Golubev series for solutions of elliptic equations

Let be an elliptic system with real analytic coefficients on an open set and let be a fundamental solution of Given a locally connected closed set we fix some massive measure on . Here, a non-negative measure is called massive, if the conditions and imply that We prove that, if is a solution of the equation in then for each relatively compact open subset of and every there exist a solution of the equation in and a sequence () in satisfying such that for This complements an earlier result of the second author on representation of solutions outside a compact subset of

     

Homogeneous projective varieties with degenerate secants

The secant variety of a projective variety in , denoted by , is defined to be the closure of the union of lines in passing through at least two points of , and the secant deficiency of is defined by . We list the homogeneous projective varieties with under the assumption that arise from irreducible representations of complex simple algebraic groups. It turns out that there is no homogeneous, non-degenerate, projective variety with and , and the -variety is the only homogeneous projective variety with largest secant deficiency . This gives a negative answer to a problem posed by R. Lazarsfeld and A. Van de Ven if we restrict ourselves to homogeneous projective varieties.

     

Distribution semigroups and abstract Cauchy problems

We present a new definition of distribution semigroups, covering in particular non-densely defined generators. We show that for a closed operator in a Banach space the following assertions are equivalent: (a) generates a distribution semigroup; (b) the convolution operator has a fundamental solution in where denotes the domain of supplied with the graph norm and denotes the inclusion ; (c) generates a local integrated semigroup. We also show that every generator of a distribution semigroup generates a regularized semigroup.

     

Galois coverings of selfinjective algebras by repetitive algebras

In the representation theory of selfinjective artin algebras an important role is played by selfinjective algebras of the form where is the repetitive algebra of an artin algebra and is an admissible group of automorphisms of . If is of finite global dimension, then the stable module category of finitely generated -modules is equivalent to the derived category of bounded complexes of finitely generated -modules. For a selfinjective artin algebra , an ideal and , we establish a criterion for to admit a Galois covering with an infinite cyclic Galois group . As an application we prove that all selfinjective artin algebras whose Auslander-Reiten quiver has a non-periodic generalized standard translation subquiver closed under successors in are socle equivalent to the algebras , where is a representation-infinite tilted algebra and is an infinite cyclic group of automorphisms of .

     

The nilpotence height of for odd primes

K. G. Monks has recently shown that the element has nilpotence height in the mod Steenrod algebra. Here the method and result are generalized to show that for an odd prime the element has nilpotence height in the mod Steenrod algebra.

     

On the diophantine equation

In this paper we prove that the equation , , , , , has only the solutions and with is a prime power. The proof depends on some new results concerning the upper bounds for the number of solutions of the generalized Ramanujan-Nagell equations.

     

Decomposition of

For any locally compact group , let and be the Fourier and the Fourier-Stieltjes algebras of , respectively. is decomposed as a direct sum of and , where is a subspace of consisting of all elements that satisfy the property: for any and any compact subset , there is an with and such that is characterized by the following: an element is in if and only if, for any there is a compact subset such that for all with and . Note that we do not assume the amenability of . Consequently, we have for all if is noncompact. We will apply this characterization of to investigate the general properties of and we will see that is not a subalgebra of even for abelian locally compact groups. If is an amenable locally compact group, then is the subspace of consisting of all elements with the property that for any compact subset , .

     

Witten-Helffer-Sjöstrand theory for -equivariant cohomology

Given an -invariant Morse function and an -invariant Riemannian metric , a family of finite dimensional subcomplexes , , of the Witten deformation of the -equivariant de Rham complex is constructed, by studying the asymptotic behavior of the spectrum of the corresponding Laplacian as . In fact the spectrum of can be separated into the small eigenvalues, finite eigenvalues and the large eigenvalues. Then one obtains as the complex of eigenforms corresponding to the small eigenvalues of . This permits us to verify the -equivariant Morse inequalities. Moreover suppose is self-indexing and satisfies the Morse-Smale condition, then it is shown that this family of subcomplexes converges as to a geometric complex which is induced by and calculates the -equivariant cohomology of .

     

Scrambled sets of continuous maps of 1-dimensional polyhedra

Let be a 1-dimensional simplicial complex in without isolated vertexes, be the polyhedron of with the metric induced by , and be a continuous map. In this paper we prove that if is finite, then the interior of every scrambled set of in is empty. We also show that if is an infinite complex, then there exist continuous maps from to itself having scrambled sets with nonempty interiors, and if or , then there exist maps of with the whole space being a scrambled set.

     

An algorithm for calculating the Nielsen number on surfaces with boundary

Let be a self-map of a hyperbolic surface with boundary. The Nielsen number, , depends only on the induced map of the fundamental group, which can be viewed as a free group on generators, . We determine conditions for fixed points to be in the same fixed point class and if these conditions are enough to determine the fixed point classes, we say that is -characteristic. We define an algebraic condition on the and show that ``most' maps satisfy this condition and that all maps which satisfy this condition are -characteristic. If is -characteristic, we present an algorithm for calculating and prove that the inequality holds, where denotes the Lefschetz number of and the Euler characteristic of , thus answering in part a question of Jiang and Guo.

     

The stability of the equilibrium of reversible systems

In this paper, we consider the system

where , , and are continuous, even and 1-periodic in the time variable ; and are real analytic in a neighbourhood of the origin of -plane and continuous 1-periodic in . We also assume that the above system is reversible with respect to the involution . A sufficient and necessary condition for the stability in the Liapunov sense of the equilibrium is given.

     

On the non-vanishing of cubic twists of automorphic -series

Let be a normalised new form of weight for over and , its base change lift to . A sufficient condition is given for the nonvanishing at the center of the critical strip of infinitely many cubic twists of the -function of . There is an algorithm to check the condition for any given form. The new form of level is used to illustrate our method.

     

Ultrafilters on -their ideals and their cardinal characteristics

For a free ultrafilter on we study several cardinal characteristics which describe part of the combinatorial structure of . We provide various consistency results; e.g. we show how to force simultaneously many characters and many -characters. We also investigate two ideals on the Baire space naturally related to and calculate cardinal coefficients of these ideals in terms of cardinal characteristics of the underlying ultrafilter.

     

The problem on domains with piecewise smooth boundaries with applications

Let be a bounded domain in such that has piecewise smooth boudnary. We discuss the solvability of the Cauchy-Riemann equation

where is a smooth -closed form with coefficients up to the bundary of , and . In particular, Equation (0.1) is solvable with smooth up to the boundary (for appropriate degree if satisfies one of the following conditions:

i)

is the transversal intersection of bounded smooth pseudoconvex domains.

ii)

where is the union of bounded smooth pseudoconvex domains and is a pseudoconvex convex domain with a piecewise smooth boundary.

iii)

where is the intersection of bounded smooth pseudoconvex domains and is a pseudoconvex domain with a piecewise smooth boundary.

The solvability of Equation (0.1) with solutions smooth up to the boundary can be used to obtain the local solvability for on domains with piecewise smooth boundaries in a pseudoconvex manifold.

     

Spherical functions and conformal densities on spherically symmetric -spaces

Let be a -space which is spherically symmetric around some point and whose boundary has finite positive dimensional Hausdorff measure. Let be a conformal density of dimension on . We prove that is a weak limit of measures supported on spheres centered at . These measures are expressed in terms of the total mass function of and of the dimensional spherical function on . In particular, this result proves that is entirely determined by its dimension and its total mass function. The results of this paper apply in particular for symmetric spaces of rank one and semi-homogeneous trees.

     

The nonarchimedean theta correspondence for

In this paper we consider the theta correspondence between the sets and when is a nonarchimedean local field and . Our main theorem determines all the elements of that occur in the correspondence. The answer involves distinguished representations. As a corollary, we characterize all the elements of that occur in the theta correspondence between and . We also apply our main result to prove a case of a new conjecture of S.S. Kudla concerning the first occurrence of a representation in the theta correspondence.

     

The heat kernel weighted Hodge Laplacian on noncompact manifolds

On a compact orientable Riemannian manifold, the Hodge Laplacian has compact resolvent, therefore a spectral gap, and the dimension of the space of harmonic -forms is a topological invariant. By contrast, on complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds, is known to have various pathologies, among them the absence of a spectral gap and either ``too large' or ``too small' a space . In this article we use a heat kernel measure to determine the space of square-integrable forms and to construct the appropriate Laplacian . We recover in the noncompact case certain results of Hodge's theory of in the compact case. If the Ricci curvature of a noncompact connected Riemannian manifold is bounded below, then this ``heat kernel weighted Laplacian' acts on functions on in precisely the manner we would wish, that is, it has a spectral gap and a one-dimensional kernel. We prove that the kernel of on -forms is zero-dimensional on , as we expect from topology, if the Ricci curvature is nonnegative. On Euclidean space, there is a complete Hodge theory for . Weighted Laplacians also have a duality analogous to Poincaré duality on noncompact manifolds. Finally, we show that heat kernel-like measures give desirable spectral properties (compact resolvent) in certain general cases. In particular, we use measures with Gaussian decay to justify the statement that every topologically tame manifold has a strong Hodge decomposition.

     

Deformations of dihedral -group extensions of fields

Given a -Galois extension of number fields we ask whether it is a specialization of a regular -Galois cover of . This is the ``inverse" of the usual use of the Hilbert Irreducibility Theorem in the Inverse Galois problem. We show that for many groups such arithmetic liftings exist by observing that the existence of generic extensions implies the arithmetic lifting property. We explicitly construct generic extensions for dihedral -groups under certain assumptions on the base field . We also show that dihedral groups of order and have generic extensions over any base field with characteristic different from .

     

Gap estimates of the spectrum of Hill's equation and action variables for

Consider the Schrödinger equation for a potential of period 1 in the weighted Sobolev space

where denote the Fourier coefficients of when considered as a function of period 1,

and where is the circle of length 1. Denote by the periodic eigenvalues of when considered on the interval with multiplicities and ordered so that We prove the following result. Theorem. For any bounded set there exist and so that for and , the eigenvalues are isolated pairs, satisfying (with

(i)

,

(ii)

.

     

Class numbers of cyclotomic function fields

Let be a prime power and let be the finite field with elements. For each polynomial in , one could use the Carlitz module to construct an abelian extension of , called a Carlitz cyclotomic extension. Carlitz cyclotomic extensions play a fundamental role in the study of abelian extensions of , similar to the role played by cyclotomic number fields for abelian extensions of . We are interested in the tower of Carlitz cyclotomic extensions corresponding to the powers of a fixed irreducible polynomial in . Two types of properties are obtained for the -parts of the class numbers of the fields in this tower, for a fixed prime number . One gives congruence relations between the -parts of these class numbers. The other gives lower bound for the -parts of these class numbers.