We give a necessary and a sufficient condition for a subset $S$ of a locally convex Waelbroeck algebra $𝒜$ to have a non-void left joint spectrum ${\sigma }_l\left(S\right).$ In particular, for a Lie subalgebra $L\subset 𝒜$ we have ${\sigma }_l\left(L\right)\ne \varnothing$ if and only if $[L,L]$ generates in $𝒜$ a proper left ideal. We also obtain a version of the spectral mapping formula for a modified left joint spectrum. Analogous theorems for the right joint spectrum and the Harte spectrum are also valid.

An infinite set A in a space X converges to a point p (denoted by A → p) if for every neighbourhood U of p we have |A∖U| < |A|. We call cS(p,X) = |A|: A ⊂ X and A → p the convergence spectrum of p in X and cS(X) = ⋃cS(x,X): x ∈ X the convergence spectrum of X. The character spectrum of a point p ∈ X is χS(p,X) = χ(p,Y): p is non-isolated in Y ⊂ X, and χS(X) = ⋃χS(x,X): x ∈ X is the character spectrum of X. If κ ∈ χS(p,X) for a compactum X then κ,cf(κ) ⊂ cS(p,X). A selection of our...

By considering arbitrary mappings $\omega$ from a Banach algebra $A$ into the set of all nonempty, compact subsets of the complex plane such that for all $a\in A$, the set $\omega \left(a\right)$ lies between the boundary and connected hull of the exponential spectrum of $a$, we create a general framework in which to generalize a number of results involving spectra such as the exponential and singular spectra. In particular, we discover a number of new properties of the boundary spectrum.

Let $G$ be a connected graph with vertex set $V\left(G\right)=\{v_1,v_2,...,v_n\}$. The distance matrix $D\left(G\right)={\left(d_{ij}\right)}_{n\times n}$ is the matrix indexed by the vertices of $G$, where $d_{ij}$ denotes the distance between the vertices $v_i$ and $v_j$. Suppose that ${\lambda }_1\left(D\right)\ge {\lambda }_2\left(D\right)\ge \cdots \ge {\lambda }_n\left(D\right)$ are the distance spectrum of $G$. The graph $G$ is said to be determined by its $D$-spectrum if with respect to the distance matrix $D\left(G\right)$, any graph having the same spectrum as $G$ is isomorphic to $G$. We give the distance characteristic polynomial of some graphs with small diameter, and also prove that these graphs...

For a linear operator T in a Banach space let ${\sigma }_p\left(T\right)$ denote the point spectrum of T, let ${\sigma }_{p,n}\left(T\right)$ for finite n > 0 be the set of all $\lambda \in {\sigma }_p\left(T\right)$ such that dim ker(T - λ) = n and let ${\sigma }_{p,\infty }\left(T\right)$ be the set of all $\lambda \in {\sigma }_p\left(T\right)$ for which ker(T - λ) is infinite-dimensional. It is shown that ${\sigma }_p\left(T\right)$ is ${ℱ}_{\sigma }$, ${\sigma }_{p,\infty }\left(T\right)$ is ${ℱ}_{\sigma \delta }$ and for each finite n the set ${\sigma }_{p,n}\left(T\right)$ is the intersection of an ${ℱ}_{\sigma }$ set and a ${}_{\delta }$ set provided T is closable and the domain of T is separable and weakly σ-compact. For closed densely defined operators in a separable Hilbert space a more...

In this paper we prove the following results. First, we show the existence of Wiener-Wintner dynamical system with continuous singular spectrum in the orthocomplement of their respective Kronecker factors. The second result states that if $f\in L^p$, $p$ large enough, is a Wiener-Wintner function then, for all $\gamma \in (1+\frac{1}{2p}-\frac{\beta }{2},1]$, there exists a set $X_f$ of full measure for which the series ${\sum }_{n=1}^{\infty }\frac{f\left(T^{n}x\right)e^{2\pi inϵ}}{n^{\gamma }}$ converges uniformly with respect to $ϵ$.

We consider simultaneous solutions of operator Sylvester equations $A_{i}X-X{B}_i=C_i$ (1 ≤ i ≤ k), where $(A₁,...,A_k)$ and $(B₁,...,B_k)$ are commuting k-tuples of bounded linear operators on Banach spaces and ℱ, respectively, and $(C₁,...,C_k)$ is a (compatible) k-tuple of bounded linear operators from ℱ to , and prove that if the joint Taylor spectra of $(A₁,...,A_k)$ and $(B₁,...,B_k)$ do not intersect, then this system of Sylvester equations has a unique simultaneous solution.

We analyse the spectral phase diagram of Schrödinger operators $T+\lambda V$ on regular tree graphs, with $T$ the graph adjacency operator and $V$ a random potential given by $iid$ random variables. The main result is a criterion for the emergence of absolutely continuous $\left(ac\right)$ spectrum due to fluctuation-enabled resonances between distant sites. Using it we prove that for unbounded random potentials $ac$ spectrum appears at arbitrarily weak disorder $(\lambda \ll 1)$ in an energy regime which extends beyond the spectrum of$\sim T$....

We consider the problem of the existence of positive solutions u to the problem $u^{\left(n\right)}\left(x\right)=g\left(u\left(x\right)\right)$, $u\left(0\right)=u^{\text{'}}\left(0\right)=...=u^{(n-1)}\left(0\right)=0$ (g ≥ 0,x > 0, n ≥ 2). It is known that if g is nondecreasing then the Osgood condition $\int {₀}^{\delta }1/s{[s/g\left(s\right)]}^{1/n}ds<\infty$ is necessary and sufficient for the existence of nontrivial solutions to the above problem. We give a similar condition for other classes of functions g.

We show that the essential spectral radius ${\varrho }_e\left(T\right)$ of T ∈ B(H) can be calculated by the formula ${\varrho }_e\left(T\right)$ = inf${ℱ}_{♯·♯}\left(XT{X}^{-1}\right)$: X an invertible operator, where ${ℱ}_{♯·♯}\left(T\right)$ is a Φ₁-perturbation function introduced by Mbekhta [J. Operator Theory 51 (2004)]. Also, we show that if ${}_{♯·♯}\left(T\right)$ is a Φ₂-perturbation function [loc. cit.] and if T is a Fredholm operator, then $dist(0,{\sigma }_e\left(T\right))$ = sup${}_{♯·♯}\left(XT{X}^{-1}\right)$: X an invertible operator.

We show that the spectrum of $\Delta {²}_{p}u+{2\beta ·\nabla \left(\right|\Delta u|}^{p-2}{\Delta u)+|\beta \left|²\right|\Delta u|}^{p-2}\Delta u=\alpha m{\left|u\right|}^{p-2}u$, where $\beta \in {ℝ}^N$, under Navier boundary conditions, contains at least one sequence of eigensurfaces.

First, some classic properties of a weighted Frobenius-Perron operator ${𝒫}_{\varphi }^u$ on $L^1\left(\Sigma \right)$ as a predual of weighted Koopman operator $W=u{U}_{\varphi }$ on $L^{\infty }\left(\Sigma \right)$ will be investigated using the language of the conditional expectation operator. Also, we determine the spectrum of ${𝒫}_{\varphi }^u$ under certain conditions.

Let ϕ: [0,1] → [0,1] be a nondecreasing continuous function such that ϕ(x) > x for all x ∈ (0,1). Let the operator $V_{\varphi }:f\left(x\right)\mapsto {\int }_0^{\varphi \left(x\right)}f\left(t\right)dt$ be defined on L₂[0,1]. We prove that $V_{\varphi }$ has a finite number of nonzero eigenvalues if and only if ϕ(0) > 0 and ϕ(1-ε) = 1 for some 0 < ε < 1. Also, we show that the spectral trace of the operator $V_{\varphi }$ always equals 1.

Given a graph $G$, if there is no nonisomorphic graph $H$ such that $G$ and $H$ have the same signless Laplacian spectra, then we say that $G$ is $Q$-DS. In this paper we show that every fan graph $F_n$ is $Q$-DS, where $F_n=K_1\vee P_{n-1}$ and $n\ge 3$.

An operator T acting on a Banach space X has property (gw) if ${\sigma }_a\left(T\right)\setminus {\sigma }_{SBF₊¯}\left(T\right)=E\left(T\right)$, where ${\sigma }_a\left(T\right)$ is the approximate point spectrum of T, ${\sigma }_{SBF₊¯}\left(T\right)$ is the upper semi-B-Weyl spectrum of T and E(T) is the set of all isolated eigenvalues of T. We introduce and study two new spectral properties (v) and (gv) in connection with Weyl type theorems. Among other results, we show that T satisfies (gv) if and only if T satisfies (gw) and $\sigma \left(T\right)={\sigma }_a\left(T\right)$.

We study the chemotaxis system with singular sensitivity and logistic-type source: $u_t=\Delta u-\chi \nabla ·(u\nabla v/v)+ru-\mu u^k$, $0=\Delta v-v+u$ under the non-flux boundary conditions in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^n$, $\chi ,r,\mu >0$, $k>1$ and $n\ge 1$. It is shown with $k\in (1,2)$ that the system possesses a global generalized solution for $n\ge 2$ which is bounded when $\chi >0$ is suitably small related to $r>0$ and the initial datum is properly small, and a global bounded classical solution for $n=1$.

A classification of weakly compact multiplication operators on $L\left(L_p\right),$1<p<$,isgiven.ThisanswersaquestionraisedbySaksmanandTylliin1992.Theclassificationinvolvestheconceptof$p$-strictlysingularoperators,andwealsoinvestigatethestructureofgeneral$p$-strictlysingularoperatorson$Lp$.Themainresultisthatifanoperator$T$on$Lp$,$1<p<2$,is$p$-strictlysingularand$T|X$isanisomorphismforsomesubspace$X$of$Lp$,then$X$embedsinto$Lr$forall$r<2$,but$X$neednotbeisomorphictoaHilbertspace.$It is also shown that if $T$ is convolution by a biased coin on $L_p$ of the Cantor group, $1\le p<2$, and $T_{|X}$ is an isomorphism for some reflexive subspace $X$ of $L_p$, then $X$ is isomorphic to a Hilbert space. The case $p=1$ answers a question asked by Rosenthal in 1976.

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 study the stability of a-Browder-type theorems for orthogonal direct sums of operators. We give counterexamples which show that in general the properties $\left(\mathrm{SBaw}\right)$, $\left(\mathrm{SBab}\right)$, $\left(\mathrm{SBw}\right)$ and $\left(\mathrm{SBb}\right)$ are not preserved under direct sums of operators. However, we prove that if $S$ and $T$ are bounded linear operators acting on Banach spaces and having the property $\left(\mathrm{SBab}\right)$, then $S\oplus T$ has the property $\left(\mathrm{SBab}\right)$ if and only if ${\sigma }_{{\mathrm{SBF}}_{+}^{-}}(S\oplus T)={\sigma }_{{\mathrm{SBF}}_{+}^{-}}\left(S\right)\cup {\sigma }_{{\mathrm{SBF}}_{+}^{-}}\left(T\right)$, where ${\sigma }_{{\mathrm{SBF}}_{+}^{-}}\left(T\right)$ is the upper semi-B-Weyl spectrum of $T$. We obtain analogous preservation results for the properties $\left(\mathrm{SBaw}\right)$,...

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 μ and λ be bounded positive singular measures on the unit circle such that μ ⊥ λ. It is proved that there exist positive measures μ₀ and λ₀ such that μ₀ ∼ μ, λ₀ ∼ λ, and $|{\psi }_{\mu ₀}|<1\cap |{\psi }_{\lambda ₀}|<1=\varnothing$, where ${\psi }_{\mu }$ is the associated singular inner function of μ. Let $\left(\mu \right)={\bigcap }_{\nu ;\nu \sim \mu }Z\left({\psi }_{\nu }\right)$ be the common zeros of equivalent singular inner functions of ${\psi }_{\mu }$. Then (μ) ≠ ∅ and (μ) ∩ (λ) = ∅. It follows that μ ≪ λ if and only if (μ) ⊂ (λ). Hence (μ) is the set in the maximal ideal space of $H^{\infty }$ which relates naturally to the set of measures equivalent...

A substitution φ is strong Pisot if its abelianization matrix is nonsingular and all eigenvalues except the Perron-Frobenius eigenvalue have modulus less than one. For strong Pisot φ that satisfies a no cycle condition and for which the translation flow on the tiling space ${}_{\phi }$ has pure discrete spectrum, we describe the collection ${}_{\phi }^P$ of pairs of proximal tilings in ${}_{\phi }$ in a natural way as a substitution tiling space. We show that if ψ is another such substitution, then ${}_{\phi }$ and ${}_{\psi }$ are homeomorphic...