Let $(X,d_X)$, $(\Omega ,d_{\Omega })$ be complete separable metric spaces. Denote by (X) the space of probability measures on X, by $W_p$ the p-Wasserstein metric with some p ∈ [1,∞), and by ${}_p\left(X\right)$ the space of probability measures on X with finite Wasserstein distance from any point measure. Let $f:\Omega {\to }_p\left(X\right)$, $\omega \mapsto f_{\omega }$, be a Borel map such that f is a contraction from $(\Omega ,d_{\Omega })$ into ${(}_p\left(X\right),W_p)$. Let ν₁,ν₂ be probability measures on Ω with $W_p(\nu ₁,\nu ₂)$ finite. On X we consider the subordinated measures ${\mu }_i={\int }_{\Omega }{f}_{\omega }d{\nu }_i\left(\omega \right)$. Then $W_p(\mu ₁,\mu ₂)\le W_p(\nu ₁,\nu ₂)$. As an application we show that the solution measures ${\varrho }_{\alpha }\left(t\right)$...

Suppose that $\mu$ is an absolutely continuous probability measure on ${}^R$n, for large $n$. Then $\mu$ has low-dimensional marginals that are approximately spherically-symmetric. More precisely, if $n\ge {(C/\epsilon )}^{Cd}$, then there exist $d$-dimensional marginals of $\mu$ that are $\epsilon$-far from being sphericallysymmetric, in an appropriate sense. Here $C>0$ is a universal constant.

Let ${\alpha }_i,{\beta }_i>0$, 1 ≤ i ≤ n, and for t > 0 and x = (x₁,...,xₙ) ∈ ℝⁿ, let $t•x=(t^{\alpha ₁}x₁,...,t^{\alpha ₙ}xₙ)$, $t\circ x=(t^{\beta ₁}x₁,...,t^{\beta ₙ}xₙ)$ and $\left|\right|x\left|\right|={\sum }_{i=1}^n{\left|x_i\right|}^{1/{\alpha }_i}$. Let φ₁,...,φₙ be real functions in $C^{\infty }(ℝⁿ-0)$ such that φ = (φ₁,..., φₙ) satisfies φ(t • x) = t ∘ φ(x). Let γ > 0 and let μ be the Borel measure on ${ℝ}^{2n}$ given by $\mu \left(E\right)={\int }_{ℝⁿ}{\chi }_E{(x,\phi \left(x\right))\left|\right|x\left|\right|}^{\gamma -\alpha }dx$, where $\alpha ={\sum }_{i=1}^n{\alpha }_i$ and dx denotes the Lebesgue measure on ℝⁿ. Let $T_{\mu }f=\mu \ast f$ and let $\left|\right|T_{\mu }{\left|\right|}_{p,q}$ be the operator norm of $T_{\mu }$ from $L^p\left({ℝ}^{2n}\right)$ into $L^q\left({ℝ}^{2n}\right)$, where the $L^p$ spaces are taken with respect to the Lebesgue measure. The type set $E_{\mu }$ is defined by $E_{\mu }=(1/p,1/q):\left|\right|T_{\mu }{\left|\right|}_{p,q}<\infty ,1\le p,q\le \infty$. In the case ${\alpha }_i\ne {\beta }_k$ for 1 ≤ i,k ≤ n we characterize the...

Let ${\mu }_A$ be the singular measure on the Heisenberg group ${ℍ}^n$ supported on the graph of the quadratic function $\varphi \left(y\right)=y^{t}Ay$, where $A$ is a $2n\times 2n$ real symmetric matrix. If $det(2A\pm J)\ne 0$, we prove that the operator of convolution by ${\mu }_A$ on the right is bounded from $L^{\frac{(2n+2)}{(2n+1)}}\left({ℍ}^n\right)$ to $L^{2n+2}\left({ℍ}^n\right)$. We also study the type set of the measures $\mathrm{d}{\nu }_{\gamma }(y,s)=\eta \left(y\right){\left|y\right|}^{-\gamma }\mathrm{d}{\mu }_A(y,s)$, for $0\le \gamma <2n$, where $\eta$ is a cut-off function around the origin on ${ℝ}^{2n}$. Moreover, for $\gamma =0$ we characterize the type set of ${\nu }_0$.

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...

Let $L(n,d)$ denote the minimum possible number of leaves in a tree of order $n$ and diameter $d.$ Lesniak (1975) gave the lower bound $B(n,d)=\lceil 2(n-1)/d\rceil$ for $L(n,d).$ When $d$ is even, $B(n,d)=L(n,d).$ But when $d$ is odd, $B(n,d)$ is smaller than $L(n,d)$ in general. For example, $B(21,3)=14$ while $L(21,3)=19.$ In this note, we determine $L(n,d)$ using new ideas. We also consider the converse problem and determine the minimum possible diameter of a tree with given order and number of leaves.

We show that for each natural number n > 1, it is consistent that there is a compact Hausdorff totally disconnected space $K_{2n}$ such that $C\left(K_{2n}\right)$ has no uncountable (semi)biorthogonal sequence ${(f_{\xi },{\mu }_{\xi })}_{\xi \in \omega ₁}$ where ${\mu }_{\xi }$’s are atomic measures with supports consisting of at most 2n-1 points of $K_{2n}$, but has biorthogonal systems ${(f_{\xi },{\mu }_{\xi })}_{\xi \in \omega ₁}$ where ${\mu }_{\xi }$’s are atomic measures with supports consisting of 2n points. This complements a result of Todorcevic which implies that it is consistent that such spaces do not exist: he proves...

Let $T$ be a tree. Then a vertex of $T$ with degree one is a leaf of $T$ and a vertex of degree at least three is a branch vertex of $T$. The set of leaves of $T$ is denoted by $L\left(T\right)$ and the set of branch vertices of $T$ is denoted by $B\left(T\right)$. For two distinct vertices $u$, $v$ of $T$, let $P_T[u,v]$ denote the unique path in $T$ connecting $u$ and $v.$ Let $T$ be a tree with $B\left(T\right)\ne \varnothing$. For each leaf $x$ of $T$, let $y_x$ denote the nearest branch vertex to $x$. We delete $V\left(P_T[x,y_x]\right)\setminus \left\{y_x\right\}$ from $T$ for all $x\in L\left(T\right)$. The resulting subtree of $T$ is called the reducible stem...

Let $G_1$ and $G_2$ be two given graphs. The Ramsey number $R(G_1,G_2)$ is the least integer $r$ such that for every graph $G$ on $r$ vertices, either $G$ contains a $G_1$ or $\overline{G}$ contains a $G_2$. Parsons gave a recursive formula to determine the values of $R(P_n,K_{1,m})$, where $P_n$ is a path on $n$ vertices and $K_{1,m}$ is a star on $m+1$ vertices. In this note, we study the Ramsey numbers $R(P_n,K_1\vee F_m)$, where $F_m$ is a linear forest on $m$ vertices. We determine the exact values of $R(P_n,K_1\vee F_m)$ for the cases $m\le n$ and $m\ge 2n$, and for the case that $F_m$ has no odd component. Moreover, we...

Motivated by the fundamental theorem of calculus, and based on the works of W. Feller as well as M. Kac and M. G. Kreĭn, given an atomless Borel probability measure $\eta$ supported on a compact subset of $ℝ$ U. Freiberg and M. Zähle introduced a measure-geometric approach to define a first order differential operator ${\nabla }_{\eta }$ and a second order differential operator ${\Delta }_{\eta }$, with respect to $\eta$. We generalize this approach to measures of the form $\eta :=\nu +\delta$, where $\nu$ is non-atomic and $\delta$ is finitely supported. We determine...

Let $T$ be a tree with $n$ vertices. To each edge of $T$ we assign a weight which is a positive definite matrix of some fixed order, say, $s$. Let $D_{ij}$ denote the sum of all the weights lying in the path connecting the vertices $i$ and $j$ of $T$. We now say that $D_{ij}$ is the distance between $i$ and $j$. Define $D:=\left[D_{ij}\right]$, where $D_{ii}$ is the $s\times s$ null matrix and for $i\ne j$, $D_{ij}$ is the distance between $i$ and $j$. Let $G$ be an arbitrary connected weighted graph with $n$ vertices, where each weight is a positive definite matrix of order...

We investigate the effect of admitting signed measures as a datum at the scalar Chern-Simons equation $$-\Delta u+{\mathrm{e}}^u({\mathrm{e}}^u-1)=\mu \text{in}\Omega$$ with the Dirichlet boundary condition. Approximating $\mu$ by a sequence ${\left({\mu }_n\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ of $L^1$ functions or finite signed measures such that this equation has a solution $u_n$ for each $n\in \mathbb{N}$, we are interested in establishing the convergence of the sequence ${\left(u_n\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ to a function $u^{\#}$ and describing the form of the measure which appears on the right-hand side of the scalar Chern-Simons equation solved by $u^{\#}$.

The Ramsey number $R(G,H)$ for a pair of graphs $G$ and $H$ is defined as the smallest integer $n$ such that, for any graph $F$ on $n$ vertices, either $F$ contains $G$ or $\overline{F}$ contains $H$ as a subgraph, where $\overline{F}$ denotes the complement of $F$. We study Ramsey numbers for some subgraphs of generalized wheels versus cycles and paths and determine these numbers for some cases. We extend many known results studied in [5, 14, 18, 19, 20]. In particular we count the numbers $R(K_1+L_n,P_m)$ and $R(K_1+L_n,C_m)$ for some integers $m$, $n$, where $L_n$ is...

We study WDC sets, which form a substantial generalization of sets with positive reach and still admit the definition of curvature measures. Main results concern WDC sets $A\subset {ℝ}^2$. We prove that, for such $A$, the distance function $d_A=\mathrm{dist}(·,A)$ is a “DC aura” for $A$, which implies that each closed locally WDC set in ${ℝ}^2$ is a WDC set. Another consequence is that compact WDC subsets of ${ℝ}^2$ form a Borel subset of the space of all compact sets.

In this paper we study some potential theoretical properties of solutions and super-solutions of some PDE systems (S) of type $L_{1}u=-{\mu }_{1}v$, $L_{2}v=-{\mu }_{2}u$, on a domain $D$ of ${ℝ}^d$, where ${\mu }_1$ and ${\mu }_2$ are suitable measures on $D$, and $L_1$, $L_2$ are two second order linear differential elliptic operators on $D$ with coefficients of class ${𝒞}^{\infty }$. We also obtain the integral representation of the nonnegative solutions and supersolutions of the system (S) by means of the Green kernels and Martin boundaries associated with $L_1$ and $L_2$, and...

For a Banach space $E$ and a probability space $(X,𝒜,\lambda )$, a new proof is given that a measure $\mu :𝒜\to E$, with $\mu \ll \lambda$, has RN derivative with respect to $\lambda$ iff there is a compact or a weakly compact $C\subset E$ such that ${\left|\mu \right|}_C:𝒜\to [0,\infty ]$ is a finite valued countably additive measure. Here we define ${\left|\mu \right|}_C\left(A\right)=sup\{{\sum }_k|\langle \mu \left(A_k\right),f_k\rangle \left|\right\}$ where $\left\{A_k\right\}$ is a finite disjoint collection of elements from $𝒜$, each contained in $A$, and $\left\{f_k\right\}\subset E^{\text{'}}$ satisfies ${sup}_k\left|f_k\left(C\right)\right|\le 1$. Then the result is extended to the case when $E$ is a Frechet space.

Motivated by recent developments on calculus in metric measure spaces $(X,\mathrm{d},\mathrm{m})$, we prove a general duality principle between Fuglede’s notion [15] of $p$-modulus for families of finite Borel measures in $(X,\mathrm{d})$ and probability measures with barycenter in $L^q(X,\mathrm{m})$, with $q$ dual exponent of $p\in (1,\infty )$. We apply this general duality principle to study null sets for families of parametric and non-parametric curves in $X$. In the final part of the paper we provide a new proof, independent of optimal transportation, of the...