Questions tagged [real-analysis]
Real-valued functions of real variable, analytic properties of functions and sequences, limits, continuity, smoothness of these.
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What is the completion of $L^\infty$ in the dual of BV?
Every $f \in L^\infty([0,1])$ induces a continuous linear functional on BV via $g \mapsto \int f g \mathrm{d}x$. I believe $L^\infty([0,1])$ is also separable in BV$^\ast$, while BV$^\ast$ is not ...
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A maximum of an integral
It seems that the following functions $$G(R,s)=(1-R^2)\int_0^1\int_0^{2\pi}
Adr da,$$ where $$A=\frac{ \sqrt{\left(\left(1+r^2\right) \cos(a+s)-2 r R \cos s\right)^2+\left(1-r^2\right)^2 \sin^2(a+s)}}{...
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Smoothing continuous functions in metric space
Let $(X,\rho)$ be a metric space.
For any $f:X\to\mathbb{R}$, define the local Lipschitz constant of $f$ at $x$ by
$$ \Lambda_f(x) := \sup_{x'\in X\setminus\{x\}} \frac{|f(x)-f(x')|}{\rho(x,x,')}
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A metric $w$ on a Kahler manifold is extremal if and only if the gradient vector field of the scalar curvature is holomorphic
I am trying to understand the calculation in An introduction to Extremal kahler metrics. On the fourth line of page 55 the author calculated that $\int_{M} - 2 S R^{\bar k j} \partial_{j} \partial_{\...
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An inequality in harmonic analysis with the BMO flavour
I am asking myself this question (which seems to be a natural generalization of Remark 4.4 of these lecture notes).
Question. Let $I_s, s \in \mathcal{S}$ be a collection of intervals included in
$[0,...
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Is there a name for this slightly stronger version of Cesàro convergence which "more quickly ignores earlier terms"?
Let $V$ be a normed vector space, let $l \in V$, and let $(a_n)$ be a sequence in $V$. We say that $a_n$ is Cesàro-convergent to $l$ if $\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n a_i \to l$ as $n\to\infty$.
Now I will ...
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Roughness of a differentiable function
If a function $f: [0, 1] \to \mathbb R$ is differentiable at a point $p$, then there exists some unique linear function $L_p$, and some unique function $r_p$ such that $f(x) = f(p) + L_p (x - p) + r_p ...
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Given $\theta$, find $f$ such that $\int_{\mathbb{T}} \text{e}^{i\theta} \cos(h \cdot f) = 0,$ for all $h \in \mathbb{N}$
Let $\theta$ be a $C^{\infty}$ (resp. analytic) real-valued function on $\mathbb{T}=[0,2\pi]/\{0,2\pi\}$.
When can one find $f \neq 0$, $C^{\infty}$ (resp. analytic) real-valued function on $\...
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Dual space of ${\rm Lip}_0(\mathbb R^d)$
This question comes to me when I read this paper : https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.06049.pdf
Let ${\rm Lip}_0(\mathbb R^d)$ be the space of Lipschitz functions $F$ on $\mathbb R^d$ with $F(0)=0$. Then is $...
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Existence of function minimising L^1 distance to a sequence of functions
Here all functions are from $[0, 1] \to \mathbb R$.
Let $f_i$ be a sequence of continuous functions such that there exists some $M > 0$ such that $|f_i| < M$ for all $i$. Does there always ...
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Strange inequality relating Binomial pmf and cdf
I'm encountering a strange inequality I need to prove, relating the Binomial pmf and cdf.
Suppose we have $n$ coin flips, and fix an arbitrary $k \le n/2$ heads. Suppose further that we have some ...
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Maximum Principles in Parabolic PDE with Neumann Condition
I am looking for some maximum principles and comparison results for parabolic equations. The most complete book I've found on this subject is: Murray Protter, Hans Weinberger - Maximum Principles in ...
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Decay of eigenfunctions for Laplacian
Consider the discrete second derivative with Dirichlet boundary conditions on $\mathbb C^n$.
Its eigendecomposition is fully known:
see wikipedia
It seems like the largest eigenvalue $\lambda_1$ is ...
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Korovkin subset of $C(\mathbb{T})$
Let $K$ be a compact Hausdorff space and $A$ be a subset of $C(K)$. $A$ is said to be a Korovkin set if for every sequence $(T_n)$ of positive linear operators on $C(K)$, the condition $\|T_n(f)- f\|_\...
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Commuting flows problem for non-Lipschitz vector fields
Let $X$ be a continuous vector field on a (say compact) manifold $M$, if $X$ has ODE uniqueness then we can define its associated flow $\mathcal F_X:\mathbb R\times M\to M$ uniquely given by $\mathcal ...
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Flow lines of a real analytic vector field convergent to a point
Let $X$ be a real analytic vector field defined on an open connected subset $U$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$. Let $p \in \mathbb{R}^n \setminus U$. Let $L$ be union of the flow lines $\ell$ of $X$ such that $p$ ...
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On a much weaker version of the Normal conjecture
I would like to ask you about the following question. It is conjectured that every algebraic irrational number is normal (absolutely normal). I know the result by Bugeaud and Adamczewski about the non-...
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Injectivity of product functions on natural number sequences
Let $M = \{ a = (a_i)_{i} : a_i \in \mathbb{N}, a_1 \geq 2, a_i > a_j \forall i>j\}$ the set of all ascending natural number sequences, with $a_1$ at least 2.
We now define for each $k \geq 2$ ...
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Anderson Localization and Homogenization theory
I originally asked this on Mathematics Stack Exchange but realized it might be better to ask it here.
The question is mostly related to homogenization theory in mathematical physics.
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inverse of sobolev riemannian metric still sobolev?
Given a covariant riemannian metric of certain sobolev class (i.e. with square-integrable weak derivatives up to a large enough integer order) on a (compact, if necessary) finite-dimensional smooth ...
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Constant in trace theorem for balls
Consider the standard open ball $B_r:=\left\{x ; \left\lvert x \right\rvert \le R \right\}.$
The trace theorem tells us any function in $W^{k,p}(B_r)$ can be restricted to a function $W^{k-1,p}(\...
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A uniform Riemann sum approximation of the integral of the Fejer kernels
Let $F_N(t)$ denote the Fejer kernel
$$F_N(t):={1\over N+1}{\sin^2\big({(N+1)}{t\over2}\big)\over \sin^2\big( {t\over2}\big)}\ .$$
Consider Riemann sums approximation for $\int_{-\pi}^\pi F_N(t) dt$ ...
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Inclusion of Hardy spaces
It is well-known that any convergence in $L^p$ for $p \in [1,\infty]$ implies convergence in $L^1_{\text{loc}}$ by Hölder's inequality.
It is also known that for $p>1$ it holds that $L^p(\mathbb R)...
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Asymptotic formula, polynomial, irrational number and uniformly distribution
Problem 1
Given a irrational number $\alpha$ and two polynomials with positive integer coefficients $P(n),Q(n)$, is it possible to get the asymptotic estimate and reasonable error term for:
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Is there any closed form expression for $\sum_{k=2}^\infty(-1)^k \left(- \frac{1}{2}\right)^{\frac{k(k+1)}{2}}$?
Is there any closed form expression for the following serie?
$$\sum_{k=2}^\infty(-1)^k \left(- \frac{1}{2}\right)^{\frac{k(k+1)}{2}}$$
Or at least a proof that it is an irrational number. The ...
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Sub-quadratic Kolmogorov-Arnold?
The Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem says, essentially, that when computing a continuous function, the only multivariate function you really need is addition. (Somewhat) more precisely, it ...
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Properties of solution to Schrödinger equation
Given a Schrödinger equation with, let's say continuous, periodic potential
$$-y''(x)+V(x)y(x)=\lambda y(x)$$
where $V(x+1)=V(x)$ and $V$ is even, i.e. for $x \in (0,\frac{1}{2})$ we have $V(x+\frac{...
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Does there exist curve (for example, in $\mathbb R^2$) that either touches itself or intersects itself at every one of its points?
I really do not even know how to constructively think about this question that I wanted to post before, but delayed. I know that there are space-filling curves and curves of positive area and those ...
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Asymptotic expansion of a Gaussian integral and heat kernel
When considering the heat kernel of a Schr\"odinger operator
$$- \Delta + V(x) $$
where $\Delta$ is the standard Laplacian on ${\mathbb R}^n$ and $V$ is a nonnegative potential function that has ...
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Problem with an integral equation taken from a paper
I am reading a paper (the 2015 paper by A. Falkowski and L. Slominski Stochastic Differential Equation with Constraints Driven by Processes with Bounded $p-$variation, page 353, proof of the Lemma 3.1)...
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Is the following integral positive or not?
Let $n$ be a given even positive integer. We have the following integral
\begin{eqnarray}
&&\int_0^1\cdots\int_0^1\prod\limits_{i=1}^n\prod\limits_{j=1}^n(x_i-y_j)dx_1\cdots dx_ndy_1\cdots ...
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Fractional integral inequality (Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev)
I am investigating the following integral
\begin{equation}
I^*(x) = \int_{\mathbb{R}} \frac{f(y) \ln |y-x| }{|y - x|^{\mu}} \, dy
\end{equation}
where $f \in L_p(\mathbb{R})$, $ 1 < p < q <...
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The class of all iterated antiderivatives of rational functions
Consider the following property of a function $f$:
There exists a non-negative integer $n$ such that the $n$'th derivative of $f$ is a rational function.
Question 1: Is there a name in the ...
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Bessel in matrix?
Let $M_n$ be the matrix
$$M_n=\begin{pmatrix}
1&\binom{1}{1}\binom{1-1}{1-1} &0 &0\qquad \qquad \dots &0\\
1&\binom{2}{1}\binom{2-1}{1-1} &\binom{2}{2}\binom{2-1}{2-1} &0 \...
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Operator topologies
Let $L(H)$ be the space of bounded operators on some Hilbert space.
We can endow this space with the operator norm topology, the strong operator topology (SOT) and the weak operator topology (WOT).
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Proofs of the second fundamental theorem of calculus
I am referring to the following version of the theorem, in the setting of the Lebesgue integral.
Theorem Let $f: [a,b] \rightarrow \bf R$ be an everywhere differentiable function whose derivative is ...
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The asymptotic behavior of the ratio between the largest two of $n$ i.i.d. chi-square random variables
My question is about the asymptotic behavior of the ratio between the largest and second largest values of $n$ independent chi-square random variables.
Let $X_1, \ldots, X_n$ be $n$ independent and ...
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Approximating martingales given marginal distributions
Let $(\mu_0,\mu_1)$ be a vector of probability measures on $\mathbb R$ that are of finite first moment, i.e.
$$\int_{\mathbb{R}}|x|\mu_i(dx)~<~+\infty \mbox{ for } i=0,1$$
and increasing in ...
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Level sets of function of inner products of vectors on hypercube
Let $H = \{ 0, 1\}^d$ be the $d$-th Cartesian product of $\{0, 1\}$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Suppose $v_1, \ldots, v_k$ are $k$ vectors in $H$ in general position. We define function $F \colon H^{k}\...
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Classifying countable sets of weighted dots on a real line
Each dot is located on the real line and assigned a weight that can be positive or negative. A dot is equivalent to two(or more) dots located at the same place whose weights sum is equal to that of ...
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Well-definedness on $C_{0}^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$
Let $T$ be a Calderon-Zygmund operator associated to a Calderon-Zygmund kernel $K\in CZK_{\alpha}$ of order $\alpha>0$ and $b\in BMO(\mathbb{R}^{n})$. Then for $f\in C_{0}^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$ ...
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Properties of the solution of the heat equation
Note 1: the following question has been post on Math Stackexchange here but receive no respond. So I post it here to get more attention.
Note 2: This is my research problem, but the original problem ...
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Can one integrate around a branch-cut?
How meaningful is it to try to integrate around the branch-cut of a function?
For example lets say I have the function $\log(z^2+a^2)$ for $a>0$ and I choose my branch-cuts to be starting at $\pm ...
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Dynamics of an inequality
The dynamics $D\ni(r_i,r_{i+1})\mapsto(r_{i+1},r_{i+2})\in D$ on the set $D:=\{(x,y)\in\mathbb{R}^2\colon x>0,y>x^2/2\}$ is given by the recurrence
$$r_{i+2}=\frac{r_{i+1}^2}2+\frac1{r_{i+1}^3}
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The best constant in Poincare-liked inequality in $BV$ and $BD$ space
This question has been posted on Math Stack exchange for a while and received no response. So I decide to move it here to get more attention.
Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^N$ be open, bounded and with ...
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Evaluate a multiple integral
I want to compute this integral and I would appreciate any help: $N\geq 1$ is fixed.
$$I_N=\int_{0\le r_n\le r_{n-1}\le\cdots\le r_1} e^{-(r_1^2+\cdots+r_n^2)} \prod_{i<j} \sinh(r_i-r_j) dr_1\...
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A difficult integral which the Risch algorithm shows is not elementary
For reasons which aren't conceptually related to the problem a few of my colleagues and I are in need of finding an expression for the following integral in terms of $a$ and $\delta$:
$$\int_{\delta}^...
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Under what conditions do time averages of ergodic transformations satisfy a central limit theorem?
Let $(X, \mu)$ be a probability space and $T:X\rightarrow X $ an ergodic transformation, i.e. $T$ is measure preserving and the only $T$ invariant subspaces have either measure $0$ or measure $1$ (...
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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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A strong form of implicit function theorem (what happens when the derivative is degenerate?)
(this can be considered as some ad)
Consider the system of equations $F(x,y)=0$. (Here $x$, $y$ are multi-variables. The equations are over a local ring. e.g. polynomial/analytic/formal/$C^\infty$ ...
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