On peak-interpolation manifolds for

Let be a bounded, weakly convex domain in , , having real-analytic boundary. is the algebra of all functions holomorphic in and continuous up to the boundary. A submanifold is said to be complex-tangential if lies in the maximal complex subspace of for each . We show that for real-analytic submanifolds , if is complex-tangential, then every compact subset of is a peak-interpolation set for .

     

On the representation of integers as linear combinations of consecutive values of a polynomial

Let be a cyclotomic field with ring of integers and let be a polynomial whose values on belong to . If the ideal of generated by the values of on is itself, then every algebraic integer of may be written in the following form:

for some integer , where the 's are roots of unity of . Moreover, there are two effective constants and such that the least integer (for a fixed ) is less than , where

     

A sharp weak type inequality for martingale transforms and other subordinate martingales

If is a martingale difference sequence, a sequence of numbers in , and a positive integer, then

Here denotes the best constant. If , then as was shown by Burkholder. We show here that for the case 2$">, and that is also the best constant in the analogous inequality for two martingales and indexed by , right continuous with limits from the left, adapted to the same filtration, and such that is nonnegative and nondecreasing in . In Section 7, we prove a similar inequality for harmonic functions.

     

A separable Brown-Douglas-Fillmore theorem and weak stability

We give a separable Brown-Douglas-Fillmore theorem. Let be a separable amenable -algebra which satisfies the approximate UCT, be a unital separable amenable purely infinite simple -algebra and be two monomorphisms. We show that and are approximately unitarily equivalent if and only if We prove that, for any 0$"> and any finite subset , there exist 0$"> and a finite subset satisfying the following: for any amenable purely infinite simple -algebra and for any contractive positive linear map such that

for all there exists a homomorphism such that

provided, in addition, that are finitely generated. We also show that every separable amenable simple -algebra with finitely generated -theory which is in the so-called bootstrap class is weakly stable with respect to the class of amenable purely infinite simple -algebras. As an application, related to perturbations in the rotation -algebras studied by U. Haagerup and M. Rørdam, we show that for any irrational number and any 0$"> there is 0$"> such that in any unital amenable purely infinite simple -algebra if

for a pair of unitaries, then there exists a pair of unitaries and in such that

     

On Diophantine definability and decidability in some infinite totally real extensions of

Let be a number field, and a set of its non-Archimedean primes. Then let . Let be a finite set of prime numbers. Let be the field generated by all the -th roots of unity as and . Let be the largest totally real subfield of . Then for any 0$">, there exist a number field , and a set of non-Archimedean primes of such that has density greater than , and has a Diophantine definition over the integral closure of in .

     

On orbital partitions and exceptionality of primitive permutation groups

Let and be transitive permutation groups on a set such that is a normal subgroup of . The overgroup induces a natural action on the set of non-trivial orbitals of on . In the study of Galois groups of exceptional covers of curves, one is led to characterizing the triples where fixes no elements of ; such triples are called exceptional. In the study of homogeneous factorizations of complete graphs, one is led to characterizing quadruples where is a partition of such that is transitive on ; such a quadruple is called a TOD (transitive orbital decomposition). It follows easily that the triple in a TOD is exceptional; conversely if an exceptional triple is such that is cyclic of prime-power order, then there exists a partition of such that is a TOD. This paper characterizes TODs such that is primitive and is cyclic of prime-power order. An application is given to the classification of self-complementary vertex-transitive graphs.

     

Poincaré's closed geodesic on a convex surface

We present a new proof for the existence of a simple closed geodesic on a convex surface . This result is due originally to Poincaré. The proof uses the -dimensional Riemannian manifold of piecewise geodesic closed curves on with a fixed number of corners, chosen sufficiently large. In we consider a submanifold formed by those elements of which are simple regular and divide into two parts of equal total curvature . The main burden of the proof is to show that the energy integral , restricted to , assumes its infimum. At the end we give some indications of how our methods yield a new proof also for the existence of three simple closed geodesics on .

     

Koszul homology and extremal properties of Gin and Lex

For every homogeneous ideal in a polynomial ring and for every we consider the Koszul homology with respect to a sequence of of generic linear forms. The Koszul-Betti number is, by definition, the dimension of the degree part of . In characteristic , we show that the Koszul-Betti numbers of any ideal are bounded above by those of the gin-revlex of and also by those of the Lex-segment of . We show that iff is componentwise linear and that and iff is Gotzmann. We also investigate the set of all the gin of and show that the Koszul-Betti numbers of any ideal in are bounded below by those of the gin-revlex of . On the other hand, we present examples showing that in general there is no is such that the Koszul-Betti numbers of any ideal in are bounded above by those of .

     

Morse index and uniqueness for positive solutions of radial -Laplace equations

We study the positive radial solutions of the Dirichlet problem in , 0$"> in , on , where , 1$">, is the -Laplace operator, is the unit ball in centered at the origin and is a function. We are able to get results on the spectrum of the linearized operator in a suitable weighted space of radial functions and derive from this information on the Morse index. In particular, we show that positive radial solutions of Mountain Pass type have Morse index 1 in the subspace of radial functions of . We use this to prove uniqueness and nondegeneracy of positive radial solutions when is of the type and .

     

Milnor classes of local complete intersections

Let be a compact local complete intersection defined as the zero set of a section of a holomorphic vector bundle over the ambient space. For each connected component of the singular set of , we define the Milnor class in the homology of . The difference between the Schwartz-MacPherson class and the Fulton-Johnson class of is shown to be equal to the sum of over the connected components of . This is done by proving Poincaré-Hopf type theorems for these classes with respect to suitable tangent frames. The -degree component coincides with the Milnor numbers already defined by various authors in particular situations. We also give an explicit formula for when is a non-singular component and satisfies the Whitney condition along .

     

Cut numbers of -manifolds

We investigate the relations between the cut number, and the first Betti number, of -manifolds We prove that the cut number of a ``generic' -manifold is at most This is a rather unexpected result since specific examples of -manifolds with large and are hard to construct. We also prove that for any complex semisimple Lie algebra there exists a -manifold with and Such manifolds can be explicitly constructed.

     

Oppenheim conjecture for pairs consisting of a linear form and a quadratic form

Let be a nondegenerate quadratic form and a nonzero linear form of dimension 3$">. As a generalization of the Oppenheim conjecture, we prove that the set is dense in provided that and satisfy some natural conditions. The proof uses dynamics on homogeneous spaces of Lie groups.

     

The peak algebra and the descent algebras of types B and D

We show the existence of a unital subalgebra of the symmetric group algebra linearly spanned by sums of permutations with a common peak set, which we call the peak algebra. We show that is the image of the descent algebra of type B under the map to the descent algebra of type A which forgets the signs, and also the image of the descent algebra of type D. The algebra contains a two-sided ideal which is defined in terms of interior peaks. This object was introduced in previous work by Nyman (2003); we find that it is the image of certain ideals of the descent algebras of types B and D. We derive an exact sequence of the form . We obtain this and many other properties of the peak algebra and its peak ideal by first establishing analogous results for signed permutations and then forgetting the signs. In particular, we construct two new commutative semisimple subalgebras of the descent algebra (of dimensions and by grouping permutations according to their number of peaks or interior peaks. We discuss the Hopf algebraic structures that exist on the direct sums of the spaces and over and explain the connection with previous work of Stembridge (1997); we also obtain new properties of his descents-to-peaks map and construct a type B analog.

     

regularity of Fourier integral operators with caustics

The caustics of Fourier integral operators are defined as caustics of the corresponding Schwartz kernels (Lagrangian distributions on ). The caustic set of the canonical relation is characterized as the set of points where the rank of the projection is smaller than its maximal value, . We derive the estimates on Fourier integral operators with caustics of corank (such as caustics of type , ). For the values of and outside of a certain neighborhood of the line of duality, , the estimates are proved to be caustics-insensitive.

We apply our results to the analysis of the blow-up of the estimates on the half-wave operator just before the geodesic flow forms caustics.

     

On the divergence of the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction on the unit circle

This paper studies ordinary and general convergence of the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction.

Let the continued fraction expansion of any irrational number be denoted by and let the -th convergent of this continued fraction expansion be denoted by . Let

where . Let . It is shown that if , then the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction diverges at . is an uncountable set of measure zero. It is also shown that there is an uncountable set of points such that if , then does not converge generally.

It is further shown that does not converge generally for 1$">. However we show that does converge generally if is a primitive -th root of unity, for some . Combining this result with a theorem of I. Schur then gives that the continued fraction converges generally at all roots of unity.

     

Radon transforms on affine Grassmannians

We develop an analytic approach to the Radon transform , where is a function on the affine Grassmann manifold of -dimensional planes in , and is a -dimensional plane in the similar manifold k$">. For , we prove that this transform is finite almost everywhere on if and only if , and obtain explicit inversion formulas. We establish correspondence between Radon transforms on affine Grassmann manifolds and similar transforms on standard Grassmann manifolds of linear subspaces of . It is proved that the dual Radon transform can be explicitly inverted for , and interpreted as a direct, ``quasi-orthogonal" Radon transform for another pair of affine Grassmannians. As a consequence we obtain that the Radon transform and the dual Radon transform are injective simultaneously if and only if . The investigation is carried out for locally integrable and continuous functions satisfying natural weak conditions at infinity.

     

On one-dimensional self-similar tilings and -tiles

Let be an integer base, a digit set and the set of radix expansions. It is well known that if has nonvoid interior, then can tile with some translation set ( is called a tile and a tile digit set). There are two fundamental questions studied in the literature: (i) describe the structure of ; (ii) for a given , characterize so that is a tile.

We show that for a given pair , there is a unique self-replicating translation set , and it has period for some . This completes some earlier work of Kenyon. Our main result for (ii) is to characterize the tile digit sets for when are distinct primes. The only other known characterization is for , due to Lagarias and Wang. The proof for the case depends on the techniques of Kenyon and De Bruijn on the cyclotomic polynomials, and also on an extension of the product-form digit set of Odlyzko.