Let $X_i$, i∈ I, and $Y_j$, j∈ J, be compact convex sets whose sets of extreme points are affinely independent and let φ be an affine homeomorphism of ${\prod }_{i\in I}{X}_i$ onto ${\prod }_{j\in J}{Y}_j$. We show that there exists a bijection b: I → J such that φ is the product of affine homeomorphisms of $X_i$ onto $Y_{b\left(i\right)}$, i∈ I.

Let A be a d × d integral expanding matrix and let $S_j\left(x\right)=A^{-1}(x+d_j)$ for some $d_j\in {\mathbb{Z}}^d$, j = 1,...,m. The iterated function system (IFS) ${S_j}_{j=1}^m$ generates self-affine measures and scale functions. In general this IFS has overlaps, and it is well known that in many special cases the analysis of such measures or functions is facilitated by expressing them in vector-valued forms with respect to another IFS that satisfies the open set condition. In this paper we prove a general theorem on such representation. The proof...

We reduce the problem of describing all $ℳf_m$-natural operators  transforming general affine connections on $m$-manifolds into general affine ones to the known description of all $GL\left({𝐑}^m\right)$-invariant maps ${𝐑}^{m*}\otimes {𝐑}^m\to {\otimes }^k{𝐑}^{m*}\otimes {\otimes }^k{𝐑}^m$ for $k=1,3$.

Let M be a d × d real contracting matrix. We consider the self-affine iterated function system Mv-u, Mv+u, where u is a cyclic vector. Our main result is as follows: if $\left|detM\right|\ge 2^{-1/d}$, then the attractor $A_M$ has non-empty interior. We also consider the set ${}_M$ of points in $A_M$ which have a unique address. We show that unless M belongs to a very special (non-generic) class, the Hausdorff dimension of ${}_M$ is positive. For this special class the full description of ${}_M$ is given as well. This paper continues our...

A ring extension $R\subseteq S$ is said to be strongly affine if each $R$-subalgebra of $S$ is a finite-type $R$-algebra. In this paper, several characterizations of strongly affine extensions are given. For instance, we establish that if $R$ is a quasi-local ring of finite dimension, then $R\subseteq S$ is integrally closed and strongly affine if and only if $R\subseteq S$ is a Prüfer extension (i.e. $(R,S)$ is a normal pair). As a consequence, the equivalence of strongly affine extensions, quasi-Prüfer extensions and INC-pairs is shown....

In ergodic theory, certain sequences of averages $A_{k}f$ may not converge almost everywhere for all f ∈ L¹(X), but a sufficiently rapidly growing subsequence $A_{m_k}f$ of these averages will be well behaved for all f. The order of growth of this subsequence that is sufficient is often hyperexponential, but not necessarily so. For example, if the averages are $A_{k}f\left(x\right)=1/\left(2^k\right){\sum }_{j=4^k+1}^{4^k+2^k}f\left(T^{j}x\right)$, then the subsequence $A_{k²}f$ will not be pointwise good even on $L^{\infty }$, but the subsequence $A_{2^k}f$ will be pointwise good on L¹. Understanding when the hyperexponential...

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 ...

Net (X,ℱ,ν) be a σ-finite measure space. Associated with k Lamperti operators on $L^p\left(\nu \right)$, $T₁,...,T_k$, $n̅=(n₁,...,n_k)\in {\mathbb{N}}^k$ and $\alpha ̅=(\alpha ₁,...,{\alpha }_k)$ with $0<{\alpha }_j\le 1$, we define the ergodic Cesàro-α̅ averages ${}_{n̅,\alpha ̅}f=1/\left({\prod }_{j=1}^k{A}_{n_j}^{{\alpha }_j}\right){\sum }_{i_k=0}^{n_k}\cdots {\sum }_{i₁=0}^{n₁}{\prod }_{j=1}^k{A}_{n_j-i_j}^{{\alpha }_j-1}{T}_k^{i_k}\cdots T{₁}^{i₁}f$. For these averages we prove the almost everywhere convergence on X and the convergence in the $L^p\left(\nu \right)$ norm, when $n₁,...,n_k\to \infty$ independently, for all $f\in L^p\left(d\nu \right)$ with p > 1/α⁎ where $\alpha ⁎=mi{n}_{1\le j\le k}{\alpha }_j$. In the limit case p = 1/α⁎, we prove that the averages ${}_{n̅,\alpha ̅}f$ converge almost everywhere on X for all f in the Orlicz-Lorentz space $\Lambda (1/\alpha ⁎,{\phi }_{m-1})$ with $\phi ₘ\left(t\right)=t{(1+log⁺t)}^m$. To obtain the result in the limit case we need...

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.

We prove that for the spectral radius of a weighted composition operator $a{T}_{\alpha }$, acting in the space $L^p(X,,\mu )$, the following variational principle holds: $lnr\left(a{T}_{\alpha }\right)=ma{x}_{\nu \in M{¹}_{\alpha ,e}}{\int }_{X}ln\left|a\right|d\nu$, where X is a Hausdorff compact space, α: X → X is a continuous mapping preserving a Borel measure μ with suppμ = X, $M{¹}_{\alpha ,e}$ is the set of all α-invariant ergodic probability measures on X, and a: X → ℝ is a continuous and ${}_{\infty }$-measurable function, where ${}_{\infty }={\bigcap }_{n=0}^{\infty }{\alpha }^{-n}\left(\right)$. This considerably extends the range of validity of the above formula, which was previously known...

Let (X,,μ,τ) be an ergodic dynamical system and φ be a measurable map from X to a locally compact second countable group G with left Haar measure $m_G$. We consider the map ${\tau }_{\phi }$ defined on X × G by ${\tau }_{\phi }:(x,g)\mapsto (\tau x,\phi \left(x\right)g)$ and the cocycle ${\left(\phi ₙ\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{Z}}$ generated by φ. Using a characterization of the ergodic invariant measures for ${\tau }_{\phi }$, we give the form of the ergodic decomposition of $\mu \left(dx\right)\otimes m_G\left(dg\right)$ or more generally of the ${\tau }_{\phi }$-invariant measures ${\mu }_{\chi }\left(dx\right)\otimes \chi \left(g\right)m_G\left(dg\right)$, where ${\mu }_{\chi }\left(dx\right)$ is χ∘φ-conformal for an exponential χ on G.

We take another approach to the well known theorem of Korovkin, in the following situation: X, Y are compact Hausdorff spaces, M is a unital subspace of the Banach space C(X) (respectively, $C_{ℝ}\left(X\right)$) of all complex-valued (resp., real-valued) continuous functions on X, S ⊂ M a complex (resp., real) function space on X, ϕₙ a sequence of unital linear contractions from M into C(Y) (resp., $C_{ℝ}\left(Y\right)$), and ${\varphi }_{\infty }$ a linear isometry from M into C(Y) (resp., $C_{ℝ}\left(Y\right)$). We show, under the assumption that ${\Pi }_N\subset {\Pi }_T$, where ${\Pi }_N$ is...

Let $\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }{a}_n$ be a convergent series of positive real numbers. L. Olivier proved that if the sequence $\left(a_n\right)$ is non-increasing, then $\underset{n\to \infty }{lim}n{a}_n=0$. In the present paper: (a) We formulate and prove a necessary and sufficient condition for having $\underset{n\to \infty }{lim}n{a}_n=0$; Olivier’s theorem is a consequence of our Theorem . (b) We prove properties analogous to Olivier’s property when the usual convergence is replaced by the $ℐ$-convergence, that is a convergence according to an ideal $ℐ$ of subsets of $\mathbb{N}$. Again, Olivier’s theorem is a consequence...

Given an integral scheme $X$ over a non-archimedean valued field $k$, we construct a universal closed embedding of $X$ into a $k$-scheme equipped with a model over the field with one element ${𝔽}_1$ (a generalization of a toric variety). An embedding into such an ambient space determines a tropicalization of $X$ by previous work of the authors, and we show that the set-theoretic tropicalization of $X$ with respect to this universal embedding is the Berkovich analytification $X^{\mathrm{an}}$. Moreover, using the scheme-theoretic...

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.

Let T be a linear operator on a Banach space X with $supₙ\left|\right|Tⁿ/n^w\left|\right|<\infty$ for some 0 ≤ w < 1. We show that the following conditions are equivalent: (i) $n^{-1}{\sum }_{k=0}^{n-1}{T}^k$ converges uniformly; (ii) $cl(I-T)X=z\in X:li{m}_n{\sum }_{k=1}^n{T}^{k}z/kexists$.

We study WDC sets, which form a substantial generalization of sets with positive reach and still admit the definition of curvature measures. Main results concern WDC sets $A\subset {ℝ}^2$. We prove that, for such $A$, the distance function $d_A=\mathrm{dist}(·,A)$ is a “DC aura” for $A$, which implies that each closed locally WDC set in ${ℝ}^2$ is a WDC set. Another consequence is that compact WDC subsets of ${ℝ}^2$ form a Borel subset of the space of all compact sets.

The aim of this paper is to extend the framework of the spectral method for proving property (T) to the class of reflexive Banach spaces and present a condition implying that every affine isometric action of a given group $G$ on a reflexive Banach space $X$ has a fixed point. This last property is a strong version of Kazhdan’s property (T) and is equivalent to the fact that $H^1(G,\pi )=0$ for every isometric representation $\pi$ of $G$ on $X$. The condition is expressed in terms of $p$-Poincaré constants and we...

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...

We prove an interpolatory estimate linking the directional Haar projection $P^{\left(\epsilon \right)}$ to the Riesz transform in the context of Bochner-Lebesgue spaces $L^p(ℝⁿ;X)$, 1 < p < ∞, provided X is a UMD-space. If ${\epsilon }_{i₀}=1$, the result is the inequality $\left|\right|P^{\left(\epsilon \right)}{u\left|\right|}_{L^p(ℝⁿ;X)}{\le C\left|\right|u\left|\right|}_{L^p(ℝⁿ;X)}^{1/}\left|\right|R_{i₀}u{\left|\right|}_{L^p(ℝⁿ;X)}^{1-1/}$, (1) where the constant C depends only on n, p, the UMD-constant of X and the Rademacher type of $L^p(ℝⁿ;X)$. In order to obtain the interpolatory result (1) we analyze stripe operators $S_{\lambda }$, λ ≥ 0, which are used as basic building blocks to dominate the directional Haar projection....

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...

Motivated by the fundamental theorem of calculus, and based on the works of W. Feller as well as M. Kac and M. G. Kreĭn, given an atomless Borel probability measure $\eta$ supported on a compact subset of $ℝ$ U. Freiberg and M. Zähle introduced a measure-geometric approach to define a first order differential operator ${\nabla }_{\eta }$ and a second order differential operator ${\Delta }_{\eta }$, with respect to $\eta$. We generalize this approach to measures of the form $\eta :=\nu +\delta$, where $\nu$ is non-atomic and $\delta$ is finitely supported. We determine...

For each ordinal 1 ≤ α < ω₁ we present separable metrizable spaces $X_{\alpha }$, $Y_{\alpha }$ and $Z_{\alpha }$ such that (i) $f{X}_{\alpha },f{Y}_{\alpha },f{Z}_{\alpha }=\omega ₀$, where f is either trdef or ₀-trsur, (ii) $A\left(\alpha \right)-trind{X}_{\alpha }=\infty$ and $M\left(\alpha \right)-trind{X}_{\alpha }=-1$, (iii) $A\left(\alpha \right)-trind{Y}_{\alpha }=-1$ and $M\left(\alpha \right)-trind{Y}_{\alpha }=\infty$, and (iv) $A\left(\alpha \right)-trind{Z}_{\alpha }=M\left(\alpha \right)-trind{Z}_{\alpha }=\infty$ and $A(\alpha +1)\cap M(\alpha +1)-trind{Z}_{\alpha }=-1$. We also show that there exists no separable metrizable space $W_{\alpha }$ with $A\left(\alpha \right)-trind{W}_{\alpha }\ne \infty$, $M\left(\alpha \right)-trind{W}_{\alpha }\ne \infty$ and $A\left(\alpha \right)\cap M\left(\alpha \right)-trind{W}_{\alpha }=\infty$, where A(α) (resp. M(α)) is the absolutely additive (resp. multiplicative) Borel class.