Orbit Equivalence and Topological Conjugacy of Affine Actionson Compact Abelian Groups

 We study topological rigidity of affine actions on compact connected metrizable abelian groups. We also classify one parameter flows of translations up to orbit equivalence and discrete group actions by translations up to topological conjugacy. (Received 21 December 1998; in revised form 2 June 1999)     

Hom-Lie-Rinehart algebras

We introduce hom-Lie-Rinehart algebras as an algebraic analogue of hom-Lie algebroids, and systematically describe a cohomology complex by considering coefficient modules. We define the notion of extensions for hom-Lie-Rinehart algebras. In the sequel, we deduce a characterization of low dimensional cohomology spaces in terms of the group of automorphisms of certain abelian extension and the equivalence classes of those abelian extensions in the category of hom-Lie-Rinehart algebras, respectively. We also construct a canonical example of hom-Lie-Rinehart algebra associated to a given Poisson algebra and an automorphism.     

Distorting symmetric designs

A simple replacement approach is used to construct new symmetric and affine designs from projective or affine spaces. This is used to construct symmetric designs with a given automorphism group, to study GMW designs, and to construct new affine designs whose automorphism group fixes a point and has just two point- and block-orbits.      

On the affine group of a normal homogeneous manifold

A very important class of homogeneous Riemannian manifolds are the so-called normal homogeneous spaces, which have associated a canonical connection. In this study, we obtain geometrically the (connected component of the) group of affine transformations with respect to the canonical connection for a normal homogeneous space. The naturally reductive case is also treated. This completes the geometric calculation of the isometry group of naturally reductive spaces. In addition, we prove that for normal homogeneous spaces the set of fixed points of the full isotropy is a torus. As an application of our results it follows that the holonomy group of a homogeneous fibration is contained in the group of (canonically) affine transformations of the fibers; in particular, this holonomy group is a Lie group (this is a result of Guijarro and Walschap).     

Planar and affine spaces

In this note, we characterize finite three-dimensional affine spaces as the only linear spaces endowed with set Ω of proper subspaces having the properties (1) every line contains a constant number of points, say n, with n>2; (2) every triple of noncollinear points is contained in a unique member of Ω; (3) disjoint or coincide is an equivalence relation in Ω with the additional property that every equivalence class covers all points. We also take a look at the case n=2 (in which case we have a complete graph endowed with a set Ω of proper complete subgraphs) and classify these objects: besides the affine 3-space of order 2, two small additional examples turn up. Furthermore, we generalize our result in the case of dimension greater than three to obtain a characterization of all finite affine spaces of dimension at least 3 with lines of size at least 3.     

Automorphism group and dimension of ordered sets

It is shown that a finite groupG is isomorphic to the automorphism group of a two-dimensional ordered set if and only if it is a generalized wreath product of symmetric groups over an ordered index set that is a dual tree. Furthermore, every finite abelian group is isomorphic to the full automorphism group of a three-dimensional ordered set. Also every finite group is isomorphic to the automorphism group of an ordered set that does not contain an induced crown with more than four elements.     

On Picard Modular Forms

We study moduli spaces of principally polarized abelian varieties with an automorphism of finite order. After some examples (e. g. hermitian modular forms) we compute the ring of Picard modular forms in the case considered by Picard.     

On the Loewy length of the center of a block with elementary abelian defect groups

Let G be a finite group and k an algebraically closed field of characteristic p. In this paper we investigate the Loewy structure of centers of indecomposable group algebras kG, for groups G with a normal elementary abelian Sylow p-subgroup. Furthermore, we show a reduction result for the case that a normal abelian Sylow p-subgroup is acted upon by a subgroup of its automorphism group; this is fundamental in providing generic formulae for the Loewy lengths considered.     

Affine Module Groups and Their Automorphisms

An affine module group is a semidirect extension of an additive module group by its automorphism group. Maximal Abelian normal subgroups of an affine group are described. It is proved that operator isomorphisms of affine groups are induced by module automorphisms. Automorphisms of an affine group which do not leave a module fixed are treated. And conditions are specified for a module to be non-characteristic in its affine group.     

A Birman exact sequence for Aut(Fn)

The Birman exact sequence describes the effect on the mapping class group of a surface with boundary of gluing discs to the boundary components. We construct an analogous exact sequence for the automorphism group of a free group. For the mapping class group, the kernel of the Birman exact sequence is a surface braid group. We prove that in the context of the automorphism group of a free group, the natural kernel is finitely generated. However, it is not finitely presentable; indeed, we prove that its second rational homology group has infinite rank by constructing an explicit infinite collection of linearly independent abelian cycles. We also determine the abelianization of our kernel and build a simple infinite presentation for it. The keys to many of our proofs are several new generalizations of the Johnson homomorphisms.     

Polynomial maps over finite fields and residual finiteness of mapping tori of group endomorphisms

We prove that every mapping torus of any free group endomorphism is residually finite. We show how to use a not yet published result of E. Hrushovski to extend our result to arbitrary linear groups. The proof uses algebraic self-maps of affine spaces over finite fields. In particular, we prove that when such a map is dominant, the set of its fixed closed scheme points is Zariski dense in the affine space.     

Regular Cayley maps for finite abelian groups

A regular Cayley map for a finite group A is an orientable map whose orientation-preserving automorphism group G acts regularly on the directed edge set and has a subgroup isomorphic to A that acts regularly on the vertex set. This paper considers the problem of determining which abelian groups have regular Cayley maps. The analysis is purely algebraic, involving the structure of the canonical form for A. The case when A is normal in G involves the relationship between the rank of A and the exponent of the automorphism group of A, and the general case uses Ito's theorem to analyze the factorization G = AY, where Y is the (cyclic) stabilizer of a vertex. Supported in part by the N.Z. Marsden Fund (grant no. UOA0124).     

Coleman自同构群的投射极限

在这篇注记中,利用群的投射极限性质给出了有限可解群的Coleman自同构群的一个具体构造.作为应用,证明了二面体群的Coleman外自同构群或者是1或者是一个初等阿贝尔2-群.     

A geometric consequence of the classification of finite doubly transitive groups

We prove that the finite linear spaces containing a proper linear subspace and admitting an automorphism group which is transitive on the unordered pairs of intersecting lines are the projective and affine spaces of dimension 3, unless all lines have size 2.     

Coleman自同构群的投射极限

在这篇注记中，利用群的投射极限性质给出了有限可解群的Coleman自同构群的一个具体构造.作为应用，证明了二面体群的Coleman外自同构群或者是1或者是一个初等阿贝尔2-群.     

Affine stratifications from finite misère quotients

Given a morphism from an affine semigroup to an arbitrary commutative monoid, it is shown that every fiber possesses an affine stratification: a partition into a finite disjoint union of translates of normal affine semigroups. The proof rests on mesoprimary decomposition of monoid congruences and a novel list of equivalent conditions characterizing the existence of an affine stratification. The motivating consequence of the main result is a special case of a conjecture due to Guo and the author on the existence of affine stratifications for (the set of winning positions of) any lattice game. The special case proved here assumes that the lattice game has finite misère quotient, in the sense of Plambeck and Siegel.     

Torsion-free abelian α-irreducible groups of finite rank

If F is a free abelian group of finite rank and α is an endomorphism or an automorphism of its divisible hull, then the α‐ hull is determined, i.e. the minimal torsion-free abelian group with this endomorphism a. Torsion-free abelian groups of finite rank are called α-irreducible if their divisible hull is α-irreducible for an automorphism a. A complete classification is given for α-irreducible groups and this result is applied to groups of rank 2.