In his first and lost notebooks, Ramanujan recorded several values for the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction. Some of these results have been proved by K. G. Ramanathan, using mostly ideas with which Ramanujan was unfamiliar. In this paper, eight of Ramanujan's values are established; four are proved for the first time, while the remaining four had been previously proved by Ramanathan by entirely different methods. Our proofs employ some of Ramanujan's beautiful eta-function identities, which have not been heretofore used for evaluating continued fractions.

We consider the usual topological vector space H(G) of all functions holomorphic in a region G ⊂ ℂ. If G satisfies certain conditions, it is possible to introduce the Hadamard product as multiplication in H(G), and then H(G) turns out to be a commutative topological algebra. In [5] we characterized the invertible elements in H(G), and the aim of this paper is to study the closed ideals and some further questions.

Assume k is an algebraically closed field of characteristic p and G is a finite group. If P is a p-subgroup of G such that G = PCG (P), and if H is a normal subgroup of G with P ≤ H, then the number of H-cliques of irreducible k[G]-modules is the same as the number of H/P-cliques of irreducible k[G/P]-modules.

We study the generalized moment problem and the marginal constraints problem. We connect them when the measures have a finite support.

The extreme points of the convex set of solutions with a finite support are determined in both problems.

For the moment problem, they are shown to span in the weak topology the set of all the solutions.

Using a new B-spline basis due to Dahmen, Micchelli and Seidel, we construct a univariate spline approximation operator of Bernstein-Schoenberg type. We show that it shares all the shape preserving properties of the usual Bernstein-Schoenberg operator and we derive a Voronovskaya type asymptotic error estimate.

The fundamental lemma for standard endoscopy follows from the matching of unit elements in Hecke algebras. A simple form of the stable trace formula, based on the matching of unit elements, shows the fundamental lemma to be equivalent to a collection of character identities. These character identities are established by comparing them to a compact-character expansion of orbital integrals.

An important question in the study of moment problems is to determine when a fixed point in ℝn lies in the moment cone of vectors , with μ a nonnegative measure. In associated optimization problems it is also important to be able to distinguish between the interior and boundary of the moment cone. Recent work of Dachuna-Castelle, Gamboa and Gassiat derived elegant computational characterizations for these problems, and for related questions with an upper bound on μ. Their technique involves a probabilistic interpretation and large deviations theory. In this paper a purely convex analytic approach is used, giving a more direct understanding of the underlying duality, and allowing the relaxation of their assumptions.

Let r(T) denote the spectral radius of the operator T acting on a complex Hilbert space H. Let S be a multiplicative semigroup of operators on H. We say that r is permutable on 𝓢 if r(ABC) = r(BAC), for every A,B,C ∈ 𝓢. We say that r is submultiplicative on 𝓢 if r(AB) ≤ r(A)r(B), for every A, B ∈ 𝓢. It is known that, if r is permutable on 𝓢, then it is submultiplicative. We show that the converse holds in each of the following cases: (i) 𝓢 consists of compact operators (ii) 𝓢 consists of normal operators (iii) 𝓢 is generated by orthogonal projections.

The purpose of this paper is to address conjectures raised in [2]. We show that one of the conjectures is false and we advance the proof of another by proving it for an infinite set of cases. Furthermore, we give hard evidence as to why the conjecture is true and show what remains to be done to complete the proof. Finally, we prove a conjecture given by S. Louboutin, for Mathematical Reviews, in his discussion of the aforementioned paper.

Given an almost arbitrary holomorphic map we study the structure of the associated residue integral and its Mellin transform, and the relation between these two objects. More precisely, we relate the limit behaviour of the residue integral to the polar structure of the Mellin transform. We consider also ideals connected to nonisolated singularities.

Let X be a countable fundamental set in a Hilbert space H, and let T be the operator Whenever T is well-defined and bounded, X is said to be a Bessel sequence. If, in addition, ran T is closed, then X is a frame. Finally, a frame whose corresponding T is injective is a stable basis (also known as a Riesz basis). This paper considers the above three properties for subspaces H of L2(ℝd), and for sets X of the form with Φ either a singleton, a finite set, or, more generally, a countable set. The analysis is performed on the Fourier domain, where the two operators TT* and T* T are decomposed into a collection of simpler "fiber" operators. The main theme of the entire analysis is the characterization of each of the above three properties in terms of the analogous property of these simpler operators.

In this paper, we study the boundedness of є-families of operators on Triebel-Lizorkin with wide range of parameters. We also prove that є -families of operators are bounded from Triebel-Lizorkin spaces into (generalized) tent spaces, and obtain a characterization of certain Triebel-Lizorkin spaces in terms of tent spaces. In particular, the boundedness of fractional operators in Triebel-Lizorkin, and a sharp version of T\theorem for generalized Calderón-Zygmund operators on Triebel-Lizorkin spaces can be considered as applications of (proofs of) these results.