We give a proof of the Hard Lefschetz Theorem for orbifolds that does not involve intersection homology. We use a foliated version of the Hard Lefschetz Theorem due to El Kacimi.

Frames in a Banach space B B mathContainer Loading Mathjax were defined as a sequence in its dual space B 68 B 68 mathContainer Loading Mathjax in some recent references. We propose to define them as a collection of elements in B B mathContainer Loading Mathjax by making use of semi-inner products. Classical theory on frames and Riesz bases is generalized under this new perspective. We then aim at establishing the Shannon sampling theorem in Banach spaces. The existence of such expansions in translation invariant reproducing kernel Hilbert and Banach spaces is discussed.

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Given a strictly hyperbolic, genuinely nonlinear system of conservation laws, we prove the a priori bound u (t,) u (t,)= O (1)(1+ t) | ln | on the distance between an exact BV solution u and a viscous approximation u, letting the viscosity coefficient 0. In the proof, starting from u we construct an approximation of the viscous solution u by taking a mollification u* and inserting viscous shock profiles at the locations of finitely many large shocks for each fixed . Error estimates are then obtained by introducing new Lyapunov functionals that control interactions of shock waves in the same family and also interactions of waves in different families. 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.