A lower bound for the equilateral number of normed spaces

We show that if the Banach-Mazur distance between an -dimensional normed space and is at most , then there exist equidistant points in . By a well-known result of Alon and Milman, this implies that an arbitrary -dimensional normed space admits at least equidistant points, where is an absolute constant. We also show that there exist equidistant points in spaces sufficiently close to , .

     

Rademacher bounded families of operators on

We give a characterization of R-bounded families of operators on We then use this result to study sectorial operators on . We show that if is an R-sectorial operator on , then, for any there is an invertible operator with such that for some strictly positive Borel function , contains the weighted -space

     

Julia sets converging to the unit disk

We consider the family of rational maps , where and is small. If is equal to 0, the limiting map is and the Julia set is the unit circle. We investigate the behavior of the Julia sets of when tends to 0, obtaining two very different cases depending on and . The first case occurs when ; here the Julia sets of converge as sets to the closed unit disk. In the second case, when one of or is larger than , there is always an annulus of some fixed size in the complement of the Julia set, no matter how small is.

     

Approximation of holomorphic maps with a lower bound on the rank

Let be a closed polydisc or ball in , and let be a quasi-projective algebraic manifold which is Zariski locally equivalent to , or a complement of an algebraic subvariety of codimension in such a manifold. If is an integer satisfying , then every holomorphic map from a neighborhood of to with rank at every point of can be approximated uniformly on by entire maps with rank at every point of .

     

Nayatani's metric and conformal transformations of a Kleinian manifold

According to Schoen and Yau (1988), an extensive class of conformally flat manifolds is realized as Kleinian manifolds. Nayatani (1997) constructed a metric on a Kleinian manifold which is compatible with the canonical flat conformal structure. He showed that this metric has a large symmetry if is a complete metric. Under certain assumptions including the completeness of , the isometry group of coincides with the conformal transformation group of . In this paper, we show that may have a large symmetry even if is not complete. In particular, every conformal transformation is an isometry when corresponds to a geometrically finite Kleinian group.

     

Subgroups generated by small classes in finite groups

Let be the subgroup of generated by all elements that lie in conjugacy classes of the two smallest sizes. Avinoam Mann showed that if is nilpotent, then has nilpotence class at most . Using a slight variation on Mann's methods, we obtain results that do not require us to assume that is nilpotent. We show that if is supersolvable, then is nilpotent with class at most , and in general, the Fitting subgroup of has class at most .

     

A remark on irregularity of the -Neumann problem on non-smooth domains

It is an observation due to J. J. Kohn that for a smooth bounded pseudoconvex domain in there exists such that the -Neumann operator on maps (the space of -forms with coefficient functions in -Sobolev space of order ) into itself continuously. We show that this conclusion does not hold without the smoothness assumption by constructing a bounded pseudoconvex domain in , smooth except at one point, whose -Neumann operator is not bounded on for any .

     

Algebraic characterizations of measure algebras

We present necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a countably additive measure on a Boolean -algebra. For instance, a Boolean -algebra is a measure algebra if and only if is the union of a chain of sets such that for every ,

(i)

every antichain in has at most elements (for some integer ),

(ii)

if is a sequence with for each , then , and

(iii)

for every , if is a sequence with , then for eventually all , .

The chain is essentially unique.

     

Submanifolds of real algebraic varieties

By the Nash-Tognoli theorem, each compact smooth manifold is diffeomorphic to a nonsingular real algebraic set, called an algebraic model of . We construct algebraic models of with controlled behavior of the group of cohomology classes represented by algebraic subsets of .

     

A note on the injective dimension of local cohomology modules

For a Noetherian ring we call an -module cofinite if there exists an ideal of such that is -cofinite; we show that every cofinite module satisfies . As an application we study the question which local cohomology modules satisfy . There are two situations where the answer is positive. On the other hand, we present two counterexamples, the failure in these two examples coming from different reasons.

     

Detecting completeness from Ext-vanishing

Motivated by work of C. U. Jensen, R.-O. Buchweitz, and H. Flenner, we prove the following result. Let be a commutative noetherian ring and an ideal in the Jacobson radical of . Let be the -adic completion of . If is a finitely generated -module such that for all , then is -adically complete.

     

Uniqueness of structures for connective covers

We refine our earlier work on the existence and uniqueness of structures on -theoretic spectra to show that the connective versions of real and complex -theory as well as the connective Adams summand at each prime have unique structures as commutative -algebras. For the -completion we show that the McClure-Staffeldt model for is equivalent as an ring spectrum to the connective cover of the periodic Adams summand . We establish a Bousfield equivalence between the connective cover of the Lubin-Tate spectrum and .

     

Large groups and their periodic quotients

We first give a short group theoretic proof of the following result of Lackenby. If is a large group, is a finite index subgroup of admitting an epimorphism onto a non-cyclic free group, and are elements of , then the quotient of by the normal subgroup generated by is large for all but finitely many . In the second part of this note we use similar methods to show that for every infinite sequence of primes , there exists an infinite finitely generated periodic group with descending normal series , such that and is either trivial or abelian of exponent .

     

Bounds of divided universal Bernoulli numbers and universal Kummer congruences

Let be a prime. We obtain good bounds for the -adic sizes of the coefficients of the divided universal Bernoulli number when is divisible by . As an application, we give a simple proof of Clarke's 1989 universal von Staudt theorem. We also establish the universal Kummer congruences modulo for the divided universal Bernoulli numbers for the case , which is a new result.

     

Extreme points, exposed points, differentiability points in CL-spaces

This paper presents a property of geometric and topological nature of Gateaux differentiability points and Fréchet differentiability points of almost CL-spaces. More precisely, if we denote by a maximal convex set of the unit sphere of a CL-space , and by the cone generated by , then all Gateaux differentiability points of are just n-s, and all Fréchet differentiability points of are (where n-s denotes the non-support points set of ).

     

A new construction of the unstable manifold for the measure-preserving Hénon map

Let denote the measure-preserving Hénon map with the parameter . The map has a hyperbolic fixed point . The main result of this paper is that the unstable mainfold of is the iterated limit of a very simple set. Informally,

where is the line and denotes the unstable manifold of .

     

Counting cusps of subgroups of

Let be a number field with real places and complex places, and let be the ring of integers of . The quotient has cusps, where is the class number of . We show that under the assumption of the generalized Riemann hypothesis that if is not or an imaginary quadratic field and if , then has infinitely many maximal subgroups with cusps. A key element in the proof is a connection to Artin's Primitive Root Conjecture.

     

On Faltings' annihilator theorem

In the present article, the author shows that Faltings' annihilator theorem holds for any Noetherian ring if is universally catenary; all the formal fibers of all the localizations of  are Cohen-Macaulay; and the Cohen-Macaulay locus of each finitely generated -algebra is open.

     

A group structure on squares

We show that there is an abelian group structure on the orbit set of ``squares' of unimodular rows of length over a commutative ring of stable dimension when , odd and also an abelian group structure on the orbit set of ``fourth powers' of unimodular rows of length over a commutative ring of stable dimension when , even.