An asymptotic formula is given for the number of integers n≤x for which φ(n) is not divisible by a given odd prime.

In this paper, we generalize a theorem of Kallman [2, Theorem 1.1] and we resolve the unsettled case there.

We prove that the absolutely continuous subspace of the completely non-selfadjoint part of a first-order dissipative Dirac-like system is trivial when the imaginary part of the potential is non-integrable.

The problem of subextension of plurisubharmonic functions is considered. Recently it was shown by Cegrell–Zeriahi, that subextension is always possible for negative plurisubharmonic functions in the energy class ℱ. In this paper we construct, for every hyperconvex domain Ω, a negative plurisubharmonic function in the class ℰ which cannot be subextended. Given any pseudoconvex domain we construct a pluriharmonic function that cannot be subextended.

Auslander–Reiten sequences are the central item of Auslander–Reiten theory, which is one of the most important techniques for the investigation of the structure of abelian categories.

This note considers X, a smooth projective scheme of dimension at least 1 over the field k, and $$, an indecomposable coherent sheaf on X. It is proved that in the category of quasi-coherent sheaves on X, there is an Auslander–Reiten sequence ending in $$.

We show that if the graph of an analytic function in the unit disk D is not complete pluripolar in C² then the projection of its pluripolar hull contains a fine neighborhood of a point $$. Moreover the projection of the pluripolar hull is always finely open. On the other hand we show that if an analytic function f in D extends to a function ℱ which is defined on a fine neighborhood of a point $$ and is finely analytic at p then the pluripolar hull of the graph of f contains the graph of ℱ over a smaller fine neighborhood of p. We give several examples of functions with this property of fine analytic continuation. As a corollary we obtain new classes of analytic functions in the disk which have non-trivial pluripolar hulls, among them C^∞ functions on the closed unit disk which are nowhere analytically extendible and have infinitely-sheeted pluripolar hulls. Previous examples of functions with non-trivial pluripolar hull of the graph have fine analytic continuation.

In this paper we consider the following two-phase obstacle-problem-like equation in the unit half-ball $$ We prove that the free boundary touches the fixed boundary (uniformly) tangentially if the boundary data f and its first and second derivatives vanish at the touch-point.

We study the problem of density of polynomials in the de Branges spaces ℋ(E) of entire functions and obtain conditions (in terms of the distribution of the zeros of the generating function E) ensuring that the polynomials belong to the space ℋ(E) or are dense in this space. We discuss the relation of these results with the recent paper of V. P. Havin and J. Mashreghi on majorants for the shift-coinvariant subspaces. Also, it is shown that the density of polynomials implies the hypercyclicity of translation operators in ℋ(E).

We find a real analytic Levi-flat hypersurface in C² containing a bounded contractible domain which is a determining set for pluriharmonic functions.

Let $$ be the Dirichlet space, namely the space of holomorphic functions on the unit disk whose derivative is square-integrable. We give a new sufficient condition, not far from the known necessary condition, for a function f∈$$ to be cyclic, i.e. for {pf: p is a polynomial} to be dense in $$.

The proof is based on the notion of Bergman–Smirnov exceptional set introduced by Hedenmalm and Shields. Our methods yield the first known examples of such sets that are uncountable. One of the principal ingredients of the proof is a new converse to the strong-type inequality for capacity.