The finite Fourier transform of a family of orthogonal polynomials is the usual transform of these polynomials extended by $0$ outside their natural domain of orthogonality. Explicit expressions are given for the Legendre, Jacobi, Gegenbauer and Chebyshev families.

A Chebyshev set is a subset of a normed linear space that admits unique best approximations. In the first part of this paper we present some basic results concerning Chebyshev sets. In particular, we investigate properties of the metric projection map, sufficient conditions for a subset of a normed linear space to be a Chebyshev set, and sufficient conditions for a Chebyshev set to be convex. In the second half of the paper we present a construction of a nonconvex Chebyshev subset of an inner product space.

We study the absolute continuity of the convolution ${\it\delta}_{e^{X}}^{\natural }\star {\it\delta}_{e^{Y}}^{\natural }$ of two orbital measures on the symmetric spaces $\mathbf{SO}_{0}(p,p)/\mathbf{SO}(p)\times \mathbf{SO}(p)$, $\mathbf{SU}(p,p)/\mathbf{S}(\mathbf{U}(p)\times \mathbf{U}(p))$ and $\mathbf{Sp}(p,p)/\mathbf{Sp}(p)\times \mathbf{Sp}(p)$. We prove sharp conditions on $X$, $Y\in \mathfrak{a}$ for the existence of the density of the convolution measure. This measure intervenes in the product formula for the spherical functions.

Let ${\mathcal{S}}$ denote the set of all univalent analytic functions $f$ of the form $f(z)=z+\sum _{n=2}^{\infty }a_{n}z^{n}$ on the unit disk $|z|<1$. In 1946, Friedman [‘Two theorems on Schlicht functions’, Duke Math. J.13 (1946), 171–177] found that the set ${\mathcal{S}}_{\mathbb{Z}}$ of those functions in ${\mathcal{S}}$ which have integer coefficients consists of only nine functions. In a recent paper, Hiranuma and Sugawa [‘Univalent functions with half-integer coefficients’, Comput. Methods Funct. Theory13(1) (2013), 133–151] proved that the similar set obtained for functions with half-integer coefficients consists of only 21 functions; that is, 12 more functions in addition to these nine functions of Friedman from the set ${\mathcal{S}}_{\mathbb{Z}}$. In this paper, we determine the class of all normalized sense-preserving univalent harmonic mappings $f$ on the unit disk with half-integer coefficients for the analytic and co-analytic parts of $f$. It is surprising to see that there are only 27 functions out of which only six functions in this class are not conformal. This settles the recent conjecture of the authors. We also prove a general result, which leads to a new conjecture.

Extending the idea of Dabrowski [‘On the proportion of rank 0 twists of elliptic curves’, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 346 (2008), 483–486] and using the 2-descent method, we provide three general families of elliptic curves over $\mathbb{Q}$ such that a positive proportion of prime-twists of such elliptic curves have rank zero simultaneously.