Modular <Emphasis Type="Italic">W</Emphasis> and <Emphasis Type="Italic">H</Emphasis> Type Lie Algebras

The modular Witt algebra W(p, n) and H(p, 2n) are defined on the polynomial rings Z_p[x₁,...,x_n] and Z_p[X₁,...,x_n, y₁,...,y_n] respectively. We generalize Z_p[x₁,...,xn] and Zp[x₁,...,xn, y₁,...,y_n], so we get the generalized W-type and H-type modular Lie algebras. We find all the derivations of W(p, 1).AMS Subject Classification: Primary 17B40, 17B56.     

Stability of <Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis>-particle pseudorelativistic systems

For a system Z_n of n identical pseudorelativistic particles, we show that under some restrictions on the pair interaction potentials, there is an infinite sequence of numbers n_s, s = 1, 2,..., such that the system Z_n is stable for _n = n_s, and the inequality sup _sn_s+1n _s ⁻¹ < + ∞ holds. Furthermore, we show that if the system Z_n is stable, then the discrete spectrum of the energy operator for the relative motion of the system Z_n is nonempty for some values of the total momentum of the particles in the system. The stability of n-particle systems was previously studied only for nonrelativistic particles. __________ Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 152, No. 3, pp. 528–537, September, 2007.     

Spectral Properties of Hamiltonians of Charged Systems in a Homogeneous Magnetic Field: II. The Structure of the Pure Point Spectrum

We study the pure point spectrum of the energy operator H(P ) of a many-particle charged quantum system in a homogeneous magnetic field based on the results in our previous work under fixation of the sum P of the pseudomomentum components of the system. We prove that the discrete spectrum H(P ) of a short-range system is infinite under some conditions (which, for example, hold for a system of two oppositely charged particles) even in the case of a finitely supported potential. For a long-range system of the type of a (+)-ion of an atom (including the ion), the discrete spectrum is infinite.     

Groups of measure space transformations and invariants of outer conjugation for automorphisms from normalizers of type III full groups

The necessary and sufficient conditions of outer conjugation for automorphisms from the normalizer of approximated III type groups are found. Let T be an automorphism of a Lebesgue space (X, μ) of the III₀ type, [T] the full group generated by T, N[T] its normalizer, {W_t(T)} the flow associated with T and α → mod α the homomorphism from N[T] to C{W} the centralizer of the associated flow. The following results are obtained: such that mod ga = α; automorphisms α₁, and α₂ from N[T] are outer conjugate if and only if p(α₁) = p(α₂), mod α₁ = γ mod α₂γ⁻¹, where γ C{W} and p(·) is the outer period; the canonical form of the elements from N[T] is found. The case is also considered where T is types III_λ (0 < λ < 1) and III₁.     

Non-random perturbations of the Anderson Hamiltonian in the 1-D case

Recently (S. Molchanov and B. Vainberg, Non-random perturbations of the Anderson Hamiltonian, J. Spectral Theory 50 (2) (2011), pp. 179–195), two of the authors applied the Lieb method to the study of the negative spectrum for particular operators of the form H?=?H ₀???W. Here, H ₀ is the generator of the positive stochastic (or sub-stochastic) semigroup, W(x)?≥?0 and W(x)?→?0 as x?→?∞ on some phase space X. They used the general results in several ‘exotic’ situations, among them the Anderson Hamiltonian H ₀. In the 1-D case, the subject of this article, we will prove similar, but more precise results.     

Dalla scoperta dell'interazione debole alla scoperta dei suoi mediatori

After recalling the genesis of the weak interaction and the main steps in our progressive understanding of its structure, the need for the existence of mediator massive «vector bosons» is clarified. Mention is then made of the gauge theories which led to the «electroweak unification» predicting the existence of three vector bosons,W ⁺,W ^?,Z ⁰, of massesM _W ^±,M _Z ⁰ near respectively to 80 GeV/c² and 90 GeV/c². The second part of the article is dedicated to the so-called « \(p\bar p\) project» and to the two experiments (UA1 and UA2) by which physicists working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN, Geneva) reached the experimental demonstration of the existence ofW ⁺,W ^? andZ ⁰ (the heaviest particles identified so far by man) thus achieving one of the top scientific results of our century.     

On zero-divisors of near-rings of polynomials

In this paper, we are interested to study zero-divisor properties of a 0-symmetric nearring of polynomials R₀[x], when R is a commutative ring. We show that for a reduced ring R, the set of all zero-divisors of R₀[x], namely Z(R₀[x]), is an ideal of R₀[x] if and only if Z(R) is an ideal of R and R has Property (A). For a non-reduced ring R, it is shown that Z(R₀[x]) is an ideal of Z(R₀[x]) if and only if ann_R({a, b}) ∩ N i?(R) ≠ 0, for each a, b ∈ Z(R). We also investigate the interplay between the algebraic properties of a 0-symmetric nearring of polynomials R₀[x] and the graph-theoretic properties of its zero-divisor graph. The undirected zero-divisor graph of R₀[x] is the graph Γ(R₀[x]) such that the vertices of Γ(R₀[x]) are all the non-zero zero-divisors of R₀[x] and two distinct vertices f and g are connected by an edge if and only if f ? g = 0 or g ? f = 0. Among other results, we give a complete characterization of the possible diameters of Γ(R₀[x]) in terms of the ideals of R. These results are somewhat surprising since, in contrast to the polynomial ring case, the near-ring of polynomials has substitution for its “multiplication” operation.     

Inducing W-graphs II

Let be the Hecke algebra associated with a Coxeter group W, and the Hecke algebra associated with W_J, a parabolic subgroup of W. In [5] an algorithm was described for the construction of a W-graph for an induced module where V is an -module derived from a W_J-graph. This note is a continuation of [5], and involves the following results:[] inducing ordered and bipartite W-graphs;[] the relationship between the cell decomposition of a W_J-graph and the cell decomposition of the corresponding induced W-graph;[] a Mackey-type formula for the restriction of an induced W-graph;[] a formula relating the polynomials used in the construction of induced W-graphs to Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials.The result on cells is a version of a Theorem of M. Geck [4], dealing with cells in W (allowing unequal parameters).Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): Primary 20C     

The Stable Class of the Augmentation Ideal

In [F.E.A. Johnson, Stable Modules and the D(2)-Problem, LMS Lecture Notes In Mathematics, vol. 301, CUP (2003)], for finite groups G, we gave a parametrization of the stable class of the augmentation ideal of Z[G] in terms of stably free modules. Whilst the details of this parametrization break down immediately for infinite groups, nevertheless one may hope to find parallel arguments for restricted classes of infinite groups. Subject to the restriction that Ext¹(Z, Z[G]) = 0, we parametrize the minimal level in Ω₁(Z) by means of stably free modules and give a lower estimate for the size of Ω₁(Z).     

The pauli principle,stability, and bound states in systems of identical pseudorelativistic particles

Based on analyzing the properties of the Hamiltonian of a pseudorelativistic system Z_n of n identical particles, we establish that for actual (short-range) interaction potentials, there exists an infinite sequence of integers n_s, s = 1, 2, …, such that the system is stable and that sup _s n_s+1 n_s⁻¹ < + ∞. For a stable system Z_n, we show that the Hamiltonian of relative motion of such a system has a nonempty discrete spectrum for certain fixed values of the total particle momentum. We obtain these results taking the permutation symmetry (Pauli exclusion principle) fully into account for both fermion and boson systems for any value of the particle spin. Similar results previously proved for pseudorelativistic systems did not take permutation symmetry into account and hence had no physical meaning. For nonrelativistic systems, these results (except the estimate for n_s+1 n_s⁻¹ ) were obtained taking permutation symmetry into account but under certain assumptions whose validity for actual systems has not yet been established. Our main theorem also holds for nonrelativistic systems, which is a substantial improvement of the existing result. __________ Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 157, No. 1, pp. 116–129, October, 2008.     

A variational approach to dislocation problems for periodic Schrödinger operators

As a simple model for lattice defects like grain boundaries in solid state physics we consider potentials which are obtained from a periodic potential V=V(x,y) on R² with period lattice Z² by setting Wt(x,y)=V(x+t,y) for x<0 and Wt(x,y)=V(x,y) for x?0, for t∈[0,1]. For Lipschitz-continuous V it is shown that the Schrödinger operators Ht=−Δ+Wt have spectrum (surface states) in the spectral gaps of H₀, for suitable t∈(0,1). We also discuss the density of these surface states as compared to the density of the bulk. Our approach is variational and it is first applied to the well-known dislocation problem (Korotyaev (2000, 2005) [15] and [16]) on the real line. We then proceed to the dislocation problem for an infinite strip and for the plane. In Appendix A, we discuss regularity properties of the eigenvalue branches in the one-dimensional dislocation problem for suitable classes of potentials.     

Analytic operator functions with compact spectrum. I. Spectral nodes,linearization and equivalence

This paper arose from an attempt to classify analytic operator functions modulo equivalence in terms of their linearizations and to use the linearization as a tool to obtain spectral factorizations. In this first part spectral linearizations and spectral nodes are introduced to provide a general framework to deal with problems concerning the uniqueness of a linearization and the existence of analytic divisors. Two analytic operator functionsW ₁(.) andW ₂(.) with compact spectrum are shown to have similar spectral linearizations if and only if for some Banach spaceZ the functionsW ₁(.) I _Z andW ₂(.) I _Z are equivalent. In parts II and III of this paper spectral nodes will be used intensively to deal with a number of factorization problems. In particular, in part III for Hilbert spaces and bounded domains a full solution of the inverse problem will be given, which will be used to construct spectral factorizations explicitly and to solve the problem of spectrum displacement.Research supported by the Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of Pure Research (Z.W.O.).This paper was written while the third author was a senior visiting fellow at the Vrije Universiteit at Amsterdam.     

Ample vector bundles and Bordiga surfaces

Let X be a smooth complex projective variety and let Z ? X be a smooth surface, which is the zero locus of a section of an ample vector bundle ? of rank dimX – 2 ≥ 2 on X. Let H be an ample line bundle on X, whose restriction H _Z to Z is a very ample line bundle and assume that (Z, H _Z ) is a Bordiga surface, i.e., a rational surface having (?², ?? (4)) as its minimal adjunction theoretic reduction. Triplets (X, ?, H) as above are discussed and classified. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Isomorphisms preserving invariants

Let V and W be finite dimensional real vector spaces and let G ì GL(V){G \subset {\rm GL}(V)} and H ì GL(W){H \subset {\rm GL}(W)} be finite subgroups. Assume for simplicity that the actions contain no reflections. Let Y and Z denote the real algebraic varieties corresponding to \mathbbR[V]^G{\mathbb{R}[V]^G} and \mathbbR[W]^H{\mathbb{R}[W]^H}, respectively. If V and W are quasi-isomorphic, i.e., if there is a linear isomorphism L : V → W such that L sends G-orbits to H-orbits and L ⁻¹ sends H-orbits to G-orbits, then L induces an isomorphism of Y and Z. Conversely, suppose that f : Y → Z is a germ of a diffeomorphism sending the origin of Y to the origin of Z. Then we show that V and W are quasi-isomorphic, This result is closely related to a theorem of Strub [8], for which we give a new proof. We also give a new proof of a result of Kriegl et al. [3] on lifting of biholomorphisms of quotient spaces.     

Quantum Diffusion and Delocalization for Band Matrices with General Distribution

We consider Hermitian and symmetric random band matrices H in d \geqslant 1{d \geqslant 1} dimensions. The matrix elements H _xy , indexed by x,y ? L ì \mathbbZ^d{x,y \in \Lambda \subset \mathbb{Z}^d}, are independent and their variances satisfy s_xy²:=\mathbbE |H_xy|² = W^-d f((x - y)/W){\sigma_{xy}^2:=\mathbb{E} |{H_{xy}}|^2 = W^{-d} f((x - y)/W)} for some probability density f. We assume that the law of each matrix element H _xy is symmetric and exhibits subexponential decay. We prove that the time evolution of a quantum particle subject to the Hamiltonian H is diffusive on time scales t << W^d/3{t\ll W^{d/3}} . We also show that the localization length of the eigenvectors of H is larger than a factor W^d/6{W^{d/6}} times the band width W. All results are uniform in the size |Λ| of the matrix. This extends our recent result (Erdős and Knowles in Commun. Math. Phys., 2011) to general band matrices. As another consequence of our proof we show that, for a larger class of random matrices satisfying ?_xs_xy²=1{\sum_x\sigma_{xy}^2=1} for all y, the largest eigenvalue of H is bounded with high probability by 2 + M^{-2/3 + e}{2 + M^{-2/3 + \varepsilon}} for any ${\varepsilon > 0}${\varepsilon > 0}, where M : = 1 / (max_x,ys_xy²){M := 1 / (\max_{x,y}\sigma_{xy}^2)} .     

The real spectrum of an ideal and KO-theory exact sequences

A construction in abstract real algebra is used to define invariants S _n(A) of commutative rings, with or without identity. If A=C(X) is the ring of continuous real functions on a compact space, then S _n(A) = k0^–n(X), and, for any A, S _n(A) Z[1/2]-W _n(A) Z[1/2], where the W _n(A) are the Witt groups of A. In addition, a short exact sequence of rings yields a long exact sequence of the groups S _n. The functors S _n(A) thus provide a solution of a problem proposed by Karoubi. This paper primarily deals with the exact sequences involving a ring A and an ideal I A. Work supported in part by NSF Grant DMS85-06816.     

Cobordism of immersions of surfaces¶in non-orientable 3-manifolds

Some properties of non-orientable 3-manifolds are shown. In particular, for a connected, non-orientable 3-manifold M, the group of cobordism clases of immersions of surfaces in M is isomorphic to a group structure on the set H ₂(M,Z/2Z)×H ₁(M,Z/2Z)×Z/2Z. Received: 8 June 2000 / Revised version: 2 October 2000     

Length functions and Demazure operators for G(e,1,n), II

This note is the first part of consecutive two papers concerning with a length function and Demazure operators for the complex reflection group W = G(e, 1, n). In this first part, we study the word problem on W based on the work of Bremke and Malle [BM]. We show that the usual length function ?(W) associated to a given generator set S is completely described by the function n(W), introduced in [BM], associated to the root system of W.In the second part, we will study the Demazure operators of W on the symmetric algebra. We define a graded space H_W in terms of Demazure operators, and show that H_W is isomorphic to the coinvariant algebra S_W, which enables us to define a homogeneous basis on S_W parametrized by w?W.     

Identification of parameters by the distribution of the maximum random variable: The general multivariate normal case

Summary LetX ₁,X ₂, ...,X _r ber independentn-dimensional random vectors each with a non-singular normal distribution with zero means and positive partial correlations. Suppose thatX _i =(X _i1 , ...,X _in ) and the random vectorY=(Y ₁, ...,Y _n ), their maximum, is defined byY _j =max{X _ij :1ir}. LetW be another randomn-vector which is the maximum of another such family of independentn-vectorsZ ₁,Z ₂, ...,Z _s . It is then shown in this paper that the distributions of theZ _i 's are simply a rearrangement of those of theZ _j 's (and of course,r=s), whenever their maximaY andW have the same distribution. This problem was initially studied by Anderson and Ghurye [2] in the univariate and bivariate cases and motivated by a supply-demand problem in econometrics.