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Friday 25 September

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Optimal stability hierarchies of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle for solenoidal fields and of the second order Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities

In 2018, V. Maz'ya proposed 75 open problems in analysis and PDEs. One of them is about the best constant for the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle for solenoidal vector fields motivated by questions in hydrodynamics. This was answered by Cazacu, Flynn and Lam in dimension two and subsequently by Hamamoto in all dimensions $N\ge3$ by establishing sharp inequalities with explicit constants. Nevertheless, the much harder stability problem remains open in all dimensions. The first main result in this paper is to establish a sharp stability hierarchy by proving that its deficit controls the distance to the set of extremals, with the sharp stability constant $\frac12(N-\sqrt{N^2-4N+12})$ for $N\ge4$ and $1$ for $N=3$, together with chains of remainder terms measuring the distance to explicit larger families of poloidal and toroidal fields. The second main result is the second order $L^2$-Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequality with the weights $|x|^{-2a}$ and $|x|^{-2b}$ on the line $1+a+b=0$, for which we obtain the stability constant $\frac12\min\{4(1+a),\sqrt{(N+2a)^2+4N-4}-(N+2a)\}$. This CKN inequality is sharp whenever the second number is the smaller one. We develop a novel method: the fourth order one-dimensional problems attached to the spherical modes are transformed, by a Fourier–Hankel transform of real order, into first order inequalities whose sharp stability is that of weighted Gaussian Poincaré inequalities. The inverse transform produces the extremals in terms of Kummer's function. As a byproduct of our new approach, we also obtain substantially simpler proofs, with sharp remainder terms and equality cases, of Hamamoto's one-dimensional inequality and of his sharp uncertainty principle for solenoidal fields.
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All authors Anh Do, Tuan Duong, Nguyen Lam, Guozhen Lu, Van Hoang Nguyen

Classical Analysis and ODEs

Sharp weighted weak-type bounds for commutators of singular integrals

We establish sharp weak-type bounds for commutators of Calderón–Zygmund operators and $\text{BMO}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ symbols with respect to $A_p$ weights. We prove that the bound \looseness=-1 $$ \|[b,T]\|_{L^p(w)\rightarrow L^{p,\infty}(w)}\lesssim [w]_{A_p}^{\max(2,p')} $$ for $p \in (1,\infty)$ and $w \in A_p$ is sharp for general $T \in \text{CZO}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ and $b \in \text{BMO}(\mathbb{R}^n)$. In the case of the standard logarithmic symbol, we show that the estimate improves to $$ \|[\log|\cdot|,T]\|_{L^p(w)\rightarrow L^{p,\infty}(w)}\lesssim [w]_{A_p}^{\max\big(2,\frac{1}{p}+\frac{p'}{p}\big)} $$ and that this dependence is optimal for this symbol. Our upper bound for the logarithmic symbol follows from the pointwise control of the commutator by a sum of the Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator and the squares of the radial Hardy operator and its adjoint, while our lower bounds are consequences of a general result for singular integral operators.
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The Wiener norm of lifts of dense Sidon sets

We describe, with proof, an infinite class of examples of finite sets of integers $A$ for which $\|\widehat{1_A}\|_1\geq (c_\mathcal{R}-o_{|A| \rightarrow \infty}(1))\sqrt{|A|}$ where $c_\mathcal{R}=0.953\dots$.

Classical Analysis and ODEs

Formalizing Carleson's Theorem in Lean

We present the formalization of Carleson's theorem in the proof assistant Lean. This paper describes the mathematical content, organization of the project, the blueprint, and the main design decisions behind the formalization. It is the result of a large collaborative effort, written and developed in public.
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All authors Lars Becker, María Inés de Frutos-Fernández, Leo Diedering, Floris van Doorn, Sébastien Gouëzel, Evgenia Karunus, Edward van de Meent, Pietro Monticone, Jasper Mulder-Sohn, Jim Portegies, Joris Roos, Michael Rothgang, James Sundstrom, Jeremy Tan

Classical Analysis and ODEs

On convergence of formal Dulac series, satisfying an algebraic $q$-difference equation

An algebraic $q$-difference equation for $|q|>1$ is considered. A sufficient condition is proposed for the convergence of a solution to such an equation in the form of a Dulac series within a sector centered at the origin. An example illustrating the application of this sufficient condition is provided.
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The derivative function of the zeta-star correspondence

We study the right derivative of the zeta-star correspondence between binary expansions and multiple zeta-star values of infinite depth. At a finite-index point, this derivative is a normalized difference of two finite-depth multiple zeta-star values. We use this identity to express its local behavior in terms of lower-truncated star sums and their boundary coefficients. The homogeneous contribution at summation variable three contracts with ratio $2/3$; the full coefficient also receives a positive forcing term. A weighted sum of the remaining coefficients contracts by at most $1/2$ at each binary step. On the open parameter interval, we prove that the derivative is right-continuous everywhere and continuous precisely at the non-dyadic points. Its left jump at a dyadic point is given by an explicit positive multiple series, with divergence exactly at $1/2-2^{-M}$, $M\ge2$. A refinement of the index gives an infinite upper right Dini derivative at every interior point. We also prove that the Hausdorff, packing, and modified upper box dimensions of the graph are all $\log_2(8/3)$. The Hausdorff lower bound uses the dimension of the Bernoulli convolution with parameter $2/3$, together with a separate measure-transfer argument. Finally, the pointwise Hölder exponent at a non-dyadic point is $\log_2(3/2)$ divided by its dyadic approximation exponent, and the corresponding Hausdorff spectrum is linear.
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An elementary solution of the polarization problem

By distilling and combining earlier arguments, we give a self-contained and entirely elementary proof of the strong and real linear polarization inequalities established by Martínez and Ortega-Moreno. Specifically, for any unit vectors $u_1,\ldots,u_n\in\mathbb{R}^d$, there exists a unit vector $v\in\mathbb{R}^d$ such that $$\sum_{i=1}^n \frac{1}{\langle u_i,v\rangle^2}\le n^2. $$ As an immediate consequence, we recover the real linear polarization inequality $$\prod_{i=1}^n |\langle u_i,v\rangle|\ge n^{-n/2}. $$
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Discrete orthogonal polynomials related to Hahn difference operator

This work studies general sequences of discrete orthogonal polynomials on linear lattices, including the so-called discrete Laguerre–Hahn orthogonal polynomials. We deduce the structure relations involving the orthogonal polynomials and their associated, as well as the explicit form of the fourth–order linear difference equation satisfied by these Laguerre–Hahn orthogonal polynomials. Furthermore, the particular cases corresponding to semiclassical and classical families of orthogonal polynomials, which lead to second–order difference equations, are also analyzed. Several examples illustrating the computation of the explicit coefficients of these difference equations for various families of orthogonal polynomials are also presented.
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All authors J.F. Mañas-Mañas, J.J. Moreno-Balcázar, M.N. Rebocho, C. Rodríguez-Perales

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Upper and lower fluctuations in Shallit's law of leap years in Pierce expansions

Shallit's law of leap years in Pierce expansions gives, for Lebesgue-almost every $x\in[0,1]$, the upper and lower limits of a normalized difference between $Nx$ and the number of leap years up to the year $N$ determined by the Pierce expansion digits of $x$. In this paper, we show that, for every $x\in[0,1]$, both limits are determined by the lower limit of a normalized logarithm of the product of the first $n$ digits of $x$. In particular, the upper and lower limits always have the same absolute value. As applications, we characterize the sets of points with prescribed upper and lower limits, and show that each of these sets, if non-empty, is dense in $[0,1]$ and its intersection with any non-empty open subset of $[0,1]$ has full Hausdorff dimension. We also compare these sets with the sets defined by the growth rate of the digits, and show that, for each finite parameter, their difference has full Hausdorff dimension.
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Almost-orthogonal Strichartz estimates and radial improvements

We extend the Schatten-duality principle from orthonormal systems to (almost-orthogonal) Bessel families and apply it to prove sharp and improved Bessel-family Strichartz estimates for the Kadomtsev–Petviashvili, Zakharov–Kuznetsov, and radial Schrödinger equations. In particular, for the Schrödinger equation, we establish an improved estimate in a larger radial range of space-time exponents, not from dispersive estimates as in the KP/ZK models, but from direct robust Schatten estimates, using some vector-valued multi-product trace formula and multilinear weighted fractional integral formula. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first radial improvement for systems, and the almost-orthogonal estimates are also new to the literature. We also derive necessary conditions.
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Thursday 24 September

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Extremals and stability for the Folland-Stein inequality on H-type groups

We classify all real extremals of the sharp $L^2$ Folland-Stein inequality on H-type groups and prove a global Bianchi-Egnell stability estimate. The linearized kernel at the standard bubble consists exactly of its translation and dilation derivatives. We also obtain explicit bounds for the spectral gap above the symmetry modes and characterize the optimal coefficient in the local stability asymptotics. The results apply to arbitrary orthogonal Clifford modules.
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Phase retrieval for Schrödinger evolutions

Consider the one-dimensional Schrödinger evolution $$ i\partial_tw+\partial_x^2w=Vw,\hspace{5mm}(t,x)\in [0,T]\times\mathbb{R},$$ where $V$ is a real-valued time-dependent potential belonging to $L^1_tL^\infty_x+L^2_{t,x}$. We prove that an $L^2$ solution to the above equation is determined by its mass density $|w|^2$ modulo a global unimodular phase factor. This answers a question recently posed by Jaming for a large class of potentials, and recovers his earlier result for the free Schrödinger evolution. Our proof is simple and robust. It combines the basic local smoothing properties of the above Schrödinger evolutions, Strichartz estimates, and a stripwise version of a unique continuation theorem of Ionescu and Kenig to show that the interaction function $$ F(t,x,y)=u(t,x)v(t,y)-u(t,y)v(t,x) $$ vanishes identically on $[0,T]\times\mathbb{R}^2$ whenever $u$ and $v$ are $L^2$ solutions to a Schröinder euqation with potential $V$ with the same mass density. The method immediately extends to several important nonlinear models such as the cubic NLS equation, which is globally well-posed in $L^2(\mathbb{R})$ with $V=|u|^2$. Interestingly, we also show that the above phase recovery property fails in dimensions two and higher, even for the free equation with Schwartz initial data.
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Volume stability of plank covers

We prove a longstanding conjecture of András Bezdek on the stability of plank covers of the planar disk $D$. If a sufficiently small disk $\varepsilon D$ is removed, then every finite family of planks covering the resulting annulus can be rearranged to cover the whole disk. For the proof, we establish a stronger dimension-independent stability theorem. If $K \subset {\mathbb R}^n$ is an origin-symmetric convex body for $n \geq 2$, and the uncovered region lies in $\varepsilon K$ and has volume $v$, then the excess overlap is at least $c v/\varepsilon$, where $c>0$ is an absolute constant. The proof introduces a pruning procedure and a flattening mechanism. Pruning peels away curvature through local removals whose cumulative effect is guaranteed to be substantial. Flattening trades straightness for bounded multiplicity and geometrically exposes the overlap that pays for each pruning step.
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Preduals of weighted homogeneous Bourgain-Morrey Besov-Triebel-Lizorkin spaces associated with operators

Let $(X,\rho,\mu)$ be a space of homogeneous type satisfying $\mu(X) =\infty$, the doubling property and the reverse doubling condition. Let $L$ be a nonnegative self-adjoint operator on $L^2(X)$ whose heat kernel has a Gaussian upper bound. First, we study the preduals of weighted Bourgain-Morrey spaces on $X$ and their properties, such as lattice property and completeness. Then we introduce the weighted homogeneous Besov-Triebel-Lizorkin block spaces. It is shown that they are the preduals of weighted homogeneous Bourgain-Morrey Besov-Triebel-Lizorkin spaces associated with the operator $L$. Consequently, these block spaces are independent of the choice of partitions of unity.
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Hausdorff-Young inequalities for $\mathrm{SU}(1,1)$ Fourier products indexed by binary cubes

We study nonlinear logarithmic Hausdorff-Young inequalities with constant $1$ for $\mathrm{SU}(1,1)$-valued Fourier products indexed by binary cubes. The inequalities are proved for the optimal range of exponents, extending into the region $1/p + 1/q < 1$. The proof combines majorization, a known sharp two-point inequality, and tree iteration. We also obtain the corresponding chain inequality and nonlinear bounds for generating functions of alternating chains, recovering the known sharp bounds for additive energies on the binary cube as the amplitudes vanish.
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Method I revisited: extension, continuity, and applications

Carathéodory's construction, also known as Method I, turns any weight on a family of sets into an outer measure. The difficulty is the extension problem: showing that the outer measure retains the prescribed weights. We record elementary properties of Method I, beginning with the fact that countable subadditivity on the covering family is exactly the criterion for faithful extension, and use them to prove standard results with only outer measures, $\sigma$-algebras, and measures, without premeasures on algebras. In topological spaces, a continuity principle reduces this criterion to finite subadditivity and finite approximation by open and compact sets. Applications include the Lebesgue integral as a measure, Tonelli's theorem, multidimensional Lebesgue–Stieltjes measures, Riesz representation for vector-valued functionals, Kolmogorov extension, mass distributions on nested partitions, and Frostman's lemma.
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Sharp endpoint extension inequalities for the moment curve on finite fields II: an extremal property of the uniform distribution

We identify the optimal constant and describe all maximizers for the Fourier endpoint extension inequality associated with the moment curve over finite fields. This confirms a conjecture proposed in the authors' earlier work. The proof proceeds by showing that the problem is equivalent to a purely probabilistic extremal statement: among all probability distributions on a finite set, the uniform distribution uniquely maximizes the expected number of distinct rearrangements of an i.i.d. sample.
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All authors Chandan Biswas, Emanuel Carneiro, Taryn C. Flock, José Madrid, Diogo Oliveira e Silva, Betsy Stovall, James Tautges

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Absolute continuity of projections and dimension conservation for self-similar sets and measures

Let $A\subset\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq3$, be the attractor of a self-similar IFS whose rotations generate a dense subgroup of $\mathrm{SO}(d)$. For every $1\leq k<\dim_{\mathrm{H}} A$ and $V\in\mathrm{Gr}(d,k)$, we prove that $\pi_VA$ has positive $k$-dimensional Lebesgue measure uniformly in $V$, and $\dim_{\mathrm{H}}(A\cap\pi_V^{-1}\{y\})=\dim_{\mathrm{H}} A-k$ for Lebesgue-almost every $y\in\pi_VA$. Moreover, if $\mu$ is a self-similar measure for such an IFS with $I_t(\mu)<\infty$ for some $k<t<d$, then every $\mu_V=(\pi_V)_*\mu$ is equivalent to the $k$-dimensional Lebesgue measure restricted to $\pi_VA$, with density $f_V$ satisfying $\sup_V\int_{\{f_V>M\}}f_V\,d\mathcal{L}_V^k\lesssim e^{-c(\log M)^{1/3}}$. Under strong separation, the conditional measures on the fibres are exact dimensional of dimension $\dim_{\mathrm{H}}\mu-k$. The proof uses self-similarity to iterate $L^1$ norms of differences of the Gaussian-smoothing of $\mu_V$ between scales. Unlike $L^q$, $q>1$, the $L^1$ norm does not grow under rescaling, allowing Varjú's $L^2$ weak gap theorem under dense support condition to be used, and avoiding to use the much stronger uniform spectral gap assumption.
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Spectral eigenvalue problem of Cantor measures and Artin's primitive root conjecture

The eigenvalue problem for a probability measure $\mu$ with compact support in $\R$ is whether there exist a countable set $\Lambda$ and a nonzero real $t\ne 1$ such that both $\Lambda$ and $t\Lambda$ are spectra of $\mu$, that is, the family $$E_{a\Lambda}=\{e^{-2\pi i a\lambda x}:\lambda\in\Lambda\}$$ is an orthonormal base for $L^2(\mu)$ for $a=1, t$. The eigenvalue problem was discovered independently by Strichartz (Str00), Laba and Wang (LW02) for the Cantor measures $\mu_{4,\{0,1\}}$ and $\mu_{6,\{0,1,2\}}$, respectively. In this paper, we investigate the spectral eigenvalue problem for the general spectral Cantor measure $\mu_{b,\mathcal{D}}$. This topic is naturally related to elementary number theory. Unexpectedly, however, our main results depend on the theory of integers, especially Artin's primitive root conjecture. To some extent, our results suggest that Artin's primitive root conjecture may hold and confirms some viewpoints implied by Minkowski in (Min57).
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Sharp power-mean comparisons for Gauss hypergeometric functions

We determine the sharp weighted power-mean comparisons for the family $\{H_a(r)\}_{r\in (0,1)}$ with the logarithmic interpretation at $a=0$. In the parameter ranges considered by Barnard, Richards and Tiedeman, we give a complete characterization of all orders $\lambda,\mu\in\mathbb{R}$ for which $$A_\lambda(w;1,1-r)\leq H_a(r)\leq A_\mu(w;1,1-r)$$ holds for every $r\in(0,1)$. In particular, our results settle completely their two power-mean conjectures. The two sharp orders are determined by the second-order expansion at $r=0$ and the endpoint matching as $r\to1$. A weighted Wronskian identity and a sign analysis of its residual establish the global inequalities.
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Wednesday 23 September

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Cross-listed from math.CV

Wiman-Valiron inequalities in the unit disk outside sets of finite logarithmic measure

We give affirmative answers to both parts of Question 2.6 posed by Grosse-Erdmann (2025) concerning Wiman-Valiron inequalities in the unit disk. For every unbounded analytic function in the disk, we establish the proposed iterated-logarithm inequalities outside exceptional sets of finite logarithmic measure. The corresponding power estimate is a corollary. Both conclusions follow from a variance bound for Khinchin families and a classical estimate for their largest atom. The multiplicative constants in the main inequalities can be chosen absolute. We also obtain a disk analogue of Rosenbloom's composition estimate, with an explicit boundary prefactor. The key step combines a boundary change of variable with a monotone auxiliary function whose derivative is exactly the variance of a rescaled member of the Khinchin family. A classical example shows that the leading logarithmic exponent $1/2$ cannot be decreased.
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On the Alzer-Berg problem: an optimal Bernstein boundary and a uniqueness conjecture

We study the two-parameter exponential family associated with the complete-monotonicity problem of Alzer and Berg. Strict necessary parameter bounds place every possible Bernstein function in the domain of a regularized Laplace representation. A quantitative positivity-transfer inequality then yields a linear sufficient condition with the largest possible universal coefficient, expressed in terms of the exact one-parameter critical exponent. To describe the whole admissible region, we derive convolution identities for parameter derivatives and prove that increasing either normalized parameter destroys positivity at every zero of a nonnegative density. Combined with uniform tail estimates, this excludes gaps in the admissible parameter intervals and gives a continuous, strictly monotone optimal boundary. Global nonnegativity of the density and contact with zero characterize that boundary; its inverse determines the complete admissible interval for the second parameter. The characterization is implicit and requires neither uniqueness nor nondegeneracy of the contact points. Published numerical approximations of the one-parameter exponent are distinguished from the exact results and from the finite rational certificate used in the proofs. We also derive a variational formula and a rigorous framework for validated numerical enclosure of the boundary, and formulate a boundary-contact conjecture asserting uniqueness and quadratic contact at every interior boundary point.
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Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup maximal operator on weighted $L^p$ space

Let $(\mathcal{H}\_t)_{t \geq 0}$ denote the standard Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup over ambient space $\mathbb R^d$ equipped with Gaussian measure $d\gamma(x) = e^{-|x|^2} dx$. Further let $\mathcal{H}^*(f)(x) = \sup_{t > 0} \mathcal{H}_t(|f|)(x)$ denote the associated maximal operator. Since $(\mathcal{H}_t)_{t \geq 0}$ is a Markovian semigroup over $(\mathbb R^d,d\gamma(x))$, it is well known that $\mathcal{H}^*$ is bounded on $L^p(\mathbb R^d,d\gamma(x))$ for all $1 < p \leq \infty$. We show that $\mathcal{H}^*$ is also bounded on the weighted space $L^p(\mathbb{R}^d,\omega(x)e^{-\frac{p}{2}|x|^2}dx)$ for $1 < p <\infty$, for weights $\omega\,: \mathbb R^d \to (0,\infty)$ belonging to a certain Muckenhoupt type class $A^\alpha_p$, where $\alpha \in [0,1)$. Essentially, a weight $\omega$ belongs to $A^\alpha_p$ if and only if $\omega(Q) \omega^{-\frac{1}{p-1}}(Q)^{p-1} \leq C |Q|^p$ for all cubes $Q$ contained in any reference cube $N_\alpha(R_x) \subseteq \mathbb R^d$, where the well chosen family $(N_\alpha(R_x))_{x \in \mathbb R^d}$ covers $\mathbb R^d$, $N_\alpha(R_x)$ contains $x$ and the side length of $N_\alpha(R_x)$ is comparable to $1/\max(1,|x|)^\alpha$, with constants depending only on $d$. The class $A^\alpha_p$ contains the usual Muckenhoupt class. We also use the weight class $A_p^{loc}$ from \cite[Definition 2.2]{B} defined in a similar way as $A^\alpha_p$ but with dyadic subcubes contained in some $N(R)$ built over the Gaussian dyadic grid (see below), and we show that the local part $\sup_{t >0}\mathcal{H}_t(|f|\chi_{N(R_x)})(x)$ is bounded on $L^p(\mathbb{R}^d,\omega(x)e^{-\frac{p}{2}|x|^2}dx)$ if and only if $\omega \in A^{loc}_p$.
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Spectral Analysis of Gaussian Integral Operators Arising in BHEP Tests

The Baringhaus-Henze-Epps-Pulley (BHEP) tests for multivariate normality are affine-invariant goodness-of-fit tests based on a Gaussian-weighted $L^2$ distance between empirical and Gaussian characteristic functions. In 1990, Henze and Zirkler expressed the limiting null distribution through the eigenvalues of an integral operator on the standard Gaussian space. In 1997, Henze and Wagner obtained a simpler covariance kernel and raised the problem of calculating the eigenvalues of the resulting operator on a Gaussian-weighted space. Although subsequent work treated the univariate case and numerical approximations in a few low dimensions, the complete all-dimensional spectral problem remained open. This paper determines both complete spectra for every dimension $d \in \mathbb{N}$ and every smoothing parameter $\beta > 0$. The two operators are shown to have the forms $\mathcal{X}_{\beta,d}^*\mathcal{X}_{\beta,d}$ and $\mathcal{X}_{\beta,d}\mathcal{X}_{\beta,d}^*$ for the same Hilbert-Schmidt operator $\mathcal{X}_{\beta,d}$. Consequently, their nonzero eigenvalues agree, including multiplicities, while the null space of the Henze-Zirkler operator is identified exactly. The Gaussian integral operator in the Henze-Wagner decomposition is diagonalized by Mehler's formula, and rotational symmetry confines the finite-rank correction to the sectors associated with spherical harmonics of degrees $0$, $1$, and $2$. The degree-$1$ and degree-$2$ eigenvalues are characterized by scalar transcendental equations, and the radial eigenvalues by an explicit pole-safe Fredholm determinant. The paper establishes nonnegativity, multiplicities, eigenfunction reconstruction, completeness, the trace identity, and a complete characterization of all exceptional pole cases.
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All authors Bruno Ebner, Dominic Edelmann, Norbert Henze, Frédéric Ouimet, Donald Richards

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Multiplicity-Weighted Moments Across a Harmonic Caustic: Closed Forms with Order-Independent Breakpoints

While the Jacobian of a planar harmonic mapping keeps a constant sign, the oriented and the multiplicity-weighted surface elements agree up to that sign, and the two natural moment hierarchies coincide. The nearest classification results in the literature are stated under exactly this hypothesis; this paper works past it. Once the Jacobian changes sign, the critical circle acquires a caustic as its image, part of the plane is covered several times with opposite orientations, and the hierarchies part company: integrating a radial weight against the oriented surface element $n_z$ lets overlapping sheets cancel, giving the degree-weighted moments $J_n$, while integrating against $|n_z|$ lets every sheet count positively, giving the multiplicity-weighted moments $J_n^{\pm}$. These are the classical degree and area formulas for the same map, the second weighted by the multiplicity function (Banach indicatrix). It is the second family, the one the caustic threatens, for which a closed form is no longer automatic. Our main result is that it has one anyway: $J_n^{\pm}$ is the total variation of the very same explicit primitive whose endpoint difference gives $J_n$. Crossing the caustic therefore costs only finitely many extra evaluation points, and they are the same points for every order $n$; for a monotone profile there is at most one interior breakpoint, at the critical radius itself. The family carrying this is the two-monomial planar harmonic mapping $F(w)=w+iC\bar w^k$, $w=p(u)e^{iv}$, arising as the planar projection of a Fourier-perturbed surface. On the degree-weighted side $J_n$ has a boundary-only closed form for every $n\ge 0$, the zeroth being the oriented $z$-flux. Neither weighted integral is a new object, and the caustic has been located before in the literature on harmonic trinomials; what is new is the closed evaluation of the multiplicity-weighted hierarchy across it.
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Phase retrieval from a uniformly discrete point set

We prove that for every window $w$ of the form $w(x) = e^{-\pi |x|^2} h(x)$, where $h$ is a polynomial, there exists a uniformly discrete set of points $\mathcal{S} \subset \mathbb R^{2d}$ such that the magnitude of the short-time Fourier transform $V_w f$ on $\mathcal{S}$ determines every $f \in L^2(\mathbb R^d)$ up to a constant phase factor. The separation distance can be chosen independent of the degree of $h$ and proportional to the square root of the dimension. The proof combines a discrete norming inequality, based on a multidimensional Remez inequality and VC-dimension bounds, with tail estimates for the reproducing kernel. A formalization of our main result in Lean 4 is also provided.
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All authors Jaume de Dios Pont, Josef Greilhuber, Lukas Liehr, Mitchell A. Taylor

Classical Analysis and ODEs

Besicovitch Compression and a Quantitative Failure of Endpoint Fourier Restriction

A classical theorem of Beckner, Carbery, Semmes, and Soria states that the Fourier restriction operator for the sphere does not satisfy the restricted weak-type estimate at the conjectured endpoint. Their proof uses the Besicovitch compression phenomenon and proceeds by contradiction, as in Fefferman's disproof of the ball multiplier conjecture. As a result, it reveals little about how badly the estimate fails. We develop a general framework that converts Besicovitch compression into a quantitative failure at an endpoint. Given a family of sets that compresses, our framework produces an explicit set that violates the bound, with a rate governed by the amount of compression. The rate is sharp within the admissible family of sets. We apply this to the sphere and the paraboloid and construct a deterministic sequence of sets along which the restricted weak-type inequality degrades at an explicitly computed rate. We also show that our construction does not provide blowup for the moment curve in dimensions three and higher, where the (much stronger) restricted strong-type bound is known to hold at the endpoint.
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Sharp Higher Integrability Theory, Part I: The $L^p$-norm of the Beurling–Ahlfors transform

We confirm a conjecture posed by T. Iwaniec in 1982: the $L^p$ norm of the Beurling–Ahlfors transform is $p-1$ if $p\geq 2$, and $(p-1)^{-1}$ if $1<p\leq 2$.
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All authors Andrea Agazzi, Kari Astala, Rodrigo Bañuelos, Giuseppe Bruno, Gabriele Cassese, Daniel Faraco, André Guerra, Mahdi Hormozi, Bernd Kirchheim, Aleksis Koski, Vjekoslav Kovač, Jan Kristensen, Federico Pasqualotto, István Prause, Eero Saksman, Vladimír Šverák, László Székelyhidi, Riccardo Tione, Alexander Volberg, Hang Yang

Classical Analysis and ODEs

Complex median method

In this paper, we complete the characterization of the boundedness of higher order commutators of pointwise multiplication and a large class of singular integral operators, when the corresponding kernels satisfy certain non-degenerate conditions. This was known with the restriction that the pointwise multiplier is real-valued. We finally remove this restriction by proposing a novel complex median method. We also showcase the flexibility of this method by proving the necessity of the rectangular product BMO for the bi-commutators.
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The weak-type $(1,1)$ estimates for wave equation on $ax+b$ groups

Let $G$ be the group $\mathbb{R}_+\ltimes \mathbb{R}^n$ endowed with Riemannian symmetric space metric $d$ and the right Haar measure $\mathrm{d} \rho$ which is of $ax+b$ type, and $L$ be the positive definite distinguished left-invariant Laplacian on $G$. Let $u=u(t,\cdot)$ be the solution to $u_{tt}+Lu=0$ with initial conditions $u|_{t=0}=f$ and $u_t|_{t=0}=g$. In this article we show that for a fixed $t \in\mathbb{R}\setminus\{0\}$, \begin{align*} \|u(t,\cdot)\|_{L^{1,\infty}(G,\mathrm{d}\rho)}\leq C\ (1+|t|)\big(\|(\operatorname{Id}+L)^{\alpha_0/2}f\|_{L^1(G,\mathrm{d}\rho)} +\|(\operatorname{Id}+L)^{\alpha_1/2}g\|_{L^1(G,\mathrm{d}\rho)}\big) \end{align*} if and only if $\alpha_0\geq {n/2}$ and $\alpha_1\geq n/2-1$. Moreover, the polynomial-in-time growth $1+|t|$ in the above estimate is best possible.
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