Asymptotic boundedness and moment asymptotic expansion in ultradistribution spaces
Lenny Neyt, Jasson Vindas

TL;DR
This paper develops structural theorems for ultradistributions related to asymptotic boundedness and moment asymptotic expansion, providing characterizations and introducing a uniform variant in one-dimensional spaces.
Contribution
It introduces new structural theorems for S-asymptotic and quasiasymptotic boundedness of ultradistributions and characterizes those satisfying the moment asymptotic expansion in one dimension.
Findings
Full characterization of ultradistributions with moment asymptotic expansion
Introduction of a uniform variant of the moment asymptotic expansion
Structural theorems for S-asymptotic and quasiasymptotic boundedness
Abstract
We obtain structural theorems for the so-called S-asymptotic and quasiasymptotic boundedness of ultradistributions. Using these results, we then analyze the moment asymptotic expansion (MAE), providing a full characterization of those ultradistributions satisfying this asymptotic formula in the one-dimensional case. We also introduce and study a uniform variant of the MAE.
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Asymptotic boundedness and moment asymptotic expansion in ultradistribution spaces
Lenny Neyt
and
Jasson Vindas
Department of Mathematics: Analysis, Logic and Discrete Mathematics
Ghent University
Krijgslaan 281
9000 Gent
Belgium
Dedicated to the memory of Prof. Bogoljub Stanković
Abstract.
We obtain structural theorems for the so-called S-asymptotic and quasiasymptotic boundedness of ultradistributions. Using these results, we then analyze the moment asymptotic expansion (MAE), providing a full characterization of those ultradistributions satisfying this asymptotic formula in the one-dimensional case. We also introduce and study a uniform variant of the MAE.
Key words and phrases:
Asymptotic behavior of generalized functions; moment asymptotic expansions; S-asymptotics; quasiasymptotics; ultradistribution spaces
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification:
46F05; 46F10
L. Neyt gratefully acknowledges support by Ghent University, through the BOF-grant 01J11615.
J. Vindas was supported by Ghent University through the BOF-grants 01J11615 and 01J04017.
1. Introduction
In this article we study asymptotic properties of ultradistributions. Asymptotic analysis is an important subject in the theory of generalized functions and provides powerful tools for applications in areas such as mathematical physics, number theory, and differential equations. The theory of asymptotic behavior of generalized functions has been particularly useful in the study of Tauberian theorems for integral transforms. We refer to the monographs [7, 18, 22] for complete accounts on the subject and its many applications.
The asymptotic behavior of a generalized function is usually analyzed via its parametric behavior, mostly with respect to translation or dilation. The idea of looking at the translates of a distribution goes back to Schwartz [21, Chapter VII], who used it to measure the order of growth of tempered distributions at infinity. Pilipović and Stanković later introduced a generalization, the so called S-asymptotic behavior, and thoroughly investigated its properties for distributions, ultradistributions, and Fourier hyperfunctions. There are deep connections between S-asymptotics and Wiener Tauberian theorems for generalized functions [15]. In Section 3 of this article we study the structure of S-asymptotically bounded ultradistributions; in fact, we discuss a counterpart of the main structural result from [17] (cf. [18, Theorem 1.10, p. 46]) for S-asymptotic boundedness, which we prove to hold under much weaker assumptions than those employed there.
There are two very well-established approaches to asymptotics of generalized functions related to dilation. The first one is the quasiasymptotic behavior, which employs regularly varying functions [1] as gauges in the asymptotic comparisons. This concept was first introduced by Zav’yalov for Schwartz distributions [25] and further developed by him, Drozhzhinov, and Vladimirov in [22]. The quasiasymptotic behavior was naturally extended to the context of one-dimensional ultradistributions in [16]. Here we shall provide complete structural theorems for quasiasymptotically bounded ultradistributions in Section 4, both at infinity and the origin, using the above-mentioned results for S-asymptotic boundedness and techniques developed by the authors in [13]. These results are the ultradistributional analogs of the structural theorems from [23] for Schwartz distributions (cf. [18, Section 2.12, p. 160]).
The second important approach to asymptotic behavior related to dilation is the so-called moment asymptotic expansion (MAE), whose properties have been extensively investigated by Estrada and Kanwal [6, 7]. Some recent contributions can be found in [20, 24]. A generalized function is said to satisfy the MAE if there is a certain multisequence , called the moments of , such that the following asymptotic expansion holds
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As is shown in the monograph [7], the MAE supplies a unified approach to several aspects of asymptotic analysis and its applications. Interestingly, Estrada characterized [5] the largest space of distributions where the MAE holds as the dual of the space of so-called GLS symbols [9]. We will consider the MAE for ultradistributions, providing in Section 5 a counterpart of Estrada’s full characterization in the one-dimensional case. We shall also study a uniform version of (1) in Section 6, which we call the UMAE. Our considerations naturally lead to introduce the ultradistribution spaces and , which are intimately connected with the MAE and UMAE. We note that in even dimension our space arises as the dual of one of the spaces of symbols of ‘infinite order’ pseudo-differential operators from [19].
2. Preliminaries
In this section we fix the notation and briefly collect some background material on ultradistributions. Given a weight sequence of positive real numbers, we will often make use of one or more of the following conditions:
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, ;
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, , for certain constants and ;
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, , for certain constants and ;
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;
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, , for a certain constant .
The meaning of all these conditions is very well explained in [10]. For multi-indices , we will simply denote as .
Let be open and let be a (regular) compact subset. For any we denote as the space of all smooth functions for which
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is finite. Then, as customary [10], we set
[TABLE]
and use as the common notation for the Beurling and Roumieu case (when a separate treatment is needed, we will always first state assertions about the Beurling case , then followed by the Roumieu case in parenthesis).
We shall make use of Komatsu’s well-known projective limit description of . Consider the directed set For any we write and for . Then, it is shown in [11, Proposition 3.5, p. 675] that if the weight sequence satisfies , , and , then
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as locally convex spaces.
For compactly supported test functions our notation is standard, we write and with compact, these spaces are topologized in the canonical way [10]. (Naturally, by the Denjoy-Carleman theorem and under , the non-triviality of is equivalent to .) The strong dual is the space of ultradistributions of class , while the elements of are exactly those ultradistributions with compact support.
3. S-asymptotic boundedness
Our aim in this section is to study the structure of those ultradistributions that satisfy
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where is simply an unbounded set and is a positive function. The S-asymptotic relation is to be interpreted in the ultradistributional sense [18], that is, it explicitly means that for each test function
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We begin with a simple auxiliary lemma that allows us to preserve certain growth properties when regularizing functions. Given and a set , we denote as the open -neighborhood of , that is, the set .
Lemma 1**.**
Given there are absolute constants and such that each function satisfying the bound , where and is a positive function defined on , can be written as in for some functions that satisfy
[TABLE]
Proof.
To show this, we make use of the fact that the fundamental solutions of the Laplacian belong to . By cutting-off a fundamental solution in the ball , this implies we can select functions and both supported on , such that . Extend off as 0 and keep calling this extension by . We obtain the claim if we set so that the desired inequalities hold with
∎
We can now obtain our first structural theorem for (3) in the case where the weight sequence satisfies mild hypotheses. For it, we shall need to impose the following regularity condition on the gauge function ,
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In the proof of the next theorem we employ a technique of Gómez-Collado that she applied to obtain various characterizations of the space of bounded ultradistributions in [8].
Theorem 1**.**
Let be an unbounded set and let be a positive measurable function on that satisfies (5). Suppose , , and hold. Then, an ultradistribution satisfies (3) if and only if for each there are continuous functions defined on such that for some (for each ) there exists for which the bounds
[TABLE]
hold and
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Proof.
The sufficiency of the conditions is easily verified. For the necessity, we start by making some reductions. In view of Lemma 1 and the assumption , it suffices to establish (7) with (6) for functions that are merely measurable. Next, we show that we may assume that . Let be arbitrary and let be a non-negative smooth function on such that , on while outside , and such that
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Then, we set and notice that and coincide on . Take any and let be such that . Take any . If then . Suppose now , then with and . Then, employing (5) and the Banach-Steinhaus theorem,
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because is a bounded family in . Consequently, , , in
We may therefore assume w.l.o.g. that and derive (6) and (7) on the whole for measurable functions under the hypothesis that is a bounded subset of . We now reason as in [8]. Let be such that for each . We have that is now a bounded set in the space . Using , we obtain in the Beurling case the existence of and in the Roumieu case of such that for some and all and
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where in the Roumieu case we have used the projective description (2) and we have set in the Beurling case and in the Roumieu one. We further on consider the Banach space of all such that
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Let be arbitrary. Applying (8) to each and using the hypothesis (5), we obtain, with ,
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Note that and ensure that is dense in and hence we conclude . Embedding into via the isometry , where the measure is given by with the natural counting measure on , we can apply the Hanh-Banach theorem to get the representation (7) with measurable functions on that satisfy bounds . This yields already the result in the Beurling case. In the Roumieu case we finally employ [11, Lemma 3.4(ii), p. 674] to obtain the bounds (6) for each and some .
∎
In applications it is very useful to combine Theorem 1 with the ensuing proposition, which provides conditions under which one might essentially apply Theorem 1 with a function that is just defined on the set .
Proposition 1**.**
Let be a closed convex set. Any positive function on satisfying
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can be extended to a positive function on satisfying (5). In addition, if is measurable (or continuous), the extension can be chosen measurable (or continuous) as well.
Proof.
For any we denote by the (unique in view of convexity) closest point to in . Then, we set . Since is continuous, inherits measurability or continuity if has the property. We now verify (5) for . Let and let an upper bound for , where and . Let and be arbitrary. Consider the points and . By the obtuse angle criterion, the angles defined by the line segments and are at least , whence . It then follows that , as required. ∎
If the weight sequence satisfies stronger assumption, one can drop any regularity assumption on , as stated in the next result.
Theorem 2**.**
Let be an unbounded set and let be a positive function on . Suppose that , , and hold. An ultradistribution satisfies (3) if and only if for each there are continuous functions defined on such that for some (for each ) there exists such that
[TABLE]
and the representation (7) holds.
Proof.
The proof is similar to that of [18, Theorem 1.10, p. 46], but we provide some simplifications. The converse is easy to show, so we concentrate on showing the necessity of the conditions for the S-asymptotic boundedness relation (3). Let . We consider the linear mapping , with values in the Banach space , given by It follows from the closed graph theorem that is continuous. Consequently, we obtain from the Banach-Steinhaus theorem the existence of in the Beurling case or in the Roumieu case such that and for each , where we set in the Beurling case or in the Roumieu case. Since for each the set is compact in , we conclude that for any such a the function is continuous on and
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We now employ the parametrix method. As shown in [12, p. 199], there is an ultradifferential operator of class that admits a -parametrix, namely, for which there are and such that . Setting and , we obtain the decomposition , which in particular establishes the representation (7) with functions satisfying the bounds (10). ∎
4. Quasiasymptotic boundedness
Our results from the previous section can be applied to obtain structural theorems for ultradistributions being quasiasymptotically bounded in dimension 1. Let be a positive function defined on an interval of the form . We are interested in the relation as in ultradistribution spaces. The analog of the condition (9) for a function in this multiplicative setting is being -regularly varying (at infinity) [1, p. 65]. The latter means (cf. [1, Theorem 2.0.4, p. 64]) that is measurable and for each
[TABLE]
The next proposition can be established with the aid of Theorem 1 and Theorem 2 via an exponential change of variables as in the authors’ work [13, Lemma 3.4]; we omit details.
Proposition 2**.**
Let and be a positive function. Suppose that as in .
- (i)
If , , and hold and is -regularly varying at infinity, then there are continuous functions and such that
[TABLE]
and for some (for any ) there is such that
[TABLE] 2. (ii)
If , , and hold, for each one can find and continuous functions such that has the representation (11), where the satisfy the bounds
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for some (for any ).
Remark 1**.**
Clearly, (12) implies (13) for an -regularly varying function . Assume , , and hold. Notice the representations (11) with bounds (13) are also sufficient to yield as in , so that the converses of both parts (i) and (ii) of Proposition 2 are valid.
In the rest of the section we are interested in describing quasiasymptotic boundedness in the full space . For it, we need to impose stronger variation assumptions on the gauge function . We call a positive measurable function -slowly varying at infintiy if for each there are such that
[TABLE]
In the terminology from [1] this means that the upper and lower Matuszewska indices of are both equal to 0. Thus, a function of the form is an -regularly varying function with both upper and lower Matuszewska indices equal to .
The authors have found in [13] complete structural theorems for the quasiasymptotic behavior of ultradistributions with respect to regularly varying functions. If we exchange [13, Lemma 3.4] with Proposition 2, the same technique111One still needs an -version of the integration lemma [13, Lemma 3.2]; however, careful inspection in the arguments given in [18, Subsection 2.10.2 and Proposition 2.17] shows that having the inequalities (14) is all one needs to establish the validity of such an -version. from [13, Sections 3 and 4] leads to two ensuing structural theorems for quasiasymptotic boundedness.
Theorem 3**.**
Assume , , and hold. Let , , and let be -slowly varying at infinity. Let be the smallest positive integer such that . Then,
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holds if and only if there are continuous functions on such that
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for some (for any ) there exists such that
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and additionally (only) when
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A function is -regularly varying at the origin if is -regularly varying at infinity.
Theorem 4**.**
Assume , , and . Let , , and let be -slowly varying at the origin. Let be the smallest positive integer such that . Then, we have that
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holds if and only if there exist and continuous functions and on , , such that
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for some (for any ) there exists such that
[TABLE]
for all , and when while if the function satisfies, for each , the bounds
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We end this section with a remark that briefly indicates further properties of quasiasymptotic boundedness.
Remark 2**.**
Let be the space of ultradifferentiable functions introduced in [13, Section 5]. Similarly as in the quoted article, one can show under the assumptions , and :
- (i)
If (15) holds with an -regularly varying function at infinity , then and the quasiasymptotic boundedness relation (15) actually holds true in .
From here one derives the following characterization of . An ultradistribution belongs to if and only if there is some such that as in . We leave the verification of the direct implication to the reader. 2. (ii)
If and (18) holds with an -regularly varying function at the origin , then (18) is actually valid in . 3. (iii)
From these two properties, the Banach-Steinhaus theorem, and the fact that is dense in , one concludes that [13, Theorem 5.1 and Theorem 5.3] still hold true if one replaces and there by the weaker assumptions and .
5. The moment asymptotic expansion
This section is devoted to study the moment asymptotic expansion (1), which in general we interpret in the sense of the following definition.
Definition 1**.**
Let be a l.c.s. of smooth functions provided with continuous actions of the dilation operators and the Dirac delta and all its partial derivatives. An element is said to satisfy the moment asymptotic expansion (MAE) in if there are , , called its moments, such that for any and we have
[TABLE]
Similarly as in the case of compactly supported distributions [6, 7] or analytic functionals [20], one can show that any compactly supported distribution satisfies the MAE in (we will actually state a stronger result in Proposition 4 below). Naturally, as in the distribution case, we expect the MAE to be also valid in larger ultradistribution spaces. In dimension 1, Estrada gave in [5, Theorem 7.1] (cf. [7]) a full characterization of the largest distribution space where the moment asymptotic expansion holds; in fact, he showed that satisfies the MAE (in ) if and only if (and the MAE holds in this space), where is the dual of the so-called space of GLS symbols of pseudodifferential operators [9]. One of our goals here is to give an ultradistributional counterpart of Estrada’s result.
We start by introducing an ultradistributional version of . For each and we denote by the Banach space of all smooth functions for which the norm
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is finite. From this we construct the spaces
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and finally the test function space
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It should be noticed that this is space is never trivial; in fact, contains the space of polynomials.
Our first important result in this subsection asserts that the elements of automatically satisfy the MAE. Interestingly, no restriction on the weight sequence is needed to achieve this.
Theorem 5**.**
Any element satisfies the MAE in and its moments are exactly , .
Proof.
Let We keep and fix . Take any arbitrary , where we may assume . Consider the th order Taylor polynomial of at the origin, that is, Since ,
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Thus, we need to show . This bound does not require any uniformity in ; therefore, we may just assume that for any so that our problem reduces to estimate . There exists some (some ) such that and
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If , we have
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We further consider . When , obviously
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and we obtain
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We are left with the case and . If we get
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Finally, for , the Taylor formula yields
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The proof is now complete. ∎
The next proposition describes the structure of the elements of . The proof in the Beurling case is standard, while in the Roumieu case it can be established via the dual Mittag-Leffler lemma in a similar fashion as in [10, Section 8], we therefore leave details to the reader. We point out that the converse of Proposition 3 holds unconditionally, that is, without having to impose any assumption on .
Proposition 3**.**
Let satisfy and . Let . Then, given any one can find a multi-sequence of continuous functions such that
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and for some (for any ) there is such that
[TABLE]
Notice that when and hold, then one has the continuous and dense inclusions so that in particular . Upon combining Proposition 2(i) with Theorem 5, one obtains the following complete characterization of those one-dimensional ultradistributions satisfying the MAE:
Theorem 6**.**
Suppose satisfies , , and . An ultradistribution satisfies the MAE in if and only if .
Proof.
If satisfies the MAE, then in particular in for each . Hence, for a fixed but arbitrary , using Proposition 2(i) and Komatsu’s first structural theorem in the case of compactly supported ultradistributions, we can write in with such that for some (for each) they fulfill bounds . Clearly, this representation yields . Since was arbitrary, we conclude that . For the converse, Theorem 5 shows that a stronger conclusion actually holds. ∎
Remark 3**.**
In dimension , this argument gives an alternative way for proving Proposition 3 in the non-quasianalytic case without having to resort in the dual Mittag-Leffler lemma.
6. The uniform MAE
The bound in (19) is not uniform in general, but in the ultradistributional case it is natural to expect that some sort of uniformity could be present. For instance, we see below in Proposition 4 that this is the case for compactly supported ultradistributions. Let us introduce the following uniform variant of the MAE. Throughout this section we work with three weight sequences , , and , and simultaneously denote in short their Beurling or Roumieu cases by , , and , respectively. The associated function [10] of is given by
[TABLE]
Definition 2**.**
Let be a weight sequence and let be a l.c.s. of smooth functions provided with continuous actions of the dilation operators and the Dirac delta and all its partial derivatives. An element satisfies the uniform moment asymptotic expansion (UMAE) in with respect to if there are , , such that for any and each (for some ) the asymptotic formula
[TABLE]
holds uniformly for .
We now introduce ultradistribution spaces that are closely related to the UMAE. Given we denote by the Banach space of all for which
[TABLE]
is finite. We then define
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and consider the dual , whose elements satisfy the UMAE as stated in the next theorem.
Theorem 7**.**
Suppose and satisfy and ; in addition we assume that . Set . Then, any element satisfies the UMAE in w.r.t. .
Proof.
By replacing it by an equivalent sequence, we may assume that for each . Fix an arbitrary in the Beurling case, while we put in the Roumieu case. We will always assume , where is the parameter in (for both sequences). Take any and . Arguing as in the proof of Theorem 5, we need to find a uniform bound for , where is the th order Taylor polynomial of at the origin. There exist and ( and ) such that and for some
[TABLE]
We split according to the size of .
First suppose that . Set . From the Taylor expansion and [10, Proposition 3.6, p. 51] applied to the sequence ,
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Now let . For , one has
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where . Then, since for any , we have
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In the case , we have for ,
[TABLE]
which concludes the proof.
∎
The next result describes the UMAE for compactly supported ultradistributions. The proof goes alone the same lines as that of Theorem 7 and we therefore leave details to the reader.
Proposition 4**.**
Any element satisfies the UMAE in w.r.t. , where .
A standard argument shows the ensuing structural description for .
Proposition 5**.**
Let satisfy and . Let . Then, for each , there is some (for each there some ) such that one can find a multi-sequence of continuous functions for which and there is such that
[TABLE]
Let us now consider the one-dimensional case. The ensuing theorem is a counterpart of Theorem 6 for the UMAE; notice however that a full characterization is lacking in this case. We mention that if and hold, one verifies that
Theorem 8**.**
Suppose that satisfies and that , , and hold for the weight sequence . Set . If satisfies the UMAE in with respect to , then and if in addition satisfies and , the UMAE holds for in w.r.t. .
Proof.
It suffices to show that . In the Beurling case we take an arbitrary constant sequence and in the Roumieu case an arbitrary . We have that, whenever ,
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which implies, taking infimum over ,
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Appliying Proposition 2(ii), we can write with continuous functions satisfying the bounds
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for some (for each ), where stands for the associated function of . This yields in both cases, as required. (In the Roumieu case we apply [3, Lemma 4.5(i), p. 417].) It has been proved by Petzsche [14, Proposition 1.1] that implies the so-called Rudin condition, namely, there is such that
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therefore, the rest follows from Theorem 7. ∎
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