Interface foliation for an inhomogeneous Allen–Cahn equation in Riemannian manifolds

Let ${(\mathcal{M}, \tilde{g})}$ be an N-dimensional smooth compact Riemannian manifold. We consider the problem ${\varepsilon^2 \triangle_{\tilde{g}} \tilde{u} + V(\tilde{z})\tilde{u}(1-\tilde{u}^2)=0\; {\rm in}\; \mathcal{M}}$ , where ${\varepsilon > 0}$ is a small parameter and V is a positive, smooth function in ${\mathcal{M}}$ . Let ${\kappa \subset \mathcal{M}}$ be an (N ? 1)-dimensional smooth submanifold that divides ${\mathcal{M}}$ into two disjoint components ${\mathcal{M}_{\pm}}$ . We assume κ is stationary and non-degenerate relative to the weighted area functional ${\int_{\kappa}V^{\frac{1}{2}}}$ . For each integer m ≥ 2, we prove the existence of a sequence ${\varepsilon = \varepsilon_\ell \rightarrow 0}$ , and two opposite directional solutions with m-transition layers near κ, whose mutual distance is ${{\rm O}(\varepsilon | \log \varepsilon | )}$ . Moreover, the interaction between neighboring layers is governed by a type of Jacobi–Toda system.     

A functional model associated with a generalized Nevanlinna pair

Let $ \mathcal{L} $ be a Hilbert space, and let $ \mathcal{H} $ be a Pontryagin space. For every self-adjoint linear relation $ \tilde{A} $ in $ \mathcal{H} \oplus \mathcal{L} $ , the pair $ \{ I + \lambda \psi (\lambda ),\,\psi (\lambda )\} $ where $ \psi (\lambda ) $ is the compressed resolvent of $ \tilde{A} $ , is a normalized generalized Nevanlinna pair. Conversely, every normalized generalized Nevanlinna pair is shown to be associated with some self-adjoint linear relation $ \tilde{A} $ in the above sense. A functional model for this selfadjoint linear relation $ \tilde{A} $ is constructed.     

On uniformly bounded spherical functions in Hilbert space

Let G be a commutative group, written additively, with a neutral element 0, and let K be a finite group. Suppose that K acts on G via group automorphisms ${G \ni a \mapsto ka \in G}$ , ${k \in K}$ . Let ${{\mathfrak{H}}}$ be a complex Hilbert space and let ${{\mathcal L}({\mathfrak{H}})}$ be the algebra of all bounded linear operators on ${{\mathfrak{H}}}$ . A mapping ${u \colon G \to {\mathcal L}({\mathfrak{H}})}$ is termed a K-spherical function if it satisfies (1) ${|K|^{-1} \sum_{k\in K} u (a+kb)=u (a) u (b)}$ for any ${a,b\in G}$ , where |K| denotes the cardinality of K, and (2) ${u (0) = {\rm id}_{\mathfrak {H}},}$ where ${{\rm id}_{\mathfrak {H}}}$ designates the identity operator on ${{\mathfrak{H}}}$ . The main result of the paper is that for each K-spherical function ${u \colon G \to {\mathcal {L}}({\mathfrak {H}})}$ such that ${\| u \|_{\infty} = \sup_{a\in G} \| u (a)\|_{{\mathcal L}({\mathfrak{H}})} < \infty,}$ there is an invertible operator S in ${{\mathcal L}({\mathfrak{H}})}$ with ${\| S \| \, \| S^{-1}\| \leq |K| \, \| u \|_{\infty}^2}$ such that the K-spherical function ${{\tilde{u}} \colon G \to {\mathcal L}({\mathfrak{H}})}$ defined by ${{\tilde{u}}(a) = S u (a) S^{-1},\,a \in G,}$ satisfies ${{\tilde{u}}(-a) = {\tilde{u}}(a)^*}$ for each ${a \in G}$ . It is shown that this last condition is equivalent to insisting that ${{\tilde{u}}(a)}$ be normal for each ${a \in G}$ .     

Uniqueness of \mathbb{C}^{ * } - and \mathbb{C}_{{\text{ + }}} -actions on Gizatullin Surfaces

A Gizatullin surface is a normal affine surface V over $ \mathbb{C} $ , which can be completed by a zigzag; that is, by a linear chain of smooth rational curves. In this paper we deal with the question of uniqueness of $ \mathbb{C}^{ * } $ -actions and $ \mathbb{A}^{{\text{1}}} $ -fibrations on such a surface V up to automorphisms. The latter fibrations are in one to one correspondence with $ \mathbb{C}_{{\text{ + }}} $ -actions on V considered up to a “speed change”. Non-Gizatullin surfaces are known to admit at most one $ \mathbb{A}^{1} $ -fibration V → S up to an isomorphism of the base S. Moreover, an effective $ \mathbb{C}^{ * } $ -action on them, if it does exist, is unique up to conjugation and inversion t $ \mapsto $ t ^?1 of $ \mathbb{C}^{ * } $ . Obviously, uniqueness of $ \mathbb{C}^{ * } $ -actions fails for affine toric surfaces. There is a further interesting family of nontoric Gizatullin surfaces, called the Danilov-Gizatullin surfaces, where there are in general several conjugacy classes of $ \mathbb{C}^{ * } $ -actions and $ \mathbb{A}^{{\text{1}}} $ -fibrations, see, e.g., [FKZ1]. In the present paper we obtain a criterion as to when $ \mathbb{A}^{{\text{1}}} $ -fibrations of Gizatullin surfaces are conjugate up to an automorphism of V and the base $ S \cong \mathbb{A}^{{\text{1}}} $ . We exhibit as well large subclasses of Gizatullin $ \mathbb{C}^{ * } $ -surfaces for which a $ \mathbb{C}^{ * } $ -action is essentially unique and for which there are at most two conjugacy classes of $ \mathbb{A}^{{\text{1}}} $ -fibrations over $ \mathbb{A}^{{\text{1}}} $ .     

The geometric meaning of Zhelobenko operators

Let $ \mathfrak{g} $ be the complex semisimple Lie algebra associated to a complex semisimple algebraic group G, $ \mathfrak{b} $ a Borel subalgebra of $ \mathfrak{g} $ , $ \mathfrak{h}\subset \mathfrak{b} $ the Cartan sublagebra, and N ? G the unipotent subgroup corresponding to the nilradical $ \mathfrak{n}\subset \mathfrak{b} $ . We show that the explicit formula for the extremal projection operator for $ \mathfrak{g} $ obtained by Asherova, Smirnov, and Tolstoy and similar formulas for Zhelobenko operators are related to the existence of a birational equivalence $ N\times \mathfrak{h}\to \mathfrak{b} $ given by the restriction of the adjoint action. Simple geometric proofs of formulas for the “classical” counterparts of the extremal projection operator and of Zhelobenko operators are also obtained.     

Extinction profile of the logarithmic diffusion equation

Let ${N \geq 3}$ and u be the solution of u _t = Δ log u in ${\mathbb{R}^N \times (0, T)}$ with initial value u ₀ satisfying ${B_{k_1}(x, 0) \leq u_{0} \leq B_{k_2}(x, 0)}$ for some constants k ₁ > k ₂ > 0 where ${B_k(x, t) = 2(N - 2)(T - t)_{+}^{N/(N - 2)}/(k + (T - t)_{+}^{2/(N - 2)}|x|^{2})}$ is the Barenblatt solution for the equation and ${u_0 - B_{k_0} \in L^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{N})}$ for some constant k ₀ > 0 if ${N \geq 4}$ . We give a new different proof on the uniform convergence and ${L^1(\mathbb{R}^N)}$ convergence of the rescaled function ${\tilde{u}(x, s) = (T - t)^{-N/(N - 2)}u(x/(T - t)^{-1/(N - 2)}, t), s = -{\rm log}(T - t)}$ , on ${\mathbb{R}^N}$ to the rescaled Barenblatt solution ${\tilde{B}_{k_0}(x) = 2(N - 2)/(k_0 + |x|^{2})}$ for some k ₀ > 0 as ${s \rightarrow \infty}$ . When ${N \geq 4, 0 \leq u_0(x) \leq B_{k_0}(x, 0)}$ in ${\mathbb{R}^N}$ , and ${|u_0(x) - B_{k_0}(x, 0)| \leq f \in L^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{N})}$ for some constant k ₀ > 0 and some radially symmetric function f, we also prove uniform convergence and convergence in some weighted L ¹ space in ${\mathbb{R}^N}$ of the rescaled solution ${\tilde{u}(x, s)}$ to ${\tilde{B}_{k_0}(x)}$ as ${s \rightarrow \infty}$ .     

MULTIPLICITY-FREE PRIMITIVE IDEALS ASSOCIATED WITH RIGID NILPOTENT ORBITS

Let G be a simple algebraic group defined over ?. Let e be a nilpotent element in $ \mathfrak{g} $ = Lie(G) and denote by U ( $ \mathfrak{g} $ , e) the finite W-algebra associated with the pair ( $ \mathfrak{g} $ , e). It is known that the component group Γ of the centraliser of e in G acts on the set ? of all one-dimensional representations of U ( $ \mathfrak{g} $ , e). In this paper we prove that the fixed point set ?^Γ is non-empty. As a corollary, all finite W-algebras associated with $ \mathfrak{g} $ admit one-dimensional representations. In the case of rigid nilpotent elements in exceptional Lie algebras we find irreducible highest weight $ \mathfrak{g} $ -modules whose annihilators in U ( $ \mathfrak{g} $ ) come from one-dimensional representations of U ( $ \mathfrak{g} $ , e) via Skryabin’s equivalence. As a consequence, we show that for any nilpotent orbit $ \mathcal{O} $ in $ \mathfrak{g} $ there exists a multiplicity-free (and hence completely prime) primitive ideal of U ( $ \mathfrak{g} $ ) whose associated variety equals the Zariski closure of $ \mathcal{O} $ in $ \mathfrak{g} $ .     

Supports of (\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{k})-modules of finite type

Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a semisimple Lie algebra and $\mathfrak{k}$ be a reductive subalgebra in $\mathfrak{g}$ . We say that a $\mathfrak{g}$ -module M is a $(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{k})$ -module if M, considered as a $\mathfrak{k}$ -module, is a direct sum of finite-dimensional $\mathfrak{k}$ -modules. We say that a $(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{k})$ -module M is of finite type if all $\mathfrak{k}$ -isotopic components of M are finite-dimensional. In this paper we prove that any simple $(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{k})$ -module of finite type is holonomic. A simple $\mathfrak{g}$ -module M is associated with the invariants V(M), V(LocM), and L(M) reflecting the ??directions of growth of M.?? We also prove that for a given pair $(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{k})$ the set of possible invariants is finite.     

Euclidean hypersurfaces with genuine deformations in codimension two

We classify hypersurfaces of rank two of Euclidean space ${\mathbb{R}^{n+1}}$ that admit genuine isometric deformations in ${\mathbb{R}^{n+2}}$ . That an isometric immersion ${\hat{f}\colon M^n \to \mathbb{R}^{n+2}}$ is a genuine isometric deformation of a hypersurface ${f\colon M^n\to\mathbb{R}^{n+1}}$ means that ${\hat f}$ is nowhere a composition ${\hat f=\hat F\circ f}$ , where ${\hat{F} \colon V\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1} \to\mathbb{R}^{n+2}}$ is an isometric immersion of an open subset V containing the hypersurface.     

Varieties Generated by Wreath Products of Abelian Groups

This paper is a survey of our recent results concerning metabelian varieties, and more specifically, varieties generated by wreath products of Abelian groups. We give a full classification of cases where sets of wreath products of Abelian groups $ \mathfrak{X} $ Wr $ \mathfrak{Y} $ = { X Wr Y | X ∈ $ \mathfrak{X} $ , Y ∈ $ \mathfrak{Y} $ } and $ \mathfrak{X} $ wr $ \mathfrak{Y} $ = {X wr Y | X ∈ $ \mathfrak{X} $ , Y ∈ $ \mathfrak{Y} $ } generate the product variety $ \mathfrak{X} $ var ( $ \mathfrak{Y} $ ).     

Categories of bounded \left( {\mathfrak{sp}\left( {{{\mathrm{S}}^2}V \oplus {{\mathrm{S}}^2}{V^{*}}} \right),\;\mathfrak{gl}(V)} \right) - and \left( {\mathfrak{sp}\left( {{\varLambda^2}V \oplus {\varLambda^2}{V^{*}}} \right),\;\mathfrak{gl}(V)} \right) -modules

Let $ \mathfrak{g} $ be a reductive Lie algebra over $ \mathbb{C} $ and $ \mathfrak{k} \subset \mathfrak{g} $ be a reductive in $ \mathfrak{g} $ subalgebra. We call a $ \mathfrak{g} $ -module M a $ \left( {\mathfrak{g}{\hbox{,}}\;\mathfrak{k}} \right) $ -module whenever M is a direct sum of finite-dimensional $ \mathfrak{k} $ -modules. We call a $ \left( {\mathfrak{g}{\hbox{,}}\;\mathfrak{k}} \right) $ -module M bounded if there exists $ {C_M} \in {\mathbb{Z}_{{ \geqslant 0}}} $ such that for any simple finite-dimensional $ \mathfrak{k} $ -module E the dimension of the E-isotypic component is not greater than C _M dim E. Bounded $ \left( {\mathfrak{g}{\hbox{,}}\;\mathfrak{k}} \right) $ -modules form a subcategory of the category of $ \mathfrak{g} $ -modules. Let V be a finite-dimensional vector space. We prove that the categories of bounded $ \left( {\mathfrak{sp}\left( {{{\mathrm{S}}^2}V \oplus {{\mathrm{S}}^2}{V^{*}}} \right),\;\mathfrak{gl}(V)} \right) $ - and $ \left( {\mathfrak{sp}\left( {{\varLambda^2}V \oplus {\varLambda^2}{V^{*}}} \right),\;\mathfrak{gl}(V)} \right) $ -modules are isomorphic to the direct sum of countably many copies of the category of representations of some explicitly described quiver with relations under some mild assumptions on the dimension of V .     

Computing α-Invariants of Singular del Pezzo Surfaces

We prove a new local inequality for divisors on surfaces and utilize it to compute α-invariants of singular del Pezzo surfaces, which implies that del Pezzo surfaces of degree one whose singular points are of type $\mathbb{A}_{1}$ , $\mathbb{A}_{2}$ , $\mathbb{A}_{3}$ , $\mathbb{A}_{4}$ , $\mathbb{A}_{5}$ , or $\mathbb{A}_{6}$ are Kähler-Einstein.     

Geodesic Ricci solitons on unit tangent sphere bundles

In the paper, (Abbassi and Kowalski, Ann Glob Anal Geom, 38: 11–20, 2010) the authors study Einstein Riemannian $g$ natural metrics on unit tangent sphere bundles. In this study, we equip the unit tangent sphere bundle $T_1 M$ of a Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ with an arbitrary Riemannian $g$ natural metric $\tilde{G}$ and we show that if the geodesic flow $\tilde{\xi }$ is the potential vector field of a Ricci soliton $(\tilde{G},\tilde{\xi },\lambda )$ on $T_1M,$ then $(T_1M,\tilde{G})$ is Einstein. Moreover, we show that the Reeb vector field of a contact metric manifold is an infinitesimal harmonic transformation if and only if it is Killing. Thus, we consider a natural contact metric structure $(\tilde{G}, \tilde{\eta }, \tilde{\varphi }, \tilde{\xi })$ over $T_1 M$ and we show that the geodesic flow $\tilde{\xi }$ is an infinitesimal harmonic transformation if and only if the structure $(\tilde{G}, \tilde{\eta }, \tilde{\varphi },\tilde{\xi })$ is Sasaki $\eta $ -Einstein. Consequently, we get that $(\tilde{G},\tilde{\xi }, \lambda )$ is a Ricci soliton if and only if the structure $(\tilde{G}, \tilde{\eta }, \tilde{\varphi }, \tilde{\xi })$ is Sasaki-Einstein with $\lambda = 2(n-1) >0.$ This last result gives new examples of Sasaki–Einstein structures.     

Calabi Product Lagrangian Immersions in Complex Projective Space and Complex Hyperbolic Space

Starting from two Lagrangian immersions and a Legendre curve ${\tilde{\gamma}(t)}$ in ${\mathbb{S}^3(1)}$ $({\rm or\,in}\,{\mathbb{H}_1^3(-1)})$ , it is possible to construct a new Lagrangian immersion in ${\mathbb{CP}^n(4)}$ $({\rm or\,in}\,{\mathbb{CH}^n(-4)})$ , which is called a warped product Lagrangian immersion. When ${\tilde{\gamma}(t)=(r_1e^{i(\frac{r_2}{r_1}at)}, \;r_2e^{i(- \frac{r_1}{r_2}at)})}$ $({\rm or}\,{\tilde{\gamma}(t)=(r_1e^{i(\frac{r_2}{r_1}at)}, \;r_2e^{i( \frac{r_1}{r_2}at)})})$ , where r ₁, r ₂, and a are positive constants with ${r_1^2+r_2^2=1}$ $({\rm or}\,{-r_1^2+r_2^2=-1})$ , we call the new Lagrangian immersion a Calabi product Lagrangian immersion. In this paper, we study the inverse problem: how to determine from the properties of the second fundamental form whether a given Lagrangian immersion of ${\mathbb{CP}^n(4)}$ or ${\mathbb{CH}^n(-4)}$ is a Calabi product Lagrangian immersion. When the Calabi product is minimal, or is Hamiltonian minimal, or has parallel second fundamental form, we give some further characterizations.     

Localization in One-dimensional Quasi-periodic Nonlinear Systems

To investigate localization in one-dimensional quasi-periodic nonlinear systems, we consider the Schrödinger equation $${\rm i}\dot{q}_n+\epsilon(q_{n+1}+q_{n-1})+V(n\tilde{\alpha}+x)q_n+ |q_n|^2q_n=0,\quad n\in\mathbb{Z},$$ as a model, with V a nonconstant real-analytic function on ${\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}}$ , and ${\tilde{\alpha}}$ satisfying a certain Diophantine condition. It is shown that, if ${\epsilon}$ is sufficiently small, then for a.e. ${x\in\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}}$ , dynamical localization is maintained for “typical” solutions in a quasi-periodic time-dependent way.     

Bergman and Calderón Projectors for Dirac Operators

For a Dirac operator $D_{\bar{g}}$ over a spin compact Riemannian manifold with boundary $(\bar{X},\bar{g})$ , we give a new construction of the Calderón projector on $\partial\bar{X}$ and of the associated Bergman projector on the space of L ² harmonic spinors on $\bar{X}$ , and we analyze their Schwartz kernels. Our approach is based on the conformal covariance of $D_{\bar{g}}$ and the scattering theory for the Dirac operator associated with the complete conformal metric $g=\bar{g}/\rho^{2}$ where ρ is a smooth function on $\bar{X}$ which equals the distance to the boundary near $\partial\bar{X}$ . We show that $\frac{1}{2}(\operatorname{Id}+\tilde{S}(0))$ is the orthogonal Calderón projector, where $\tilde{S}(\lambda)$ is the holomorphic family in {?(λ)≥0} of normalized scattering operators constructed in Guillarmou et al. (Adv. Math., 225(5):2464–2516, 2010), which are classical pseudo-differential of order 2λ. Finally, we construct natural conformally covariant odd powers of the Dirac operator on any compact spin manifold.     

A covering lemma for {K(\mathbb {R})}

The Dodd–Jensen Covering Lemma states that “if there is no inner model with a measurable cardinal, then for any uncountable set of ordinals X, there is a ${Y\in K}$ such that ${X\subseteq Y}$ and |X| = |Y|”. Assuming ZF+AD alone, we establish the following analog: If there is no inner model with an ${\mathbb {R}}$ –complete measurable cardinal, then the real core model ${K(\mathbb {R})}$ is a “very good approximation” to the universe of sets V; that is, ${K(\mathbb {R})}$ and V have exactly the same sets of reals and for any set of ordinals X with ${|{X}|\ge\Theta}$ , there is a ${Y\in K(\mathbb {R})}$ such that ${X\subseteq Y}$ and |X| = |Y|. Here ${\mathbb {R}}$ is the set of reals and ${\Theta}$ is the supremum of the ordinals which are the surjective image of ${\mathbb {R}}$ .