Minimal index of a -crossed product by a finite group

Let be the -crossed product of a simple unital -algebra by a finite group . In this paper we show that the canonical conditional expectation from to has the minimal index if is simple. It is also proved that if is an outer action, then the canonical one is the unique conditional expectation of index-finite type from to , while there are infinitely many conditional expectations when a nontrivial subgroup of acts innerly on .

     

Projections of polytopes on the plane and the generalized Baues problem

Given an affine projection of a -polytope onto a polygon , it is proved that the poset of proper polytopal subdivisions of which are induced by has the homotopy type of a sphere of dimension if maps all vertices of into the boundary of . This result, originally conjectured by Reiner, is an analogue of a result of Billera, Kapranov and Sturmfels on cellular strings on polytopes and explains the significance of the interior point of present in the counterexample to their generalized Baues conjecture, constructed by Rambau and Ziegler.

     

On classification of polarized varieties with non-integral nef values

Let be an -dimensional normal projective variety with only Gorenstein, terminal, -factorial singularities. Let be an ample line bundle on . Let denote the nef value of . The classification of via the nef value morphism is given for the situations when satisfies or .

     

Necessary and sufficient conditions for s-Hopfian manifolds to be codimension-2 fibrators

Fibrators help detect approximate fibrations. A closed, connected -manifold is called a codimension-2 fibrator if each map defined on an -manifold such that all fibre , are shape equivalent to is an approximate fibration. The most natural objects to study are s-Hopfian manifolds. In this note we give some necessary and sufficient conditions for s-Hopfian manifolds to be codimension-2 fibrators.

     

Nonstandard topologies with bases that consist only of standard sets

Let be an infinite set, a set of pseudo-metrics on and If is limited (finite) for every and every then, for each we can define a pseudo-metric on by writing st We investigate the conditions under which the topology induced on by has a basis consisting only of standard sets. This investigation produces a theory with a variety of applications in functional analysis. For example, a specialization of some of our general results will yield such classical compactness theorems as Schauder's theorem, Mazur's theorem, and Gelfand-Philips's theorem.

     

Push-forward of degeneracy classes and ampleness

Let be a projective variety and vector bundles on . Suppose is a surjective map onto another variety . Let be any vector bundle map and the 'th degeneracy locus of . We show that the dimension of is at least equal to

under the hypothesis that is an ample vector bundle on .

     

Douglas algebras which admit codimension 1 linear isometries

Let be a Douglas algebra and let be its Bourgain algebra. It is proved that admits a codimension 1 linear isometry if and only if . This answers the conjecture of Araujo and Font.

     

Lifting wreath product extensions

Let and be finite groups and let be a hilbertian field. We show that if has a generic extension over and satisfies the arithmetic lifting property over , then the wreath product of and also satisfies the arithmetic lifting property over . Moreover, if the orders of and are relatively prime and is abelian, then any extension of by (which is necessarily a semidirect product) has the arithmetic lifting property.

     

Invariant subspaces of arbitrary multiplicity for the shift on

It is shown that if is a positive integer or , then the unilateral shift on has an invariant subspace such that its restriction to it has multiplicity .

     

The relative pluricanonical stability for 3-folds of general type

The aim of this paper is to improve a theorem of János Kollár by a different method. For a given smooth complex projective threefold of general type, suppose the plurigenus . Kollár proved that the -canonical map is birational. Here we show that either the -canonical map or the -canonical map is birational and that the -canonical map is stably birational onto its image. Suppose . Then the -canonical map is birational for . In particular, is birational whenever and is birational whenever .

     

Approximating discrete valuation rings by regular local rings

Let be a field of characteristic zero and let be a discrete rank-one valuation domain containing with . Assume that the fraction field of has finite transcendence degree over . For every positive integer , we prove that can be realized as a directed union of regular local -subalgebras of of dimension .

     

Domination by positive disjointly strictly singular operators

We prove that each positive operator from a Banach lattice to a Banach lattice with a disjointly strictly singular majorant is itself disjointly strictly singular provided the norm on is order continuous. We prove as well that if is dominated by a disjointly strictly singular operator, then is disjointly strictly singular.

     

Le degré de Lindelöf est -invariant

Two Tychonoff spaces and are said to be -equivalent if and are linearly homeomorphic. It is shown that if and are -equivalent, then the Lindelöf numbers of and are the same. The proof given is a strengthening of the one given by N.V. Velichko to show that the Lindelöf property is -invariant.

     

Types in reductive -adic groups: The Hecke algebra of a cover

In this paper, is a non-Archimedean local field and is the group of -points of a connected reductive algebraic group defined over . Also, is an irreducible representation of a compact open subgroup of , the pair being a type in . The pair is assumed to be a cover of a type in a Levi subgroup of . We give conditions, generalizing those of earlier work, under which the Hecke algebra is the tensor product of a canonical image of and a sub-algebra , for a compact open subgroup of containing .

     

Similarity to a contraction and hypercontractivity of composition operators

On the Hardy spaces with , we consider the composition operators induced by analytic self-maps of the open unit disc . First, we characterize those which are similar to contractions. Then, we give some necessary and sufficient conditions for them to be hypercontractive. Finally, we prove that, among those ones, only the zero-symbol composition operator sends into with a norm less than or equal to .

     

Non-invertibility of certain almost Mathieu operators

It is shown that the almost Mathieu operators of the type where is real and is a rational multiple of and an orthonormal basis for a Hilbert space, is not invertible.

     

Irreducible restriction and zeros of characters

Let be a finite group, let be normal in and suppose that is an irreducible complex character of . Then is not irreducible if and only if vanishes on some coset of in .

     

Splitting sets in integral domains

Let be an integral domain. A saturated multiplicatively closed subset of is a splitting set if each nonzero may be written as where and for all . We show that if is a splitting set in , then is a splitting set in , a multiplicatively closed subset of , and that is a splitting set in is an lcm splitting set of , i.e., is a splitting set of with the further property that is principal for all and . Several new characterizations and applications of splitting sets are given.

     

Unbounded quasi-integrals

Let be a locally compact Hausdorff space. We define a quasi-measure in , a quasi-integral on , and a quasi-integral on . We show that all quasi-integrals on are bounded, continuity properties of the quasi-integral on , representation of quasi-integrals on in terms of quasi-measures, and unique extension of quasi-integrals on to .

     

Line bundles for which a projectivized jet bundle is a product

We characterize the triples , consisting of line bundles and on a complex projective manifold , such that for some positive integer , the -th holomorphic jet bundle of , , is isomorphic to a direct sum .