We prove a sharp Bernstein inequality for general-state-space and not necessarily reversible Markov chains. It is sharp in the sense that the variance proxy term is optimal. Our result covers the classical Bernstein's inequality for independent random variables as a special case.

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Let$D$be a strictly pseudoconvex domain in$C$^{$n$}. We prove that $$\bar \partial u = \phi , \phi $$ , ϕ a $$\bar \partial $$ (0,1)-form, admits solutions in$L$^{$p$}(∂$D$), 1≤$p$<∞ and in BMO, under certain Wolff type conditions of ϕ. Some such results (for 1<$p$<∞) have previously been obtained by Amar in the ball, but under slightly stronger hypotheses. As a corollary we obtain a$H$^{$p$}-corona result for two generators.

This paper is a contribution to the general problem of giving an explicit description of the basic locus in the reduction modulo $p$ of Shimura varieties. Motivated by \cite{Vollaard-Wedhorn} and \cite{Rapoport-Terstiege-Wilson}, we classify the cases where the basic locus is (in a natural way) the union of classical Deligne-Lusztig sets associated to Coxeter elements. We show that if this is satisfied, then the Newton strata and Ekedahl-Oort strata have many nice properties.