Hilbert-Samuel coefficients and postulation numbers of graded components of certain local cohomology modules

Let be a Noetherian homogeneous ring with one-dimensional local base ring . Let be an -primary ideal, let be a finitely generated graded -module and let . Let denote the -th local cohomology module of with respect to the irrelevant ideal 0} R_n$"> of . We show that the first Hilbert-Samuel coefficient of the -th graded component of with respect to is antipolynomial of degree in . In addition, we prove that the postulation numbers of the components with respect to have a common upper bound.

     

On the algebra of functions -extendable for each finite

For each positive integer we construct a -function of one real variable, the graph of which has the following property: there exists a real function on which is -extendable to , for each finite, but it is not -extendable.

     

Isolated invariant curves of a foliation

We bound the equisingularity type of the set of isolated separatrices of a holomorphic foliation of in terms of the Milnor number of . This result gives a bound for the degree of an algebraic invariant curve of a foliation of in terms of the degree of , provided that all the branches of are isolated separatrices.

     

More on convexity numbers of closed sets in

The convexity number of a set is the least size of a family of convex sets with . is countably convex if its convexity number is countable. Otherwise is uncountably convex.

Uncountably convex closed sets in have been studied recently by Geschke, Kubis, Kojman and Schipperus. Their line of research is continued in the present article. We show that for all , it is consistent that there is an uncountably convex closed set whose convexity number is strictly smaller than all convexity numbers of uncountably convex subsets of .

Moreover, we construct a closed set whose convexity number is and that has no uncountable -clique for any 1$">. Here is a -clique if the convex hull of no -element subset of is included in . Our example shows that the main result of the above-named authors, a closed set either has a perfect -clique or the convexity number of is in some forcing extension of the universe, cannot be extended to higher dimensions.

     

Tietze extension theorem for Hilbert -modules

We prove the following generalization of the noncommutative Tietze extension theorem: if is a countably generated Hilbert -module over a -unital -algebra, then the canonical extension of a surjective morphism of Hilbert -modules to extended (multiplier) modules, , is also surjective.

     

On the Betti numbers of sign conditions

Let be a real closed field and let and be finite subsets of such that the set has elements, the algebraic set defined by has dimension and the elements of and have degree at most . For each we denote the sum of the -th Betti numbers over the realizations of all sign conditions of on by . We prove that

This generalizes to all the higher Betti numbers the bound on . We also prove, using similar methods, that the sum of the Betti numbers of the intersection of with a closed semi-algebraic set, defined by a quantifier-free Boolean formula without negations with atoms of the form or for , is bounded by

making the bound more precise.

     

On functions whose graph is a Hamel basis

We say that a function is a Hamel function ( ) if , considered as a subset of , is a Hamel basis for . We prove that every function from into can be represented as a pointwise sum of two Hamel functions. The latter is equivalent to the statement: for all there is a such that . We show that this fails for infinitely many functions.

     

Characterization of scaling functions in a multiresolution analysis

We characterize the scaling functions of a multiresolution analysis in a general context, where instead of the dyadic dilation one considers the dilation given by a fixed linear map such that and all (complex) eigenvalues of have absolute value greater than In the general case the conditions depend on the map We identify some maps for which the obtained condition is equivalent to the dyadic case, i.e., when is a diagonal matrix with all numbers in the diagonal equal to There are also easy examples of expanding maps for which the obtained condition is not compatible with the dyadic case. The complete characterization of the maps for which the obtained conditions are equivalent is out of the scope of the present note.

     

Gradient ranges of bumps on the plane

For a -smooth bump function we show that the gradient range is the closure of its interior, provided that admits a modulus of continuity satisfying as . The result is a consequence of a more general result about gradient ranges of bump functions of the same degree of smoothness. For such bump functions we show that for open sets , either the intersection is empty or its topological dimension is at least two. The proof relies on a new Morse-Sard type result where the smoothness hypothesis is independent of the dimension of the space.

     

Non-zero boundaries of Leibniz half-spaces

It is proved that for any , there exists a norm and two points , in such that the boundary of the Leibniz half-space has non-zero Lebesgue measure. When , it is known that the boundary must have zero Lebesgue measure.

     

On commutators of fractional integrals

Let be the infinitesimal generator of an analytic semigroup on with Gaussian kernel bounds, and let be the fractional integrals of for . For a BMO function on , we show boundedness of the commutators from to , where . Our result of this boundedness still holds when is replaced by a Lipschitz domain of with infinite measure. We give applications to large classes of differential operators such as the magnetic Schrödinger operators and second-order elliptic operators of divergence form.

     

Approximation of holomorphic maps with a lower bound on the rank

Let be a closed polydisc or ball in , and let be a quasi-projective algebraic manifold which is Zariski locally equivalent to , or a complement of an algebraic subvariety of codimension in such a manifold. If is an integer satisfying , then every holomorphic map from a neighborhood of to with rank at every point of can be approximated uniformly on by entire maps with rank at every point of .

     

A character of the gradient estimate for diffusion semigroups

Let be the semigroup of the diffusion process generated by on . It is proved that there exists and an -valued function such that holds for all 0$"> and all if and only if satisfies the formula for all

     

Perturbed smooth Lipschitz extensions of uniformly continuous functions on Banach spaces

We show that if is a separable subspace of a Banach space such that both and the quotient have -smooth Lipschitz bump functions, and is a bounded open subset of , then, for every uniformly continuous function and every 0$">, there exists a -smooth Lipschitz function such that for every .

     

Blocks of central -group extensions

Let and be finite groups that have a common central -subgroup for a prime number , and let and respectively be -blocks of and induced by -blocks and respectively of and , both of which have the same defect group. We prove that if and are Morita equivalent via a certain special -bimodule, then such a Morita equivalence lifts to a Morita equivalence between and .

     

Morita equivalence for quantum Heisenberg manifolds

We discuss Morita equivalence within the family 0, \mu,\nu\in\mathbb{R}\}$"> of quantum Heisenberg manifolds. Morita equivalence classes are described in terms of the parameters , and the rank of the free abelian group associated to the -algebra .

     

Covering by graphs of -ary functions and long linear orderings of Turing degrees

A point is covered by a function iff there is a permutation of such that .

By a theorem of Kuratowski, for every infinite cardinal exactly -ary functions are needed to cover all of . We show that for arbitrarily large uncountable it is consistent that the size of the continuum is and is covered by -ary continuous functions.

We study other cardinal invariants of the -ideal on generated by continuous -ary functions and finally relate the question of how many continuous functions are necessary to cover to the least size of a set of parameters such that the Turing degrees relative to this set of parameters are linearly ordered.

     

``Lebesgue measure' on , II

Let be the set of real numbers, and define . We construct a complete measure space where the -algebra contains the Borel subsets of , and is a translation-invariant measure such that for any measurable rectangle , if , then , where is Lebesgue measure on . The measure is not -finite. We prove three Fubini theorems, namely, the Fubini theorem, the mean Fubini-Jensen theorem, and the pointwise Fubini-Jensen theorem. Finally, as an application of the measure , we construct, via selfadjoint operators on , a ``Schrödinger model' of the canonical commutation relations: , , .

     

Concentration of mass and central limit properties of isotropic convex bodies

We discuss the following question: Do there exist an absolute constant 0$"> and a sequence tending to infinity with , such that for every isotropic convex body in and every the inequality holds true? Under the additional assumption that is 1-unconditional, Bobkov and Nazarov have proved that this is true with . The question is related to the central limit properties of isotropic convex bodies. Consider the spherical average . We prove that for every and every isotropic convex body in , the statements (A) ``for every , " and (B) ``for every , , where " are equivalent.

     

Geometric inequalities for a class of exponential measures

Using -ellipsoids we prove versions of the inverse Santaló inequality and the inverse Brunn-Minkowski inequality for a general class of measures replacing the usual volume on . This class contains in particular the Gaussian measure on .