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A question about Lelong number
If $f$ is plurisubharmonic (not identically $-\infty$) on a neighbourhood of $0$ then the Lelong number of $f$ at $0$ is defined by $$\nu_{f}(0) = \liminf_{|z|\rightarrow 0}\dfrac{f(z)}{\log|z|}.$$
My ...
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What can be said about this double sum?
Question. Can this number be expressed in terms of classical values?
$$\sum_{n,m=1}^{\infty}\frac1{(n^2+m^2)^{\frac32}}=1.056348517615643291\dots$$
UPDATE. I'm encouraged by Noam, Kevin and Igor's ...
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Under which assumptions is $e^{ig(t)}f(t)$ of exponential type if $f$ is of exponential type?
Suppose that $f(t)$ is a square-integrable, band-limited function, i.e. the Fourier transform $\hat f$ has compact support.
Problem: Under which assumptions on a function $g(t)$ is the map $h(t) := e^{...
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Origin of term Ahlfors-David regular
Much of the literature on analysis in metric spaces makes use of an assumption called Ahlfors regularity or Ahlfors-David regularity. Let $q>0$. A metric space $(X,d)$ is Ahlfors(-David) $q$-...
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Why $\partial$ and $\bar{\partial}$ defined in that way (the Wirtinger derivatives)?
For $\mathbb{C}$-valued functions, why are $\frac{\partial}{\partial z}$ and $\frac{\partial}{\partial \bar{z}}$ defined as
$$
\frac{\partial}{\partial z}=
\frac{1}{2}\left(
\frac{\partial}{\...
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Necessary and sufficient conditions for a holomorphic function defined in the unit disk to be univalent?
de Branges has proved de Branges's theorem (the famous Bieberbach conjecture) that if a holomorphic function $f(z) = z+\sum_{n=2}^{\infty} a_nz^n$ in the unit disk $D = \{z\in \mathbb{C},|z| \leq 1\}$ ...
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The cotangent sum $\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}(-1)^k\cot\Big(\frac{\pi}{4n}(2k+1)\Big)=n$
On the Wolfram Research Reference page for the cotangent function (https://functions.wolfram.com/ElementaryFunctions/Cot/23/01/), I saw the following partial sum formula
$$\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}(-1)^k\cot\...
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How to construct non-abelian functions?
I have found some functions $t_g, g \in G$ for cyclic groups $G=C_n$ which seem to satisfy the following convolution identity:
$$t_g(x+y) = \sum_{h \in G} t_{gh^{-1}}(x) t_h(y)$$
Example of such ...
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Complex manifolds making Liouville fail
Let us consider $g\colon X\to Y$ holomorphic, where $X$ is a complex manifold and $Y$ is a Stein manifold.
I am searching for all the pairs $(X,Y)$ such that we can find some non constant $g$ with ...
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On a possible equivalent of Riemann hypothesis
I've read in a Bombieri's paper on official problem statement of Riemann hypothesis for Clay Math institute's millennium problems, a statement and what I understood of it is the following :
The ...
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Rouché's Theorem in complex analysis on the relation of the number of zeros and poles of meromorphic functions in a region [closed]
This question is from my son referenced in my earlier question, Need advice or assistance for son who is in prison. His interest is scattering theory . He asked me to post this question:
Hello and ...
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A coradius of convergence - biggest open disk contained in the image of a power series?
Let $f \in \mathbb{C}\{z_1,\dots,z_n\}$ be non-constant with $f(0) = 0$, where $n \geq 1$, and let $D$ be its domain of convergence. Recall that for $n=1$ this is just some open disk $\mathbb{D}_r(0)$ ...
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Single theorem for hybrid of winding number and rotation number?
I am trying to make mathematical sense of some observations from my physics research, so I hope that you will bear with me.
For a complex-valued function $z(t)$ dependent on parameter $t$, I calculate ...
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Algorithm for computing external angles for the Mandelbrot set
Let $M$ be the Mandelbrot set: there exists a unique series
$$
\psi(z) := z + \sum_{m=0}^{+\infty} b_m z^{-m} = z - \frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{8} z^{-1} - \frac{1}{4} z^{-2} + \cdots
$$
which defines a ...
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A problem on polynomials
Let $P(z)$ be a polynomial of degree $n$ with $|P(z)|\leq 1$ on $|z|=1$ and $P_m(z)$ be a partial sum of $P(z).$ How large $P_m(z)$ can be on $|z|=1?$
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How much differs the category of real-analytic manifolds from $C^\infty$ ones?
I was thinking about the difference between the concept of real-analytic function (for any point the Taylor-series of $f$ converge to the function in a neighborhood of the point) and complex analytic (...
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A functional equation in two complex variables
Let $X$ be a compact metric space, or just $X=\mathbb T$, the unit circle, if it helps. We consider only continuous, complex-valued functions on $X$.
Let $\varepsilon >0$. Is there $\delta > ...
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Conformal mappings that preserve angles and areas but not perimeters?
Conformal mappings from $U$ to $V$, both subsets of $\mathbb{C}$, locally preserve angles.
But, in general, such mappings neither preserve areas nor preserve perimeters.
Q. Are there examples of ...
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Phragmén–Lindelöf principle for the critical exponent
Let $f(z)$ be a holomorphic function in the angle $A=\{0<\arg z<\frac{\pi}2\}$, continuous in $\bar A$, satisfying $|f(z)|\le M$ on $\partial A$ and satysfying the following growth condition:
$$...
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Resources for divergent / asymptotic series
This series is divergent; therefore, we may be able to do something with it. -- Oliver Heaviside
[Edit (1/14/21) from the answer by Count Iblis to a recent MO-Q on math vids: An enthusiastic intro is ...
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Reference for permanent integral identity
$\DeclareMathOperator\perm{perm}\DeclareMathOperator\diag{diag}$Using MacMahon's master theorem, the properties of complex gaussian integrals, and Cauchy's integral theorem one can show that the ...
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A question on the Riemann zeta function
Yesterday, a certain very talented and passionate young student from Southern Africa asked me the following question about the Riemann zeta function $\zeta(s)$. He says he "thinks" he knows the answer,...
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What holomorphic functions are limits of polynomials?
Let $\Omega$ be a connected open set in the complex plane. What is the closure of the polynomials in $\mathcal{H}(\Omega)$ the set of holomorphic functions on $\Omega$? The topology is the usual ...
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How to motivate the skein relations?
I am teaching an advanced undergraduate class on topology. We are doing introductory knot theory at the moment. One of my students asked how do we know to use this skein relation to compute all these ...
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Another chicken or egg: sequence or series
This is a side question which is more motivated by teaching than research.
First, I am trying to convince myself that sequences appear before series (as numerical approximations to "interesting" ...
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A question on subharmonic functions on the unit disc
I have the following question:
Let $u$ be a smooth subharmonic function on the unit disc $\mathbb{D}:=\left\{ z\in\mathbb{C}:\left|z\right|<1\right\} $.
Assume that $u=0$ on the boundary of $\...
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Is the Hodge bundle a holomorphic vector bundle?
I have just started reading through the paper of Cattani--Kaplan--Schmid -- Degeneration of Hodge structures (Annals of Mathematics, 123 (1986), 457--535). For the purposes here, take $f : X \to S$ to ...
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Is there an integration free proof (or heuristic) that once differentiable implies twice differentiable for complex functions?
The title pretty much says it all. I am revisiting complex analysis for the first time since I "learned" some as an undergraduate. I am trying to wrap my head around why it should be the case that a ...
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Characterisation of bell-shaped functions
This is an open problem that I learned from Thomas Simon. I will completely understand if the question is judged as non-research level (and it is indeed not related to my research), but I believe a ...
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Complex manifold defined over $\mathbb{R}$
Let $M$ be a connected closed complex manifold with an antiholomorphic involution.
Must there be an atlas and a choice of a reference point in each chart such that the transition functions are ratios ...
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Trigonometric sum and residues
I am interested in the sum
$$
\sum_{n=1}^k 2\biggl[\sin\biggl(\frac{n\pi}{2k+2}\biggr)\biggr]^{-2g}
$$
where $k$, $g$ are integers. It is not too hard to show that this can also be expressed as
$$
-1-...
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Classification of principal monodromy elements
Let $(X,0)$ be a germ of normal analytic space with an isolated singularity at $0$, and let $Y:=X\backslash\{0\}$. Suppose $Y$ has a complex-hyperbolic metric which is complete at $0$. Burns-Mazzeo ...
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Approximation of a holomorphic function vanishing at a submanifold by polynomials
Suppose $M$ is a complex affine algebraic manifold in ${\mathbb C}^n$ (I mean, a set of common zeroes of a system of polynomials on ${\mathbb C}^n$, which is at the same time a smooth manifold). ...
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Analytic continuation of a periodic function on the real line
In the study of superconformal indices for certain quantum field theories, one encounters the elliptic $\Gamma$ function, which can be expressed as:
$$ \log \Gamma(z;\tau,\sigma)=\sum^{\infty}_{l=1}\...
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Analytic or holomorphic extension of the ellipse perimeter function
Let ${\mathbb{R}^2}^+=\{(x,y)\in \mathbb{R}^2\mid x>0, y>0\}$.
Let $P:{\mathbb{R}^2}^+\to \mathbb{R}$ be the function with $P(a,b)=$ $\text{The perimeter of ellipse}\;\; \frac{x^2}{a^2}+\frac{y^...
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Existence of Laurent series with zeroes at $𝑒^{2𝑛}$ ($𝑛∈ℕ_0$) and even faster coefficient decay
This is an extension of an earlier question of mine which corresponds to the case $A = 1$. Precisely, my question is as follows:
Given $A > 0$ fixed but arbitrary, is there a non-trivial sequence $...
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Locally exposable points under biholomorphisms are still locally exposable
Let $\Omega\subset\subset\Bbb C^n$ and let $\zeta_0\in K:=\overline\Omega$ be locally exposable with respect to $\rho$, meaning that:
$\bullet\;\;\rho(\zeta_0)=0\;;$
$\bullet\;\; d\rho(\zeta_0)\neq0\;;...
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Invertibility of the sampling matrix
Given a function $f: \mathbb{R}^2\rightarrow\mathbb{C}$ sampled as a matrix $F_{ij}$ on some ractangle $[a,b]\times[c,d]\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ with steps $\Delta x$ and $\Delta y$ as the stepsizes so ...
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$\sum_{k =1, k \neq j}^{N-1} \csc^2\left(\pi \frac{k}{N} \right)\csc^2\left(\pi \frac{j-k}{N} \right)=?$
It is well-known that one can evaluate the sum
$$\sum_{k =1}^{N-1} \csc^2\left(\pi \frac{k}{N} \right)=\frac{N^2-1}{3}.$$
The answer to this problem can be found here
click here.
I am now ...
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Image of a complex disc by this function? [closed]
I am working with the function $f(z) = \frac{z+1}{z-1}$, for a complex variable $z$. I understood that for $z$ in the unit disc, i.e $\lvert z\rvert \le 1$, $\mathrm{Re}(f(z)) \le 0$.
What if $z$ is ...
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Question about the correspondence between unitary Möbius transformations and quaternions
One of the main theorems about the classification of Möbius transformations states that pure rotations of the Riemann sphere (without translation and dilatation) correspond to unitary Möbius ...
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On the Hausdorff dimension of a Cantor set
In what follows I refer to this paper by Orevkov.
I am writing a paper on this, so if somebody is interested we could consider to write a joint paper.
Consider a sequence $R=\{R_n\}_n$ of strictly ...
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A kind of holomorphicity of maps on Hilbert space
Let $H$ be an infinite dimensional seperable Hilbert space. Is there an Irreducible involutive sub algebra $D$ of $B(H)$ with the following properties?:
1)For every open set $U\subset H$ and every ...
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Submersion function from a product space
Let $\Phi(x,y) \colon U_N \times U_M \to \mathbb{C}^n$ be a submersion, where $U_N \subset \mathbb{C}^N$ and $U_M \subset \mathbb{C}^M$.
Under which condition on $\Phi$ can I find some $s \in \...
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Square root of a continuous function
Is it square root of a real $\alpha-$Holder continuous function $f$ defined on $[0,1]$ a $\alpha/2$ Holder continuous, provided $\sqrt{f(x)}$ it exists and is continuous, i.e. whether $|f(x)-f(y)|\le ...
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Polynomials having all zeros in the closed left half plane
Let $$P(z) =\sum_{k=0}^n(\alpha_k+e^{i\gamma}\beta_k)z^k=P_1(z)+e^{i\gamma}P_2(z)$$ be a polynomial of degree $n$ with $\alpha_k, \beta_k\geq 0$ for $0\leq k\leq n, $ where $$P_1(z) =\sum_{k=0}^n\...
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Riemann surfaces with an atlas all of whose open sets are biholomorphic to $\mathbb{C}$?
Is there a compact Riemann surface other than the sphere with an atlas consisting of open subsets biholomorphic to $\mathbb{C}$? Is there a compact Riemann surface other than the sphere which ...
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On the Dirichlet series for $1/\zeta(s)$ for real $s$ and the zeros of zeta
For $\Re(s)>1$, it is well known that
$$\frac{1}{\zeta(s)} = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{\mu(n)}{n^s}$$ where $\mu$ denotes the Mobius function and $\zeta$ is the Riemann zeta function. I have heard ...
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Inverse of exponential integral function
The exponential integral function $x \mapsto E_1(x)$ is strictly decreasing on the positive real
axis and, so, is globally real analytically invertible there. Where can I find information concerning
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Convergence of a sequence of entire functions on an open dense subset
Let $f_n\colon \mathbb{C} \to \mathbb{C}$ be a sequence of entire functions, such that $f_n$ converges to the zero function on an open dense subset $U$ of $\mathbb{C}$ pointwise (or equivalently ...
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