paper is to present a new iteration method based on the hybrid method in mathematical programming, extragradient method, and Mann’s method for finding a common element of the solution set of equilibrium problems, the solution set of variational inequality problems for a monotone, Lipschitz continuous mapping and the set of fixed points for a nonexpansive semigroup in Hilbert spaces. We obtain a strong convergence theorem for the sequences generated by this process. The results in this paper generalize and extend some well-known strong convergence theorems in the literature.

In this paper, we introduce a new iteration method based on the hybrid method in mathematical programming, the descent-like method and the Halpern’s iteration method for finding a common element of the solution set for a variational inequality and the set of common fixed points of a countably infinite family of nonexpansive mappings in Hilbert spaces. The result in this paper modifies and improves some well-known results in the literature for a more general problem.

In this paper, we introduce some new iteration methods combining the hybrid method in mathematical programming with Mann’s iterative method and the Halpern method for finding a fixed point of an asymptotically nonexpansive mapping and a common fixed point of an asymptotically nonexpansive semigroup in a Hilbert space. The main results in this paper modify and improve some well-known results in the literature.

In this paper, we study a class of nonlinear Schrodinger–Poisson systems with indefinite steep potential well: $$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{l@{\quad }l} -\Delta u+V_{\lambda }(x)u+K(x)\phi u=|u|^{p-2}u &{} \text { in }\mathbb {R}^{3},\\ -\Delta \phi =K\left( x\right) u^{2} &{} \ \text {in }\mathbb {R}^{3}, \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}$$ where $$30$$ and $$ K(x)\ge 0$$ for all $$x\in \mathbb {R}^{3}$$ . We require that $$a\in C( \mathbb {R}^{3}) $$ is nonnegative and has a potential well $$\Omega _{a}$$ , namely $$a(x)\equiv 0$$ for $$x\in \Omega _{a}$$ and $$a(x)>0$$ for $$x\in \mathbb {R}^{3}\setminus \overline{\Omega _{a}}$$ . Unlike most other papers on this problem, we allow that $$b\in C(\mathbb {R}^{3}) $$ is unbounded below and sign-changing. By introducing some new hypotheses on the potentials and applying the method of penalized functions, we obtain the existence of nontrivial solutions for $$\lambda $$ sufficiently large. Furthermore, the concentration behavior of the nontrivial solution is also described as $$\lambda \rightarrow \infty $$ .

This paper is devoted to the study of Abelian afi-groups. A subgroup A of an Abelian group G is called its absolute ideal if A is an ideal of any ring on G. We will call an Abelian group an afi-group if all of its absolute ideals are fully invariant subgroups. In this paper, we will describe afi-groups in the class of fully transitive torsion groups (in particular, separable torsion groups) and divisible torsion groups.

We study a uniqueness question of entire functions sharing an entire function of smaller order with their difference operators, and deal with a question posed by Liu and Yang. The results in this paper extend the corresponding results obtained by Liu-Yang and by Liu-Laine respectively. Examples are provided to show that the results in this paper, in a sense, are the best possible.

In this paper we prove that in a Quasi-Dawson’s Chess (a restricted version of Dawson’s Chess) playing on a 3 × d board, the first player is loser if and only if d (mod)5 = 1 or d (mod)5 = 2. Furthermore, we have designed two algorithms that are responsible for storing the results of Quasi-Dawson’s Chess games having less than d + 1 files and finding the strategy that leads to win, if there is a possibility of winning (by a wining position, we mean one from which one can win with best play). Moreover we show that the total complexity of our algorithms is O(d 2). Finally we have implemented our algorithm in C++ which admits the main results of the paper even for large values of d.

In our previous paper, the Haar multiresolution analysis (MRA) $\{V_{j}\}_{j\in \mathbb {Z}}$ in $L^{2}(\mathbb {A})$ was constructed, where $\mathbb {A}$ is the adele ring. Since $L^{2}(\mathbb {A})$ is the infinite tensor product of the spaces $L^{2}({\mathbb {Q}}_{p})$ , p=∞,2,3,…, the adelic MRA has some specific properties different from the corresponding finite-dimensional ones. Nevertheless, this infinite-dimensional MRA inherits almost all basic properties of the finite-dimensional case. In this paper we derive explicit formulas for bases in V j , $j\in \mathbb {Z}$ , and for the wavelet bases generated by the above-mentioned adelic MRA. In view of the specific properties of the adelic MRA, there arise some technical problems in the construction of wavelet bases. These problems were solved with the aid of the operator formalization of the process of generation of wavelet bases. We study the spectral properties of the fractional operator introduced by S. Torba and W.A. Zuniga-Galindo. We prove that the constructed wavelet functions are eigenfunctions of this fractional operator. This paper, as well as our previous paper, introduces new ideas to construct different infinite-dimensional MRAs. Our results can be used in the theory of adelic pseudo-differential operators and equations over the ring of adeles and in adelic models in physics.

In this paper, we prove the Hyers–Ulam stability theorem when $${f, g, h : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}}$$ satisfy $$|f(x + y) - g(x) - h(y)| \leq \epsilon$$ in a set $${\Gamma \subset \mathbb{R}^{2}}$$ of measure $${m(\Gamma) = 0}$$ , which refines a previous result in Chung (Aequat Math 83:313–320, 2012) and gives an affirmative answer to the question in the paper. As a direct consequence we obtain that if $${f, g, h : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}}$$ satisfy the Pexider equation $$f(x + y) - g(x) - h(y) = 0$$ in $${\Gamma}$$ , then the equation holds for all $${x, y \in \mathbb{R}}$$ . Using our method of construction of the set, we can find a set $${\Gamma \subset \mathbb{R}^{2n}}$$ of 2n-dimensional measure 0 and obtain the above result for the functions $${f, g, h : \mathbb{R}^{n} \to \mathbb{C}}$$ .

This paper discusses the asymptotic behaviors of the longest run on a countable state Markov chain. Let \(\left\{ {X_a } \right\}_{a \in Z_ + }\) be a stationary strongly ergodic reversible Markov chain on countablestate space S = {1, 2, ...}. Let T ⊂ S be an arbitrary finite subset of S. Denote by L n the length of the longest run of consecutive i’s for i ∈ T, that occurs in the sequence X 1, ..., X n . In this paper, we obtain a limit law and a week version of an Erdos-Renyi type law for L n . A large deviation result of L n is also discussed.

In V. D. Belousov’s papers, some properties of parastrophies were studied and some relations between parastrophies of a given quasigroup were obtained. Also some invariants of a parastrophy were found. This article continues our paper with V. V. Gushan, in which minimal sets of parastrophy systems for quasigroups of order 6 were obtained and some questions about orthogonality of parastrophies of a given quasigroup were studied as well.

Using the duality theory of sequence spaces, we study in this paper λ-compact operators defined on Banach spaces, corresponding to a sequence space λ. We show that these operators form a quasi-normed operator ideal under suitable restrictions on λ. We also study the relationships of these operators with λ-summing, λ-nuclear and quasi-λ-nuclear operators. The results of this paper generalize the earlier results proved by Sinha and Karn; and also Delgado, Pineiro and Serrano.

This paper present the interval reliability of a semi-Markov systems in general state space in continuous and discrete-time cases. We get also, as a particular case the interval reliability for the alternating renewal process. This is a continuation of the paper Limnios (Methodol Comput Appl Probab 14(4):895–917, 2012) where the interval reliability is referred as interval availability and also Propositions 2.1 and 3.1 below replace Propositions 3.4 and 5.3 respectively.

The paper studies regularity properties of set-valued mappings between metric spaces. In the context of metric regularity, nonlinear models correspond to nonlinear dependencies of estimates of error bounds in terms of residuals. Among the questions addressed in the paper are equivalence of the corresponding concepts of openness and “pseudo-Holder” behavior, general and local regularity criteria with special emphasis on “regularity of order $$k$$ ”, for local settings, and variational methods to extimate regularity moduli in case of length range spaces. The majority of the results presented in the paper are new.

The problem of characterization of integrals as linear functionals is considered in the paper. It starts from the familiar results of F. Riesz (1909) and J. Radon (1913) on integral representation of bounded linear functionals by Riemann–Stieltjes integrals on a segment and by Lebesgue integrals on a compact in \( {\mathbb{R}^n} \), respectively. After works of J. Radon, M. Frechet, and F. Hausdorff the problem of characterization of integrals as linear functionals took the particular form of the problem of extension of Radon’s theorem from \( {\mathbb{R}^n} \) to more general topological spaces with Radon measures. This problem has turned out difficult and its solution has a long and rich history. Therefore, it may be naturally called the Riesz–Radon–Frechet problem of characterization of integrals. The important stages of its solution are connected with such mathematicians as S. Banach, S. Saks, S. Kakutani, P. Halmos, E. Hewitt, R. E. Edwards, N. Bourbaki, V. K. Zakharov, A. V. Mikhalev, et al. In this paper, the Riesz–Radon–Fr´echet problem is solved for the general case of arbitrary Radon measures on Hausdorff spaces. The solution is given in the form of a general parametric theorem in terms of a new notion of the boundedness index of a functional. The theorem implies as particular cases well-known results of the indicated authors characterizing Radon integrals for various classes of Radon measures and topological spaces.

Let μ be a Borel charge (i.e., a real Borel measure) on ℝ, and let $ {P_{(y)}}(t) = \frac{y}{\pi \left( {{y^2} + {t^2}} \right)},y > 0 $ , t ∈ ℝ, denote the Poisson kernel. Bourgain proved that for a nonnegative μ and for many points t ∈ ℝ, the variation of the function $ y \mapsto \left( \mu * {P_{ {(y)}}} \right)(x) $ on (0, 1] is finite. This is true, in particular, for so-called B-points x introduced in a previous author’s paper, In the present paper, we give new descriptions of B-points which are adjusted to some applications of this notion. Bibliography: 5 titles.

The Q-index of a simple graph is the largest eigenvalue of its signless Laplacian, or Q-matrix. In our previous paper [1] we gave three lower and three upper bounds for the Q-index of nested split graphs, also known as threshold graphs. In this paper, we give another two upper bounds, which are expressed as solutions of cubic equations (in contrast to quadratics from [1]). Some computational results are also included.