Many of the known complemented subspaces of $L_p$ have realizations as sequence spaces. In this paper a systematic approach to defining these spaces which uses partitions and weights is introduced. This approach gives a unified description of many well known complemented subspaces of $L_p$. It is proved that the class of spaces with such norms is stable under (p,2) sums. By introducing the notion of an envelope norm, we obtain a necessary condition for a Banach sequence space with norm given...

This paper addresses two problems lying at the intersection of geometric analysis and theoretical computer science: The non-linear isomorphic Dvoretzky theorem and the design of good approximate distance oracles for large distortion.We introduce the notion of Ramsey partitions of a finite metric space, and show that the existence of good Ramsey partitions implies a solution to the metric Ramsey problem for large distortion (also known as the non-linear version of the isomorphic Dvoretzky...

Given a bounded open set $\Omega$ in ${ℝ}^n$ (or in a Riemannian manifold) and a partition of $\Omega$ by $k$ open sets $D_j$, we consider the quantity ${\mathrm{𝚖𝚊𝚡}}_j\lambda \left(D_j\right)$ where $\lambda \left(D_j\right)$ is the ground state energy of the Dirichlet realization of the Laplacian in $D_j$. If we denote by ${ℒ}_k\left(\Omega \right)$ the infimum over all the $k$-partitions of ${\mathrm{𝚖𝚊𝚡}}_j\lambda \left(D_j\right)$, a minimal $k$-partition is then a partition which realizes the infimum. When $k=2$, we find the two nodal domains of a second eigenfunction, but the analysis of higher $k$’s is non trivial and quite interesting. In this...

Given a locally finite open covering of a normal space X and a Hausdorff topological vector space E, we characterize all continuous functions f: X → E which admit a representation $f={\sum }_{C\in }{a}_C{\phi }_C$ with $a_C\in E$ and a partition of unity ${\phi }_C:C\in$ subordinate to . As an application, we determine the class of all functions f ∈ C(||) on the underlying space || of a Euclidean complex such that, for each polytope P ∈ , the restriction ${f|}_P$ attains its extrema at vertices of P. Finally, a class of extremal functions on the...

We examine the $q$-Pell sequences and their applications to weighted partition theorems and values of $L$-functions. We also put them into perspective with sums of tails. It is shown that there is a deeper structure between two-variable generalizations of Rogers-Ramanujan identities and sums of tails, by offering examples of an operator equation considered in a paper published by the present author. The paper starts with the classical example offered by Ramanujan and studied by previous...

For every uncountable regular cardinal κ, every κ-Borel partition of the space of all members of ${\left[\kappa \right]}^{\kappa }$ whose enumerating function does not have fixed points has a homogeneous club.

A subspace A of a topological space X is said to be $P^{\gamma }$-embedded ($P^{\gamma }$(point-finite)-embedded) in X if every (point-finite) partition of unity α on A with |α| ≤ γ extends to a (point-finite) partition of unity on X. The main results are: (Theorem A) A subspace A of X is $P^{\gamma }$(point-finite)-embedded in X iff it is $P^{\gamma }$-embedded and every countable intersection B of cozero-sets in X with B ∩ A = ∅ can be separated from A by a cozero-set in X. (Theorem B) The product A × [0,1] is $P^{\gamma }$(point-finite)-embedded...

We deal with a subshift of finite type and an equilibrium state μ for a Hölder continuous function. Let αⁿ be the partition into cylinders of length n. We compute (in particular we show the existence of the limit) $li{m}_{n\to \infty }{n}^{-1}log{\sum }_{j=0}^{\tau ₙ\left(x\right)}\mu \left(\alpha ⁿ\left(T^j\left(x\right)\right)\right)$, where $\alpha ⁿ\left(T^j\left(x\right)\right)$ is the element of the partition containing $T^j\left(x\right)$ and τₙ(x) is the return time of the trajectory of x to the cylinder αⁿ(x).

Motivated by an application to the unconditional basic sequence problem appearing in our previous paper, we introduce analogues of the Laver ideal on ℵ₂ living on index sets of the form ${\left[{\aleph }_k\right]}^{\omega }$ and use this to refine the well-known high-dimensional polarized partition relation for ${\aleph }_{\omega }$ of Shelah.

AbstractWe study general Franklin systems, i.e. systems of orthonormal piecewise linear functions corresponding to quasi-dyadic sequences of partitions of [0,1]. The following problems are treated: unconditionality of the general Franklin basis in $L^p$, 1 < p < ∞, and $H^p$, 1/2 < p ≤ 1; equivalent conditions for the unconditional convergence of the Franklin series in $L^p$ for 0< p ≤ 1; relation between Haar and Franklin series with identical coefficients; characterization of the spaces...

We show that if a colouring c establishes ω₂ ↛ [(ω₁:ω)]² then c establishes this negative partition relation in each Cohen-generic extension of the ground model, i.e. this property of c is Cohen-indestructible. This result yields a negative answer to a question of Erdős and Hajnal: it is consistent that GCH holds and there is a colouring c:[ω₂]² → 2 establishing ω₂ ↛ [(ω₁:ω)]₂ such that some colouring g:[ω₁]² → 2 does not embed into c. It is also consistent that $2^{\omega ₁}$ is arbitrarily large,...

In this note, we prove a version of the conjectured duality for Schramm-Loewner Evolutions, by establishing exact identities in distribution between some boundary arcs of chordal ${\mathrm{SLE}}_{\kappa }$, $\kappa \&gt;4$, and appropriate versions of ${\mathrm{SLE}}_{\widehat{\kappa }}$, $\widehat{\kappa }=16/\kappa$.

For any positive integer k and any set A of nonnegative integers, let $r_{1,k}(A,n)$ denote the number of solutions (a₁,a₂) of the equation n = a₁ + ka₂ with a₁,a₂ ∈ A. Let k,l ≥ 2 be two distinct integers. We prove that there exists a set A ⊆ ℕ such that both $r_{1,k}(A,n)=r_{1,k}(\mathbb{N}\setminus A,n)$ and $r_{1,l}(A,n)=r_{1,l}(\mathbb{N}\setminus A,n)$ hold for all n ≥ n₀ if and only if log k/log l = a/b for some odd positive integers a,b, disproving a conjecture of Yang. We also show that for any set A ⊆ ℕ satisfying $r_{1,k}(A,n)=r_{1,k}(\mathbb{N}\setminus A,n)$ for all n ≥ n₀, we have $r_{1,k}(A,n)\to \infty$ as n → ∞.

For any given positive integer k, and any set A of nonnegative integers, let $r_{1,k}(A,n)$ denote the number of solutions of the equation n = a₁ + ka₂ with a₁,a₂ ∈ A. We prove that if k,l are multiplicatively independent integers, i.e., log k/log l is irrational, then there does not exist any set A ⊆ ℕ such that both $r_{1,k}(A,n)=r_{1,k}(\mathbb{N}\setminus A,n)$ and $r_{1,l}(A,n)=r_{1,l}(\mathbb{N}\setminus A,n)$ hold for all n ≥ n₀. We also pose a conjecture and two problems for further research.

For a finite Coxeter group $W$ and a Coxeter element $c$ of $W$; the $c$-Cambrian fan is a coarsening of the fan defined by the reflecting hyperplanes of $W$. Its maximal cones are naturally indexed by the $c$-sortable elements of $W$. The main result of this paper is that the known bijection cl${}_c$ between $c$-sortable elements and $c$-clusters induces a combinatorial isomorphism of fans. In particular, the $c$-Cambrian fan is combinatorially isomorphic to the normal fan of the generalized associahedron for...

Let $\left\{X_{ij}\right\}$, $i,j=\cdots$, be a double array of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) real random variables with $E{X}_{11}=\mu$, $E|X_{11}{-\mu |}^2=1$ and $E|X_{11}{|}^{4}lt;\infty$. Consider sample covariance matrices (with/without empirical centering) $𝒮=\frac{1}{n}{\sum }_{j=1}^n({𝐬}_j-\overline{𝐬}){({𝐬}_j-\overline{𝐬})}^T$ and $𝐒=\frac{1}{n}{\sum }_{j=1}^n{𝐬}_j{𝐬}_j^T$, where $\overline{𝐬}=\frac{1}{n}{\sum }_{j=1}^n{𝐬}_j$ and ${𝐬}_j={𝐓}_n^{1/2}{(X_{1j},...,X_{pj})}^T$ with ${\left({𝐓}_n^{1/2}\right)}^2={𝐓}_n$, non-random symmetric non-negative definite matrix. It is proved that central limit theorems of eigenvalue statistics of $𝒮$ and $𝐒$ are different as $n\to \infty$ with $p/n$ approaching a positive constant. Moreover, it is also proved that such a different behavior is not observed in the...

Let X be a Polish space, and let C₀ and C₁ be disjoint coanalytic subsets of X. The pair (C₀,C₁) is said to be complete if for every pair (D₀,D₁) of disjoint coanalytic subsets of ${\omega }^{\omega }$ there exists a continuous function $f:{\omega }^{\omega }\to X$ such that $f^{-1}\left(C₀\right)=D₀$ and $f^{-1}\left(C₁\right)=D₁$. We give several explicit examples of complete pairs of coanalytic sets.

Let $p=1+2^{e+1}q$ be an odd prime number with q an odd integer. Let δ (resp. φ) be an odd (resp. even) Dirichlet character of conductor p and order $2^{e+1}$ (resp. order $d_{\phi }$ dividing q), and let ψₙ be an even character of conductor $p^{n+1}$ and order pⁿ. We put χ = δφψₙ, whose value is contained in $Kₙ=\mathbb{Q}\left({\zeta }_{(p-1)pⁿ}\right)$. It is well known that the Bernoulli number $B_{1,\chi }$ is not zero, which is shown in an analytic way. In the extreme cases $d_{\phi }=1$ and q, we show, in an algebraic and elementary manner, a stronger nonvanishing result: $T{r}_{n/1}\left(\xi B_{1,\chi }\right)\ne 0$ for any...

If the space $𝒬$ of quadratic forms in ${ℝ}^n$ is splitted in a direct sum ${𝒬}_1\oplus ...\oplus {𝒬}_k$ and if $X$ and $Y$ are independent random variables of ${ℝ}^n$, assume that there exist a real number $a$ such that $E\left(X\right|X+Y)=a(X+Y)$ and real distinct numbers $b_1,...,b_k$ such that $E\left(q\left(X\right)\right|X+Y)=b_{i}q(X+Y)$ for any $q$ in ${𝒬}_i.$ We prove that this happens only when $k=2$, when ${ℝ}^n$ can be structured in a Euclidean Jordan algebra and when $X$ and $Y$ have Wishart distributions corresponding to this structure.

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...

Let $p,q\in ℝ$ with $p-q\ge 0$, $\sigma =\frac{1}{2}(p+q-1)$ and $s=\frac{1}{2}(1-p+q)$, and let $${𝒟}_m(x;p,q)={𝒟}_0(x;p,q)+\sum _{k=1}^m\frac{B_{2k}\left(s\right)}{2k{(x+\sigma )}^{2k}},$$ where $${𝒟}_0(x;p,q)=\frac{\psi (x+p)+\psi (x+q)}{2}-ln(x+\sigma ).$$ We establish the asymptotic expansion $${𝒟}_0(x;p,q)\sim -\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }\frac{B_{2n}\left(s\right)}{2n{(x+\sigma )}^{2n}}\text{as}x\to \infty ,$$ where $B_{2n}\left(s\right)$ stands for the Bernoulli polynomials. Further, we prove that the functions ${(-1)}^m{𝒟}_m(x;p,q)$ and ${(-1)}^{m+1}{𝒟}_m(x;p,q)$ are completely monotonic in $x$ on $(-\sigma ,\infty )$ for every $m\in {\mathbb{N}}_0$ if and only if $p-q\in [0,\frac{1}{2}]$ and $p-q=1$, respectively. This not only unifies the two known results but also yields some new results.

Let $M$ be a given nonempty set of positive integers and $S$ any set of nonnegative integers. Let $\overline{\delta }\left(S\right)$ denote the upper asymptotic density of $S$. We consider the problem of finding $$\mu \left(M\right):=\underset{S}{sup}\overline{\delta }\left(S\right),$$ where the supremum is taken over all sets $S$ satisfying that for each $a,b\in S$, $a-b\notin M.$ In this paper we discuss the values and bounds of $\mu \left(M\right)$ where $M=\{a,b,a+nb\}$ for all even integers and for all sufficiently large odd integers $n$ with $a<b$ and $gcd(a,b)=1.$