A generalized Cuntz–Krieger uniqueness theorem for higher-rank graphs

We present a uniqueness theorem for k  -graph C^?$C^{?}$-algebras that requires neither an aperiodicity nor a gauge invariance assumption. Specifically, we prove that for the injectivity of a representation of a k  -graph C^?$C^{?}$-algebra, it is sufficient that the representation be injective on a distinguished abelian C^?$C^{?}$-subalgebra. A crucial part of the proof is the application of an abstract uniqueness theorem, which says that such a uniqueness property follows from the existence of a jointly faithful collection of states on the ambient C^?$C^{?}$-algebra, each of which is the unique extension of a state on the distinguished abelian C^?$C^{?}$-subalgebra.     

A Serre–Swan theorem for bundles of bounded geometry

The Serre–Swan theorem in differential geometry establishes an equivalence between the category of smooth vector bundles over a smooth compact manifold and the category of finitely generated projective modules over the unital ring of smooth functions. This theorem is here generalized to manifolds of bounded geometry. In this context it states that the category of Hilbert bundles of bounded geometry is equivalent to the category of operator ?-modules over the operator ?-algebra of continuously differentiable functions which vanish at infinity. Operator ?-modules are generalizations of Hilbert C^?$C^{?}$-modules where the category of C^?$C^{?}$-algebras has been replaced by a more flexible category of involutive algebras of bounded operators: The operator ?-algebras. Operator ?-modules play an important role in the study of the unbounded Kasparov product.     

Relative weak injectivity of operator system pairs

The concept of a relatively weakly injective pair of operator systems is introduced and studied in this paper, motivated by relative weak injectivity in the C*-algebra category. E. Kirchberg [11] proved that the C^?${\mathrm{C}}^{?}$-algebra C^?(_F∞)${\mathrm{C}}^{?}({\mathbb{F}}_{\infty })$ of the free group _F∞${\mathbb{F}}_{\infty }$ on countably many generators characterises relative weak injectivity for pairs of C^?${\mathrm{C}}^{?}$-algebras by means of the maximal tensor product. One of the main results of this paper shows that C^?(_F∞)${\mathrm{C}}^{?}({\mathbb{F}}_{\infty })$ also characterises relative weak injectivity in the operator system category. A key tool is the theory of operator system tensor products  and .     

The automorphism group of a certain unbounded non-hyperbolic domain

In this paper we determine the automorphism group of the Fock–Bargmann–Hartogs domain _Dn,m$D_{n,m}$ in Cⁿ×C^m${\mathbb{C}}^n\times {\mathbb{C}}^m$ which is defined by the inequality ‖ζ‖²<e^{−μ‖z‖2}${\Vert \zeta \Vert }^2<e^{-\mu {\Vert z\Vert }^2}$.     

K-theory and exact sequences of partial translation algebras

In an earlier paper, the authors introduced partial translation algebras as a generalisation of group C^?${\mathrm{C}}^{?}$-algebras. Here we establish an extension of partial translation algebras, which may be viewed as an excision theorem in this context. We apply this general framework to compute the K-theory of partial translation algebras and group C^?${\mathrm{C}}^{?}$-algebras in the context of almost invariant subspaces of discrete groups. This generalises the work of Cuntz, Lance, Pimsner and Voiculescu. In particular we provide a new perspective on Pimsner's calculation of the K-theory for a graph product of groups.     

The K-theoretical range of Cuntz–Krieger algebras

We augment Restorff's classification of purely infinite Cuntz–Krieger algebras by describing the range of his invariant on purely infinite Cuntz–Krieger algebras. We also describe its range on purely infinite graph C^?$C^{?}$-algebras with finitely many ideals, and provide ‘unital’ range results for purely infinite Cuntz–Krieger algebras and unital purely infinite graph C^?$C^{?}$-algebras.     

On rigidity of Roe algebras

Roe algebras are C^?$C^{?}$-algebras built using large scale (or ‘coarse’) aspects of a metric space (X,d)$(X,d)$. In the special case that X=Γ$X=\Gamma$ is a finitely generated group and d   is a word metric, the simplest Roe algebra associated to (Γ,d)$(\Gamma ,d)$ is isomorphic to the crossed product C^?$C^{?}$-algebra l^∞(Γ)_?rΓ$l^{\infty }(\Gamma ){?}_r\Gamma$.     

Galois points for a plane curve in characteristic two

Let C$C$ be an irreducible plane curve. A point P$P$ in the projective plane is said to be Galois with respect to C$C$ if the function field extension induced by the projection from P$P$ is Galois. We denote by δ^′(C)${\delta }^{\prime }\left(C\right)$ the number of Galois points contained in P²?C${\mathbb{P}}^2?C$. In this article we will present two results with respect to determination of δ^′(C)${\delta }^{\prime }\left(C\right)$ in characteristic two. First we determine δ^′(C)${\delta }^{\prime }\left(C\right)$ for smooth plane curves of degree a power of two. In particular, we give a new characterization of the Klein quartic in terms of δ^′(C)${\delta }^{\prime }\left(C\right)$. Second we determine δ^′(C)${\delta }^{\prime }\left(C\right)$ for a generalization of the Klein quartic, which is related to an example of Artin–Schreier curves whose automorphism group exceeds the Hurwitz bound. This curve has many Galois points.     

Nonuniform continuity of the solution map to the two component Camassa–Holm system

We prove that the solution map of the two-component Camassa–Holm system is not uniformly continuous as a map from a bounded subset of the Sobolev space H^s(T)×H^r(T)$H^s(\mathbb{T})\times H^r(\mathbb{T})$ to C([0,1],H^s(T)×H^r(T))$C([0,1],H^s(\mathbb{T})\times H^r(\mathbb{T}))$ when s?1$s?1$ and r?0$r?0$. We also demonstrate the nonuniform continuous property in the continuous function space C¹(T)×C¹(T)$C^1(\mathbb{T})\times C^1(\mathbb{T})$.     

Ruin probability in the presence of risky investments

We consider an insurance company in the case when the premium rate is a bounded non-negative random function _ct$c_t$ and the capital of the insurance company is invested in a risky asset whose price follows a geometric Brownian motion with mean return a   and volatility σ>0$\sigma >0$. If β?2a/σ²-1>0$\beta ?2a/{\sigma }^2-1>0$ we find exact the asymptotic upper and lower bounds for the ruin probability Ψ(u)$\Psi (u)$ as the initial endowment u   tends to infinity, i.e. we show that _C*u^-β?Ψ(u)?C^*u^-β$C_{*}{u}^{-\beta }?\Psi (u)?C^{*}{u}^{-\beta }$ for sufficiently large u  . Moreover if _ct=c^*e^γt$c_t=c^{*}{\mathrm{e}}^{\gamma t}$ with γ?0$\gamma ?0$ we find the exact asymptotics of the ruin probability, namely Ψ(u)∼u^-β$\Psi (u)\sim u^{-\beta }$. If β?0$\beta ?0$, we show that Ψ(u)=1$\Psi (u)=1$ for any u?0$u?0$.     

ZL-amenability and characters for the restricted direct products of finite groups

Let G   be a restricted direct product of finite groups _{Gi}i∈I${\{G_i\}}_{i\in I}$, and let Z?¹(G)${\mathrm{Z}?}^1(G)$ denote the centre of its group algebra. We show that Z?¹(G)${\mathrm{Z}?}^1(G)$ is amenable if and only if _Gi$G_i$ is abelian for all but finitely many i  , and characterize the maximal ideals of Z?¹(G)${\mathrm{Z}?}^1(G)$ which have bounded approximate identities. We also study when an algebra character of Z?¹(G)${\mathrm{Z}?}^1(G)$ belongs to _c0$c_0$ or ?^p${?}^p$ and provide a variety of examples.     

Quantitative Grothendieck property

A Banach space X is Grothendieck if the weak and the weak^? convergence of sequences in the dual space X^?$X^{?}$ coincide. The space ?^∞${?}^{\infty }$ is a classical example of a Grothendieck space due to Grothendieck. We introduce a quantitative version of the Grothendieck property, we prove a quantitative version of the above-mentioned Grothendieck?s result and we construct a Grothendieck space which is not quantitatively Grothendieck. We also establish the quantitative Grothendieck property of L^∞(μ)$L^{\infty }(\mu )$ for a σ-finite measure μ.     

The adjoint representation inside the exterior algebra of a simple Lie algebra

For a simple complex Lie algebra g$\mathfrak{g}$ we study the space of invariants A=(?g^?⊗g^?)^g$A={(?{\mathfrak{g}}^{?}\otimes {\mathfrak{g}}^{?})}^{\mathfrak{g}}$, which describes the isotypic component of type g$\mathfrak{g}$ in ?g^?$?{\mathfrak{g}}^{?}$, as a module over the algebra of invariants (?g^?)^g${(?{\mathfrak{g}}^{?})}^{\mathfrak{g}}$. As main result we prove that A   is a free module, of rank twice the rank of g$\mathfrak{g}$, over the exterior algebra generated by all primitive invariants in (?g^?)^g${(?{\mathfrak{g}}^{?})}^{\mathfrak{g}}$, with the exception of the one of highest degree.     

On the translative packing densities of tetrahedra and cuboctahedra

In 1900, as a part of his 18th problem, Hilbert asked the question to determine the density of the densest tetrahedron packings. However, up to now no mathematician knows the density δ^t(T)${\delta }^t(T)$ of the densest translative tetrahedron packings and the density δ^c(T)${\delta }^c(T)$ of the densest congruent tetrahedron packings. This paper presents a local method to estimate the density of the densest translative packings of a general convex solid. As an application, we obtain the upper bound in

0.3673469?≤δ^t(T)≤0.3840610?,$0.3673469?\le {\delta }^t(T)\le 0.3840610?,$

where the lower bound was established by Groemer in 1962, which corrected a mistake of Minkowski. For the density δ^t(C)${\delta }^t(C)$ of the densest translative cuboctahedron packings, we obtain the upper bound in

0.9183673?≤δ^t(C)≤0.9601527?.$0.9183673?\le {\delta }^t(C)\le 0.9601527?.$

In both cases we conjecture the lower bounds to be the correct answer.     

Conditions at infinity for the inhomogeneous filtration equation

We investigate existence and uniqueness of solutions to the filtration equation with an inhomogeneous density in R^N${\mathbb{R}}^N$ (N?3$N?3$), approaching at infinity a given continuous datum of Dirichlet type.