The Bohr radius of the nn-dimensional polydisk is equivalent to log⁡nn\sqrt{\frac{\log n}{n}}

We show that the Bohr radius of the polydisk $\mathbb D^n$ behaves asymptotically as $\sqrt{(\log n)/n}$. Our argument is based on a new interpolative approach to the Bohnenblust--Hille inequalities which allows us to prove that the polynomial Bohnenblust--Hille inequality is subexponential.Comment: The introduction was expanded and some misprints correcte

On a conjecture regarding the upper graph box dimension of bounded subsets of the real line

Let X \subset R be a bounded set; we introduce a formula that calculates the upper graph box dimension of X (i.e.the supremum of the upper box dimension of the graph over all uniformly continuous functions defined on X). We demonstrate the strength of the formula by calculating the upper graph box dimension for some sets and by giving an "one line" proof, alternative to the one given in [1], of the fact that if X has finitely many isolated points then its upper graph box dimension is equal to the upper box dimension plus one. Furthermore we construct a collection of sets X with infinitely many isolated points, having upper box dimension a taking values from zero to one while their graph box dimension takes any value in [max{2a,1},a + 1], answering this way, negatively to a conjecture posed in [1]

Finite-distance singularities in the tearing of thin sheets

We investigate the interaction between two cracks propagating in a thin sheet. Two different experimental geometries allow us to tear sheets by imposing an out-of-plane shear loading. We find that two tears converge along self-similar paths and annihilate each other. These finite-distance singularities display geometry-dependent similarity exponents, which we retrieve using scaling arguments based on a balance between the stretching and the bending of the sheet close to the tips of the cracks.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure

Recurrence properties of hypercyclic operators

[EN] We generalize the notions of hypercyclic operators, U-frequently hypercyclic operators and frequently hypercyclic operators by introducing a new concept in linear dynamics, namely A-hypercyclicity. We then state an A-hypercyclicity criterion, inspired by the hypercyclicity criterion and the frequent hypercyclicity criterion, and we show that this criterion characterizes the A-hypercyclicity for weighted shifts. We also investigate which density properties can the sets N(x, U) = {n is an element of N; T-n x is an element of U} have for a given hypercyclic operator, and we study the new notion of reiteratively hypercyclic operators.This work is supported in part by MEC and FEDER, Project MTM2013-47093-P, and by GVA, Projects PROMETEOII/2013/013 and ACOMP/2015/005. The second author was a postdoctoral researcher of the Belgian FNRS.Bès, JP.; Menet, Q.; Peris Manguillot, A.; Puig-De Dios, Y. (2016). Recurrence properties of hypercyclic operators. Mathematische Annalen. 366(1):545-572. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-015-1336-3S5455723661Badea, C., Grivaux, S.: Unimodular eigenvalues, uniformly distributed sequences and linear dynamics. Adv. Math. 211, 766–793 (2007)Bayart, F., Grivaux, S.: Frequently hypercyclic operators. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 358, 5083–5117 (2006)Bayart, F., Grivaux, S.: Invariant Gaussian measures for operators on Banach spaces and linear dynamics. Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. 94, 181–210 (2007)Bayart, F., Matheron, É.: Dynamics of linear operators, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, 179. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2009)Bayart, F., Matheron, É.: (Non-)weakly mixing operators and hypercyclicity sets. Ann. Inst. Fourier 59, 1–35 (2009)Bayart, F., Ruzsa, I.: Difference sets and frequently hypercyclic weighted shifts. Ergodic Theory Dynam. Syst. 35, 691–709 (2015)Bergelson, V.: Ergodic Ramsey Theory- an update, Ergodic Theory of $$\mathbb{Z}^d$$ Z d -actions. Lond. Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser. 28, 1–61 (1996)Bernal-González, L., Grosse-Erdmann, K.-G.: The Hypercyclicity Criterion for sequences of operators. Studia Math. 157, 17–32 (2003)Bès, J., Peris, A.: Hereditarily hypercyclic operators. J. Funct. Anal. 167, 94–112 (1999)Bonilla, A., Grosse-Erdmann, K.-G.: Frequently hypercyclic operators and vectors. Ergodic Theory Dynam. Syst. 27, 383–404 (2007)Bonilla, A., Grosse-Erdmann, K.-G.: Erratum: Ergodic Theory Dynam. Systems 29, 1993–1994 (2009)Chan, K., Seceleanu, I.: Hypercyclicity of shifts as a zero-one law of orbital limit points. J. Oper. Theory 67, 257–277 (2012)Costakis, G., Sambarino, M.: Topologically mixing hypercyclic operators. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132, 385–389 (2004)Furstenberg, H.: Recurrence in ergodic theory and combinatorial number theory. Princeton University Press, Princeton (1981)Giuliano, R., Grekos, G., Mišík, L.: Open problems on densities II, Diophantine Analysis and Related Fields 2010. AIP Conf. Proc. 1264, 114–128 (2010)Grosse-Erdmann, K.-G.: Hypercyclic and chaotic weighted shifts. Studia Math. 139, 47–68 (2000)Grosse-Erdmann, K.-G., Peris, A.: Frequently dense orbits. C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris 341, 123–128 (2005)Grosse-Erdmann, K.G., Peris, A.: Weakly mixing operators on topological vector spaces, Rev. R. Acad. Cienc. Exactas Fís. Nat. Ser. A Math. RACSAM, 104, 413–426 (2010)Grosse-Erdmann, K.G., Peris Manguillot, A.: Linear chaos, Universitext. Springer, London (2011)Menet, Q.: Linear chaos and frequent hypercyclicity. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. arXiv:1410.7173Puig, Y.: Linear dynamics and recurrence properties defined via essential idempotents of $$\beta {\mathbb{N}}$$ β N (2014) arXiv:1411.7729 (preprint)Salas, H.N.: Hypercyclic weighted shifts. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 347, 993–1004 (1995)Salat, T., Toma, V.: A classical Olivier’s theorem and statistical convergence. Ann. Math. Blaise Pascal 10, 305–313 (2003)Shkarin, S.: On the spectrum of frequently hypercyclic operators. Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 137, 123–134 (2009

Almost sure-sign convergence of Hardy-type Dirichlet series

[EN] Hartman proved in 1939 that the width of the largest possible strip in the complex plane on which a Dirichlet series is uniformly a.s.- sign convergent (i.e., converges uniformly for almost all sequences of signs epsilon (n) = +/- 1) but does not convergent absolutely, equals 1/2. We study this result from a more modern point of view within the framework of so-called Hardytype Dirichlet series with values in a Banach space.Supported by CONICET-PIP 11220130100329CO, PICT 2015-2299 and UBACyT 20020130100474BA. Supported by MICINN MTM2017-83262-C2-1-P. Supported by MICINN MTM2017-83262-C2-1-P and UPV-SP20120700.Carando, D.; Defant, A.; Sevilla Peris, P. (2018). Almost sure-sign convergence of Hardy-type Dirichlet series. Journal d Analyse Mathématique. 135(1):225-247. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11854-018-0034-yS2252471351A. Aleman, J.-F. Olsen, and E. Saksman, Fourier multipliers for Hardy spaces of Dirichlet series, Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN 16 (2014), 4368–4378.R. Balasubramanian, B. Calado, and H. Queffélec, The Bohr inequality for ordinary Dirichlet series Studia Math. 175 (2006), 285–304.F. Bayart, Hardy spaces of Dirichlet series and their composition operators, Monatsh. Math. 136 (2002), 203–236.F. Bayart, A. Defant, L. Frerick, M. Maestre, and P. Sevilla-Peris, Monomial series expansion of Hp-functions and multipliers ofHp-Dirichlet series, Math. Ann. 368 (2017), 837–876.F. Bayart, D. Pellegrino, and J. B. Seoane-Sepúlveda, The Bohr radius of the n-dimensional polydisk is equivalent to $$\sqrt {\left( {\log n} \right)/n}$$ ( log n ) / n , Adv. Math. 264 (2014), 726–746.F. Bayart, H. Queffélec, and K. Seip, Approximation numbers of composition operators on Hp spaces of Dirichlet series, Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble) 66 (2016), 551–588.H. F. Bohnenblust and E. Hille. On the absolute convergence of Dirichlet series, Ann. of Math. (2) 32 (1931), 600–622.H. Bohr, Über die Bedeutung der Potenzreihen unendlich vieler Variablen in der Theorie der Dirichlet–schen Reihen $$\sum {\frac{{{a_n}}}{{{n^s}}}}$$ ∑ a n n s , Nachr. Ges.Wiss. Göttingen, Math. Phys. Kl., 1913, pp. 441–488.D. Carando, A. Defant, and P. Sevilla-Peris, Bohr’s absolute convergence problem for Hp- Dirichlet series in Banach spaces, Anal. PDE 7 (2014), 513–527.D. Carando, A. Defant, and P. Sevilla-Peris, Some polynomial versions of cotype and applications, J. Funct. Anal. 270 (2016), 68–87.B. J. Cole and T. W. Gamelin, Representing measures and Hardy spaces for the infinite polydisk algebra, Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 53 (1986), 112–142.R. de la Bretèche. Sur l’ordre de grandeur des polynômes de Dirichlet, Acta Arith. 134 (2008), 141–148.A. Defant, L. Frerick, J. Ortega-Cerdà, M. Ounäies, and K. Seip, The Bohnenblust-Hille inequality for homogeneous polynomials is hypercontractive, Ann. of Math. (2) 174 (2011), 485–497.A. Defant, D. García, M. Maestre, and D. Pérez-García, Bohr’s strip for vector valued Dirichlet series, Math. Ann. 342 (2008), 533–555.A. Defant, M. Maestre, and U. Schwarting, Bohr radii of vector valued holomorphic functions, Adv. Math. 231 (2012), 2837–2857.A. Defant and A. Pérez, Hardy spaces of vector-valued Dirichlet series, StudiaMath. (to appear), 2018 DOI: 10.4064/sm170303-26-7.A. Defant, U. Schwarting, and P. Sevilla-Peris, Estimates for vector valued Dirichlet polynomials, Monatsh. Math. 175 (2014), 89–116.J. Diestel, H. Jarchow, and A. Tonge, Absolutely Summing Operators, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.P. Hartman, On Dirichlet series involving random coefficients, Amer. J. Math. 61 (1939), 955–964.H. Hedenmalm, P. Lindqvist, and K. Seip, A Hilbert space of Dirichlet series and systems of dilated functions in L2(0, 1), Duke Math. J. 86 (1997), 1–37.A. Hildebrand, and G. Tenenbaum, Integers without large prime factors, J. Thor. Nombres Bordeaux 5 (1993), 411–484.S. V. Konyagin and H. Queffélec, The translation 1/2 in the theory of Dirichlet series, Real Anal. Exchange 27 (2001/02) 155–175.J. Lindenstrauss and L. Tzafriri, Classical Banach Spaces. II, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1979.B. Maurizi and H. Queffélec, Some remarks on the algebra of bounded Dirichlet series, J. Fourier Anal. Appl. 16 (2010), 676–692.H. Queffélec, H. Bohr’s vision of ordinary Dirichlet series; old and new results, J. Anal. 3 (1995), 43–60.H. Queffélec and M. Queffélec, Diophantine Approximation and Dirichlet Series, Hindustan Book Agency, New Delhi, 2013.G. Tenenbaum, Introduction to Analytic and Probabilistic Number Theory, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995

Portugal and Angola: the politics of a troubled media relationship

In his last text of 2016, published on Christmas day, the editor of Angola’s official newspaper, Jornal de Angola, wrote a ‘message of harmony’ where he chose to focus on diplomatic relations with the former colonial power. José Ribeiro’s reading was clear: “Forty one years after independence the Portuguese elites still treat us impolitely as if we were their slaves” (Ribeiro, 2016). This posture would be reinforced precisely a week later in the first editorial of 2017: “Angola will not cease to be an independent country (…) no longer willing to accept mouldy neo-colonial impositions from abroad” (Ribeiro, 2017).(undefined)info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Two 'transitions': the political economy of Joyce Banda's rise to power and the related role of civil society organisations in Malawi

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Review of African Political Economy on 21/07/2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056244.2014.90194

Hypercyclic algebras for convolution and composition operators

[EN] We provide an alternative proof to those by Shkarin and by Bayart and Matheron that the operator D of complex differentiation supports a hypercyclic algebra on the space of entire functions. In particular we obtain hypercyclic algebras for many convolution operators not induced by polynomials, such as , , or , where . In contrast, weighted composition operators on function algebras of analytic functions on a plane domain fail to support supercyclic algebras.This work is supported in part by MEC, Project MTM 2016-7963-P. We also thank Angeles Prieto for comments and suggestions.Bès, J.; Conejero, JA.; Papathanasiou, D. (2018). Hypercyclic algebras for convolution and composition operators. Journal of Functional Analysis. 274(10):2884-2905. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfa.2018.02.003S288429052741

A note on abscissas of Dirichlet series

[EN] We present an abstract approach to the abscissas of convergence of vector-valued Dirichlet series. As a consequence we deduce that the abscissas for Hardy spaces of Dirichlet series are all equal. We also introduce and study weak versions of the abscissas for scalar-valued Dirichlet series.A. Defant: Partially supported by MINECO and FEDER MTM2017-83262-C2-1-P. A. Pérez: Supported by La Caixa Foundation, MINECO and FEDER MTM2014-57838-C2-1-P and Fundación Séneca - Región de Murcia (CARM 19368/PI/14). P. Sevilla-Peris: Supported by MINECO and FEDER MTM2017-83262-C2-1-P.Defant, A.; Pérez, A.; Sevilla Peris, P. (2019). A note on abscissas of Dirichlet series. Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales Serie A Matemáticas. 113(3):2639-2653. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13398-019-00647-yS263926531133Bayart, F.: Hardy spaces of Dirichlet series and their composition operators. Mon. Math. 136(3), 203–236 (2002)Bohnenblust, H.F., Hille, E.: On the absolute convergence of Dirichlet series. Ann Math. 32(3), 600–622 (1931)Bohr, H.: Über die Bedeutung der Potenzreihen unendlich vieler Variablen in der Theorie der Dirichlet–schen Reihen $$\sum \,\frac{a_n}{n^s}$$ ∑ a n n s . Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, Math. Phys. Kl., pp. 441–488 (1913)Bonet, J.: Abscissas of weak convergence of vector valued Dirichlet series. J. Funct. Anal. 269(12), 3914–3927 (2015)Carando, D., Defant, A., Sevilla-Peris, P.: Bohr’s absolute convergence problem for $$\cal{H}_p$$ H p -Dirichlet series in Banach spaces. Anal. PDE 7(2), 513–527 (2014)Carando, D., Defant, A., Sevilla-Peris, P.: Some polynomial versions of cotype and applications. J. Funct. Anal. 270(1), 68–87 (2016)Defant, A., García, D., Maestre, M., Pérez-García, D.: Bohr’s strip for vector valued Dirichlet series. Math. Ann. 342(3), 533–555 (2008)Defant, A., García, D., Maestre, M., Sevilla–Peris, P.: Dirichlet Series and Holomorphic Funcions in High Dimensions, vol. 37 of New Mathematical Monographs. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2019)Defant, A., Pérez, A.: Optimal comparison of the $$p$$ p -norms of Dirichlet polynomials. Israel J. Math. 221(2), 837–852 (2017)Defant, A., Pérez, A.: Hardy spaces of vector-valued Dirichlet series. Studia Math. 243(1), 53–78 (2018)Diestel, J., Jarchow, H., Tonge, A.: Absolutely summing operators, vol. 43 of Cambridge studies in advanced mathematics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1995)Maurizi, B., Queffélec, H.: Some remarks on the algebra of bounded Dirichlet series. J. Fourier Anal. Appl. 16(5), 676–692 (2010)Queffélec, H., Queffélec, M.: Diophantine approximation and Dirichlet series, vol. 2 of Harish–Chandra research institute lecture notes. Hindustan Book Agency, New Delhi (2013