The formal translation equation for iteration groups of type II

We investigate the translation equation $$F(s+t, x) = F(s, F(t, x)),\quad \quad s,t\in{\mathbb{C}},\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad({\rm T})$$ in ${\mathbb{C}\left[\kern-0.15em\left[{x}\right]\kern-0.15em\right]}$ , the ring of formal power series over ${\mathbb{C}}$ . Here we restrict ourselves to iteration groups of type II, i.e. to solutions of (T) of the form ${F(s, x) \equiv x + c_k(s)x^k {\rm mod} x^{k + 1}}$ , where k ≥ 2 and c _k ≠ 0 is necessarily an additive function. It is easy to prove that the coefficient functions c _n (s) of $$F(s, x) = x + \sum_{n \ge q k}c_n(s)x^n$$ are polynomials in c _k (s). It is possible to replace this additive function c _k by an indeterminate. In this way we obtain a formal version of the translation equation in the ring ${(\mathbb{C}[y])\left[\kern-0.15em\left[{x}\right]\kern-0.15em\right]}$ . We solve this equation in a completely algebraic way, by deriving formal differential equations or an Aczél–Jabotinsky type equation. This way it is possible to get the structure of the coefficients in great detail which are now polynomials. We prove the universal character (depending on certain parameters, the coefficients of the infinitesimal generator H of an iteration group of type II) of these polynomials. Rewriting the solutions G(y, x) of the formal translation equation in the form ${\sum_{n\geq 0}\phi_n(x)y^n}$ as elements of ${(\mathbb{C}\left[\kern-0.15em\left[{x}\right]\kern-0.15em\right])\left[\kern-0.15em\left[{y}\right]\kern-0.15em\right]}$ , we obtain explicit formulas for ${\phi_n}$ in terms of the derivatives H ^(j)(x) of the generator ${H}$ and also a representation of ${G(y, x)}$ as a Lie–Gröbner series. Eventually, we deduce the canonical form (with respect to conjugation) of the infinitesimal generator ${H}$ as x ^k + hx ^2k-1 and find expansions of the solutions ${G(y, x) = \sum_{r\geq 0} G_r(y, x)h^r}$ of the above mentioned differential equations in powers of the parameter h.     

A lower bound on the barrier parameter of barriers for convex cones

Let ${K \subset \mathbb R^n}$ be a regular convex cone, let ${e_1,\ldots,e_n \in \partial K}$ be linearly independent points on the boundary of a compact affine section of the cone, and let ${x^* \in K^{0}}$ be a point in the relative interior of this section. For k =  1, . . . , n, let l _k be the line through the points e _k and x ^*, let y _k be the intersection point of l _k with ${\partial K}$ opposite to e _k , and let z _k be the intersection point of l _k with the linear subspace spanned by all points e _l , l =  1, . . . , n except e _k . We give a lower bound on the barrier parameter ν of logarithmically homogeneous self-concordant barriers ${F: K^{0}\to \mathbb R}$ on K in terms of the projective cross-ratios ${q_k = (e_k,x^*;y_k,z_k)}$ . Previously known lower bounds by Nesterov and Nemirovski can be obtained from our result as a special case. As an application, we construct an optimal barrier for the epigraph of the ${||\cdot||_{\infty}}$ -norm in ${\mathbb R^n}$ and compute lower bounds on the barrier parameter for the power cone and the epigraph of the ${||\cdot||_p}$ -norm in ${\mathbb R^2}$ .     

Asymptotic analysis of a second-order singular perturbation model for phase transitions

We study the asymptotic behavior, as ${\varepsilon}$ tends to zero, of the functionals ${F^k_\varepsilon}$ introduced by Coleman and Mizel in the theory of nonlinear second-order materials; i.e., $$F^k_\varepsilon(u):=\int\limits_{I} \left(\frac{W(u)}{\varepsilon}-k\,\varepsilon\,(u')^2+\varepsilon^3(u'')^2\right)\,dx,\quad u\in W^{2,2}(I),$$ where k?>?0 and ${W:\mathbb{R}\to[0,+\infty)}$ is a double-well potential with two potential wells of level zero at ${a,b\in\mathbb{R}}$ . By proving a new nonlinear interpolation inequality, we show that there exists a positive constant k ₀ such that, for k?<?k ₀, and for a class of potentials W, ${(F^k_\varepsilon)}$ ??(L ¹)-converges to $$F^k(u):={\bf m}_k \, \#(S(u)),\quad u\in BV(I;\{a,b\}),$$ where m _k is a constant depending on W and k. Moreover, in the special case of the classical potential ${W(s)=\frac{(s^2-1)^2}{2}}$ , we provide an upper bound on the values of k such that the minimizers of ${F_\varepsilon^k}$ cannot develop oscillations on some fine scale and a lower bound on the values for which oscillations occur, the latter improving a previous estimate by Mizel, Peletier and Troy.     

Almost orthogonal operators on the bitorus II

We prove that the operator ${Tf(x,y)=\int^\pi_{-\pi}\int_{|x^{\prime}|<|y^{\prime}|} \frac{e^{iN(x,y) x^{\prime}}}{x^{\prime}}\frac{e^{iN(x,y) y^{\prime}}}{y^{\prime}}f(x-x^{\prime}, y-y^{\prime}) dx^{\prime} dy^{\prime}}$ , with ${x,y \in[0,2\pi]}$ and where the cut off ${|x^{\prime}|<|y^{\prime}|}$ is performed in a smooth and dyadic way, is bounded from L ² to weak- ${L^{2-\epsilon}}$ , any ${\epsilon > 0 }$ , under the basic assumption that the real-valued measurable function N(x, y) is “mainly” a function of y and the additional assumption that N(x, y) is non-decreasing in x, for every y fixed. This is an extension to 2D of C. Fefferman’s proof of a.e. convergence of Fourier series of L ² functions.     

Regularity lifting of weak solutions for nonlinear sub-Laplace equations on homogeneous groups

Let G be a homogeneous group, and let X ₁, X ₂, … , X _m be left invariant real vector fields being homogeneous of degree one on G. We consider the following Dirichlet boundary value problem of the sub-Laplace equation involving the critical exponent and singular term: $$\left\{\begin{array}{ll}-\sum_{j=1}^{m}X_j^2u(x)-\frac{a}{\|x\|^\nu}u(x)=u^{\frac{Q+2}{Q-2}}(x), x\in\Omega,\\ u(x)=0, \quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\,\,\,\, x\in \partial\Omega,\end{array}\right.$$ where ${\Omega\subset G}$ is a bounded domain with smooth boundary and ${\mathbf{0}\in\Omega}$ , Q is the homogeneous dimension of G, ${a\in \mathbb{R},\ \nu <2 }$ . We boost u to ${L^p(\Omega)}$ for any ${1\leq p < \infty}$ if ${u\in S^{1,2}_0(\Omega)}$ is a weak solution of the problem above.     

On averages of Fourier coefficients of Maass cusp forms

Let φ be a primitive Maass cusp form and t _φ (n) be its nth Fourier coefficient at the cusp infinity. In this short note, we are interested in the estimation of the sums ${\sum_{n \leq x}t_{\varphi}(n)}$ and ${\sum_{n \leq x}t_{\varphi}(n^2)}$ . We are able to improve the previous results by showing that for any ${\varepsilon > 0}$ $$\sum_{n \leq x}t_{\varphi}(n) \ll\, _{\varphi, \varepsilon} x^{\frac{1027}{2827} + \varepsilon} \quad {and}\quad\sum_{n \leq x}t_{\varphi}(n^2) \ll\,_{\varphi, \varepsilon} x^{\frac{489}{861} + \varepsilon}.$$      

Infinitely many solutions for an elliptic problem involving critical Sobolev growth and Hardy potential

In this paper, we will prove the existence of infinitely many solutions for the following elliptic problem with critical Sobolev growth and a Hardy potential: $$-\Delta u-\frac{\mu}{|x|^2}u = |u|^{2^{\ast}-2}u+a u\quad {\rm in}\;\Omega,\quad u=0 \quad {\rm on}\; \partial\Omega,\qquad (*)$$ under the assumptions that N ≥ 7, ${\mu\in \left[0,\frac{(N-2)^2}4-4\right)}$ and a > 0, where ${2^{\ast}=\frac{2N}{N-2}}$ , and Ω is an open bounded domain in ${\mathbb{R}^N}$ which contains the origin. To achieve this goal, we consider the following perturbed problem of (*), which is of subcritical growth, $$-\Delta u-\frac{\mu}{|x|^2}u = |u|^{2^{\ast}-2-\varepsilon_n}u+au \quad {\rm in}\,\Omega, \quad u=0 \quad {\rm on}\;\partial\Omega,\qquad(\ast\ast)_n$$ where ${\varepsilon_{n} > 0}$ is small and ${\varepsilon_n \to 0}$ as n → + ∞. By the critical point theory for the even functionals, for each fixed ${\varepsilon_{n} > 0}$ small, (**) _n has a sequence of solutions ${u_{k,\varepsilon_{n}} \in H^{1}_{0}(\Omega)}$ . We obtain the existence of infinitely many solutions for (*) by showing that as n → ∞, ${u_{k,\varepsilon_{n}}}$ converges strongly in ${H^{1}_{0}(\Omega)}$ to u _k , which must be a solution of (*). Such a convergence is obtained by applying a local Pohozaev identity to exclude the possibility of the concentration of ${\{u_{k,\varepsilon_n}\}}$ .     

The Left Hilbert BVP for h-Regular Functions in Clifford Analysis

Consider the real Clifford algebra ${\mathbb{R}_{0,n}}$ generated by e ₁, e ₂, . . . , e _n satisfying ${e_{i}e_{j} + e_{j}e_{i} = -2\delta_{ij} , i, j = 1, 2, . . . , n, e_{0}}$ is the unit element. Let ${\Omega}$ be an open set in ${\mathbb{R}^{n+1}}$ . u(x) is called an h-regular function in ${\Omega}$ if $$D_{x}u(x) + \widehat{u}(x)h = 0, \quad\quad (0.1)$$ where ${D_x = \sum\limits_{i=0}^{n} e_{i}\partial_{xi}}$ is the Dirac operator in ${\mathbb{R}^{n+1}}$ , and ${\widehat{u}(x) = \sum \limits_{A} (-1)^{\#A}u_{A}(x)e_{A}, \#A}$ denotes the cardinality of A and ${h = \sum\limits_{k=0}^{n} h_{k}e_{k}}$ is a constant paravector. In this paper, we mainly consider the Hilbert boundary value problem (BVP) for h-regular functions in ${\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}$ .     

Extinction profile of the logarithmic diffusion equation

Let ${N \geq 3}$ and u be the solution of u _t = Δ log u in ${\mathbb{R}^N \times (0, T)}$ with initial value u ₀ satisfying ${B_{k_1}(x, 0) \leq u_{0} \leq B_{k_2}(x, 0)}$ for some constants k ₁ > k ₂ > 0 where ${B_k(x, t) = 2(N - 2)(T - t)_{+}^{N/(N - 2)}/(k + (T - t)_{+}^{2/(N - 2)}|x|^{2})}$ is the Barenblatt solution for the equation and ${u_0 - B_{k_0} \in L^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{N})}$ for some constant k ₀ > 0 if ${N \geq 4}$ . We give a new different proof on the uniform convergence and ${L^1(\mathbb{R}^N)}$ convergence of the rescaled function ${\tilde{u}(x, s) = (T - t)^{-N/(N - 2)}u(x/(T - t)^{-1/(N - 2)}, t), s = -{\rm log}(T - t)}$ , on ${\mathbb{R}^N}$ to the rescaled Barenblatt solution ${\tilde{B}_{k_0}(x) = 2(N - 2)/(k_0 + |x|^{2})}$ for some k ₀ > 0 as ${s \rightarrow \infty}$ . When ${N \geq 4, 0 \leq u_0(x) \leq B_{k_0}(x, 0)}$ in ${\mathbb{R}^N}$ , and ${|u_0(x) - B_{k_0}(x, 0)| \leq f \in L^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{N})}$ for some constant k ₀ > 0 and some radially symmetric function f, we also prove uniform convergence and convergence in some weighted L ¹ space in ${\mathbb{R}^N}$ of the rescaled solution ${\tilde{u}(x, s)}$ to ${\tilde{B}_{k_0}(x)}$ as ${s \rightarrow \infty}$ .     

Varieties Generated by Wreath Products of Abelian Groups

This paper is a survey of our recent results concerning metabelian varieties, and more specifically, varieties generated by wreath products of Abelian groups. We give a full classification of cases where sets of wreath products of Abelian groups $ \mathfrak{X} $ Wr $ \mathfrak{Y} $ = { X Wr Y | X ∈ $ \mathfrak{X} $ , Y ∈ $ \mathfrak{Y} $ } and $ \mathfrak{X} $ wr $ \mathfrak{Y} $ = {X wr Y | X ∈ $ \mathfrak{X} $ , Y ∈ $ \mathfrak{Y} $ } generate the product variety $ \mathfrak{X} $ var ( $ \mathfrak{Y} $ ).     

The Majorization Theorem for Signless Laplacian Spectral Radii of Connected Graphs

Let ${\pi=(d_{1},d_{2},\ldots,d_{n})}$ and ${\pi'=(d'_{1},d'_{2},\ldots,d'_{n})}$ be two non-increasing degree sequences. We say ${\pi}$ is majorizated by ${\pi'}$ , denoted by ${\pi \vartriangleleft \pi'}$ , if and only if ${\pi\neq \pi'}$ , ${\sum_{i=1}^{n}d_{i}=\sum_{i=1}^{n}d'_{i}}$ , and ${\sum_{i=1}^{j}d_{i}\leq\sum_{i=1}^{j}d'_{i}}$ for all ${j=1,2,\ldots,n}$ . If there exists one connected graph G with ${\pi}$ as its degree sequence and ${c=(\sum_{i=1}^{n}d_{i})/2-n+1}$ , then G is called a c-cyclic graph and ${\pi}$ is called a c-cyclic degree sequence. Suppose ${\pi}$ is a non-increasing c-cyclic degree sequence and ${\pi'}$ is a non-increasing graphic degree sequence, if ${\pi \vartriangleleft \pi'}$ and there exists some t ${(2\leq t\leq n)}$ such that ${d'_{t}\geq c+1}$ and ${d_{i}=d'_{i}}$ for all ${t+1\leq i\leq n}$ , then the majorization ${\pi \vartriangleleft \pi'}$ is called a normal majorization. Let μ(G) be the signless Laplacian spectral radius, i.e., the largest eigenvalue of the signless Laplacian matrix of G. We use C _π to denote the class of connected graphs with degree sequence π. If ${G \in C_{\pi}}$ and ${\mu(G)\geq \mu(G')}$ for any other ${G'\in C_{\pi}}$ , then we say G has greatest signless Laplacian radius in C _π . In this paper, we prove that: Let π and π′ be two different non-increasing c-cyclic (c ≥ 0) degree sequences, G and G′ be the connected c-cyclic graphs with greatest signless Laplacian spectral radii in C _π and C _π', respectively. If ${\pi \vartriangleleft \pi'}$ and it is a normal majorization, then ${\mu(G) < \mu(G')}$ . This result extends the main result of Zhang (Discrete Math 308:3143–3150, 2008).     

Restrictions of generalized Verma modules to symmetric pairs

We initiate a new line of investigation on branching problems for generalized Verma modules with respect to reductive symmetric pairs $ \left( {\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{g}'} \right) $ . In general, Verma modules may not contain any simple module when restricted to a reductive subalgebra. In this article we give a necessary and sufficient condition on the triple $ \left( {\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{g}',\mathfrak{p}} \right) $ such that the restriction $ {\left. X \right|_{\mathfrak{g}'}} $ always contains simple $ \mathfrak{g}' $ -modules for any $ \mathfrak{g} $ -module X lying in the parabolic BGG category $ {\mathcal{O}^\mathfrak{p}} $ attached to a parabolic subalgebra $ \mathfrak{p} $ of $ \mathfrak{g} $ . Formulas are derived for the Gelfand?CKirillov dimension of any simple module occurring in a simple generalized Verma module. We then prove that the restriction $ {\left. X \right|_{\mathfrak{g}'}} $ is generically multiplicity-free for any $ \mathfrak{p} $ and any $ X \in {\mathcal{O}^\mathfrak{p}} $ if and only if $ \left( {\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{g}'} \right) $ is isomorphic to (A _n , A _n-1), (B _n , D _n ), or (D _n+1, B _n ). Explicit branching laws are also presented.     

Nash equilibria on topological semilattices

A function ${u : X \to \mathbb{R}}$ defined on a partially ordered set is quasi-Leontief if, for all ${x \in X}$ , the upper level set ${\{x\prime \in X : u(x\prime) \geq u(x)\}}$ has a smallest element; such an element is an efficient point of u. An abstract game ${u_{i} : \prod^{n}_{j=1} X_j \to \mathbb{R}, i \in \{1, \ldots , n\}}$ , is a quasi-Leontief game if, for all i and all ${(x_{j})_{j \neq i} \in \prod_{j \neq i} X_{j}, u_{i}((x_{j})_{j \neq i};-) : X_{i} \to \mathbb{R}}$ is quasi-Leontief; a Nash equilibrium x* of an abstract game ${u_{i} :\prod^{n}_{j=1} X_{j} \to \mathbb{R}}$ is efficient if, for all ${i, x^{*}_{i}}$ is an efficient point of the partial function ${u_{i}((x^{*}_{j})_{j \neq i};-) : X_{i} \to \mathbb{R}}$ . We establish the existence of efficient Nash equilibria when the strategy spaces X _i are topological semilattices which are Peano continua and Lawson semilattices.     

A perturbation result for semi-linear stochastic differential equations in UMD Banach spaces

We consider the effect of perturbations of A on the solution to the following semi-linear parabolic stochastic partial differential equation: $$\left\{\begin{array}{ll}{\rm d}U(t) & = AU(t)\,{\rm d}t + F(t,U(t))\,{\rm d}t + G(t,U(t))\,{\rm d}W_H(t), \quad t > 0;\\U(0)& = x_0. \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad({\rm SDE})\end{array} \right.$$ Here, A is the generator of an analytic C ₀-semigroup on a UMD Banach space X, H is a Hilbert space, W _H is an H-cylindrical Brownian motion, ${G:[0,T]\times X\rightarrow \mathcal{L}(H, X_{\theta_G}^{A})}$ , and ${F : [0, T]\times X \rightarrow X_{\theta_F}^{A}}$ for some ${\theta_G > -\frac{1}{2}, \theta_F > -\frac{3}{2}+\frac{1}{\tau}}$ , where ${\tau\in [1, 2]}$ denotes the type of the Banach space and ${X_{\theta_F}^{A}}$ denotes the fractional domain space or extrapolation space corresponding to A. We assume F and G to satisfy certain global Lipschitz and linear growth conditions. Let A ₀ denote the perturbed operator and U ₀ the solution to (SDE) with A substituted by A ₀. We provide estimates for ${\|U - U_0\|_{L^p(\Omega;C([0,T];X))}}$ in terms of ${D_{\delta}(A, A_0) := \|R(\lambda : A) - R(\lambda : A_0)\|_{\mathcal{L}(X^{A}_{\delta-1},X)}}$ . Here, ${\delta\in [0, 1]}$ is assumed to satisfy ${0\leq \delta < {\rm min}\{\frac{3}{2} - \frac{1}{\tau} + \theta_F,\, \frac{1}{2} - \frac{1}{p} + \theta_G \}}$ . The work is inspired by the desire to prove convergence of space approximations of (SDE). In this article, we prove convergence rates for the case that A is approximated by its Yosida approximation.     

On functions whose symmetric part of gradient agree and a generalization of Reshetnyak’s compactness theorem

We consider the following question: Given a connected open domain ${\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n}$ , suppose ${u, v : \Omega \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^n}$ with det ${(\nabla u) > 0}$ , det ${(\nabla v) > 0}$ a.e. are such that ${\nabla u^T(x)\nabla u(x) = \nabla v(x)^T \nabla v(x)}$ a.e. , does this imply a global relation of the form ${\nabla v(x) = R\nabla u(x)}$ a.e. in Ω where ${R \in SO(n)}$ ? If u, v are C ¹ it is an exercise to see this true, if ${u, v\in W^{1,1}}$ we show this is false. In Theorem 1 we prove this question has a positive answer if ${v \in W^{1,1}}$ and ${u \in W^{1,n}}$ is a mapping of L ^p integrable dilatation for p > n ? 1. These conditions are sharp in two dimensions and this result represents a generalization of the corollary to Liouville’s theorem that states that the differential inclusion ${\nabla u \in SO(n)}$ can only be satisfied by an affine mapping. Liouville’s corollary for rotations has been generalized by Reshetnyak who proved convergence of gradients to a fixed rotation for any weakly converging sequence ${v_k \in W^{1,1}}$ for which $$\int \limits_{\Omega} {\rm dist}(\nabla v_k, SO(n))dz \rightarrow 0 \, {\rm as} \, k \rightarrow \infty.$$ Let S(·) denote the (multiplicative) symmetric part of a matrix. In Theorem 3 we prove an analogous result to Theorem 1 for any pair of weakly converging sequences ${v_k \in W^{1,p}}$ and ${u_k \in W^{1,\frac{p(n-1)}{p-1}}}$ (where ${p \in [1, n]}$ and the sequence (u _k ) has its dilatation pointwise bounded above by an L ^r integrable function, r > n ? 1) that satisfy ${\int_{\Omega} |S(\nabla u_k) - S(\nabla v_k)|^p dz \rightarrow 0}$ as k → ∞ and for which the sign of the det ${(\nabla v_k)}$ tends to 1 in L ¹. This result contains Reshetnyak’s theorem as the special case (u _k ) ≡ Id, p = 1.     

Mixed Invariant Subspaces over the Bidisk

It is known that the structure of invariant subspaces I of the Hardy space H ² over the bidisk is extremely complicated. One reason is that it is difficult to describe infinite dimensional wandering spaces ${I\ominus zI}$ completely. In this paper, we study the structure of nontrivial closed subspaces N of H ² with ${T_zN\subset N}$ and ${T^*_wN\subset N}$ , which are called mixed invariant subspaces under T _z and ${T^*_w}$ . We know that the dimension of ${N\ominus zN}$ ranges from 1 to ??. If ${T^*_w(N\ominus zN)\subset N\ominus zN}$ , we may describe N completely. If ${T^*_w(N\ominus zN)\not\subset N\ominus zN}$ , it seems difficult to describe N generally. So we study N under the condition ${dim\,(N\ominus zN)=1}$ . Write ${M=H^2\ominus N}$ . We describe ${M\ominus wM}$ precisely. We give a characterization of N for which there is a nonzero function ${\varphi}$ in ${M\ominus wM}$ satisfying ${z^k\varphi\in M\ominus wM}$ for every k ?? 0. We also see that the space ${M\ominus wM}$ has a deep connection with the de Branges?CRovnyak spaces studied by Sarason.     

On the Behavior of Gegenbauer Polynomials in the Complex Plane

It is well-known that the squared modulus of every function f from the Laguerre–Polya class ${\mathcal{L}-\mathcal{P}}$ of entire functions obeys a MacLaurin series representation $$|f(x+i y)|^2=\sum_{k=0}^{\infty} L_k(f;x)\,y^{2k}, \quad x,y\in\mathbb{R}$$ , which reduces to a finite sum when f is a polynomial having only real zeros. The coefficients {L _k } are representable as non-linear differential operators acting on f, and by a classical result of Jensen L _k (f;x)?≥ 0 for ${f\in \mathcal{L}-\mathcal{P}}$ and ${x\in \mathbb{R}}$ . Here, we prove a conjecture formulated by the first-named author in 2005, which states that for ${f=P_n^{(\lambda)} }$ , the n-th Gegenbauer polynomial, the functions ${\{L_k(f;x)\}_{k=1}^{n}}$ are monotone decreasing on the negative semi-axis and monotone increasing on the positive semi-axis. This result pertains to certain polynomial inequalities in the spirit of the celebrated refinement of Markov’s inequality, found by R. J. Duffin and A. C. Schaeffer in 1941.     

Lower bounds on Ricci curvature and quantitative behavior of singular sets

Let Y ⁿ denote the Gromov-Hausdorff limit $M^{n}_{i}\stackrel{d_{\mathrm{GH}}}{\longrightarrow} Y^{n}$ of v-noncollapsed Riemannian manifolds with ${\mathrm{Ric}}_{M^{n}_{i}}\geq-(n-1)$ . The singular set $\mathcal {S}\subset Y$ has a stratification $\mathcal {S}^{0}\subset \mathcal {S}^{1}\subset\cdots\subset \mathcal {S}$ , where $y\in \mathcal {S}^{k}$ if no tangent cone at y splits off a factor ? ^k+1 isometrically. Here, we define for all η>0, 0<r≤1, the k-th effective singular stratum $\mathcal {S}^{k}_{\eta,r}$ satisfying $\bigcup_{\eta}\bigcap_{r} \,\mathcal {S}^{k}_{\eta,r}= \mathcal {S}^{k}$ . Sharpening the known Hausdorff dimension bound $\dim\, \mathcal {S}^{k}\leq k$ , we prove that for all y, the volume of the r-tubular neighborhood of $\mathcal {S}^{k}_{\eta,r}$ satisfies ${\mathrm {Vol}}(T_{r}(\mathcal {S}^{k}_{\eta,r})\cap B_{\frac{1}{2}}(y))\leq c(n,{\mathrm {v}},\eta)r^{n-k-\eta}$ . The proof involves a quantitative differentiation argument. This result has applications to Einstein manifolds. Let $\mathcal {B}_{r}$ denote the set of points at which the C ²-harmonic radius is ≤r. If also the $M^{n}_{i}$ are Kähler-Einstein with L ₂ curvature bound, $\| Rm\|_{L_{2}}\leq C$ , then ${\mathrm {Vol}}( \mathcal {B}_{r}\cap B_{\frac{1}{2}}(y))\leq c(n,{\mathrm {v}},C)r^{4}$ for all y. In the Kähler-Einstein case, without assuming any integral curvature bound on the $M^{n}_{i}$ , we obtain a slightly weaker volume bound on $\mathcal {B}_{r}$ which yields an a priori L _p curvature bound for all p<2. The methodology developed in this paper is new and is applicable in many other contexts. These include harmonic maps, minimal hypersurfaces, mean curvature flow and critical sets of solutions to elliptic equations.     

Singular limits for Liouville-type equations on the flat two-torus

We consider the problem $$\begin{aligned} -\Delta u=\varepsilon ^{2}e^{u}- \frac{1}{|\Omega |}\int _\Omega \varepsilon ^{2} e^{u}+ {4\pi N\over |\Omega |} - 4 \pi N\delta _p, \quad \text{ in} {\Omega }, \quad \int _\Omega u=0 \end{aligned}$$ in a flat two-torus $\Omega $ with periodic boundary conditions, where $\varepsilon >0,\,|\Omega |$ is the area of the $\Omega $ , $N>0$ and $\delta _p$ is a Dirac mass at $p\in \Omega $ . We prove that if $1\le m<N+1$ then there exists a family of solutions $\{u_\varepsilon \}_{\varepsilon }$ such that $\varepsilon ^{2}e^{u_\varepsilon }\rightharpoonup 8\pi \sum _{i=1}^m\delta _{q_i}$ as $\varepsilon \rightarrow 0$ in measure sense for some different points $q_{1}, \ldots , q_{m}$ . Furthermore, points $q_i$ , $i=1,\dots ,m$ are different from $p$ .