The zero set of semi-invariants for extended Dynkin quivers

We show that the set of common zeros of all semi-invariants vanishing at 0 on the variety of all representations with dimension vector of an extended Dynkin quiver under the group is a complete intersection if is ``big enough'. In case does not contain an open -orbit, which is the case not considered so far, the number of irreducible components of grows with , except if is an oriented cycle.

     

Arithmetic rigidity and units in group rings

For any finite group the group of units in the integral group ring is an arithmetic group in a reductive algebraic group, namely the Zariski closure of . In particular, the isomorphism type of the -algebra determines the commensurability class of ; we show that, to a large extent, the converse is true. In fact, subject to a certain restriction on the -representations of the converse is exactly true.

     

Uniqueness of volume-minimizing submanifolds calibrated by the first Pontryagin form

One way to understand the geometry of the real Grassmann manifold parameterizing oriented -dimensional subspaces of is to understand the volume-minimizing subvarieties in each homology class. Some of these subvarieties can be determined by using a calibration. In previous work, one of the authors calculated the set of -planes calibrated by the first Pontryagin form on for all , and identified a family of mutually congruent round -spheres which are consequently homologically volume-minimizing. In the present work, we associate to the family of calibrated planes a Pfaffian system on the symmetry group , an analysis of which yields a uniqueness result; namely, that any connected submanifold of calibrated by is contained in one of these -spheres. A similar result holds for -calibrated submanifolds of the quotient Grassmannian of non-oriented -planes.

     

Good ideals in Gorenstein local rings

Let be an -primary ideal in a Gorenstein local ring (, ) with , and assume that contains a parameter ideal in as a reduction. We say that is a good ideal in if is a Gorenstein ring with . The associated graded ring of is a Gorenstein ring with if and only if . Hence good ideals in our sense are good ones next to the parameter ideals in . A basic theory of good ideals is developed in this paper. We have that is a good ideal in if and only if and . First a criterion for finite-dimensional Gorenstein graded algebras over fields to have nonempty sets of good ideals will be given. Second in the case where we will give a correspondence theorem between the set and the set of certain overrings of . A characterization of good ideals in the case where will be given in terms of the goodness in their powers. Thanks to Kato's Riemann-Roch theorem, we are able to classify the good ideals in two-dimensional Gorenstein rational local rings. As a conclusion we will show that the structure of the set of good ideals in heavily depends on . The set may be empty if , while is necessarily infinite if and contains a field. To analyze this phenomenon we shall explore monomial good ideals in the polynomial ring in three variables over a field . Examples are given to illustrate the theorems.

     

Geometry of chain complexes and outer automorphisms under derived equivalence

The two main theorems proved here are as follows: If is a finite dimensional algebra over an algebraically closed field, the identity component of the algebraic group of outer automorphisms of is invariant under derived equivalence. This invariance is obtained as a consequence of the following generalization of a result of Voigt. Namely, given an appropriate geometrization of the family of finite -module complexes with fixed sequence of dimensions and an ``almost projective' complex , there exists a canonical vector space embedding

where is the pertinent product of general linear groups acting on , tangent spaces at are denoted by , and is identified with its image in the derived category .

     

On the number of -equivalent non-isomorphic models

We prove that if is consistent then is consistent with the following statement: There is for every a model of cardinality which is -equivalent to exactly non-isomorphic models of cardinality . In order to get this result we introduce ladder systems and colourings different from the ``standard' counterparts, and prove the following purely combinatorial result: For each prime number and positive integer it is consistent with that there is a ``good' ladder system having exactly pairwise nonequivalent colourings.

     

Serre's generalization of Nagao's theorem: An elementary approach

Let be a smooth projective curve over a field . For each closed point of let be the coordinate ring of the affine curve obtained by removing from . Serre has proved that is isomorphic to the fundamental group, , of a graph of groups , where is a tree with at most one non-terminal vertex. Moreover the subgroups of attached to the terminal vertices of are in one-one correspondence with the elements of , the ideal class group of . This extends an earlier result of Nagao for the simplest case .

Serre's proof is based on applying the theory of groups acting on trees to the quotient graph , where is the associated Bruhat-Tits building. To determine he makes extensive use of the theory of vector bundles (of rank 2) over . In this paper we determine using a more elementary approach which involves substantially less algebraic geometry.

The subgroups attached to the edges of are determined (in part) by a set of positive integers , say. In this paper we prove that is bounded, even when Cl is infinite. This leads, for example, to new free product decomposition results for certain principal congruence subgroups of , involving unipotent and elementary matrices.

     

-actions whose fixed data has a section

Given a collection of real vector bundles over a closed manifold , suppose that, for some is of the form , where is the trivial one-dimensional bundle. In this paper we prove that if is the fixed data of a -action, then the same is true for the Whitney sum obtained from by replacing by . This stability property is well-known for involutions. Together with techniques previously developed, this result is used to describe, up to bordism, all possible -actions fixing the disjoint union of an even projective space and a point.     

Degree of strata of singular cubic surfaces

We determine the degree of some strata of singular cubic surfaces in the projective space . These strata are subvarieties of the parametrizing all cubic surfaces in . It is known what their dimension is and that they are irreducible. In 1986, D. F. Coray and I. Vainsencher computed the degree of the 4 strata consisting on cubic surfaces with a double line. To work out the case of isolated singularities we relate the problem with (stationary) multiple-point theory.

     

On the semisimplicity conjecture and Galois representations

The semisimplicity conjecture says that for any smooth projective scheme over a finite field , the Frobenius correspondence acts semisimply on , where is an algebraic closure of . Based on the works of Deligne and Laumon, we reduce this conjecture to a problem about the Galois representations of function fields. This reduction was also achieved by Laumon a few years ago (unpublished).

     

The Whitney extension problem and Lipschitz selections of set-valued mappings in jet-spaces

We study a variant of the Whitney extension problem (1934) for the space . We identify with a space of Lipschitz mappings from into the space of polynomial fields on equipped with a certain metric. This identification allows us to reformulate the Whitney problem for as a Lipschitz selection problem for set-valued mappings into a certain family of subsets of . We prove a Helly-type criterion for the existence of Lipschitz selections for such set-valued mappings defined on finite sets. With the help of this criterion, we improve estimates for finiteness numbers in finiteness theorems for due to C. Fefferman.

     

Local derivations on -algebras are derivations

Kadison has shown that local derivations from a von Neumann algebra into any dual bimodule are derivations. In this paper we extend this result to local derivations from any -algebra into any Banach -bimodule . Most of the work is involved with establishing this result when is a commutative -algebra with one self-adjoint generator. A known result of the author about Jordan derivations then completes the argument. We show that these results do not extend to the algebra of continuously differentiable functions on . We also give an automatic continuity result, that is, we show that local derivations on -algebras are continuous even if not assumed a priori to be so.

     

Random variable dilation equation and multidimensional prescale functions

A random variable satisfying the random variable dilation equation , where is a discrete random variable independent of with values in a lattice and weights and is an expanding and -preserving matrix, if absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure, will have a density which will satisfy a dilation equation

We have obtained necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of the density and a simple sufficient condition for 's existence in terms of the weights Wavelets in can be generated in several ways. One is through a multiresolution analysis of generated by a compactly supported prescale function . The prescale function will satisfy a dilation equation and its lattice translates will form a Riesz basis for the closed linear span of the translates. The sufficient condition for the existence of allows a tractable method for designing candidates for multidimensional prescale functions, which includes the case of multidimensional splines. We also show that this sufficient condition is necessary in the case when is a prescale function.

     

Discrete threshold growth dynamics are omnivorous for box neighborhoods

In the discrete threshold model for crystal growth in the plane we begin with some set of seed crystals and observe crystal growth over time by generating a sequence of subsets of by a deterministic rule. This rule is as follows: a site crystallizes when a threshold number of crystallized points appear in the site's prescribed neighborhood. The growth dynamics generated by this model are said to be omnivorous if finite and imply . In this paper we prove that the dynamics are omnivorous when the neighborhood is a box (i.e. when, for some fixed , the neighborhood of is . This result has important implications in the study of the first passage time when is chosen randomly with a sparse Bernoulli density and in the study of the limiting shape to which converges.

     

Strongly self-absorbing -algebras

Say that a separable, unital -algebra is strongly self-absorbing if there exists an isomorphism such that and are approximately unitarily equivalent -homomorphisms. We study this class of algebras, which includes the Cuntz algebras , , the UHF algebras of infinite type, the Jiang-Su algebra and tensor products of with UHF algebras of infinite type. Given a strongly self-absorbing -algebra we characterise when a separable -algebra absorbs tensorially (i.e., is -stable), and prove closure properties for the class of separable -stable -algebras. Finally, we compute the possible -groups and prove a number of classification results which suggest that the examples listed above are the only strongly self-absorbing -algebras.

     

Exponential sums on , II

We prove a vanishing theorem for the -adic cohomology of exponential sums on . In particular, we obtain new classes of exponential sums on that have a single nonvanishing -adic cohomology group. The dimension of this cohomology group equals a sum of Milnor numbers.

     

Vanishing of the third simplicial cohomology group of

We show that . We first use the Connes-Tzygan exact sequence to prove that this is equivalent to the vanishing of the third cyclic cohomology group , where is the non-unital Banach algebra , and then prove that .

     

A join theorem for the computably enumerable degrees

It is shown that for any computably enumerable (c.e.) degree , if , then there is a c.e. degree such that (so is lowand is high). It follows from this and previous work of P. Cholak, M. Groszek and T. Slaman that the low and low c.e. degrees are not elementarily equivalent as partial orderings.

     

The flat model structure on

Given a cotorsion pair in an abelian category with enough objects and enough objects, we define two cotorsion pairs in the category of unbounded chain complexes. We see that these two cotorsion pairs are related in a nice way when is hereditary. We then show that both of these induced cotorsion pairs are complete when is the ``flat' cotorsion pair of -modules. This proves the flat cover conjecture for (possibly unbounded) chain complexes and also gives us a new ``flat' model category structure on . In the last section we use the theory of model categories to show that we can define using a flat resolution of and a cotorsion coresolution of .

     

Monomial bases for -Schur algebras

Using the Beilinson-Lusztig-MacPherson construction of the quantized enveloping algebra of and its associated monomial basis, we investigate -Schur algebras as ``little quantum groups". We give a presentation for and obtain a new basis for the integral -Schur algebra , which consists of certain monomials in the original generators. Finally, when , we interpret the Hecke algebra part of the monomial basis for in terms of Kazhdan-Lusztig basis elements.