invariant manifolds for impulsive equations and nonuniform polynomial dichotomies for impulsive differential equations in banach spaces we construct stable and unstable invariant manifolds for sufficiently small perturbations of a polynomial dichotomy we also consider the general case of nonuniform polynomial dichotomies moreover we introduce the notions of polynomial lyapunov exponent and of regularity coefficient for a linear impulsive differential equation and we show that when the lyapunov exponent never vanishes the linear equation admits a nonuniform polynomial dichotomy

actions of symbolic dynamical systems on c algebras ii simplicity of c symbolic crossed products and some examples a c symbolic dynamical system mathcal a rho sigma consists of a unital c algebra mathcal a and a finite family rho alpha alpha in sigma of endomorphisms of mathcal a indexed by symbols of satisfying some conditions the endomorphisms rho alpha alpha in sigma yield both a subshift and a c algebra of a hilbert c bimodule the obtained c algebra is regarded as a crossed product of mathcal a by the subshift we will study simplicity condition of these c algebras some examples such as irrational rotation cuntz krieger algebras will be studied

exit problems associated with affine reflection groups we obtain a formula for the distribution of the first exit time of brownian motion from the alcove of an affine weyl group in most cases the formula is expressed compactly in terms of pfaffians expected exit times are derived in the type widetilde a case the results extend to other markov processes we also give formulas for the real eigenfunctions of the dirichlet and neumann laplacians on alcoves observing that the hot spots conjecture of j rauch is true for alcoves

a solution to an open problem for wave equations with generalized wentzell boundary conditions in this paper we solve an open problem put forward by a favini g r goldstein j a goldstein and s romanelli concerning the mixed problem for wave equations with generalized wentzell boundary conditions as a consequence we also develop the previous wellposedness result regarding the mixed problem for heat equations with generalized wentzell boundary conditions

classes of representable disjoint np pairs for a propositional proof system p we introduce the complexity class dnpp p of all disjoint np pairs for which the disjointness of the pair is efficiently provable in the proof system p we exhibit structural properties of proof systems which make canonical np pairs associated with these proof systems hard or complete for dnpp p moreover we demonstrate that non equivalent proof systems can have equivalent canonical pairs and that depending on the properties of the proof systems different scenarios for dnpp p and the reductions between the canonical pairs exist

new classes of analytic solutions of the two level problem a simple technique to find analytic solutions of the time dependent schrodinger equations is introduced a number of three parametric classes of the two level problem integrable in terms of the gauss hypergeometric function including all presently known analytically solvable models are derived

a nonterminating 8 φ 7 summation for the root system c r using multiple q integrals and a determinant evaluation we establish a nonterminating 8 7 summation for the root system cr we also give some important specializations explicitly

infinite horizon backward stochastic differential equations and elliptic equations in hilbert spaces solutions of semilinear elliptic differential equations in infinite dimensional spaces are obtained by means of forward and backward infinite dimensional stochastic evolution equations the backward equation is considered on an infinite time horizon and a suitable growth condition replaces the final condition elliptic equations are intended in a mild sense suitable also for applications to optimal control we finally notice that due to the lack of smoothing properties the elliptic partial differential equation considered here could not be treated by analytic methods

double centralizing theorems for the alternating groups let v n be the n fold tensor product of a vector space v following i schur we consider the action of the symmetric group sn on v n by permuting coordinates in the super z2 graded case v v0 v1 a sign is added these actions give rise to the corresponding schur algebras s sn v here s sn v is compared with s an v the schur algebra corresponding to the alternating subgroup an sn while in the classical signless case these two schur algebras are the same for n large enough it is proved that in the super case where dim v0 dim v1 s an v is isomorphic to the cross product algebra s an v s sn v z2

robust nonuniform dichotomies and parameter dependence abstract we establish the robustness of linear cocycles with an exponential dichotomy under sufficiently small lipschitz perturbations in the sense that the existence of an exponential dichotomy for a given cocycle persists under these perturbations we consider cocycles in banach spaces as well as the general case of nonuniform exponential dichotomies and also the general case of an exponential behavior e c n given by an arbitrary sequence n including the usual exponential behavior n n as a very special case moreover we show that the projections of the exponential dichotomies obtained from the perturbation vary continuously with the parameter and in fact that they are locally lipschitz on finite dimensional parameters

modular invariant of quantum tori the quantum modular invariant j qt of 2r is defined as a discontin uous pgl2 z invariant multi valued map using the distance to the nearest integer function k k for 2 q it is shown that j qt 1 and for quadratic irrationalities pari gp experiments suggest that j qt is a finite set in the case of the golden mean we produce explicit formulas involving weighted versions of the rogers ramanujan functions for the experimental supremum and infimum we then define a universal modular invariant j a mod c as a continuous and single valued map of ultrasolenoids such that 1 the classical modular invariant is a quotient of the re striction of j to a subsolenoid mod cl a mod fibering over the classical moduli space of elliptic curves and 2 the quantum modular invariant is a quotient of the restric tion of j to a subsolenoid mod qt a mod fibering over the moduli space of elliptic curves equipped with a kronecker foliation

coding the principal character formula for affine kac moody lie algebras in this paper an algorithm for computing the principal character for affine lie algebras is discussed and presented the principal characters discovered using this program are given and or proven results include level 2 and 3 character formulas in a2n 1 2 and the sole existence of the rogers ramanujan products in a1 1 a2 1 a2 2 c3 1 f4 1 g2 1 a7 2

zeros of jones polynomials for families of knots and links abstract we calculate jones polynomials v l t for several families of alternating knots and links by computing the tutte polynomials t g x y for the associated graphs g and then obtaining v l t as a special case of the tutte polynomial for each of these families we determine the zeros of the jones polynomial including the accumulation set in the limit of infinitely many crossings a discussion is also given of the calculation of jones polynomials for non alternating links

combining hook length formulas and bg ranks for partitions via the littlewood decomposition recently the first author has studied hook length formulas for partitions in a systematic manner in the present paper we show that most of those hook length formulas can be generalized and include more variables via the littlewood decomposition which maps each partition to its t core and t quotient in the case t 2 we ob tain new formulas by combining hook lengths and bg ranks introduced by berkovich and garvan as applications we list several multivari able generalizations of classical and new hook length formulas including the nekrasov okounkov the han carde loubert potechin sanborn the bessenrodt bacher manivel the okada panova and the stanley panova formulas summary

invariant measures and regularity properties of perturbed ornstein uhlenbeck semigroups abstract this paper deals with perturbations of the ornstein uhlenbeck operator on l 2 spaces with respect to a gaussian measure we perturb the generator of the ornstein uhlenbeck semigroup by a certain unbounded non linear drift and show various properties of the perturbed semigroup such as compactness and positivity strong feller property existence and uniqueness of an invariant measure are discussed as well

dilations of c correspondences and the simplicity of cuntz pimsner algebras we develop a dilation theory for c correspondences showing that every c correspondence e over a c algebra a can be universally embedded into a hilbert c bimodule xe over a c algebra ae such that the crossed product a e n is naturally isomorphic to ae xe z the cuntz pimsner algebra oe is isomorphic to ae xe z where ae and xe are quotients of ae resp xe if e is full and the left action is by generalized compact operators then xe is an equivalence bimodule or equivalently an invertible c correspondence in general xe is merely an essential hilbert c bimodule slightly extending previous results on crossed products by equivalence bimodules we apply our dilation theory to show that for full c correspondences over unital c algebras oe is simple if and only if e is minimal and nonperiodic extending and simplifying results of muhly and solel and kajiwara pinzari and watatani

trace representation of some generalized cyclotomic sequences of length pq this paper contributes to trace representation of some generalized cyclotomic sequences of length pq p qprime which are defined by ding and helleseth from the relations between these sequences and the legendre sequence we firstly confirm the defining pairs of these sequences of arbitrary order then we obtain their trace representation from which we give their linear complexity using key s method it can be seen that bai et al s conclusion is a special case of our result when the order is two finally an example is given to illustrate the validity of our result

lattices on simplicial partitions which are not simply connected in this paper d 1 pencil lattices on simplicial partitions in r d which are not simply connected are studied it is shown how the fact that a partition is not simply connected can be used to increase the flexibility of a lattice a local modification algorithm is developed also to deal with slight partition topology changes that may appear afterwards a lattice has already been constructed

generation of localization in a discrete chain with periodic boundary conditions numerical and analytical results we study the generation of localization in a discrete chain composed of n subsystems and periodic boundary conditions strongly localized motions are studied that is time periodic motions where nearly all of the energy is spatially confined to a single subsystem for varying n numerical results indicate that the strongly localized solutions are generated through a bifurcation from an in phase spatially extended solution however in the limit as n rightarrow infty the bifurcation point tends to infinity and a smooth transition from localization to nonlocalization occurs we then present an analytic technique to complement the numerical results it is based on the matching local asymptotic expansions of a solution branch using pade approximants this leads to global analytic representations of the considered solutions valid over the entire range of the control parameter

a basic two state model for bosonic field theories with a cubic nonlinearity a basic nonlinear two state model generic in classical and bosonic field theories with a cubic nonlinearity is considered for the class of models with constant external field amplitude a general strategy for attacking the problem is developed based on the reduction of the initial system of equations for the semi classical atom molecule amplitudes to a nonlinear volterra integral equation for the molecular probability a uniformly convergent series solution to the problem is constructed for the weak interaction limit the landau zener model is considered as a specific example the first approximation term is derived and an asymptotic expression for the nonlinear transition probability is established in the weak interaction regime

the complexity of weighted boolean csp with mixed signs we give a complexity dichotomy for the problem of computing the partition function of a weighted boolean constraint satisfaction problem such a problem is parameterized by a set c of rational valued functions which generalize constraints each function assigns a weight to every assignment to a set of boolean variables our dichotomy extends previous work in which the weight functions were restricted to being non negative we represent a weight function as a product of the form 1 sg where the polynomial s determines the sign of the weight and the non negative function g determines its magnitude we show that the problem of computing the partition function the sum of the weights of all possible variable assignments is in polynomial time if either every function in c can be defined by a pure affine magnitude with a quadratic sign polynomial or every function can be defined by a magnitude of product type with a linear sign polynomial in all other cases computing the partition function is fp p complete

operator algebras of monomial ideals in noncommuting variables abstract we study operator algebras arising from monomial ideals in the ring of polynomials in noncommuting variables through the apparatus of subproduct systems and c correspondences we provide a full comparison amongst the related operator algebras for our analysis we isolate a partially defined dynamical system to which we refer as the quantised dynamics of the monomial ideal in addition we revisit several previously considered constructions these include matsumoto s subshift c algebras as well as the tensor and the pimsner algebras associated with dynamical systems or graphs we sort out the various relations by giving concrete conditions and counterexamples that orientate the operator algebras of our context it appears that the boundary c algebras do not arise as the quotient with the compact operators unconditionally we establish a dichotomy to this effect by examining the resulting tensor algebras we identify their boundary representations we analyse their c envelopes and we give criteria for hyperrigidity moreover we completely classify them in terms of the data provided by the monomial ideals for tensor algebras of c correspondences and bounded isomorphisms this is achieved up to the level of local conjugacy in the sense of davidson and roydor for the quantised dynamics for tensor algebras of subproduct systems and algebraic isomorphisms this is achieved up to the level of equality of monomial ideals modulo permutations of the variables in the process we accomplish more in different directions most notably we show that tensor algebras form a complete invariant for isomorphic resp similar subproduct systems of homogeneous ideals up to isometric resp bounded isomorphisms the results on local conjugacy are obtained via an alternative proof of the breakthrough result of davidson and katsoulis on piecewise conjugate systems for our purposes we use appropriate compressions of the fock representation we then apply this alternative proof locally for the partially defined quantised dynamics in this way we avoid the topological graphs machinery and pave the way for further applications these include operator algebras of dynamical systems over commuting contractions or over row commuting contractions

new combinatorial interpretations of ramanujan s partition congruences mod 5 7 and 11 soit p n le nombre de partitions non restreintes de n on donne de nouvelles interpretations combinatoires des congruences p 5n 4 p 7n 5 et p 11n 6 0 mod 5 7 et 11 respectivement

a de giorgi nash type theorem for time fractional diffusion equations we study the regularity of weak solutions to linear time fractional diffusion equations in divergence form of arbitrary time order alpha in 0 1 the coefficients are merely assumed to be bounded and measurable and they satisfy a uniform parabolicity condition our main result is a de giorgi nash type theorem which gives an interior holder estimate for bounded weak solutions in terms of the data and the l infty bound of the solution the proof relies on new a priori estimates for time fractional problems and uses de giorgi s technique and the method of non local growth lemmas which has been introduced recently in the context of nonlocal elliptic equations involving operators like the fractional laplacian

some inequalities for the q beta and the q gamma functions via some q integral inequalities some new inequalities for the q gamma the q beta and the q analogue of the psi functions are established via some q integral inequalities

the x ray transform and its inversion for the series expansion basis functions in three dimensional tomography a formula for the three dimensional x ray transform and an expression for its inversion have been derived the spherical harmonics and the rotation matrices in terms of euler angles are used in the generalized fourier series expansion some properties of the transformed fourier components are discussed

the integrability of the two state problem in terms of confluent hypergeometric functions the reduction of the two state problem to the confluent hypergeometric equation via complex transformations of independent variables is considered it is shown that all the known analytically integrable cases can be generalized to a single formula a new class of integrable models of the two state problem in terms of confluent hypergeometric functions is presented

on the schrodinger equations of rotating harmonic three dimensional and doubly anharmonic oscillators and a class of confinement potentials in connection with the biconfluent heun differential equation the schrodinger equations of rotating harmonic three dimensional and doubly anharmonic oscillators and a class of confinement potentials are examined simultaneously with the biconfluent heun equation the eigenvalue problems lead the authors to compute a transcendent constant function of the corresponding physical parameters

convex duality in stochastic optimization and mathematical finance this paper proposes a general duality framework for the problem of minimizing a convex integral functional over a space of stochastic processes adapted to a given filtration the framework unifies many well known duality frameworks from operations research and mathematical finance the unification allows the extension of some useful techniques from these two fields to a much wider class of problems in particular combining certain finite dimensional techniques from convex analysis with measure theoretic techniques from mathematical finance we are able to close the duality gap in some situations where traditional topological arguments fail

topological aperiodicity for product systems over semigroups of ore type we prove a version of uniqueness theorem for cuntz pimsner algebras of discrete product systems over semigroups of ore type to this end we introduce doplicher roberts picture of cuntz pimsner algebras and the semigroup dual to a product system of regular c correspondences under a certain aperiodicity condition on the latter we obtain the uniqueness theorem and a simplicity criterion for the algebras in question these results generalize the corresponding ones for crossed products by discrete groups due to archbold and spielberg and for exel s crossed products due to exel and vershik they also give interesting conditions for topological higher rank graphs and p graphs and apply to the new cuntz c algebra qn arising from the ax b semigroup over n

an improved sectional anosov closing lemma we prove that all nonwandering points of a sectional anosov flow on a compact 3 manifold can be approximated by periodic points or by points for which the omega limit set is a singularity this improves the closing lemma in morales mich math j 56 1 29 53 2008 we also describe a sectional anosov flow for which the recurrent points are not dense in the nonwandering set

solutions of the two level problem in terms of biconfluent heun functions five four parametric classes of quantum mechanical two level models permitting solutions in terms of the biconfluent heun function are derived three of these classes are generalizations of the well known classes of landau zener nikitin and crothers it is shown that two other classes describe superand sublinear and essentially nonlinear level crossings as well as processes with three crossing points in particular these classes include two level models where the field amplitude is constant and the detuning varies as 0t 2t 3 or t 1 3 for the essentially nonlinear cubic crossing model t 2t 3 the general solution of the two level problem is shown to be expressed as series of confluent hypergeometric functions

n point pade approximants to real valued stieltjes series with nonzero radii of convergence abstract by employing special continued fractions to two stieltjes series with nonzero radii of convergence we extend the inequalities for one point pade approximants reported by baker 1975 corollory 17 1 to the case of two point pade approximants we prove that some convergents of the continued fractions form a monotone sequences of upper and lower bounds converging uniformly to stieltjes function x1 x on compact subsets of r where r is a radius of convergence of an expansion of x f1 x at x 0 for an illustration of theoretical results we provide nontrivial numerical examples as an application to real physical problems second order pade approximants bounds on the effective conductivity of a square array of cylinders are evaluated

epi convergent discretizations of stochastic programs via integration quadratures the simplest and the best known method for numerical approximation of high dimensional integrals is the monte carlo method mc i e random sampling mc has also become the most popular method for constructing numerically solvable approximations of stochastic programs however certain modern integration quadratures are often superior to crude mc in high dimensional integration so it seems natural to try to use them also in discretization of stochastic programs this paper derives conditions that guarantee the epi convergence of the resulting objectives to the original one our epi convergence result is closely related to some of the existing ones but it is easier to apply to discretizations and it allows the feasible set to depend on the probability measure as examples we prove epi convergence of quadrature based discretizations of three different models of portfolio management and we study their behavior numerically besides mc our discretizations are the only existing ones with guaranteed epi convergence for these problem classes in our tests modern quadratures seem to result in faster convergence of optimal values than mc

topological freeness for c correspondences abstract we study conditions that ensure uniqueness theorems of cuntz krieger type for relative cuntz pimsner algebras o j x associated to a c correspondence x over a c algebra a we give general sufficient conditions phrased in terms of a multivalued map x acting on the spectrum a of a when x j is of type i we construct a directed graph dual to x and prove a uniqueness theorem using this graph when x j is liminal we show that topological freeness of this graph is equivalent to the uniqueness property for o j x as well as to an algebraic condition which we call j acyclicity of x as an application we improve the fowler raeburn uniqueness theorem for the toeplitz algebra t x we give new simplicity criteria for o x we generalize and enhance uniqueness results for relative quiver c algebras of muhly and tomforde we also discuss applications to crossed products by endomorphisms

stochastic programming duality multipliers for unbounded constraints with an application to mathematical finance a new duality theory is developed for a class of stochastic programs in which the probability distribution is not necessarily discrete this provides a new framework for problems which are not necessarily bounded are not required to have relatively complete recourse and do not satisfy the typical slater condition of strict feasibility these problems instead satisfy a different constraint qualification called direction free feasibility to deal with possibly unbounded constraint sets and calmness of a certain finite dimensional value function to serve as a weaker condition than strict feasibility to obtain the existence of dual multipliers in this way strong duality results are established in which the dual variables are finite dimensional despite the possible infinite dimensional character of the second stage constraints from this infinite dimensional dual problems are obtained in the space of essentially bounded functions it is then shown how this framework could be used to obtain duality results in the setting of mathematical finance

some convex programs without a duality gap an important issue in convex programming concerns duality gap various conditions have been developed over the years that guarantee no duality gap including one developed by rockafellar network flows and monotropic programming wiley interscience new york 1984 involving separable objective function and affine constraints we show that this sufficient condition can be further relaxed to allow the constraint functions to be separable we also refine a sufficient condition involving weakly analytic functions by allowing them to be extended real valued

on the q analogues of some transformations of nearly poised hypergeometric series a number of transformation formulas for very well poised basic hypergeometric series have been obtained which in the limit q 1 approach the known transformation formulas for nearly poised ordinary hypergeometric series

on modular homology in the boolean algebra iii abstract let be a set ra ring of characteristicp 0 and denote bymkther module withk element subsets of as basis theset inclusion map mk mk 1is the homomorphism which associates to ak element subset the sum 1 2 kof all its k 1 element subsets i in this paper we study the chain formula arising from we introduce the notion ofp exactness for a sequence if is infinite we show that isp exact for all prime characteristicsp 0 this result can be extended to various submodules and quotient modules and we give general constructions arising from permutation groups with a finitary section two particular applications are the following the orbit module sequence of such a permutation group on isp exact for every primep and we give a formula for thep rank of the orbit inclusion matrix if the group has finitely many orbits onk element subsets

exponents of nonnegative matrix pairs the notions of primitivity and exponent of a square nonnegative matrix a are classical a is primitive provided there is a nonnegative integer k such that a k is entrywise positive and in the case a is primitive the exponent of a is the smallest such k fornasini and valcher have extended the notion of primitivity to pairs a b of square nonnegative matrices of the same order the pair a b is primitive provided there exist nonnegative integers h and k such that the sum of all products formed by words consisting of ha s and kb s is entrywise positive this paper defines the exponent of a nonnegative matrix pair to be the smallest value of h k over all such h and k it is then shown that the largest exponent of a primitive pair of n by n nonnegative matrices lies in the interval n 3 5n 2 2 3n 3 2n 2 2n 2 in addition the exponent of a pair of nonnegative matrices is related to properties of an associated twodimensional dynamical system 2001 elsevier science inc all rights reserved