Let$f$be an entire function of order at least 1/2,$M(r)$=max_{|}$z$|=$r$|$f(z)$|, and$n(r, a)$the number of zeros of$f(z)-a$in |$z$|≤$r$. It is shown that lim sup_{$r$→∞}$n(r, a)$/log$M (r)$≥1/2π for all except possibly one$a$∈C.

We give a sharp upper estimate for the response of boundary current-voltage measurements to perturbations of the admittivity in a body that are localized in space and frequency. We calculate the differential of the measurement mapping and study the$Gabor symbol$of this operator.

Let$Z$be the zero set of a holomorphic section$f$of a Hermitian vector bundle. It is proved that the current of integration over the irreducible components of$Z$of top degree, counted with multiplicities, is a product of a residue factor$R$^{$f$}and a “Jacobian factor”. There is also a relation to the Monge-Ampère expressions ($dd$^{$c$}log|$f$|)^{$k$}, which we define for all positive powers$k$.

A cooriented circle immersion into the plane can be extended to a stable map of the disk which is an immersion in a neighborhood of the boundary and with outward normal vector field along the boundary equal to the given coorienting normal vector field. We express the minimal number of fold components of such a stable map as a function of its number of cusps and of the normal degree of its boundary. We also show that this minimum is attained for any cooriented circle immersion of normal degree not equal to one.

This paper is dedicated to the Orlicz-Petty bodies. We first propose the homogeneous Orlicz affine and geominimal surface areas, and establish their basic properties such as homogeneity, affine invariance and affine isoperimetric inequalities. We also prove that the homogeneous geominimal surface areas are continuous, under certain conditions, on the set of convex bodies in terms of the Hausdorff distance. Our proofs rely on the existence of the Orlicz-Petty bodies and the uniform boundedness of the Orlicz-Petty bodies of a convergent sequence of convex bodies. Similar results for the nonhomogeneous Orlicz geominimal surface areas are proved as well.