The purpose of this paper is to investigate efficient representations of the residue classes modulo $q$, by performing sum and product set operations starting from a given subset $A$ of ${\mathbb{Z}}_q$. We consider the case of very small sets $A$ and composite $q$ for which not much seemed known (nontrivial results were recently obtained when $q$ is prime or when log $\left|A\right|\sim logq$). Roughly speaking we show that all residue classes are obtained from a $k$-fold sum of an $r$-fold product set of $A$, where $r\ll logq$ and $logk\ll logq$, provided the...

For the real quadratic map $P_a\left(x\right)=x^2+a$ and a given $ϵ\>0$ a point $x$ has good expansion properties if any interval containing $x$ also contains a neighborhood $J$ of $x$ with $P_a^n{|}_J$ univalent, with bounded distortion and $B(0,ϵ)\subseteq P_a^n\left(J\right)$ for some $n\in \mathbb{N}$. The $ϵ$-weakly expanding set is the set of points which do not have good expansion properties. Let $\alpha$ denote the negative fixed point and $M$ the first return time of the critical orbit to $[\alpha ,-\alpha ]$. We show there is a set $ℛ$ of parameters with positive Lebesgue measure for which the Hausdorff...

We give some characterizations of the class ${}_m\left(\Omega \right)$ and use them to establish a lower estimate for the log canonical threshold of plurisubharmonic functions in this class.

Let $\left[x\right]$ be an integer part of $x$ and $d\left(n\right)$ be the number of positive divisor of $n$. Inspired by some results of M. Jutila (1987), we prove that for $1<c<\frac{6}{5}$, $$\sum _{n\le x}d\left(\left[n^c\right]\right)=cxlogx+(2\gamma -c)x+O\left(\frac{x}{logx}\right),$$ where $\gamma$ is the Euler constant and $\left[n^c\right]$ is the Piatetski-Shapiro sequence. This gives an improvement upon the classical result of this problem.

Let $W$ be the subspace of ${\mathbb{N}}^{*}$ consisting of all weak $P$-points. It is not hard to see that $W$ is a pseudocompact space. In this paper we shall prove that this space has stronger pseudocompact properties. Indeed, it is shown that $W$ is a $p$-pseudocompact space for all $p\in {\mathbb{N}}^{*}$.

Let ${𝒯}_n$ denote the set of log canonical thresholds of pairs $(X,Y)$, with $X$ a nonsingular variety of dimension $n$, and $Y$ a nonempty closed subscheme of $X$. Using non-standard methods, we show that every limit of a decreasing sequence in ${𝒯}_n$ lies in ${𝒯}_{n-1}$, proving in this setting a conjecture of Kollár. We also show that ${𝒯}_n$ is closed in $𝐑$; in particular, every limit of log canonical thresholds on smooth varieties of fixed dimension is a rational number. As a consequence of this property, we see that in...

Consider the $n\times n$ matrix with $(i,j)$’th entry $gcd(i,j)$. Its largest eigenvalue ${\lambda }_n$ and sum of entries $s_n$ satisfy ${\lambda }_n>s_n/n$. Because $s_n$ cannot be expressed algebraically as a function of $n$, we underestimate it in several ways. In examples, we compare the bounds so obtained with one another and with a bound from S. Hong, R. Loewy (2004). We also conjecture that ${\lambda }_n>6{\pi }^{-2}nlogn$ for all $n$. If $n$ is large enough, this follows from F. Balatoni (1969).

Let K be an algebraic number field with non-trivial class group G and ${}_K$ be its ring of integers. For k ∈ ℕ and some real x ≥ 1, let $F_k\left(x\right)$ denote the number of non-zero principal ideals $a_K$ with norm bounded by x such that a has at most k distinct factorizations into irreducible elements. It is well known that $F_k\left(x\right)$ behaves for x → ∞ asymptotically like $x{\left(logx\right)}^{1-1/\left|G\right|}{\left(loglogx\right)}^{{}_k\left(G\right)}$. We prove, among other results, that $₁\left(C_{n₁}\oplus C_{n₂}\right)=n₁+n₂$ for all integers n₁,n₂ with 1 < n₁|n₂.

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 → ∞.

We study the functional $I_f\left(u\right)={\int }_{\Omega }f\left(u\left(x\right)\right)dx$, where u=(u₁, ..., uₘ) and each $u_j$ is constant along some subspace $W_j$ of ℝⁿ. We show that if intersections of the $W_j$’s satisfy a certain condition then $I_f$ is weakly lower semicontinuous if and only if f is Λ-convex (see Definition 1.1 and Theorem 1.1). We also give a necessary and sufficient condition on ${W_j}_{j=1,...,m}$ to have the equivalence: $I_f$ is weakly continuous if and only if f is Λ-affine.

Dati due elementi $f$ e $g$ in un'algebra uniforme $A$, sia $G=f(M_A/f({\partial }_A)$. Nella presente Nota si danno, fra l’altro, due nuove dimostrazioni elementari del fatto che la funzione $\lambda \to \log \max g(f^{-1}(\lambda ))$ è subarmonica su $G$ e che l’applicazione $\lambda \to g(f^{-1}(\lambda ))$ è analitica nel senso di Oka.

Let $f:I\to I$ be a $C^2$ multimodal interval map satisfying polynomial growth of the derivatives along critical orbits. We prove the existence and uniqueness of equilibrium states for the potential ${\phi }_t:x\mapsto -tlog\left|Df\left(x\right)\right|$ for $t$ close to $1$, and also that the pressure function $t\mapsto P\left({\phi }_t\right)$ is analytic on an appropriate interval near $t=1$.

Let $X$ be the Tychonoff product ${\prod }_{\alpha <\tau }{X}_{\alpha }$ of $\tau$-many Tychonoff non-single point spaces $X_{\alpha }$. Let $p\in X^{*}$ be a point in the closure of some $G\subset X$ whose weak Lindelöf number is strictly less than the cofinality of $\tau$. Then we show that $\beta X\setminus \left\{p\right\}$ is not normal. Under some additional assumptions, $p$ is a butterfly-point in $\beta X$. In particular, this is true if either $X={\omega }^{\tau }$ or $X=R^{\tau }$ and $\tau$ is infinite and not countably cofinal.

We show that if $\alpha >1$, then the logarithmically weighted Bergman space $A_{{log}^{\alpha }}^2$ is mapped by the Libera operator $ℒ$ into the space $A_{{log}^{\alpha -1}}^2$, while if $\alpha >2$ and $0<\epsilon \le \alpha -2$, then the Hilbert matrix operator $H$ maps $A_{{log}^{\alpha }}^2$ into $A_{{log}^{\alpha -2-\epsilon }}^2$.We show that the Libera operator $ℒ$ maps the logarithmically weighted Bloch space ${ℬ}_{{log}^{\alpha }}$, $\alpha \in ℝ$, into itself, while $H$ maps ${ℬ}_{{log}^{\alpha }}$ into ${ℬ}_{{log}^{\alpha +1}}$.In Pavlović’s paper (2016) it is shown that $ℒ$ maps the logarithmically weighted Hardy-Bloch space ${ℬ}_{{log}^{\alpha }}^1$, $\alpha >0$, into ${ℬ}_{{log}^{\alpha -1}}^1$. We show that this result is sharp. We also show that $H$ maps ${ℬ}_{{log}^{\alpha }}^1$, $\alpha \ge 0$,...

Let $$T\left(q\right)=\sum _{k=1}^{\infty }d\left(k\right)q^k,\left|q\right|<1,$$ where $d\left(k\right)$ denotes the number of positive divisors of the natural number $k$. We present monotonicity properties of functions defined in terms of $T$. More specifically, we prove that $$H\left(q\right)=T\left(q\right)-\frac{log(1-q)}{log\left(q\right)}$$ is strictly increasing on $(0,1)$, while $$F\left(q\right)=\frac{1-q}{q}H\left(q\right)$$ is strictly decreasing on $(0,1)$. These results are then applied to obtain various inequalities, one of which states that the double inequality $$\alpha \frac{q}{1-q}+\frac{log(1-q)}{log\left(q\right)}<T\left(q\right)<\beta \frac{q}{1-q}+\frac{log(1-q)}{log\left(q\right)},0<q<1,$$ holds with the best possible constant factors $\alpha =\gamma$ and $\beta =1$. Here, $\gamma$ denotes Euler’s constant. This refines a result of Salem, who...