We study local reflections ${\varphi }_{\sigma }$ with respect to a curve $\sigma$ in a Riemannian manifold and prove that $\sigma$ is a geodesic if ${\varphi }_{\sigma }$ is a harmonic map. Moreover, we prove that the Riemannian manifold has constant curvature if and only if ${\varphi }_{\sigma }$ is harmonic for all geodesies $\sigma$.

Let $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^n,n\ge 3$, and let $p,1<p<\infty ,p\ne 2$, be given. In this paper we study the dimension of $p$-harmonic measures that arise from non-negative solutions to the $p$-Laplace equation, vanishing on a portion of $\partial \Omega$, in the setting of $\delta$-Reifenberg flat domains. We prove, for $p\ge n$, that there exists $\tilde{\delta }=\tilde{\delta }(p,n)>0$ small such that if $\Omega$ is a $\delta$-Reifenberg flat domain with $\delta <\tilde{\delta }$, then $p$-harmonic measure is concentrated on a set of $\sigma$-finite $H^{n-1}$-measure. We prove, for $p\ge n$, that for sufficiently flat Wolff snowflakes the Hausdorff dimension of $p$-harmonic...

For $n=2m\ge 4$, let $\Omega \in {ℝ}^n$ be a bounded smooth domain and $𝒩\subset {ℝ}^L$ a compact smooth Riemannian manifold without boundary. Suppose that $\left\{u_k\right\}\in W^{m,2}(\Omega ,𝒩)$ is a sequence of weak solutions in the critical dimension to the perturbed $m$-polyharmonic maps $$\frac{\mathrm{d}}{\mathrm{d}t}{|}_{t=0}{E}_m\left(\Pi (u+t\xi )\right)=0$$ with ${\Phi }_k\to 0$ in ${\left(W^{m,2}(\Omega ,𝒩)\right)}^{*}$ and $u_k\rightharpoonup u$ weakly in $W^{m,2}(\Omega ,𝒩)$. Then $u$ is an $m$-polyharmonic map. In particular, the space of $m$-polyharmonic maps is sequentially compact for the weak-$W^{m,2}$ topology.

The harmonic Cesàro operator is defined for a function f in $L^p\left(ℝ\right)$ for some 1 ≤ p < ∞ by setting $\left(f\right)\left(x\right):={\int }_x^{\infty }(f\left(u\right)/u)du$ for x > 0 and $\left(f\right)\left(x\right):=-{\int }_{-\infty }^x(f\left(u\right)/u)du$ for x < 0; the harmonic Copson operator ℂ* is defined for a function f in $L{¹}_{loc}\left(ℝ\right)$ by setting $*\left(f\right)\left(x\right):=(1/x){\int }^{x₀}f\left(u\right)du$ for x ≠ 0. The notation indicates that ℂ and ℂ* are adjoint operators in a certain sense. We present rigorous proofs of the following two commuting relations: (i) If $f\in L^p\left(ℝ\right)$ for some 1 ≤ p ≤ 2, then ${\left(\left(f\right)\right)}^{\wedge }\left(t\right)=*\left(f̂\right)\left(t\right)$ a.e., where f̂ denotes the Fourier transform of f. (ii) If $f\in L^p\left(ℝ\right)$ for some 1 < p ≤ 2, then...

Let $(X,d,\mu )$ be a metric measure space satisfying the doubling condition and an $L^2$-Poincaré inequality. Consider the nonnegative operator $ℒ$ generalized by a Dirichlet form on $X$. We will show that a solution $u$ to $(-{\partial }_t^2+ℒ)u=0$ on $X\times {ℝ}_{+}$ satisfies an $\alpha$-Carleson condition if and only if $u$ can be represented as the Poisson integral of the operator $ℒ$ with the trace in the generalized Morrey space $L^{2,\alpha }\left(X\right)$, where $\alpha$ is a nonnegative function defined on a class of balls in $X$. This result extends the analogous characterization...

If $(M,g)$ is a Riemannian manifold, we have the well-known base preserving   vector bundle isomorphism $TM\widetilde{=}{T}^{*}M$ given by $v\to g(v,-)$ between the tangent $TM$ and the cotangent $T^{*}M$ bundles of $M$. In the present note, we generalize this isomorphism to the one $T^{\left(r\right)}M\widetilde{=}{T}^{r*}M$ between the $r$-th order vector tangent $T^{\left(r\right)}M={\left(J^r{(M,R)}_0\right)}^{*}$ and the $r$-th order cotangent $T^{r*}M=J^r{(M,R)}_0$ bundles of $M$. Next, we describe all base preserving  vector bundle maps $C_M\left(g\right):T^{\left(r\right)}M\to T^{r*}M$ depending on a Riemannian metric $g$ in terms of natural (in $g$) tensor fields on $M$.

Let us consider two closed surfaces $ℳ$, $𝒩$ of class $C^1$ and two functions $\varphi :ℳ\to ℝ$, $\psi :𝒩\to ℝ$ of class $C^1$, called measuring functions. The natural pseudodistance $d$ between the pairs $(ℳ,)$, $(𝒩,\psi )$ is defined as the infimum of $\Theta \left(f\right):={max}_{P\in ℳ}\left|\varphi \left(P\right)-\psi \left(f\left(P\right)\right)\right|$ as $f$ varies in the set of all homeomorphisms from $ℳ$ onto $𝒩$. In this paper we prove that the natural pseudodistance equals either $|c_1-c_2|$, $\frac{1}{2}\left|c_1-c_2\right|$, or $\frac{1}{3}\left|c_1-c_2\right|$, where $c_1$ and $c_2$ are two suitable critical values of the measuring functions. This shows that a previous relation between the natural pseudodistance and...

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 consider the class ${\mathscr{H}}_0$ of sense-preserving harmonic functions $f=h+\overline{g}$ defined in the unit disk $\left|z\right|<1$ and normalized so that $h\left(0\right)=0=h^{\text{'}}\left(0\right)-1$ and $g\left(0\right)=0=g^{\text{'}}\left(0\right)$, where $h$ and $g$ are analytic in the unit disk. In the first part of the article we present two classes ${𝒫}_H^0\left(\alpha \right)$ and ${𝒢}_H^0\left(\beta \right)$ of functions from ${\mathscr{H}}_0$ and show that if $f\in {𝒫}_H^0\left(\alpha \right)$ and $F\in {𝒢}_H^0\left(\beta \right)$, then the harmonic convolution is a univalent and close-to-convex harmonic function in the unit disk provided certain conditions for parameters $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are satisfied. In the second part we study the harmonic sections...

Given a topological space $X$, let $𝒰X$ and ${\eta }_X:X\to 𝒰X$ denote, respectively, the Salbany compactification of $X$ and the compactification map called the Salbany map of $X$. For every continuous function $f:X\to Y$, there is a continuous function $𝒰f:𝒰X\to 𝒰Y$, called the Salbany lift of $f$, satisfying $\left(𝒰f\right)\circ {\eta }_X={\eta }_Y\circ f$. If a continuous function $f:X\to Y$ has a stably compact codomain $Y$, then there is a Salbany extension $F:𝒰X\to Y$ of $f$, not necessarily unique, such that $F\circ {\eta }_X=f$. In this paper, we give a condition on a space such that its Salbany map is open. In...

The existence of at least one non-decreasing sequence of positive eigenvalues for the problem driven by both $p(·)$-Harmonic and $p(·)$-biharmonic operators $$\begin{array}{c}{\Delta }_{p\left(x\right)}^{2}u-{\Delta }_{p\left(x\right)}u=\lambda w\left(x\right){\left|u\right|}^{q\left(x\right)-2}u\text{in}\Omega ,\\ u\in W^{2,p(·)}\left(\Omega \right)\cap W_0^{1,p(·)}\left(\Omega \right),\end{array}$$ is proved by applying a local minimization and the theory of the generalized Lebesgue-Sobolev spaces $L^{p(·)}\left(\Omega \right)$ and $W^{m,p(·)}\left(\Omega \right)$.

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...

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...

If $(M,\nabla )$ is a manifold with a symmetric linear connection, then $T^{*}M$ can be endowed with the natural Riemann extension $\overline{g}$ (O. Kowalski and M. Sekizawa (2011), M. Sekizawa (1987)). Here we continue to study the harmonicity with respect to $\overline{g}$ initiated by C. L. Bejan and O. Kowalski (2015). More precisely, we first construct a canonical almost para-complex structure $𝒫$ on $(T^{*}M,\overline{g})$ and prove that $𝒫$ is harmonic (in the sense of E. García-Río, L. Vanhecke and M. E. Vázquez-Abal (1997)) if and only if $\overline{g}$ reduces...

In 1984 J. Clunie and T. Sheil-Small proved ([2, Corollary 5.8]) that for any complex-valued and sense-preserving injective harmonic mapping $F$ in the unit disk $𝔻$, if $F\left(𝔻\right)$ is a convex domain, then the inequality $|G\left(z_2\right)-G\left(z_1\right)|<|H\left(z_2\right)-H\left(z_1\right)|$ holds for all distinct points $z_1,z_2\in 𝔻$. Here $H$ and $G$ are holomorphic mappings in $𝔻$ determined by $F=H+\overline{G}$, up to a constant function. We extend this inequality by replacing the unit disk by an arbitrary nonempty domain $\Omega$ in $ℂ$ and improve it provided $F$ is additionally a quasiconformal mapping...