Three-bridge links with infinitely many three-bridge spheres

We construct infinitely many three-bridge links each of which admits infinitely many three-bridge spheres up to isotopy.     

Examples of isolated surface singularities whose links have infinitely many symplectic fillings

For certain classes of isolated complex surface singularities, it is shown that there exist infinitely many distinct topological types of minimal symplectic fillings of the link of the singularity.     

Interpolation of entire functions with infinitely many nodes

A method is described for the construction of an interpolating entire function for any countable set of interpolation nodes without condensation points in a finite domain, given the values of the function and its derivative at the interpolation nodes.Kiev University. Translated from Vychislitel'naya i Prikladnaya Matematika, No. 75, pp. 26–34, 1991.     

Existence of equilibrium for economies with infinitely many commodities and infinitely countable consumers

This paper examines the existence of equilibria for double infinite eonomies. S.F. Richard and S. Srivastava have established the existence of equilibria for economies with infinitely countable consumers when commodity space isL ^∞ (M, M, μ). However, most Banach Lattices as commodity spaces haven’t interior points in their positive cones, so their result can’t be applied to many cases. We here consider a general Banach Lattice as commodity space and introduce a concept of equiproperness on preferences. Under the assumption the existence of equilibrium for economy is established. Finally, we examine the existence of equilibria for production economies.     

Groups with infinitely many types of fixed subgroups

It is a theorem of Shor that ifG is a word-hyperbolic group, then up to isomrphism, only finitely many groups appear as fixed subgroups of automorphisms ofG. We give an example of a groupG acting freely and cocompactly on a CAT(0) square complex such that infinitely many non-isomorphic groups appear as fixed subgroups of automorphisms ofG. Consequently, Shor’s finiteness result does not hold if the negative curvature condition is relaxed to either biautomaticity or nonpositive curvature. D. T. Wise was supported by grants from FCAR and NSERC.     

Free probability on algebras with infinitely many states

We study noncommutative probability spaces endowed with infinite sequences of states. Following ideas of Cabanal-Duvillard we extend the notion of conditional freeness. Free product of such spaces is justified by constructing an appropriate ⋆-representation. Finally, we provide limit theorems and describe the sequences of orthogonal polynomials related to the limit measures. Received: 4 November 1998 / Revised version: 22 April 1999     

Essential tori in 3-string free tangle decompositions of links

The author characterizes those link types which have 3-string essential free tangle decompositions and have essential tori in their exteriors.     

Matrices of completely Ramsey sets with infinitely many rows

The main result of the present article is the following: Let N be an infinite subset of , , and let be a matrix with infinitely many rows of completely Ramsey subsets of such that for every n, . Then there exist , a sequence of nonempty finite subsets of N, and an infinite subset T of such that for every infinite subset I of . We also give an application of this result to partitions of an uncountable analytic subset of a Polish space X into sets belonging to the σ‐algebra generated by the analytic subsets of X.     

Values and cores of fuzzy games with infinitely many players

The problem of the existence ofvalues (FA-valued, linear, positive, symmetric and efficient operators) on symmetric spaces of “fuzzy games” (that is, ideal set functions of bounded variation) arises naturally from [8], [18], [23] and [2], [3], [4] where it is implicitely approached for technical purposes. In our present work, this problem is approached in itself for the main reason that it is essentially related with the problem of the existence of significant countable additive measures lying in the cores of the “market games”. In fact, it is shown here that there exists a continuous value on the closed subspacebv′ICA ofIBV spanned by thebv′ functions of “fuzzy probability measures” ([9]), this values is “diagonal” onpICA, the closed subspace ofbv′ICA spanned by the natural powers of the fuzzy measures and this is used to prove the main result stating that the cooperative markets contained inpICA have unique fuzzy measures in their cores which are exactly the corresponding diagonal values. This result is of interest because it is providing a tool of determiningCA measures lying in the cores of large classes of games which are not necessarily “non-atomic” and, specially, because it is opening a way toward a new approach of the “Value Equivalence Principle” for differentiable markets with a continuum of traders which are not “perfectly competitive”.     

Reducing a Representation of Homotopy 3-spheres

In the present note we show that a representation of homotopy 3-spheres can be somewhat simplified under some circumstances.     

On the Gauss map of hypersurfaces with constant scalar curvature in spheres

In this work we consider connected, complete and orientable hypersurfaces of the sphere with constant nonnegative -mean curvature. We prove that under subsidiary conditions, if the Gauss image of is contained in a closed hemisphere, then is totally umbilic.

     

Linear programming with spheres and hemispheres of objective vectors

Given a linear program with a boundedp-dimensional feasible region let the objective vector range over ans-sphere, that is, ans-dimensional sphere centered at the origin wheres does not exceedp–1. If the feasible region and the sphere are in general position with respect to each other, then the corresponding set of all optimal solutions is a topologicals-sphere. Similar results are developed for unbounded feasible regions and hemispheres of objective vectors.This research is based on work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMS-86-03232.     

Mapping of a half-plane onto a polygon with infinitely many vertices

In this paper we generalize the Schwarz—Christoffel formula for a conformal mapping of a half-plane onto a certain polygon with infinitely many vertices. We assume that the interior angles of the polygon (at unknown vertices) and the points of the real axis that are images of unknown vertices under the mentioned mapping are given.     

Heegaard surfaces and measured laminations, II: Non-Haken 3-manifolds

A famous example of Casson and Gordon shows that a Haken 3-manifold can have an infinite family of irreducible Heegaard splittings with different genera. In this paper, we prove that a closed non-Haken 3-manifold has only finitely many irreducible Heegaard splittings, up to isotopy. This is much stronger than the generalized Waldhausen conjecture. Another immediate corollary is that for any irreducible non-Haken 3-manifold , there is a number such that any two Heegaard splittings of are equivalent after at most stabilizations.

     

q-holonomic formulas for colored HOMFLY polynomials of 2-bridge links

We compute q-holonomic formulas for the HOMFLY polynomials of 2-bridge links colored with one-column (or one-row) Young diagrams.     

Incompressible Surfaces in Handlebodies and Closed 3-manifolds

in this paper we prove that for any positive integer n, 1) a handlebody of genus 2contains a separating incompressible surface of genus n, and 2) there exists a closed 3manifold of heegaard genus 2 which contains a separating incompressible surface of genus n.     

On balanced games with infinitely many players: Revisiting Schmeidler's result

We consider transferable utility cooperative games with infinitely many players and the core understood in the space of bounded additive set functions. We show that, if a game is bounded below, then its core is non-empty if and only if the game is balanced. This finding generalizes Schmeidler (1967) “On Balanced Games with Infinitely Many Players”, where the game is assumed to be non-negative. We also generalize Schmeidler's (1967) result to the case of restricted cooperation too.     

On the Heegaard Floer homology of branched double-covers

Let be a link. We study the Heegaard Floer homology of the branched double-cover Σ(L) of S³, branched along L. When L is an alternating link, of its branched double-cover has a particularly simple form, determined entirely by the determinant of the link. For the general case, we derive a spectral sequence whose E² term is a suitable variant of Khovanov's homology for the link L, converging to the Heegaard Floer homology of Σ(L).     

On a class of hyperbolic 3-orbifolds of small volume and small heegaard genus associated to 2-bridge links

We consider a class of hyperbolic 3-orbifoldsO(α/β); the underlying topological space of such an orbifold is the 3-sphere and the singular set is obtained by adding the two standard (upper and lower) unknotting tunnels to a 2-bridge linkL(α/β) (and associating branching order two to both unknotting tunnels). These 3-orbifolds are extremal with respect to the notion of Heegaard genus or Heegaard number of 3-orbifolds; it is to be expected that they are also extremal with respect to the volume, that is the smallest volume hyperbolic 3-orbifolds should belong to this or some closely related class. We show that an orbifoldO(α/β) has a uniqueD ₂-covering by an orbifoldℒ _n(α/β) wose space is the 3-sphere and whose singular set is the same 2-bridge linkL(α/β) used for the construction ofO(α/β); moreoverO(α/β) is hyperbolic if and only ifℒ _n(α/β) is hyperbolic. As the volumes of the orbifoldsℒ _n(α/β) are known resp. can be computed, this allows to compute the volumes of the orbifoldsO(α/β). The problem of computation of volumes remains open for some closely related classes of 3-orbifolds which are also extremal with respect to the Heegaard genus (for example associating a branching order bigger than two to one or both unknotting tunnels).