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A calculus question [closed]
Fix $q>1$. Define the function
$$
f_q(c):=\int_e^\infty \frac{e^{-c r^2}r}{\log(r)^q}d r.
$$
The problem is whether the following is true,
$$
\lim_{c\rightarrow 0} c \log(1/c)^q f_q(c) = C \in ...
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Establishing an upper bound for a dyadic average of a function in $ {L^{p}}([0,1)) $
Suppose that $ f $ is $ 1 $-periodic and that $ f \in {L^{p}}([0,1)) $, where $ p > 1 $. Let
$$
(D_{n})_{n \in \mathbb{N}_{0}} =
\left( \left\{
I^{n}_{j} \stackrel{\text{df}}{=} \left[ \frac{j}{2^{...
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Inverse Function Theorem on Zygmund Spaces, is the inverse in the same Zygmund Space?
Preliminary Definitions
Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be open. We define the Zygmund spaces $C^r_{*}(\Omega)$ with $r>0$, $r \in \mathbb{R}$ in the following way: (all the functions are ...
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Can we define log-convex operators?
Let $I\subset\mathbb{R}$. A function $f:I\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$, is said to be log-convex if $\log f$ is convex or equivalently for all $x,y\in I$ and $\alpha\in [0,1]$
$$f(\alpha x+(1-\alpha)y)\leq [...
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Inner Product of Given Sum Positive Sequence
Let $$A = \Big\{(a_1,a_2,\dots)\ \Big|\ a_i\ge 0, \sum_{i=1}^\infty a_i=1\Big\},$$ $$v(x)=\sup\left(\bigg\{\sum_{i=1}^\infty a_ib_i\ \bigg|\ (a_i)_{i=1}^\infty,\, (b_i)_{i=1}^\infty \in A,\,\sup\...
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What did Rolle prove when he proved Rolle's theorem?
Rolle published what we today call Rolle's theorem about 150 years before the arithmetization of the reals. Unfortunately this proof seems to have been buried in a long book [Rolle 1691] that I can't ...
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Relationship between LlogL and Hardy spaces
I think that for positive, one-dimensional, periodic functions, the following statement is true:
$$
f\in L log L(\mathbb{T})\Leftrightarrow f\in H^1(\mathbb{T}),
$$
where
$$
LlogL=\{f\in L^1\,s.t.\,\...
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Estimates on evolution operator
Let's consider the following evolution operator in $\mathbb{R}^3$
$$S(t)=e^{(i+\delta)t\Delta }$$
How to get the following estimate
$$\Vert S(t)f\Vert_2\leq C_\varepsilon t^{-\frac{1}{4}}\Vert f\Vert_{...
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Legendre differential equation with additional term
In an application I encountered the ODE
$$ \left( {x}^{2}-1 \right) {\frac {{\rm d}^{2}}{{\rm d}{x}^{2}}}f
\left( x \right) +x \left( {\frac {\rm d}{{\rm d}x}}f \left( x
\right) \right) \left( 8\,...
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A natural center of a convex weakly compact set in Banach space
Question: Let $S$ be a convex weakly compact set in Banach space $H$. Propose a natural way to define the unique center $O \in S$.
Motivation: A lot! For example, in game theory $S$ can be a set of ...
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Evaluation of the multiple integral [closed]
Would you give me any suggestions or comments on evaluating the following $n$-dimensional
integral? $$ \int_{[0,t]^n} h(x) dx $$
where
$ x=(x_1 ,x_2 , \cdots, x_n ), h(x)= \prod_{k=1}^n min( \bar{...
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Most natural smooth interpolation of 1,4=2^2,3^27,4^4^4^4, [closed]
Is there a functional equation for extending this to a smooth real function?
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Can we implicitly fit a system of linear ODEs by reduced information?
Assume we are given several initial vectors $x^{(1)},\ldots,x^{(r)} \in \mathbb{R}^n$, where the dimension $n$ is in the range of 50 to 100, and the number of initial vectors $r$ is in the range of ...
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Trouble with Jordan form of the truncated Carleman-matrix for $\sin(x)$ as size $n$ goes to infinity
I'm currently trying to get familiar with the Jordan normal form for matrices; and after some example I ask for the possible Jordan-form for the Carleman matrix for the function $f(x) = \sin(x)$ when ...
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question about a genralized Skorokhod topology
Let $D:=D([0,1], R)$ be the space of all cadlag functions defined on $[0,1]$. Now we have the known Skorokhod topology defined by: $\forall f, g\in D$
$$\rho(f,g):=\inf_{\lambda\in\Lambda}\Big\{\max\...
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Does there exist a supersmooth non-polynomial function?
Let's call a $C^{\infty}$-function $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ Lebesgue supersmooth if whenever $a_{n}\in\mathbb{R}$ for all $n$, then $\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}a_{n}f^{(n)}(x)\rightarrow 0$ ...
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Is every supersmooth function a local polynomial?
This question is a follow up question to this question that I recently asked.
A $C^{\infty}$ function $f:(c,d)\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ shall be called a local polynomial if whenever $f:(c,d)\rightarrow\...
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First order pde with characteristics [closed]
Consider a first order pde of the type $$u_y+b(x)u_x=0$$ and suppose that the coefficient $b$ is not necessairly continuous (for instance with a jump in some point).
Is it still possible to apply in ...
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extension of function in an abstract metric space
my question is the following.(Maybe my title is not quite proper for this question):
Let $(E,d)$ be a Polish space (or a separable metric space), let $\xi: E\to R_+$ be a Lipschitz function. Now set $...
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Characterization of a subset of [0,1] $III$
I have a question related to the previous one.
Characterization of a subset of [0,1] $II$
Let $T\subseteq [0,1]$ be some subset closed under lower limit topology, i.e.
$t_n$ is said to converge to $...
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Does the divergence of the sum of reciprocals of a set of integers imply this density statement about the set?
Suppose $A \subseteq \mathbb{N}$ is such that $\displaystyle{\sum_{n \in A} n^{-1}} = \infty$. Suppose $B \subseteq \mathbb{N}$ is infinite.
Is there a set $X \subseteq [1,\infty)$ and a increasing ...
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Does directional limits along any given direction, always exist for a function of bounded variation?
If a function $f:\mathbb{R}^N\to\mathbb{R}$ is of bounded variation (in modern sense or in Tonelli sense or according to any of the existing definitions), then can we say that, given any point $x\in \...
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Density of function spaces
Let $\Omega$ be a subset of either $\mathbb{R}^n$ ($n\geq 3$, if it matters) or of a compact manifold. In either case, we'll call the manifold $M$. Let $V_i\subset V_{i+1} \subset \Omega$ be an ...
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Counting norms on an infinite dimensional vector space
It is known that whenever E is a finite dimensional real vector space, there is only one norm on E up to equivalence (actually one non discrete vector space topology).
Is it known what happens when E ...
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Characterization of a subset of [0,1] $II$
My question follows the previous one
Characterization of a subset of $[0,1]$
But I don't know whether it is correct to ask again with a new title.
Thanks a lot for pointing the mistake and I ...
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is $x_{n}\ll \overline{x}_{n}^{2}$?
This question is a cross-post from MSE, cause I didn't get any answer there. I hope it is well suited for MO:
Let $(x_{n})_{n\ge 1}$ be an increasing sequence of positive integers and $\displaystyle{\...
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Existence of bounded $n-$th derivative of the solution of differential equation
This question is the copy from mat.stackexchange.com here. I requestioned here due to the very limited responses there.
Let $\phi:\mathbb{R}\mapsto\mathbb{R}$ be the standard normal density, $$\phi(x)...
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Reference for Hodge decomposition
Let $U$ be a bounded open subset of $\mathbb{R}^d$ with Lipschitz boundary, and $g \in L^2(U,\mathbb{R}^d)$ be a solenoidal vector field (i.e. $\nabla \cdot g = 0$). Then $g$ can be written in the ...
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Characterization of a subset of $[0,1]$
Let $T\subseteq[0,1]$ be a subset containing $1$. Now we know that $T$ satisfies the following property:
For every $t\in [0,1)$, if there exists a decreasing sequence $\{t_n\}_{n\ge 1}\subset T$ such ...
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The set of matrices with same spectral radius
I am working on an optimization problem over the set of positive matrices (that is, matrices where all entries are positive numbers) that have the same spectral radius. My main problem is how to ...
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Solving a non linear equation
I've been trying to prove that the following equation has a unique solution in interval 0 < x < 1 :
$$ x = \Big(\frac{1 - (1-x^2)^K}{1 - (1-x)^K}\Big)^2 $$
Where K is a number (integer, if it ...
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Is the span of those vectors dense in $\ell_2$?
For all $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$ and $\alpha \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}^n$ let $x^\alpha=x_1^{\alpha_1} \cdots x_n^{\alpha_n}$. Let $$\ell^2=\{z=(z_\alpha)_{\alpha \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}^n}:\, z_{\alpha} \...
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the existence of a real polynomial satisfying the following property
It is easy to verify that
$$ \frac{t}{2}\leq \frac{1}{4}+\frac{1}{4}t^2\leq \frac{t}{1-(1-t^2)^2}-\frac{t}{2}
\quad \quad 0<t\leq1$$
I want to ask if there exist a real polynomial $h(t)$ such ...
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Inequality of arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means
Let $a_1,\dots,a_n$ be positive numbers, does the following inequality holds?
$$\frac{a_1+a_2+\cdots+a_n}{n}-\sqrt[n]{a_1a_2\cdots a_n}\geq\sqrt[n]{a_1a_2\cdots a_n}-\frac{n}{\frac{1}{a_1}+\frac{1}{...
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Can a monotone exponentially decreasing function be uniformely approximated bt Gaussians?
This question originates an engineering application.
There is a certain process that is presumed to be a sequence of diffusions and is usually modelled as a sum of Gaussians:
$$\Sigma_n w_ne^{-\...
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Monotonicity of Trapezoid Approximations
Here's a numerical analysis question which may not be very important, especially in practice, but has been bugging me.
Suppose $f$ is a continuous function on an interval $[a,b]$. Let $T_n(f)$ be ...
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Inequality for the tail of normal distribution function
Let $ Ф(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}} \int_{-\infty}^{x} e^{-t^2/2} \, dt $ be the cumulative distribution function of the standard normal distribution.
Numerical calculations suggest the following ...
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Integration of gaussian times absolute value of cosine
Is there a way to compute/estimate the following integral?
$\int_0^\infty e^{-(x/c)^2}\left|\cos{x}\right|dx$
where $c$ is a real constant. I would like to know if it is of order $e^{-c^2/4}$ like the ...
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Extending point-wise bound to uniform bound
Suppose $f(t,x)\in \mathcal{C}^0([0,1]\times \mathbb{R}^n)$. Further suppose that for each $t$
$$ C(t):= \sup_{x\in\mathbb{R}^n} |f(t,x)|<\infty \, .$$
Does it follow that $f$ is bounded?
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Is the sequence of Apéry numbers a Stieltjes moment sequence?
Consider the sequence of Apéry numbers
$$
A_n = \sum_{k=0}^n \binom{n}{k}\binom{n+k}{k}\sum_{j=0}^k \binom{k}{j}^3
= \sum_{k=0}^n \binom{n}{k}^2\binom{n+k}{k}^2 .
$$
In an email, physicist Alan Sokal ...
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Are there superexponential Pfaffian functions?
This question is motivated by model theory, but it's really an analysis question (which means it may have an easy analysis answer that I just don't have the background for). Here's the main question, ...
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Literature on Exponential of a Quadratic Form
Let $A_i$, $i=1,\dots,L$ be given $N\times N$ positive definite real matrices. I have this sum of exponentials
\begin{align}
f(\mathbf{x})=\sum_{i=1}^{L}\operatorname{exp}(-{\mathbf{x}^T\mathbf{A}_i\...
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"Converse" of Taylor's theorem
Let $f:(a,b)\to\mathbb{R}$. We are given $(k+1)$ continuous functions $a_0,a_1,\ldots,a_k:(a,b)\to\mathbb{R}$ such that for every $c\in(a,b)$ we can write $f(c+t)=\sum_{i=0}^k a_i(c)t^i+o(t^k)$ (for ...
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Is real analytic function good enough (see problem)? [closed]
Let $f \colon \mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}$ be real analytic and let $A\subseteq \mathbb{R}$ be such that the set $A'$ of all accomulation points od $A$ is not empty. If $f(a)=0$ for all $a \in A$ is then ...
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Does there exist this special kind of homeomorphism?
Let $A,B\subset\mathbb{R}^n, n\geq 2,$ are two different shaped spindles. One is thick and one is thin. (Sorry for my unprofessional statements. Unsure about how to say it rigorously.) So there are ...
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How can I prove that the negative biased triangular kernel is positive semidefinite
How can I prove that the following triangular kernel function defined in $[0, 1] \subset R^1$
$k(x, x') = (1 - 2|x-x'|)$
is a positive semidefinite function?
It turns out to be psd function when ...
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Separating duality for TVS?
What is the modern concept (term) for "separating duality" (dualité séparante in french) in the sense of Bourbaki (TVS Ch II § 6) as explained in the following ?
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Why calculus textbooks do not include the natural integration constants in the tables of integrals? [closed]
The formulas for integrals in the textbooks usually define indefinite integral up to a constant term. Yet the natural integration constant for antiderivative can be fixed from the following formula ...
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Set of distinct real numbers such that all combination of sums are distinct
Let $\Lambda :=\{\lambda_1, \dots, \lambda_n\}$ be a set of $n$ distinct real numbers.
For a given $p \in \mathbb N$, consider further the set
$$I_p := \{ \{i_1, i_2, \dots, i_p\} : i_j \in \{1, \...
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Can't figure out "standard application" of the Garsia-Rodemich-Rumsey Lemma
I'm currently reading the paper http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.2473 and can't figure out what they call a "standard application" of the Garsia-Rodemich-Rumsey lemma (see p.8). Summed up, they have a ...
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