Inverse functions of polynomials and orthogonal polynomials as operator monotone functions

We study the operator monotonicity of the inverse of every polynomial with a positive leading coefficient. Let be a sequence of orthonormal polynomials and the restriction of to , where is the maximum zero of . Then and the composite are operator monotone on . Furthermore, for every polynomial with a positive leading coefficient there is a real number so that the inverse function of defined on is semi-operator monotone, that is, for matrices , implies

     

Heat kernels on metric measure spaces and an application to semilinear elliptic equations

We consider a metric measure space and a heat kernel on satisfying certain upper and lower estimates, which depend on two parameters and . We show that under additional mild assumptions, these parameters are determined by the intrinsic properties of the space . Namely, is the Hausdorff dimension of this space, whereas , called the walk dimension, is determined via the properties of the family of Besov spaces on . Moreover, the parameters and are related by the inequalities .

We prove also the embedding theorems for the space , and use them to obtain the existence results for weak solutions to semilinear elliptic equations on of the form

where is the generator of the semigroup associated with .

The framework in this paper is applicable for a large class of fractal domains, including the generalized Sierpinski carpet in .

     

On the minimal free resolution of general forms

Let and let be the ideal of generically chosen forms of degrees . We give the precise graded Betti numbers of in the following cases:

• ;
• and is even;
• , is odd and ;
• is even and all generators have the same degree, , which is even;
• is even and ;
• is odd, is even, and .

We give very good bounds on the graded Betti numbers in many other cases. We also extend a result of M. Boij by giving the graded Betti numbers for a generic compressed Gorenstein algebra (i.e., one for which the Hilbert function is maximal, given and the socle degree) when is even and the socle degree is large. A recurring theme is to examine when and why the minimal free resolution may be forced to have redundant summands. We conjecture that if the forms all have the same degree, then there are no redundant summands, and we present some evidence for this conjecture.

     

On higher syzygies of ruled surfaces

We study higher syzygies of a ruled surface over a curve of genus with the numerical invariant . Let    Pic be a line bundle in the numerical class of . We prove that for , satisfies property if and , and for , satisfies property if and . By using these facts, we obtain Mukai-type results. For ample line bundles , we show that satisfies property when and or when and . Therefore we prove Mukai's conjecture for ruled surface with . We also prove that when is an elliptic ruled surface with , satisfies property if and only if and .

     

On the Clifford algebra of a binary form

The Clifford algebra of a binary form of degree is the -algebra , where is the ideal generated by . has a natural homomorphic image that is a rank Azumaya algebra over its center. We prove that the center is isomorphic to the coordinate ring of the complement of an explicit -divisor in , where is the curve and is the genus of .

     

Analytic models for commuting operator tuples on bounded symmetric domains

For a domain in and a Hilbert space of analytic functions on which satisfies certain conditions, we characterize the commuting -tuples of operators on a separable Hilbert space  such that is unitarily equivalent to the restriction of to an invariant subspace, where is the operator -tuple on the Hilbert space tensor product  . For the unit disc and the Hardy space , this reduces to a well-known theorem of Sz.-Nagy and Foias; for a reproducing kernel Hilbert space on such that the reciprocal of its reproducing kernel is a polynomial in and  , this is a recent result of Ambrozie, Müller and the second author. In this paper, we extend the latter result by treating spaces for which ceases to be a polynomial, or even has a pole: namely, the standard weighted Bergman spaces (or, rather, their analytic continuation) on a Cartan domain corresponding to the parameter in the continuous Wallach set, and reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces for which is a rational function. Further, we treat also the more general problem when the operator is replaced by ,  being a certain generalization of a unitary operator tuple. For the case of the spaces on Cartan domains, our results are based on an analysis of the homogeneous multiplication operators on , which seems to be of an independent interest.

     

The free entropy dimension of hyperfinite von Neumann algebras

Suppose is a hyperfinite von Neumann algebra with a normal, tracial state and is a set of selfadjoint generators for . We calculate , the modified free entropy dimension of . Moreover, we show that depends only on and . Consequently, is independent of the choice of generators for . In the course of the argument we show that if is a set of selfadjoint generators for a von Neumann algebra with a normal, tracial state and has finite-dimensional approximants, then for any hyperfinite von Neumann subalgebra of Combined with a result by Voiculescu, this implies that if has a regular diffuse hyperfinite von Neumann subalgebra, then .

     

Zero entropy, non-integrable geodesic flows and a non-commutative rotation vector

Let be a -step nilpotent Lie algebra; we say is non-integrable if, for a generic pair of points , the isotropy algebras do not commute: . Theorem: If is a simply-connected -step nilpotent Lie group, is non-integrable, is a cocompact subgroup, and is a left-invariant Riemannian metric, then the geodesic flow of on is neither Liouville nor non-commutatively integrable with first integrals. The proof uses a generalization of the rotation vector pioneered by Benardete and Mitchell.

     

Stratified transversality by isotopy

For an abstract stratified set or a -regular stratification, hence for any -, - or -regular stratification, we prove that after stratified isotopy of , a stratified subspace of , or a stratified map , can be made transverse to a fixed stratified map .

     

On one-dimensional self-similar tilings and -tiles

Let be an integer base, a digit set and the set of radix expansions. It is well known that if has nonvoid interior, then can tile with some translation set ( is called a tile and a tile digit set). There are two fundamental questions studied in the literature: (i) describe the structure of ; (ii) for a given , characterize so that is a tile.

We show that for a given pair , there is a unique self-replicating translation set , and it has period for some . This completes some earlier work of Kenyon. Our main result for (ii) is to characterize the tile digit sets for when are distinct primes. The only other known characterization is for , due to Lagarias and Wang. The proof for the case depends on the techniques of Kenyon and De Bruijn on the cyclotomic polynomials, and also on an extension of the product-form digit set of Odlyzko.

     

The -module structure of -modules

Let be a regular ring, essentially of finite type over a perfect field . An -module is called a unit -module if it comes equipped with an isomorphism , where denotes the Frobenius map on , and is the associated pullback functor. It is well known that then carries a natural -module structure. In this paper we investigate the relation between the unit -structure and the induced -structure on . In particular, it is shown that if is algebraically closed and is a simple finitely generated unit -module, then it is also simple as a -module. An example showing the necessity of being algebraically closed is also given.

     

Connections with prescribed first Pontrjagin form

Let be a principal bundle over a manifold of dimension . If , then we prove that every differential 4-form representing the first Pontrjagin class of is the Pontrjagin form of some connection on .     

Poset block equivalence of integral matrices

Given square matrices and with a poset-indexed block structure (for which an block is zero unless ), when are there invertible matrices and with this required-zero-block structure such that ? We give complete invariants for the existence of such an equivalence for matrices over a principal ideal domain . As one application, when is a field we classify such matrices up to similarity by matrices respecting the block structure. We also give complete invariants for equivalence under the additional requirement that the diagonal blocks of and have determinant . The invariants involve an associated diagram (the ``-web') of -module homomorphisms. The study is motivated by applications to symbolic dynamics and -algebras.

     

On partitioning the orbitals of a transitive permutation group

Let be a permutation group on a set with a transitive normal subgroup . Then acts on the set of nontrivial -orbitals in the natural way, and here we are interested in the case where has a partition such that acts transitively on . The problem of characterising such tuples , called TODs, arises naturally in permutation group theory, and also occurs in number theory and combinatorics. The case where is a prime-power is important in algebraic number theory in the study of arithmetically exceptional rational polynomials. The case where exactly corresponds to self-complementary vertex-transitive graphs, while the general case corresponds to a type of isomorphic factorisation of complete graphs, called a homogeneous factorisation. Characterising homogeneous factorisations is an important problem in graph theory with applications to Ramsey theory. This paper develops a framework for the study of TODs, establishes some numerical relations between the parameters involved in TODs, gives some reduction results with respect to the -actions on and on , and gives some construction methods for TODs.

     

The space for nondoubling measures in terms of a grand maximal operator

Let be a Radon measure on , which may be nondoubling. The only condition that must satisfy is the size condition , for some fixed . Recently, some spaces of type and were introduced by the author. These new spaces have properties similar to those of the classical spaces and defined for doubling measures, and they have proved to be useful for studying the boundedness of Calderón-Zygmund operators without assuming doubling conditions. In this paper a characterization of the new atomic Hardy space in terms of a maximal operator is given. It is shown that belongs to if and only if , and , as in the usual doubling situation.

     

An extension theorem for separately holomorphic functions with pluripolar singularities

Let be a pseudoconvex domain and let be a locally pluriregular set, . Put

Let be an open neighborhood of and let be a relatively closed subset of . For let be the set of all for which the fiber is not pluripolar. Assume that are pluripolar. Put

Then there exists a relatively closed pluripolar subset of the ``envelope of holomorphy' of such that:

,

for every function separately holomorphic on there exists exactly one function holomorphic on with on , and

is singular with respect to the family of all functions .

     

West's problem on equivariant hyperspaces and Banach-Mazur compacta

Let be a compact Lie group, a metric -space, and the hyperspace of all nonempty compact subsets of endowed with the Hausdorff metric topology and with the induced action of . We prove that the following three assertions are equivalent: (a) is locally continuum-connected (resp., connected and locally continuum-connected); (b) is a -ANR (resp., a -AR); (c) is an ANR (resp., an AR). This is applied to show that is an ANR (resp., an AR) for each compact (resp., connected) Lie group . If is a finite group, then is a Hilbert cube whenever is a nondegenerate Peano continuum. Let be the hyperspace of all centrally symmetric, compact, convex bodies , , for which the ordinary Euclidean unit ball is the ellipsoid of minimal volume containing , and let be the complement of the unique -fixed point in . We prove that: (1) for each closed subgroup , is a Hilbert cube manifold; (2) for each closed subgroup acting non-transitively on , the -orbit space and the -fixed point set are Hilbert cubes. As an application we establish new topological models for tha Banach-Mazur compacta and prove that and have the same -homotopy type.

     

Another way to say harmonic

It is known that solutions of , that is, the -harmonic functions, are exactly those functions having a comparison property with respect to the family of translates of the radial solutions . We establish a more difficult linear result: a function in is harmonic if it has the comparison property with respect to sums of translates of the radial harmonic functions for and for . An attempt to generalize these results for () and () to the general -Laplacian leads to the fascinating discovery that certain sums of translates of radial -superharmonic functions are again -superharmonic. Mystery remains: the class of -superharmonic functions so constructed for does not suffice to characterize -subharmonic functions.