In this paper, we use a modification of Krasnoselskii’s fixed point theorem introduced by Burton (see [Burton, T. A.: Liapunov functionals, fixed points and stability by Krasnoseskii’s theorem. Nonlinear Stud., 9 (2002), 181–190.] Theorem 3) to obtain stability results of the zero solution of the totally nonlinear neutral differential equation with variable delay $$x^{\text{'}}\left(t\right)=-a\left(t\right)h\left(x\left(t\right)\right)+\frac{d}{dt}Q\left(t,x\left(t-\tau \left(t\right)\right)\right)+G\left(t,x\left(t\right),x\left(t-\tau \left(t\right)\right)\right).$$ The stability of the zero solution of this eqution provided that $h\left(0\right)=Q\left(t,0\right)=G\left(t,0,0\right)=0$. The Caratheodory condition is used for the functions...

We introduce small viscosity solutions of hyperbolic systems with discontinuous coefficients accross the fixed noncharacteristic hypersurface $\{x_d=0\}.$ Under a geometric stability assumption, our first result is obtained, in the multi-D framework, for piecewise smooth coefficients. For our second result, the considered operator is ${𝔻}_t+a\left(x\right){𝔻}_x,$ with $sign\left(xa\right(x\left)\right)\>0$ (expansive case not included in our first result), thus resulting in an infinity of weak solutions. Proving that this problem is uniformly Evans-stable, we...

For positive integers $n$, Euler’s phi function and Dedekind’s psi function are given by $$\phi \left(n\right)=n\prod _{\begin{array}{c}p\mid n\\ p\mathrm{prime}\end{array}}\left(1-\frac{1}{p}\right)\text{and}\psi \left(n\right)=n\prod _{\begin{array}{c}p\mid n\\ p\mathrm{prime}\end{array}}\left(1+\frac{1}{p}\right),$$ respectively. We prove that for all $n\ge 2$ we have $${\left(1-\frac{1}{n}\right)}^{n-1}{\left(1+\frac{1}{n}\right)}^{n+1}\le {\left(\frac{\phi \left(n\right)}{n}\right)}^{\phi \left(n\right)}{\left(\frac{\psi \left(n\right)}{n}\right)}^{\psi \left(n\right)}$$ and $${\left(\frac{\phi \left(n\right)}{n}\right)}^{\psi \left(n\right)}{\left(\frac{\psi \left(n\right)}{n}\right)}^{\phi \left(n\right)}\le {\left(1-\frac{1}{n}\right)}^{n+1}{\left(1+\frac{1}{n}\right)}^{n-1}.$$ The sign of equality holds if and only if $n$ is a prime. The first inequality refines results due to Atanassov (2011) and Kannan & Srikanth (2013).

This Note is the continuation of a previous paper with the same title. Here (Part II) we show that for every choice of the sequence $u{}_a(\cdot )$, ${\mathrm{\Sigma }}_a$'s trajectory $l_a$ after the instant $d+\eta a$ tends in a certain natural sense, as $a\to \mathrm{\infty }$, to a certain geodesic $l$ of $V_d$, with origin at $\left(\overline{q},\overline{u}\right)$. Incidentally $l$ is independent of the choice of applied forces in a neighbourhood of $\left(\overline{q},\overline{u}\right)$ arbitrarily prefixed.

We prove the equivalence of various capacitary strong type estimates. Some of them appear in the characterization of the measures $\mu$ that are admissible data for the existence of solutions to semilinear elliptic problems with power growth. Other estimates are known to characterize the measures $\mu$ for which the Sobolev space $W^{2,p}$ can be imbedded into $L^p\left(\mu \right)$. The motivation comes from the semilinear problems: simpler descriptions of admissible data are given. The proof surprisingly involves the...

Let $x=x_0{x}_1\cdots$ be a fixed point of a substitution on the alphabet $\left\{a,b\right\},$ and let $U_a=\left(\begin{array}{cc}\hfill -1& \hfill -1\\ \hfill 0& \hfill 1\end{array}\right)$ and $U_b=\left(\begin{array}{cc}\hfill 1& \hfill 1\\ \hfill 0& \hfill 1\end{array}\right)$. We give a complete classification of the substitutions $\sigma :{\left\{a,b\right\}}^{☆}$ according to whether the sequence of matrices ${\left(U_{x_0}{U}_{x_1}\cdots U_{x_n}\right)}_{n=0}^{\infty }$ is bounded or unbounded. This corresponds to the boundedness or unboundedness of the oriented walks generated by the substitutions.