Specializations of Brauer classes over algebraic function fields

Let be either a number field or a field finitely generated of transcendence degree over a Hilbertian field of characteristic 0, let be the rational function field in one variable over , and let . It is known that there exist infinitely many such that the specialization induces a specialization , where has exponent equal to that of . Now let be a finite extension of and let . We give sufficient conditions on and for there to exist infinitely many such that the specialization has an extension to inducing a specialization , the residue field of , where has exponent equal to that of . We also give examples to show that, in general, such need not exist.

     

A condition for the stability of -covered on foliations of 3-manifolds

We give a sufficient condition for a codimension one, transversely orientable foliation of a closed 3-manifold to have the property that any foliation sufficiently close to it be -covered. This condition can be readily verified for many examples. Further, if an -covered foliation has a compact leaf , then any transverse loop meeting lifts to a copy of the leaf space, and the ambient manifold fibers over with as fiber.

     

Representing nonnegative homology classes of by minimal genus smooth embeddings

For any nonnegative class in , the minimal genus of smoothly embedded surfaces which represent is given for , and in some cases with , the minimal genus is also given. For the finiteness of orbits under diffeomorphisms with minimal genus , we prove that it is true for with and for with .

     

Homology manifold bordism

The Bryant-Ferry-Mio-Weinberger surgery exact sequence for compact homology manifolds of dimension is used to obtain transversality, splitting and bordism results for homology manifolds, generalizing previous work of Johnston.

First, we establish homology manifold transversality for submanifolds of dimension : if is a map from an -dimensional homology manifold to a space , and is a subspace with a topological -block bundle neighborhood, and , then is homology manifold -cobordant to a map which is transverse to , with an -dimensional homology submanifold.

Second, we obtain a codimension splitting obstruction in the Wall -group for a simple homotopy equivalence from an -dimensional homology manifold to an -dimensional Poincaré space with a codimension Poincaré subspace with a topological normal bundle, such that if (and for only if) splits at up to homology manifold -cobordism.

Third, we obtain the multiplicative structure of the homology manifold bordism groups .

     

Rigidity of Coxeter groups

Let be a Coxeter group acting properly discontinuously and cocompactly on manifolds and such that the fixed point sets of finite subgroups are contractible. Let be a -homotopy equivalence which restricts to a -homeomorphism on the boundary. Under an assumption on the three dimensional fixed point sets, we show that then is -homotopic to a -homeomorphism.     

Infinite convolution products and refinable distributions on Lie groups

Sufficient conditions for the convergence in distribution of an infinite convolution product of measures on a connected Lie group with respect to left invariant Haar measure are derived. These conditions are used to construct distributions that satisfy where is a refinement operator constructed from a measure and a dilation automorphism . The existence of implies is nilpotent and simply connected and the exponential map is an analytic homeomorphism. Furthermore, there exists a unique minimal compact subset such that for any open set containing and for any distribution on with compact support, there exists an integer such that implies If is supported on an -invariant uniform subgroup then is related, by an intertwining operator, to a transition operator on Necessary and sufficient conditions for to converge to , and for the -translates of to be orthogonal or to form a Riesz basis, are characterized in terms of the spectrum of the restriction of to functions supported on

     

Analytic types of plane curve singularities defined by weighted homogeneous polynomials

We classify analytically isolated plane curve singularities defined by weighted homogeneous polynomials , which are not topologically equivalent to homogeneous polynomials, in an elementary way. Moreover, in preparation for the proof of the above analytic classification theorem, assuming that either satisfies the same property as the above does or is homogeneous, then we prove easily that the weights of the above determine the topological type of and conversely. So, this gives another easy proof for the topological classification theorem of quasihomogenous singularities in , which was already known. Also, as an application, it can be shown that for a given , where is a quasihomogeneous holomorphic function with an isolated singularity at the origin or with a positive integer , analytic types of isolated hypersurface singularities defined by are easily classified where is defined just as above.

     

Linear systems of plane curves with base points of equal multiplicity

In this article we address the problem of computing the dimension of the space of plane curves of degree with general points of multiplicity . A conjecture of Harbourne and Hirschowitz implies that when , the dimension is equal to the expected dimension given by the Riemann-Roch Theorem. Also, systems for which the dimension is larger than expected should have a fixed part containing a multiple -curve. We reformulate this conjecture by explicitly listing those systems which have unexpected dimension. Then we use a degeneration technique developed to show that the conjecture holds for all .

     

Trees and valuation rings

A subring of a division algebra is called a valuation ring of if or holds for all nonzero in . The set of all valuation rings of is a partially ordered set with respect to inclusion, having as its maximal element. As a graph is a rooted tree (called the valuation tree of ), and in contrast to the commutative case, may have finitely many but more than one vertices. This paper is mainly concerned with the question of whether each finite, rooted tree can be realized as a valuation tree of a division algebra , and one main result here is a positive answer to this question where can be chosen as a quaternion division algebra over a commutative field.

     

Stability theory, permutations of indiscernibles, and embedded finite models

We show that the expressive power of first-order logic over finite models embedded in a model is determined by stability-theoretic properties of . In particular, we show that if is stable, then every class of finite structures that can be defined by embedding the structures in , can be defined in pure first-order logic. We also show that if does not have the independence property, then any class of finite structures that can be defined by embedding the structures in , can be defined in first-order logic over a dense linear order. This extends known results on the definability of classes of finite structures and ordered finite structures in the setting of embedded finite models. These results depend on several results in infinite model theory. Let be a set of indiscernibles in a model and suppose is elementarily equivalent to where is -saturated. If is stable and is saturated, then every permutation of extends to an automorphism of and the theory of is stable. Let be a sequence of -indiscernibles in a model , which does not have the independence property, and suppose is elementarily equivalent to where is a complete dense linear order and is -saturated. Then -types over are order-definable and if is -saturated, every order preserving permutation of can be extended to a back-and-forth system.

     

Semi-classical limit for random walks

Let be a discrete symmetric random walk on a compact Lie group with step distribution and let be the associated transition operator on . The irreducibles of the left regular representation of on are finite dimensional invariant subspaces for and the spectrum of is the union of the sub-spectra on the irreducibles, which consist of real eigenvalues . Our main result is an asymptotic expansion for the spectral measures

along rays of representations in a positive Weyl chamber , i.e. for sequences of representations , with . As a corollary we obtain some estimates on the spectral radius of the random walk. We also analyse the fine structure of the spectrum for certain random walks on (for which is essentially a direct sum of Harper operators).

     

A reduced Tits quadratic form and tameness of three-partite subamalgams of tiled orders

Let be a complete discrete valuation domain with the unique maximal ideal . We suppose that is an algebra over an algebraically closed field and . Subamalgam -suborders of a tiled -order are studied in the paper by means of the integral Tits quadratic form . A criterion for a subamalgam -order to be of tame lattice type is given in terms of the Tits quadratic form and a forbidden list of minor -suborders of presented in the tables.

     

Homology decompositions for classifying spaces of compact Lie groups

Let be a prime number and be a compact Lie group. A homology decomposition for the classifying space is a way of building up to mod homology as a homotopy colimit of classifying spaces of subgroups of . In this paper we develop techniques for constructing such homology decompositions. Jackowski, McClure and Oliver (Homotopy classification of self-maps of BG via -actions, Ann. of Math. 135 (1992), 183-270) construct a homology decomposition of by classifying spaces of -stubborn subgroups of . Their decomposition is based on the existence of a finite-dimensional mod acyclic --complex with restricted set of orbit types. We apply our techniques to give a parallel proof of the -stubborn decomposition of which does not use this geometric construction.

     

On the endomorphism monoids of (uniquely) complemented lattices

Let be a lattice with and . An endomorphism of is a -endomorphism, if it satisfies and . The -endomorphisms of form a monoid. In 1970, the authors proved that every monoid can be represented as the -endomorphism monoid of a suitable lattice with and . In this paper, we prove the stronger result that the lattice with a given -endomorphism monoid can be constructed as a uniquely complemented lattice; moreover, if is finite, then can be chosen as a finite complemented lattice.

     

Geometric properties of the sections of solutions to the Monge-Ampère equation

In this paper we establish several geometric properties of the cross sections of generalized solutions to the Monge-Ampère equation , when the measure satisfies a doubling property. A main result is a characterization of the doubling measures in terms of a geometric property of the cross sections of . This is used to obtain estimates of the shape and invariance properties of the cross sections that are valid under appropriate normalizations.

     

Principal curvatures of isoparametric hypersurfaces in

Let be an isoparametric hypersurface in , and the inverse image of under the Hopf map. By using the relationship between the eigenvalues of the shape operators of and , we prove that is homogeneous if and only if either or is constant, where is the number of distinct principal curvatures of and is the number of non-horizontal eigenspaces of the shape operator on .

     

The characters of the generalized Steinberg representations of finite general linear groups on the regular elliptic set

Let be a finite field, the degree extension of , and the general linear group with entries in . This paper studies the ``generalized Steinberg" (GS) representations of and proves the equivalence of several different characterizations for this class of representations. As our main result we show that the union of the class of cuspidal and GS representations of is in natural one-one correspondence with the set of Galois orbits of characters of , the regular orbits of course corresponding to the cuspidal representations. Besides using Green's character formulas to define GS representations, we characterize GS representations by associating to them idempotents in certain commuting algebras corresponding to parabolic inductions and by showing that GS representations are the sole components of these induced representations which are ``generic" (have Whittaker vectors).

     

A Palais-Smale approach to problems in Esteban-Lions domains with holes

Let be the upper half strip with a hole. In this paper, we show there exists a positive higher energy solution of semilinear elliptic equations in and describe the dynamic systems of solutions of equation in various . We also show there exist at least two positive solutions of perturbed semilinear elliptic equations in .

     

Jones index theory by Hilbert C-bimodules and K-theory

In this paper we introduce the notion of Hilbert -bimodules, replacing the associativity condition of two-sided inner products in Rieffel's imprimitivity bimodules by a Pimsner-Popa type inequality. We prove Schur's Lemma and Frobenius reciprocity in this setting. We define minimality of Hilbert -bimodules and show that tensor products of minimal bimodules are also minimal. For an - bimodule which is compatible with a trace on a unital -algebra , its dimension (square root of Jones index) depends only on its -class. Finally, we show that the dimension map transforms the Kasparov products in to the product of positive real numbers, and determine the subring of generated by the Hilbert -bimodules for a -algebra generated by Jones projections.