If the so-called Collatz method is applied to get twosided estimates of the first eigenvalue ${\lambda }_1$, the sequences of the so-called Schwarz quatients (which are upper bounds for ${\lambda }_1$) and of the so-called Temple quotients (which are lower bounds) are constructed. While monotony of the first sequence was proved many years ago, monotony of the second one has been proved only recently by F. goerisch and J. Albrecht in their common paper “Die Monotonie der Templeschen Quotienten” (ZAMM, in print). In the present...

Let $A$ be a closed set of $M\simeq {\mathbb{R}}^n$, whose conormai cones $x+y_x^{*}\left(A\right)$, $x\in A$, have locally empty intersection. We first show in §1 that $\text{dist}\left(x,A\right)$, $x\in M\setminus A$ is a $C^1$ function. We then represent the n microfunctions of ${\mathcal{C}}_{A|X}$, $X\simeq {\mathbb{C}}^n$, using cohomology groups of ${\mathcal{O}}_X$ of degree 1. By the results of § 1-3, we are able to prove in §4 that the sections of ${\left.{\mathcal{C}}_{A|X}\right|}_{{\dot{\pi }}^{-1}\left(x_0\right)}$, $x_0\in \partial A$, satisfy the principle of the analytic continuation in the complex integral manifolds of ${\left\{H\left({\varphi }_i^C\right)\right\}}_{i=1,\mathrm{\dots },m}$, $\left\{{\varphi }_i\right\}$ being a base for the linear hull of ${\gamma }_{x_0}^{*}\left(A\right)$ in $T_{x_0}^{*}M$; in particular we get ${\left.{\mathrm{\Gamma }}_{A\times {}_{M}T{}^{*}{}_{M}X}\left({\mathcal{C}}_{A|X}\right)\right|}_{\partial A\times {}_M\dot{T}{}^{*}{}_{M}X}=0$. When $A$is a half space with $C^{\omega }$-boundary,...

Let $\Omega \subset {ℂ}^n$ be a bounded, simply connected $ℂ$-convex domain. Let $\alpha \in {\mathbb{Z}}_{+}^n$ and let $f$ be a function on $\Omega$ which is separately $C^{2{\alpha }_j-1}$-smooth with respect to $z_j$ (by which we mean jointly $C^{2{\alpha }_j-1}$-smooth with respect to $\mathrm{Re}{z}_j$, $\mathrm{Im}{z}_j$). If $f$ is $\alpha$-analytic on $\Omega \setminus f^{-1}\left(0\right)$, then $f$ is $\alpha$-analytic on $\Omega$. The result is well-known for the case ${\alpha }_i=1$, $1\le i\le n$, even when $f$ a priori is only known to be continuous.