On Quadratic Differentials and Twisted Normal Maps of Surfaces in {\mathbb{S}^{2} \times\mathbb{R}} and {\mathbb{H}^{2} \times\mathbb{R}}

Given a Lie group G with a bi-invariant metric and a compact Lie subgroup K, Bittencourt and Ripoll used the homogeneous structure of quotient spaces to define a Gauss map ${\mathcal{N}:M^{n}\rightarrow{\mathbb{S}}}$ on any hypersupersurface ${M^{n}\looparrowright G/K}$ , where ${{\mathbb{S}}}$ is the unit sphere of the Lie algebra of G. It is proved in Bittencourt and Ripoll (Pacific J Math 224:45–64, 2006) that M ⁿ having constant mean curvature (CMC) is equivalent to ${\mathcal{N}}$ being harmonic, a generalization of a Ruh–Vilms theorem for submanifolds in the Euclidean space. In particular, when n = 2, the induced quadratic differential ${\mathcal{Q}_{\mathcal{N}}:=(\mathcal{N}^{\ast}g)^{2,0}}$ is holomorphic on CMC surfaces of G/K. In this paper, we take ${G/K={\mathbb{S}}^{2}\times{\mathbb{R}}}$ and compare ${\mathcal{Q}_{\mathcal{N}}}$ with the Abresch–Rosenberg differential ${\mathcal{Q}}$ , also holomorphic for CMC surfaces. It is proved that ${\mathcal{Q}=\mathcal{Q}_{\mathcal{N}}}$ , after showing that ${\mathcal{N}}$ is the twisted normal given by (1.5) herein. Then we define the twisted normal for surfaces in ${{\mathbb{H}}^{2}\times{\mathbb{R}}}$ and prove that ${\mathcal{Q}=\mathcal{Q}_{\mathcal{N}}}$ as well. Within the unified model for the two product spaces, we compute the tension field of ${\mathcal{N}}$ and extend to surfaces in ${{\mathbb{H}}^{2}\times{\mathbb{R}}}$ the equivalence between the CMC property and the harmonicity of ${\mathcal{N}.}$      

On p-tuples of the Grassmann manifolds

We provide a matrix invariant for isometry classes of p-tuples of points in the Grassmann manifold ${G_{n}\left(\mathbb{K}^{d}\right) }$ ( ${\mathbb{K=\mathbb{R}}}$ or ${\mathbb{C}}$ ). This invariant fully characterizes the p-tuple. We use it to classify the regular p-tuples of ${G_{2}\left(\mathbb{R}^{d}\right) }$ , ${G_{3}\left( \mathbb{R}^{d}\right) }$ and ${G_{2}\left( \mathbb{C}^{d}\right) }$ .     

Finiteness of the basic intersection cohomology of a Killing foliation

We prove that the basic intersection cohomology ${{\mathbb H}^{*}_{\overline{p}}({M / \mathcal{F}})}$ , where ${\mathcal F}$ is the singular foliation determined by an isometric action of a Lie group G on the compact manifold M, is finite dimensional.     

Good gradings of basic Lie superalgebras

We classify good ?-gradings of basic Lie superalgebras over an algebraically closed field $\mathbb{F}$ of characteristic zero. Good ?-gradings are used in quantum Hamiltonian reduction for affine Lie superalgebras, where they play a role in the construction of super W-algebras. We also describe the centralizer of a nilpotent even element and of an $\mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{l}_2$ -triple in $\mathfrak{g}\mathfrak{l}\left( {\left. m \right|n} \right)$ and $\mathfrak{o}\mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{p}\left( {\left. m \right|2n} \right)$ .     

Differentiable vectors and unitary representations of Fréchet–Lie supergroups

A locally convex Lie group G has the Trotter property if, for every $x_1, x_2 \in \mathfrak{g }$ , $$\begin{aligned} \exp _G(t(x_1 + x_2))=\lim _{n \rightarrow \infty } \left(\exp _G\left(\frac{t}{n}x_1\right)\exp _G\left(\frac{t}{n}x_2\right)\right)^n \end{aligned}$$ holds uniformly on compact subsets of $\mathbb{R }$ . All locally exponential Lie groups have this property, but also groups of automorphisms of principal bundles over compact smooth manifolds. A key result of the present article is that, if G has the Trotter property, $\pi : G \rightarrow {\mathrm{GL}}(V)$ is a continuous representation of G on a locally convex space, and $v \in V$ is a vector such that $\overline{\mathtt{d}\pi }(x)v :=\frac{d}{dt}|_{t=0} \pi (\exp _G(tx))v$ exists for every $x \in \mathfrak{g }$ , then the map $\mathfrak{g }\rightarrow V,x \mapsto \overline{\mathtt{d}\pi }(x)v$ is linear. Using this result we conclude that, for a representation of a locally exponential Fréchet–Lie group G on a metrizable locally convex space, the space of $\mathcal{C }^{k}$ -vectors coincides with the common domain of the k-fold products of the operators $\overline{\mathtt{d}\pi }(x)$ . For unitary representations on Hilbert spaces, the assumption of local exponentiality can be weakened to the Trotter property. As an application, we show that for smooth (resp., analytic) unitary representations of Fréchet–Lie supergroups $(G,\mathfrak{g })$ where G has the Trotter property, the common domain of the operators of $\mathfrak{g }=\mathfrak{g }_{\overline{0}}\oplus \mathfrak{g }_{\overline{1}}$ can always be extended to the space of smooth (resp., analytic) vectors for G.     

Classification of 7-dimensional einstein nilradicals

The problem of classifying Einstein solvmanifolds, or equivalently, Ricci soliton nilmanifolds, is known to be equivalent to a question on the variety $ {\mathfrak{N}_n}\left( \mathbb{C} \right) $ of n-dimensional complex nilpotent Lie algebra laws. Namely, one has to determine which GL _n (?)-orbits in $ {\mathfrak{N}_n}\left( \mathbb{C} \right) $ have a critical point of the squared norm of the moment map. In this paper, we give a classification result of such distinguished orbits for n?=?7. The set $ {{{{\mathfrak{N}_n}\left( \mathbb{C} \right)}} \left/ {{{\text{G}}{{\text{L}}_7}\left( \mathbb{C} \right)}} \right.} $ is formed by 148 nilpotent Lie algebras and 6 one-parameter families of pairwise non-isomorphic nilpotent Lie algebras. We have applied to each Lie algebra one of three main techniques to decide whether it has a distinguished orbit or not.     

Cohomology of Some Complex Laminations

In this paper we solve the ${\overline{\partial }}$ -problem along the leaves for two types of laminations: (i) Some open sets Ω of ${{\mathbb C}\times B}$ (where B is any differentiable manifold) endowed with the canonical foliation that is, the foliation whose leaves are the sections ${\Omega ^t=\{ z\in {\mathbb C}:(z,t)\in \Omega \}}$ . We construct a solution to the equation ${\overline{\partial }h=fd\overline z}$ for any function ${f:\Omega\longrightarrow {\mathbb C}}$ of class ${C^{s}\,(s\in \mathbb{N}\cup\{ \infty \}),\,C^\infty}$ along the leaves and satisfies some growth conditions near the singularities. (ii) A complex lamination by Riemann surfaces obtained by suspending a homeomorphism of a closed set of the Euclidean space ${\mathbb{C}\times \mathbb{R}}$ .     

Orbit Spaces of Free Involutions on the Product of Two Projective Spaces

Let X be a finitistic space having the mod 2 cohomology algebra of the product of two projective spaces. We study free involutions on X and determine the possible mod 2 cohomology algebra of orbit space of any free involution, using the Leray spectral sequence associated to the Borel fibration ${X \hookrightarrow X_{\mathbb{Z}_2} \longrightarrow B_{\mathbb{Z}_2}}$ . We also give an application of our result to show that if X has the mod 2 cohomology algebra of the product of two real projective spaces (respectively, complex projective spaces), then there does not exist any ${\mathbb{Z}_2}$ -equivariant map from ${\mathbb{S}^k \to X}$ for k ≥ 2 (respectively, k ≥ 3), where ${\mathbb{S}^k}$ is equipped with the antipodal involution.     

Representation of cyclotomic fields and their subfields

Let $\mathbb{K}$ be a finite extension of a characteristic zero field $\mathbb{F}$ . We say that a pair of n × n matrices (A,B) over $\mathbb{F}$ represents $\mathbb{K}$ if $\mathbb{K} \cong {{\mathbb{F}\left[ A \right]} \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{\mathbb{F}\left[ A \right]} {\left\langle B \right\rangle }}} \right. \kern-0em} {\left\langle B \right\rangle }}$ , where $\mathbb{F}\left[ A \right]$ denotes the subalgebra of $\mathbb{M}_n \left( \mathbb{F} \right)$ containing A and 〈B〉 is an ideal in $\mathbb{F}\left[ A \right]$ , generated by B. In particular, A is said to represent the field $\mathbb{K}$ if there exists an irreducible polynomial $q\left( x \right) \in \mathbb{F}\left[ x \right]$ which divides the minimal polynomial of A and $\mathbb{K} \cong {{\mathbb{F}\left[ A \right]} \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{\mathbb{F}\left[ A \right]} {\left\langle {q\left( A \right)} \right\rangle }}} \right. \kern-0em} {\left\langle {q\left( A \right)} \right\rangle }}$ . In this paper, we identify the smallest order circulant matrix representation for any subfield of a cyclotomic field. Furthermore, if p is a prime and $\mathbb{K}$ is a subfield of the p-th cyclotomic field, then we obtain a zero-one circulant matrix A of size p × p such that (A, J) represents $\mathbb{K}$ , where J is the matrix with all entries 1. In case, the integer n has at most two distinct prime factors, we find the smallest order 0, 1-companion matrix that represents the n-th cyclotomic field. We also find bounds on the size of such companion matrices when n has more than two prime factors.     

{\mathbb{G}_a^ M} degeneration of flag varieties

Let ${\mathcal{F}_\lambda}$ be a generalized flag variety of a simple Lie group G embedded into the projectivization of an irreducible G-module V _λ . We define a flat degeneration ${\mathcal{F}_\lambda^a}$ , which is a ${\mathbb{G}^M_a}$ variety. Moreover, there exists a larger group G ^a acting on ${\mathcal{F}_\lambda^a}$ , which is a degeneration of the group G. The group G ^a contains ${\mathbb{G}^M_a}$ as a normal subgroup. If G is of type A, then the degenerate flag varieties can be embedde‘d into the product of Grassmannians and thus to the product of projective spaces. The defining ideal of ${\mathcal{F}_\lambda}$ is generated by the set of degenerate Plücker relations. We prove that the coordinate ring of ${\mathcal{F}_\lambda^a}$ is isomorphic to a direct sum of dual PBW-graded ${\mathfrak{g}}$ -modules. We also prove that there exists bases in multi-homogeneous components of the coordinate rings, parametrized by the semistandard PBW-tableux, which are analogs of semistandard tableaux.     

The Ricci tensor and structure Jacobi operator of real hypersurfaces in a complex projective space

Let M be a real hypersurface with almost contact metric structure ${(\phi, \xi, \eta, g)}$ in a complex projective space ${P_{n}\mathbb{C}}$ . A Real hypersurface M is said to be a Hopf hypersurface if ξ is principal. In this paper we investigate real hypersurfaces of ${P_{n}\mathbb{C}}$ whose Ricci tensors S satisfy ${\nabla_{\phi\nabla_{\xi}\xi}S = 0}$ . Under some further conditions we characterize Hopf hypersurfaces of ${P_{n}\mathbb{C}}$ .     

On Deformations of Lie Algebroids

For any Lie algebroid A, its 1-jet bundle ${\mathfrak{J} A}$ is a Lie algebroid naturally and there is a representation ${\pi:\mathfrak{J} A\longrightarrow\mathfrak{D} A}$ . Denote by ${{\rm d}_{\mathfrak{J}}}$ the corresponding coboundary operator. In this paper, we realize the deformation cohomology of a Lie algebroid A introduced by M. Crainic and I. Moerdijk as the cohomology of a subcomplex ${(\Gamma({\rm Hom}(\wedge^\bullet\mathfrak{J} A,A)_{{\mathfrak{D}} A}),{\rm d}_{\mathfrak{J}})}$ of the cochain complex ${(\Gamma({\rm Hom}(\wedge^\bullet\mathfrak{J} A, A)),{\rm d}_\mathfrak{J})}$ .     

Real Clifford Algebras as Tensor Products over Centers

Denote by ${\mathcal{C}\ell_{p,q}}$ the Clifford algebra on the real vector space ${\mathbb{R}^{p,q}}$ . This paper gives a unified tensor product expression of ${\mathcal{C}\ell_{p,q}}$ by using the center of ${\mathcal{C}\ell_{p,q}}$ . The main result states that for nonnegative integers p, q, ${\mathcal{C}\ell_{p,q} \simeq \otimes^{\kappa-\delta}\mathcal{C}_{1,1} \otimes Cen(\mathcal{C}\ell_{p,q}) \otimes^{\delta} \mathcal{C}\ell_{0,2},}$ where ${p + q \equiv \varepsilon}$ mod 2, ${\kappa = ((p + q) - \varepsilon)/2, p - |q - \varepsilon| \equiv i}$ mod 8 and ${\delta = \lfloor i / 4 \rfloor}$ .     

Euclidean hypersurfaces with genuine deformations in codimension two

We classify hypersurfaces of rank two of Euclidean space ${\mathbb{R}^{n+1}}$ that admit genuine isometric deformations in ${\mathbb{R}^{n+2}}$ . That an isometric immersion ${\hat{f}\colon M^n \to \mathbb{R}^{n+2}}$ is a genuine isometric deformation of a hypersurface ${f\colon M^n\to\mathbb{R}^{n+1}}$ means that ${\hat f}$ is nowhere a composition ${\hat f=\hat F\circ f}$ , where ${\hat{F} \colon V\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1} \to\mathbb{R}^{n+2}}$ is an isometric immersion of an open subset V containing the hypersurface.     

A decomposition of the universal embedding space for the near polygon {{\mathbb H}_n}

Let ${{\mathbb H}_n, n \geq 1}$ , be the near 2n-gon defined on the 1-factors of the complete graph on 2n?+?2 vertices, and let e denote the absolutely universal embedding of ${{\mathbb H}_n}$ into PG(W), where W is a ${\frac{1}{n+2} \left(\begin{array}{c}2n+2 \\ n+1\end{array}\right)}$ -dimensional vector space over the field ${{\mathbb F}_2}$ with two elements. For every point z of ${{\mathbb H}_n}$ and every ${i \in {\mathbb N}}$ , let Δ _i (z) denote the set of points of ${{\mathbb H}_n}$ at distance i from z. We show that for every pair {x, y} of mutually opposite points of ${{\mathbb H}_n, W}$ can be written as a direct sum ${W_0 \oplus W_1 \oplus \cdots \oplus W_n}$ such that the following four properties hold for every ${i \in \{0,\ldots,n \}}$ : (1) ${\langle e(\Delta_i(x) \cap \Delta_{n-i}(y)) \rangle = {\rm PG}(W_i)}$ ; (2) ${\left\langle e \left( \bigcup_{j \leq i} \Delta_j(x) \right) \right\rangle = {\rm PG}(W_0 \oplus W_1 \oplus \cdots \oplus W_i)}$ ; (3) ${\left\langle e \left( \bigcup_{j \leq i} \Delta_j(y) \right) \right\rangle = {\rm PG}(W_{n-i}\oplus W_{n-i+1} \oplus \cdots \oplus W_n)}$ ; (4) ${\dim(W_i) = |\Delta_i(x) \cap \Delta_{n-i}(y)| = \left(\begin{array}{c}n \\ i\end{array}\right)^2 - \left(\begin{array}{c}n \\ i-1\end{array}\right) \cdot \left(\begin{array}{c}n \\ i+1\end{array}\right)}$ .     

On {\mathbb{F}_q} -Rational Structure of Nilpotent Orbits in the Witt Algebra

Let ${\mathfrak{g}=W_1}$ be the p-dimensional Witt algebra over an algebraically closed field ${k=\overline{\mathbb{F}}_q}$ , where p > 3 is a prime and q is a power of p. Let G be the automorphism group of ${\mathfrak{g}}$ . The Frobenius morphism F _G (resp. ${F_\mathfrak{g}}$ ) can be defined naturally on G (resp. ${\mathfrak{g}}$ ). In this paper, we determine the ${F_\mathfrak{g}}$ -stable G-orbits in ${\mathfrak{g}}$ . Furthermore, the number of ${\mathbb{F}_q}$ -rational points in each ${F_\mathfrak{g}}$ -stable orbit is precisely given. Consequently, we obtain the number of ${\mathbb{F}_q}$ -rational points in the nilpotent variety.     

On Zero-Sum {\mathbb{Z}_k} -Magic Labelings of 3-Regular Graphs

Let G =  (V, E) be a finite loopless graph and let (A, +) be an abelian group with identity 0. Then an A-magic labeling of G is a function ${\phi}$ from E into A ? {0} such that for some ${a \in A, \sum_{e \in E(v)} \phi(e) = a}$ for every ${v \in V}$ , where E(v) is the set of edges incident to v. If ${\phi}$ exists such that a =  0, then G is zero-sum A-magic. Let zim(G) denote the subset of ${\mathbb{N}}$ (the positive integers) such that ${1 \in zim(G)}$ if and only if G is zero-sum ${\mathbb{Z}}$ -magic and ${k \geq 2 \in zim(G)}$ if and only if G is zero-sum ${\mathbb{Z}_k}$ -magic. We establish that if G is 3-regular, then ${zim(G) = \mathbb{N} - \{2\}}$ or ${\mathbb{N} - \{2,4\}.}$