Varieties with a reducible hyperplane section whose two components are hypersurfaces

We classify smooth complex projective varieties of dimension admitting a divisor of the form among their hyperplane sections, both and of codimension in their respective linear spans. In this setting, one of the following holds: 1) is either the Veronese surface in or its general projection to , 2) and is contained in a quadric cone of rank or , 3) and .

     

Spreading of quasimodes in the Bunimovich stadium

We consider Dirichlet eigenfunctions of the Bunimovich stadium , satisfying . Write where is the central rectangle and denotes the ``wings,' i.e., the two semicircular regions. It is a topic of current interest in quantum theory to know whether eigenfunctions can concentrate in as . We obtain a lower bound on the mass of in , assuming that itself is -normalized; in other words, the norm of is controlled by times the norm in . Moreover, if is an quasimode, the same result holds, while for an quasimode we prove that the norm of is controlled by times the norm in . We also show that the norm of may be controlled by the integral of along , where is a smooth factor on vanishing at . These results complement recent work of Burq-Zworski which shows that the norm of is controlled by the norm in any pair of strips contained in , but adjacent to .

     

Minimal rank and reflexivity of operator spaces

Let be an -dimensional space of linear operators between the linear spaces and over an algebraically closed field . Improving results of Larson, Ding, and Li and Pan we show the following.

Theorem. Let be a basis of . Assume that every nonzero operator in has rank larger than . Then a linear operator belongs to if and only if for every , is a linear combination of .

     

Isomorphism of Borel full groups

Suppose that and are Polish groups which act in a Borel fashion on Polish spaces and . Let and denote the corresponding orbit equivalence relations, and and the corresponding Borel full groups. Modulo the obvious counterexamples, we show that .

     

Algebraic reflexivity of linear transformations

Let be the set of all linear transformations from to , where and are vector spaces over a field . We show that every -dimensional subspace of is algebraically -reflexive, where denotes the largest integer not exceeding , provided is less than the cardinality of .

     

A condition under which follows from

We will give some sufficient conditions for a -hyponormal operator, , to be normal, and a sufficient condition for a triplet of operators , , with , self-adjoint and unitary such that necessarily satisfies .

     

Asymptotically harmonic spaces in dimension 3

Let be a Hadamard manifold of dimension whose sectional curvature satisfies and whose curvature tensor satisfies for suitable constants and . We show that is of constant sectional curvature provided is asymptotically harmonic. This was previously only known if admits a compact quotient.

     

A minimum fixed point theorem for smooth fiber preserving maps

Let be a smooth fiber bundle. Given a smooth fiber preserving map , we will show that can be deformed by a smooth, fiber preserving homotopy to a smooth map such that the number of fixed points of is equal to the fiberwise Nielsen number of .

     

The degree of the bicanonical map of a surface with

In this note it is shown that, given a smooth minimal complex surface of general type with , , for which the bicanonical map is a morphism, the degree of is not 3. This completes our earlier results, showing that if is a minimal surface of general type with , such that is free, then the bicanonical map of can have degree 1, 2 or 4.

     

Boundary spectra of uniform Frostman Blaschke products

A closed set in the unit circle is the boundary spectrum of a uniform Frostman Blaschke product if and only if is nowhere dense in .

     

A structure theorem for quasi-Hopf comodule algebras

If is a quasi-Hopf algebra and is a right -comodule algebra such that there exists a morphism of right -comodule algebras, we prove that there exists a left -module algebra such that . The main difference when comparing to the Hopf case is that, from the multiplication of , which is associative, we have to obtain the multiplication of , which in general is not; for this we use a canonical projection arising from the fact that becomes a quasi-Hopf -bimodule.

     

A defect relation for non-Archimedean analytic curves in arbitrary projective varieties

If is a non-Archimedean analytic curve in a projective variety embedded in and if are hypersurfaces of in general position with then we prove the defect relation:

     

On the finiteness properties of extension and torsion functors of local cohomology modules

Let be a commutative Noetherian ring with non-zero identity, and ideals of with , and a finitely generated -module. In this paper, for fixed integers and , we study the finiteness of and in several cases.

     

Equivariant crystalline cohomology and base change

Given a perfect field of characteristic , a smooth proper -scheme , a crystal on relative to and a finite group acting on and , we show that, viewed as a virtual -module, the reduction modulo of the crystalline cohomology of is the de Rham cohomology of modulo . On the way we prove a base change theorem for the virtual -representations associated with -equivariant objects in the derived category of -modules.

     

Polynomial recurrences and cyclic resultants

Let be an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero and let . The -th cyclic resultant of is

   Res

A generic monic polynomial is determined by its full sequence of cyclic resultants; however, the known techniques proving this result give no effective computational bounds. We prove that a generic monic polynomial of degree is determined by its first cyclic resultants and that a generic monic reciprocal polynomial of even degree is determined by its first of them. In addition, we show that cyclic resultants satisfy a polynomial recurrence of length . This result gives evidence supporting the conjecture of Sturmfels and Zworski that resultants determine . In the process, we establish two general results of independent interest: we show that certain Toeplitz determinants are sufficient to determine whether a sequence is linearly recurrent, and we give conditions under which a linearly recurrent sequence satisfies a polynomial recurrence of shorter length.

     

On a problem of D. H. Lehmer

Let be an odd prime number. For we denote the inverse of modulo by with . Given , we prove that in any range of length the probability that has the same parity as tends to as . This result was previously known only to hold true in the full range of length . We will also obtain quantitative results on the pseudorandomness of the sequence for which we estimate the well-distribution and correlation measures as defined by Mauduit and Sárközy (1997).

     

Hypercyclicity in omega

A sequence of operators is said to be hypercyclic if there exists a vector , called hypercyclic for , such that is dense. A hypercyclic subspace for is a closed infinite-dimensional subspace of, except for zero, hypercyclic vectors. We prove that if is a sequence of operators on that has a hypercyclic subspace, then there exist (i) a sequence of one variable polynomials such that is hypercyclic for every fixed and (ii) an operator that maps nonzero vectors onto hypercyclic vectors for .

We complement earlier work of several authors.

     

More limit cycles than expected in Liénard equations

The paper deals with classical polynomial Liénard equations, i.e. planar vector fields associated to scalar second order differential equations where is a polynomial. We prove that for a well-chosen polynomial of degree the equation exhibits limit cycles. It induces that for there exist polynomials of degree such that the related equations exhibit more than limit cycles. This contradicts the conjecture of Lins, de Melo and Pugh stating that for Liénard equations as above, with of degree the maximum number of limit cycles is The limit cycles that we found are relaxation oscillations which appear in slow-fast systems at the boundary of classical polynomial Liénard equations. More precisely we find our example inside a family of second order differential equations Here, is a well-chosen family of polynomials of degree with parameter and is a small positive parameter tending to We use bifurcations from canard cycles which occur when two extrema of the critical curve of the layer equation are crossing (the layer equation corresponds to . As was proved by Dumortier and Roussarie (2005) these bifurcations are controlled by a rational integral computed along the critical curve of the layer equation, called the slow divergence integral. Our result is deduced from the study of this integral.

     

Non-cupping and randomness

Let be Martin-Löf-random. Then there is a promptly simple set such that for each Martin-Löf-random set , . When , one obtains a c.e. non-computable set which is not weakly Martin-Löf cuppable. That is, for any Martin-Löf-random set , if , then .

     

Stabilization of Tsirelson-type norms on spaces

We consider classical Tsirelson-type norms of and their modified versions on spaces, . We show that the modified Tsirelson-type norms do not distort any of the subspaces of the spaces. We prove that Tsirelson-type norms, being equivalent to their modified versions, may at most 2-distort spaces.