Georgian Academy of Sciences

Levan Zhizhiashvili   (1934-2006)

In 1961 he defended his candidate theses at A.Razmadze Institute of Mathematics and in 1967 at Moscow State University he defended his doctoral thesis. Since 1968 he filled a position of professor (scientific title - professor), and since 1978 he was the head of the chair  of  function theory and functional analysis at Tbilisi State University. In 1974 he was elected a Corresponding Member of  Georgian Academy of Sciences, and since 1993 he is an Academician of the same Academy. L. Zhizhiashvili was outstanding researcher in the field  of   harmonic analysis. He is the author of more than 65 works, including 4 monographs.

He solved:
a) the problem of A. Zygmund and P. L. Ulyanov concerning the almost everywhere existence of conjugate functions and Hilbert transforms of several variables;
b) the problem of D.E. Menshov on the convergence in measure of Cesaro and Abel-Poisson means of multiple conjugate series.

He established:
a) most general estimates ( both in one and multi- dimension cases) for approximations by Cesaro means of Fourier series of continuous functions as well as of the functions which are Lebesgue integrals with the power greater or equal to 1;
b) the connection of approximate properties of the above mentioned means with Hardy-Littlewood Nikolskii imbedding theorems.

He proved that:
a) multidimensional Hilbert operator does not possess a weak type inequality even on the intersection of all the Lebesgue classes with powers greater or equal to 1;
b) Marcinkiewich means of  Fourier series of any summable function of  two variables converge almost everywhere;
c) (multidimensional complex analysis) if for a logarithm-scaled Lebesgue space the power of the logarithm is less than dimension minus
1, then for a density from this space, the multiple Schwarz integral may have no boundary value almost everywhere.

The contributions of  L. Zhizhiashvili in educating young scientists is considerable. Among his pupils there are 7 doctors of sciences and more then 20 candidates.
L. Zhizhiashivli was a university prize laureate. He was a member of various societies, he was a Honoured Scientist, was awarded the Order of Red Banner of Labour.
L. Zhizhiashvili carried out many-sided scientific, pedagogic and organizational activities. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Tbilisi State University, he guided the publishing of the proceedings of the Scientific seminar led by himself. During many years he was the chairman of a Specialized Doctor Council.

 

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