Let $Q={\left(Q_k\right)}_{k\ge 0},Q_0=1,Q_{k+1}=q_k{Q}_k,q_k\ge 2$, be a Cantor scale, ${𝐙}_Q$ the compact projective limit group of the groups $𝐙/Q_k𝐙$, identified to ${\prod }_{0\le j\le k-1}𝐙/q_j𝐙$, and let $\mu$ be its normalized Haar measure. To an element $x=\{a_0,a_1,a_2,\cdots \},0\le a_k\le q_{k+1}-1$, of ${𝐙}_Q$ we associate the sequence of integral valued random variables $x_k={\sum }_{0\le j\le k}{a}_j{Q}_j$. The main result of this article is that, given a complex $𝐐$-multiplicative function $g$ of modulus $1$, we have $$\underset{x_k\to x}{lim}(\frac{1}{x_k}\sum _{n\le x_k-1}g\left(n\right)-\prod _{0\le j\le k}\frac{1}{q_j}\sum _{0\le a\le q_j}g\left(a{Q}_j\right))=0\mu \text{-a.e}.$$

Consider the difference equation $$\Delta x\left(n\right)+\sum _{i=1}^m{p}_i\left(n\right)x\left({\tau }_i\left(n\right)\right)=0,n\ge 0\left[\nabla x\left(n\right)-\sum _{i=1}^m{p}_i\left(n\right)x\left({\sigma }_i\left(n\right)\right)=0,n\ge 1\right],$$ where $\left(p_i\left(n\right)\right)$, $1\le i\le m$ are sequences of nonnegative real numbers, ${\tau }_i\left(n\right)$ [${\sigma }_i\left(n\right)$], $1\le i\le m$ are general retarded (advanced) arguments and $\Delta$ [$\nabla$] denotes the forward (backward) difference operator $\Delta x\left(n\right)=x(n+1)-x\left(n\right)$ [$\nabla x\left(n\right)=x\left(n\right)-x(n-1)$]. New oscillation criteria are established when the well-known oscillation conditions $$\underset{n\to \infty }{lim\; sup}\sum _{i=1}^m\sum _{j=\tau \left(n\right)}^n{p}_i\left(j\right)>1\left[\underset{n\to \infty }{lim\; sup}\sum _{i=1}^m\sum _{j=n}^{\sigma \left(n\right)}{p}_i\left(j\right)>1\right]$$ and $$\underset{n\to \infty }{lim\; inf}\sum _{i=1}^m\sum _{j={\tau }_i\left(n\right)}^{n-1}{p}_i\left(j\right)>\frac{1}{\mathrm{e}}\left[\underset{n\to \infty }{lim\; inf}\sum _{i=1}^m\sum _{j=n+1}^{{\sigma }_i\left(n\right)}{p}_i\left(j\right)>\frac{1}{\mathrm{e}}\right]$$ are not satisfied. Here $\tau \left(n\right)={max}_{1\le i\le m}{\tau }_i\left(n\right)$ $[\sigma \left(n\right)={min}_{1\le i\le m}{\sigma }_i\left(n\right)]$. The results obtained essentially improve known results in the literature. Examples illustrating the results are also given.

It is proved that if ${\phi }_n$ is a complete orthonormal system of bounded functions and ɛ>0, then there exists a measurable set E ⊂ [0,1] with measure |E|>1-ɛ, a measurable function μ(x), 0 < μ(x) ≤ 1, μ(x) ≡ 1 on E, and a series of the form ${\sum }_{k=1}^{\infty }{c}_k{\phi }_k\left(x\right)$, where $c_k\in l_q$ for all q>2, with the following properties: 1. For any p ∈ [1,2) and $f\in L_{\mu }^p[0,1]=f:{ʃ}_0^1{\left|f\left(x\right)\right|}^p\mu \left(x\right)dx<\infty$ there are numbers ${\varepsilon }_k$, k=1,2,…, ${\varepsilon }_k$ = 1 or 0, such that $li{m}_{n\to \infty }{ʃ}_0^1{|{\sum }_{k=1}^n{\varepsilon }_k{c}_k{\phi }_k\left(x\right)-f\left(x\right)|}^p\mu \left(x\right)dx=0.$ 2. For every p ∈ [1,2) and $f\in L_{\mu }^p[0,1]$ there are a function $g\in L^1[0,1]$ with g(x) = f(x) on E and numbers ${\delta }_k$, k=1,2,…, ${\delta }_k=1$ or 0,...

Various techniques are presented for constructing $\Lambda$ (p) sets which are not $\Lambda (p+ϵ)$ for all $ϵ\&gt;0$. The main result is that there is a $\Lambda$ (4) set in the dual of any compact abelian group which is not $\Lambda (4+ϵ)$ for all $ϵ\&gt;0$. Along the way to proving this, new constructions are given in dual groups in which constructions were already known of $\Lambda$ (p) not $\Lambda (p+ϵ)$ sets, for certain values of $p$. The main new constructions in specific dual groups are: – there is a $\Lambda$ (2k) set which is not $\Lambda (2k+ϵ)$ in $\mathbf{Z}\left(2\right)\oplus \mathbf{Z}\left(2\right)\oplus \cdots$ for all $2\le k$, $k\in \mathbf{N}$ and...

Let $P(\lambda ,D)={\sum }_{\left|\alpha \right|\le m}{a}_{\alpha }\left(\lambda \right)D^{\alpha }$ be a differential operator with constant coefficients $a_{\alpha }$ depending analytically on a parameter $\lambda$. Assume that the family $\{$ P($\lambda$,D)$\}$ is of constant strength. We investigate the equation $P(\lambda ,D){𝔣}_{\lambda }\equiv g_{\lambda }$ where ${𝔤}_{\lambda }$ is a given analytic function of $\lambda$ with values in some space of distributions and the solution ${𝔣}_{\lambda }$ is required to depend analytically on $\lambda$, too. As a special case we obtain a regular fundamental solution of P($\lambda$,D) which depends analytically on $\lambda$. This result answers a question of L. Hörmander. ...

Let $f\left(x\right)$ be a power series ${\sum }_{n\ge 1}\zeta \left(n\right)x^{e\left(n\right)}$, where $\left(e\right(n\left)\right)$ is a strictly increasing linear recurrence sequence of non-negative integers, and $\left(\zeta \right(n\left)\right)$ a sequence of roots of unity in ${\overline{\mathbb{Q}}}_p$ satisfying an appropriate technical condition. Then we are mainly interested in characterizing the algebraic independence over ${\mathbb{Q}}_p$ of the elements $f\left({\alpha }_1\right),...,$ $f\left({\alpha }_t\right)$ from ${ℂ}_p$ in terms of the distinct ${\alpha }_1,...,{\alpha }_t\in {\mathbb{Q}}_p$ satisfying $0\&lt;|{\alpha }_{\tau }{|}_p\&lt;1$ for $\tau =1,...,t$. A striking application of our basic result says that, in the case $e\left(n\right)=n$, the set $\left\{f\left(\alpha \right)\right|\alpha \in {\mathbb{Q}}_p,0\&lt;|\alpha {|}_p\&lt;1\}$ is algebraically independent over ${\mathbb{Q}}_p$ if...