Given a separable metric locally compact space $\mathrm{\Omega }$, and a positive finite non-atomic measure $\lambda$ on $\mathrm{\Omega }$, we study the integral representation on the space of measures with bounded variation $\mathrm{\Omega }$ of the lower semicontinuous envelope of the functional $$F(u)={\int }_{\mathrm{\Omega }}f(x,y)d\lambda \mathit{\hspace{1em}\hspace{1em}}u\in L^1(\mathrm{\Omega },\lambda ,{ℝ}^n)$$ with respect to the weak convergence of measures.

We show that if μ₁, ..., μₘ are log-concave subgaussian or supergaussian probability measures in ${ℝ}^{n_i}$, i ≤ m, then for every F in the Grassmannian $G_{N,n}$, where N = n₁ + ⋯ + nₘ and n< N, the isotropic constant of the marginal of the product of these measures, ${\pi }_F\left(\mu ₁\otimes \cdots \otimes \mu ₘ\right)$, is bounded. This extends known results on bounds of the isotropic constant to a larger class of measures.

Let $(X,d_X)$, $(\Omega ,d_{\Omega })$ be complete separable metric spaces. Denote by (X) the space of probability measures on X, by $W_p$ the p-Wasserstein metric with some p ∈ [1,∞), and by ${}_p\left(X\right)$ the space of probability measures on X with finite Wasserstein distance from any point measure. Let $f:\Omega {\to }_p\left(X\right)$, $\omega \mapsto f_{\omega }$, be a Borel map such that f is a contraction from $(\Omega ,d_{\Omega })$ into ${(}_p\left(X\right),W_p)$. Let ν₁,ν₂ be probability measures on Ω with $W_p(\nu ₁,\nu ₂)$ finite. On X we consider the subordinated measures ${\mu }_i={\int }_{\Omega }{f}_{\omega }d{\nu }_i\left(\omega \right)$. Then $W_p(\mu ₁,\mu ₂)\le W_p(\nu ₁,\nu ₂)$. As an application we show that the solution measures ${\varrho }_{\alpha }\left(t\right)$...

Suppose that $\mu$ is an absolutely continuous probability measure on ${}^R$n, for large $n$. Then $\mu$ has low-dimensional marginals that are approximately spherically-symmetric. More precisely, if $n\ge {(C/\epsilon )}^{Cd}$, then there exist $d$-dimensional marginals of $\mu$ that are $\epsilon$-far from being sphericallysymmetric, in an appropriate sense. Here $C>0$ is a universal constant.

Given a metric space $X$ we consider a general class of functionals which measure the cost of a path in $X$ joining two given points $x_0$ and $x_1$, providing abstract existence results for optimal paths. The results are then applied to the case when $X$ is aWasserstein space of probabilities on a given set $\Omega$ and the cost of a path depends on the value of classical functionals over measures. Conditions for linking arbitrary extremal measures ${\mu }_0$ and ${\mu }_1$ by means of finite cost paths are given. ...

Let ν be a positive measure on a σ-algebra Σ of subsets of some set and let X be a Banach space. Denote by ca(Σ,X) the Banach space of X-valued measures on Σ, equipped with the uniform norm, and by ca(Σ,ν,X) its closed subspace consisting of those measures which vanish at every ν-null set. We are concerned with the subsets ${}_{\nu }\left(X\right)$ and ${}_{\nu }\left(X\right)$ of ca(Σ,X) defined by the conditions |φ| = ν and |φ| ≥ ν, respectively, where |φ| stands for the variation of φ ∈ ca(Σ,X). We establish necessary and sufficient...

A measure is called $L^p$-improving if it acts by convolution as a bounded operator from $L^p$ to $L^q$ for some q > p. Positive measures which are $L^p$-improving are known to have positive Hausdorff dimension. We extend this result to complex $L^p$-improving measures and show that even their energy dimension is positive. Measures of positive energy dimension are seen to be the Lipschitz measures and are characterized in terms of their improving behaviour on a subset of $L^p$-functions.

We present a new theorem on the differential inequality $u^{\left(m\right)}\le w\left(u\right)$. Next, we apply this result to obtain existence theorems for the equation $x^{\left(m\right)}=f(t,x)$.

Motivated by recent developments on calculus in metric measure spaces $(X,\mathrm{d},\mathrm{m})$, we prove a general duality principle between Fuglede’s notion [15] of $p$-modulus for families of finite Borel measures in $(X,\mathrm{d})$ and probability measures with barycenter in $L^q(X,\mathrm{m})$, with $q$ dual exponent of $p\in (1,\infty )$. We apply this general duality principle to study null sets for families of parametric and non-parametric curves in $X$. In the final part of the paper we provide a new proof, independent of optimal transportation, of the...

Let $S_i:{ℝ}^d\to {ℝ}^d$ for i = 1,..., N be contracting similarities, let $(p₁,...,p_N,p)$ be a probability vector and let ν be a probability measure on ${ℝ}^d$ with compact support. It is well known that there exists a unique inhomogeneous self-similar probability measure μ on ${ℝ}^d$ such that $\mu ={\sum }_{i=1}^N{p}_i\mu \circ S_i^{-1}+p\nu$. We give satisfactory estimates for the lower and upper bounds of the $L^q$ spectra of inhomogeneous self-similar measures. The case in which there are a countable number of contracting similarities and probabilities is considered. In particular,...

We show that for each natural number n > 1, it is consistent that there is a compact Hausdorff totally disconnected space $K_{2n}$ such that $C\left(K_{2n}\right)$ has no uncountable (semi)biorthogonal sequence ${(f_{\xi },{\mu }_{\xi })}_{\xi \in \omega ₁}$ where ${\mu }_{\xi }$’s are atomic measures with supports consisting of at most 2n-1 points of $K_{2n}$, but has biorthogonal systems ${(f_{\xi },{\mu }_{\xi })}_{\xi \in \omega ₁}$ where ${\mu }_{\xi }$’s are atomic measures with supports consisting of 2n points. This complements a result of Todorcevic which implies that it is consistent that such spaces do not exist: he proves...

We construct two models for the level by level equivalence between strong compactness and supercompactness in which if κ is λ supercompact and λ ≥ κ is regular, we are able to determine exactly the number of normal measures $P_{\kappa }\left(\lambda \right)$ carries. In the first of these models, $P_{\kappa }\left(\lambda \right)$ carries $2^{2^{{\left[\lambda \right]}^{<\kappa }}}$ many normal measures, the maximal number. In the second of these models, $P_{\kappa }\left(\lambda \right)$ carries $2^{2^{{\left[\lambda \right]}^{<\kappa }}}$ many normal measures, except if κ is a measurable cardinal which is not a limit of measurable cardinals. In this case, κ (and...

It is proved (independently of the result of Holmes [Fund. Math. 140 (1992)]) that the dual space of the uniform closure $CFL{(}_r)$ of the linear span of the maps x ↦ d(x,a) - d(x,b), where d is the metric of the Urysohn space ${}_r$ of diameter r, is (isometrically if r = +∞) isomorphic to the space $LIP{(}_r)$ of equivalence classes of all real-valued Lipschitz maps on ${}_r$. The space of all signed (real-valued) Borel measures on ${}_r$ is isometrically embedded in the dual space of $CFL{(}_r)$ and it is shown that the image...

We study forking, Lascar strong types, Keisler measures and definable groups, under an assumption of NIP (not the independence property), continuing aspects of the paper [16]. Among key results are (i) if $p=tp(b/A)$ does not fork over $A$ then the Lascar strong type of $b$ over $A$ coincides with the compact strong type of $b$ over $A$ and any global nonforking extension of $p$ is Borel definable over $bdd\left(A\right)$, (ii) analogous statements for Keisler measures and definable groups, including the fact that $G^{000}=G^{00}$ for $G$...

Let ${\alpha }_i,{\beta }_i>0$, 1 ≤ i ≤ n, and for t > 0 and x = (x₁,...,xₙ) ∈ ℝⁿ, let $t•x=(t^{\alpha ₁}x₁,...,t^{\alpha ₙ}xₙ)$, $t\circ x=(t^{\beta ₁}x₁,...,t^{\beta ₙ}xₙ)$ and $\left|\right|x\left|\right|={\sum }_{i=1}^n{\left|x_i\right|}^{1/{\alpha }_i}$. Let φ₁,...,φₙ be real functions in $C^{\infty }(ℝⁿ-0)$ such that φ = (φ₁,..., φₙ) satisfies φ(t • x) = t ∘ φ(x). Let γ > 0 and let μ be the Borel measure on ${ℝ}^{2n}$ given by $\mu \left(E\right)={\int }_{ℝⁿ}{\chi }_E{(x,\phi \left(x\right))\left|\right|x\left|\right|}^{\gamma -\alpha }dx$, where $\alpha ={\sum }_{i=1}^n{\alpha }_i$ and dx denotes the Lebesgue measure on ℝⁿ. Let $T_{\mu }f=\mu \ast f$ and let $\left|\right|T_{\mu }{\left|\right|}_{p,q}$ be the operator norm of $T_{\mu }$ from $L^p\left({ℝ}^{2n}\right)$ into $L^q\left({ℝ}^{2n}\right)$, where the $L^p$ spaces are taken with respect to the Lebesgue measure. The type set $E_{\mu }$ is defined by $E_{\mu }=(1/p,1/q):\left|\right|T_{\mu }{\left|\right|}_{p,q}<\infty ,1\le p,q\le \infty$. In the case ${\alpha }_i\ne {\beta }_k$ for 1 ≤ i,k ≤ n we characterize the...

Recently it was proved for 1 < p < ∞ that ${\omega }^m{(f,t)}_p$, a modulus of smoothness on the unit sphere, and $K̃ₘ{(f,t^m)}_p$, a K-functional involving the Laplace-Beltrami operator, are equivalent. It will be shown that the range 1 < p < ∞ is optimal; that is, the equivalence ${\omega }^m{(f,t)}_p\approx K̃ₘ{(f,t^r)}_p$ does not hold either for p = ∞ or for p = 1.

We consider $C^2$ families $t\mapsto f_t$ of $C^4$ unimodal maps $f_t$ whose critical point is slowly recurrent, and we show that the unique absolutely continuous invariant measure ${\mu }_t$ of $f_t$ depends differentiably on $t$, as a distribution of order $1$. The proof uses transfer operators on towers whose level boundaries are mollified via smooth cutoff functions, in order to avoid artificial discontinuities. We give a new representation of ${\mu }_t$ for a Benedicks-Carleson map $f_t$, in terms of a single smooth function and the...

The class of $H^{\left(N\right)}$-sets forms an important subclass of the class of sets of uniqueness for trigonometric series. We investigate the size of this class which is reflected by the family of measures (called polar) annihilating all sets from the class. The main aim of this paper is to answer in the negative a question stated by Lyons, whether the polars of the classes of $H^{\left(N\right)}$-sets are the same for all N ∈ ℕ. To prove our result we also present a new description of $H^{\left(N\right)}$-sets.

Si dimostra che il funzionale ${\int }_{\mathrm{\Omega }}f(u,Du)𝑑x$ è semicontinuo inferiormente su $W_{loc}^{1,1}(\mathrm{\Omega })$, rispetto alla topologia indotta da $L_{loc}^1(\mathrm{\Omega })$, qualora l’integrando $f(s,p)$ sia una funzione non-negativa, misurabile in $s$, convessa in $p$, limitata nell’intorno dei punti del tipo $(s,0)$, e tale che la funzione $s\mapsto f(s,0)$ sia semicontinua inferiormente su $𝐑$.

Siano $d$, $g$, $t$ interi con $0\le t\le g$; se esiste in ${\mathbb{P}}_3(ℂ)$ una curva connessa, non singolare di grado $d$ e genere $g$, allora esiste in ${\mathbb{P}}_3(ℂ)$ una curva irriducibile di grado $d$, genere aritmetico $g$ e $t$ nodi.

Let $F\subset C^{\ast }(X)$ be a vector sublattice over $ℝ$ which separates points from closed sets of $X$. The compactification $e_{F}X$ obtained by embedding $X$ in a real cube via the diagonal map, is different, in general, from the Wallman compactification $\omega (Z(F))$. In this paper, it is shown that there exists a lattice $F_z$ containing $F$ such that $\omega (Z(F))=\omega (Z(F_z))=e_{F}X$. In particular this implies that $\omega (Z(F))\ge e_{F}X$. Conditions in order to be $\omega (Z(F))=e_{F}X$ are given. Finally we prove that, if $\alpha X$ is a compactification of $X$ such that $C{l}_{\alpha X}(\alpha X\setminus X)$ is $0$-dimensional, then there is an...

Let $\beta >1$ be a non-integer. We consider expansions of the form ${\sum }_{i=1}^{\infty }{d}_i/{\beta }^i$, where the digits ${\left(d_i\right)}_{i\ge 1}$ are generated by means of a Borel map $K_{\beta }$ defined on ${\{0,1\}}^{\mathbb{N}}\times [0,\lfloor \beta \rfloor \left(\beta -1\right)]$. We show existence and uniqueness of a $K_{\beta }$-invariant probability measure, absolutely continuous with respect to $m_p\otimes \lambda$, where $m_p$ is the Bernoulli measure on ${\{0,1\}}^{\mathbb{N}}$ with parameter $p$ ($0<p<1$) and $\lambda$ is the normalized Lebesgue measure on $[0,\lfloor \beta \rfloor (\beta -1\left)\right]$. Furthermore, this measure is of the form $m_p\otimes {\mu }_{\beta ,p}$, where ${\mu }_{\beta ,p}$ is equivalent to $\lambda$. We prove that the measure of maximal entropy and $m_p\otimes \lambda$ are mutually...

Sia $K\subset \subset {ℝ}^n$ un compatto, $f\ge 0$ una funzione analitica all'intorno di $K$, ed $m$ la massima molteplicità in $K$ degli zeri di $f$; si prova che la potenza $f^{\lambda }$ ($\lambda \in ℂ$, $Re\lambda >\mathrm{—}\frac{1}{m}$) è integrabile in $K$. L'estensione meromorfa dell'applicazione $\lambda \to f^{\lambda }$ da $Re\lambda >0$ a tutto $ℂ$ (con valori in ${𝒟}^{\prime }(K)$ anziché in $L^1(K)$) era già stata provata in [1] e [2].

Inspired by a result from Leibov, we find that the supremum defining the $BLO$ norm in $[0,1]$ is actually attained by a specific sub-interval of $[0,1]$ for $f\in VLO([0,1])$

In this paper we study some potential theoretical properties of solutions and super-solutions of some PDE systems (S) of type $L_{1}u=-{\mu }_{1}v$, $L_{2}v=-{\mu }_{2}u$, on a domain $D$ of ${ℝ}^d$, where ${\mu }_1$ and ${\mu }_2$ are suitable measures on $D$, and $L_1$, $L_2$ are two second order linear differential elliptic operators on $D$ with coefficients of class ${𝒞}^{\infty }$. We also obtain the integral representation of the nonnegative solutions and supersolutions of the system (S) by means of the Green kernels and Martin boundaries associated with $L_1$ and $L_2$, and...

CONTENTS1. Introduction...................................................................................................... 52. Notation and basic terminology........................................................................... 73. Definition and basic properties of the $L_{p,q}$ spaces................................. 114. Integral representation of bounded linear functionals on $L_{p,q}\left(B\right)$........ 235. Examples in $L_{p,q}$ theory...................................................................................

Let ⟨X,Y⟩ be a duality pair of M-spaces X,Y of measurable functions from Ω ⊂ ℝ ⁿ into ${ℝ}^d$. The paper deals with Y-weak cluster points ϕ̅ of the sequence $\varphi (·,z_j\left(·\right))$ in X, where $z_j:\Omega \to {ℝ}^m$ is measurable for j ∈ ℕ and $\varphi :\Omega \times {ℝ}^m\to {ℝ}^d$ is a Carathéodory function. We obtain general sufficient conditions, under which, for some negligible set $A_{\varphi }$, the integral $I(\varphi ,{\nu }_x):={\int }_{{ℝ}^m}\varphi (x,\lambda )d{\nu }_x\left(\lambda \right)$ exists for $x\in \Omega \setminus A_{\varphi }$ and $\varphi ̅\left(x\right)=I(\varphi ,{\nu }_x)$ on $\Omega \setminus A_{\varphi }$, where $\nu ={{\nu }_x}_{x\in \Omega }$ is a measurable-dependent family of Radon probability measures on ${ℝ}^m$.

Si considera l’equazione astratta $B{A}_{1}u+A_{0}u=h$, dove $A_i$ $(i=0,1)$ e $B$ sono convenienti operatori lineari chiusi fra spazi di Banach, $A_i$ non è necessariamente invertibile, e $A_0$, $A_1$ non commutano con $B$. Si studiano esistenza ed unicità delle soluzioni. Si indicano alcune applicazioni a certe equazioni differenziali degeneri o singolari.

Dato un cono $V$ aperto non vuoto, convesso, regolare e affinemente omogeneo in uno spazio vettoriale reale $W$ di dimensione finita si prova che per ogni $v$ appartenente a $V$ esiste un diffeomorfismo $E_v:W\to V$ che soddisfa le condizioni seguenti E1) $E_v(0)=v$; E2) $det(d{E}_v(y))={\mathrm{\Phi }}_V{(E_v(y))}^{-1}$ per ogni $y$ appartenente a $W$ ove ${\mathrm{\Phi }}_V:V\to {𝐑}^{+}$ è la funzione caratteristica di $V$.