We give in ${ℝ}^6$ a real analytic almost complex structure $J$, a real analytic hypersurface $M$ and a vector $v$ in the Levi null set at $0$ of $M$, such that there is no germ of $J$-holomorphic disc $\gamma$ included in $M$ with $\gamma \left(0\right)=0$ and $\frac{\partial \gamma }{\partial x}\left(0\right)=v$, although the Levi form of $M$ has constant rank. Then for any hypersurface $M$ and any complex structure $J$, we give sufficient conditions under which there exists such a germ of disc.

Let $X$ denote either ${\mathrm{ℂ\mathbb{P}}}^m$ or ${ℂ}^m$. We study certain analytic properties of the space ${ℰ}^n(X,gp)$ of ordered geometrically generic $n$-point configurations in $X$. This space consists of all $q=(q_1,\cdots ,q_n)\in X^n$ such that no $m+1$ of the points $q_1,\cdots ,q_n$ belong to a hyperplane in $X$. In particular, we show that for a big enough $n$ any holomorphic map $f:{ℰ}^n({\mathrm{ℂ\mathbb{P}}}^m,gp)\to {ℰ}^n({\mathrm{ℂ\mathbb{P}}}^m,gp)$ commuting with the natural action of the symmetric group $𝐒\left(n\right)$ in ${ℰ}^n({\mathrm{ℂ\mathbb{P}}}^m,gp)$ is of the form $f\left(q\right)=\tau \left(q\right)q=(\tau \left(q\right)q_1,\cdots ,\tau \left(q\right)q_n)$, $q\in {ℰ}^n({\mathrm{ℂ\mathbb{P}}}^m,gp)$, where $\tau :{ℰ}^n({\mathrm{ℂ\mathbb{P}}}^m,gp)\to \mathrm{𝐏𝐒𝐋}(m+1,ℂ)$ is an $𝐒\left(n\right)$-invariant holomorphic map. A similar result holds true for mappings of the configuration...

Let $W(m,n;\underline{\psi })$ denote the set of ${\psi }_1,...,{\psi }_n$–approximable points in ${ℝ}^{mn}$. The classical Khintchine–Groshev theorem assumes a monotonicity condition on the approximating functions $\underline{\psi }$. Removing monotonicity from the Khintchine–Groshev theorem is attributed to different authors for different cases of $m$ and $n$. It can not be removed for $m=n=1$ as Duffin–Schaeffer provided the counter example. We deal with the only remaining case $m=2$ and thereby remove all unnecessary conditions from the Khintchine–Groshev theorem. ...

We prove that the linearization of a germ of holomorphic map of the type $F_{\lambda }\left(z\right)=\lambda (z+O\left(z^2\right))$ has a ${𝒞}^1$-holomorphic dependence on the multiplier $\lambda$. ${𝒞}^1$-holomorphic functions are ${𝒞}^1$-Whitney smooth functions, defined on compact subsets and which belong to the kernel of the $\overline{\partial }$ operator. The linearization is analytic for $\left|\lambda \right|\ne 1$ and the unit circle ${𝕊}^1$ appears as a natural boundary (because of resonances,roots of unity). However the linearization is still defined at most points of ${𝕊}^1$, namely those points which lie “far enough...

Let ${\left(L_n\right)}_{n\ge 0}$ be the Lucas sequence. We show that the Diophantine equation $L_n-L_m=M_k$ has only the nonnegative integer solutions $(n,m,k)=(2,0,1)$, $(3,1,2)$, $(3,2,1)$, $(4,3,2)$, $(5,3,3)$, $(6,2,4)$, $(6,5,3)$ where $M_k=2^k-1$ is the $k$th Mersenne number and $n>m$.

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.

We consider $N$, the number of solutions $(x,y,u,v)$ to the equation ${(-1)}^{u}r{a}^x+{(-1)}^{v}s{b}^y=c$ in nonnegative integers $x,y$ and integers $u,v\in \{0,1\}$, for given integers $a\>1$, $b\>1$, $c\>0$, $r\>0$ and $s\>0$. When $gcd(ra,sb)=1$, we show that $N\le 3$ except for a finite number of cases all of which satisfy $max(a,b,r,s,x,y)\<2·{10}^{15}$ for each solution; when $gcd(a,b)\>1$, we show that $N\le 3$ except for three infinite families of exceptional cases. We find several different ways to generate an infinite number of cases giving $N=3$ solutions.

Let $k\ge 2$ and let ${\left(P_n^{\left(k\right)}\right)}_{n\ge 2-k}$ be the $k$-generalized Pell sequence defined by $$P_n^{\left(k\right)}=2P_{n-1}^{\left(k\right)}+P_{n-2}^{\left(k\right)}+\cdots +P_{n-k}^{\left(k\right)}$$ for $n\ge 2$ with initial conditions $$P_{-(k-2)}^{\left(k\right)}=P_{-(k-3)}^{\left(k\right)}=\cdots =P_{-1}^{\left(k\right)}=P_0^{\left(k\right)}=0,P_1^{\left(k\right)}=1.$$ In this study, we handle the equation $P_n^{\left(k\right)}=y^m$ in positive integers $n$, $m$, $y$, $k$ such that $k,y\ge 2,$ and give an upper bound on $n.$ Also, we will show that the equation $P_n^{\left(k\right)}=y^m$ with $2\le y\le 1000$ has only one solution given by $P_7^{\left(2\right)}={13}^2.$

Let $D$ be an open set of a Stein manifold $X$ of dimension $n$ such that $H^k(D,𝒪)=0$ for $2\le k\le n-1$. We prove that $D$ is Stein if and only if every topologically trivial holomorphic line bundle $L$ on $D$ is associated to some Cartier divisor $𝔡$ on $D$.

Let $D_j$ be a bounded hyperconvex domain in ${ℂ}^{n_j}$ and set $D=D₁\times \cdots \times D_s$, j=1,...,s, s ≥ 3. Also let ${\Omega }_{\pi }$ be the image of D under the proper holomorphic map π. We characterize those continuous functions $f:\partial {\Omega }_{\pi }\to ℝ$ that can be extended to a real-valued pluriharmonic function in ${\Omega }_{\pi }$.

Let β ∈ (1,2) and x ∈ [0,1/(β-1)]. We call a sequence ${\left({ϵ}_i\right)}_{i=1}^{\infty }\in {0,1}^{\mathbb{N}}$ a β-expansion for x if $x={\sum }_{i=1}^{\infty }{ϵ}_i{\beta }^{-i}$. We call a finite sequence ${\left({ϵ}_i\right)}_{i=1}^n\in {0,1}^n$ an n-prefix for x if it can be extended to form a β-expansion of x. In this paper we study how good an approximation is provided by the set of n-prefixes. Given $\Psi :\mathbb{N}\to {ℝ}_{\ge 0}$, we introduce the following subset of ℝ: $W_{\beta }\left(\Psi \right):={\bigcap }_{m=1}^{\infty }{\bigcup }_{n=m}^{\infty }{\bigcup }_{{\left({ϵ}_i\right)}_{i=1}^n\in {0,1}^n}[{\sum }_{i=1}^n\left({ϵ}_i\right)/\left({\beta }^i\right),{\sum }_{i=1}^n\left({ϵ}_i\right)/\left({\beta }^i\right)+\Psi \left(n\right)]$In other words, $W_{\beta }\left(\Psi \right)$ is the set of x ∈ ℝ for which there exist infinitely many solutions to the inequalities $0\le x-{\sum }_{i=1}^n\left({ϵ}_i\right)/\left({\beta }^i\right)\le \Psi \left(n\right)$. When ${\sum }_{n=1}^{\infty }{2}^n\Psi \left(n\right)<\infty$, the Borel-Cantelli lemma tells us that the Lebesgue measure...

For any positive integer $D$ which is not a square, let $(u_1,v_1)$ be the least positive integer solution of the Pell equation $u^2-D{v}^2=1,$ and let $h\left(4D\right)$ denote the class number of binary quadratic primitive forms of discriminant $4D$. If $D$ satisfies $2\nmid D$ and $v_{1}h\left(4D\right)\equiv 0(modD)$, then $D$ is called a singular number. In this paper, we prove that if $(x,y,z)$ is a positive integer solution of the equation $x^y+y^x=z^z$ with $2\mid z$, then maximum $max\{x,y,z\}<480000$ and both $x$, $y$ are singular numbers. Thus, one can possibly prove that the equation has no positive integer solutions...

Let $E$ denote a holomorphic bundle with fiber $D$ and with basis $B$. Both $D$ and $B$ are assumed to be Stein. For $D$ a Reinhardt bounded domain of dimension $d=2$ or $3$, we give a necessary and sufficient condition on $D$ for the existence of a non-Stein such $E$ (Theorem $1$); for $d=2$, we give necessary and sufficient criteria for $E$ to be Stein (Theorem $2$). For $D$ a Reinhardt bounded domain of any dimension not intersecting any coordinate hyperplane, we give a sufficient criterion for $E$ to be Stein (Theorem...

For an algebraic number field $K$ with $3$-class group ${\mathrm{Cl}}_3\left(K\right)$ of type $(3,3)$, the structure of the $3$-class groups ${\mathrm{Cl}}_3\left(N_i\right)$ of the four unramified cyclic cubic extension fields $N_i$, $1\le i\le 4$, of $K$ is calculated with the aid of presentations for the metabelian Galois group ${\mathrm{G}}_3^2\left(K\right)=\mathrm{Gal}\left({\mathrm{F}}_3^2\left(K\right)\right|K)$ of the second Hilbert $3$-class field ${\mathrm{F}}_3^2\left(K\right)$ of $K$. In the case of a quadratic base field $K=\mathbb{Q}\left(\sqrt{D}\right)$ it is shown that the structure of the $3$-class groups of the four $S_3$-fields $N_1,...,N_4$ frequently determines the type of principalization of the $3$-class group of $K$ in $N_1,...,N_4$. This...