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Equality of two measures on functional spaces

It is well known that if $\mu$ and $\nu$ are two measures on the space $C^0([0,1],\mathbb{R}^n)$ of continuous mappings from $[0,1]$ to $\mathbb{R^n}$ endowed with its Borel $\sigma$-algebra satisfy $$...
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Example of an $H^1$ function on the bidisk that is not a product of two $H^2$ functions

Fix $n \in \mathbb{N}$ and consider the Hardy space $H^1 := H^1(\mathbb{D}^n)$, consisting of holomorphic functions $f$ on the unit polydisk $\mathbb{D}^n=\mathbb{D}\times\dots\times\mathbb{D}$ such ...
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Proof that the closed convex hull of a weakly convergent sequence has empty interior using properties of $c_0$?

Let $X$ be an infinite-dimensional Banach space, and $x_n\to 0$ weakly in $X.$ Let $K$ be the closed convex hull of $\{x_n\}.$ I remember a proof that $K$ has empty interior as follows: define a map $...
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Topology on space of hyperfunctions

This is a reference request, coming from someone with little knowledge of hyperfunctions: Which methods have been used to endow the space of hyperfunctions $\mathcal B(\mathbb R)$ with something like ...
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Are dualizable topological vector spaces finite-dimensional?

Consider the symmetric monoidal category TVS of complete Hausdorff topological vector spaces equipped with the completed projective, injective, or inductive tensor product. Every finite-dimensional ...
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Characterizing germs of smooth functions

There's a sheaf of smooth real-valued functions on $\mathbb{R}$, and its germ at $0$ is some vector space $V$. I would like to understand this space. There is a surjective linear map $$ \phi \colon ...
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Kasparov's descent homomorphism for higher KK groups

I am currently trying to understand equivariant $KK$-theory. I think I roughly get the idea of Kasparov's descent homomorphism $$KK^G(A,B) \rightarrow KK(A \rtimes G,B \rtimes G).$$ but what still ...
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Hilbert spaces that include algebraic polynomials

This question is motivated by a phrase I found in several books/papers about approximation theory, for example, M.J.D.Powell's Approximation Theory and Methods: ''Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a Hilbert space ...
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Extracting each field operator as Wightman fields from a set of time-ordered products satisfying Eckmann-Epstein axioms

The paper by Eckmann-Epstein proves that Schwinger functions at "coinciding points" uniquely defines "time-ordered products". In physics, these "time-ordered products" ...
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Let $A:=\{f\in C^1(\mathbb{R}): \hat{f}, \hat{f'} \in L^1(\mathbb{R})\}$. Schwartz space is dense in $A$ wrt $\|f\|:= \|\hat{f}\|_1+\|\hat{f'}\|_1$?

Let $A:=\{f\in C^1(\mathbb{R}): \hat{f}, \hat{f'} \in L^1(\mathbb{R})\}$, where $\hat{f}$ is the Fourier transform of $f$. Then is it true that Schwartz space $\mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R})$ is dense in $A$ ...
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Existence of very weak solution to the elliptic equation $\partial_i(a^{ij}\partial_j u)=\partial_k\partial_l f$

Let $a^{ij}\in W^{1,n}\cap L^\infty (B^1)$ be uniformly elliptic, i.e. $\lambda|\xi|^2\le a_{ij}(x)\xi_i\xi_j\le \Lambda |\xi|^2$ for a.e. $x\in B^1$, $\xi\in\mathbb R^n$, where $B_1\subset \mathbb R^...
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Injectivity of a convolution operator

Let $p,\mu,\nu$ be probability density functions on $\mathbb{R}$ such that $$ \int_{\mathbb{R}}p(y-x) \nu(y) \, dy=\mu(x). $$ Now, consider the operator $T:L^2(\mu)\to L^2(\nu)$ such that $$ Tf=f*p.$$ ...
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Multivariate polynomial approximation

Let $f$ be a function on $[-1,1]^d$ with some smoothness property, for example, it is in the Sobolev space $W^{k,p}$. Let $P_n$ is a space of polynomials with degree $n$. My question is what is the ...
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Multivariate polynomial approximation of functions in Sobolev space

I found a result of the estimation error of polynomial approximation in page 6 of https://scg.ece.ucsb.edu/publications/theses/ARajagopal_2019_Thesis.pdf The statement is for $f \in W^{k, p}\left([-1,...
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Singularity of singularities and second microlocalization: a question that come from the stabilization of damped wave equation

In the paper [2], the Authors introduce a tool called second microlocalization, which is difficult for me. Although I have searched a lot of papers on the internet, nevertheless the material that I ...
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When is an unbounded averaging operator on $\mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}$ closed?

Let $\{a_n\}_{n=1}^\infty$, $a_n\in \mathbb{R}$. Consider the following linear operator $A$ on functions $f:\mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}$: $$(Af)(x) = \sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n f(x+n)+ \sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n f(...
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How to prove that $f(x) := |x|^{\frac{\lambda - n}{p}}(1 - \psi(x))$ satisfies a specific property related to its limit at the origin

Disclaimer. I have asked this question a month ago on MSE (click here to access the original post) and even bountied it. I got an answer on MSE, but unfortunately I don't feel like it has enough ...
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Continuity of disintegrations in non locally compact spaces

Let $X$ and $Y$ be Radon spaces, $\mu$ a Borel probability measure on $X$, $F\colon X\to Y$ measurable. Then the disintegration theorem gives us a disintegration $\{\mu^y\}_{y\in Y}$ of $\mu$ with ...
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Hodge decomposition of smooth n-forms: is it an isomorphism of topological vector spaces?

Fix a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ (leaving the metric implicit). What I'd like to know is if the corresponding Hodge decomposition of smooth $n$-forms $$ \Omega^n(M) \simeq \mathcal{H}^n(M)\oplus ...
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1-1 map on the $\{0,1\}^k$

Let integer $k>0$ and let $\{0,1\}^k$ denote the set of all $1\times k$-dim vectors whose every coordinate is eithor 0 or 1, for example, $(0,1,1,0,\dots,1,0,0,1)$. For any such vector $\alpha$, ...
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Poisson kernel for the orthogonal groups

For the complex ball $|z|^2\le 1$ in $\mathbb{C}^n$, there is a Poisson kernel proportional to $|x-z|^{-2n}$. This is generalized to the unitary group $U(N)$ so that in the complex matrix ball $Z^\...
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Density beyond Stone–Weierstrass

$\DeclareMathOperator\tr{tr}$I need density assertions for spaces of polynomials which are not (that I know of) algebras. One goes like this: Fix $n\in\mathbb N$ let $S$ denote the set of self-adjoint ...
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Number of critical points of smooth functions on $S^1$

Let $u$ be a smooth function on the unit circle $S^1$ such that $\int_{S^1}ux_j=0$, for $j=1,2$. Is the number of critical points of $u$ strictly bigger than 2?
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Projection onto Shift Invariant Subspaces of $H^2$

Every shift invariant subspace of the Hardy space $H^2(\mathbb{D})$ is either $\{0\}$ or is of the form $\varphi H^2$ for some inner function $\varphi$. I know that if $\varphi(0) \neq 0$, then the ...
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Question on ODE involving mollifiers from Taylor's book on PDEs

In Taylor's third book on PDEs chapter 16, the author discusses quasilinear symmetric hyperbolic systems of the form $$\partial_{t}u=A^{k}(t,x,u)\partial_{k}u+g(t,x,u)$$ with some initial condition $u(...
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How to show such result for generalized $ O(|x|^{-1/2}) $ function?

Assuming that $ \chi\in C_c^{\infty}([-2,2]) $ is a cutoff function such that $\text{supp }\chi\subset[-2,2]$, $\chi\equiv 1 $ in $ [-1,1] $, and $ 0\leq\chi\leq 1 $, suppose that $ f\in C^{\infty}(\...
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Extension of a tangent vector field

Let $\Omega$ be an open subset of $S^2$ with $\overline{\Omega} \neq S^2$. Suppose a continuous tangent vector field $G$ is defined on $\partial \Omega$ such that $|G(y)| = 1$ for all $y \in \partial \...
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Counterexample wanted: Banach space but not BK-space

What is an example of a Banach space that is not a BK-space? A normed sequence space $X$ (with projections $p_n$) is a BK Space if $X$ is Banach space and for all natural numbers $n$, $p_n(\bar{x}) = ...
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Maximal function on mixed $L^{p}$

Consider $ f_{j,k}$ to be a function in $L^{p}(l^{q}(l^{2}))$, that is $$ \Vert f_{j,k} \Vert^{p}_{L^{p}(l^{q}(l^{2}))} = \int_{\mathbb{R}^{n}} \left( \sum_{k} \big[ \sum_{j} \vert f_{j,k}(x) \vert^{2}...
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Show that functional $J$ satisfies Palais-Smale condition iff every $P-S$ sequence is bounded

Let $H$ be a Hilbert space and let $K: H \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be $C^1$ and such that $\nabla K: H \rightarrow H$ sends bounded sets into precompact sets. Consider the functional $J: H \rightarrow \...
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Tempered distributions at non-coinciding points and density of Schwartz functions

In the previous question, I find that situation is much less favorable than expected…. So I add more details to focus on the specific case I have in mind. Let us consider the Schwartz space $\mathcal{...
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Is there a scalar product which makes orthonormal the family of complex functions $ (f_n)_{ n \geq 1 } $?

Let $ (f_n)_{ n \geq 1 } $ be a family of complex functions defined as follow, $ \forall n \geq 1 $, $$ f_n (z) = \dfrac{1}{n^{z}} $$ I would like to ask you if it is possible to construct a ( non-...
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Is every closed subspace of the Schwartz space densely embedded into its dual space?

My original question is from this ME post but I think I need a broader understanding for this. The Schwartz space $\mathcal{S}$ and its subspaces are examples of nuclear spaces. In fact, any closed ...
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Sufficient condition for interpolation

If we have a couple of two compatible banach spaces (in this sense) $(X,Y)$ and a sequence of Banach spaces $\{Z\}_{\theta\in[0,1]}$ which are intermediate between $X$ and $Y$ satisfying: $Z_0=X$, $...
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Orthogonal space of polynomials

Let $f \colon [0,+\infty) \to \mathbb R$ be a continuous function. Assume that for any non-negative integer $n$, the function $f(t) t^n$ in integrable in $(0,+\infty)$ and $$ \int_0^{+\infty} f(t) t^n ...
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References for a class of Banach space-valued Gaussian processes

Let $E$ be a separable Banach space, consider a centered $E$-valued Gaussian process $\{x_t,t\ge 0\}$ that satisfies \begin{equation} \mathbb{E}\phi(x_s)\psi(x_t)=R(s,t)K(\phi,\psi),\quad \phi,\psi\in ...
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Clarification on the Interpretation of Fourier Coefficients in the Context of Fourier Projections

I am currently studying a paper (Section 3.4.3 of Lanthaler, Mishra, and Karniadakis - Error estimates for DeepONets: a deep learning framework in infinite dimensions) where the authors define an ...
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embedding spaces of probability measures to function spaces

Let $X, Y$ be Banach spaces. I'm considering a bounded linear functional $g:X\to Y$ and its lift $g_\sharp: \mathcal{P}(X)\to \mathcal{P}(Y)$. I want to consider the inverse of $g_\sharp$ in some ...
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For any $p, q \in [1,\infty]$ and $s \in (0,\infty)$, can we find some $f \in L^q - W^{s,p}$?

Sobolev inequalities show us when we can embed a Sobolev space into another. However, I wonder if these inclusions are always proper. More specifically, let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be a bounded ...
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Larger possible chain of closed subspaces in the dual of a Banach space

In this question, is demonstrated that a separable space can have a chain (ordered by inclusion) of closed subspaces with uncountable many subspaces. My question is the following. If $X$ is an ...
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Rate of convergence of mollified distributions in Besov spaces with negative regularity

Given a standard mollifier $\rho_\delta$ and a distribution $ u \in B^\alpha_{ p, p}$ with $\alpha<0$, $p \in [1, \infty]$ and $B^\alpha_{p,p}$ is a not-homogeneous Besov space, I'm trying to prove ...
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Form of a hereditary subalgebra of $C^*$-algebra $C_0(X)$

I would like to show that: "every hereditary subalgebra $U$ of a $C^*$-algebra $C_0(X)$ for a locally compact Hausdorff Space $X$ has the form $J_E := \{f \in C_0(X) : f|_E=0 \}$ for a closed ...
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When is this operator positive semi-definite?

I have the following operator $$\Phi(\chi_A)=\int \text{d}\eta\, \text{d}\zeta\,\chi_A(\eta,\zeta)\,e^{i(\eta \hat{P}+\zeta\hat{Q})}.$$ With $\chi_A$ the indicator function associated to a set $A\...
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De la Vallée Poussin criterion on uniform integrability for infinite measures

The de la Vallée Poussin criterion (which is often used in combination with the Dunford-Pettis theorem) is usually formulated for probability measures/finite measures, for example in [Bogachev: ...
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Excising the trace of a $II_1$-factor

Recall that a state $\varphi$ on a $C^*$-algebra $A$ is said to be excised by projections if there exists a net of projections $e_i \in A$ such that $\| e_i a e_i - \varphi(a) e_i\| \to_{i} 0$ for all ...
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A question about associated operator on continuous functions space equiped with L2 norm

For M a connected compact manifold, $T$ is in $C^{1+\nu}(M,M)$ with $\nu\in(0,1)$, i.e., $DT$ is some Hölder continuous function with Hölder exponent $\nu$. Denote by $m$ the Lebesgue measure on $M$ ...
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Estimating a solution to Euler-type ODE #2

This is a similar question to this but with a different ODE. Let $f$ be a continuous function in $L^2([1,\infty)$ satisfying $\sup_{r\geq 1} r|f(r)| <\infty$. Let $\ell$ be a positive integer, $R&...
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Finding thin plate spline subjected to boundary conditions

I am trying to formulate a problem as a PDE. What I want to know is if my formulation is correct, if it admits solution and what am I missing. This question is related to : Thin-Plate-Spline ...
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Dual of closure

Currently I'm studying about abstract interpolation theory for my research. One of the basic ways to construct new interpolation spaces, given an interpolation space $E$ with respect to a compatible ...
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A variation of the Riesz Lemma

Given a normed space $X$, a closed proper subspace $Y$ and $\alpha\in (0,1)$, the Riesz Lemma states that there is $x\in X$ such that $\|x\|=1$ and $d(x,Y)>\alpha$. Observe that also $d(-x,Y)=d(x,Y)...

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