We prove necessary and sufficient conditions for the validity of the classical chain rule in the Sobolev space $W_{\text{loc}}^{1,1}({ℝ}^N;{ℝ}^d)$ and in the space $B{V}_{\text{loc}}({ℝ}^N;{ℝ}^d)$ of functions of bounded variation.

Let $X\subset {{ℂ}^n}^n$ be a closed real-analytic subset and put $$𝒜:=\{z\in X\mid \exists A\subset X,\text{germ}\text{of}\text{a}\text{complex-analytic}\text{set,}z\in A,{dim}_{z}A\>0\}$$ This article deals with the question of the structure of $𝒜$. In the main result a natural proof is given for the fact, that $𝒜$ always is closed. As a main tool an interesting relation between complex analytic subsets of $X$ of positive dimension and the Segre varieties of $X$ is proved and exploited.

In the two dimensional real vector space ${ℝ}^2$ one can define analogs of the well-known $q$-adic number systems. In these number systems a matrix $M$ plays the role of the base number $q$. In the present paper we study the so-called fundamental domain $ℱ$ of such number systems. This is the set of all elements of ${ℝ}^2$ having zero integer part in their “$M$-adic” representation. It was proved by Kátai and Környei, that $ℱ$ is a compact set and certain translates of it form a tiling of the ${ℝ}^2$. We construct...

Let $R$ be a ring. In two previous articles [12, 14] we studied the homotopy category $𝐊\left(R\text{-}\mathrm{Proj}\right)$ of projective $R$-modules. We produced a set of generators for this category, proved that the category is ${\aleph }_1$-compactly generated for any ring $R$, and showed that it need not always be compactly generated, but is for sufficiently nice $R$. We furthermore analyzed the inclusion $j_{!}^{}:𝐊\left(R\text{-}\mathrm{Proj}\right)\to 𝐊\left(R\text{-}\mathrm{Flat}\right)$ and the orthogonal subcategory $𝒮={𝐊\left(R\text{-}\mathrm{Proj}\right)}^{\perp }$. And we even showed that the inclusion $𝒮\to 𝐊\left(R\text{-}\mathrm{Flat}\right)$ has a right adjoint; this forces some natural map to be...

Let $p$ be an odd prime, and let $a$ be an integer not divisible by $p$. When $m$ is a positive integer with $p\equiv 1(mod2m)$ and $2$ is an $m$th power residue modulo $p$, we determine the value of the product ${\prod }_{k\in R_m\left(p\right)}(1+tan(\pi ak/p))$, where $$R_m\left(p\right)=\{0<k<p:k\in \mathbb{Z}\text{is}\text{an}m\text{th}\text{power}\text{residue}\text{modulo}p\}.$$ In particular, if $p=x^2+64y^2$ with $x,y\in \mathbb{Z}$, then $$\prod _{k\in R_4\left(p\right)}\left(1+tan\pi \frac{ak}{p}\right)={(-1)}^y{(-2)}^{(p-1)/8}.$$

It is shown, that the function $$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill H\left(x\right)& =\sum _{k=-\infty }^{\infty }{e}^{-k^{2}x}\hfill \\ \multicolumn{2}{c}{\text{satisfies}\text{the}\text{relation}}\\ \hfill H\left(x\right)& =\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }\frac{{\left(2\pi \right)}^{2n}}{\left(2n\right)!}{H}^{\left(n\right)}\left(x\right).\hfill \end{array}$$

The paper deals with very weak solutions $u\in \theta +W_0^{1,r}\left(\Omega \right)$, $max\{1,p-1\}<r<p<n$, to boundary value problems of the $p$-harmonic equation $$\left\{\begin{array}{cc}-\text{div}\left(\right|\nabla u\left(x\right){|}^{p-2}\nabla u\left(x\right))=0,\hfill & x\in \Omega ,\hfill \\ u\left(x\right)=\theta \left(x\right),\hfill & x\in \partial \Omega .\hfill \end{array}\right.(*)$$ We show that, under the assumption $\theta \in W^{1,q}\left(\Omega \right)$, $q>r$, any very weak solution $u$ to the boundary value problem ($*$) is integrable with $$u\in \left\{\begin{array}{cc}\theta +L_{\mathrm{weak}}^{q^{*}}\left(\Omega \right)\hfill & \text{for}q<n,\hfill \\ \theta +L_{\mathrm{weak}}^{\tau }\left(\Omega \right)\hfill & \text{for}q=n\text{and}\text{any}\tau <\infty ,\hfill \\ \theta +L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)\hfill & \text{for}q>n,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ provided that $r$ is sufficiently close to $p$.

Let $\Delta$ be a numerical semigroup. In this work we show that $𝒥\left(\Delta \right)=\{I\cup \{0\}:I\text{is}\text{an}\text{ideal}\text{of}\Delta \}$ is a distributive lattice, which in addition is a Frobenius restricted variety. We give an algorithm which allows us to compute the set ${𝒥}_a\left(\Delta \right)=\{S\in 𝒥\left(\Delta \right):max(\Delta \setminus S)=a\}$ for a given $a\in \Delta .$ As a consequence, we obtain another algorithm that computes all the elements of $𝒥\left(\Delta \right)$ with a fixed genus.

This paper presents several sufficient conditions for the existence of weak solutions to general nonlinear elliptic problems of the type $$\left\{\begin{array}{cc}-\mathrm{div}a(x,u,\nabla u)+b(x,u,\nabla u)=0\hfill & \text{in}\Omega ,\hfill \\ u=0\hfill & \text{on}\partial \Omega ,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain of ${ℝ}^n$, $n\ge 2$. In particular, we do not require strict monotonicity of the principal part $a(x,z,·)$, while the approach is based on the variational method and results of the variable exponent function spaces.