Unramified Brauer group of the moduli spaces of PGL r (ℂ)-bundles over curves

Let X be an irreducible smooth complex projective curve of genus g, with g ≥ 2. Let N be a connected component of the moduli space of semistable principal PGL _r (?)-bundles over X; it is a normal unirational complex projective variety. We prove that the Brauer group of a desingularization of N is trivial.     

Cohomology of the moduli space of Hecke cycles

Let X be a smooth projective curve of genus g?3 and let M₀ be the moduli space of semistable bundles over X of rank 2 with trivial determinant. Three different desingularizations of M₀ have been constructed by Seshadri (Proceedings of the International Symposium on Algebraic Geometry, 1978, 155), Narasimhan-Ramanan (C. P. Ramanujam—A Tribute, 1978, 231), and Kirwan (Proc. London Math. Soc. 65(3) (1992) 474). In this paper, we construct a birational morphism from Kirwan's desingularization to Narasimhan-Ramanan's, and prove that the Narasimhan-Ramanan's desingularization (called the moduli space of Hecke cycles) is the intermediate variety between Kirwan's and Seshadri's as was conjectured recently in (Math. Ann. 330 (2004) 491). As a by-product, we compute the cohomology of the moduli space of Hecke cycles.     

Altered local uniformization of Berkovich spaces

We prove that for any compact quasi-smooth strictly k-analytic space X there exist a finite extension l/k and a quasi-étale covering X′ → X ? _k l such that X′ possesses a strictly semistable formal model. This extends a theorem of U. Hartl to the case of the ground field with a non-discrete valuation.     

A Skorohod representation theorem for uniform distance

Let??? _n be a probability measure on the Borel ??-field on D[0, 1] with respect to Skorohod distance, n ?? 0. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the following statement are provided. On some probability space, there are D[0, 1]-valued random variables X _n such that X _n ~ ?? _n for all n ?? 0 and ||X _n ? X ₀|| ?? 0 in probability, where ||·|| is the sup-norm. Such conditions do not require??? ₀ separable under ||·||. Applications to exchangeable empirical processes and to pure jump processes are given as well.     

Counting saddle connections in flat surfaces with poles of higher order

We consider smooth moduli spaces of semistable vector bundles of fixed rank and determinant on a compact Riemann surface X of genus at least 3. The choice of a Poincaré bundle for such a moduli space M induces an isomorphism between X and a component of the moduli space of semistable sheaves over M. We prove that \(\dim H^0(M,\, \text {End}({\mathcal {E}})\otimes TM)\,=\, 1\) for any vector bundle \(\mathcal {E}\) on M coming from this component. Furthermore, there are no nonzero integrable co-Higgs fields on \(\mathcal {E}\).     

Moduli of sheaves and the Chow group of K3 surfaces

Let X be a projective complex K  3 surface. Beauville and Voisin singled out a 0-cycle _cX$c_X$ on X of degree 1 and Huybrechts proved that the second Chern class of a rigid simple vector-bundle on X   is a multiple of _cX$c_X$ if certain hypotheses hold. We believe that the following generalization of Huybrechts? result holds. Let M be a moduli space of stable pure sheaves on X with fixed cohomological Chern character: the set whose elements are second Chern classes of sheaves parametrized by the closure of M (in the corresponding moduli spaces of semistable sheaves) depends only on the dimension of M. We will prove that the above statement holds under some additional assumptions on the Chern character.     

Moduli stacks and invariants of semistable objects on K3 surfaces

For a K3 surface X and its bounded derived category of coherent sheaves D(X), we have the notion of stability conditions on D(X) in the sense of T. Bridgeland. In this paper, we show that the moduli stack of semistable objects in D(X) with a fixed numerical class and a phase is represented by an Artin stack of finite type over C. Then following D. Joyce's work, we introduce the invariants counting semistable objects in D(X), and show that the invariants are independent of a choice of a stability condition.     

Precise asymptotics in Spitzer and Baum-Katz's law of large numbers: the semistable case

Let X₁,X₂,… be i.i.d. random variables with distribution μ and with mean zero, whenever the mean exists. Set S_n=X₁+?+X_n. In recent years precise asymptotics as ε↓0 have been proved for sums like ∑_n=1^∞n⁻¹P{|S_n|?εn^1/p}, assuming that μ belongs to the (normal) domain of attraction of a stable law. Our main results generalize these results to distributions μ belonging to the (normal) domain of semistable attraction of a semistable law. Furthermore, a limiting case new even in the stable situation is presented.     

Compact Kähler quotients of algebraic varieties and Geometric Invariant Theory

Given an action of a complex reductive Lie group G on a normal variety X, we show that every analytically Zariski-open subset of X admitting an analytic Hilbert quotient with projective quotient space is given as the set of semistable points with respect to some G-linearised Weil divisor on X. Applying this result to Hamiltonian actions on algebraic varieties, we prove that semistability with respect to a momentum map is equivalent to GIT-semistability in the sense of Mumford and Hausen. It follows that the number of compact momentum map quotients of a given algebraic Hamiltonian G-variety is finite. As further corollary we derive a projectivity criterion for varieties with compact Kähler quotient.     

Levi problem and semistable quotients

A complex space X is in class 𝒬 _G if it is a semistable quotient of the complement to an analytic subset of a Stein manifold by a holomorphic action of a reductive complex Lie group G. It is shown that every pseudoconvex unramified domain over X is also in 𝒬 _G .     

Perturbing the boundary conditions of the generator of a cosine family

Let A be a densely defined, closed linear operator (which we shall call maximal operator) with domain D(A) on a Banach space X and consider closed linear operators L:D(A)???X and ??:D(A)???X (where ?X is another Banach space called boundary space). Putting conditions on L and ??, we show that the second order abstract Cauchy problem for the operator A _?? with A _?? u=Au and domain D(A _??):={u??D(A):Lu=??u} is well-posed and thus it generates a cosine operator function on the Banach space X.     

Right-angularity, flag complexes, asphericity

The ??polyhedral product functor?? produces a space from a simplicial complex L and a collection of pairs of spaces, {(A(i), B(i))}, where i ranges over the vertex set of L. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the resulting space to be aspherical. There are two similar constructions, each of which starts with a space X and a collection of subspaces, {X _i }, where ${i \in \{0,1. . . . , n\}}$ , and then produces a new space. We also give conditions for the results of these constructions to be aspherical. All three techniques can be used to produce examples of closed aspherical manifolds.     

Operator spaces with prescribed sets of completely bounded maps

Suppose A is a dual Banach algebra, and a representation π:A→B(?₂) is unital, weak* continuous, and contractive. We use a “Hilbert-Schmidt version” of Arveson distance formula to construct an operator space X, isometric to ?₂⊗?₂, such that the space of completely bounded maps on X consists of Hilbert-Schmidt perturbations of π(A)⊗I_?2. This allows us to establish the existence of operator spaces with various interesting properties. For instance, we construct an operator space X for which the group K₁(CB(X)) contains Z₂ as a subgroup, and a completely indecomposable operator space containing an infinite dimensional homogeneous Hilbertian subspace.     

Asymptotic behavior of the convex hull of a stationary Gaussian process?

Let X = {X(t), t ?? T} be a stationary centered Gaussian process with values in ? ^d , where the parameter set T equals ? or ?+. Let ?? _t = Cov(X ₀ ,X _t ) be the covariance function of X, and (??,?, P) be the underlying probability space. We consider the asymptotic behavior of convex hulls W _t = conv{X _u , u ?? T ?? [0, t]} as t ?? +?? and show that under the condition ??t ?? 0, t????, the rescaled convex hull (2 ln t) ^?1/2 W _t converges almost surely (in the sense of Hausdorff distance) to an ellipsoid ? associated to the covariance matrix ?? ₀. The asymptotic behavior of the mathematical expectations E f(W _t ), where f is a homogeneous function, is also studied. These results complement and generalize in some sense the results of Davydov [Y. Davydov, On convex hull of Gaussian samples, Lith. Math. J., 51(2): 171?C179, 2011].     

Inequivalent measures of noncompactness

Two homogeneous measures of noncompactness ?? and ?? on an infinite dimensional Banach space X are called ??equivalent?? if there exist positive constants b and c such that b ??(S)??? ??(S)??? c ??(S) for all bounded sets ${S\subset X}$ . If such constants do not exist, the measures of noncompactness are ??inequivalent.?? We ask a foundational question which apparently has not previously been considered: For what infinite dimensional Banach spaces do there exist inequivalent measures of noncompactness on X? We provide here the first examples of inequivalent measures of noncompactness. We prove that such inequivalent measures exist if X is a Hilbert space; or if (??, ??,???) is a general measure space, 1??? p??? ??, and X?=?L ^p (??, ??,???); or if K is a compact Hausdorff space and X?=?C(K); or if K is a compact metric space, 0?<??? ?? 1, and X?=?C ^0,??(K), the Banach space of H?lder continuous functions with H?lder exponent ??. We also prove the existence of such inequivalent measures of noncompactness if ?? is an open subset of ${\mathbb{R}^n}$ and X is the Sobolev space W ^m,p (??). Our motivation comes from questions about existence of eigenvectors of homogeneous, continuous, order-preserving cone maps f : C??C and from the closely related issue of giving the proper definition of the ??cone essential spectral radius?? of such maps. These questions are considered in the companion paper [28]; see, also, [27].     

A Lefschetz hyperplane theorem for Mori dream spaces

Let X be a smooth Mori dream space of dimension ?? 4. We show that, if X satisfies a suitable GIT condition which we call small unstable locus, then every smooth ample divisor Y of X is also a Mori dream space. Moreover, the restriction map identifies the Néron?CSeveri spaces of X and Y, and under this identification every Mori chamber of Y is a union of some Mori chambers of X, and the nef cone of Y is the same as the nef cone of X. This Lefschetz-type theorem enables one to construct many examples of Mori dream spaces by taking ??Mori dream hypersurfaces?? of an ambient Mori dream space, provided that it satisfies the GIT condition. To facilitate this, we then show that the GIT condition is stable under taking products and taking the projective bundle of the direct sum of at least three line bundles, and in the case when X is toric, we show that the condition is equivalent to the fan of X being 2-neighborly.     

Invariant measures for skew products and uniformly distributed sequences

??Almost all?? sequences (r ₁, . . . , r _n , . . . ) of positive integers have the following ??universal?? property: Whenever (X,???) is a Borel probability compact metric space, and ?? ₁, ?? ₂, . . . , ?? _n , . . . a sequence of commuting measure preserving continuous maps on (X,???), such that the action (by composition) on (X,???) of the semigroup with generators ?? ₁, . . . ,?? _n , . . . is uniquely ergodic and equicontinuous, then for every ${x \in X}$ the sequence w ₁,w ₂, . . . , w _n , . . . where $$w_n:=\varPhi_{r_n}(\varPhi_{r_{n-1}}(\ldots(\varPhi_{r_2}(\varPhi_{r_1}(x)))\ldots))$$ is uniformly distributed for???. This is a contribution to Problem 116 of Schreier and Ulam in the Scottish Book.     

Stratonovich-Weyl correspondence for compact semisimple Lie groups

Let G be a compact Lie group, M a G-homogeneous space and π a unitary representation of G realized on a Hilbert space of functions on M. We give a general presentation of the Stratonovich-Weyl correspondence associated with π. In the case when G is a compact semisimple Lie group and π _λ an irreducible representation of G with highest weight λ, we study the Stratonovich-Weyl symbol of the derived operator d π _λ (X) for X in the Lie algebra of G and its behavior as λ goes to infinity.     

On the strong limit theorems for double arrays of blockwise M-dependent random variables

For a double array of blockwise M-dependent random variables {X _mn ,m ?? 1, n ?? 1}, strong laws of large numbers are established for double sums ?? _i=1 ^m ?? _j=1 ⁿ X _ij , m ?? 1, n ?? 1. The main results are obtained for (i) random variables {X _mn ,m ?? 1, n ?? 1} being non-identically distributed but satisfy a condition on the summability condition for the moments and (ii) random variables {X _mn ,m ?? 1, n ?? 1} being stochastically dominated. The result in Case (i) generalizes the main result of Móricz et al. [J. Theoret. Probab., 21, 660?C671 (2008)] from dyadic to arbitrary blocks, whereas the result in Case (ii) extends a result of Gut [Ann. Probab., 6, 469?C482 (1978)] to the bockwise M-dependent setting. The sharpness of the results is illustrated by some examples.     

Spineurs symplectiques purs et indice de Maslov de plans lagrangiens positifs

As is well known, each point of the closed generalized unit-disk X can be associated to a holomorphically induced representation of the Heisenberg group. First canonical intertwining operators are constructed between pairs of such representations. Next, after having introduced suitable definitions, it is noted that the classical correspondence between group extensions and 2-cocycles also makes sense when applied to transformation spaces. As an example of transformation space extension, the manifold of pure symplectic spinors is described. It is the analogue of the manifold of pure spinors when the spin representation of the Clifford algebra is replaced by the Stone-Von Neumann representation of the Heisenberg group. Then, the associated 2-cocycle m₂ is worked out, which is a $\text{T}$-valued function on X × X × X, and the composition law of the canonical intertwining operators is given. Lifting m₂, an $\text{R}$-valued 2-cocycle m is constructed whose restriction to the Shilov boundary of X takes integer values and coincides with the ordinary Maslov index. For this reason, it is called the generalized Maslov index. Finally, using these results, explicit realizations of the metaplectic group, its Shale-Weil representation, and the universal covering of the symplectic group are given.