We show that for any irrational number α and a sequence ${m_l}_{l\in \mathbb{N}}$ of integers such that $li{m}_{l\to \infty }\left|\right||m_l\alpha \left|\right||=0$, there exists a continuous measure μ on the circle such that $li{m}_{l\to \infty }{\int }_{}\left|\right||m_l\theta \left|\right||d\mu \left(\theta \right)=0$. This implies that any rigidity sequence of any ergodic transformation is a rigidity sequence for some weakly mixing dynamical system. On the other hand, we show that for any α ∈ ℝ - ℚ, there exists a sequence ${m_l}_{l\in \mathbb{N}}$ of integers such that $\left|\right||m_l\alpha \left|\right||\to 0$ and such that $m_l\theta \left[1\right]$ is dense on the circle if and only if θ ∉ ℚα + ℚ.

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 $p\in {\mathbb{N}}^{*}$.

The first author has recently proved that if f: X → Y is a k-dimensional map between compacta and Y is p-dimensional (0 ≤ k, p < ∞), then for each 0 ≤ i ≤ p + k, the set of maps g in the space $C(X,I^{p+2k+1-i})$ such that the diagonal product $f\times g:X\to Y\times I^{p+2k+1-i}$ is an (i+1)-to-1 map is a dense $G_{\delta }$-subset of $C(X,I^{p+2k+1-i})$. In this paper, we prove that if f: X → Y is as above and $D_j$ (j = 1,..., k) are superdendrites, then the set of maps h in $C(X,{\prod }_{j=1}^k{D}_j\times I^{p+1-i})$ such that $f\times h:X\to Y\times \left({\prod }_{j=1}^k{D}_j\times I^{p+1-i}\right)$ is (i+1)-to-1 is a dense $G_{\delta }$-subset of $C(X,{\prod }_{j=1}^k{D}_j\times I^{p+1-i})$ for each 0 ≤ i ≤ p.

We prove that on ${ℝ}^N$, there is no n-supercyclic operator with 1 ≤ n < ⌊(N + 1)/2⌋, i.e. if ${ℝ}^N$ has an n-dimensional subspace whose orbit under $T\in \left({ℝ}^N\right)$ is dense in ${ℝ}^N$, then n is greater than ⌊(N + 1)/2⌋. Moreover, this value is optimal. We then consider the case of strongly n-supercyclic operators. An operator $T\in \left({ℝ}^N\right)$ is strongly n-supercyclic if ${ℝ}^N$ has an n-dimensional subspace whose orbit under T is dense in $\mathbb{P}ₙ\left({ℝ}^N\right)$, the nth Grassmannian. We prove that strong n-supercyclicity does not occur non-trivially...

For a sequence x ∈ ℓ₁∖c₀₀, one can consider the set E(x) of all subsums of the series ${\sum }_{n=1}^{\infty }x\left(n\right)$. Guthrie and Nymann proved that E(x) is one of the following types of sets: () a finite union of closed intervals; () homeomorphic to the Cantor set; homeomorphic to the set T of subsums of ${\sum }_{n=1}^{\infty }b\left(n\right)$ where b(2n-1) = 3/4ⁿ and b(2n) = 2/4ⁿ. Denote by ℐ, and the sets of all sequences x ∈ ℓ₁∖c₀₀ such that E(x) has the property (ℐ), () and ( ), respectively. We show that ℐ and are strongly -algebrable and is -lineable....

Given any compact manifold $M$, we construct a non-empty open subset $𝒪$ of the space ${\mathrm{Diff}}^1\left(M\right)$ of $C^1$-diffeomorphisms and a dense subset $𝒟\subset 𝒪$ such that the centralizer of every diffeomorphism in $𝒟$ is uncountable, hence non-trivial.

Let $G:=\mathrm{SO}{(n,1)}^{\circ }$ and $\Gamma (n-1)/2$ for $n=2,3$ and when $\delta >n-2$ for $n\ge 4$, we obtain an effective archimedean counting result for a discrete orbit of $\Gamma$ in a homogeneous space $H\setminus G$ where $H$ is the trivial group, a symmetric subgroup or a horospherical subgroup. More precisely, we show that for any effectively well-rounded family $\{{ℬ}_T\subset H\setminus G\}$ of compact subsets, there exists $\eta >0$ such that $\#\left[e\right]\Gamma \cap {ℬ}_T=ℳ\left({ℬ}_T\right)+O\left(ℳ{\left({ℬ}_T\right)}^{1-\eta }\right)$ for an explicit measure $ℳ$ on $H\setminus G$ which depends on $\Gamma$. We also apply the affine sieve and describe the distribution of almost primes on orbits of $\Gamma$ in arithmetic...

Let $U₁,...,U_d$ be a non-periodic collection of commuting measure preserving transformations on a probability space (Ω,Σ,μ). Also let Γ be a nonempty subset of $\mathbb{Z}{₊}^d$ and the associated collection of rectangular parallelepipeds in ${ℝ}^d$ with sides parallel to the axes and dimensions of the form $n₁\times \cdots \times n_d$ with $(n₁,...,n_d)\in \Gamma .$ The associated multiparameter geometric and ergodic maximal operators $M_{}$ and $M_{\Gamma }$ are defined respectively on $L¹\left({ℝ}^d\right)$ and L¹(Ω) by $M_{}g\left(x\right)=su{p}_{x\in R\in }1/\left|R\right|{\int }_R\left|g\left(y\right)\right|dy$ and $M_{\Gamma }f\left(\omega \right)=su{p}_{(n₁,...,n_d)\in \Gamma }1/n₁\cdots n_d{\sum }_{j₁=0}^{n₁-1}\cdots {\sum }_{j_d=0}^{n_d-1}\left|f\left(U{₁}^{j₁}\cdots U_d^{j_d}\omega \right)\right|$. Given a Young function Φ, it is shown that $M_{}$ satisfies the weak type estimate ...

For each n ≥ 1, let $v_{n,k},k\ge 1$ and $u_{n,k},k\ge 1$ be mutually independent sequences of nonnegative random variables and let each of them consist of mutually independent and identically distributed random variables with means v̅ₙ and u̅̅ₙ, respectively. Let $X{ₙ}^B\left(t\right)=(1/cₙ){\sum }_{j=1}^{\left[nt\right]}(v_{n,j}-v̅ₙ)$, $X{ₙ}^A\left(t\right)=(1/cₙ){\sum }_{j=1}^{\left[nt\right]}(u_{n,j}-u̅̅ₙ)$, t ≥ 0, and $Xₙ=X{ₙ}^B-X{ₙ}^A$. The main result gives conditions under which the weak convergence $Xₙ\stackrel{}{\to }X$, where X is a Lévy process, implies $X{ₙ}^B\stackrel{}{\to }{X}^B$ and $X{ₙ}^A\stackrel{}{\to }{X}^A$, where $X^B$ and $X^A$ are mutually independent Lévy processes and $X=X^B-X^A$.

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.

A subset of a product of topological spaces is called $n$-thin if every its two distinct points differ in at least $n$ coordinates. We generalize a construction of Gruenhage, Natkaniec, and Piotrowski, and obtain, under CH, a countable $T_3$ space $X$ without isolated points such that $X^n$ contains an $n$-thin dense subset, but $X^{n+1}$ does not contain any $n$-thin dense subset. We also observe that part of the construction can be carried out under MA.

A graph $X$, with a group $G$ of automorphisms of $X$, is said to be $(G,s)$-transitive, for some $s\ge 1$, if $G$ is transitive on $s$-arcs but not on $(s+1)$-arcs. Let $X$ be a connected $(G,s)$-transitive graph of prime valency $p\ge 5$, and $G_v$ the vertex stabilizer of a vertex $v\in V\left(X\right)$. Suppose that $G_v$ is solvable. Weiss (1974) proved that $|G_v{|\mid p(p-1)}^2$. In this paper, we prove that $G_v\cong ({\mathbb{Z}}_p⋊{\mathbb{Z}}_m)\times {\mathbb{Z}}_n$ for some positive integers $m$ and $n$ such that $ndivm$ and $m\mid p-1$.

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.