Characterizations of spectra with -injective cohomology which satisfy the Brown-Gitler property

We work in the stable homotopy category of -complete connective spectra having mod homology of finite type. means cohomology with coefficients, and is a left module over the Steenrod algebra .

A spectrum is called spacelike if it is a wedge summand of a suspension spectrum, and a spectrum satisfies the Brown-Gitler property if the natural map is onto, for all spacelike .

It is known that there exist spectra satisfying the Brown-Gitler property, and with isomorphic to the injective envelope of in the category of unstable -modules.

Call a spectrum standard if it is a wedge of spectra of the form , where is a stable wedge summand of the classifying space of some elementary abelian -group. Such spectra have -injective cohomology, and all -injectives appear in this way.

Working directly with the two properties of stated above, we clarify and extend earlier work by many people on Brown-Gitler spectra. Our main theorem is that, if is a spectrum with -injective cohomology, the following conditions are equivalent:

(A) there exist a spectrum whose cohomology is a reduced -injective and a map that is epic in cohomology, (B) there exist a spacelike spectrum and a map that is epic in cohomology, (C) is monic in cohomology, (D) satisfies the Brown-Gitler property, (E) is spacelike, (F) is standard. ( is reduced if it has no nontrivial submodule which is a suspension.)

As an application, we prove that the Snaith summands of are Brown-Gitler spectra-a new result for the most interesting summands at odd primes. Another application combines the theorem with the second author's work on the Whitehead conjecture.

Of independent interest, enroute to proving that (B) implies (C), we prove that the homology suspension has the following property: if an -connected space admits a map to an -fold suspension that is monic in mod homology, then is onto in mod homology.

     

Embeddings in generalized manifolds

We prove that a ()-connected map from a compact PL -manifold to a generalized -manifold with the disjoint disks property, , is homotopic to a tame embedding. There is also a controlled version of this result, as well as a version for noncompact and proper maps that are properly ()-connected. The techniques developed lead to a general position result for arbitrary maps , , and a Whitney trick for separating submanifolds of that have intersection number 0, analogous to the well-known results when is a manifold.

     

Positive definite spherical functions on Olshanskii domains

Let be a simply connected complex Lie group with Lie algebra , a real form of , and the analytic subgroup of corresponding to . The symmetric space together with a -invariant partial order is referred to as an Olshanskii space. In a previous paper we constructed a family of integral spherical functions on the positive domain of . In this paper we determine all of those spherical functions on which are positive definite in a certain sense.

     

Sums of squares of regular functions on real algebraic varieties

Let be an affine algebraic variety over (or any other real closed field ). We ask when it is true that every positive semidefinite (psd) polynomial function on is a sum of squares (sos). We show that for the answer is always negative if has a real point. Also, if is a smooth non-rational curve all of whose points at infinity are real, the answer is again negative. The same holds if is a smooth surface with only real divisors at infinity. The ``compact' case is harder. We completely settle the case of smooth curves of genus : If such a curve has a complex point at infinity, then every psd function is sos, provided the field is archimedean. If is not archimedean, there are counter-examples of genus .

     

Double coset density in classical algebraic groups

We classify all pairs of reductive maximal connected subgroups of a classical algebraic group that have a dense double coset in . Using this, we show that for an arbitrary pair of reductive subgroups of a reductive group satisfying a certain mild technical condition, there is a dense -double coset in precisely when is a factorization.

     

A bracket power characterization of analytic spread one ideals

The main theorem characterizes, in terms of bracket powers, analytic spread one ideals in local rings. Specifically, let be regular nonunits in a local (Noetherian) ring and assume that , the integral closure of , where . Then the main result shows that for all but finitely many units in that are non-congruent modulo and for all large integers and it holds that for and not divisible by , where is the -th bracket power of . And, conversely, if there exist positive integers , , and such that has a basis such that , then has analytic spread one.

     

A construction of homologically area minimizing hypersurfaces with higher dimensional singular sets

We show that a large variety of singular sets can occur for homologically area minimizing codimension one surfaces in a Riemannian manifold. In particular, as a result of Theorem A, if is smooth, compact dimensional manifold, , and if is an embedded, orientable submanifold of dimension , then we construct metrics on such that the homologically area minimizing hypersurface , homologous to , has a singular set equal to a prescribed number of spheres and tori of codimension less than . Near each component of the singular set, is isometric to a product , where is any prescribed, strictly stable, strictly minimizing cone. In Theorem B, other singular examples are constructed.

     

Hankel Operators on Bounded Analytic Functions

For a domain in the complex plane and a bounded measurable function on , the generalized Hankel operator on is the operator of multiplication by followed by projection into . Under certain conditions on we show that either is compact or there is an embedded on which is bicontinuous. We characterize those 's for which is compact in the case that is a Behrens roadrunner domain.

     

Building blocks for Quadratic Julia sets

We obtain results on the structure of the Julia set of a quadratic polynomial with an irrationally indifferent fixed point in the iterative dynamics of . In the Cremer point case, under the assumption that the Julia set is a decomposable continuum, we obtain a building block structure theorem for the corresponding Julia set : there exists a nowhere dense subcontinuum such that , is the union of the impressions of a minimally invariant Cantor set of external rays, contains the critical point, and contains both the Cremer point and its preimage. In the Siegel disk case, under the assumption that no impression of an external ray contains the boundary of the Siegel disk, we obtain a similar result. In this case contains the boundary of the Siegel disk, properly if the critical point is not in the boundary, and contains no periodic points. In both cases, the Julia set is the closure of a skeleton which is the increasing union of countably many copies of the building block joined along preimages of copies of a critical continuum containing the critical point. In addition, we prove that if is any polynomial of degree with a Siegel disk which contains no critical point on its boundary, then the Julia set is not locally connected. We also observe that all quadratic polynomials which have an irrationally indifferent fixed point and a locally connected Julia set have homeomorphic Julia sets.

     

Banach spaces with the Daugavet property

A Banach space is said to have the Daugavet property if every operator of rank satisfies . We show that then every weakly compact operator satisfies this equation as well and that contains a copy of . However, need not contain a copy of . We also study pairs of spaces and operators satisfying , where is the natural embedding. This leads to the result that a Banach space with the Daugavet property does not embed into a space with an unconditional basis. In another direction, we investigate spaces where the set of operators with is as small as possible and give characterisations in terms of a smoothness condition.

     

Sheared algebra maps and operation bialgebras for mod 2 homology and cohomology

The mod 2 Steenrod algebra and Dyer-Lashof algebra have both striking similarities and differences arising from their common origins in ``lower-indexed' algebraic operations. These algebraic operations and their relations generate a bigraded bialgebra , whose module actions are equivalent to, but quite different from, those of and . The exact relationships emerge as ``sheared algebra bijections', which also illuminate the role of the cohomology of . As a bialgebra, has a particularly attractive and potentially useful structure, providing a bridge between those of and , and suggesting possible applications to the Miller spectral sequence and the structure of Dickson algebras.

     

Tight closure, plus closure and Frobenius closure in cubical cones

We consider tight closure, plus closure and Frobenius closure in the rings , where is a field of characteristic and . We use a -grading of these rings to reduce questions about ideals in the quotient rings to questions about ideals in the regular ring . We show that Frobenius closure is the same as tight closure in certain classes of ideals when . Since , we conclude that for these ideals. Using injective modules over the ring , the union of all th roots of elements of , we reduce the question of whether for -graded ideals to the case of -graded irreducible modules. We classify the irreducible -primary -graded ideals. We then show that for most irreducible -primary -graded ideals in , where is a field of characteristic and . Hence for these ideals.

     

Finite groups of matrices over group rings

We investigate certain finite subgroups of , where is a finite nilpotent group. Such a group gives rise to a -module; we study the characters of these modules to limit the structure of . We also exhibit some exotic subgroups .

     

The spectrum of infinite regular line graphs

Let be an infinite -regular graph and its line graph. We consider discrete Laplacians on and , and show the exact relation between the spectrum of and that of . Our method is also applicable to -semiregular graphs, subdivision graphs and para-line graphs.

     

Random intersections of thick Cantor sets

Let , be Cantor sets embedded in the real line, and let , be their respective thicknesses. If , then it is well known that the difference set is a disjoint union of closed intervals. B. Williams showed that for some , it may be that is as small as a single point. However, the author previously showed that generically, the other extreme is true; contains a Cantor set for all in a generic subset of . This paper shows that small intersections of thick Cantor sets are also rare in the sense of Lebesgue measure; if , then contains a Cantor set for almost all in .

     

Asymptotics toward the planar rarefaction wave for viscous conservation law in two space dimensions

This paper is concerned with the asymptotic behavior of the solution toward the planar rarefaction wave connecting and for the scalar viscous conservation law in two space dimensions. We assume that the initial data tends to constant states as , respectively. Then, the convergence rate to of the solution is investigated without the smallness conditions of and the initial disturbance. The proof is given by elementary -energy method.

     

Orbit equivalence of global attractors of semilinear parabolic differential equations

We consider global attractors of dissipative parabolic equations

on the unit interval with Neumann boundary conditions. A permutation is defined by the two orderings of the set of (hyperbolic) equilibrium solutions according to their respective values at the two boundary points and We prove that two global attractors, and , are globally orbit equivalent, if their equilibrium permutations and coincide. In other words, some discrete information on the ordinary differential equation boundary value problem characterizes the attractor of the above partial differential equation, globally, up to orbit preserving homeomorphisms.

     

A new result on the Pompeiu problem

A nonempty bounded open set () is said to have the Pompeiu property if and only if the only continuous function on for which the integral of over is zero for all rigid motions of is . We consider a nonempty bounded open set with Lipschitz boundary and we assume that the complement of is connected. We show that the failure of the Pompeiu property for implies some geometric conditions. Using these conditions we prove that a special kind of solid tori in , , has the Pompeiu property. So far the result was proved only for solid tori in . We also examine the case of planar domains. Finally we extend the example of solid tori to domains in bounded by hypersurfaces of revolution.

     

Projective manifolds with small pluridegrees

Let be a very ample line bundle on a connected complex projective manifold of dimension . Except for a short list of degenerate pairs , and there exists a morphism expressing as the blowup of a projective manifold at a finite set , with nef and big for the ample line bundle . The projective geometry of is largely controlled by the pluridegrees for , of . For example, , where is the genus of a curve section of , and is equal to the self-intersection of the canonical divisor of the minimal model of a surface section of . In this article, a detailed analysis is made of the pluridegrees of . The restrictions found are used to give a new lower bound for the dimension of the space of sections of . The inequalities for the pluridegrees, that are presented in this article, will be used in a sequel to study the sheet number of the morphism associated to .