We prove the existence of an effectively computable integer polynomial P(x,t₀,...,t₅) having the following property. Every continuous function $f:{ℝ}^s\to ℝ$ can be approximated with arbitrary accuracy by an infinite sum ${\sum }_{r=1}^{\infty }{H}_r(x₁,...,x_s)\in C^{\infty }\left({ℝ}^s\right)$ of analytic functions $H_r$, each solving the same system of universal partial differential equations, namely $P(x_{\sigma };H_r,\partial H_r/\partial x_{\sigma },...,\partial ⁵H_r/\partial x{⁵}_{\sigma }⁵)=0$ (σ = 1,..., s).

We study the extensibility of piecewise polynomial functions defined on closed subsets of ${ℝ}^2$ to all of ${ℝ}^2$. The compact subsets of ${ℝ}^2$ on which every piecewise polynomial function is extensible to ${ℝ}^2$ can be characterized in terms of local quasi-convexity if they are definable in an o-minimal expansion of $ℝ$. Even the noncompact closed definable subsets can be characterized if semialgebraic function germs at infinity are dense in the Hardy field of definable germs. We also present a piecewise...

We consider the asymptotic behavior of some classes of sequences defined by a recurrent formula. The main result is the following: Let f: (0,∞)² → (0,∞) be a continuous function such that (a) 0 < f(x,y) < px + (1-p)y for some p ∈ (0,1) and for all x,y ∈ (0,α), where α > 0; (b) $f(x,y)=px+(1-p)y-{\sum }_{s=m}^{\infty }s(x,y)$ uniformly in a neighborhood of the origin, where m > 1, ${}_s(x,y)={\sum }_{i=0}^s{a}_{i,s}{x}^{s-i}{y}^i$; (c) $ₘ(1,1)={\sum }_{i=0}^m{a}_{i,m}>0$. Let x₀,x₁ ∈ (0,α) and $x_{n+1}=f(xₙ,x_{n-1})$, n ∈ ℕ. Then the sequence (xₙ) satisfies the following asymptotic formula: $xₙ\sim {((2-p)/\left((m-1){\sum }_{i=0}^m{a}_{i,m}\right))}^{1/(m-1)}1/\sqrt[m-1]{n}$.

We study the following nonlinear method of approximation by trigonometric polynomials. For a periodic function f we take as an approximant a trigonometric polynomial of the form $Gₘ\left(f\right):={\sum }_{k\in \Lambda }f̂\left(k\right)e^{i(k,x)}$, where $\Lambda \subset {\mathbb{Z}}^d$ is a set of cardinality m containing the indices of the m largest (in absolute value) Fourier coefficients f̂(k) of the function f. Note that Gₘ(f) gives the best m-term approximant in the L₂-norm, and therefore, for each f ∈ L₂, ||f-Gₘ(f)||₂ → 0 as m → ∞. It is known from previous results that in...

Let P be a unimodular polynomial of degree d-1. Then the height H(P²) of its square is at least √(d/2) and the product L(P²)H(P²), where L denotes the length of a polynomial, is at least d². We show that for any ε > 0 and any d ≥ d(ε) there exists a polynomial P with ±1 coefficients of degree d-1 such that H(P²) < (2+ε)√(dlogd) and L(P²)H(P²)< (16/3+ε)d²log d. A similar result is obtained for the series with ±1 coefficients. Let $A_m$ be the mth coefficient of the square f(x)² of...

We consider nonsingular polynomial maps F = (P,Q): ℝ² → ℝ² under the following regularity condition at infinity $\left(J_{\infty }\right)$: There does not exist a sequence $(p_k,q_k)\subset ℂ²$ of complex singular points of F such that the imaginary parts $(\Im \left(p_k\right),\Im \left(q_k\right))$ tend to (0,0), the real parts $(\Re \left(p_k\right),\Re \left(q_k\right))$ tend to ∞ and $F(\Re \left(p_k\right),\Re \left(q_k\right)))\to a\in ℝ²$. It is shown that F is a global diffeomorphism of ℝ² if it satisfies Condition $\left(J_{\infty }\right)$ and if, in addition, the restriction of F to every real level set $P^{-1}\left(c\right)$ is proper for values of |c| large enough.

Let $P$ be a polynomial with integral coefficients. Shapiro showed that if the values of $P$ at infinitely many blocks of consecutive integers are of the form $Q\left(m\right)$, where $Q$ is a polynomial with integral coefficients, then $P\left(x\right)=Q\left(R\right(x\left)\right)$ for some polynomial $R$. In this paper, we show that if the values of $P$ at finitely many blocks of consecutive integers, each greater than a provided bound, are of the form $m^q$ where $q$ is an integer greater than 1, then $P\left(x\right)={\left(R\left(x\right)\right)}^q$ for some polynomial $R\left(x\right)$.

We show that for a polynomial mapping $F=(f₁,...,fₘ):{ℂ}^n\to {ℂ}^m$ the Łojasiewicz exponent ${}_{\infty }\left(F\right)$ of F is attained on the set $z\in {ℂ}^n:f₁\left(z\right)·...·fₘ\left(z\right)=0$.

We consider the polynomial $f_k\left(z\right)=z^k-z^{k-1}-\cdots -z-1$ for $k\ge 2$ which arises as the characteristic polynomial of the $k$-generalized Fibonacci sequence. In this short paper, we give estimates for the absolute values of the roots of $f_k\left(z\right)$ which lie inside the unit disk.

Let f: ℝⁿ → ℝ be a polynomial function of degree d with f(0) = 0 and ∇f(0) = 0. Łojasiewicz’s gradient inequality states that there exist C > 0 and ϱ ∈ (0,1) such that ${\left|\nabla f\right|\ge C\left|f\right|}^{\varrho }$ in a neighbourhood of the origin. We prove that the smallest such exponent ϱ is not greater than $1-R{(n,d)}^{-1}$ with $R(n,d)=d{(3d-3)}^{n-1}$.

Let d be a positive integer and α a real algebraic number of degree d + 1. Set $\alpha ̲:=(\alpha ,\alpha ²,...,{\alpha }^d)$. It is well-known that $c\left(\alpha ̲\right):=limin{f}_{q\to \infty }{q}^{1/d}·\left|\right|q\alpha ̲\left|\right|>0$, where ||·|| denotes the distance to the nearest integer. Furthermore, $c\left(\alpha ̲\right)n^{-1/d}\le c\left(n\alpha ̲\right)\le nc\left(\alpha ̲\right)$ for any integer n ≥ 1. Our main result asserts that there exists a real number C, depending only on α, such that $c\left(n\alpha ̲\right)\le C{n}^{-1/d}$ for any integer n ≥ 1.

We prove that for every ε > 0 and every nonnegative integer w there exist primes $p_1,...,p_w$ such that for $n=p_1...p_w$ the height of the cyclotomic polynomial ${\Phi }_n$ is at least $(1-\epsilon )c_w{M}_n$, where $M_n={\prod }_{i=1}^{w-2}{p}_i^{2^{w-1-i}-1}$ and $c_w$ is a constant depending only on w; furthermore $li{m}_{w\to \infty }{c}_w^{2^{-w}}\approx 0.71$. In our construction we can have $p_i>h(p_1...p_{i-1})$ for all i = 1,...,w and any function h: ℝ₊ → ℝ₊.

The paper deals with the approximation by polynomials with integer coefficients in $L_p(0,1)$, 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞. Let $P_{n,r}$ be the space of polynomials of degree ≤ n which are divisible by the polynomial $x^r{(1-x)}^r$, r ≥ 0, and let $P_{n,r}^{\mathbb{Z}}\subset P_{n,r}$ be the set of polynomials with integer coefficients. Let $\mu (P_{n,r}^{\mathbb{Z}};L_p)$ be the maximal distance of elements of $P_{n,r}$ from $P_{n,r}^{\mathbb{Z}}$ in $L_p(0,1)$. We give rather precise quantitative estimates of $\mu (P_{n,r}^{\mathbb{Z}};L₂)$ for n ≳ 6r. Then we obtain similar, somewhat less precise, estimates of $\mu (P_{n,r}^{\mathbb{Z}};L_p)$ for p ≠ 2. It follows that $\mu (P_{n,r}^{\mathbb{Z}};L_p)\asymp n^{-2r-2/p}$ as n → ∞. The results...

In this paper, we introduce an explicit formula and discuss the global behavior of solutions of the difference equation $$x_{n+1}=\frac{a{x}_{n-3}}{b+c{x}_{n-1}{x}_{n-3}},n=0,1,\cdots$$ where $a,b,c$ are positive real numbers and the initial conditions $x_{-3}$, $x_{-2}$, $x_{-1}$, $x_0$ are real numbers.