We give a construction of an analytic series of uniformly bounded representations of a free group G, through the action of G on its Poisson boundary. These representations are irreducible and give as their coefficients all the spherical functions on G which tend to zero at infinity. The principal and the complementary series of unitary representations are included. We also prove that this construction and the other known constructions lead to equivalent representations.

Let G be a group generated by r elements $g_1,\dots ,g_r$. Among the reduced words in $g_1,\dots ,g_r$ of length n some, say ${\gamma }_n$, represent the identity element of the group G. It has been shown in a combinatorial way that the 2nth root of ${\gamma }_{2n}$ has a limit, called the cogrowth exponent with respect to the generators $g_1,\dots ,g_r$. We show by analytic methods that the numbers ${\gamma }_n$ vary regularly, i.e. the ratio ${\gamma }_{2n+2}/{\gamma }_{2n}$ is also convergent. Moreover, we derive new precise information on the domain of holomorphy of γ(z), the generating function...

We consider a Cauchy problem $$y^{\prime }\left(x\right)+y^2\left(x\right)=q\left(x\right),{\left.y\left(x\right)\right|}_{x=x_0}=y_0$$ where $x_0$ , $y_0\in \mathbb{R}$ and $q\left(x\right)\in L_1^{\text{loc}}\left(R\right)$ is a non-negative function satisfying the condition: $${\int }_{-\mathrm{\infty }}^{x}q\left(t\right)dt>0,{\int }_x^{\mathrm{\infty }}q\left(t\right)dt>0\text{ for }x\in \mathbb{R}.$$ We obtain the conditions under which $y\left(x\right)$ can be continued to all of $\mathbb{R}$. This depends on $x_0$ , $y_0$ and the properties of $q\left(x\right)$.

In this paper, we study the relationship between the long time behavior of a solution $u(t,x)$ of the nonlinear heat equation $u_t-\Delta u+{\left|u\right|}^{\alpha }u=0$ on ${ℝ}^N$ (where $\alpha \>0$) and the asymptotic behavior as $\left|x\right|\to \infty$ of its initial value $u_0$. In particular, we show that if the sequence of dilations ${\lambda }_n^{2/\alpha }{u}_0({\lambda }_n·)$ converges weakly to $z(·)$ as ${\lambda }_n\to \infty$, then the rescaled solution $t^{1/\alpha }u(t,·\sqrt{t})$ converges uniformly on ${ℝ}^N$ to $𝒰\left(1\right)z$ along the subsequence $t_n={\lambda }_n^2$, where $𝒰\left(t\right)$ is an appropriate flow. Moreover, we show there exists an initial value $U_0$ such that the set of all possible $z$ attainable...

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded, convex planar domain whose boundary has a not too degenerate curvature. In this paper we provide partial answers to an identification question associated with the boundary value problem $$▵u=-cu-d\text{in}\Omega ,u=0\text{on}\partial \Omega .$$ We prove two results: 1) If $\Omega$ is not a ball and if one considers only solutions with $-cu-d\le 0$, then there exist at most finitely many pairs of coefficients $(c,d)$ so that the normal derivative $\frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu }{|}_{\partial \Omega }$ equals a given $\psi \ne 0$. 2) If one imposes no sign condition on the...

Let $R\left(\lambda \right)$ be the error term in Weyl’s law for a 3-dimensional Riemannian Heisenberg manifold. We prove that ${\int }_1^T{\left|R\left(t\right)\right|}^{2}dt=c{T}^{\frac{5}{2}}+O_{\delta }\left(T^{\frac{9}{4}+\delta }\right)$, where $c$ is a specific nonzero constant and $\delta$ is an arbitrary small positive number. This is consistent with the conjecture of Petridis and Toth stating that $R\left(t\right)=O_{\delta }\left(t^{\frac{3}{4}+\delta }\right)$.The idea of the proof is to use the Poisson summation formula to write the error term in a form which can be estimated by the method of the stationary phase. The similar result will be also proven in the $2n+1$-dimensional case. ...