Related papers: Sharp bounds for harmonic numbers

The harmonic numbers $H_n=\sum_{0<k\ls n}1/k\ (n=0,1,2,\ldots)$ play important roles in mathematics. With helps of some combinatorial identities, we establish the following two congruences:…

The classic graphical Cheeger inequalities state that if $M$ is an $n\times n$ symmetric doubly stochastic matrix, then \[ \frac{1-\lambda_{2}(M)}{2}\leq\phi(M)\leq\sqrt{2\cdot(1-\lambda_{2}(M))} \] where…

Suppose that each number $1,2,...,N$ has one of n colours assigned. We show that if there are no monochromatic solutions to the equation $x_1+x_2+x_3=y_1+y_2$, then $N=O((n!)^{1/2})$, improving upon a result of Cwalina and Schoen. Further,…

The exact joint multifractal distribution for the scaling and winding of the electrostatic potential lines near any conformally invariant scaling curve is derived in two dimensions. Its spectrum f(alpha,lambda) gives the Hausdorff dimension…

We compare the usual operator modulus with two symmetrized variants, the arithmetic symmetric modulus and the quadratic symmetric modulus. For every unitarily invariant norm, we determine sharp equivalence constants among these three…

We derive the sharp constants for the inequalities on the Heisenberg group H^n whose analogues on Euclidean space R^n are the well known Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequalities. Only one special case had been known previously, due to…

From a well-known equation of Hardy, one can derive a simple linear combination of the Euler-Mascheroni constant ($\gamma=0.577215\ldots$) and Euler-Gompertz constant ($\delta=0.596347\ldots$): $\gamma+\delta/e=\textrm{Ein}\left(1\right)$.…

In this expository and survey paper, along one of main lines of bounding the ratio of two gamma functions, we look back and analyse some inequalities, the complete monotonicity of several functions involving ratios of two gamma or $q$-gamma…

The present paper establishes boundedness of $[m-\frac n2+\frac 12]$ derivatives for the solutions to the polyharmonic equation of order $2m$ in arbitrary bounded open sets of $\RR^n$, $2\leq n\leq 2m+1$, without any restrictions on the…

It is significant to study congruences involving multiple harmonic sums. Let $p$ be an odd prime, in recent years, the following curious congruence $$\sum_{\substack{i+j+k=p \\ i, j, k>0}} \frac{1}{i j k} \equiv-2 B_{p-3}\pmod p$$ has been…

We obtain best possible upper and lower bounds for the Lodge-Ramanujan and DeTemple-Wang approximations to the nth Harmonic Number

Let us consider the following Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg type inequality \begin{equation}\label{nsckn} \int_{\mathbb{R}^N}|x|^{-\beta}|\mathrm{div} (|x|^{\alpha}\nabla u)|^2 \mathrm{d}x \geq \mathcal{S}\left(\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}|x|^{\gamma}…

We establish sharp bounds for the Hausdorff dimension of sets of irrational numbers in $(0,1)$ whose digits in the $N$-expansion are either uniformly bounded or tend to infinity. For sets with digits bounded by an integer $M \ge N$, we…

We show for $A,B\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ of equal volume and $t\in (0,1/2]$ that if $|tA+(1-t)B|< (1+t^d)|A|$, then (up to translation) $|\text{co}(A\cup B)|/|A|$ is bounded. This establishes the sharp threshold for Figalli and Jerison's…

Let $\mathcal{H}$ be the class of normalized complex valued harmonic functions $ f = h + \overline{g}$ defined on the unit disk $\mathbb{D}$, where $h$ and $g$ are analytic functions with the normalization conditions $h(0) = h'(0) - 1 = 0$…

The denominators $d_n$ of the harmonic number $1+\frac12+\frac13+\cdots+\frac1n$ do not increase monotonically with~$n$. It is conjectured that $d_n=D_n={\rm LCM}(1,2,\ldots,n)$ infinitely often. For an odd prime $p$, the set…

Let $\Lambda$ be the von Mangoldt function and $r_{\textit{HL}}(n) = \sum_{m_1 + m_2^2 = n} \Lambda(m_1),$ be the counting function for the Hardy-Littlewood numbers. Let $N$ be a sufficiently large integer. We prove that…

We improve the classical discrete Hardy inequality \begin{equation*}\label{1} \sum _{{n=1}}^{\infty }a_{n}^{2}\geq \left({\frac {1}{2}}\right)^{2} \sum _{{n=1}}^{\infty }\left({\frac {a_{1}+a_{2}+\cdots +a_{n}}{n}}\right)^{2},…

The Hausdorff-Young inequality for Euclidean space, in its sharp form due to Beckner, gives an upper bound for the Fourier transform in terms of Lebesgue space norms, with an optimal constant. The extremizers have been identified by Lieb to…

This paper establishes a sharp Schwarz-Pick type inequality for real-valued invariant harmonic functions defined on the complex unit ball $\mathbb B^n$. The proof of this main result simultaneously provides a solution to a natural extension…