A foliated metric rigidity theorem for higher rank irreducible symmetric spaces

LetF be a foliation of a compact manifold with a transverse invariant measure of finite total mass. We prove that ifF admits a leafwise metric such that every leaf is an irreducible symmetric space of noncompact type and higher rank, then any other leafwise metric of nonpositive curvature is also symmetric along any leaf in the support of the transverse measure. A rank one version of this result is also exposed.The second author is partially supported, by a Seed Grant from The Ohio State University.     

Certain condition on the second fundamental form of CR submanifolds of maximal CR dimension of complex Euclidean space

We treat m-dimensional real submanifolds M of complex space forms ̿M when the maximal holomorphic tangent subspace is (m−1)-dimensional. On these manifolds there exists an almost contact structure F which is naturally induced from the ambient space and in this paper we study the condition h(FX,Y)−h(X,FY) = g(FX,Y)η, η∊ T⊥(M), on the structure F and on the second fundamental form h of these submanifolds. Especially when the ambient space ̿M is a complex Euclidean space, we obtain a complete classification of submanifolds M which satisfy these conditions.Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000): 53C15, 53C40, 53B20.     

The {\overline{\partial}} operator along the leaves and Guichard’s theorem for a complex simple foliation

In (Ann Sc ENS Sér 3 4:361–380, 1887) Guichard proved that, for any holomorphic function g on ${{\mathbb C}}In (Ann Sc ENS Sér 3 4:361–380, 1887) Guichard proved that, for any holomorphic function g on \mathbb C{{\mathbb C}}, there exists a holomorphic function h (on \mathbb C{{\mathbb C}}) such that h - h °t = g{h - h \circ \tau = g} where τ is the translation by 1 on \mathbb C{{\mathbb C}}. In this note we prove an analogous of this theorem in a more general situation. Precisely, let (M,F){(M,{\mathcal F})} be a complex simple foliation whose leaves are simply connected non compact Riemann surfaces and γ an automorphism of F{{\mathcal F}} which fixes each leaf and acts on it freely and properly. Then, the vector space H_F(M){{\mathcal H}_{\mathcal F}(M)} of leafwise holomorphic functions is not reduced to functions constant on the leaves and for any g ? H_F(M){g \in {\mathcal H}_{\mathcal F}(M)}, there exists h ? H_F(M){h \in {\mathcal H}_{\mathcal F}(M)} such that h - h °g = g{h - h \circ \gamma = g}. From the proof of this theorem we derive a foliated version of Mittag–Leffler Theorem.     

On the Compactness Theorem for Differential Forms

Kichenassamy found conditions under which the space W _p ^k of differential forms on a closed manifold M embeds compactly in the space F _p ^k of currents on M. We give a version of Kichenassamy's theorem for an arbitrary Banach complex and, in particular, for an elliptic differential complex on a closed manifold.     

Products and factors of Banach function spaces

Given two Banach function spaces we study the pointwise product space E · F, especially for the case that the pointwise product of their unit balls is again convex. We then give conditions on when the pointwise product E · M(E, F) = F, where M(E, F) denotes the space of multiplication operators from E into F.     

Additive Maps Preserving Moore–Penrose Inverses of Matrices on Symmetric Matrix Spaces

Suppose F is a field of characteristic not 2. Let M_n F and S_n F be the n × n full matrix space and symmetric matrix space over F, respectively. All additive maps from S_n F to S_n F (respectively, M_n F) preserving Moore–Penrose inverses of matrices are characterized. We first characterize all additive Moore–Penrose inverse preserving maps from S_n F to M_n F, and thereby, all additive Moore–Penrose inverse preserving maps from S_n F to itself are characterized by restricting the range of these additive maps into the symmetric matrix space.     

Classes of Maxwell Spaces Admitting Translations

A Maxwell space is a pair (M ⁴, F), where M ⁴ is a four-dimensional Minkowski space or a domain in it and F is a closed exterior differential 2-form on M ⁴. We describe classes of Maxwell spaces admitting translation groups of dimension 1–4.__________Translated from Sovremennaya Matematika i Ee Prilozheniya (Contemporary Mathematics and Its Applications), Vol. 10, Suzdal Conference-4, 2003.     

Martingales in Banach lattices,II

This note is a follow-up to Troitsky (Positivity 9(3):437–456, 2005). We provide several sufficient conditions for the space M of bounded martingale on a Banach lattice F to be a Banach lattice itself. We also present examples in which M is not a Banach lattice. It is shown that if F is a KB-space and the filtration is dense then F is a projection band in M.     

Gromov hyperbolicity of negatively curved Finsler manifolds

Let (M, F) be a closed C ^∞ Finsler manifold. The lift of the Finsler metric F to the universal covering space defines an asymmetric distance [(d)\tilde]{\widetilde d} on [(M)\tilde]{\widetilde M}. It is well-known that the classical comparison theorem of Aleksandrov does not exist in the Finsler setting. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce new Finsler tools for the study of the asymmetric metric space ([(M)\tilde], [(d)\tilde]){(\widetilde M, \widetilde d)}. In this paper, by using the geometric flip map and the unstable-stable angle introduced in [2], we prove that if (M, F) is a closed Finsler manifold of negative flag curvature, then ([(M)\tilde], [(d)\tilde]){(\widetilde M, \widetilde d)} is an asymmetric δ-hyperbolic space in the sense of Gromov.     

Desingularization of singular Riemannian foliation

Let F{\mathcal{F}} be a singular Riemannian foliation on a compact Riemannian manifold M. By successive blow-ups along the strata of F{\mathcal{F}} we construct a regular Riemannian foliation [^(F)]{\hat{\mathcal{F}}} on a compact Riemannian manifold [^(M)]{\hat{M}} and a desingularization map [^(r)]:[^(M)]? M{\hat{\rho}:\hat{M}\rightarrow M} that projects leaves of [^(F)]{\hat{\mathcal{F}}} into leaves of F{\mathcal{F}}. This result generalizes a previous result due to Molino for the particular case of a singular Riemannian foliation whose leaves were the closure of leaves of a regular Riemannian foliation. We also prove that, if the leaves of F{\mathcal{F}} are compact, then, for each small ${\epsilon >0 }${\epsilon >0 }, we can find [^(M)]{\hat{M}} and [^(F)]{\hat{\mathcal{F}}} so that the desingularization map induces an e{\epsilon}-isometry between M/F{M/\mathcal{F}} and [^(M)]/[^(F)]{\hat{M}/\hat{\mathcal{F}}}. This implies in particular that the space of leaves M/F{M/\mathcal{F}} is a Gromov-Hausdorff limit of a sequence of Riemannian orbifolds {([^(M)]_n/[^(F)]_n)}{\{(\hat{M}_{n}/\hat{\mathcal{F}}_{n})\}}.     

Deformations of circle-valued Morse functions on surfaces

Let M be a smooth connected orientable compact surface and let F_cov ( M,S¹ ) {\mathcal{F}_{{\rm cov} }}\left( {M,{S^1}} \right) be a space of all Morse functions f : M → S ¹ without critical points on ∂M such that, for any connected component V of ∂M, the restriction f : V → S ¹ is either a constant map or a covering map. The space F_cov ( M,S¹ ) {\mathcal{F}_{{\rm cov} }}\left( {M,{S^1}} \right) is endowed with the C ^∞-topology. We present the classification of connected components of the space F_cov ( M,S¹ ) {\mathcal{F}_{{\rm cov} }}\left( {M,{S^1}} \right) . This result generalizes the results obtained by Matveev, Sharko, and the author for the case of Morse functions locally constant on ∂M.     

Integral Points of Small Height Outside of a Hypersurface

Let F be a non-zero polynomial with integer coefficients in N variables of degree M. We prove the existence of an integral point of small height at which F does not vanish. Our basic bound depends on N and M only. We separately investigate the case when F is decomposable into a product of linear forms, and provide a more sophisticated bound. We also relate this problem to a certain extension of Siegel’s Lemma as well as to Faltings’ version of it. Finally we exhibit an application of our results to a discrete version of the Tarski plank problem.     

Uniform Morse lemma and isotopy criterion for Morse functions on surfaces

Let M be a smooth compact (orientable or not) surface with or without a boundary. Let $ \mathcal{D}_0 $ \mathcal{D}_0 ⊂ Diff(M) be the group of diffeomorphisms homotopic to id _M . Two smooth functions f, g: M → ℝ are called isotopic if f = h ₂ ℴ g ℴ h ₁ for some diffeomorphisms h ₁ ∈ $ \mathcal{D}_0 $ \mathcal{D}_0 and h ₂ ∈ Diff⁺(ℝ). Let F be the space of Morse functions on M which are constant on each boundary component and have no critical points on the boundary. A criterion for two Morse functions from F to be isotopic is proved. For each Morse function f ∈ F, a collection of Morse local coordinates in disjoint circular neighborhoods of its critical points is constructed, which continuously and Diff(M)-equivariantly depends on f in C ^∞-topology on F (“uniform Morse lemma”). Applications of these results to the problem of describing the homotopy type of the space F are formulated.     

Positive linear extension operators for spaces of affine functions

The following result is proved: letE be anF-space (that is, the space of all continuous affine functions defined on a compact universal cap van shing at zero) and letMχE be anM-ideal. Then, ifE/M is a π₁ with positive defining projections, then there is a positive linear operator ϱ:E/M→E of norm one such that ϱ lifts the canonical mapE→E/M. In the proof, which heavily depends on work of Ando, we study ensor products of certain convex cones with compact bases, and we calculate the norm of a positive linear operator defined on a finite dimensional space with range in aF-space. Various corollaries are deduced for split faces of compact convex sets and for morphisms ofC ^*-algebras.     

Engel groups II

We study m-dimensional real submanifolds M with (m − 1)-dimensional maximal holomorphic tangent subspace in complex projective space. On these manifolds there exists an almost contact structure F which is naturally induced from the ambient space and in this paper we study the condition h(FX, Y) − h(X, FY) = g(FX, Y)η, η ∈ T ^⊥(M), on the almost contact structure F and on the second fundamental form h of these submanifolds and we characterize certain model spaces in complex projective space.     

Generalized Obata theorem and its applications on foliations

We prove the generalized Obata theorem on foliations. Let M be a complete Riemannian manifold with a foliation F of codimension q?2 and a bundle-like metric gM. Then (M,F) is transversally isometric to (Sq(1/c),G), where Sq(1/c) is the q-sphere of radius 1/c in (q+1)-dimensional Euclidean space and G is a discrete subgroup of the orthogonal group O(q), if and only if there exists a non-constant basic function f such that for all basic normal vector fields X, where c is a positive constant and ∇ is the connection on the normal bundle. By the generalized Obata theorem, we classify such manifolds which admit transversal non-isometric conformal fields.     

Manifolds of Maps in Riemannian Foliations

Let (M,F) and (M,F) be two (compact or not) foliated manifolds, C _F (M, M) the space of smooth maps which send leaves into leaves. In this paper we prove that C _F (M, M) admits a structure of an infinite-dimensional manifold modeled on LF-spaces, provided that F is a Riemannian foliation or, more generally, when it admits an adapted local addition.     

Applications of Operator Space Theory to Nest Algebra Bimodules

Recently, Blecher and Kashyap have generalized the notion of W ^*-modules over von Neumann algebras to the setting where the operator algebras are σ closed algebras of operators on a Hilbert space. They call these modules weak* rigged modules. We characterize the weak* rigged modules over nest algebras. We prove that Y is a right weak* rigged module over a nest algebra Alg(M){\rm{Alg}(\mathcal M)} if and only if there exists a completely isometric normal representation F{\Phi } of Y and a nest algebra Alg(N){\rm{Alg}(\mathcal N)} such that Alg(N) F(Y)Alg(M) ì F(Y){\rm{Alg}(\mathcal N) \Phi (Y)\rm{Alg}(\mathcal M)\subset \Phi (Y)} while F(Y){\Phi (Y)} is implemented by a continuous nest homomorphism from M{\mathcal M} onto N{\mathcal N} . We describe some properties which are preserved by continuous CSL homomorphisms.     

Polar foliations and isoparametric maps

A singular Riemannian foliation F{\mathcal{F}} on a complete Riemannian manifold M is called a polar foliation if, for each regular point p, there is an immersed submanifold Σ, called section, that passes through p and that meets all the leaves and always perpendicularly. A typical example of a polar foliation is the partition of M into the orbits of a polar action, i.e., an isometric action with sections. In this article we prove that the leaves of F{\mathcal{F}} coincide with the level sets of a smooth map H: M → Σ, if M is simply connected. In particular, the orbits of a polar action on a simply connected space are level sets of an isoparametric map. This result extends previous results due to the author and Gorodski, Heintze, Liu and Olmos, Carter and West, and Terng.