Hölder continuity of surfaces with bounded mean curvature at corners where Plateau boundaries meet free boundaries

Let $P={\rm \Gamma}\cap{\cal S}Let be the point of non-tangential intersection of a closed Jordan arc and an embedded, regular support surface . Let be a conformally parametrized solution of with partially free boundaries . It is proved, that is H?lder continuous up to with , whenever meets orthogonally along its free trace. This provides a regularity result for stationary minimal surfaces and is applicable also to surfaces of prescribed bounded mean curvature. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) 53 A 10, 35 J 65, 35 R 35, 49 Q 05     

Variationally harmonic maps with general boundary conditions: Boundary regularity

Let and be Riemannian manifolds, compact without boundary. We develop a definition of a variationally harmonic map with respect to a general boundary condition of the kind u(x)∊Γ(x) for a.e. , where are given submanifolds depending smoothly on x. The given definition of variationally harmonic maps is slightly more restrictive, but also more natural than the usual definition of stationary harmonic maps. After deducing an energy monotonicity formula, it is possible to derive a regularity theory for variationally harmonic maps with general boundary data. The results include full boundary regularity in the Dirichlet boundary case Γ(x) = {g(x)} for if does not carry a nonconstant harmonic 2-sphere.     

Sampling Theory Associated with a Symmetric Operator with Compact Resolvent and De Branges Spaces

Let be a symmetric operator with compact resolvent defined in a Hilbert space For any fixed we consider an entire function K_a which involves the resolvent of Associated with K_a we obtain, by duality in a Hilbert space of entire functions which becomes a De Branges space of entire functions. This property provides a characterization of regardless of the anti-linear mapping which has as its range space. There exists also a sampling formula allowing to recover any function in from its samples at the sequence of eigenvalues of This work has been supported by the grant BFM2003–01034 from the D.G.I. of the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología.     

Singularly perturbed nonlinear elliptic problems on manifolds

Let be a connected compact smooth Riemannian manifold of dimension with or without smooth boundary We consider the following singularly perturbed nonlinear elliptic problem on

The geometry of rational parameterized representations

We study the projective space of univariate rational parameterized equations of degree d or less in real projective space The parameterized equations of degree less than d form a special algebraic variety We investigate the subspaces on and their relation to rational curves in give a geometric characterization of the automorphism group of and outline applications of the theory to projective kinematics.     

Convexities of partial monounary algebras

In the present paper we prove that the collection of all convexities of partial monounary algebras is finite; namely, it has exactly 23 elements. Further, we show that for each element there exists a subset of such that is generated by and card . This work was supported by the Science and Technology Assistance Agency under the contract No. APVT-20-004104. Supported by Grant VEGA 1/3003/06.     

{\left( {\mathfrak{V},\mathfrak{W}} \right)}{\text{-cotorsion pairs}}

Let R be a unital associative ring and two classes of left R-modules. In this paper we introduce the notion of a In analogy to classical cotorsion pairs as defined by Salce [10], a pair of subclasses and is called a if it is maximal with respect to the classes and the condition for all and Basic properties of are stated and several examples in the category of abelian groups are studied. Received: 17 March 2005     

Representation Rings of Lie Superalgebras

Given a Lie superalgebra , we introduce several variants of the representation ring, built as subrings and quotients of the ring of virtual -supermodules, up to (even) isomorphisms. In particular, we consider the ideal of virtual -supermodules isomorphic to their own parity reversals, as well as an equivariant K-theoretic super representation ring on which the parity reversal operator takes the class of a virtual -supermodule to its negative. We also construct representation groups built from ungraded -modules, as well as degree-shifted representation groups using Clifford modules. The full super representation ring , including all degree shifts, is then a -graded ring in the complex case and a -graded ring in the real case. Our primary result is a six-term periodic exact sequence relating the rings , and . We first establish a version of it working over an arbitrary (not necessarily algebraically closed) field of characteristic 0. In the complex case, this six-term periodic long exact sequence splits into two three-term sequences, which gives us additional insight into the structure of the complex super representation ring . In the real case, we obtain the expected 24-term version, as well as a surprising six-term version, of this periodic exact sequence. (Received: October 2004)     

A Helly-type transversal theorem for n-dimensional unit balls

Let be a family of unit balls in with the property that the mutual distances of the centers are at least . If any n² members of have a common line transversal, then has a line transversal too. Received: 27 January 2005; revised: 17 October 2005     

Passive Systems with a Normal Main Operator and Quasi-selfadjoint Systems

Passive systems with and as an input and output space and as a state space are considered in the case that the main operator on the state space is normal. Basic properties are given and a general unitary similarity result involving some spectral theoretic conditions on the main operator is established. A passive system with is said to be quasi-selfadjoint if ran . The subclass of the Schur class is the class formed by all transfer functions of quasi-selfadjoint passive systems. The subclass is characterized and minimal passive quasi-selfadjoint realizations are studied. The connection between the transfer function belonging to the subclass and the Q-function of T is given. Received: December 16, 2007., Accepted: March 4, 2008.     

The Torsion Theory Generated by <Emphasis Type="Italic">M</Emphasis>-Small Modules

Let M be a right R-module, the class of all M-small modules, and P a projective cover of M in [M]. We consider the torsion theories = ( ), = ( ), and = ( ) in [M], where is the torsion theory generated by is the torsion theory cogenerated by , and is the dual Lambek torsion theory. We study some conditions for to be cohereditary, stable, or split, and prove that Rej(M, ) = M = (= = ) = Gen_M(P) .2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 16S90     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Laplace Operator and Diameter of Manifolds

Let be a compact Riemannian manifold without boundary. In this paper, we consider the first nonzero eigenvalue of the p-Laplacian and we prove that the limit of when is 2/d(M), where d(M) is the diameter of M. Moreover, if is an oriented compact hypersurface of the Euclidean space or , we prove an upper bound of in terms of the largest principal curvature κ over M. As applications of these results, we obtain optimal lower bounds of d(M) in terms of the curvature. In particular, we prove that if M is a hypersurface of then: . Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000): 53A07, 53C21.     

Affine congruence by dissection of discs - appropriate groups and optimal dissections

Let be a group of affine transformations of the Euclidean plane . Two topological discs D, are called congruent by dissection with respect to if D can be dissected into a finite number of subdiscs that can be rearranged by maps from to a dissection of E. Our main result says in particular that admits congruence by dissection of any circular disc C with any square S if and only if contains a contractive map and all orbits , , are dense in . In this case any two discs D and E are congruent by dissection with respect to and every disc D is congruent by dissection with n copies of D for every n ≥ 2. Moreover, we give estimates on minimal numbers of pieces that are needed to realize congruences by dissection. Dedicated to Irmtraud Stephani on the occasion of her 70th birthday     

On the Optimal Value Function of a Linearly Perturbed Quadratic Program

The optimal value function of the quadratic program , where is a given symmetric matrix, a given matrix, and are the linear perturbations, is considered. It is proved that is directionally differentiable at any point in its effective domain . Formulae for computing the directional derivative of at in a direction are obtained. We also present an example showing that, in general, is not piecewise linear-quadratic on W. The preceding (unpublished) example of Klatte is also discussed.     

On Generic Well-posedness of Restricted Chebyshev Center Problems in Banach Spaces

Let B （resp. K, BC,KC） denote the set of all nonempty bounded （resp. compact, bounded convex, compact convex） closed subsets of the Banach space X, endowed with the Hausdorff metric, and let G be a nonempty relatively weakly compact closed subset of X. Let B° stand for the set of all F ∈B such that the problem （F, G） is well-posed. We proved that, if X is strictly convex and Kadec, the set KC ∩ B° is a dense Gδ-subset of KC ／ G. Furthermore, if X is a uniformly convex Banach space, we will prove more, namely that the set B ／B° （resp. K ／ B°, BC ／B°, KC ／ B°） is a-porous in B （resp. K,BC, KC）. Moreover, we prove that for most （in the sense of the Baire category） closed bounded subsets G of X, the set K ／ B° is dense and uncountable in K.     

The Automorphism Group of Plane Algebraic Curves with Singer Automorphisms

The main result in Cossidente and Siciliano (J. Number Theory, Vol. 99 (2003) pp. 373–382) states that if a Singer subgroup of PGL(3,q) is an automorphism group of a projective, geometric irreducible, non-singular plane algebraic curve then either or . In the former case is projectively equivalent to the curve with equation X^q+1Y+Y^q+1+X=0 studied by Pellikaan. Furthermore, the curve has a very nice property from Finite Geometry point of view: apart from the three distinguished points fixed by the Singer subgroup, the set of its -rational points can be partitioned into finite projective planes . In this paper, the full automorphism group of such curves is determined. It turns out that is the normalizer of a Singer group in .     

Non-existence of regular algebraic minimal surfaces of spheres of degree 3

In this paper we prove that if is a closed minimal surface, then, , for any homogeneous polynomial f of degree 3 with 0 a regular value of the function .     

Explicit construction of a Chern–Moser connection for CR manifolds of codimension two

In the present paper we suggest an explicit construction of a Cartan connection for an elliptic or hyperbolic CR manifold M of dimension six and codimension two, i.e. a pair , consisting of a principal bundle over M and of a Cartan connection form over P, satisfying the following property: the (local) CR transformations are in one to one correspondence with the (local) automorphisms for which . For any , this construction determines an explicit monomorphism of the stability subalgebra Lie (Aut(M)_x) into the Lie algebra of the structure group H of P. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) Primary 32V05, Secondary 53C15, 53A55     

Locally finite varieties of Heyting algebras

We show that for a variety of Heyting algebras the following conditions are equivalent: (1) is locally finite; (2) the -coproduct of any two finite -algebras is finite; (3) either coincides with the variety of Boolean algebras or finite -copowers of the three element chain are finite. We also show that a variety of Heyting algebras is generated by its finite members if, and only if, is generated by a locally finite -algebra. Finally, to the two existing criteria for varieties of Heyting algebras to be finitely generated we add the following one: is finitely generated if, and only if, is residually finite. Received November 11, 2001; accepted in final form July 25, 2005.     

The Invariance Principle for the Total Length of the Nearest-Neighbor Graph

Let be the Poisson point process with intensity 1 in R^d and let be . We obtain a strong invariance principle for the total length of the nearest-neighbor graph on .