Concentration of low energy extremals: Identification of concentration points

We study the variational problem where , is a bounded domain, , F satisfies $0\leq F|t|\leq \alpha |t|^{2^*}$ and is upper semicontinuous. We show that to second order in the value only depends on two ingredients. The geometry of enters through the Robin function (the regular part of the Green's function) and F enters through a quantity which is computed from (radial) maximizers of the problem in . The asymptotic expansion becomes Using this we deduce that a subsequence of (almost) maximizers of must concentrate at a harmonic center of : i.e., , where is a minimum point of . Received: 24 January 2001 / Accepted: 11 May 2001 / Published online: 19 October 2001     

The local Rankin-Selberg convolution for GL(n): divisibility of the conductor

Let F be a non-Archimedean local field and an integer. Let be irreducible supercuspidal representations of GL with . One knows that there exists an irreducible supercuspidal representation of GL, with , such that the local constants (in the sense of Jacquet, Piatetskii-Shapiro and Shalika) are distinct. In this paper, we show that, when is an unramified twist of , one may here takem dividingn and , for a prime divisor ofn depending on and the order of : in particular, , where is the least prime divisor of . This follows from a result giving control of certain divisibility properties of the conductor of a pair of supercuspidal representations. Received: 11 November 2000 / Accepted: 15 January 2001 / Published online: 23 July 2001     

The local root number of elliptic curves with wild ramification

Let E be an elliptic curve over a number field F. The root number is conjecturally the sign of the functional equation of L-function of E/F. It is defined as the product of local signs over all places of F. The purpose of this paper is to describe this local sign by the coefficients of a Weierstra? equation of E. Received: 31 March 2000 / Revised version: 22 November 2001 / Published online: 23 May 2002     

Existence and multiplicity of solutions for a nonlinear Neumann problem

We consider a Neumann problem of the type -εΔu+F ^′(u(x))=0 in an open bounded subset Ω of R ⁿ , where F is a real function which has exactly k maximum points. Using Morse theory we find that, for ε suitably small, there are at least 2k nontrivial solutions of the problem and we give some qualitative information about them. Received: October 30, 1999 Published online: December 19, 2001     

On singular fibres of Lagrangian fibrations over holomorphic symplectic manifolds

We classify singular fibres over general points of the discriminant locus of projective Lagrangian fibrations over 4-dimensional holomorphic symplectic manifolds. The singular fibre F is the following either one: F is isomorphic to the product of an elliptic curve and a Kodaira singular fibre up to finite unramified covering or F is a normal crossing variety consisting of several copies of a minimal elliptic ruled surface of which the dual graph is Dynkin diagram of type or . Moreover, we show all types of the above singular fibres actually occur. Received: 10 March 2000 / Revised version: 29 September 2000 / Published online: 24 September 2001     

A complete solution to the infinite Oberwolfach problem

Let F be a 2‐regular graph of order v. The Oberwolfach problem, OP(F), asks for a 2‐factorization of the complete graph on v vertices in which each 2‐factor is isomorphic to F. In this paper, we give a complete solution to the Oberwolfach problem over infinite complete graphs, proving the existence of solutions that are regular under the action of a given involution free group G. We will also consider the same problem in the more general context of graphs F that are spanning subgraphs of an infinite complete graph $\mathbb{K}$ and we provide a solution when F is locally finite. Moreover, we characterize the infinite subgraphs L of F such that there exists a solution to OP(F) containing a solution to OP(L).     

The Jacobian and the Ginzburg-Landau energy

We study the Ginzburg-Landau functional for , where U is a bounded, open subset of . We show that if a sequence of functions satisfies , then their Jacobians are precompact in the dual of for every . Moreover, any limiting measure is a sum of point masses. We also characterize the -limit of the functionals , in terms of the function space B2V introduced by the authors in [16,17]: we show that I(u) is finite if and only if , and for is equal to the total variation of the Jacobian measure Ju. When the domain U has dimension greater than two, we prove if then the Jacobians are again precompact in for all , and moreover we show that any limiting measure must be integer multiplicity rectifiable. We also show that the total variation of the Jacobian measure is a lower bound for the limit of the Ginzburg-Landau functional. Received: 15 December 2000 / Accepted: 23 January 2001 / Published online: 25 June 2001     

Note on the spectrum of the Hodge-Laplacian for k-forms on minimal Legendre submanifolds in S^{2n+1}

Given a minimal Legendre immersion L in and we prove that is an eigenvalue of the Hodge-Laplacian acting on k and (k-1)-forms on L. In particular we show that the eigenspaces Eig and Eig are at least of dimension Received: 10 February 2000 / Accepted: 23 January 2001 / Published online: 4 May 2001     

A free boundary problem for $\infty$–Laplace equation

We consider a free boundary problem for the p-Laplacian describing nonlinear potential flow past a convex profile K with prescribed pressure on the free stream line. The main purpose of this paper is to study the limit as of the classical solutions of the problem above, existing under certain convexity assumptions on a(x). We show, as one can expect, that the limit solves the corresponding potential flow problem for the -Laplacian in a certain weak sense, strong enough however, to guarantee uniqueness. We show also that in the special case the limit is given by the distance function. Received: 10 October 2000 / Accepted: 23 February 2001 / Published online: 19 October 2001     

Constant mean curvature surfaces of annular type

We consider large solutions of annular type to the volume constrained Douglas problem. They are conformally immersed H-surfaces. By rescaling we set the volume functional at one while the boundary curves shrink to the origin. We show that the solutions become spherical in a precise manner. Spherical bubbling may fail if the conformality condition is dropped. We also discuss the rotationally symmetric annular solutions to the H-surface equation and consider some illustrative examples. Received: 2 May 2000 / Accepted: 23 January 2001 / Published online: 4 May 2001     

Automorphism groups of Weyl-type algebras

Let F be a field of characteristic 0, be n commuting variables over F, and be the field of all rational functions. Let . We have the simple Weyl type algebra . In this paper, the automorphism group of the associative algebra and the automorphism group of the Lie algebra are determined, and it is proved that . Received: 4 October 2001 / Revised version: 5 November 2001     

Global bifurcation for quasilinear elliptic equations on $\mathbb{R}^{N}$

In this paper we discuss the global behaviour of some connected sets of solutions of a broad class of second order quasilinear elliptic equations for where is a real parameter and the function u is required to satisfy the condition The basic tool is the degree for proper Fredholm maps of index zero in the form due to Fitzpatrick, Pejsachowicz and Rabier. To use this degree the problem must be expressed in the form where J is an interval, X and Y are Banach spaces and F is a map which is Fredholm and proper on closed bounded subsets. We use the usual spaces and . Then the main difficulty involves finding general conditions on and b which ensure the properness of F. Our approach to this is based on some recent work where, under the assumption that and b are asymptotically periodic in x as $\left| x\right| \rightarrow\infty$, we have obtained simple conditions which are necessary and sufficient for to be Fredholm and proper on closed bounded subsets of X. In particular, the nonexistence of nonzero solutions in X of the asymptotic problem plays a crucial role in this issue. Our results establish the bifurcation of global branches of solutions for the general problem. Various special cases are also discussed. Even for semilinear equations of the form our results cover situations outside the scope of other methods in the literature. Received March 30, 1999; in final form January 17, 2000 / Published online February 5, 2001     

Enclosure theorems for extremals of elliptic parametric functionals

In the following paper we study parametric functionals. First we introduce a generalized mean curvature (so called F-mean curvature). This enables us to describe extremals of parametric funcionals as surfaces of prescribed F-mean curvature. Furthermore we give a differential equation for arbitrary immersions generalizing and apply this equation to surfaces of vanishing and prescribed F-mean curvature. Especially we prove non-existence results for such surfaces generalizing Theorems by Hildebrandt and Dierkes [3], [6]. Received: 11 May 2001 / Accepted: 11 July 2001 / Published online: 12 October 2001     

Zero divisors in quaternion algebras

Let F be a finite field or an algebraic number field. In previous papers we have shown how to find the basic building blocks (the radical and the simple components) of a finite dimensional algebra over F in polynomial time (deterministically in characteristic zero and Las Vegas in the finite case). A finite-dimensional simple algebra A is a full matrix algebra over some not necessarily commutative extension field G of F. The problem remains to find G and an isomorphism between A and a matrix algebra over G. This, too, can be done in polynomial time for finite F. We indicate in the present paper that the problem for F = Q might be substantially more difficult. We link the problem to hard number theoretic problems such as quadratic residuosity modulo a composite number. We show that assuming the generalized Riemann hypothesis, there exists a randomized polynomial time reduction from quadratic residuosity to determining whether or not a given 4-dimensional algebra over Q has zero divisors. It will follow that finding a pair of zero divisors is at least as hard as factoring squarefree integers.     

A-B quasiconvexity and implicit partial differential equations

The study of existence of solutions of boundary-value problems for differential inclusions where , is an open subset of , is a compact set, and B is a -valued first order differential operator, is undertaken. As an application, minima of the energy for large magnetic bodies where the magnetization is taken with values on the unit sphere is the induced magnetic field satisfying and is the anisotropic energy density, and the applied external magnetic field is given by , are fully characterized. Setting with , it is shown that E admits a minimizer with if and only if either 0 is on a face of or , where denotes the convex hull of Z. Received: 6 November 2000 / Accepted: 23 January 2001 / Published online: 23 April 2001     

Nonsmooth generalized guiding functions for periodic differential inclusions

We consider the periodic problem for differential inclusions in $$ \user2{\mathbb{R}}^{\rm N} $$ with a nonconvex-valued orientor field F(t, ζ), which is lower semicontinuous in $$ \zeta \in \user2{\mathbb{R}}^{\rm N} $$ Using the notion of a nonsmooth, locally Lipschitz generalized guiding function, we prove that the inclusion has periodic solutions. We have two such existence theorems. We also study the “convex” periodic problem and prove an existence result under upper semicontinuity hypothesis on F(t, ·) and using a nonsmooth guiding function. Our work was motivated by the recent paper of Mawhin-Ward [23] and extends the single-valued results of Mawhin [19] and the multivalued results of De Blasi-Górniewicz-Pianigiani [4], where either the guiding function is C¹ or the conditions on F are more restrictive and more difficult to verify.     

Asymptotic Properties of a Modified Semi-Parametric MLE in Linear Regression with Right-Censored Data

Consider a linear regression model, Y=β′X+ε where Y may be right censored and the cdf F _o of ε is unknown. We show that a modified semi-parametric MLE, denoted by is strongly consistent under certain regularity conditions. Moreover, if F _o is discontinuous, then P(≠β i.o.)=0, which means that P(=β if the sample size is large)=1. The latter property has not been reported for the existing estimators. By contrast, most estimators, such as the Buckley-James estimator and M-estimators , satisfy that P(≠β i.o.)=1. Received April 23, 2001, Accepted November 13, 2001     

Application of Greenberg's conjecture in the capitulation problem

Let r be a positive integer. Assume Greenberg's conjecture for some totally real number fields, we show that there exists an infinite family of imaginary cyclic number fields F over the field of rational number field , with an elementary 2‐class group of rank equal to r that capitulates in an unramified quadratic extension over F. Also, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the Galois group of the unramified maximal 2‐extension over F to be abelian.     

A constrained minimization problem and its application to guided cylindrical TM-modes in an anisotropic self-focusing dielectric

The first part of this paper establishes the existence of a minimizer of problem: where The essential features of the integrand are that where We show that the minimizer satisfies an Euler- Lagrange equation and estimates are given for the Lagrange multiplier as a function of d. In the second part of the paper, we use this result to establish the existence of guided TM-modes propagating through a self-focusing anisotropic dielectric. These are special solutions of Maxwell's equations with a nonlinear constitutive relation of a type commonly used in nonlinear optics when treating the propagation of waves in a cylindrical wave-guide. In TM-modes, the magnetic field has the form \[ {\bf B}=w(r)\cos (kz-\omega t)i_{\theta } \] when expressed in cylindrical polar co-ordinates The amplitude w is given by where is a minimizer of the problem (0.1) for a function which is determined by the constitutive relation through a Legendre transformation. Received: 4 April 2001 / Accepted: 29 November 2001 / Published online: 28 February 2002