Topology of three-manifolds with positive -scalar curvature

Consider an -dimensional smooth Riemannian manifold with a given smooth measure on it. We call such a triple a Riemannian measure space. Perelman introduced a variant of scalar curvature in his recent work on solving Poincaré's conjecture , where and is the scalar curvature of . In this note, we study the topological obstruction for the -stable minimal submanifold with positive -scalar curvature in dimension three under the setting of manifolds with density.

     

-identities for the Grassmann algebra: The conjecture of Henke and Regev

Let be an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0, and let be the infinite dimensional Grassmann (or exterior) algebra over . Denote by the vector space of the multilinear polynomials of degree in , ..., in the free associative algebra . The symmetric group acts on the left-hand side on , thus turning it into an -module. This fact, although simple, plays an important role in the theory of PI algebras since one may study the identities satisfied by a given algebra by applying methods from the representation theory of the symmetric group. The -modules and are canonically isomorphic. Letting be the alternating group in , one may study and its isomorphic copy in with the corresponding action of . Henke and Regev described the -codimensions of the Grassmann algebra , and conjectured a finite generating set of the -identities for . Here we answer their conjecture in the affirmative.

     

The projective -character bounds the order of a -base

All spaces below are Tychonov. We define the projective - character of a space as the supremum of the values where ranges over all (Tychonov) continuous images of . Our main result says that every space has a -base whose order is ; that is, every point in is contained in at most -many members of the -base. Since for compact , this is a significant generalization of a celebrated result of Shapirovskii.

     

Sign changes of Hecke eigenvalues of Siegel cusp forms of degree

Let , , be the sequence of Hecke eigenvalues of a cuspidal Siegel eigenform of degree . It is proved that if is not in the Maaß space, then there exist infinitely many primes for which the sequence , , has infinitely many sign changes.

     

Maps on the -dimensional subspaces of a Hilbert space preserving principal angles

In a former paper we studied transformations on the set of all -dimensional subspaces of a Hilbert space which preserve the principal angles. In the case when , we could determine the general form of all such maps. The aim of this paper is to complete our result by considering the problem in the remaining case .

     

On the - boundedness of operators

We prove that if is in , is a Banach space, and is a linear operator defined on the space of finite linear combinations of -atoms in with the property that

then admits a (unique) continuous extension to a bounded linear operator from to . We show that the same is true if we replace -atoms by continuous -atoms. This is known to be false for -atoms.

     

Dynamics of the function and the Green-Tao theorem on arithmetic progressions in the primes

Let be the set of all positive integers , where are primes and possibly two, but not all three of them are equal. For any , define a function by where is the largest prime factor of . It is clear that if , then . For any , define , for . An element is semi-periodic if there exists a nonnegative integer and a positive integer such that . We use ind to denote the least such nonnegative integer . Wushi Goldring [Dynamics of the function and primes, J. Number Theory 119(2006), 86-98] proved that any element is semi-periodic. He showed that there exists such that , ind, and conjectured that ind can be arbitrarily large.

In this paper, it is proved that for any we have ind , and the Green-Tao Theorem on arithmetic progressions in the primes is employed to confirm Goldring's above conjecture.

     

A lattice space-time code of rank

For all previous constructions of lattice space-time codes with a positive diversity product, the rank was at most . In this paper, we give an example of a lattice space-time code of rank with a positive diversity product.

     

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 .

     

The effective Chebotarev density theorem and modular forms modulo

Suppose that (resp. ) is a modular form of integral (resp. half-integral) weight with coefficients in the ring of integers of a number field . For any ideal , we bound the first prime for which (resp. ) is zero ( ). Applications include the solution to a question of Ono (2001) concerning partitions.

     

On exceptional eigenvalues of the Laplacian for

An explicit Dirichlet series is obtained, which represents an analytic function of in the half-plane except for having simple poles at points that correspond to exceptional eigenvalues of the non-Euclidean Laplacian for Hecke congruence subgroups by the relation for . Coefficients of the Dirichlet series involve all class numbers of real quadratic number fields. But, only the terms with for sufficiently large discriminants contribute to the residues of the Dirichlet series at the poles , where is the multiplicity of the eigenvalue for . This may indicate (I'm not able to prove yet) that the multiplicity of exceptional eigenvalues can be arbitrarily large. On the other hand, by density theorem the multiplicity of exceptional eigenvalues is bounded above by a constant depending only on .

     

bounds for oscillatory hyper-Hilbert transform along curves

We study the oscillatory hyper-Hilbert transform

(1)

along the curve , where are some real positive numbers. We prove that if , then is bounded on whenever . Furthermore, we also prove that is bounded on when . Our work improves and extends some known results by Chandarana in 1996 and in a preprint. As an application, we obtain an boundedness result for some strongly parabolic singular integrals with rough kernels.

     

First eigenvalue of a Jacobi operator of hypersurfaces with a constant scalar curvature

Let be an -dimensional compact hypersurface with constant scalar curvature , , in a unit sphere . We know that such hypersurfaces can be characterized as critical points for a variational problem of the integral of the mean curvature . In this paper, we first study the eigenvalue of the Jacobi operator of . We derive an optimal upper bound for the first eigenvalue of , and this bound is attained if and only if is a totally umbilical and non-totally geodesic hypersurface or is a Riemannian product , .

     

Polynomials with roots in for all

Let be a monic polynomial in with no rational roots but with roots in for all , or equivalently, with roots mod for all . It is known that cannot be irreducible but can be a product of two or more irreducible polynomials, and that if is a product of irreducible polynomials, then its Galois group must be a union of conjugates of proper subgroups. We prove that for any , every finite solvable group that is a union of conjugates of proper subgroups (where all these conjugates have trivial intersection) occurs as the Galois group of such a polynomial, and that the same result (with ) holds for all Frobenius groups. It is also observed that every nonsolvable Frobenius group is realizable as the Galois group of a geometric, i.e. regular, extension of .

     

Rademacher multiplicator spaces equal to

Let be a rearrangement invariant function space on [0,1]. We consider the Rademacher multiplicator space of measurable functions such that for every a.e. converging series , where are the Rademacher functions. We characterize the situation when . We also discuss the behaviour of partial sums and tails of Rademacher series in function spaces.

     

Spectra of operators with Bishop's property

Let be a Banach space and let be the class that consists of all operators such that for every , the range of has a finite-codimension when it is closed. For an integer , we define the class as an extension of . We then study spectral properties of such operators, and we extend some known results of multi-cyclic operators with .

     

-algebras and quantization of para-Hermitian spaces

In the present note we describe a family of -algebra structures on the set of square integrable functions on a rank-one para-Hermitian symmetric space .

     

On the normal bundle of submanifolds of

Let be a submanifold of dimension of the complex projective space . We prove results of the following type.i) If is irregular and , then the normal bundle is indecomposable. ii) If is irregular, and , then is not the direct sum of two vector bundles of rank . iii) If , and is decomposable, then the natural restriction map is an isomorphism (and, in particular, if is embedded Segre in , then is indecomposable). iv) Let and , and assume that is a direct sum of line bundles; if assume furthermore that is simply connected and is not divisible in . Then is a complete intersection. These results follow from Theorem 2.1 below together with Le Potier's vanishing theorem. The last statement also uses a criterion of Faltings for complete intersection. In the case when this fact was proved by M. Schneider in 1990 in a completely different way.

     

A central set of dimension

The central set of a domain is the set of centers of maximal discs in . Fremlin proved that the central set of a planar domain has zero area and asked whether it can have Hausdorff dimension strictly larger than . We construct a planar domain with central set of Hausdorff dimension .

     

The limiting distribution of the coefficients of the -Catalan numbers

We show that the limiting distributions of the coefficients of the -Catalan numbers and the generalized -Catalan numbers are normal. Despite the fact that these coefficients are not unimodal for small , we conjecture that for sufficiently large , the coefficients are unimodal and even log-concave except for a few terms of the head and tail.