There exists a natural notion of convexity in the space of all compact convex sets in D. Thus, we may consider the space of all bounded closed convex families of compact convex sets. We present here a strange generic extremal behaviour of the elements of this space.

We establish two results in the pointwise convergence problem of a trigonometric series for some nonnegative integer m. These results not only generalize Hardy's theorem, the Jordan test theorem and Fatou's theorem, but also complement the results on pointwise convergence of those Fourier series associated with known L1-convergence classes. A similar result is also established for the case that , where {ln} satisfies certain conditions.

Let f be an expansive homeomorphism with the pseudo orbits tracing property on a compact metric space. There are stable and unstable “manifolds” with similar properties as in the hyperbolic case, and similar behavior near periodic points is observed. Per (f) = Ω(f) = CR(f). Mappings Ω and CR are continuous at f.

Suppose the sequence of Taylor coefficients of a rational function f consists of kth powers of elements all belonging to some finitely generated extension field F of Q. Then it is a generalisation of a conjecture of Pisot that there is a rational function with Taylor coefficients term-by-term kth roots of those of f. The authors show that it suffices to prove the conjecture in the case that the field of definition is a number field and prove the conjecture in that case subject to the constraint that f has a dominant pole, that is, that there is a valuation with respect to which f has a unique pole either of maximal or of minimal absolute value.

Some results on fixed points of asymptotically regular mappings are obtained in complete metric spaces and normed linear spaces.

The structure of the set of common fixed points is also discussed in Banach spaces. Our work generalizes essentially known results of Das and Naik, Fisher, Jaggi, Jungck, Rhoades, Singh and Tiwari and several others.

Distribution tails F(t) = F(t, ∞) are considered for which and as t → ∞. A real analytic proof is obtained of a theorem by Chover, Wainger and Ney, namely that .

In doing so, a technique is introduced which provides many other results with a minimum of analysis. One such result strengthens and generalizes the various known results on distribution tails of random sums.

Additionally, the closure and factorization properties for subexponential distributions are investigated further and extended to distributions with exponential tails.

Various generalizations of the Maxwell characterization of the multivariate standard normal distribution are derived. For example the following is proved: If for a k-dimensional random vector X there exists an n ∈ {l, …, k − l} such that for each n-dimensional linear subspace H Rk the projections of X on H and H⊥ are independent, X is normal. If X has a rotationally symmetric density and its projection on some H has a density of the same functional form, X is normal. Finally we give a variational inequality for the multivariate normal distribution which resembles the isoperimetric inequality for the surface measure on the sphere.

A conjecture of Carlitz on permutation polynomials is as follow: Given an even positive integer n, there is a constant Cn, such that if Fq is a finite field of odd order q with q > Cn, then there are no permutation polynomials of degree n over Fq. The conjecture is a well-known problem in this area. It is easily proved if n is a power of 2. The only other cases in which solutions have been published are n = 6 (Dickson [5]) and n = 10 (Hayes [7]); see Lidl [11], Lausch and Nobauer [9], and Lidl and Niederreiter [10] for remarks on this problem. In this paper, we prove that the Carlitz conjecture is true if n = 12 or n = 14, and give an equivalent version of the conjecture in terms of exceptional polynomials.

According to an extension of a classical theorem of Bernstein, due to C. Herz, a function on Rn belonging to a Besov space of appropriate order has an absolutely convergent Fourier transform. We establish extensions of this result to Cartan motion groups, for Besov spaces defined with respect to both isotropic and non-isotropic differences.

Topological algebra bundles whose fibre (-algebras) admit functional representations constitute a category, antiequivalent with that of (topological) fibre bundles having completely regular bundle spaces and locally compact fibres.

The above paper, by Peter B. Gibbons and Rudolf Mathon, appeared in Volume 42 (1987), 5-30.

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