{"title":"Kamke functions for stability of interconnected systems","authors":"Xiaobing Gong, Xiao Tang, Weinian Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s00010-026-01290-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00010-026-01290-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>It is known in control theory that the problem how an interconnection of ISS (abbreviation of input-to-state stability) subsystems remains ISS leads to a cycle condition, which is a set of inequalities involving the composition of unbounded Kamke functions. In this paper we convert the problem on those inequalities to functional equations and obtain <span>(mathcal {K}_infty )</span> solutions by finding fixed points in a complete metric space or a locally convex topological linear space. We also give <span>(mathcal {K}_infty )</span> solutions by piecewise construction. Our results can be applied to discussing ISS of interconnection.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55611,"journal":{"name":"Aequationes Mathematicae","volume":"100 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147797138","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":"Notes on the best estimates in the Ulam stability of the Cauchy functional equation","authors":"Janusz Brzdęk","doi":"10.1007/s00010-026-01292-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00010-026-01292-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This is an expository paper providing some simple observations on the best estimates in the Ulam stability of the Cauchy functional equation <span>(A(x+y)=A(x)+A(y))</span>. They have been motivated by a problem raised by Th.M. Rassias in connection with some early stability results obtained for the equation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55611,"journal":{"name":"Aequationes Mathematicae","volume":"100 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147797096","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}
Boštjan Brešar, Iztok Peterin, Babak Samadi, Ismael G. Yero
{"title":"Independent mutual-visibility coloring and related concepts","authors":"Boštjan Brešar, Iztok Peterin, Babak Samadi, Ismael G. Yero","doi":"10.1007/s00010-026-01280-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00010-026-01280-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Given a graph <i>G</i>, a subset <span>(Msubseteq V(G))</span> is a mutual-visibility (MV) set if for every <span>(u,vin M)</span>, there exists a <i>u</i>, <i>v</i>-geodesic whose internal vertices are not in <i>M</i>. We investigate proper vertex colorings of graphs whose color classes are mutual-visibility sets. The main concepts that arise in this investigation are independent mutual-visibility (IMV) sets and vertex partitions into these sets (IMV colorings). The IMV number <span>(mu _{i})</span> and the IMV chromatic number <span>(chi _{mu _{i}})</span> are defined as maximum and minimum cardinality taken over all IMV sets and IMV colorings, respectively. Along the way, we also continue with the study of MV chromatic number <span>(chi _{mu })</span> (as the smallest number of sets in a vertex partition into MV sets), which was initiated in an earlier paper. We establish a close connection between the (I)MV chromatic numbers of subdivisions of complete graphs and Ramsey numbers <span>(R(4^k;2))</span>. From the computational point of view, we prove that the problems of computing <span>(chi _{mu _{i}})</span> and <span>(mu _{i})</span> are NP-complete, and that it is NP-hard to decide whether a graph <i>G</i> satisfies <span>(mu _i(G)=alpha (G))</span> where <span>(alpha (G))</span> is the independence number of <i>G</i>. Several tight bounds on <span>(chi _{mu _{i}})</span>, <span>(chi _{mu })</span> and <span>(mu _{i})</span> are given. Exact values/formulas for these parameters in some classical families of graphs are proved. In particular, we prove that <span>(chi _{mu _{i}}(T)=chi _{mu }(T))</span> holds for any tree <i>T</i> of order at least 3, and determine their exact formulas in the case of lexicographic product graphs. Finally, we give tight bounds on the (I)MV chromatic numbers for the Cartesian and strong product graphs, which lead to exact values in some important families of product graphs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55611,"journal":{"name":"Aequationes Mathematicae","volume":"100 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00010-026-01280-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147738124","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":"Maximal and minimal nondecreasing Lipschitzian solutions of an iterative functional equation","authors":"Shu Hua Mao, Hou Yu Zhao","doi":"10.1007/s00010-026-01291-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00010-026-01291-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we use Schauder’s fixed point theorem and the method of lower and upper solutions to study the maximal and minimal nondecreasing Lipschitzian solutions of an iterative functional equation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55611,"journal":{"name":"Aequationes Mathematicae","volume":"100 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147737425","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":"Best Ulam constant of a partial differential operator","authors":"Adela Novac, Diana Otrocol, Dorian Popa","doi":"10.1007/s00010-026-01287-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00010-026-01287-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper we give a characterization of Ulam stability for the linear partial differential operator <span>(D:C^{1}(mathbb {R}^{2},X)rightarrow C(mathbb {R}^{2},X))</span> given by <span>(Du=au_{x}+bu_{y}+cu)</span>, where <span>(a,b,cin mathbb {R})</span> and <i>X</i> is a Banach space over <span>(mathbb {R})</span>. Moreover, we obtain the best Ulam constant of the operator <i>D</i>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55611,"journal":{"name":"Aequationes Mathematicae","volume":"100 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00010-026-01287-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147737748","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":"Block-Toeplitz Operators On the Hardy Space Induced by a Tracial Unital Banach (*)-Probability Space","authors":"Ilwoo Cho, Palle E. T. Jorgensen","doi":"10.1007/s00010-026-01283-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00010-026-01283-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>For a fixed unital Banach <span>(*)</span>-probability space <span>(left( A,tau right) )</span>, we construct a definite, or indefinite inner product space <span>(left( A_{0},left[ ,right] _{tau }right) )</span>, where <span>(A_{0}=A/kerleft( tau right) )</span> is the quotient Banach space and <span>(left[ ,right] _{tau })</span> is a definite, or indefinite inner product on <span>(A_{0})</span> determined by the trace <span>(tau )</span> on the unital Banach <span>(*)</span>-algebra <i>A</i>. From this Banach space <span>(left( A_{0},left[ ,right] _{tau }right) )</span>, a functional vector space, called the <span>(A_{0})</span>-Hardy space <span>(textbf{H}_{A_{0}:2}left( D_{1}right) )</span>, is constructed, where <span>(D_{1})</span> is the open unit ball of <span>(A_{0})</span>. Similar to the classical Toeplitz-operator theory, one can define Toeplitz-like adjointable Banach-space operators acting on <span>(textbf{H}_{A_{0}:2}left( D_{1}right) )</span>. Our main results characterizes operator-theoretic properties of those Toeplitz-like operators over <span>(left( A,tau right) )</span>. In particular, self-adjointness, projection-property, normality, isometry-property, and unitarity are characterized as in the usual operator theory on Hilbert spaces. As application, we study free distributions of certain types of our operator-valued Toeplitz-like operators.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55611,"journal":{"name":"Aequationes Mathematicae","volume":"100 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147737749","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":"Asymptotically periodic and continuous solutions of a polynomial-like iterative equation","authors":"Chao Xia, Rumeng Huo, Xi Wang, Zhinan Xia","doi":"10.1007/s00010-026-01289-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00010-026-01289-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the present paper, using Schauder’s fixed point theorem and the Banach contraction principle, we discuss the polynomial-like iterative equation </p><div><div><span>$$begin{aligned} lambda _1f(x)+lambda _2f^2(x)+cdots +lambda _nf^n(x)=F(x),,,xge 0. end{aligned}$$</span></div></div><p>The sufficient conditions for the existence, uniqueness, and stability of the asymptotically periodic and continuous solutions are presented. An example of the existence, uniqueness, and stability of asymptotically periodic and continuous solutions of an iterative equation is examined.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55611,"journal":{"name":"Aequationes Mathematicae","volume":"100 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147642968","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 the Ihara expression for the generalized weighted zeta function","authors":"Ayaka Ishikawa, Hideaki Morita","doi":"10.1007/s00010-026-01288-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00010-026-01288-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We consider the generalized weighted zeta function for a finite digraph, and show that it has the Ihara expression, a determinant expression of graph zeta functions, with a certain specified definition for inverse arcs. A finite digraph in this paper allows multi-arcs or multi-loops.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55611,"journal":{"name":"Aequationes Mathematicae","volume":"100 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00010-026-01288-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147642789","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":"A class of series representations for Catalan’s constant","authors":"HORST ALZER, MAN KAM KWONG","doi":"10.1007/s00010-026-01278-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00010-026-01278-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Let </p><div><div><span>$$ S(j)= sum _{nu =1}^infty frac{nu }{16^nu (2nu -1)^2 (2nu +1)(2nu +j)}{2nu atopwithdelims ()nu }^2, quad jin {2,3,4,... }. $$</span></div></div><p>In 2022, N. Bhandari showed that for <span>(jin {3,4,5})</span> there are rational numbers <span>(a_j)</span> and <span>(b_j)</span> such that </p><div><div><span>$$ 4 pi S(j)=a_j-b_ jG, $$</span></div></div><p>where <i>G</i> denotes the Catalan constant. He conjectured that this representation holds for all <span>(jge 3)</span>. Here, we prove this conjecture. More precisely, we offer recursion formulas to determine the numbers <span>(a_j)</span> and <i>bj</i> <span>((jge 3))</span> explicitly.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55611,"journal":{"name":"Aequationes Mathematicae","volume":"100 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147621130","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":"A generalization of the P-core–EP inverse","authors":"Dijana Mosić","doi":"10.1007/s00010-026-01282-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00010-026-01282-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The aim of this paper is to generalize the system of matrix equations for defining the P-core–EP inverse based on a minimal rank weak Drazin inverse. Solving new system, we present the concept of the weak P-core–EP inverse as a new wider class of generalized inverses involving Drazin inverse, P-core–EP inverse and CPO-inverse. We investigate many characterizations and expressions of the weak P-core–EP inverse. Applying the weak P-core–EP inverse, we solve certain linear equations. As consequences of our results, we get new properties of some special types of weak P-core–EP inverse.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55611,"journal":{"name":"Aequationes Mathematicae","volume":"100 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147621136","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}