Vaught's conjecture on analytic sets

Let be a Polish group. We characterize when there is a Polish space with a continuous -action and an analytic set (that is, the Borel image of some Borel set in some Polish space) having uncountably many orbits but no perfect set of orbit inequivalent points.

Such a Polish -space and analytic exist exactly when there is a continuous, surjective homomorphism from a closed subgroup of onto the infinite symmetric group, , consisting of all permutations of equipped with the topology of pointwise convergence.

     

The enumerative geometry of surfaces and modular forms

Let be a surface, and let be a holomorphic curve in representing a primitive homology class. We count the number of curves of geometric genus with nodes passing through generic points in in the linear system for any and satisfying .

When , this coincides with the enumerative problem studied by Yau and Zaslow who obtained a conjectural generating function for the numbers. Recently, Göttsche has generalized their conjecture to arbitrary in terms of quasi-modular forms. We prove these formulas using Gromov-Witten invariants for families, a degeneration argument, and an obstruction bundle computation. Our methods also apply to blown up at 9 points where we show that the ordinary Gromov-Witten invariants of genus constrained to points are also given in terms of quasi-modular forms.     

Locally analytic distributions and

In this paper we study continuous representations of locally -analytic groups in locally convex -vector spaces, where is a finite extension of and is a spherically complete nonarchimedean extension field of . The class of such representations includes both the smooth representations of Langlands theory and the finite dimensional algebraic representations of , along with interesting new objects such as the action of on global sections of equivariant vector bundles on -adic symmetric spaces. We introduce a restricted category of such representations that we call ``strongly admissible' and we show that, when is compact, our category is anti-equivalent to a subcategory of the category of modules over the locally analytic distribution algebra of . As an application we prove the topological irreducibility of generic members of the -adic principal series for . Our hope is that our definition of strongly admissible representation may be used as a foundation for a general theory of continuous -valued representations of locally -analytic groups.

     

Generalized group characters and complex oriented cohomology theories

Let be the classifying space of a finite group . Given a multiplicative cohomology theory , the assignment

is a functor from groups to rings, endowed with induction (transfer) maps. In this paper we investigate these functors for complex oriented cohomology theories , using the theory of complex representations of finite groups as a model for what one would like to know.

An analogue of Artin's Theorem is proved for all complex oriented : the abelian subgroups of serve as a detecting family for , modulo torsion dividing the order of .

When is a complete local ring, with residue field of characteristic and associated formal group of height , we construct a character ring of class functions that computes . The domain of the characters is , the set of -tuples of elements in each of which has order a power of . A formula for induction is also found. The ideas we use are related to the Lubin-Tate theory of formal groups. The construction applies to many cohomology theories of current interest: completed versions of elliptic cohomology, -theory, etc.

The th Morava K-theory Euler characteristic for is computed to be the number of -orbits in . For various groups , including all symmetric groups, we prove that is concentrated in even degrees.

Our results about extend to theorems about , where is a finite -CW complex.

     

Double Bruhat cells and total positivity

We study the totally nonnegative variety in a semisimple algebraic group . These varieties were introduced by G. Lusztig, and include as a special case the variety of unimodular matrices of a given order whose all minors are nonnegative. The geometric framework for our study is provided by intersecting with double Bruhat cells (intersections of cells of the two Bruhat decompositions of with respect to opposite Borel subgroups).

     

The McKay correspondence as an equivalence of derived categories

Let be a finite group of automorphisms of a nonsingular three-dimensional complex variety , whose canonical bundle is locally trivial as a -sheaf. We prove that the Hilbert scheme parametrising -clusters in is a crepant resolution of and that there is a derived equivalence (Fourier-Mukai transform) between coherent sheaves on and coherent -sheaves on . This identifies the K theory of with the equivariant K theory of , and thus generalises the classical McKay correspondence. Some higher-dimensional extensions are possible.

     

Double affine Hecke algebras and 2-dimensional local fields

We give an interpretation of the double affine Hecke algebra of Cherednik as a (suitably regularized) algebra of double cosets of a group by a subgroup , extending the well-known interpretations of the finite and affine Hecke algebras. In this interpretation, consists of -points of a simple algebraic group, where is a 2-dimensional local field such as or , and is a certain analog of the Iwahori subgroup.

     

The number of Reidemeister moves needed for unknotting

There is a positive constant such that for any diagram representing the unknot, there is a sequence of at most Reidemeister moves that will convert it to a trivial knot diagram, where is the number of crossings in . A similar result holds for elementary moves on a polygonal knot embedded in the 1-skeleton of the interior of a compact, orientable, triangulated 3-manifold . There is a positive constant such that for each , if consists of tetrahedra and is unknotted, then there is a sequence of at most elementary moves in which transforms to a triangle contained inside one tetrahedron of . We obtain explicit values for and .

     

Braid groups are linear

The braid group can be defined as the mapping class group of the -punctured disk. A group is said to be linear if it admits a faithful representation into a group of matrices over . Recently Daan Krammer has shown that a certain representation of the braid groups is faithful for the case . In this paper, we show that it is faithful for all .

     

Mating Siegel quadratic polynomials

Let be a quadratic rational map of the sphere which has two fixed Siegel disks with bounded type rotation numbers and . Using a new degree Blaschke product model for the dynamics of and an adaptation of complex a priori bounds for renormalization of critical circle maps, we prove that can be realized as the mating of two Siegel quadratic polynomials with the corresponding rotation numbers and .

     

Supercuspidal representations: An exhaustion theorem

Let be a reductive -adic group. We prove that all supercuspidal representations of arise through Yu's construction subject to certain hypotheses on (depending on ). As a corollary, under the same hypotheses, we see that any supercuspidal representation is compactly induced from a representation of an open subgroup which is compact modulo the center.

     

Parametrization of local CR automorphisms by finite jets and applications

For any real-analytic hypersurface , which does not contain any complex-analytic subvariety of positive dimension, we show that for every point the local real-analytic CR automorphisms of fixing can be parametrized real-analytically by their jets at . As a direct application, we derive a Lie group structure for the topological group . Furthermore, we also show that the order of the jet space in which the group embeds can be chosen to depend upper-semicontinuously on . As a first consequence, it follows that given any compact real-analytic hypersurface in , there exists an integer depending only on such that for every point germs at of CR diffeomorphisms mapping into another real-analytic hypersurface in are uniquely determined by their -jet at that point. Another consequence is the following boundary version of H. Cartan's uniqueness theorem: given any bounded domain with smooth real-analytic boundary, there exists an integer depending only on such that if is a proper holomorphic mapping extending smoothly up to near some point with the same -jet at with that of the identity mapping, then necessarily .

Our parametrization theorem also holds for the stability group of any essentially finite minimal real-analytic CR manifold of arbitrary codimension. One of the new main tools developed in the paper, which may be of independent interest, is a parametrization theorem for invertible solutions of a certain kind of singular analytic equations, which roughly speaking consists of inverting certain families of parametrized maps with singularities.

     

Compatibility of local and global Langlands correspondences

We prove the compatibility of local and global Langlands correspondences for , which was proved up to semisimplification in M. Harris and R. Taylor, The Geometry and Cohomology of Some Simple Shimura Varieties, Ann. of Math. Studies 151, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton-Oxford, 2001. More precisely, for the -dimensional -adic representation of the Galois group of an imaginary CM-field attached to a conjugate self-dual regular algebraic cuspidal automorphic representation of , which is square integrable at some finite place, we show that Frobenius semisimplification of the restriction of to the decomposition group of a place of not dividing corresponds to by the local Langlands correspondence. If is square integrable for some finite place we deduce that is irreducible. We also obtain conditional results in the case .

     

Criteria for -ampleness

In the noncommutative geometry of Artin, Van den Bergh, and others, the twisted homogeneous coordinate ring is one of the basic constructions. Such a ring is defined by a -ample divisor, where is an automorphism of a projective scheme . Many open questions regarding -ample divisors have remained.

We derive a relatively simple necessary and sufficient condition for a divisor on to be -ample. As a consequence, we show right and left -ampleness are equivalent and any associated noncommutative homogeneous coordinate ring must be noetherian and have finite, integral GK-dimension. We also characterize which automorphisms yield a -ample divisor.

     

A new proof of D. Popescu's theorem on smoothing of ring homomorphisms

We give a new proof of D. Popescu's theorem which says that if is a regular homomorphism of noetherian rings, then is a filtered inductive limit of smooth finite type -algebras. We strengthen Popescu's theorem in two ways. First, we show that a finite type -algebra , mapping to , has a desingularization which is smooth wherever possible (roughly speaking, above the smooth locus of ). Secondly, we give sufficient conditions for to be a filtered inductive limit of its smooth finite type -subalgebras. We also give counterexamples to the latter statement in cases when our sufficient conditions do not hold.

     

Représentations -adiques et normes universelles I. Le cas cristallin

Let be a crystalline -adic representation of the absolute Galois group of an finite unramified extension of , and let be a lattice of stable by . We prove the following result: Let be the maximal sub-representation of with Hodge-Tate weights strictly positive and . Then, the projective limit of is equal up to torsion to the projective limit of . So its rank over the Iwasawa algebra is .

     

Independence of of monodromy groups

Let be a smooth curve over a finite field of characteristic , let be a number field, and let be an -compatible system of lisse sheaves on the curve . For each place of not lying over , the -component of the system is a lisse -sheaf on , whose associated arithmetic monodromy group is an algebraic group over the local field . We use Serre's theory of Frobenius tori and Lafforgue's proof of Deligne's conjecture to show that when the -compatible system is semisimple and pure of some integer weight, the isomorphism type of the identity component of these monodromy groups is ``independent of '. More precisely, after replacing by a finite extension, there exists a connected split reductive algebraic group over the number field such that for every place of not lying over , the identity component of the arithmetic monodromy group of is isomorphic to the group with coefficients extended to the local field .

     

On the size of -fold sum and product sets of integers

In this paper, we show that for all 1$"> there is a positive integer such that if is an arbitrary finite set of integers, 2$">, then either N^{b}$"> or N^{b}$">. Here (resp. ) denotes the -fold sum (resp. product) of . This fact is deduced from the following harmonic analysis result obtained in the paper. For all 2$"> and 0$">, there is a 0$"> such that if satisfies , then the -constant of (in the sense of W. Rudin) is at most .

     

Random polynomials having few or no real zeros

Consider a polynomial of large degree whose coefficients are independent, identically distributed, nondegenerate random variables having zero mean and finite moments of all orders. We show that such a polynomial has exactly real zeros with probability as through integers of the same parity as the fixed integer . In particular, the probability that a random polynomial of large even degree has no real zeros is . The finite, positive constant is characterized via the centered, stationary Gaussian process of correlation function . The value of depends neither on nor upon the specific law of the coefficients. Under an extra smoothness assumption about the law of the coefficients, with probability one may specify also the approximate locations of the zeros on the real line. The constant is replaced by in case the i.i.d. coefficients have a nonzero mean.

     

On the geometric Langlands conjecture

Let be a smooth, complete, geometrically connected curve over a field of characteristic . The geometric Langlands conjecture states that to each irreducible rank local system on one can attach a perverse sheaf on the moduli stack of rank bundles on (irreducible on each connected component), which is a Hecke eigensheaf with respect to . In this paper we derive the geometric Langlands conjecture from a certain vanishing conjecture. Furthermore, using recent results of Lafforgue, we prove this vanishing conjecture, and hence the geometric Langlands conjecture, in the case when the ground field is finite.