{"title":"On Jensen-like form of Mikusiński's functional equation","authors":"E. Imani, A. Najati, M. A. Tareeghee","doi":"10.1007/s10474-025-01527-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10474-025-01527-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We consider the conditional Jensen functional equation\u0000</p><div><div><span>$$f(x+y)ne 0 implies 2fbig(frac{x+y}{2}big)=f(x)+f(y), quad x,yin mathcal{G}$$</span></div></div><p>\u0000for functions <span>(f colon mathcal{G} tomathcal{V})</span>, where <span>((mathcal{G},+))</span> and <span>((mathcal{V},+))</span> are uniquely 2-divisible groups,\u0000with <span>((mathcal{V},+))</span> being abelian. Additionally, we investigate the hyperstability of this\u0000functional equation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50894,"journal":{"name":"Acta Mathematica Hungarica","volume":"175 2","pages":"562 - 571"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145163127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Choquet extension of non-monotone submodular setfunctions","authors":"L. Lovász","doi":"10.1007/s10474-025-01529-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10474-025-01529-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p> In a seminal paper, Choquet introduced an integral formula to\u0000extend a monotone increasing setfunction on a sigma-algebra to a (nonlinear) functional\u0000on bounded measurable functions. The most important special case is when\u0000the setfunction is submodular; then this functional is convex (and vice versa). In\u0000the finite case, an analogous extension was introduced by this author; this is a\u0000rather special case, but no monotonicity was assumed. In this note we show that\u0000Choquet's integral formula can be applied to all submodular setfunctions, and\u0000the resulting functional is still convex. We extend the construction to submodular\u0000setfunctions defined on a set-algebra (rather than a sigma-algebra). The main\u0000property of submodular setfunctions used in the proof is that they have bounded\u0000variation. As a generalization of the convexity of the extension, we show that\u0000(under smoothness conditions) a \"lopsided\" version of Fubini's Theorem holds.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50894,"journal":{"name":"Acta Mathematica Hungarica","volume":"176 1","pages":"1 - 14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10474-025-01529-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145163323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measures associated with certain ellipsephic harmonic series and the Allouche–Hu–Morin limit theorem","authors":"J.-F. Burnol","doi":"10.1007/s10474-025-01525-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10474-025-01525-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We consider the harmonic series <span>(S(k)=sum^{(k)} m^{-1})</span> over the integers having <span>(k)</span> occurrences of a given block of <span>(b)</span>-ary digits, of length <span>(p)</span>, and relate\u0000them to certain measures on the interval [0, 1). We show that these measures converge weakly to <span>(b^p)</span> times the Lebesgue measure, a fact which allows a new proof\u0000of the theorem of Allouche, Hu, and Morin [4] which says <span>(lim S(k)=b^plog(b))</span>.\u0000A quantitative error estimate will be given. Combinatorial aspects involve generating series which fall under the scope of the Goulden–Jackson cluster generating\u0000function formalism and the work of Guibas–Odlyzko on string overlaps.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50894,"journal":{"name":"Acta Mathematica Hungarica","volume":"175 2","pages":"519 - 531"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145163134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wu maps and collectively coincidence theory","authors":"D. O’regan","doi":"10.1007/s10474-025-01530-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10474-025-01530-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper new collectively fixed point results are presented\u0000for Wu type maps and our ideas generate coincidence results between KKM type\u0000maps and Wu maps. Our arguments are based on Himmelberg’s fixed point theorem and a fixed point result on admissible convex sets in a Hausdorff topological\u0000vector space.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50894,"journal":{"name":"Acta Mathematica Hungarica","volume":"175 2","pages":"472 - 485"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145163138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An exact enumeration of vertex connectivity of the enhanced power graphs of finite nilpotent groups","authors":"S. Bera, H. K. Dey","doi":"10.1007/s10474-025-01524-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10474-025-01524-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p> The enhanced power graph of a group <span>(G)</span> is a graph with vertex set <span>(G)</span>, where two distinct vertices <span>(x)</span> and <span>(y)</span> are adjacent if and only if there exists an element <span>(w)</span> in <span>(G)</span> such that both <span>(x)</span> and <span>(y)</span> are powers of <span>(w)</span>. Kumar, Ma, Parveen and Singh in [22] found the exact vertex connectivity of the enhanced power graph of finite nilpotent groups whose all except one Sylow subgroups are cyclic. In this paper, we determine the exact vertex connectivity of the enhanced power graph of any finite nilpotent group in full generality, by connecting it to the minimum number of roots of a prime order element in its Sylow subgroups.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50894,"journal":{"name":"Acta Mathematica Hungarica","volume":"175 2","pages":"550 - 561"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145160664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On several irrationality problems for Ahmes series","authors":"V. Kovač, T. Tao","doi":"10.1007/s10474-025-01528-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10474-025-01528-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p> Using basic tools of mathematical analysis and elementary probability\u0000theory we address several problems on the irrationality of series of distinct\u0000unit fractions,<span>(sum_k 1/a_k)</span>. In particular, we study subseries of the Lambert series <span>(sum_k 1/(t^k-1))</span> and two types of irrationality sequences <span>((a_k))</span> introduced by Paul\u0000Erdős and Ronald Graham. Next, we address a question of Erdős, who asked\u0000how rapidly a sequence of positive integers <span>((a_k))</span> can grow if both series <span>(sum_k 1/a_k)</span> and <span>(sum_k 1/(a_k+1))</span>have rational sums. Our construction of double exponentially\u0000growing sequences <span>((a_k))</span> with this property generalizes to any number <span>(d)</span> of series<span>(sum_k 1/(a_k+j))</span>,<span>(j=0,1,2,ldots,d-1)</span>,and, in particular, also gives a positive answer\u0000to a question of Erdős and Ernst Straus on the interior of the set of <span>(d)</span>-tuples of their sums.\u0000Finally, we prove the existence of a sequence <span>((a_k))</span> such that all well-defined sums <span>(sum_k 1/(a_k+t))</span>,<span>(tinmathbb{Z})</span>, are rational numbers, giving a negative answer to a conjecture by Kenneth Stolarsky.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50894,"journal":{"name":"Acta Mathematica Hungarica","volume":"175 2","pages":"572 - 608"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145160663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On a problem of Erdős and Graham","authors":"J.-H. Fang, J.-Y. He","doi":"10.1007/s10474-025-01515-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10474-025-01515-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>For a positive real number <span>(gamma)</span>, let <span>(A_{gamma})</span>\u0000be the sequence <span>({lfloor gammarfloor, lfloor 2gammarfloor, lfloor 2^2gammarfloor, ldots })</span>, where <span>(lfloor xrfloor)</span> denotes the greatest integer not greater than <span>(x)</span>. For positive real numbers <span>(alpha)</span> and <span>(beta)</span>, write\u0000<span>(A_{alpha,beta}=A_{alpha}cup A_{beta})</span>. Erdős and Graham [2] posed the following problem: suppose that <span>(alpha)</span> and <span>(beta)</span> are positive real numbers with <span>(alpha/beta)</span> irrational. Can all sufficiently large integers be represented as the sum of distinct terms of <span>(A_{alpha,beta})</span>? Afterwards, Hegyvári [3] proved that, for <span>(alphage 2)</span> and <span>(beta=2^nalpha)</span> for some positive integer <span>(n)</span>, there exist infinitely many positive integers which cannot be represented as the sum of distinct terms of <span>(A_{alpha,beta})</span>. Recently, Jiang and Ma [5] further consider the case <span>(1<alpha<2)</span>. For a sequence <span>(A)</span> of nonnegative integers, let <span>(P(A))</span> be the set of all integers which can be represented as the sum of distinct terms of <span>(A)</span>. In this paper, for a class of positive real numbers <span>(alpha)</span> and <span>(beta(=2^lalpha))</span>, we determine all positive integers <span>(x)</span> \u0000such that <span>(x+sum_{i=0}^ua_{l+i}notin P(A_{alpha,beta}))</span> for every nonnegative integer <span>(u)</span>. That is, <span>(x+sum_{i=0}^ua_{l+i}notin P(A_{alpha,beta}))</span> for every nonnegative integer <span>(u)</span> if and only if <span>(1le x<a_l)</span> and <span>(xnotin P({a_0, ldots ,a_{l-1}}))</span>. Other related results are also obtained.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50894,"journal":{"name":"Acta Mathematica Hungarica","volume":"175 2","pages":"532 - 542"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145168750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving recurrent problems in the nonautonomous dynamical systems corresponding to Cantor series expansions","authors":"Z. Shen","doi":"10.1007/s10474-025-01514-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10474-025-01514-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>\u0000We investigate a moving recurrent problem for the nonautonomous dynamical system induced by the Cantor series expansion.\u0000To be precise, let <span>(Q={q_{k}}_{kgeq1})</span> be a sequence of positive integers with <span>(q_{k}geq2)</span> for all <span>(kgeq1)</span>. Put\u0000<span>(T_{Q}^{n}(x)=q_{1}cdots q_{n}x-lfloor q_{1}cdots q_{n}xrfloor)</span> for each <span>(ngeq1)</span>, which gives the <span>(Q)</span>-Cantor series expansion.\u0000We focus on the following <span>({n_{k},r_{k}})</span>-moving recurrent points proposed by Boshernitzan and Glasner:\u0000</p><div><div><span>$$inf_{kgeq1}|T^{n_{k}}_{Q}(x)-T^{n_{k}+r_{k}}_{Q}(x)|=0,$$</span></div></div><p>\u0000where <span>({n_{k}}_{kgeq1})</span> and <span>({r_{k}}_{kgeq1})</span> are two given sequences of integers. It is proved that when <span>({n_{k}}_{kgeq1})</span>\u0000and <span>({r_{k}}_{kgeq1})</span> tend to infinity, the set of <span>({n_{k},r_{k}})</span>-moving recurrent points is of full Lebesgue measure. In addition,\u0000we study the size of the following quantitative version of <span>({n_{k},r_{k}})</span>-moving recurrent set:\u0000</p><div><div><span>$$ R({n_{k},r_{k}}):=big{xin [0,1] : |T^{n_{k}}_{Q}(x)-T^{n_{k}+r_{k}}_{Q}(x)|<varphi(k)~text{for i.m.}~kin mathbb{N}big},$$</span></div></div><p>\u0000where <span>(varphi colon mathbb{N}rightarrowmathbb{R}^{+})</span> is a positive function and ``i.m.'' stands for ``infinitely many''. It is proved that when <span>({n_{k}}_{kgeq1})</span> and <span>({r_{k}}_{kgeq1})</span> tend to infinity, the\u0000Lebesgue measure and Hausdorff measure of <span>(R({n_{k},r_{k}}))</span> respectively fulfill a dichotomy law according to the convergence or divergence of certain series.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50894,"journal":{"name":"Acta Mathematica Hungarica","volume":"175 2","pages":"433 - 451"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145168751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On order isomorphisms of norm attainment sets of continuous functions","authors":"K. Igarashi, J. Nakamura, S. Roy, R. Tanaka","doi":"10.1007/s10474-025-01520-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10474-025-01520-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We provide a method for reconstructing the underlying locally\u0000compact Hausdorff space of an algebra of continuous functions vanishing at infinity, using the norm attainment sets of continuous functions. As an application,\u0000it is demonstrated that an order isomorphism of norm attainment sets between\u0000spaces of continuous functions induces a homeomorphism between the underlying topological spaces, even without linearity. Moreover, it turns out that a linear\u0000map between algebras of continuous functions is an order isomorphism of norm\u0000attainment sets if and only if it is a scalar multiple of an isometric isomorphism\u0000provided that the underlying topological spaces are not two-point sets. We also\u0000present a counterexample to the above statement in the two-point setting.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50894,"journal":{"name":"Acta Mathematica Hungarica","volume":"175 2","pages":"486 - 506"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10474-025-01520-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145168058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}