Pro-\mathcal {C} completions of orientable \text{ PD }^3-pairs

Let \({\mathcal {C}}\) be a class of finite groups. We study some sufficient conditions for the pro- \({\mathcal {C}}\) completion of an orientable \(\text{ PD }^3\) -pair over \(\mathbb {Z}\) to be an orientable profinite \(\text{ PD }^3\) -pair over \(\mathbb {F}_p\) . More results are proven for the pro- \(p\) completion of \(\text{ PD }^3\) -pairs.     

L^2-properties of the \overline{\partial } and the \overline{\partial }-Neumann operator on spaces with isolated singularities

Let \(X\) be a Hermitian complex space of pure dimension with only isolated singularities and \(\pi : M\rightarrow X\) a resolution of singularities. Let \(\Omega \subset \subset X\) be a domain with no singularities in the boundary, \(\Omega ^*=\Omega {\setminus }\!{{\mathrm{Sing}}}X\) and \(\Omega '=\pi ^{-1}(\Omega )\) . We relate \(L^2\) -properties of the \(\overline{\partial }\) and the \(\overline{\partial }\) -Neumann operator on \(\Omega ^*\) to properties of the corresponding operators on \(\Omega '\) (where the situation is classically well understood). Outside some middle degrees, there are compact solution operators for the \(\overline{\partial }\) -equation on \(\Omega ^*\) exactly if there are such operators on the resolution \(\Omega '\) , and the \(\overline{\partial }\) -Neumann operator is compact on \(\Omega ^*\) exactly if it is compact on \(\Omega '\) .     

A canonical structure on the tangent bundle of a pseudo- or para-Kähler manifold

It is a classical fact that the cotangent bundle \(T^* {\mathcal {M}}\) of a differentiable manifold \({\mathcal {M}}\) enjoys a canonical symplectic form \(\Omega ^*\) . If \(({\mathcal {M}},\mathrm{J} ,g,\omega )\) is a pseudo-Kähler or para-Kähler \(2n\) -dimensional manifold, we prove that the tangent bundle \(T{\mathcal {M}}\) also enjoys a natural pseudo-Kähler or para-Kähler structure \(({\tilde{\hbox {J}}},\tilde{g},\Omega )\) , where \(\Omega \) is the pull-back by \(g\) of \(\Omega ^*\) and \(\tilde{g}\) is a pseudo-Riemannian metric with neutral signature \((2n,2n)\) . We investigate the curvature properties of the pair \(({\tilde{\hbox {J}}},\tilde{g})\) and prove that: \(\tilde{g}\) is scalar-flat, is not Einstein unless \(g\) is flat, has nonpositive (resp. nonnegative) Ricci curvature if and only if \(g\) has nonpositive (resp. nonnegative) Ricci curvature as well, and is locally conformally flat if and only if \(n=1\) and \(g\) has constant curvature, or \(n>2\) and \(g\) is flat. We also check that (i) the holomorphic sectional curvature of \(({\tilde{\hbox {J}}},\tilde{g})\) is not constant unless \(g\) is flat, and (ii) in \(n=1\) case, that \(\tilde{g}\) is never anti-self-dual, unless conformally flat.     

\mathcal {A}_{p, {\mathbb {E}}} Weights,Maximal Operators,and Hardy Spaces Associated with a Family of General Sets

Suppose that \({\mathbb {E}}:=\{E_r(x)\}_{r\in {\mathcal {I}}, x\in X}\) is a family of open subsets of a topological space \(X\) endowed with a nonnegative Borel measure \(\mu \) satisfying certain basic conditions. We establish an \(\mathcal {A}_{{\mathbb {E}}, p}\) weights theory with respect to \({\mathbb {E}}\) and get the characterization of weighted weak type (1,1) and strong type \((p,p)\) , \(1<p\le \infty \) , for the maximal operator \({\mathcal {M}}_{{\mathbb {E}}}\) associated with \({\mathbb {E}}\) . As applications, we introduce the weighted atomic Hardy space \(H^1_{{\mathbb {E}}, w}\) and its dual \(BMO_{{\mathbb {E}},w}\) , and give a maximal function characterization of \(H^1_{{\mathbb {E}},w}\) . Our results generalize several well-known results.     

Shellability of the higher pinched Veronese posets

The pinched Veronese poset \({\mathcal {V}}^{\bullet }_n\) is the poset with ground set consisting of all nonnegative integer vectors of length \(n\) such that the sum of their coordinates is divisible by \(n\) with exception of the vector \((1,\ldots ,1)\) . For two vectors \(\mathbf {a}\) and \(\mathbf {b}\) in \({\mathcal {V}}^{\bullet }_n\) , we have \(\mathbf {a}\preceq \mathbf {b}\) if and only if \(\mathbf {b}- \mathbf {a}\) belongs to the ground set of \({\mathcal {V}}^{\bullet }_n\) . We show that every interval in \({\mathcal {V}}^{\bullet }_n\) is shellable for \(n \ge 4\) . In order to obtain the result, we develop a new method for showing that a poset is shellable. This method differs from classical lexicographic shellability. Shellability of intervals in \({\mathcal {V}}^{\bullet }_n\) has consequences in commutative algebra. As a corollary, we obtain a combinatorial proof of the fact that the pinched Veronese ring is Koszul for \(n \ge 4\) . (This also follows from a result by Conca, Herzog, Trung, and Valla.)     

The {\mathcal {A}}-Truncated K-Moment Problem

Let \({\mathcal {A}}\subseteq {\mathbb {N}}^n\) be a finite set, and \(K\subseteq {\mathbb {R}}^n\) be a compact semialgebraic set. An \({\mathcal {A}}\) -truncated multisequence ( \({\mathcal {A}}\) -tms) is a vector \(y=(y_{\alpha })\) indexed by elements in \({\mathcal {A}}\) . The \({\mathcal {A}}\) -truncated \(K\) -moment problem ( \({\mathcal {A}}\) -TKMP) concerns whether or not a given \({\mathcal {A}}\) -tms \(y\) admits a \(K\) -measure \(\mu \) , i.e., \(\mu \) is a nonnegative Borel measure supported in \(K\) such that \(y_\alpha = \int _K x^\alpha \mathtt {d}\mu \) for all \(\alpha \in {\mathcal {A}}\) . This paper proposes a numerical algorithm for solving \({\mathcal {A}}\) -TKMPs. It aims at finding a flat extension of \(y\) by solving a hierarchy of semidefinite relaxations \(\{(\mathtt {SDR})_k\}_{k=1}^\infty \) for a moment optimization problem, whose objective \(R\) is generated in a certain randomized way. If \(y\) admits no \(K\) -measures and \({\mathbb {R}}[x]_{{\mathcal {A}}}\) is \(K\) -full (there exists \(p \in {\mathbb {R}}[x]_{{\mathcal {A}}}\) that is positive on \(K\) ), then \((\mathtt {SDR})_k\) is infeasible for all \(k\) big enough, which gives a certificate for the nonexistence of representing measures. If \(y\) admits a \(K\) -measure, then for almost all generated \(R\) , this algorithm has the following properties: i) we can asymptotically get a flat extension of \(y\) by solving the hierarchy \(\{(\mathtt {SDR})_k\}_{k=1}^\infty \) ; ii) under a general condition that is almost sufficient and necessary, we can get a flat extension of \(y\) by solving \((\mathtt {SDR})_k\) for some \(k\) ; iii) the obtained flat extensions admit a \(r\) -atomic \(K\) -measure with \(r\le |{\mathcal {A}}|\) . The decomposition problems for completely positive matrices and sums of even powers of real linear forms, and the standard truncated \(K\) -moment problems, are special cases of \({\mathcal {A}}\) -TKMPs. They can be solved numerically by this algorithm.     

Relatively congruence-free regular semigroups

Yu, Wang, Wu and Ye call a semigroup \(S\) \(\tau \) -congruence-free, where \(\tau \) is an equivalence relation on \(S\) , if any congruence \(\rho \) on \(S\) is either disjoint from \(\tau \) or contains \(\tau \) . A congruence-free semigroup is then just an \(\omega \) -congruence-free semigroup, where \(\omega \) is the universal relation. They determined the completely regular semigroups that are \(\tau \) -congruence-free with respect to each of the Green’s relations. The goal of this paper is to extend their results to all regular semigroups. Such a semigroup is \(\mathrel {\mathcal {J}}\) -congruence-free if and only if it is either a semilattice or has a single nontrivial \(\mathrel {\mathcal {J}}\) -class, \(J\) , say, and either \(J\) is a subsemigroup, in which case it is congruence-free, or otherwise its principal factor is congruence-free. Given the current knowledge of congruence-free regular semigroups, this result is probably best possible. When specialized to completely semisimple semigroups, however, a complete answer is obtained, one that specializes to that of Yu et al. A similar outcome is obtained for \(\mathrel {\mathcal {L}}\) and \(\mathrel {\mathcal {R}}\) . In the case of \(\mathrel {\mathcal {H}}\) , only the completely semisimple case is fully resolved, again specializing to those of Yu et al.     

Classical limit of the tensor product of holomorphic discrete series representations

For three coadjoint orbits \(\mathcal {O}_1, \mathcal {O}_2\) and \(\mathcal {O}_3\) in \(\mathfrak {g}^*\) , the Corwin–Greenleaf function \(n(\mathcal {O}_1 \times \mathcal {O}_2, \mathcal {O}_3)\) is given by the number of \(G\) -orbits in \(\{(\lambda , \mu ) \in \mathcal {O}_1 \times \mathcal {O}_2 \, : \, \lambda + \mu \in \mathcal {O}_3 \}\) under the diagonal action. In the case where \(G\) is a simple Lie group of Hermitian type, we give an explicit formula of \(n(\mathcal {O}_1 \times \mathcal {O}_2, \mathcal {O}_3)\) for coadjoint orbits \(\mathcal {O}_1\) and \(\mathcal {O}_2\) that meet \(\left( [\mathfrak {k}, \mathfrak {k}] + \mathfrak {p}\right) ^{\perp }\) , and show that the formula is regarded as the ‘classical limit’ of a special case of Kobayashi’s multiplicity-free theorem (Progr. Math. 2007) in the branching law to symmetric pairs.     

Stability of contact discontinuity for steady Euler system in infinite duct

In this paper, we prove stability of contact discontinuities for full Euler system. We fix a flat duct ${\mathcal{N}_0}$ of infinite length in ${\mathbb{R}^2}$ with width W ₀ and consider two uniform subsonic flow ${{U_l}^{\pm}=(u_l^{\pm}, 0, pl,\rho_l^{\pm})}$ with different horizontal velocity in ${\mathcal{N}_0}$ divided by a flat contact discontinuity ${\Gamma_{cd}}$ . And, we slightly perturb the boundary of ${\mathcal{N}_0}$ so that the width of the perturbed duct converges to ${W_0+\omega}$ for ${|\omega| < \delta}$ at ${x=\infty}$ for some ${\delta >0 }$ . Then, we prove that if the asymptotic state at left far field is given by ${{U_l}^{\pm}}$ , and if the perturbation of boundary of ${\mathcal{N}_0}$ and ${\delta}$ is sufficiently small, then there exists unique asymptotic state ${{U_r}^{\pm}}$ with a flat contact discontinuity ${\Gamma_{cd}^*}$ at right far field( ${x=\infty}$ ) and unique weak solution ${U}$ of the Euler system so that U consists of two subsonic flow with a contact discontinuity in between, and that U converges to ${{U_l}^{\pm}}$ and ${{U_r}^{\pm}}$ at ${x=-\infty}$ and ${x=\infty}$ respectively. For that purpose, we establish piecewise C ¹ estimate across a contact discontinuity of a weak solution to Euler system depending on the perturbation of ${\partial\mathcal{N}_0}$ and ${\delta}$ .     

Badly approximable points on planar curves and a problem of Davenport

Let \({\mathcal {C}}\) be two times continuously differentiable curve in \({\mathbb {R}}^2\) with at least one point at which the curvature is non-zero. For any \(i,j \geqslant 0\) with \(i+j =1\) , let \({\mathbf {Bad}}(i,j)\) denote the set of points \((x,y) \in {\mathbb {R}}^2\) for which \( \max \{ \Vert qx\Vert ^{1/i}, \, \Vert qy\Vert ^{1/j} \} > c/q \) for all \( q \in {\mathbb {N}}\) . Here \(c = c(x,y)\) is a positive constant. Our main result implies that any finite intersection of such sets with \({\mathcal {C}}\) has full Hausdorff dimension. This provides a solution to a problem of Davenport dating back to the sixties.     

Non-Lipschitz points and the {\textit{SBV}} regularity of the minimum time function

This paper is devoted to the study of the Hausdorff dimension of the singular set of the minimum time function \(T\) under controllability conditions which do not imply the Lipschitz continuity of \(T\) . We consider first the case of normal linear control systems with constant coefficients in \({\mathbb {R}}^N\) . We characterize points around which \(T\) is not Lipschitz as those which can be reached from the origin by an optimal trajectory (of the reversed dynamics) with vanishing minimized Hamiltonian. Linearity permits an explicit representation of such set, that we call \(\mathcal {S}\) . Furthermore, we show that \(\mathcal {S}\) is countably \(\mathcal {H}^{N-1}\) -rectifiable with positive \(\mathcal {H}^{N-1}\) -measure. Second, we consider a class of control-affine planar nonlinear systems satisfying a second order controllability condition: we characterize the set \(\mathcal {S}\) in a neighborhood of the origin in a similar way and prove the \(\mathcal {H}^1\) -rectifiability of \(\mathcal {S}\) and that \(\mathcal {H}^1(\mathcal {S})>0\) . In both cases, \(T\) is known to have epigraph with positive reach, hence to be a locally \(BV\) function (see Colombo et al.: SIAM J Control Optim 44:2285–2299, 2006; Colombo and Nguyen.: Math Control Relat 3: 51–82, 2013). Since the Cantor part of \(DT\) must be concentrated in \(\mathcal {S}\) , our analysis yields that \(T\) is locally \(SBV\) , i.e., the Cantor part of \(DT\) vanishes. Our results imply also that \(T\) is differentiable outside a \(\mathcal {H}^{N-1}\) -rectifiable set. With small changes, our results are valid also in the case of multiple control input.     

Divide and Conquer Roadmap for Algebraic Sets

Let \(\mathrm{R}\) be a real closed field and \(\hbox {D}\subset \mathrm{R}\) an ordered domain. We describe an algorithm that given as input a polynomial \(P \in \hbox {D}[ X_{1} , \ldots ,X_{{ k}} ]\) and a finite set, \(\mathcal {A}= \{ p_{1} , \ldots ,p_{m} \}\) , of points contained in \(V= {\mathrm{{Zer}}} ( P, \mathrm{R}^{{ k}})\) described by real univariate representations, computes a roadmap of \(V\) containing \(\mathcal {A}\) . The complexity of the algorithm, measured by the number of arithmetic operations in \(\hbox {D}\) , is bounded by \(\big ( \sum _{i=1}^{m} D^{O ( \log ^{2} ( k ) )}_{i} +1 \big ) ( k^{\log ( k )} d )^{O ( k\log ^{2} ( k ))}\) , where \(d= \deg ( P )\) and \(D_{i}\) is the degree of the real univariate representation describing the point \(p_{i}\) . The best previous algorithm for this problem had complexity card \(( \mathcal {A} )^{O ( 1 )} d^{O ( k^{3/2} )}\) (Basu et al., ArXiv, 2012), where it is assumed that the degrees of the polynomials appearing in the representations of the points in \(\mathcal {A}\) are bounded by \(d^{O ( k )}\) . As an application of our result we prove that for any real algebraic subset \(V\) of \(\mathbb {R}^{k}\) defined by a polynomial of degree \(d\) , any connected component \(C\) of \(V\) contained in the unit ball, and any two points of \(C\) , there exists a semi-algebraic path connecting them in \(C\) , of length at most \(( k ^{\log (k )} d )^{O ( k\log ( k ) )}\) , consisting of at most \(( k ^{\log (k )} d )^{O ( k\log ( k ) )}\) curve segments of degrees bounded by \(( k ^{\log ( k )} d )^{O ( k \log ( k) )}\) . While it was known previously, by a result of D’Acunto and Kurdyka (Bull Lond Math Soc 38(6):951–965, 2006), that there always exists a path of length \(( O ( d ) )^{k-1}\) connecting two such points, there was no upper bound on the complexity of such a path.     

A Note on Spaces of Absolutely Convergent Fourier Transforms

Let \({\mathcal {F}}f\) be an abolutely convergent Fourier transform on the real line. We extend the following result of K. Karlander to \({\mathbf {R}^{n}}\) for \(n \ge 1\) : Any closed reflexive subspace \(\{ {\mathcal {F}}f \}\) of the space of continuous functions vanishing at infinity is of finite dimension.     

Procrustes Problems and Parseval Quasi-Dual Frames

Parseval frames have particularly useful properties, and in some cases, they can be used to reconstruct signals which were analyzed by a non-Parseval frame. In this paper, we completely describe the degree to which such reconstruction is feasible. Indeed, notice that for fixed frames \({\mathcal{F}}\) and \({\mathcal{X}}\) with synthesis operators F and X, the operator norm of FX ^??I measures the (normalized) worst-case error in the reconstruction of vectors when analyzed with \({\mathcal{X}}\) and synthesized with \({\mathcal{F}}\) . Hence, for any given frame \({\mathcal{F}}\) , we compute explicitly the infimum of the operator norm of FX ^??I, where \({\mathcal{X}}\) is any Parseval frame. The \({\mathcal{X}}\) ’s that minimize this quantity are called Parseval quasi-dual frames of \({\mathcal{F}}\) . Our treatment considers both finite and infinite Parseval quasi-dual frames.     

Sign-changing stationary solutions and blowup for a nonlinear heat equation in dimension two

Consider the nonlinear heat equation $$v_t -\Delta v=|v|^{p-1}v \qquad \qquad \qquad (NLH)$$ in the unit ball of \({\mathbb{R}^2}\) , with Dirichlet boundary condition. Let \({u_{p,\mathcal{K}}}\) be a radially symmetric, sign-changing stationary solution having a fixed number \({\mathcal{K}}\) of nodal regions. We prove that the solution of (NLH) with initial value \({\lambda u_{p,\mathcal{K}}}\) blows up in finite time if |λ ?1| > 0 is sufficiently small and if p is sufficiently large. The proof is based on the analysis of the asymptotic behavior of \({u_{p,\mathcal{K}}}\) and of the linearized operator \({L= -\Delta - p | u_{p,\mathcal{K}} | ^{p-1}}\) .     

The model companion of the class of pseudocomplemented semilattices is finitely axiomatizable

It is shown that the class \({\mathcal{PCSL}^{ec}}\) of existentially closed pseudocomplemented semilattices is finitely axiomatizable by appropriately extending a finite axiomatization of the class \({\mathcal{PCSL}^{ac}}\) of algebraically closed pseudocomplemented semilattices. Because \({\mathcal{PCSL}^{ec}}\) coincides with the model companion of the class \({\mathcal{PCSL}}\) of pseudocomplemented semilattices, this answers the question asked by Albert and Burris in a paper in 1986: “Does the class of pseudocomplemented semilattices have a finitely axiomatizable model companion?"     

Scaling relationship between the copositive cone and Parrilo’s first level approximation

We investigate the relation between the cone ${\mathcal{C}^{n}}$ of n × n copositive matrices and the approximating cone ${\mathcal{K}_{n}^{1}}$ introduced by Parrilo. While these cones are known to be equal for n ≤ 4, we show that for n ≥ 5 they are not equal. This result is based on the fact that ${\mathcal{K}_{n}^{1}}$ is not invariant under diagonal scaling. We show that for any copositive matrix which is not the sum of a nonnegative and a positive semidefinite matrix we can find a scaling which is not in ${\mathcal{K}_{n}^{1}}$ . In fact, we show that if all scaled versions of a matrix are contained in ${\mathcal{K}_{n}^{r}}$ for some fixed r, then the matrix must be in ${\mathcal{K}_{n}^{0}}$ . For the 5 × 5 case, we show the more surprising result that we can scale any copositive matrix X into ${\mathcal{K}_{5}^{1}}$ and in fact that any scaling D such that ${(DXD)_{ii} \in \{0,1\}}$ for all i yields ${DXD \in \mathcal{K}_{5}^{1}}$ . From this we are able to use the cone ${\mathcal{K}_{5}^{1}}$ to check if any order 5 matrix is copositive. Another consequence of this is a complete characterisation of ${\mathcal{C}^{5}}$ in terms of ${\mathcal{K}_{5}^{1}}$ . We end the paper by formulating several conjectures.     

Composition operators acting on Besov spaces on the real line

We study the composition operator \(T_f(g):= f\circ g\) on Besov spaces \(B_{{p},{q}}^{s}(\mathbb{R })\) . In case \(1 < p< +\infty ,\, 0< q \le +\infty \) and \(s>1+ (1/p)\) , we will prove that the operator \(T_f\) maps \(B_{{p},{q}}^{s}(\mathbb{R })\) to itself if, and only if, \(f(0)=0\) and \(f\) belongs locally to \(B_{{p},{q}}^{s}(\mathbb{R })\) . For the case \(p=q\) , i.e., in case of Slobodeckij spaces, we can extend our results from the real line to \(\mathbb{R }^n\) .     

On Extending {\mathcal{A}}-Modules Through the Coefficients

In classical linear algebra, extending the ring of scalars of a free module gives rise to a new free module containing an isomorphic copy of the former and satisfying a certain universal property. Also, given two free modules on the same ring of scalars and a morphism between them, enlarging the ring of scalars results in obtaining a new morphism having the nice property that it coincides with the initial map on the isomorphic copy of the initial free module in the new one. We investigate these problems in the category of free ${\mathcal{A}}$ -modules, where ${\mathcal{A}}$ is an ${\mathbb{R}}$ -algebra sheaf. Complexification of free ${\mathcal{A}}$ -modules, which is defined to be the process of obtaining new free ${\mathcal{A}}$ -modules by enlarging the ${\mathbb{R}}$ -algebra sheaf ${\mathcal{A}}$ to a ${\mathbb{C}}$ -algebra sheaf, denoted ${\mathcal{A}_\mathbb{C}}$ , is an important particular case (see Proposition 2.1, Proposition 3.1). Attention, on the one hand, is drawn on the sub- ${_{\mathbb{R}}\mathcal{A}}$ -sheaf of almost complex structures on the sheaf ${{_\mathbb{R}}\mathcal{A}^{2n}}$ , the underlying ${\mathbb{R}}$ -algebra sheaf of a ${\mathbb{C}}$ -algebra sheaf ${\mathcal{A}}$ , and on the other hand, on the complexification of the functor ${\mathcal{H}om_\mathcal {A}}$ , with ${\mathcal{A}}$ an ${\mathbb{R}}$ -algebra sheaf.     

Trace Formulae for Curvature of Jet Bundles over Planar Domains

For a domain \(\varOmega \) in \(\mathbb {C}\) and an operator \(T\) in \({\mathcal {B}}_n(\varOmega )\) , Cowen and Douglas construct a Hermitian holomorphic vector bundle \(E_T\) over \(\varOmega \) corresponding to \(T\) . The Hermitian holomorphic vector bundle \(E_T\) is obtained as a pull-back of the tautological bundle \(S(n,{\mathcal {H}})\) defined over \({\mathcal {G}}r(n,{\mathcal {H}})\) by a nondegenerate holomorphic map \(z\mapsto {\mathrm{ker}}(T-z),\;z\in \varOmega \) . To find the answer to the converse, Cowen and Douglas studied the jet bundle in their foundational paper. The computations in this paper for the curvature of the jet bundle are rather intricate. They have given a set of invariants to determine if two rank \(n\) Hermitian holomorphic vector bundle are equivalent. These invariants are complicated and not easy to compute. It is natural to expect that the equivalence of Hermitian holomorphic jet bundles should be easier to characterize. In fact, in the case of the Hermitian holomorphic jet bundle \({\mathcal {J}}_k({\mathcal {L}}_f)\) , we have shown that the curvature of the line bundle \({\mathcal {L}}_f\) completely determines the class of \({\mathcal {J}}_k({\mathcal {L}}_f)\) . In case of rank \(n\) Hermitian holomorphic vector bundle \(E_f\) , We have calculated the curvature of jet bundle \({\mathcal {J}}_k(E_f)\) and also obtained a trace formula for jet bundle \({\mathcal {J}}_k(E_f)\) .