Volume 6, Issue 2

We prove estimates for the sectional curvature of hyperkähler quotients and give applications to moduli spaces of solutions to Nahm’s equations and Hitchin’s equations.

The paper gives an illustrated introduction to the theory of hyperbolic virtual polytopes and related counterexamples to A.D. Alexandrov’s conjecture.

The σ-ideal (v 0) is associated with the Silver forcing, see [5]. Also, it constitutes the family of all completely doughnut null sets, see [9]. We introduce segment topologies to state some resemblances of (v 0) to the family of Ramsey null sets. To describe add(v 0) we adopt a proof of Base Matrix Lemma. Consistent results are stated, too. Halbeisen’s conjecture cov(v 0) = add(v 0) is confirmed under the hypothesis t = min{cf(c), r}. The hypothesis cov(v 0) = ω 1 implies that (v 0) has the ideal type (c, ω 1, c).

We characterize metric spaces whose hyperspaces of non-empty closed, bounded, compact or finite subsets, endowed with the Attouch-Wets topology, are absolute (neighborhood) retracts.

We show that for critical reversible attractive Nearest Particle Systems all equilibrium measures are convex combinations of the upper invariant equilibrium measure and the point mass at all zeros, provided the underlying renewal sequence possesses moments of order strictly greater than $$ \frac{{7 + \sqrt {41} }} {2} $$ and obeys some natural regularity conditions.

We re-examine a quadratically convergent method using divided differences of order one in order to approximate a locally unique solution of an equation in a Banach space setting [4, 5, 7]. Recently in [4, 5, 7], using Lipschitz conditions, and a Newton-Kantorovich type approach, we provided a local as well as a semilocal convergence analysis for this method which compares favorably to other methods using two function evaluations such as the Steffensen’s method [1, 3, 13]. Here, we provide an analysis of this method under the gamma condition [6, 7, 19, 20]. In particular, we also show the quadratic convergence of this method. Numerical examples further validating the theoretical results are also provided.

In recent years much work has been done analyzing maps, not assumed to be linear, between uniform algebras that preserve the norm, spectrum, or subsets of the spectra of algebra elements, and it is shown that such maps must be linear and/or multiplicative. Letting A and B be uniform algebras on compact Hausdorff spaces X and Y, respectively, it is shown here that if λ ∈ ℂ / {0} and T: A → B is a surjective map, not assumed to be linear, satisfying $$ \left\| {T(f)T(g) + \lambda } \right\| = \left\| {fg + \lambda } \right\|\forall f,g \in A, $$ then T is an ℝ-linear isometry and there exist an idempotent e ∈ B, a function κ ∈ B with κ 2 = 1, and an isometric algebra isomorphism $$ \tilde T:{\rm A} \to Be \oplus \bar B(1 - e) $$ such that $$ T(f) = \kappa \left( {\tilde T(f)e + \gamma \overline {\tilde T(f)} (1 - e)} \right) $$ for all f ∈ A, where γ = λ / |λ|. Moreover, if T is unital, i.e. T(1) = 1, then T(i) = i implies that T is an isometric algebra isomorphism whereas T(i) = −i implies that T is a conjugate-isomorphism.

In this study, we obtain a local approximation theorems for a certain family of positive linear operators via I—convergence by using the first and the second modulus of continuities and the elements of Lipschitz class functions. We also give an example to show that the classical Korovkin Theory does not work but the theory works in I—convergence sense.

A symmetric N-string is a network of N ≥ 2 sections of string tied together at one common mobile extremity. In their equilibrium position, the sections of string form N angles of 2π/N at their junction point. Considering the initial and boundary value problem for small-amplitude oscillations perpendicular to the plane of the N-string at rest, we obtain conditions under which the solution will be periodic with an integral period.

This paper addresses conditions for the Abel method of limitability to imply convergence and subsequential convergence.

We investigate the boundedness nature of positive solutions of the difference equation $$ x_{n + 1} = max\left\{ {\frac{{A_n }} {{X_n }},\frac{{B_n }} {{X_{n - 2} }}} \right\},n = 0,1,..., $$ where {A n}n=0∞ and {B n}n=0∞ are periodic sequences of positive real numbers.

In the present paper our aim is to establish convergence and Voronovskaja-type theorems for first derivatives of generalized Baskakov operators for functions of one and two variables in exponential and polynomial weight spaces.

In this paper, we establish some common fixed point theorems for selfmappings of a uniform space by employing both the concepts of an A—distance and an E—distance introduced by Aamri and El Moutawakil [1] and two contractive conditions of integral type. Our results are generalizations and extensions of the classical Banach’s fixed point theorem of [2, 3, 19], some results of Aamri and El Moutawakil [1], Theorem 2.1 of Branciari [5] as well as a result of Jungck [7].