Article history: Received 29 June 2010 Received in final revised form 9 September 2010 Available online 30 October 2010

This paper deals with the number of subgroups of a given exponent in a finite abelian group. Explicit formulas are obtained in the case of rank two and rank three abelian groups. An asymptotic formula is also presented.

We investigate the variable-exponent Abel integral equations and corresponding fractional Cauchy problems. The main contributions of work are enumerated as follows: (i) develop an approximate inversion technique for operators, based on which we analyze differential equations; (ii) prove that sensitive dependence well-posedness classical Riemann-Liouville initial value could be resolved by adjus...

A generalized antithetic time series theory for exponentially derived antithetic random variables is developed. The correlation function between a generalized gamma distributed random variable and its pth exponent is derived. We prove that the correlation approaches minus one as the exponent approaches zero from the left and the shape parameter approaches infinity.

We classify the growth of a k-regular sequence based on information from its k-kernel. In order to provide such a classification, we introduce the notion of a growth exponent for k-regular sequences and show that this exponent is equal to the joint spectral radius of any set of a special class of matrices determined by the k-kernel.

Finite-time Lyapunov exponents of generic chaotic dynamical systems fluctuate in time. These fluctuations are due to the different degree of stability across the accessible phase space. A recent numerical study of spatially extended systems has revealed that the diffusion coefficient D of the Lyapunov exponents (LEs) exhibits a nontrivial scaling behavior, D(L)~L(-γ), with the system size L. He...

Recent studies of correlations of intensity in databases of natural images revealed a remarkable property. The two point correlations are described in terms of power law behavior, with an exponent which seems to be robust. In the present Letter we consider the statistical meaning of that result. We study many individual images of one of the databases considered. We find that the same law charac...

In this article we study atomic and molecular decompositions in 2-microlocal Besov and Triebel–Lizorkin spaces with variable integrability. We show that, in most cases, the convergence implied in such decompositions holds not only in the distributions sense, but also in the function spaces themselves. As an application, we give a simple proof for the denseness of the Schwartz class in such spac...