Topology of three-manifolds with positive -scalar curvature

Consider an -dimensional smooth Riemannian manifold with a given smooth measure on it. We call such a triple a Riemannian measure space. Perelman introduced a variant of scalar curvature in his recent work on solving Poincaré's conjecture , where and is the scalar curvature of . In this note, we study the topological obstruction for the -stable minimal submanifold with positive -scalar curvature in dimension three under the setting of manifolds with density.

     

A note on -bases of a regular affine domain extension

Let be a tower of commutative rings where is a regular affine domain over an algebraically closed field of prime characteristic and is a regular domain. Suppose has a -basis over and . For a subset of whose elements satisfy a certain condition on linear independence, let be a set of maximal ideals of such that is a -basis of over . We shall characterize this set in a geometrical aspect.

     

The projective -character bounds the order of a -base

All spaces below are Tychonov. We define the projective - character of a space as the supremum of the values where ranges over all (Tychonov) continuous images of . Our main result says that every space has a -base whose order is ; that is, every point in is contained in at most -many members of the -base. Since for compact , this is a significant generalization of a celebrated result of Shapirovskii.

     

Polynomials with roots in for all

Let be a monic polynomial in with no rational roots but with roots in for all , or equivalently, with roots mod for all . It is known that cannot be irreducible but can be a product of two or more irreducible polynomials, and that if is a product of irreducible polynomials, then its Galois group must be a union of conjugates of proper subgroups. We prove that for any , every finite solvable group that is a union of conjugates of proper subgroups (where all these conjugates have trivial intersection) occurs as the Galois group of such a polynomial, and that the same result (with ) holds for all Frobenius groups. It is also observed that every nonsolvable Frobenius group is realizable as the Galois group of a geometric, i.e. regular, extension of .

     

On the - boundedness of operators

We prove that if is in , is a Banach space, and is a linear operator defined on the space of finite linear combinations of -atoms in with the property that

then admits a (unique) continuous extension to a bounded linear operator from to . We show that the same is true if we replace -atoms by continuous -atoms. This is known to be false for -atoms.

     

A remark on irregularity of the -Neumann problem on non-smooth domains

It is an observation due to J. J. Kohn that for a smooth bounded pseudoconvex domain in there exists such that the -Neumann operator on maps (the space of -forms with coefficient functions in -Sobolev space of order ) into itself continuously. We show that this conclusion does not hold without the smoothness assumption by constructing a bounded pseudoconvex domain in , smooth except at one point, whose -Neumann operator is not bounded on for any .

     

Sign changes of Hecke eigenvalues of Siegel cusp forms of degree

Let , , be the sequence of Hecke eigenvalues of a cuspidal Siegel eigenform of degree . It is proved that if is not in the Maaß space, then there exist infinitely many primes for which the sequence , , has infinitely many sign changes.

     

-identities for the Grassmann algebra: The conjecture of Henke and Regev

Let be an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0, and let be the infinite dimensional Grassmann (or exterior) algebra over . Denote by the vector space of the multilinear polynomials of degree in , ..., in the free associative algebra . The symmetric group acts on the left-hand side on , thus turning it into an -module. This fact, although simple, plays an important role in the theory of PI algebras since one may study the identities satisfied by a given algebra by applying methods from the representation theory of the symmetric group. The -modules and are canonically isomorphic. Letting be the alternating group in , one may study and its isomorphic copy in with the corresponding action of . Henke and Regev described the -codimensions of the Grassmann algebra , and conjectured a finite generating set of the -identities for . Here we answer their conjecture in the affirmative.

     

On the isotropy constant of random convex sets

Let be the symmetric convex hull of independent random vectors uniformly distributed on the unit sphere of . We prove that, for every , the isotropy constant of is bounded by a constant with high probability, provided that .

     

Counting cusps of subgroups of

Let be a number field with real places and complex places, and let be the ring of integers of . The quotient has cusps, where is the class number of . We show that under the assumption of the generalized Riemann hypothesis that if is not or an imaginary quadratic field and if , then has infinitely many maximal subgroups with cusps. A key element in the proof is a connection to Artin's Primitive Root Conjecture.

     

On the normal bundle of submanifolds of

Let be a submanifold of dimension of the complex projective space . We prove results of the following type.i) If is irregular and , then the normal bundle is indecomposable. ii) If is irregular, and , then is not the direct sum of two vector bundles of rank . iii) If , and is decomposable, then the natural restriction map is an isomorphism (and, in particular, if is embedded Segre in , then is indecomposable). iv) Let and , and assume that is a direct sum of line bundles; if assume furthermore that is simply connected and is not divisible in . Then is a complete intersection. These results follow from Theorem 2.1 below together with Le Potier's vanishing theorem. The last statement also uses a criterion of Faltings for complete intersection. In the case when this fact was proved by M. Schneider in 1990 in a completely different way.

     

The number of Hall -subgroups of a -separable group

We observe a simple formula to compute the number of Hall -subgroups of a -separable finite group in terms of only the action of a fixed Hall -subgroup of on a set of normal -sections of . As a consequence, we obtain that divides whenever is a subgroup of a finite -separable group . This generalizes a recent result of Navarro. In addition, our method gives an alternative proof of Navarro's result.

     

Embeddings of -dimensional separable metric spaces into the product of Sierpinski curves

We give a short proof of the following fact: the set of embeddings of any -dimensional separable metric space into a certain -dimensional subset of the -product of Sierpinski curves is residual in .

     

Hopf algebras of dimension

Let be a finite-dimensional Hopf algebra over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0. If is not semisimple and for some odd integer , then or is not unimodular. Using this result, we prove that if for some odd prime , then is semisimple. This completes the classification of Hopf algebras of dimension .

     

Spectral radius algebras and contractions

We consider the spectral radius algebras associated to contractions. If is such an operator we show that the spectral radius algebra always properly contains the commutant of .

     

The stability of exceptional bundles on complete intersection -folds

A very long-standing problem in Algebraic Geometry is to determine the stability of exceptional vector bundles on smooth projective varieties. In this paper we address this problem and we prove that any exceptional vector bundle on a smooth complete intersection -fold of type with and is stable.

     

First eigenvalue of a Jacobi operator of hypersurfaces with a constant scalar curvature

Let be an -dimensional compact hypersurface with constant scalar curvature , , in a unit sphere . We know that such hypersurfaces can be characterized as critical points for a variational problem of the integral of the mean curvature . In this paper, we first study the eigenvalue of the Jacobi operator of . We derive an optimal upper bound for the first eigenvalue of , and this bound is attained if and only if is a totally umbilical and non-totally geodesic hypersurface or is a Riemannian product , .

     

Global dominated splittings and the Newhouse phenomenon

We prove that given a compact -dimensional boundaryless manifold , , there exists a residual subset of the space of diffeomorphisms such that given any chain-transitive set of , then either admits a dominated splitting or else is contained in the closure of an infinite number of periodic sinks/sources. This result generalizes the generic dichotomy for homoclinic classes given by Bonatti, Diaz, and Pujals (2003).

It follows from the above result that given a -generic diffeomorphism , then either the nonwandering set may be decomposed into a finite number of pairwise disjoint compact sets each of which admits a dominated splitting, or else exhibits infinitely many periodic sinks/sources (the `` Newhouse phenomenon"). This result answers a question of Bonatti, Diaz, and Pujals and generalizes the generic dichotomy for surface diffeomorphisms given by Mañé (1982).

     

Dieudonné rings associated with

We use Dieudonné theory for periodically graded Hopf rings to determine the Dieudonné ring structure of the -graded Morava -theory , with an odd prime, when applied to the -spectrum (and to ). We also expand these results in order to accomodate the case of the full Morava -theory .

     

A sheaf of Hochschild complexes on quasi-compact opens

For a scheme , we construct a sheaf of complexes on such that for every quasi-compact open , is quasi-isomorphic to the Hochschild complex of (Lowen and Van den Bergh, 2005). Since is moreover acyclic for taking sections on quasi-compact opens, we obtain a local to global spectral sequence for Hochschild cohomology if is quasi-compact.