Using the notion of discrete Morse function introduced by R. Forman for finite cw-complexes, we generalize it to the infinite 2-dimensional case in order to get the corresponding version of the well-known discrete Morse inequalities on a non-compact triangulated 2-manifold without boundary and with finite homology. We also extend them for the more general case of a non-compact triangulated 2-pseudo-manifold with a finite number of critical simplices and finite homology.

In this paper, the authors consider the behavior on BMO() and Campanato spaces for the higher-dimensional Marcinkiewicz integral operator which is defined by where Ω is homogeneous of degree zero, has mean value zero and is integrable on the unit sphere. Under certain weak regularity condition on Ω, the authors prove that if f belongs to BMO() or to a certain Campanato space, then [μΩ(f)]2 is either infinite everywhere or finite almost everywhere, and in the latter case, some kind of boundedness is also obtained. The corresponding Lusin area integral is also considered.

In this paper we solve partially an open problem raised by B. Ricceri (Bull. London Math. Soc.33 (2001), 331–340). Infinitely many solutions for a Neumann problem are obtained through a direct variational approach where the nonlinearity has an oscillatory behaviour at infinity.

Second order nonlinear delay differential equations with positive delays are considered, and sufficient conditions are given that guarantee the existence of positive increasing solutions on the half-line with first order derivatives tending to zero at infinity. The approach is elementary and is essentially based on an old idea which appeared in the author's paper Arch. Math. (Basel)36 (1981), 168–178. The application of the result obtained to second order Emden-Fowler type differential equations with constant delays and, especially, to second order linear differential equations with constant delays, is also presented. Moreover, some (general or specific) examples demonstrating the applicability of the main result are given.

In this paper we deal with some boundary value problems related with diffusion processes in the presence of lower and upper solutions. Singularities as well as non local boundary conditions are allowed. We also prove the existence of extremal solutions and the uniqueness of solution for a particular case.

We study an interesting class of Banach function algebras of infinitely differentiable functions on perfect, compact plane sets. These algebras were introduced by H. G. Dales and A. M. Davie in 1973, called Dales-Davie algebras and denoted by D(X, M), where X is a perfect, compact plane set and M = {M n }∞ n = 0 is a sequence of positive numbers such that M 0 = 1 and (m + n)!/M m+n ≤ (m!/M m )(n!/M n ) for m, n ∈ N. Let d = lim sup(n!/Mn )1/n and Xd = {z ∈ C : dist(z, X) ≤ d}. We show that, under certain conditions on X, every f ∈ D(X, M) has an analytic extension to X d . Let DP [D R ]) be the subalgebra of all f ∈ D(X, M) that can be approximated by the restriction to X of polynomials [rational functions with poles off X]. We show that the maximal ideal space of D P is , the polynomial convex hull of X d , and the maximal ideal space of D R is X d . Using some formulae from combinatorial analysis, we find the maximal ideal space of certain subalgebras of Dales-Davie algebras.

In this paper, we give a characterization of Clifford tori and in a unit sphere S n+1 (1). Our results extend the results due to Cheng and Yau [4], and Wang and Xia [11].

The concept of a metaplectic form was introduced about 40 years ago by T. Kubota. He showed how Jacobi-Legendre symbols of arbitrary order give rise to characters of arithmetic groups. Metaplectic forms are the automorphic forms with these characters. Kubota also showed how higher analogues of the classical theta functions could be constructed using Selberg's theory of Eisenstein series. Unfortunately many aspects of these generalized theta series are still unknown, for example, their Fourier coefficients. The analogues in the case of function fields over finite fields can in principle be calculated explicitly and this was done first by J. Hoffstein in the case of a rational function field. Here we shall return to his calculations and clarify a number of aspects of them, some of which are important for recent developments.

In this paper we study linear fractional relations defined in the following way. Let i, 'i, i = 1,2, be Banach spaces. We denote the space of bounded linear operators by . Let T ε ( 1 ⊕ 2, '1 ⊕ '2). To each such operator there corresponds a 2 × 2 operator matrix of the form(*) where T ij ε ( j , 'i . For each such T we define a set-valued map G T from ( 1, 2) into the set of closed affine subspaces of ('1, '2) by

The map G T is called a linear fractional relation.

The paper is devoted to the following two problems.

• • Characterization of operator matrices of the form (*) for which the set G T(K) is non-empty for each K in some open ball of the space (1,2).

• • Characterizations of quadruples (1, 2, '1, '2) of Banach spaces such that linear fractional relations defined for such spaces satisfy the natural analogue of the Liouville theorem “a bounded entire function is constant”.

For a fixed integer e and prime p we construct the p-adic order bounded group valuations for a given abelian group G. These valuations give Hopf orders inside the group ring KG where K is an extension of with ramification index e. The orders are given explicitly when G is a p-group of order p or p 2. An example is given when G is not abelian.

Let E be a Banach space such that its dual E* is separable. We show that there exists a hypercyclic bounded operator T on E such that its adjoint T* is also hypercyclic on E*. We also exhibit a new kind of dual hypercyclic operator. Thus answers affirmatively two of the questions raised by Henrik Petersson in a recent paper.

There is a commutative algebra of differential-difference operators, acting on polynomials on , associated with the reflection group B 2. This paper presents an integral transform which intertwines this algebra, allowing one free parameter, with the algebra of partial derivatives. The method of proof depends on properties of a certain class of balanced terminating hypergeometric series of 4 F 3-type. These properties are in the form of recurrence and contiguity relations and are proved herein.

In this paper, we define multi-normed spaces, and investigate some properties of multi-bounded mappings on multi-normed spaces. Moreover, we prove a generalized Hyers–Ulam–Rassias stability theorem associated to the Cauchy additive equation for mappings from linear spaces into multi-normed spaces.

It is proven that if k ≥ 2 is an integer and d is a positive integer such that the product of any two distinct elements of the set increased by 1 is a perfect square, then d = 4k or d = 64k 5−48k 3+8k. Together with a recent result of Fujita, this shows that all Diophantine quadruples of the form {k − 1, k + 1, c, d} are regular.

We extend the well-known Paley and Paley-Kahane-Khintchine inequalities on lacunary series to the unit polydisk of . Then we apply them to obtain sharp estimates for the mean growth in weighted spaces h(p, α), h(p, log(α)) of Hardy–Bloch type, consisting of functions n-harmonic in the polydisk. These spaces are closely related to the Bloch and mixed norm spaces and naturally arise as images under some fractional operators.

Let H be the n-dimensional hyperbolic space of constant sectional curvature –1 and let G be the identity component of the isometry group of H. We find all the G-invariant pseudo-Riemannian metrics on the space of oriented geodesics of H (modulo orientation preserving reparametrizations). We characterize the null, time- and space-like curves, providing a relationship between the geometries of and H. Moreover, we show that is Kähler and find an orthogonal almost complex structure on .

Let be a non-degenerate planar curve. We show that the curve is of Khintchine-type for convergence in the case of simultaneous approximation in with two independent approximation functions; that is if a certain sum converges then the set of all points (x,y) on the curve which satisfy simultaneously the inequalities ||qx|| < ψ1(q) and ||qy|| < ψ2(q) infinitely often has induced measure 0. This completes the metric theory for the Lebesgue case. Further, for multiplicative approximation ||qx|| ||qy|| < ψ(q) we establish a Hausdorff measure convergence result for the same class of curves, the first such result for a general class of manifolds in this particular setup.

In this paper, we show that the semilinear elliptic systems of the form(0.1) possess at least one positive solution pair (u, v) ∈ H 1 0(Ω) × H 1 0(Ω), where Ω is a smooth bounded domain in , f(x,t) and g(x, t) are continuous functions on and asymptotically linear at infinity.

In this note, we show that if we write ⌊en!⌋ = s(n)u(n)2, where s(n) is square-free then has at least C log log N distinct prime factors for some absolute constant C > 0 and sufficiently large N. A similar result is obtained for the total number of distinct primes dividing the mth power-free part of s(n) as n ranges from 1 to N, where m ≥ 3 is a positive integer. As an application of such results, we give an upper bound on the number of n ≤ N such that ⌊en!⌋ is a square.

Certain generalized Samelson products of SO(3) are calculated and applications to the homotopy of gauge groups are given.