On 1-isometries of affine quadrics over finite fields

Letq be a regular quadratic form on a vector space (V, $\mathbb{F}$ ) and assume $4 \leqslant dim V \leqslant \infty \wedge |\mathbb{F}| \in \mathbb{N}$ . A 1-isometry of the central quadric $\mathcal{F}: = \{ x \in V|q(x) = 1\}$ is a permutation ? of $\mathcal{F}$ such that (*) $$q(x - y) = \nu \Leftrightarrow q(x^\varphi - y^\varphi ) = \nu \forall x,y \in \mathcal{F}$$ holds true for a fixed element ν of $\mathbb{F}$ . For arbitraryν ∈ $\mathbb{F}$ we prove that? is induced (in a certain sense) by a semi-linear bijection $(\sigma ,\varrho ):(V,\mathbb{F}) \to (V,\mathbb{F})$ such thatq oσ =? oq, provided $\mathcal{F}$ contains lines and the exceptional case $(\nu = 2 \Lambda |\mathbb{F}| = 3 \Lambda \dim V = 4 \Lambda |\mathcal{F}| = 24)$ is excluded. In the exceptional case and as well in case of dim V = 3 there are counterexamples. The casesν ≠ 2 and v=2 require different techniques.     

A-Systems, Independent Functions, and Sets Bounded in Spaces of Measurable Functions

Let $U \subset L_o ([0,1],\mathcal{M},m)$ be a set of Lebesgue measurable functions. Suppose also that two seminormed spaces of real number sequences are given: $\mathcal{A}$ and $\mathcal{B}$ . We study $\left( {\mathcal{A},\mathcal{B}} \right)$ -sets U defined by the classes $\mathcal{A}$ and $\mathcal{B}$ as follows: $\forall a = (a_n ) \in \mathcal{A}, \forall (f_n (t)) \in u^\mathbb{N} $ (or for sequences similar to $(f_n (t))$ ) $\exists E = E(a) \subset [0,1], mE = 1$ such that $\{ a_n f_n (t)\} 1_E (t)\} \in \mathcal{B}, t \in [0,1]$ . We consider three versions of the definition of $\left( {\mathcal{A},\mathcal{B}} \right)$ -sets, one of which is based on functions independent in the probability sense. The case ${\mathcal{B}}=l_\infty$ is studied in detail. It is shown that $({\mathcal{A}},l_\infty)$ -independent sets are sets bounded or order bounded in some well-known function spaces (L _p , L _p,q , etc.) constructed with respect to the Lebesgue measure. A characterization of such sets in terms of seminormed spaces of number sequences is given. The (l ₁,c _°)- and $(\mathcal{A},l_1 )$ -sets were studied by E. M. Nikishin.     

On permutations of central quadrics which preserve an inner distance

Letq be a regular quadratic form on a vector space (V, $\mathbb{F}$ ) and assume dimV ≥ 4 and ¦ $\mathbb{F}$ ¦ ≥ 4. We consider a permutation ? of the central affine quadric $\mathcal{F}$ := {x εV ¦q(x) = 1} such that $$(*)x \cdot y = \mu \Leftrightarrow x^\varphi \cdot y^\varphi = \mu \forall x,y\varepsilon \mathcal{F}$$ holds true, where μ is a fixed element of $\mathbb{F}$ and where “·” is the scalar product associated withq. We prove that ? is induced (in a certain sense) by a semi-linear bijection (σ,?): (V, $\mathbb{F}$ ) → (V, $\mathbb{F}$ ) such thatq o ?o q, provided $\mathcal{F}$ contains lines and the pair (μ, $\mathbb{F}$ ) has additional properties if there ar no planes in $\mathcal{F}$ . The cases μ,≠ 0 and μ = 0 require different techniques.     

Annihilators in BCK-Algebras

We introduce the concepts of an annihilator and a relative annihilator of a given subset of a BCK-algebra $\mathcal{A}$ . We prove that annihilators of deductive systems of BCK-algebras are again deductive systems and moreover pseudocomplements in the lattice ${\mathcal{D}\left( \mathcal{A} \right)}$ of all deductive systems on $\mathcal{A}$ . Moreover, relative annihilators of ${C \in \mathcal{D}\left( \mathcal{A} \right)}$ with respect to ${B\;{\text{in}}\;\mathcal{D}\left( \mathcal{A} \right)}$ are introduced and serve as relative pseudocomplements of C w.r.t. B in ${\mathcal{D}\left( \mathcal{A} \right)}$ .     

Regular Semigroups of Endomorphisms of von Neumann Factors

We study a class of $E_0$ -semigroups of endomorphisms of a von Neumann factor $\mathcal{M}$ possessing the following property: an $e_0$ -semigroup of endomorphisms of $\mathcal{B}\left( \mathcal{H} \right)$ , where $\mathcal{H}$ is the standard representation space for $\mathcal{M}$ , and a product system of Hilbert spaces can be associated with each of these $E_0$ -semigroups.     

Codimension 1 Subvarieties of {\mathcal{M}_g } and Real Gonality of Real Curves

Let ${\mathcal{M}_g }$ be the moduli space of smooth complex projective curves of genus g. Here we prove that the subset of ${\mathcal{M}_g }$ formed by all curves for which some Brill-Noether locus has dimension larger than the expected one has codimension at least two in ${\mathcal{M}_g }$ . As an application we show that if ${X \in \mathcal{M}_g }$ is defined over $\mathbb{R}$ then there exists a low degree pencil ${u:X \to \mathbb{P}^1 }$ defined over $\mathbb{R}.$      

Subspace Arrangements of Type B n and D n

Let ${\mathcal{D}}_{n,k} $ be the family of linear subspaces of ?ⁿ given by all equations of the form $\varepsilon _1 x_{i_1 } = \varepsilon _2 x_{i_2 } = \cdot \cdot \cdot \varepsilon _k x_{i_k } ,$ for 1 ≤ < ? ? ? < i _k ≤ i and $\left( {\varepsilon _1 ,...,\varepsilon _k } \right)\varepsilon \left\{ { + 1, - 1} \right\}^k $ Also let ${\mathcal{B}}_{n,k,h} $ be ${\mathcal{D}}_{n,k} $ enlarged by the subspaces $x_{j_1 } = x_{j_2 } = \cdot \cdot \cdot x_{j_h } = 0,$ for 1 ≤. The special cases ${\mathcal{B}}_{n,2,1} $ and ${\mathcal{D}}_{n,2} $ are well known as the reflection hyperplane arrangements corresponding to the Coxeter groups of type B _nand D _n respectively. In this paper we study combinatorial and topological properties of the intersection lattices of these subspace arrangements. Expressions for their Möbius functions and characteristic polynomials are derived. Lexicographic shellability is established in the case of ${\mathcal{B}}_{n,k,h,} 1 \leqslant h < k$ , which allows computation of the homology of its intersection lattice and the cohomology groups of the manifold $\begin{gathered} {\mathcal{D}}_{n,2} \\ M_{n,k,h,} = {\mathbb{R}}^n \backslash \bigcup {{\mathcal{B}}_{n,k,h,} } \\ \end{gathered} $ . For instance, it is shown that $H^d \left( {M_{n,k,k - 1} } \right)$ is torsion-free and is nonzero if and only if d = t(k ? 2) for some $t,0 \leqslant t \leqslant \left[ {{n \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {n k}} \right. \kern-0em} k}} \right]$ . Torsion-free cohomology follows also for the complement in ?ⁿof the complexification ${\mathcal{B}}_{n,k,h}^C ,1 \leqslant h < k$ .     

Orthogonality properties of linear combinations of orthogonal polynomials II

Let and be polynomials orthogonal on the unit circle with respect to the measures dσ and dμ, respectively. In this paper we consider the question how the orthogonality measures dσ and dμ are related to each other if the orthogonal polynomials are connected by a relation of the form , for , where . It turns out that the two measures are related by if , where and are known trigonometric polynomials of fixed degree and where the 's are the zeros of on . If the 's and 's are uniformly bounded then (under some additional conditions) much more can be said. Indeed, in this case the measures dσ and dμ have to be of the form and , respectively, where are nonnegative trigonometric polynomials. Finally, the question is considered to which weight functions polynomials of the form where denotes the reciprocal polynomial of , can be orthogonal. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Approximation by radial basis functions with finitely many centers

Interpolation by translates of “radial” basis functions Φ is optimal in the sense that it minimizes the pointwise error functional among all comparable quasiinterpolants on a certain “native” space of functions $\mathcal{F}_\Phi $ . Since these spaces are rather small for cases where Φ is smooth, we study the behavior of interpolants on larger spaces of the form $\mathcal{F}_{\Phi _0 } $ for less smooth functions Φ₀. It turns out that interpolation by translates of Φ to mollifications of functionsf from $\mathcal{F}_{\Phi _0 } $ yields approximations tof that attain the same asymptotic error bounds as (optimal) interpolation off by translates of Φ₀ on $\mathcal{F}_{\Phi _0 } $ .     

A Criterion for Weak Generalized Localization in the Class L_1 for Multiple Trigonometric Series from the Viewpoint of Isometric Transformations

In this paper, we study the problem of the variation (if any) of the sets of convergence and divergence everywhere or almost everywhere of a multiple Fourier series (integral) of a function $f \in L_p $ , $p \geqslant 1$ , $f(x) = 0$ , on a set of positive measure $\mathfrak{A} \subset \mathbb{T}^N = [ - \pi ,\pi )^N $ , $N \geqslant 2$ , depending on the rotation of the coordinate system, i.e., depending on the element $\tau \in \mathcal{F}$ , where $\mathcal{F}$ is the rotation group about the origin in $\mathbb{R}^N $ . This problem has been reduced to the study of the change in the geometry of the sets $\tau ^{ - 1} (\mathfrak{A}) \cap \mathbb{T}^N $ (where $\tau ^{ - 1} \in \mathcal{F}$ satisfies $\tau ^{ - 1} \cdot \tau = 1$ ) and $\mathbb{T}^N \backslash {\text{supp}}(f \circ \tau )$ depending on the “rotation,” i.e., on $\tau \in \mathcal{F}$ . In the present paper, we consider two settings of this problem (depending on the sense in which the Fourier series of the function $f \circ \tau $ is understood) and give (for both cases) possible solutions of the problem in the class $L_1 (\mathbb{T}^N )$ , $N \geqslant 2$ .     

An Analog of the Cameron--Johnson Theorem for Linear ℂ-Analytic Equations in Hilbert Space

The well-known Cameron--Johnson theorem asserts that the equation $\dot x = \mathcal{A}\left( t \right)x$ with a recurrent (Bohr almost periodic) matrix $\mathcal{A}\left( t \right)$ can be reduced by a Lyapunov transformation to the equation $\dot y = \mathcal{B}\left( t \right)y$ with a skew-symmetric matrix $\mathcal{B}\left( t \right)$ , provided that all solutions of the equation $\dot x = \mathcal{A}\left( t \right)x$ and of all its limit equations are bounded on the whole line. In the note, a generalization of this result to linear $\mathbb{C}$ -analytic equations in a Hilbert space is presented.     

Subsets of PG(n,2) and Maximal Partial Spreads in PG(4,2)

Put θ _n = # {points in PG(n,2)} and φ _n = #{lines in PG(n,2)}. Let ψ be anypoint-subset of PG(n,2). It is shown thatthe sum of L = #{internal lines of ψ} and L′= #{external lines of ψ} is the same for all ψ having the same cardinality:[6pt] Theorem A If k is defined by k = |ψ| ? θ _{n ? 1}, then $$L + L' = \phi _{n - 1} + k(k - 1)/2.$$ (The generalization of this to subsets of PG(n,3) is also obtained.) Let $\mathcal{S}$ be a partial spreadof lines in PG(4,2) and let N denote the number of reguli contained in $\mathcal{S}$ .Use of Theorem A gives rise to a simple proof of:[6pt] Theorem B If $\mathcal{S}$ is maximal then one of the followingholds: (i) $\left| \mathcal{S} \right| = 5,{\text{ }}N = 10;{\text{ }}$ (ii) $\left| \mathcal{S} \right| = 7,{\text{ }}N = 4;{\text{ }}$ (iii) $\left| \mathcal{S} \right| = 9,{\text{ }}N = 4.$ If (i) holds then $\mathcal{S}$ is spread in a hyperplane.It is shown that possibility (ii) is realized by precisely threeprojectively distinct types of partial spread. Explicit examplesare also given of four projectively distinct types of partialspreads which realize possibility (iii). For one of these types,type X, the four reguli have a common line. It isshown that those partial spreads in PG(4,2) of size 9 which arise, by a simple construction, from a spreadin PG(5,2), are all of type X.     

Sensitivity of best recovery in the Sobolev spaces W_\infty ^{r,d} , \widetilde W_\infty ^{r,d}for perturbed sampling

Let $I^d $ be the d‐dimensional cube, $I^d = [0,1]^d $ , and let $F \ni f \mapsto Sf \in L_\infty (I^d ) $ be a linear operator acting on the Sobolev space F, where Fis either $$$$ or $$$$ where $$\left\| f \right\|_F = \sum\limits_{\left| m \right| = r} {\mathop {{\text{esssup}}}\limits_{x \in I^d } \left| {\frac{{\partial f^{\left| m \right|} }} {{\partial x_1^{m_1 } \partial x_2^{m_2 } \cdot \cdot \cdot \partial x_d^{m_d } }}(x)} \right|.} $$ We assume that the problem elements fsatisfy the condition $\sum\nolimits_{\left| m \right| = r} {{\text{esssup}}} _{x \in I^d } \left| {f^{(m)} (x)} \right| \leqslant 1 $ and that Sis continuous with respect to the supremum norm. We study sensitivity of optimal recovery of Sfrom inexact samples of ftaken at npoints forming a uniform grid on $I^d $ . We assume that the inaccuracy in reading the sample vector is measured in the pth norm and bounded by a nonnegative number δ. The sensitivity is defined by the difference between the optimal errors corresponding to the exact and perturbed readings, respectively. Our main result is that this difference is bounded by $\mathcal{A}\delta $ , where $\mathcal{A} $ is a positive constant independent of the number of samples. This indicates that the curse of dimension, which badly affects the optimal errors, does not extend to sensitivity.     

Traces of monotone Sobolev functions

In this paper we prove that ifu: ${\mathbb{B}}^n \to {\mathbb{R}}$ , where ${\mathbb{B}}^n $ is the unit ball in ? ⁿ , is a monotone function in the Sobolev space W^1·p ( ${\mathbb{B}}^n $ ), andn ? 1 <p ≤n, thenu has nontangential limits at all the points of $\partial {\mathbb{B}}^n $ except possibly on a set ofp-capacity zero. The key ingredient in the proof is an extension of a classical theorem of Lindelöf to monotone functions in W^1·p ( ${\mathbb{B}}^n $ ),n ? 1 <p ≤n.     

Best Uniform Rational Approximations of Functions by Orthoprojections

Let C[-1,1] be the Banach space of continuous complex functions $f$ on the interval [-1,1] equipped with the standard maximum norm $\left\| f \right\|$ ; let $\omega \left( \cdot \right) = \omega \left( { \cdot ,f} \right)$ be the modulus of continuity of $f$ ; and let $R_n = R_n \left( f \right)$ be the best uniform approximation of $f$ by rational functions (r.f.) whose degrees do not exceed $n = 1, 2, \ldots $ . The space C[-1,1] is also regarded as a pre-Hilbert space with respect to the inner product given by $\left( {f,g} \right) = \left( {1/\pi } \right)\int_{ - 1}^1 {f\left( x \right)g\left( x \right)} \left( {1 - x^2 } \right)^{ - 1/2} dx$ . Let $z_n = \{ z_1 , z_2 , \ldots z_n \} $ be a set of points located outside the interval [-1,1]. By $F\left( { \cdot ,f,z_n } \right)$ we denote an orthoprojection operator acting from the pre-Hilbert space C[-1,1] onto its ( ${n + 1}$ )-dimensional subspace consisting of rational functions whose poles (with multiplicity taken into account) can only be points of the set $z_n $ . In this paper, we show that if $f$ is not a rational function of degree $ \leqslant n$ , then we can find a set of points $z_n = z_n \left( f \right)$ such that $\left\| {f\left( \cdot \right) - F\left( { \cdot ,f,z_n } \right)} \right\| \leqslant 12R_n ln\frac{3}{{\omega ^{ - 1} \left( {R_n /3} \right)}}.$