On the annihilators and attached primes of top local cohomology modules

Let ${\mathfrak{a}}$ be an ideal of a commutative Noetherian ring R and M a finitely generated R-module. It is shown that ${{\rm Ann}_R(H_{\mathfrak{a}}^{{\rm dim} M}(M))= {\rm Ann}_R(M/T_R(\mathfrak{a}, M))}$ , where ${T_R(\mathfrak{a}, M)}$ is the largest submodule of M such that ${{\rm cd}(\mathfrak{a}, T_R(\mathfrak{a}, M)) < {\rm cd}(\mathfrak{a}, M)}$ . Several applications of this result are given. Among other things, it is shown that there exists an ideal ${\mathfrak{b}}$ of R such that ${{\rm Ann}_R(H_{\mathfrak{a}}^{{\rm dim} M}(M))={\rm Ann}_R(M/H_{\mathfrak{b}}^{0}(M))}$ . Using this, we show that if ${ H_{\mathfrak{a}}^{{\rm dim} R}(R)=0}$ , then ${{{\rm Att}_R} H^{{\rm dim} R-1}_{\mathfrak a}(R)= \{\mathfrak{p} \in {\rm Spec} R | \,{\rm cd}(\mathfrak{a}, R/\mathfrak{p}) = {\rm dim} R-1\}.}$ These generalize the main results of Bahmanpour et al. (see [2, Theorem 2.6]), Hellus (see [7, Theorem 2.3]), and Lynch (see [10, Theorem 2.4]).     

Taketa’s theorem for some character degree sets

Let cd(G) be the set of irreducible complex character degrees of a finite group G. The Taketa problem conjectures that if G is a finite solvable group, then ${{\rm dl}(G) \leqslant |{\rm cd} (G)|}$ , where dl(G) is the derived length of G. In this note, we show that this inequality holds if either all nonlinear irreducible characters of G have even degrees or all irreducible character degrees are odd. Also, we prove that this inequality holds if all irreducible character degrees have exactly the same prime divisors. Finally, Isaacs and Knutson have conjectured that the Taketa problem might be true in a more general setting. In particular, they conjecture that the inequality ${{\rm dl}(N) \leqslant |{\rm cd} {(G \mid N)}|}$ holds for all normal solvable subgroups N of a group G. We show that this conjecture holds if ${{\rm cd} {(G \mid N')}}$ is a set of non-trivial p–powers for some fixed prime p.     

Circular Coloring of Planar Digraphs

Let D be a digraph. The circular chromatic number ${\chi_c(D)}$ and chromatic number ${\chi(D)}$ of D were proposed recently by Bokal et?al. Let ${\vec{\chi_c}(G)={\rm max}\{\chi_c(D)| D\, {\rm is\, an\, orientation\, of} G\}}$ . Let G be a planar graph and n?≥ 2. We prove that if the girth of G is at least ${\frac{10n-5}{3},}$ then ${\vec{\chi_c}(G)\leq \frac{n}{n-1}}$ . We also study the circular chromatic number of some special planar digraphs.     

Nef line bundles on flag bundles on a curve over {\overline{{\mathbb F}}_p}

Let E be a vector bundle of rank r over an irreducible smooth projective curve X defined over the field ${\overline{{\mathbb F}}_p}$ F ¯ p . For fixed integers ${r_1\, , \ldots\, , r_\nu}$ r 1 , ... , r ν with ${1\, \leq\, r_1\, <\, \cdots\, <\, r_\nu\, <\, r}$ 1 ≤ r 1 < ? < r ν < r , let ${\text{Fl}(E)}$ Fl ( E ) be the corresponding flag bundle over X associated to E. Let ${\xi\, \longrightarrow \, {\rm Fl}(E)}$ ξ ? Fl ( E ) be a line bundle such that for every pair of the form ${(C\, ,\phi)}$ ( C , ? ) , where C is an irreducible smooth projective curve defined over ${\overline{\mathbb F}_p}$ F ¯ p and ${\phi\, :\, C\, \longrightarrow\, {\rm Fl}(E)}$ ? : C ? Fl ( E ) is a nonconstant morphism, the inequality ${{\rm degree}(\phi^* \xi)\, > \, 0}$ degree ( ? ? ξ ) > 0 holds. We prove that the line bundle ${\xi}$ ξ is ample.     

Actions infinitésimales dans la correspondance de Langlands locale p-adique

Let V be a two-dimensional absolutely irreducible ${\overline{\mathbb Qp}}$ -representation of ${{\rm Gal}(\overline{\mathbb Qp}/\mathbb Qp)}$ and let ${\prod(V)}$ be the ${{\rm GL}_2(\mathbb Qp)}$ Banach representation associated by Colmez??s p-adic Langlands correspondence. We establish a link between the action of the Lie algebra of ${{\rm GL}_2(\mathbb Qp)}$ on the locally analytic vectors ${\prod(V)^{\rm an}}$ of ${\prod(V)}$ , the connection ${\nabla}$ on the ${(\varphi, \Gamma)}$ -module associated to V and the Sen polynomial of V. This answers a question of Harris, concerning the infinitesimal character of ${\prod(V)^{\rm an}}$ . Using this result, we give a new proof of a theorem of Colmez, stating that ${\prod(V)}$ has nonzero locally algebraic vectors if and only if V is potentially semi-stable with distinct Hodge?CTate weights.     

On uniformly bounded spherical functions in Hilbert space

Let G be a commutative group, written additively, with a neutral element 0, and let K be a finite group. Suppose that K acts on G via group automorphisms ${G \ni a \mapsto ka \in G}$ , ${k \in K}$ . Let ${{\mathfrak{H}}}$ be a complex Hilbert space and let ${{\mathcal L}({\mathfrak{H}})}$ be the algebra of all bounded linear operators on ${{\mathfrak{H}}}$ . A mapping ${u \colon G \to {\mathcal L}({\mathfrak{H}})}$ is termed a K-spherical function if it satisfies (1) ${|K|^{-1} \sum_{k\in K} u (a+kb)=u (a) u (b)}$ for any ${a,b\in G}$ , where |K| denotes the cardinality of K, and (2) ${u (0) = {\rm id}_{\mathfrak {H}},}$ where ${{\rm id}_{\mathfrak {H}}}$ designates the identity operator on ${{\mathfrak{H}}}$ . The main result of the paper is that for each K-spherical function ${u \colon G \to {\mathcal {L}}({\mathfrak {H}})}$ such that ${\| u \|_{\infty} = \sup_{a\in G} \| u (a)\|_{{\mathcal L}({\mathfrak{H}})} < \infty,}$ there is an invertible operator S in ${{\mathcal L}({\mathfrak{H}})}$ with ${\| S \| \, \| S^{-1}\| \leq |K| \, \| u \|_{\infty}^2}$ such that the K-spherical function ${{\tilde{u}} \colon G \to {\mathcal L}({\mathfrak{H}})}$ defined by ${{\tilde{u}}(a) = S u (a) S^{-1},\,a \in G,}$ satisfies ${{\tilde{u}}(-a) = {\tilde{u}}(a)^*}$ for each ${a \in G}$ . It is shown that this last condition is equivalent to insisting that ${{\tilde{u}}(a)}$ be normal for each ${a \in G}$ .     

A decomposition of the universal embedding space for the near polygon {{\mathbb H}_n}

Let ${{\mathbb H}_n, n \geq 1}$ , be the near 2n-gon defined on the 1-factors of the complete graph on 2n?+?2 vertices, and let e denote the absolutely universal embedding of ${{\mathbb H}_n}$ into PG(W), where W is a ${\frac{1}{n+2} \left(\begin{array}{c}2n+2 \\ n+1\end{array}\right)}$ -dimensional vector space over the field ${{\mathbb F}_2}$ with two elements. For every point z of ${{\mathbb H}_n}$ and every ${i \in {\mathbb N}}$ , let Δ _i (z) denote the set of points of ${{\mathbb H}_n}$ at distance i from z. We show that for every pair {x, y} of mutually opposite points of ${{\mathbb H}_n, W}$ can be written as a direct sum ${W_0 \oplus W_1 \oplus \cdots \oplus W_n}$ such that the following four properties hold for every ${i \in \{0,\ldots,n \}}$ : (1) ${\langle e(\Delta_i(x) \cap \Delta_{n-i}(y)) \rangle = {\rm PG}(W_i)}$ ; (2) ${\left\langle e \left( \bigcup_{j \leq i} \Delta_j(x) \right) \right\rangle = {\rm PG}(W_0 \oplus W_1 \oplus \cdots \oplus W_i)}$ ; (3) ${\left\langle e \left( \bigcup_{j \leq i} \Delta_j(y) \right) \right\rangle = {\rm PG}(W_{n-i}\oplus W_{n-i+1} \oplus \cdots \oplus W_n)}$ ; (4) ${\dim(W_i) = |\Delta_i(x) \cap \Delta_{n-i}(y)| = \left(\begin{array}{c}n \\ i\end{array}\right)^2 - \left(\begin{array}{c}n \\ i-1\end{array}\right) \cdot \left(\begin{array}{c}n \\ i+1\end{array}\right)}$ .     

Composed products and factors of cyclotomic polynomials over finite fields

Let q = p ^s be a power of a prime number p and let ${\mathbb {F}_{\rm q}}$ be a finite field with q elements. This paper aims to demonstrate the utility and relation of composed products to other areas such as the factorization of cyclotomic polynomials, construction of irreducible polynomials, and linear recurrence sequences over ${\mathbb {F}_{\rm q}}$ . In particular we obtain the explicit factorization of the cyclotomic polynomial ${\Phi_{2^nr}}$ over ${\mathbb {F}_{\rm q}}$ where both r ≥ 3 and q are odd, gcd(q, r) = 1, and ${n\in \mathbb{N}}$ . Previously, only the special cases when r = 1, 3, 5, had been achieved. For this we make the assumption that the explicit factorization of ${\Phi_r}$ over ${\mathbb {F}_{\rm q}}$ is given to us as a known. Let ${n = p_1^{e_1}p_2^{e_2}\cdots p_s^{e_s}}$ be the factorization of ${n \in \mathbb{N}}$ into powers of distinct primes p _i , 1 ≤ i ≤ s. In the case that the multiplicative orders of q modulo all these prime powers ${p_i^{e_i}}$ are pairwise coprime, we show how to obtain the explicit factors of ${\Phi_{n}}$ from the factors of each ${\Phi_{p_i^{e_i}}}$ . We also demonstrate how to obtain the factorization of ${\Phi_{mn}}$ from the factorization of ${\Phi_n}$ when q is a primitive root modulo m and ${{\rm gcd}(m, n) = {\rm gcd}(\phi(m),{\rm ord}_n(q)) = 1.}$ Here ${\phi}$ is the Euler’s totient function, and ord _n (q) denotes the multiplicative order of q modulo n. Moreover, we present the construction of a new class of irreducible polynomials over ${\mathbb {F}_{\rm q}}$ and generalize a result due to Varshamov (Soviet Math Dokl 29:334–336, 1984).     

On the Intersection of the Normalizers of the \boldsymbol{\cal{F}}-Residuals of Subgroups of a Finite Group

In this paper we give criteria for a finite group to belong to a formation. As applications, recent theorems of Li, Shen, Shi and Qian are generalized. Let G  be a finite group, $\cal F$ a formation and p  a prime. Let $D_{\mathcal {F}}(G)$ be the intersection of the normalizers of the $\cal F$ -residuals of all subgroups of G, and let $D_{\mathcal {F}}^{p}(G)$ be the intersection of the normalizers of $(H^{\cal F}O_{p'}(G))$ for all subgroups H of G. We then define $D_{\mathcal F}^{0}(G)=D_{\mathcal F, p}^{~0}(G)=1$ and $D_{\mathcal F}^{i+1}(G)/D_{\mathcal F}^{i}(G)=D_{\mathcal F}(G/D_{\mathcal F}^{i}(G))$ , $D_{\mathcal F, p}^{i+1}(G)/D_{\mathcal F, p}^{~i}(G)=D_{\mathcal F, p}(G/D_{\mathcal F, p}^{~i}(G))$ . Let $D_{\mathcal {F}}^{\infty}(G)$ and $D_{\mathcal {F}, p}^{~\infty}(G)$ denote the terminal member of the ascending series of $D_{\mathcal F}^{i}(G)$ and $D_{\mathcal F, p}^{~i}(G)$ respectively. In this paper we prove that under certain hypotheses, the the $\cal F$ -residual $G^{\cal F}$ is nilpotent (respectively,p-nilpotent) if and only if $G=D_{\mathcal {F}}^{\infty}(G)$ (respectively, $G=D_{\mathcal {F}, p}^{~\infty}(G)$ ). Further more, if the formation $\cal F$ is either the class of all nilpotent groups or the class of all abelian groups, then $G^{\cal F}$ is p-nilpotent if and only if and only if every cyclic subgroup of G order p and 4 (if p?=?2) is contained in $D_{\mathcal {F}, p}^{~\infty}(G)$ .     

Duality of weighted anisotropic Besov and Triebel–Lizorkin spaces

Let A be an expansive dilation on ${{\mathbb R}^n}$ and w a Muckenhoupt ${\mathcal A_\infty(A)}$ weight. In this paper, for all parameters ${\alpha\in{\mathbb R} }$ and ${p,q\in(0,\infty)}$ , the authors identify the dual spaces of weighted anisotropic Besov spaces ${\dot B^\alpha_{p,q}(A;w)}$ and Triebel?CLizorkin spaces ${\dot F^\alpha_{p,q}(A;w)}$ with some new weighted Besov-type and Triebel?CLizorkin-type spaces. The corresponding results on anisotropic Besov spaces ${\dot B^\alpha_{p,q}(A; \mu)}$ and Triebel?CLizorkin spaces ${\dot F^\alpha_{p,q}(A; \mu)}$ associated with ${\rho_A}$ -doubling measure??? are also established. All results are new even for the classical weighted Besov and Triebel?CLizorkin spaces in the isotropic setting. In particular, the authors also obtain the ${\varphi}$ -transform characterization of the dual spaces of the classical weighted Hardy spaces on ${{\mathbb R}^n}$ .     

Modular Decomposition of the Orlik-Terao Algebra

Let ${\mathcal{A}}$ be a collection of n linear hyperplanes in ${\mathbb{k}^\ell}$ , where ${\mathbb{k}}$ is an algebraically closed field. The Orlik-Terao algebra of ${\mathcal{A}}$ is the subalgebra ${{\rm R}(\mathcal{A})}$ of the rational functions generated by reciprocals of linear forms vanishing on hyperplanes of ${\mathcal{A}}$ . It determines an irreducible subvariety ${Y (\mathcal{A})}$ of ${\mathbb{P}^{n-1}}$ . We show that a flat X of ${\mathcal{A}}$ is modular if and only if ${{\rm R}(\mathcal{A})}$ is a split extension of the Orlik-Terao algebra of the subarrangement ${\mathcal{A}_X}$ . This provides another refinement of Stanley’s modular factorization theorem [34] and a new characterization of modularity, similar in spirit to the fibration theorem of [27]. We deduce that if ${\mathcal{A}}$ is supersolvable, then its Orlik-Terao algebra is Koszul. In certain cases, the algebra is also a complete intersection, and we characterize when this happens.     

Cops and Robber Game with a Fast Robber on Expander Graphs and Random Graphs

We consider a variant of the Cops and Robber game, in which the robber has unbounded speed, i.e., can take any path from her vertex in her turn, but she is not allowed to pass through a vertex occupied by a cop. Let ${c_{\infty}(G)}$ denote the number of cops needed to capture the robber in a graph G in this variant. We characterize graphs G with c _??(G) =? 1, and give an ${O( \mid V(G)\mid^2)}$ algorithm for their detection. We prove a lower bound for c _?? of expander graphs, and use it to prove three things. The first is that if ${np \geq 4.2 {\rm log}n}$ then the random graph ${G= \mathcal{G}(n, p)}$ asymptotically almost surely has ${\eta_{1}/p \leq \eta_{2}{\rm log}(np)/p}$ , for suitable positive constants ${\eta_{1}}$ and ${\eta_{2}}$ . The second is that a fixed-degree random regular graph G with n vertices asymptotically almost surely has ${c_{\infty}(G) = \Theta(n)}$ . The third is that if G is a Cartesian product of m paths, then ${n/4km^2 \leq c_{\infty}(G) \leq n/k}$ , where ${n = \mid V(G)\mid}$ and k is the number of vertices of the longest path.     

SIP: critical value functions have finite modulus of non-convexity

We consider semi-infinite programming problems ${{\rm SIP}(z)}$ depending on a finite dimensional parameter ${z \in \mathbb{R}^p}$ . Provided that ${\bar{x}}$ is a strongly stable stationary point of ${{\rm SIP}(\bar{z})}$ , there exists a locally unique and continuous stationary point mapping ${z \mapsto x(z)}$ . This defines the local critical value function ${\varphi(z) := f(x(z); z)}$ , where ${x \mapsto f(x; z)}$ denotes the objective function of ${{\rm SIP}(z)}$ for a given parameter vector ${z\in \mathbb{R}^p}$ . We show that ${\varphi}$ is the sum of a convex function and a smooth function. In particular, this excludes the appearance of negative kinks in the graph of ${\varphi}$ .     

Tate Homology of Modules of Finite Gorenstein Flat Dimension

We introduce and investigate Tate homology $\widehat{{\mbox{\rm tor}}}$ of modules of finite Gorenstein flat dimension. In particular, we show that over a right coherent ring R, $\widehat{{\mbox{\rm tor}}}_{i}^{R}(M,N)\cong\widehat{{\mbox{\rm Tor}}}_{i}^{R}(M,N)$ for any right R-module M of finite Gorenstein projective dimension, any R-module N of finite Gorenstein flat dimension and any i?∈??. We also study the Tate homology $\widehat{{\mbox{\rm tor}}}$ of a cotorsion module of finite Gorenstein flat dimension in the paper.     

Fixed point homomorphisms for parameterized maps

Let X be an ANR (absolute neighborhood retract), ${\Lambda}$ a k-dimensional topological manifold with topological orientation ${\eta}$ , and ${f : D \rightarrow X}$ a locally compact map, where D is an open subset of ${X \times \Lambda}$ . We define Fix(f) as the set of points ${{(x, \lambda) \in D}}$ such that ${x = f(x, \lambda)}$ . For an open pair (U, V) in ${X \times \Lambda}$ such that ${{\rm Fix}(f) \cap U \backslash V}$ is compact we construct a homomorphism ${\Sigma_{(f,U,V)} : H^{k}(U, V ) \rightarrow R}$ in the singular cohomologies H* over a ring-with-unit R, in such a way that the properties of Solvability, Excision and Naturality, Homotopy Invariance, Additivity, Multiplicativity, Normalization, Orientation Invariance, Commutativity, Contraction, Topological Invariance, and Ring Naturality hold. In the case of a ${C^{\infty}}$ -manifold ${\Lambda}$ , these properties uniquely determine ${\Sigma}$ . By passing to the direct limit of ${\Sigma_{(f,U,V)}}$ with respect to the pairs (U, V) such that ${K = {\rm Fix}(f) \cap U \backslash V}$ , we define a homomorphism ${\sigma_{(f,K)} : {H}_{k}({\rm Fix}(f), Fix(f) \backslash K) \rightarrow R}$ in the ?ech cohomologies. Properties of ${\Sigma}$ and ${\sigma}$ are equivalent each to the other. We indicate how the homomorphisms generalize the fixed point index.     

Irregular and Singular Loci of Commuting Varieties

Let $ {\user1{\mathcal{C}}} $ be the commuting variety of the Lie algebra $ \mathfrak{g} $ of a connected noncommutative reductive algebraic group G over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. Let $ {\user1{\mathcal{C}}}^{{{\text{sing}}}} $ be the singular locus of $ {\user1{\mathcal{C}}} $ and let $ {\user1{\mathcal{C}}}^{{{\text{irr}}}} $ be the locus of points whose G-stabilizers have dimension > rk G. We prove that: (a) $ {\user1{\mathcal{C}}}^{{{\text{sing}}}} $ is a nonempty subset of $ {\user1{\mathcal{C}}}^{{{\text{irr}}}} $ ; (b) $ {\text{codim}}_{{\user1{\mathcal{C}}}} \,{\user1{\mathcal{C}}}^{{{\text{irr}}}} = 5 - {\text{max}}\,l{\left( \mathfrak{a} \right)} $ where the maximum is taken over all simple ideals $ \mathfrak{a} $ of $ \mathfrak{g} $ and $ l{\left( \mathfrak{a} \right)} $ is the “lacety” of $ \mathfrak{a} $ ; and (c) if $ \mathfrak{t} $ is a Cartan subalgebra of $ \mathfrak{g} $ and $ \alpha \in \mathfrak{t}^{*} $ root of $ \mathfrak{g} $ with respect to $ \mathfrak{t} $ , then $ \overline{{G{\left( {{\text{Ker}}\,\alpha \times {\text{Ker }}\alpha } \right)}}} $ is an irreducible component of $ {\user1{\mathcal{C}}}^{{{\text{irr}}}} $ of codimension 4 in $ {\user1{\mathcal{C}}} $ . This yields the bound $ {\text{codim}}_{{\user1{\mathcal{C}}}} \,{\user1{\mathcal{C}}}^{{{\text{sing}}}} \geqslant 5 - {\text{max}}\,l{\left( \mathfrak{a} \right)} $ and, in particular, $ {\text{codim}}_{{\user1{\mathcal{C}}}} \,{\user1{\mathcal{C}}}^{{{\text{sing}}}} \geqslant 2 $ . The latter may be regarded as an evidence in favor of the known longstanding conjecture that $ {\user1{\mathcal{C}}} $ is always normal. We also prove that the algebraic variety $ {\user1{\mathcal{C}}} $ is rational.     

Characterization of some simple groups by the multiplicity pattern

Let $G$ be a finite group and let ${\mathrm{Irr}}(G)$ denote the set of all complex irreducible characters of $G.$ Let ${\mathrm{cd}}(G)$ be the set of all character degrees of $G.$ For each positive integer $d,$ the multiplicity of $d$ in $G$ is defined to be the number of irreducible characters of $G$ having the same degree $d.$ The multiplicity pattern ${\mathrm{mp}}(G)$ is the vector whose first coordinate is $|G:G^{\prime }|$ and for $i\ge 1,$ the $(i+1)$ th-coordinate of ${\mathrm{mp}}(G)$ is the multiplicity of the $i$ th-smallest nontrivial character degree of $G.$ In this paper, we show that every nonabelian simple group with at most $7$ distinct character degrees is uniquely determined by the multiplicity pattern.     

Twisted L-Functions Over Number Fields and Hilbert’s Eleventh Problem

Let K be a totally real number field, π an irreducible cuspidal representation of ${{\rm GL}_{2}(K){\backslash}{\rm GL}_{2}(\mathbb{A}K)}$ with unitary central character, and χ a Hecke character of conductor ${\mathfrak{q}}$ . Then ${L(1/2, \pi\oplus\chi) \ll (\mathcal{N}\mathfrak{q})^{\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{8}(1-2\theta)+\epsilon}}$ , where 0 ≤ θ ≤ 1/2 is any exponent towards the Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture (θ =  1/9 is admissible). The proof is based on a spectral decomposition of shifted convolution sums and a generalized Kuznetsov formula.     

On 2-Systoles of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds

We investigate the geometry of π ₁-injective surfaces in closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. First we prove that for any ${\epsilon > 0}$ , if the manifold M has sufficiently large systole sys₁(M), the genus of any such surface in M is bounded below by ${{\rm exp}((\frac{1}{2} - \epsilon){\rm sys}_1(M))}$ . Using this result we show, in particular, that for congruence covers M _i → M of a compact arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifold we have: (a) the minimal genus of π ₁-injective surfaces satisfies ${{\rm log} \, {\rm sysg}(M_i) \gtrsim \frac{1}{3} {\rm log} \, {\rm vol}(M_i) ; (b)}$ there exist such sequences with the ratio Heegard ${{\rm genus}(M_i)/{\rm sysg}(M_i) \gtrsim {\rm vol}(M_i)^{1/2}}$ ; and (c) under some additional assumptions π ₁(M _i ) is k-free with ${{\rm log} \, k \gtrsim \frac{1}{3}{\rm sys}_1(M_i)}$ . The latter resolves a special case of a conjecture of Gromov.