We consider a semilinear elliptic problem , (n > 2m). Under suitable conditions on f, we show the existence of a decaying positive solution. We do not employ radial arguments. Our main tools are weighted spaces, various applications of the Mountain Pass Theorem and LP regularity estimates of Agmon. We answer an open question of Kusano, Naito and Swanson [Canad. J. Math. 40(1988), 1281-1300] in the superlinear case: , and improve the results of Dalmasso [C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 308(1989), 411-414] for the case .

We generalize the generic single-valuedness and continuity of monotone operators defined on open subsets of Banach spaces of class (S) and Asplund spaces to monotone operators defined on convex subsets of such spaces which may even fail to have non-support points. This yields differentiability theorems for convex Lipschitzian functions on such sets. From a result about minimal convex uscos which are densely single-valued we obtain generic differentiability results for certain Lipschitzian realvalued functions.

We show that when a positive contraction of type (p, q) is equipped with a positive norming function having full support, then it is related in a natural way to operators on other Lp spaces.

Generalized polynomials are defined as products of polynomials raised to positive real powers. The generalized degree can be introduced in a natural way. Several inequalities holding for ordinary polynomials are expected to be true for generalized polynomials, by utilizing the generalized degree in place of the ordinary one. Based on Remez-type inequalities on the size of generalized polynomials, we establish Bernstein and Markov type inequalities for generalized non-negative polynomials, obtaining the best possible result up to a multiplicative absolute constant.

For each integer r we define the sequence pr(n) by We note that p-1(n) = p(n), the ordinary partition function. On account of this some authors set r = — k to make positive values of k correspond to positive powers of the generating function for p(n): We follow this convention here. In [3], Atkin proved the following theorem.

In this paper weak Perron integrals are characterized as n-dimensional interval functions F which are additive, differentiable almost everywhere in the weak sense and which satisfy a new continuity condition concerning the singular set. Before, only one-dimensional Perron integrals were characterized by the theorem of Hake- Alexendrov-Looman, and analogous results for strong Perron integrals (which are best analyzed, but more restrictive) are not available in higher dimensions yet. In order to formulate our continuity condition we introduce an outer measure μ by means of a new weak variation of F which is required to vanish on all null sets. The same condition is also necessary and sufficient for the integral of the weak derivative to yield the original interval function. This “fundamental theorem” is split into two fundamental inequalities of very general nature which contain additional singular terms involving our variation. These inequalities are very useful also for Lebesgue integrals.

The Schur or projective Schur group of a field consists of the classes of central simple algebras which occur in the decomposition of a group algebra or a twisted group algebra. For number fields, the projective Schur group has been determined in [8], whereas the Schur group is extensively studied in [25]. Recently, some authors have generalized these concepts to commutative rings. One then studies the classes of Azumaya algebras which are epimorphic images of a group ring or a twisted group ring. Though several properties of the Schur or projective Schur group defined in this way have been obtained, they remain rather obscure objects.

One of the important invariants of a р-block B of a group algebra is ℓ (B), the number of non-isomorphic simple B-modules. A number of authors calculated ℓ (B) for various types of defect groups of B. In particular, by Olsson [6], it has been proved that if p = 2 and the defect groups of the block B are dihedral or semi-dihedral or generalized quaternion, then ℓ (B) is at most 3. In this paper, we restrict our attention to the principal p-block B0 of a finite р-solvable group with ℓ (B0) ≤ 3. Let Γ be a finite р-solvable group and k a splitting field for Γ with characteristic р.

For all algebras G, such that is an algebra mentioned in the title, the modules of dimension ≤ p2 are determined. The module homomorphisms from the tensor product of these modules into a third module of the same type are described. We also give the central extensions of the algebras .

Let X be a complex Banach space and A a linear operator from X into X with dense domain. We construct the minimal and maximal operators of the operator A and prove that they are equal under reasonable hypotheses on the space X and operator A. As an application, we obtain the existence and regularity of weak solutions of linear equations on the space X. As another application we obtain a criterion for a symmetric operator on a complex Hilbert space to be essentially self-adjoint. An application to pseudo-differential operators of the Weyl type is given.

Let jν, 1, jν,2, … denote the positive zeros of the Bessel function Jν(x), and similarly, let j'v,1, j'v,2, … denote the positive zeros of J'v(x), which are the positive critical points of Jv(x). It is well-known that when v is positive, both jν ,k. it and j'ν k are increasing functions of ν; see, e.g., [12, pp. 246 and 248]. Recently, Lorch and Szego [6] have attempted to show that the same is true for the positive zeros j″v,1, j″v,2, … of j″v(x), which are the positive inflection points of Jv(x).

Let A be an artin algebra. Let ( be a component of the stable Auslander- Reiten quiver of A. If is periodic, then the structure of G is known. Here, we are going to consider the case when is non-periodic: we will show that is isomorphic to Z with a valued quiver. In particular, there is no cyclic path in .