Harmonic morphisms as unit normal bundles¶of minimal surfaces

Let be an isometric immersion between Riemannian manifolds and be the unit normal bundle of f. We discuss two natural Riemannian metrics on the total space and necessary and sufficient conditions on f for the projection map to be a harmonic morphism. We show that the projection map of the unit normal bundle of a minimal surface in a Riemannian manifold is a harmonic morphism with totally geodesic fibres. Received: 6 February 1999     

Laguerre Geometry of Surfaces in R^3

Let f ： M → R3 be an oriented surface with non-degenerate second fundamental form. We denote by H and K its mean curvature and Gauss curvature. Then the Laguerre volume of f, defined by L（f） = f（H2 - K）/KdM, is an invariant under the Laguerre transformations. The critical surfaces of the functional L are called Laguerre minimal surfaces. In this paper we study the Laguerre minimal surfaces in R^3 by using the Laguerre Gauss map. It is known that a generic Laguerre minimal surface has a dual Laguerre minimal surface with the same Gauss map. In this paper we show that any surface which is not Laguerre minimal is uniquely determined by its Laguerre Gauss map. We show also that round spheres are the only compact Laguerre minimal surfaces in R^3. And we give a classification theorem of surfaces in R^3 with vanishing Laguerre form.     

Quadratic forms between euclidean spheres

We study the relationship between the dimensions of euclidean spheres which admit a nonconstant homogeneous quadratic map between them. Givenm (respectivelyn), we determine the least (respectively greatest) possible value ofn (respectivelym) for which there exists a nonconstant homogeneous quadratic mapS ^m →S ⁿ . Research partially supported by NSF DMS-9201204     

Almost Total Elementary Maps

A partial map f of a structure M is called almost total if |M — dom(f)| = |M — ran(f)| < ω. We study a difference between an almost total elementary map and an automorphism.     

A Two-Spheres Problem on Homogeneous Trees

m , n two relatively prime natural numbers, if a complex valued function f on a homogeneous tree satisfies the mean value property for all spheres of radius m and all spheres of radius n, then f is harmonic. Received: November 27, 1995/Revised: Revised March 16, 1998     

Residual indices of holomorphic maps relative to singular curves of fixed points on surfaces

Let M be a two-dimensional complex manifold and let be a holomorphic map that fixes pointwise a (possibly) singular, compact, reduced and globally irreducible curve . We give a notion of degeneracy of f at a point of C. It turns out that f is non-degenerate at one point if and only if it is non-degenerate at every point of C. When f is non-degenerate on C, we define a residual index for f at each point of C. Then we prove that the sum of the indices is equal to the self-intersection number of C. Received: 15 May 2000; in final form: 10 July 2001 / Published online: 1 February 2002     

Discs in Stein manifolds containing given discrete sets

Denote by the open unit disc in . We prove that given a discrete subset S of a connected Stein manifold M there is a proper holomorphic map such that ; if the map f can be chosen to be an embedding. In addition we prove that we can prescribe higher order contacts of with given one dimensional submanifolds in M. Received: 19 June 2000; in final form: 29 November 2000 / Published online: 19 October 2001     

REGULAR FUNCTIONS ON A PRODUCT OF AFFINE VARIETIES

ABSTRACT

Assume that f:X×Y→Z is a map from the product of two affine varieties into another affine variety such that f is a regular map when one variable is fixed. We show that f is a regular map if the underlying field is not countably infinite. The condition is indispensable.     

Roots of mappings on nonorientable surfaces¶and equations in free groups

Let f:M ₁→M ₂ be a continuous map and c:M ₁→M ₂ a constant map between closed (not necessarily orientable) surfaces. By definition the pair (f,c) has the Wecken property if f can be deformed into a map f' such that the number of coincidence points of (f',c) is the same as the number of essential coincidence classes of (f,c) and, hence, every essential coincidence class consists of exactly one point. When both surfaces are orientable the problem to determine all maps which have the Wecken property was solved in [14]. Let A(f) denote the absolute degree as defined in [6] or [15] and . Here we show that a map f has the Wecken property iff either the Euler characteristic or . In free groups there are solved certain quadratic equations closely related to the root problem. Received: Received: 18 January 2001 / Revised version: 27 November 2001     

Weakly Compact Composition Operators on Locally Convex Spaces

Let E be a complete, barrelled locally convex space, let V = (v_n) be an increasing sequence of strictly positive, radial, continuous, bounded weights on the unit disc 𝔻 of the complex plane, and let φ be an analytic self map on 𝔻. The composition operators C_φ : f → f ○ φ on the weighted space of holomorphic functions HV (𝔻, E) which map bounded sets into relatively weakly compact subsets are characterized. Our approach requires a study of wedge operators between spaces of continuous linear maps between locally convex spaces which extends results of Saksman and Tylli [31, 32], and a representation of the space HV (𝔻, E) as a space of operators which complements work by Bierstedt , Bonet and Galbis [4] and by Bierstedt and Holtmanns [6].     

On extension of isometries between unit spheres of L∞ and E

In this paper, we study the extension of isometries between the unit spheres of L ^∞ and a normed space E. We find a condition under which an isometric mapping between the unit spheres can be extended to a linear isometry on the whole space L ^∞.     

Pseudo-Anosov extensions and degree one maps between hyperbolic surface bundles

Let F′,F be any two closed orientable surfaces of genus g′ > g≥ 1, and f:F→ F be any pseudo-Anosov map. Then we can “extend” f to be a pseudo- Anosov map f′:F′→ F′ so that there is a fiber preserving degree one map M(F′,f′)→ M(F,f) between the hyperbolic surface bundles. Moreover the extension f′ can be chosen so that the surface bundles M(F′,f′) and M(F,f) have the same first Betti numbers. Y. Ni is partially supported by a Centennial fellowship of the Graduate School at Princeton University. S.C. Wang is partially supported by MSTC     

Small Stochastic Perturbations of Random Maps with Position Dependent Probabilities

Abstract

A position dependent random map is a dynamical system consisting of a collection of maps such that, at each iteration, a selection of a map is made randomly by means of probabilities which are functions of position. Let f* be an invariant density of the position dependent random map T. We consider a model of small random perturbations 𝔗_? of the random map T. For each ? > 0, 𝔗_? has an invariant density function f ^?. We prove that f ^? → f* as ? → 0.     

Whitney preserving maps on finite graphs

For a Whitney preserving map f:X→G we show the following: (a) If X is arcwise connected and G is a graph which is not a simple closed curve, then f is a homeomorphism; (b) If X is locally connected and G is a simple closed curve, then X is homeomorphic to either the unit interval [0,1], or the unit circle S¹. As a consequence of these results, we characterize all Whitney preserving maps between finite graphs. We also show that every hereditarily weakly confluent Whitney preserving map between locally connected continua is a homeomorphism.     

On regularity of sup-preserving maps: generalizing Zareckiĭ’s theorem

A sup-preserving map f between complete lattices L and M is regular if there exists a sup-preserving map g from M to L such that fgf=f. In the class of completely distributive lattices, this paper demonstrates a necessary and sufficient condition for f to be regular. When L=M is a power set, our theorem reduces to the well known Zareckiĭ’s theorem which characterizes regular elements in the semigroup of all binary relations on a set. Another application of our result is a generalization of Zareckiĭ’s theorem for quantale-valued relations.     

Long-time existence and convergence of graphic mean curvature flow in arbitrary codimension

Let f:Σ₁↦Σ₂ be a map between compact Riemannian manifolds of constant curvature. This article considers the evolution of the graph of f in Σ₁×Σ₂ by the mean curvature flow. Under suitable conditions on the curvature of Σ₁ and Σ₂ and the differential of the initial map, we show that the flow exists smoothly for all time. At each instant t, the flow remains the graph of a map f _t and f _t converges to a constant map as t approaches infinity. This also provides a regularity estimate for Lipschitz initial data. Oblatum 30-I-2001 & 24-X-2001?Published online: 1 February 2002     

Rotation numbers and moduli of elliptic curves

Given a circle diffeomorphism f, we can construct a map taking each real number a to the rotation number of the diffeomorphism f +a. In 1978, V. I. Arnold suggested a complex analog To this map. Given a complex number z with Im z > 0, Arnold used the map f + z to construct an elliptic curve. The moduli map takes every number z to the modulus μ(z) of this elliptic curve.     

On regularly branched maps

Let be a perfect map between finite-dimensional metrizable spaces and p1. It is shown that the space of all bounded maps from X into with the source limitation topology contains a dense G_δ-subset consisting of f-regularly branched maps. Here, a map is f-regularly branched if, for every n1, the dimension of the set is n(dimf+dimY)−(n−1)(p+dimY). This is a parametric version of the Hurewicz theorem on regularly branched maps.     

The minimizing of the Nielsen root classes

Given a map f: X→Y and a Nielsen root class, there is a number associated to this root class, which is the minimal number of points among all root classes which are H-related to the given one for all homotopies H of the map f. We show that for maps between closed surfaces it is possible to deform f such that all the Nielsen root classes have cardinality equal to the minimal number if and only if either N R[f]≤1, or N R[f]>1 and f satisfies the Wecken property. Here N R[f] denotes the Nielsen root number. The condition “f satisfies the Wecken property is known to be equivalent to |deg(f)|≤N R[f]/(1−χ(M ₂)−χ(M ₁0/(1−χ(M ₂)) for maps between closed orientable surfaces. In the case of nonorientable surfaces the condition is A(f)≤N R[f]/(1−χ(M ₂)−χ(M ₂)/(1−χ(M ₂)). Also we construct, for each integer n≥3, an example of a map f: K _n →N from an n-dimensionally connected complex of dimension n to an n-dimensional manifold such that we cannot deform f in a way that all the Nielsen root classes reach the minimal number of points at the same time.     

树映射的链回归点与拓扑熵

Let f be a tree map,P(f) the set of periodic points of f and CR(f) the set of chain recurrent points of f. In this paper,the notion of division for invariant closed subsets of a tree map is introduced. It is proved that: (1) fhas zero topological entropy if and only if for any x∈CR(f)-P(f) and each natural number s the orbit of x under f^5 has a division; (2) If f has zero topological entropy,then for any xECR(f)--P(f) the w-limit set of x is an infinite minimal set.