Upper bounds for GCD sums of the form ${\sum }_{k,\ell =1}^N\frac{{\left(\gcd (n_k,n_{\ell })\right)}^{2\alpha }}{{\left(n_k{n}_{\ell }\right)}^{\alpha }}$ are established, where ${\left(n_k\right)}_{1\le k\le N}$ is any sequence of distinct positive integers and $0<\alpha \le 1$; the estimate for $\alpha =1/2$ solves in particular a problem of Dyer and Harman from 1986, and the estimates are optimal except possibly for $\alpha =1/2$. The method of proof is based on identifying the sum as a certain Poisson integral on a polydisc; as a byproduct, estimates for the largest eigenvalues of the associated GCD matrices are also found. The bounds for such GCD sums are used to establish...

In this paper, we analyze multi-dimensional quasi-asymptotically $c$-almost periodic functions and their Stepanov generalizations as well as multi-dimensional Weyl $c$-almost periodic type functions. We also analyze several important subclasses of the class of multi-dimensional quasi-asymptotically $c$-almost periodic functions and reconsider the notion of semi-$c$-periodicity in the multi-dimensional setting, working in the general framework of Lebesgue spaces with variable exponent. We provide certain...

Let ${ℳ}_p={m_k}_{k=0}^{p-1}$ be a finite set of step functions or real valued trigonometric polynomials on = [0,1) satisfying a certain orthonormality condition. We study multiscale generalized Riesz product measures μ defined as weak-* limits of elements ${\mu }_N\in V_N\left(N\in \mathbb{N}\right)$, where $V_N$ are $p^N$-dimensional subspaces of L₂() spanned by an orthonormal set which is produced from dilations and multiplications of elements of ${ℳ}_p$ and $\overline{{\bigcup }_{N\in \mathbb{N}}{V}_N}=L₂\left(\right)$. The results involve mutual absolute continuity or singularity of such Riesz products extending previous results on...

We provide a new and elementary proof for the structure of geodesics in the Heisenberg group Hn. The proof is based on a new isoperimetric inequality for closed curves in R2n.We also prove that the Carnot- Carathéodory metric is real analytic away from the center of the group.

In this paper we continue the study of the Fourier transform on ${\mathbf{R}}^n$, $n\ge 2$, analyzing the “almost-orthogonality” of the different directions of the space with respect to the Fourier transform. We prove two theorems: the first is related to an angular Littlewood-Paley square function, and we obtain estimates in terms of powers of $log\left(N\right)$, where $N$ is the number of equal angles considered in ${\mathbf{R}}^2$. The second is an extension of the Hardy-Littlewood maximal function when one consider cylinders of ${\mathbf{R}}^n$, $n\ge 2$, of fixed eccentricity...