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In this paper, we establish a translation theorem for the generalised analytic Feynman integral of functionals that belong to the Banach algebra ${\mathcal{F}}(C_{a,b}[0,T])$.
We demonstrate that many properties of topological spaces connected with the notion of resolvability are preserved by the relation of similarity between topologies. Moreover, many of them can be characterised by the properties of the algebra of sets with nowhere dense boundary and the ideal of nowhere dense sets. We use these results to investigate whether a given pair of an algebra and an ideal is topological.
We provide a characterization of realisable set covariograms, bringing a rigorous yet abstract solution to the S2 problem in materials science. Our method is based on the covariogram functional for random measurable sets (RAMS) and on a result about the representation of positive operators on a noncompact space. RAMS are an alternative to the classical random closed sets in stochastic geometry and geostatistics, and they provide a weaker framework that allows the manipulation of more irregular functionals, such as the perimeter. We therefore use the illustration provided by the S2 problem to advocate the use of RAMS for solving theoretical problems of a geometric nature. Along the way, we extend the theory of random measurable sets, and in particular the local approximation of the perimeter by local covariograms.
This article explores the properties of fractal interpolation functions with variable scaling parameters, in the context of smooth fractal functions. The first part extends the Barnsley–Harrington theorem for differentiability of fractal functions and the fractal analogue of Hermite interpolation to the present setting. The general result is applied on a special class of iterated function systems in order to develop differentiability of the so-called $\boldsymbol{{\it\alpha}}$-fractal functions. This leads to a bounded linear map on the space ${\mathcal{C}}^{k}(I)$ which is exploited to prove the existence of a Schauder basis for ${\mathcal{C}}^{k}(I)$ consisting of smooth fractal functions.
Some well-known results about the 2-density topology on ${\mathcal R}$ (in particular in the context of the Lusin–Menchoff property) are extended to τbm, i.e. the m-density topology on ${\mathcal R}$n with m ∈ (n,+∞). Every set of finite perimeter in ${\mathcal R}$n is equivalent (in measure) to a set in τbm0, where m0=n+1+${1\over n-1}$. There exists a set of finite perimeter in ${\mathcal R}$n which is not equivalent (in measure) to any member in the a.e.-modification of τbm, whatever m ∈ [n,+∞).
We review some classical differentiation theorems for measures, showing how they can be turned into an integral representation of a Borel measure with respect to a fixed Carathéodory measure. We focus our attention on the case when this measure is the spherical Hausdorff measure, giving a metric measure area formula. Our aim is to use certain covering derivatives as ‘generalized densities’. Some consequences for the sub-Riemannian Heisenberg group are also pointed out.
In this article, we investigate the pointwise behaviors of functions on the Heisenberg group. We find wavelet characterizations for the global and local Hölder exponents. Then we prove some a priori upper bounds for the multifractal spectrum of all functions in a given Hölder, Sobolev, or Besov space. These upper bounds turn out to be optimal, since in all cases they are reached by typical functions in the corresponding functional spaces. We also explain how to adapt our proof to extend our results to Carnot groups.
In this paper, we present a general framework to construct fractal interpolation surfaces (FISs) on rectangular grids. Then we introduce bilinear FISs, which can be defined without any restriction on interpolation points and vertical scaling factors.
Nešetřil and Ossona de Mendez introduced the notion of first-order convergence, which unifies the notions of convergence for sparse and dense graphs. They asked whether, if (Gi)i∈ℕ is a sequence of graphs with M being their first-order limit and v is a vertex of M, then there exists a sequence (vi)i∈ℕ of vertices such that the graphs Gi rooted at vi converge to M rooted at v. We show that this holds for almost all vertices v of M, and we give an example showing that the statement need not hold for all vertices.
The aim of the paper is to establish estimates in weighted Sobolev spaces for the solutions of the Dirichlet problems on snowflake domains, as well as uniform estimates for the solutions of the Dirichlet problems on pre-fractal approximating domains.
In this paper we establish concavity properties of two extensions of the classical notion of the outer parallel volume. On the one hand, we replace the Lebesgue measure by more general measures. On the other hand, we consider a functional version of the outer parallel sets.
We look at joint regular variation properties of MA(∞) processes of the form X = (Xk, k ∈ Z), where Xk = ∑j=0∞ψjZk-j and the sequence of random variables (Zi, i ∈ Z) are independent and identically distributed with regularly varying tails. We use the setup of MO-convergence and obtain hidden regular variation properties for X under summability conditions on the constant coefficients (ψj: j ≥ 0). Our approach emphasizes continuity properties of mappings and produces regular variation in sequence space.
We consider classes of subsets of [0, 1], originally introduced by Falconer, that are closed under countable intersections, and such that every set in the class has Hausdorff dimension at least s. We provide a Frostman-type lemma to determine if a limsup set is in such a class. Suppose that E = lim sup En ⊂ [0, 1], and that μn are probability measures with support in En. If there exists a constant C such that
for all n, then, under suitable conditions on the limit measure of the sequence (μn), we prove that the set E is in the class .
As an application we prove that, for α > 1 and almost all λ ∈ (½, 1), the set
where and ak ∈ {0, 1}}, belongs to the class . This improves one of our previously published results.
Let (E, ℱ) be a weakly compactly generated Frechet space and let ℱ0 be another weaker Hausdorff locally convex topology on E. Let X be an ℱ-bounded compact subset of (E, ℱ0). The ℱ0-closed convex hull of X in E is then ℱ0-compact. We also give a new proof, without using Riemann–Lebesgue-integrable (Birkoff-integrable) functions, with the result that if (E, ∥ · ∥) is any Banach space and ℱ0 is fragmented by ∥ · ∥, then the same result holds. Furthermore, the closure of the convex hull of X in ℱ0-topology and in the original topology of E is the same.
Let $Q$ be an infinite subset of $\mathbb{N}$. For any ${\it\tau}>2$, denote $W_{{\it\tau}}(Q)$ (respectively $W_{{\it\tau}}$) to be the set of ${\it\tau}$ well-approximable points by rationals with denominators in $Q$ (respectively in $\mathbb{N}$). We consider the Hausdorff dimension of the liminf set $W_{{\it\tau}}\setminus W_{{\it\tau}}(Q)$ after Adiceam. By using the tools of continued fractions, it is shown that if $Q$ is a so-called $\mathbb{N}\setminus Q$-free set, the Hausdorff dimension of $W_{{\it\tau}}\setminus W_{{\it\tau}}(Q)$ is the same as that of $W_{{\it\tau}}$, i.e. $2/{\it\tau}$.
We study the distribution of the orbits of real numbers under the beta-transformation $T_{{\it\beta}}$ for any ${\it\beta}>1$. More precisely, for any real number ${\it\beta}>1$ and a positive function ${\it\varphi}:\mathbb{N}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+}$, we determine the Lebesgue measure and the Hausdorff dimension of the following set:
$$\begin{eqnarray}E(T_{{\it\beta}},{\it\varphi})=\{(x,y)\in [0,1]\times [0,1]:|T_{{\it\beta}}^{n}x-y|<{\it\varphi}(n)\text{ for infinitely many }n\in \mathbb{N}\}.\end{eqnarray}$$
Let $\def \xmlpi #1{}\def \mathsfbi #1{\boldsymbol {\mathsf {#1}}}\let \le =\leqslant \let \leq =\leqslant \let \ge =\geqslant \let \geq =\geqslant \def \Pr {\mathit {Pr}}\def \Fr {\mathit {Fr}}\def \Rey {\mathit {Re}}\mathbb{F}_q$ be the finite field of $q$ elements. An analogue of the regular continued fraction expansion for an element $\alpha $ in the field of formal Laurent series over $\mathbb{F}_q$ is given uniquely by
where $(A_n(\alpha ))_{n=0}^\infty $ is a sequence of polynomials with coefficients in $\mathbb{F}_q$ such that $\deg (A_n(\alpha ))\ge 1$ for all $n\ge 1.$ We first prove the exactness of the continued fraction map in positive characteristic. This fact implies a number of strictly weaker properties. Particularly, we then use the weak-mixing property and ergodicity to establish various metrical results regarding the averages of partial quotients of continued fraction expansions. A sample result that we prove is that if $(p_n)_{n=1}^\infty $ denotes the sequence of prime numbers, we have
for almost every $\alpha $ with respect to Haar measure. In the case where the sequence $(p_n)_{n=1}^\infty $ is replaced by $(n)_{n=1}^\infty ,$ this result is due to V. Houndonougbo, V. Berthé and H. Nakada. Our proofs rely on pointwise subsequence and moving average ergodic theorems.
The Kohlrausch functions $\exp (- {t}^{\beta } )$, with $\beta \in (0, 1)$, which are important in a wide range of physical, chemical and biological applications, correspond to specific realizations of completely monotone functions. In this paper, using nonuniform grids and midpoint estimates, constructive procedures are formulated and analysed for the Kohlrausch functions. Sharper estimates are discussed to improve the approximation results. Numerical results and representative approximations are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
We investigate the topological and metric properties of attractors of an iterated function system (IFS) whose functions may not be contractive. We focus, in particular, on invertible IFSs of finitely many maps on a compact metric space. We rely on ideas of Kieninger [Iterated Function Systems on Compact Hausdorff Spaces (Shaker, Aachen, 2002)] and McGehee and Wiandt [‘Conley decomposition for closed relations’, Differ. Equ. Appl.12 (2006), 1–47] restricted to what is, in many ways, a simpler setting, but focused on a special type of attractor, namely point-fibred invariant sets. This allows us to give short proofs of some of the key ideas.