Tempered representations of <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-adic groups: special idempotents and topology

Let \(G=G(k)\) be a connected reductive group over a p-adic field k. The smooth (and tempered) complex representations of G can be considered as the nondegenerate modules over the Hecke algebra \({\mathcal {H}}={\mathcal {H}}(G)\) and the Schwartz algebra \({\mathcal {S}}={\mathcal {S}}(G)\) forming abelian categories \({\mathcal {M}}(G)\) and \({\mathcal {M}}^t(G)\), respectively. Idempotents \(e\in {\mathcal {H}}\) or \({\mathcal {S}}\) define full subcategories \({\mathcal {M}}_e(G)= \{V : {\mathcal {H}}eV=V\}\) and \({\mathcal {M}}_e^t(G)= \{V : {\mathcal {S}}eV=V\}\). Such an e is said to be special (in \({\mathcal {H}}\) or \({\mathcal {S}}\)) if the corresponding subcategory is abelian. Parallel to Bernstein’s result for \(e\in {\mathcal {H}}\) we will prove that, for special \(e \in {\mathcal {S}}\), \({\mathcal {M}}_e^t(G) = \prod _{\Theta \in \theta _e} {\mathcal {M}}^t(\Theta )\) is a finite direct product of component categories \({\mathcal {M}}^t(\Theta )\), now referring to connected components of the center of \({\mathcal {S}}\). A special \(e\in {\mathcal {H}}\) will be also special in \({\mathcal {S}}\), but idempotents \(e\in {\mathcal {H}}\) not being special can become special in \({\mathcal {S}}\). To obtain conditions we consider the sets \(\mathrm{Irr}^t(G) \subset \mathrm{Irr}(G)\) of (tempered) smooth irreducible representations of G, and we view \(\mathrm{Irr}(G)\) as a topological space for the Jacobson topology defined by the algebra \({\mathcal {H}}\). We use this topology to introduce a preorder on the connected components of \(\mathrm{Irr}^t(G)\). Then we prove that, for an idempotent \(e \in {\mathcal {H}}\) which becomes special in \({\mathcal {S}}\), its support \(\theta _e\) must be saturated with respect to that preorder. We further analyze the above decomposition of \({\mathcal {M}}_e^t(G)\) in the case where G is k-split with connected center and where \(e = e_J \in {\mathcal {H}}\) is the Iwahori idempotent. Here we can use work of Kazhdan and Lusztig to relate our preorder on the support \(\theta _{e_J}\) to the reverse of the natural partial order on the unipotent classes in G. We finish by explicitly computing the case \(G=GL_n\), where \(\theta _{e_J}\) identifies with the set of partitions of n. Surprisingly our preorder (which is a partial order now) is strictly coarser than the reverse of the dominance order on partitions.     

Derivations,Local and 2-Local Derivations on Some Algebras of Operators on Hilbert C*-Modules

For a commutative C*-algebra \({\mathcal {A}}\) with unit e and a Hilbert \({\mathcal {A}}\)-module \({\mathcal {M}}\), denote by End\(_{{\mathcal {A}}}({\mathcal {M}})\) the algebra of all bounded \({\mathcal {A}}\)-linear mappings on \({\mathcal {M}}\), and by End\(^*_{{\mathcal {A}}}({\mathcal {M}})\) the algebra of all adjointable mappings on \({\mathcal {M}}\). We prove that if \({\mathcal {M}}\) is full, then each derivation on End\(_{{\mathcal {A}}}({\mathcal {M}})\) is \({\mathcal {A}}\)-linear, continuous, and inner, and each 2-local derivation on End\(_{{\mathcal {A}}}({\mathcal {M}})\) or End\(^{*}_{{\mathcal {A}}}({\mathcal {M}})\) is a derivation. If there exist \(x_0\) in \({\mathcal {M}}\) and \(f_0\) in \({\mathcal {M}}^{'}\), such that \(f_0(x_0)=e\), where \({\mathcal {M}}^{'}\) denotes the set of all bounded \({\mathcal {A}}\)-linear mappings from \({\mathcal {M}}\) to \({\mathcal {A}}\), then each \({\mathcal {A}}\)-linear local derivation on End\(_{{\mathcal {A}}}({\mathcal {M}})\) is a derivation.     

Spectral properties and stability of perturbed Cartesian product

Let \({\mathcal {A}}\) and \({\mathcal {B}}\) be commutative Banach algebras, and let \(T:{\mathcal {B}} \rightarrow {\mathcal {A}}\) be an algebra homomorphism with \({\Vert T\Vert }\le 1\). Then T induces a Banach algebra product \(\times _T\) perturbing the coordinatewise product on the Cartesian product space \({\mathcal {A}} \times {\mathcal {B}}\). We show that the spectral properties like spectral extension property, unique uniform norm property, regularity, weak regularity as well as Ditkin’s condition are stable with respect to this product.     

Infra-nilmanifolds modeled on the group of uni-triangular matrices

Let \({\mathcal {N}}_m\) be the group of \(m\times m\) upper triangular real matrices with all the diagonal entries 1. Then it is an \((m-1)\)-step nilpotent Lie group, diffeomorphic to \({\mathbb {R}}^{\frac{1}{2} m(m-1)}\). It contains all the integer matrices as a lattice \(\Gamma _m\). The automorphism group of \({\mathcal {N}}_m \ (m\ge 4)\) turns out to be extremely small. In fact, \(\mathrm {Aut}({\mathcal {N}})=\mathcal {I} \rtimes \mathrm {Out}({\mathcal {N}})\), where \(\mathcal {I}\) is a connected, simply connected nilpotent Lie group, and \(\mathrm {Out}({\mathcal {N}})={{\tilde{K}}}={(\mathbb {R}^*)^{m-1}\rtimes \mathbb {Z}_2}\). With a nice left-invariant Riemannian metric on \({\mathcal {N}}\), the isometry group is \(\mathrm {Isom}({\mathcal {N}})= {\mathcal {N}} \rtimes K\), where \(K={(\mathbb {Z}_2)^{m-1}\rtimes \mathbb {Z}_2}\subset {{\tilde{K}}}\) is a maximal compact subgroup of \(\mathrm {Aut}({\mathcal {N}})\). We prove that, for odd \(m\ge 4\), there is no infra-nilmanifold which is essentially covered by the nilmanifold \(\Gamma _m\backslash {\mathcal {N}}_m\). For \(m=2n\ge 4\) (even), there is a unique infra-nilmanifold which is essentially (and doubly) covered by the nilmanifold \(\Gamma _m\backslash {\mathcal {N}}_m\).     

Unitary Equivalence of Composition C$$^*$$-Algebras on the Hardy and Weighted Bergman Spaces

Let \(\varphi \) be an arbitrary linear-fractional self-map of the unit disk \({\mathbb {D}}\) and consider the composition operator \(C_{-1, \varphi }\) and the Toeplitz operator \(T_{-1,z}\) on the Hardy space \(H^2\) and the corresponding operators \(C_{\alpha , \varphi }\) and \(T_{\alpha , z}\) on the weighted Bergman spaces \(A^2_{\alpha }\) for \(\alpha >-1\). We prove that the unital C\(^*\)-algebra \(C^*(T_{\alpha , z}, C_{\alpha , \varphi })\) generated by \(T_{\alpha , z}\) and \(C_{\alpha , \varphi }\) is unitarily equivalent to \(C^*(T_{-1, z}, C_{-1, \varphi }),\) which extends a known result for automorphism-induced composition operators. For maps \(\varphi \) that are not automorphisms of \({\mathbb {D}}\), we show that \(C^*(C_{\alpha , \varphi }, {\mathcal {K}}_{\alpha })\) is unitarily equivalent to \(C^*(C_{-1, \varphi }, {\mathcal {K}}_{-1})\), where \({\mathcal {K}}_{\alpha }\) and \({\mathcal {K}}_{-1}\) denote the ideals of compact operators on \(A^2_{\alpha }\) and \(H^2\), respectively, and apply existing structure theorems for \(C^*(C_{-1, \varphi }, {\mathcal {K}}_{-1})/{\mathcal {K}}_{-1}\) to describe the structure of \(C^*(C_{\alpha , \varphi }, {\mathcal {K}}_{\alpha })/\mathcal {K_{\alpha }}\), up to isomorphism. We also establish a unitary equivalence between related weighted composition operators induced by maps \(\varphi \) that fix a point on the unit circle.     

Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind via raising operator preserving the orthogonality

It is well known that monic orthogonal polynomial sequences \(\{T_n\}_{n\ge 0}\) and \(\{U_n\}_{n\ge 0}\), the Chebyshev polynomials of the first and second kind, satisfy the relation \(DT_{n+1}=(n+1)U_n\) (\(n\ge 0\)). One can also easily check that the following “inverse” of the mentioned formula holds: \({\mathcal {U}}_{-1}(U_n)=(n+1)T_{n+1}\) (\(n\ge 0\)), where \({\mathcal {U}}_\xi =x(xD+{\mathbb {I}})+\xi D\) with \(\xi \) being an arbitrary nonzero parameter and \({\mathbb {I}}\) representing the identity operator. Note that whereas the first expression involves the operator D which lowers the degree by one, the second one involves \({\mathcal {U}}_\xi \) which raises the degree by one (i.e. it is a “raising operator”). In this paper it is shown that the scaled Chebyshev polynomial sequence \(\{a^{-n}U_n(ax)\}_{n\ge 0}\) where \(a^2=-\xi ^{-1}\), is actually the only monic orthogonal polynomial sequence which is \({\mathcal {U}}_\xi \)-classical (i.e. for which the application of the raising operator \({\mathcal {U}}_\xi \) turns the original sequence into another orthogonal one).     

Semigroups of rectangular matrices under a sandwich operation

Let \({\mathcal {M}}_{mn}={\mathcal {M}}_{mn}({\mathbb {F}})\) denote the set of all \(m\times n\) matrices over a field \({\mathbb {F}}\), and fix some \(n\times m\) matrix \(A\in {\mathcal {M}}_{nm}\). An associative operation \(\star \) may be defined on \({\mathcal {M}}_{mn}\) by \(X\star Y=XAY\) for all \(X,Y\in {\mathcal {M}}_{mn}\), and the resulting sandwich semigroup is denoted \({\mathcal {M}}_{mn}^A={\mathcal {M}}_{mn}^A({\mathbb {F}})\). These semigroups are closely related to Munn rings, which are fundamental tools in the representation theory of finite semigroups. We study \({\mathcal {M}}_{mn}^A\) as well as its subsemigroups \(\hbox {Reg}({\mathcal {M}}_{mn}^A)\) and \({\mathcal {E}}_{mn}^A\) (consisting of all regular elements and products of idempotents, respectively), and the ideals of \(\hbox {Reg}({\mathcal {M}}_{mn}^A)\). Among other results, we characterise the regular elements; determine Green’s relations and preorders; calculate the minimal number of matrices (or idempotent matrices, if applicable) required to generate each semigroup we consider; and classify the isomorphisms between finite sandwich semigroups \({\mathcal {M}}_{mn}^A({\mathbb {F}}_1)\) and \({\mathcal {M}}_{kl}^B({\mathbb {F}}_2)\). Along the way, we develop a general theory of sandwich semigroups in a suitably defined class of partial semigroups related to Ehresmann-style “arrows only” categories; we hope this framework will be useful in studies of sandwich semigroups in other categories. We note that all our results have applications to the variants \({\mathcal {M}}_n^A\) of the full linear monoid \({\mathcal {M}}_n\) (in the case \(m=n\)), and to certain semigroups of linear transformations of restricted range or kernel (in the case that \(\hbox {rank}(A)\) is equal to one of m, n).     

Uniqueness of self-shrinkers to the degree-one curvature flow with a tangent cone at infinity

Given a smooth, symmetric and homogeneous of degree one function \(f\left( \lambda _{1},\ldots ,\lambda _{n}\right) \) satisfying \(\partial _{i}f>0\quad \forall \,i=1,\ldots , n\), and a properly embedded smooth cone \({\mathcal {C}}\) in \({\mathbb {R}}^{n+1}\), we show that under suitable conditions on f, there is at most one f self-shrinker (i.e. a hypersurface \(\Sigma \) in \({\mathbb {R}}^{n+1}\) satisfying \(f\left( \kappa _{1},\ldots ,\kappa _{n}\right) +\frac{1}{2}X\cdot N=0\), where \(\kappa _{1},\ldots ,\kappa _{n}\) are principal curvatures of \(\Sigma \)) that is asymptotic to the given cone \({\mathcal {C}}\) at infinity.     

Extremal Problems for Mappings with Generalized Parametric Representation in $${{\mathbb {C}}}^{n}$$

In this paper we are concerned with the family \(\widetilde{S}^t_A(\mathbb {B}^n)\) (\(t\ge 0\)) of normalized biholomorphic mappings on the Euclidean unit ball \(\mathbb {B}^n\) in \({\mathbb {C}}^n\) that can be embedded in normal Loewner chains whose normalizations are given by time-dependent operators \(A\in \widetilde{\mathcal {A}}\), where \(\widetilde{\mathcal {A}}\) is a family of measurable mappings from \([0,\infty )\) into \(L({\mathbb {C}}^n)\) which satisfy certain natural assumptions. In particular, we consider extreme points and support points associated with the compact family \(\widetilde{S}^t_A(\mathbb {B}^n)\), where \(A\in \widetilde{\mathcal {A}}\). We prove that if \(f(z,t)=V(t)^{-1}z+\cdots \) is a normal Loewner chain such that \(V(s)f(\cdot ,s)\in \mathrm{ex}\,\widetilde{S}^s_A(\mathbb {B}^n)\) (resp. \(V(s)f(\cdot ,s)\in \mathrm{supp}\,\widetilde{S}^s_A(\mathbb {B}^n)\)), then \(V(t)f(\cdot ,t)\in \mathrm{ex}\, \widetilde{S}^t_A(\mathbb {B}^n)\), for all \(t\ge s\) (resp. \(V(t)f(\cdot ,t)\in \mathrm{supp}\,\widetilde{S}^t_A(\mathbb {B}^n)\), for all \(t\ge s\)), where V(t) is the unique solution on \([0,\infty )\) of the initial value problem: \(\frac{d V}{d t}(t)=-A(t)V(t)\), a.e. \(t\ge 0\), \(V(0)=I_n\). Also, we obtain an example of a bounded support point for the family \(\widetilde{S}_A^t(\mathbb {B}^2)\), where \(A\in \widetilde{\mathcal {A}}\) is a certain time-dependent operator. We also consider the notion of a reachable family with respect to time-dependent linear operators \(A\in \widetilde{\mathcal {A}}\), and obtain characterizations of extreme/support points associated with these families of bounded biholomorphic mappings on \(\mathbb {B}^n\). Useful examples and applications yield that the study of the family \(\widetilde{S}^t_A(\mathbb {B}^n)\) for time-dependent operators \(A\in \widetilde{\mathcal {A}}\) is basically different from that in the case of constant time-dependent linear operators.     

Willmore surfaces of constant Möbius curvature

We study Willmore surfaces of constant Möbius curvature \({\mathcal{K}}\) in \({\mathbb{S}}^4\) . It is proved that such a surface in \({\mathbb{S}}^3\) must be part of a minimal surface in \({\mathbb{R}}^3\) or the Clifford torus. Another result in this paper is that an isotropic surface (hence also Willmore) in \({\mathbb{S}}^4\) of constant \({\mathcal{K}}\) could only be part of a complex curve in \({\mathbb{C}}^2 \cong {\mathbb{R}}^4\) or the Veronese 2-sphere in \({\mathbb{S}}^4\) . It is conjectured that they are the only possible examples. The main ingredients of the proofs are over-determined systems and isoparametric functions.     

An Invariant Subspace Theorem and Invariant Subspaces of Analytic Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces - II

This paper is a follow-up contribution to our work (Sarkar in J Oper Theory, 73:433–441, 2015) where we discussed some invariant subspace results for contractions on Hilbert spaces. Here we extend the results of (Sarkar in J Oper Theory, 73:433–441, 2015) to the context of n-tuples of bounded linear operators on Hilbert spaces. Let \(T = (T_1, \ldots , T_n)\) be a pure commuting co-spherically contractive n-tuple of operators on a Hilbert space \({\mathcal {H}}\) and \({\mathcal {S}}\) be a non-trivial closed subspace of \({\mathcal {H}}\). One of our main results states that: \({\mathcal {S}}\) is a joint T-invariant subspace if and only if there exists a partially isometric operator \(\Pi \in {\mathcal {B}}(H^2_n({\mathcal {E}}), {\mathcal {H}})\) such that \({\mathcal {S}}= \Pi H^2_n({\mathcal {E}})\), where \(H^2_n\) is the Drury–Arveson space and \({\mathcal {E}}\) is a coefficient Hilbert space and \(T_i \Pi = \Pi M_{z_i}\), \(i = 1, \ldots , n\). In particular, it follows that a shift invariant subspace of a “nice” reproducing kernel Hilbert space over the unit ball in \({{\mathbb {C}}}^n\) is the range of a “multiplier” with closed range. Our work addresses the case of joint shift invariant subspaces of the Hardy space and the weighted Bergman spaces over the unit ball in \({{\mathbb {C}}}^n\).     

Central Limit Theorem for Linear Eigenvalue Statistics for a Tensor Product Version of Sample Covariance Matrices

For \(k,m,n\in {\mathbb {N}}\), we consider \(n^k\times n^k\) random matrices of the form

$$\begin{aligned} {\mathcal {M}}_{n,m,k}({\mathbf {y}})=\sum _{\alpha =1}^m\tau _\alpha {Y_\alpha }Y_\alpha ^T,\quad {Y}_\alpha ={\mathbf {y}}_\alpha ^{(1)}\otimes \cdots \otimes {\mathbf {y}}_\alpha ^{(k)}, \end{aligned}$$

where \(\tau _{\alpha }\), \(\alpha \in [m]\), are real numbers and \({\mathbf {y}}_\alpha ^{(j)}\), \(\alpha \in [m]\), \(j\in [k]\), are i.i.d. copies of a normalized isotropic random vector \({\mathbf {y}}\in {\mathbb {R}}^n\). For every fixed \(k\ge 1\), if the Normalized Counting Measures of \(\{\tau _{\alpha }\}_{\alpha }\) converge weakly as \(m,n\rightarrow \infty \), \(m/n^k\rightarrow c\in [0,\infty )\) and \({\mathbf {y}}\) is a good vector in the sense of Definition 1.1, then the Normalized Counting Measures of eigenvalues of \({\mathcal {M}}_{n,m,k}({\mathbf {y}})\) converge weakly in probability to a nonrandom limit found in Marchenko and Pastur (Math USSR Sb 1:457–483, 1967). For \(k=2\), we define a subclass of good vectors \({\mathbf {y}}\) for which the centered linear eigenvalue statistics \(n^{-1/2}{{\mathrm{Tr}}}\varphi ({\mathcal {M}}_{n,m,2}({\mathbf {y}}))^\circ \) converge in distribution to a Gaussian random variable, i.e., the Central Limit Theorem is valid.

     

Local Maximum Modulus Property for Polyanalytic Functions

Let \(\Omega \subset {\mathbb {C}}\) be an open subset and let \({\mathcal {F}}\) be a space of functions defined on \(\Omega \). \({\mathcal {F}}\) is said to have the local maximum modulus property if: for every \(f\in {\mathcal {F}},p_0\in \Omega ,\) and for every sufficiently small domain \(D\subset \Omega ,\) with \(p_0\in D,\) it holds true that \(\max _{z\in \overline{D}}\left| f(z)\right| = \max _{z\in \Sigma \cup \partial D}\left| f(z)\right| ,\) where \(\Sigma \subset \Omega \) denotes the set of points at which \(\left| f\right| \) attains strict local maximum. This property fails for \({\mathcal {F}}=C^{\infty }.\) We verify it however for the set of complex-valued functions whose real and imaginary parts are real analytic. We show by example that the property cannot be improved upon whenever \({\mathcal {F}}\) is the set of n-analytic functions on \(\Omega \), \(n\ge 2,\) in the sense that locality cannot be removed as a condition and independently \(\Sigma \) cannot be removed from the conclusion.     

Partial permutation decoding for binary linear and $$Z_4$$-linear Hadamard codes

In this paper, s-\({\text {PD}}\)-sets of minimum size \(s+1\) for partial permutation decoding for the binary linear Hadamard code \(H_m\) of length \(2^m\), for all \(m\ge 4\) and \(2 \le s \le \lfloor {\frac{2^m}{1+m}}\rfloor -1\), are constructed. Moreover, recursive constructions to obtain s-\({\text {PD}}\)-sets of size \(l\ge s+1\) for \(H_{m+1}\) of length \(2^{m+1}\), from an s-\({\text {PD}}\)-set of the same size for \(H_m\), are also described. These results are generalized to find s-\({\text {PD}}\)-sets for the \({\mathbb {Z}}_4\)-linear Hadamard codes \(H_{\gamma , \delta }\) of length \(2^m\), \(m=\gamma +2\delta -1\), which are binary Hadamard codes (not necessarily linear) obtained as the Gray map image of quaternary linear codes of type \(2^\gamma 4^\delta \). Specifically, s-PD-sets of minimum size \(s+1\) for \(H_{\gamma , \delta }\), for all \(\delta \ge 3\) and \(2\le s \le \lfloor {\frac{2^{2\delta -2}}{\delta }}\rfloor -1\), are constructed and recursive constructions are described.     

Decorated marked surfaces: spherical twists versus braid twists

We are interested in the 3-Calabi-Yau categories \({\mathcal {D}}\) arising from quivers with potential associated to a triangulated marked surface \(\mathbf {S}\) (without punctures). We prove that the spherical twist group \(\mathrm{ST}\) of \({\mathcal {D}}\) is isomorphic to a subgroup (generated by braid twists) of the mapping class group of the decorated marked surface \({\mathbf {S}}_\bigtriangleup \). Here \({\mathbf {S}}_\bigtriangleup \) is the surface obtained from \(\mathbf {S}\) by decorating with a set of points, where the number of points equals the number of triangles in any triangulations of \(\mathbf {S}\). For instance, when \(\mathbf {S}\) is an annulus, the result implies that the corresponding spaces of stability conditions on \({\mathcal {D}}\) are contractible.     

$${\varvec{\mathcal {}}}$$-minimaxness and local cohomology modules

Let R be a commutative Noetherian ring, \({\mathfrak {a}}\) an ideal of R, M a finitely generated R-module, and \({\mathcal {S}}\) a Serre subcategory of the category of R-modules. We introduce the concept of \({\mathcal {S}}\)-minimax R-modules and the notion of the \({\mathcal {S}}\)-finiteness dimension

$$\begin{aligned} f_{\mathfrak {a}}^{{\mathcal {S}}}(M):=\inf \lbrace f_{\mathfrak {a}R_{\mathfrak {p}}}(M_{\mathfrak {p}}) \vert \mathfrak {p}\in {\text {Supp}}_R(M/ \mathfrak {a}M) \text { and } R/\mathfrak {p}\notin {\mathcal {S}} \rbrace \end{aligned}$$

and we will prove that: (i) If \({\text {H}}_{\mathfrak {a}}^{0}(M), \cdots ,{\text {H}}_{\mathfrak {a}}^{n-1}(M)\) are \({\mathcal {S}}\)-minimax, then the set \(\lbrace \mathfrak {p}\in {\text {Ass}}_R( {\text {H}}_{\mathfrak {a}}^{n}(M)) \vert R/\mathfrak {p}\notin {\mathcal {S}}\rbrace \) is finite. This generalizes the main results of Brodmann–Lashgari (Proc Am Math Soc 128(10):2851–2853, 2000), Quy (Proc Am Math Soc 138:1965–1968, 2010), Bahmanpour–Naghipour (Proc Math Soc 136:2359–2363, 2008), Asadollahi–Naghipour (Commun Algebra 43:953–958, 2015), and Mehrvarz et al. (Commun Algebra 43:4860–4872, 2015). (ii) If \({\mathcal {S}}\) satisfies the condition \(C_{\mathfrak {a}}\), then

$$\begin{aligned} f_{\mathfrak {a}}^{{\mathcal {S}}}(M)= \inf \lbrace i\in {\mathbb {N}}_{0} \vert {\text {H}}_{\mathfrak {a}}^{i}(M) \text { is not } {\mathcal {S}}\hbox {-}minimax\rbrace . \end{aligned}$$

This is a formulation of Faltings’ Local-global principle for the \({\mathcal {S}}\)-minimax local cohomology modules. (iii) \( \sup \lbrace i\in {\mathbb {N}}_{0} \vert {\text {H}}_{\mathfrak {a}}^{i}(M) \text { is not } {\mathcal {S}}\text {-minimax} \rbrace = \sup \lbrace i\in {\mathbb {N}}_{0} \vert {\text {H}}_{\mathfrak {a}}^{i}(M) \text { is not in } {\mathcal {S}} \rbrace \).

     

Infinite dual symmetric inverse monoids

Let \({\mathcal {I}}^*_X\) be the dual symmetric inverse monoid on an infinite set X. We show that \({\mathcal {I}}^*_X\) may be generated by the symmetric group \({\mathcal {S}}_X\) together with two (but no fewer) additional block bijections, and we classify the pairs \(\alpha ,\beta \in {\mathcal {I}}^*_X\) for which \({\mathcal {I}}^*_X\) is generated by \({\mathcal {S}}_X\,\cup \,\{\alpha ,\beta \}\). Among other results, we show that any countable subset of \({\mathcal {I}}^*_X\) is contained in a 4-generated subsemigroup of \({\mathcal {I}}^*_X\), and that the length function on \({\mathcal {I}}^*_X\) (and its finitary power semigroup) is bounded with respect to any generating set.     

On Summation of Nonharmonic Fourier Series

Let a sequence \(\Lambda \subset {\mathbb {C}}\) be such that the corresponding system of exponential functions \({\mathcal {E}}(\Lambda ):=\left\{ {\text {e}}^{i\lambda t}\right\} _{\lambda \in \Lambda }\) is complete and minimal in \(L^2(-\pi ,\pi )\), and thus each function \(f\in L^2(-\pi ,\pi )\) corresponds to a nonharmonic Fourier series in \({\mathcal {E}}(\Lambda )\). We prove that if the generating function \(G\) of \(\Lambda \) satisfies the Muckenhoupt \((A_2)\) condition on \({\mathbb {R}}\), then this series admits a linear summation method. Recent results show that the \((A_2)\) condition cannot be omitted.     

Bilinear dual hyperovals in the largest ambient spaces

The following facts are shown for a bilinear dual hyperoval \({\mathcal {S}}\) of rank n. The ambient space \({\mathbf {A}}({\mathcal {S}})\) has vector dimension at most \(n(n+1)/2\). The dimension of \({\mathbf {A}}({\mathcal {S}})\) is \(n(n+1)/2\) if and only if \({\mathcal {S}}\) is isomorphic to the Huybrechts or the Buratti–Del Fra dual hyperoval.     

A Sharp Weak-Type $$(\infty ,\infty )$$ Inequality for the Hilbert Transform

The paper is devoted to sharp weak type \((\infty ,\infty )\) estimates for \({\mathcal {H}}^{\mathbb {T}}\) and \({\mathcal {H}}^{\mathbb {R}}\), the Hilbert transforms on the circle and real line, respectively. Specifically, it is proved that

$$\begin{aligned} \left\| {\mathcal {H}}^{\mathbb {T}}f\right\| _{W({\mathbb {T}})}\le \Vert f\Vert _{L^\infty ({\mathbb {T}})} \end{aligned}$$

and

$$\begin{aligned} \left\| {\mathcal {H}}^{\mathbb {R}}f\right\| _{W({\mathbb {R}})}\le \Vert f\Vert _{L^\infty ({\mathbb {R}})}, \end{aligned}$$

where \(W({\mathbb {T}})\) and \(W({\mathbb {R}})\) stand for the weak-\(L^\infty \) spaces introduced by Bennett, DeVore and Sharpley. In both estimates, the constant \(1\) on the right is shown to be the best possible.