We study a family of maximal operators that provides a continuous link connecting the Hardy–Littlewood maximal function to the spherical maximal function. Our theorems are proved in the multilinear setting but may contain new results even in the linear case. For this family of operators we obtain bounds between Lebesgue spaces in the optimal range of exponents.

We examine a few families of semistandard Young tableaux, for which we observe the cyclic sieving phenomenon under promotion. The first family we consider consists of stretched hook shapes, where we use the cocharge generating polynomial as CSP-polynomial. The second family contains skew shapes, consisting of disjoint rectangles. Again, the charge generating polynomial together with promotion exhibits the cyclic sieving phenomenon. This generalizes earlier results by B. Rhoades and later B. Fontaine and J. Kamnitzer. Finally, we consider certain skew ribbons, where promotion behaves in a predictable manner. This result is stated in the form of a bicyclic sieving phenomenon. One of the tools we use is a novel method for computing charge of skew semistandard tableaux, in the case when every number in the tableau occurs with the same frequency.

Let R be a not necessarily commutative ring with 1. In the present paper we first introduce a notion of quasi-orderings, which axiomatically subsumes all the orderings and valuations on R. We proceed by uniformly defining a coarsening relation ≤ on the set Q(R) of all quasi-orderings on R. One of our main results states that (Q(R),≤′) is a rooted tree for some slight modification ≤′ of ≤, i.e. a partially ordered set admitting a maximum such that for any element there is a unique chain to that maximum. As an application of this theorem we obtain that (Q(R),≤′) is a spectral set, i.e. order-isomorphic to the spectrum of some commutative ring with 1. We conclude this paper by studying Q(R) as a topological space.

We establish a magnetic Agmon estimate in the case of a purely magnetic single non-degenerate well, by means of the Fourier–Bros–Iagolnitzer transform and microlocal exponential estimates à la Martinez–Sjöstrand.

Given a bounded Euclidean domain Ω, we consider the sequence of optimisers of the k-th Laplacian eigenvalue within the family consisting of all possible disjoint unions of scaled copies of Ω with fixed total volume. We show that this sequence encodes information yielding conditions for Ω to satisfy Pólya’s conjecture with either Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. This is an extension of a result by Colbois and El Soufi which applies only to the case where the family of domains consists of all bounded domains. Furthermore, we fully classify the different possible behaviours for such sequences, depending on whether Pólya’s conjecture holds for a given specific domain or not. This approach allows us to recover a stronger version of Pólya’s original results for tiling domains satisfying some dynamical billiard conditions, and a strenghtening of Urakawa’s bound in terms of packing density.