It was proved earlier by the author that the function href=""/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_udi=B6WJJ-4PPNMR3-3&_mathId=mml10&_user=10&_cdi=6880&_rdoc=7&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=078a70555d09b07567813da5a98511e0"" title=""Click to view the MathML source"">φ(s)=s2 does not satisfy this condition. The strongest known positive result in this direction due to J. Pau states that the function href=""/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_udi=B6WJJ-4PPNMR3-3&_mathId=mml11&_user=10&_cdi=6880&_rdoc=7&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=460d9f06df679392842412e0589dd43c"" title=""Click to view the MathML source"">φ(s)=s2/((lns−1)3/2lnlns−1) works. However, there was always a suspicion that the critical exponent at href=""/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_udi=B6WJJ-4PPNMR3-3&_mathId=mml12&_user=10&_cdi=6880&_rdoc=7&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=f0a4d7907a45ca05dea9cb1375f88214"" title=""Click to view the MathML source"">lns−1 is 1 and not 3/2.
This suspicion turned out (at least partially) to be true, 3/2 indeed is not the critical exponent. The main result of the paper is that one can take for φ any function of form href=""/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_udi=B6WJJ-4PPNMR3-3&_mathId=mml13&_user=10&_cdi=6880&_rdoc=7&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=c3b458eb5bf430c3674a24668c1304d2"" title=""Click to view the MathML source"">φ(s)=s2ψ(lns−2), where href=""/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_udi=B6WJJ-4PPNMR3-3&_mathId=mml14&_user=10&_cdi=6880&_rdoc=7&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=dbb1e1486b1c20ac0f809c799a171b9a"">http://www.sciencedirect.com/cache/MiamiImageURL/B6WJJ-4PPNMR3-3-7/0?wchp=dGLzVzz-zSkzV"" alt=""Click to view the MathML source"" align=""absbottom"" border=""0"" height=16 width=90> is a bounded non-increasing function satisfying href=""/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_udi=B6WJJ-4PPNMR3-3&_mathId=mml15&_user=10&_cdi=6880&_rdoc=7&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=5bf2f83be0dc5c75591cc202e28f11ee"">
http://www.sciencedirect.com/cache/MiamiImageURL/B6WJJ-4PPNMR3-3-8/0?wchp=dGLzVzz-zSkzV"" alt=""Click to view the MathML source"" align=""absbottom"" border=""0"" height=20 width=117>. In particular any of the functions