Let E be a compact set in the complex plane, $g_E$ be the Green function of the unbounded component of ${ℂ}_{\infty }\setminus E$ with pole at infinity and $Mₙ\left(E\right)=sup\left(\right||P^{\text{'}}{\left|\right|}_E{)/(\left|\right|P\left|\right|}_E)$ where the supremum is taken over all polynomials ${P|}_E\not\equiv 0$ of degree at most n, and ${\left|\right|f\left|\right|}_E=sup\left|f\right(z\left)\right|:z\in E$. The paper deals with recent results concerning a connection between the smoothness of $g_E$ (existence, continuity, Hölder or Lipschitz continuity) and the growth of the sequence ${Mₙ\left(E\right)}_{n=1,2,...}$. Some additional conditions are given for special classes of sets.

We consider evaluating improper priors in a formal Bayes setting according to the consequences of their use. Let $𝛷$ be a class of functions on the parameter space and consider estimating elements of $𝛷$ under quadratic loss. If the formal Bayes estimator of every function in $𝛷$ is admissible, then the prior is strongly admissible with respect to $𝛷$. Eaton’s method for establishing strong admissibility is based on studying the stability properties of a particular Markov chain associated with...

A notion of a wide-sense Markov process $X_t$ of order k ≥ 1, $X_t\sim WM\left(k\right)$, is introduced as a direct generalization of Doob’s notion of wide-sense Markov process (of order k=1 in our terminology). A base for investigation of the covariance structure of $X_t$ is the k-dimensional process $x_t=(X_{t-k+1},...,X_t)$. The covariance structure of $X_t\sim WM\left(k\right)$ is considered in the general case and in the periodic case. In the general case it is shown that $X_t\sim WM\left(k\right)$ iff $x_t$ is a k-dimensional WM(1) process and iff the covariance function of $x_t$ has the triangular...

Suppose that $\{Xn:n\ge 0\}$ is a stationary Markov chain and $V$ is a certain function on a phase space of the chain, called an observable. We say that the observable satisfies the central limit theorem (CLT) if $Y_n:=N^{-1/2}{\sum }_{n=0}^{N}V\left(X_n\right)$ converge in law to a normal random variable, as $N\to +\infty$. For a stationary Markov chain with the $L^2$ spectral gap the theorem holds for all $V$ such that $V\left(X_0\right)$ is centered and square integrable, see Gordin [7]. The purpose of this article is to characterize a family of observables $V$ for which the CLT holds...

Consider the normed space $(\mathbb{P}\left({ℂ}^N\right),|\left|·\right|\left|\right)$ of all polynomials of N complex variables, where || || a norm is such that the mapping $L_g:(\mathbb{P}\left({ℂ}^N\right),\left|\right|·\left|\right|\left)\ni f\mapsto gf\in \right(\mathbb{P}\left({ℂ}^N\right),\left|\right|·\left|\right|)$ is continuous, with g being a fixed polynomial. It is shown that the Markov type inequality $|\partial /\partial z_j{P\left|\right|\le M\left(degP\right)}^m\left|\right|P\left|\right|$, j = 1,...,N, $P\in \mathbb{P}\left({ℂ}^N\right)$, with positive constants M and m is equivalent to the inequality $\left|\right|{\partial }^N/\partial z₁...\partial z_{N}P\left|\right|\le M^{\text{'}}{\left(degP\right)}^{m^{\text{'}}}\left|\right|P\left|\right|$, $P\in \mathbb{P}\left({ℂ}^N\right)$, with some positive constants M’ and m’. A similar equivalence result is obtained for derivatives of a fixed order k ≥ 2, which can be more specifically formulated in the language of normed algebras....

Let $\beta >1$ be a non-integer. We consider expansions of the form ${\sum }_{i=1}^{\infty }{d}_i/{\beta }^i$, where the digits ${\left(d_i\right)}_{i\ge 1}$ are generated by means of a Borel map $K_{\beta }$ defined on ${\{0,1\}}^{\mathbb{N}}\times [0,\lfloor \beta \rfloor \left(\beta -1\right)]$. We show existence and uniqueness of a $K_{\beta }$-invariant probability measure, absolutely continuous with respect to $m_p\otimes \lambda$, where $m_p$ is the Bernoulli measure on ${\{0,1\}}^{\mathbb{N}}$ with parameter $p$ ($0<p<1$) and $\lambda$ is the normalized Lebesgue measure on $[0,\lfloor \beta \rfloor (\beta -1\left)\right]$. Furthermore, this measure is of the form $m_p\otimes {\mu }_{\beta ,p}$, where ${\mu }_{\beta ,p}$ is equivalent to $\lambda$. We prove that the measure of maximal entropy and $m_p\otimes \lambda$ are mutually...

We show that for any irrational number α and a sequence ${m_l}_{l\in \mathbb{N}}$ of integers such that $li{m}_{l\to \infty }\left|\right||m_l\alpha \left|\right||=0$, there exists a continuous measure μ on the circle such that $li{m}_{l\to \infty }{\int }_{}\left|\right||m_l\theta \left|\right||d\mu \left(\theta \right)=0$. This implies that any rigidity sequence of any ergodic transformation is a rigidity sequence for some weakly mixing dynamical system. On the other hand, we show that for any α ∈ ℝ - ℚ, there exists a sequence ${m_l}_{l\in \mathbb{N}}$ of integers such that $\left|\right||m_l\alpha \left|\right||\to 0$ and such that $m_l\theta \left[1\right]$ is dense on the circle if and only if θ ∉ ℚα + ℚ.

Let Ω be an open subset of ${ℝ}^d$ with 0 ∈ Ω. Furthermore, let $H_{\Omega }=-{\sum }_{i,j=1}^d{\partial }_i{c}_{ij}{\partial }_j$ be a second-order partial differential operator with domain $C_c^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)$ where the coefficients $c_{ij}\in W_{loc}^{1,\infty }\left(\Omega ̅\right)$ are real, $c_{ij}=c_{ji}$ and the coefficient matrix $C=\left(c_{ij}\right)$ satisfies bounds 0 < C(x) ≤ c(|x|)I for all x ∈ Ω. If ${\int }_0^{\infty }ds{s}^{d/2}{e}^{-\lambda \mu \left(s\right)²}<\infty$ for some λ > 0 where $\mu \left(s\right)={\int }_0^{s}dtc{\left(t\right)}^{-1/2}$ then we establish that $H_{\Omega }$ is L₁-unique, i.e. it has a unique L₁-extension which generates a continuous semigroup, if and only if it is Markov unique, i.e. it has a unique L₂-extension which generates a submarkovian semigroup....

In this paper we establish a decoupling feature of the random interlacement process ${ℐ}^u\subset {\mathbb{Z}}^d$ at level $u$, $d\ge 3$. Roughly speaking, we show that observations of ${ℐ}^u$ restricted to two disjoint subsets $A_1$ and $A_2$ of ${\mathbb{Z}}^d$ are approximately independent, once we add a sprinkling to the process ${ℐ}^u$ by slightly increasing the parameter $u$. Our results differ from previous ones in that we allow the mutual distance between the sets $A_1$ and $A_2$ to be much smaller than their diameters. We then provide an important application...

Let $X$ be a $\mu$-symmetric Hunt process on a LCCB space $𝙴$. For an open set $𝙶\subseteq 𝙴$, let ${\tau }_{𝙶}$ be the exit time of $X$ from $𝙶$ and $A^{𝙶}$ be the generator of the process killed when it leaves $𝙶$. Let $r:[0,\infty [\to [0,\infty [$ and $R\left(t\right)={\int }_0^{t}r\left(s\right)\mathrm{d}s$. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for ${𝔼}_{\mu }R\left({\tau }_{𝙶}\right)lt;\infty$ in terms of the behavior near the origin of the spectral measure of $-A^{𝙶}$. When $r\left(t\right)=t^l$, $l\ge 0$, by means of this condition we derive the Nash inequality for the killed process. In the diffusion case this permits to show that the existence of moments of order $l+1$ for ${\tau }_{𝙶}$...

Let $U₁,...,U_d$ be a non-periodic collection of commuting measure preserving transformations on a probability space (Ω,Σ,μ). Also let Γ be a nonempty subset of $\mathbb{Z}{₊}^d$ and the associated collection of rectangular parallelepipeds in ${ℝ}^d$ with sides parallel to the axes and dimensions of the form $n₁\times \cdots \times n_d$ with $(n₁,...,n_d)\in \Gamma .$ The associated multiparameter geometric and ergodic maximal operators $M_{}$ and $M_{\Gamma }$ are defined respectively on $L¹\left({ℝ}^d\right)$ and L¹(Ω) by $M_{}g\left(x\right)=su{p}_{x\in R\in }1/\left|R\right|{\int }_R\left|g\left(y\right)\right|dy$ and $M_{\Gamma }f\left(\omega \right)=su{p}_{(n₁,...,n_d)\in \Gamma }1/n₁\cdots n_d{\sum }_{j₁=0}^{n₁-1}\cdots {\sum }_{j_d=0}^{n_d-1}\left|f\left(U{₁}^{j₁}\cdots U_d^{j_d}\omega \right)\right|$. Given a Young function Φ, it is shown that $M_{}$ satisfies the weak type estimate ...

Net (X,ℱ,ν) be a σ-finite measure space. Associated with k Lamperti operators on $L^p\left(\nu \right)$, $T₁,...,T_k$, $n̅=(n₁,...,n_k)\in {\mathbb{N}}^k$ and $\alpha ̅=(\alpha ₁,...,{\alpha }_k)$ with $0<{\alpha }_j\le 1$, we define the ergodic Cesàro-α̅ averages ${}_{n̅,\alpha ̅}f=1/\left({\prod }_{j=1}^k{A}_{n_j}^{{\alpha }_j}\right){\sum }_{i_k=0}^{n_k}\cdots {\sum }_{i₁=0}^{n₁}{\prod }_{j=1}^k{A}_{n_j-i_j}^{{\alpha }_j-1}{T}_k^{i_k}\cdots T{₁}^{i₁}f$. For these averages we prove the almost everywhere convergence on X and the convergence in the $L^p\left(\nu \right)$ norm, when $n₁,...,n_k\to \infty$ independently, for all $f\in L^p\left(d\nu \right)$ with p > 1/α⁎ where $\alpha ⁎=mi{n}_{1\le j\le k}{\alpha }_j$. In the limit case p = 1/α⁎, we prove that the averages ${}_{n̅,\alpha ̅}f$ converge almost everywhere on X for all f in the Orlicz-Lorentz space $\Lambda (1/\alpha ⁎,{\phi }_{m-1})$ with $\phi ₘ\left(t\right)=t{(1+log⁺t)}^m$. To obtain the result in the limit case we need...

Let (X,,μ,τ) be an ergodic dynamical system and φ be a measurable map from X to a locally compact second countable group G with left Haar measure $m_G$. We consider the map ${\tau }_{\phi }$ defined on X × G by ${\tau }_{\phi }:(x,g)\mapsto (\tau x,\phi \left(x\right)g)$ and the cocycle ${\left(\phi ₙ\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{Z}}$ generated by φ. Using a characterization of the ergodic invariant measures for ${\tau }_{\phi }$, we give the form of the ergodic decomposition of $\mu \left(dx\right)\otimes m_G\left(dg\right)$ or more generally of the ${\tau }_{\phi }$-invariant measures ${\mu }_{\chi }\left(dx\right)\otimes \chi \left(g\right)m_G\left(dg\right)$, where ${\mu }_{\chi }\left(dx\right)$ is χ∘φ-conformal for an exponential χ on G.

We consider $C^2$ families $t\mapsto f_t$ of $C^4$ unimodal maps $f_t$ whose critical point is slowly recurrent, and we show that the unique absolutely continuous invariant measure ${\mu }_t$ of $f_t$ depends differentiably on $t$, as a distribution of order $1$. The proof uses transfer operators on towers whose level boundaries are mollified via smooth cutoff functions, in order to avoid artificial discontinuities. We give a new representation of ${\mu }_t$ for a Benedicks-Carleson map $f_t$, in terms of a single smooth function and the...

Given a topological space $X$, let $𝒰X$ and ${\eta }_X:X\to 𝒰X$ denote, respectively, the Salbany compactification of $X$ and the compactification map called the Salbany map of $X$. For every continuous function $f:X\to Y$, there is a continuous function $𝒰f:𝒰X\to 𝒰Y$, called the Salbany lift of $f$, satisfying $\left(𝒰f\right)\circ {\eta }_X={\eta }_Y\circ f$. If a continuous function $f:X\to Y$ has a stably compact codomain $Y$, then there is a Salbany extension $F:𝒰X\to Y$ of $f$, not necessarily unique, such that $F\circ {\eta }_X=f$. In this paper, we give a condition on a space such that its Salbany map is open. In...

The paper is concerned with the best constants in the Bernstein and Markov inequalities on a compact set $E\subset {ℂ}^N$. We give some basic properties of these constants and we prove that two extremal-like functions defined in terms of the Bernstein constants are plurisubharmonic and very close to the Siciak extremal function ${\Phi }_E$. Moreover, we show that one of these extremal-like functions is equal to ${\Phi }_E$ if E is a nonpluripolar set with $li{m}_{n\to \infty }Mₙ{\left(E\right)}^{1/n}=1$ where $Mₙ\left(E\right):=sup{\left|\right|\left|gradP\right|\left|\right|}_E/{\left|\right|P\left|\right|}_E$, the supremum is taken over all polynomials P of N variables...

The first author has recently proved that if f: X → Y is a k-dimensional map between compacta and Y is p-dimensional (0 ≤ k, p < ∞), then for each 0 ≤ i ≤ p + k, the set of maps g in the space $C(X,I^{p+2k+1-i})$ such that the diagonal product $f\times g:X\to Y\times I^{p+2k+1-i}$ is an (i+1)-to-1 map is a dense $G_{\delta }$-subset of $C(X,I^{p+2k+1-i})$. In this paper, we prove that if f: X → Y is as above and $D_j$ (j = 1,..., k) are superdendrites, then the set of maps h in $C(X,{\prod }_{j=1}^k{D}_j\times I^{p+1-i})$ such that $f\times h:X\to Y\times \left({\prod }_{j=1}^k{D}_j\times I^{p+1-i}\right)$ is (i+1)-to-1 is a dense $G_{\delta }$-subset of $C(X,{\prod }_{j=1}^k{D}_j\times I^{p+1-i})$ for each 0 ≤ i ≤ p.

Let $\mu$ be a probability measure on $[0,1]$ which is invariant and ergodic for $T_a\left(x\right)=ax\mathrm{𝚖𝚘𝚍}1$, and $0<\mathrm{𝚍𝚒𝚖}\mu <1$. Let $f$ be a local diffeomorphism on some open set. We show that if $E\subseteq ℝ$ and $\left(f\mu \right){\left|{}_E\sim \mu \right|}_E$, then $f^{\text{'}}\left(x\right)\in \left\{\pm a^r:r\in \mathbb{Q}\right\}$ at $\mu$-a.e. point $x\in f^{-1}E$. In particular, if $g$ is a piecewise-analytic map preserving $\mu$ then there is an open $g$-invariant set $U$ containing supp $\mu$ such that $g\left|{}_U\right.$ is piecewise-linear with slopes which are rational powers of $a$. In a similar vein, for $\mu$ as above, if $b$ is another integer and $a,b$ are not powers of a common integer, and if $\nu$ is...

Let $X$ be a Banach space, $ℬ\left(X\right)$ the algebra of bounded linear operators on $X$ and $(J,\parallel ·{\parallel }_J)$ an admissible Banach ideal of $ℬ\left(X\right)$. For $T\in ℬ\left(X\right)$, let $L_{J,T}$ and $R_{J,T}\in ℬ\left(J\right)$ denote the left and right multiplication defined by $L_{J,T}\left(A\right)=TA$ and $R_{J,T}\left(A\right)=AT$, respectively. In this paper, we study the transmission of some concepts related to recurrent operators between $T\in ℬ\left(X\right)$, and their elementary operators $L_{J,T}$ and $R_{J,T}$. In particular, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for $L_{J,T}$ and $R_{J,T}$ to be sequentially recurrent. Furthermore, we prove that $L_{J,T}$ is recurrent...

A linear Boltzmann equation is interpreted as the forward equation for the probability density of a Markov process $\left(K\right(t),i(t),Y(t\left)\right)$ on $({𝕋}^2\times \{1,2\}\times {ℝ}^2)$, where ${𝕋}^2$ is the two-dimensional torus. Here $\left(K\right(t),i(t\left)\right)$ is an autonomous reversible jump process, with waiting times between two jumps with finite expectation value but infinite variance. $Y\left(t\right)$ is an additive functional of $K$, defined as ${\int }_0^{t}v\left(K\left(s\right)\right)\mathrm{d}s$, where $\left|v\right|\sim 1$ for small $k$. We prove that the rescaled process ${(NlnN)}^{-1/2}Y\left(Nt\right)$ converges in distribution to a two-dimensional Brownian motion. As a consequence,...

In ergodic theory, certain sequences of averages $A_{k}f$ may not converge almost everywhere for all f ∈ L¹(X), but a sufficiently rapidly growing subsequence $A_{m_k}f$ of these averages will be well behaved for all f. The order of growth of this subsequence that is sufficient is often hyperexponential, but not necessarily so. For example, if the averages are $A_{k}f\left(x\right)=1/\left(2^k\right){\sum }_{j=4^k+1}^{4^k+2^k}f\left(T^{j}x\right)$, then the subsequence $A_{k²}f$ will not be pointwise good even on $L^{\infty }$, but the subsequence $A_{2^k}f$ will be pointwise good on L¹. Understanding when the hyperexponential...

Let $\beta >1$ be a non-integer. We consider $\beta$-expansions of the form ${\sum }_{i=1}^{\infty }{d}_i/{\beta }^i$, where the digits ${\left(d_i\right)}_{i\ge 1}$ are generated by means of a Borel map $K_{\beta }$ defined on ${\{0,1\}}^{\mathbb{N}}\times [0,\lfloor \beta \rfloor /\left(\beta -1\right)]$. We show that $K_{\beta }$ has a unique mixing measure ${\nu }_{\beta }$ of maximal entropy with marginal measure an infinite convolution of Bernoulli measures. Furthermore, under the measure ${\nu }_{\beta }$ the digits ${\left(d_i\right)}_{i\ge 1}$ form a uniform Bernoulli process. In case 1 has a finite greedy expansion with positive coefficients, the measure of maximal entropy is Markov. We also discuss the uniqueness...

The seminal theorem of Cobham has given rise during the last 40 years to a lot of work about non-standard numeration systems and has been extended to many contexts. In this paper, as a result of fifteen years of improvements, we obtain a complete and general version for the so-called substitutive sequences. Let $\alpha$ and $\beta$ be two multiplicatively independent Perron numbers. Then a sequence $x\in A^{\mathbb{N}}$, where $A$ is a finite alphabet, is both $\alpha$-substitutive and $\beta$-substitutive if and only if $x$ is ultimately...

For $n=2m\ge 4$, let $\Omega \in {ℝ}^n$ be a bounded smooth domain and $𝒩\subset {ℝ}^L$ a compact smooth Riemannian manifold without boundary. Suppose that $\left\{u_k\right\}\in W^{m,2}(\Omega ,𝒩)$ is a sequence of weak solutions in the critical dimension to the perturbed $m$-polyharmonic maps $$\frac{\mathrm{d}}{\mathrm{d}t}{|}_{t=0}{E}_m\left(\Pi (u+t\xi )\right)=0$$ with ${\Phi }_k\to 0$ in ${\left(W^{m,2}(\Omega ,𝒩)\right)}^{*}$ and $u_k\rightharpoonup u$ weakly in $W^{m,2}(\Omega ,𝒩)$. Then $u$ is an $m$-polyharmonic map. In particular, the space of $m$-polyharmonic maps is sequentially compact for the weak-$W^{m,2}$ topology.

Let $T_1,\cdots ,T_d$ be homogeneous trees with degrees $q_1+1,\cdots ,q_d+1\ge 3$, respectively. For each tree, let $𝔥:T_j\to \mathbb{Z}$ be the Busemann function with respect to a fixed boundary point (end). Its level sets are the horocycles. The horocyclic product of $T_1,\cdots ,T_d$ is the graph $\mathrm{𝖣𝖫}(q_1,\cdots ,q_d)$ consisting of all $d$-tuples $x_1\cdots x_d\in T_1\times \cdots \times T_d$ with $𝔥\left(x_1\right)+\cdots +𝔥\left(x_d\right)=0$, equipped with a natural neighbourhood relation. In the present paper, we explore the geometric, algebraic, analytic and probabilistic properties of these graphs and their isometry groups. If $d=2$ and $q_1=q_2=q$ then we obtain a Cayley graph...

We show that every operator from ${\ell }_s$ to ${\ell }_p\otimes ̂{\ell }_q$ is compact when 1 ≤ p,q < s and that every operator from ${\ell }_s$ to ${\ell }_p\widehat{\otimes ̂}{\ell }_q$ is compact when 1/p + 1/q > 1 + 1/s.