Birational rigidity of complete intersections

We prove that every smooth complete intersection \(X=X_{d_{1}, \ldots , d_{s}}\subset \mathbb {P}^{\sum _{i=1}^{s}d_{i}}\) defined by s hypersurfaces of degree \(d_{1}, \ldots , d_{s}\) is birationally superrigid if \(5s +1\le \frac{2(\sum _{i=1}^{s}d_{i}+1)}{\sqrt{\prod _{i=1}^{s}d_{i}}}\). In particular, X is non-rational and \({{\mathrm{Bir}}}(X)={{\mathrm{Aut}}}(X)\). We also prove birational superrigidity of singular complete intersections with similar numerical condition. These extend the results proved by Tommaso de Fernex.     

An <Emphasis Type="Italic">A</Emphasis>-invariant subspace for bipartite distance-regular graphs with exactly two irreducible <Emphasis Type="Italic">T</Emphasis>-modules with endpoint 2, both thin

Let \(\Gamma \) denote a bipartite distance-regular graph with vertex set X, diameter \(D \ge 4\), and valency \(k \ge 3\). Let \({{\mathbb {C}}}^X\) denote the vector space over \({{\mathbb {C}}}\) consisting of column vectors with entries in \({{\mathbb {C}}}\) and rows indexed by X. For \(z \in X\), let \({{\widehat{z}}}\) denote the vector in \({{\mathbb {C}}}^X\) with a 1 in the z-coordinate, and 0 in all other coordinates. Fix a vertex x of \(\Gamma \) and let \(T = T(x)\) denote the corresponding Terwilliger algebra. Assume that up to isomorphism there exist exactly two irreducible T-modules with endpoint 2, and they both are thin. Fix \(y \in X\) such that \(\partial (x,y)=2\), where \(\partial \) denotes path-length distance. For \(0 \le i,j \le D\) define \(w_{ij}=\sum {{\widehat{z}}}\), where the sum is over all \(z \in X\) such that \(\partial (x,z)=i\) and \(\partial (y,z)=j\). We define \(W=\mathrm{span}\{w_{ij} \mid 0 \le i,j \le D\}\). In this paper we consider the space \(MW=\mathrm{span}\{mw \mid m \in M, w \in W\}\), where M is the Bose–Mesner algebra of \(\Gamma \). We observe that MW is the minimal A-invariant subspace of \({{\mathbb {C}}}^X\) which contains W, where A is the adjacency matrix of \(\Gamma \). We show that \(4D-6 \le \mathrm{dim}(MW) \le 4D-2\). We display a basis for MW for each of these five cases, and we give the action of A on these bases.     

On a strange invariant bilinear form on the space of automorphic forms

Let F be a global field and \(G:=SL(2)\). We study the bilinear form \({{\mathcal {B}}}\) on the space of K-finite smooth compactly supported functions on \(G({\mathbb {A}})/G(F)\) defined by

$$\begin{aligned} {{\mathcal {B}}}(f_1,f_2):={{\mathcal {B}}}_{\mathrm {naive}}(f_1,f_2)-\langle M^{-1}{{\mathrm{{CT}}}}(f_1)\, ,{{\mathrm{{CT}}}}(f_2)\rangle , \end{aligned}$$

where \({{\mathcal {B}}}_{\mathrm {naive}}\) is the usual scalar product, \({{\mathrm{{CT}}}}\) is the constant term operator, and M is the standard intertwiner. This form is natural from the viewpoint of the geometric Langlands program. To justify this claim, we provide a dictionary between the classical and ‘geometric’ theory of automorphic forms. We also show that the form \({{\mathcal {B}}}\) is related to S. Schieder’s Picard–Lefschetz oscillators.

     

On limit theorems for Banach-space-valued linear processes

Let \( {\left( {{\epsilon_i}} \right)_{i \in \mathbb{Z}}} \) be i.i.d. random elements in a separable Banach space \( \mathbb{E} \), and let \( \mathop {\left( {{a_i}} \right)}\nolimits_{i \in \mathbb{Z}} \) be continuous linear operators from \( \mathbb{E} \) to a Banach space \( \mathbb{F} \) such that \( \sum\nolimits_{i \in \mathbb{Z}} {\left\| {{a_i}} \right\|} \) is finite. We prove that the linear process \( \mathop {\left( {{X_n}} \right)}\nolimits_{n \in \mathbb{Z}} \) defined by \( {X_n}: = \sum\nolimits_{i \in \mathbb{Z}} {{a_i}} \left( {{\epsilon_{n - i}}} \right) \) inherits from \( \mathop {\left( {{\epsilon_i}} \right)}\nolimits_{i \in \mathbb{Z}} \) the central limit theorem and functional central limit theorems in various Banach spaces of \( \mathbb{F} \)-valued functions, including Hölder spaces.     

Simultaneous diophantine approximation in the real and <Emphasis Type="BoldItalic">p</Emphasis>-adic fields with nonmonotonic error function<Superscript>*</Superscript>

In this paper, we show that if the volume sum \( \sum\nolimits_{h = 1}^\infty {{h^{n - 1}}{\Psi^t}(h)} \) converges for a function ψ (not necessarily monotonic), then the set of points \( \left( {x,{w_1}, \ldots, {w_{t - 1}}} \right) \in {\mathbb R} \times {{\mathbb Q}_{{p_1}}} \times \ldots \times {{\mathbb Q}_{{p_{t - 1}}}} \) that simultaneously satisfy the inequalities \( \left| {P(x)} \right| < \Psi (H) {\text{and}} {\left| {P\left( {{w_i}} \right)} \right|_{{p_i}}} < \Phi (H), 1 \leqslant i \leqslant t - 1 \), for infinitely many integer polynomials P has measure zero.     

Symbol <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-algebras of prime degree and their <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-central subspaces

We prove that the maximal dimension of a p-central subspace of the generic symbol p-algebra of prime degree p is \({p+1}\). We do it by proving the following number theoretic fact: let \({\{s_1,\dots,s_{p+1}\}}\) be \({p+1}\) distinct nonzero elements in the additive group \({G=(\mathbb{Z}/p \mathbb{Z}) \times (\mathbb{Z}/p \mathbb{Z})}\), then every nonzero element \({g \in G}\) can be expressed as \({d_1 s_1+\dots+d_{p+1} s_{p+1}}\) for some non-negative integers \({d_1,\dots,d_{p+1}}\) with \({d_1+\dots+d_{p+1}\leq p-1}\).     

Hrmander Type Theorem for Fourier Multipliers with Optimal Smoothness on Hardy Spaces of Arbitrary Number of Parameters

The main purpose of this paper is to establish the Hormander-Mihlin type theorem for Fourier multipliers with optimal smoothness on k-parameter Hardy spaces for k≥ 3 using the multiparameter Littlewood-Paley theory. For the sake of convenience and simplicity, we only consider the case k = 3, and the method works for all the cases k≥ 3:■where x =(x_1,x_2,x_3)∈R~(n_1)×R~(n_2)×R~(n_3) and ξ =(ξ_1,ξ_2,ξ_3)∈R~(n_1)×R~(n_2)×R~(n_3). One of our main results is the following:Assume that m(ξ) is a function on R~(n_1+n_2+n_3) satisfying ■ with s_i n_i(1/p-1/2) for 1≤i≤3. Then T_m is bounded from H~p(R~(n_1)×R~(n_2)×R~(n_3) to H~p(R~(n_1)×R~(n_2)×R~(n_3)for all 0 p≤1 and ■ Moreover, the smoothness assumption on s_i for 1≤i≤3 is optimal. Here we have used the notations m_(j,k,l)(ξ)=m(2~jξ_1,2~kξ_2,2~lξ_3)Ψ(ξ_1)Ψ(ξ_2)Ψ(ξ_3) and Ψ(ξ_i) is a suitable cut-off function on R~(n_i) for1≤i≤3, and W~(s_1,s_2,s_3) is a three-parameter Sobolev space on R~(n_1)×R~(n_2)× R~(n_3).Because the Fefferman criterion breaks down in three parameters or more, we consider the L~p boundedness of the Littlewood-Paley square function of T_mf to establish its boundedness on the multi-parameter Hardy spaces.     

Sharp bounds for Hardy type operators on higher-dimensional product spaces

We investigate a class of fractional Hardy type operators \({\mathscr{H}_{{\beta _1},{\beta _2}, \ldots ,{\beta _m}}}\) defined on higher-dimensional product spaces \({\mathbb{R}^{{n_1}}} \times {\mathbb{R}^{{n_2}}} \times \cdots \times {\mathbb{R}^{{n_m}}}\) and use novel methods to obtain their sharp bounds. In particular, we optimize the result due to S. M. Wang, S. Z. Lu, and D. Y. Yan [Sci. China Math., 2012, 55(12): 2469–2480].     

A Supplement to Hölder’s Inequality. The Resonance Case. I

Suppose that m ≥ 2, numbers p₁, …, p _m ∈ (1, +∞] satisfy the inequality \(\frac{1}{{{p_1}}} + ... + \frac{1}{{{p_m}}} < 1\), and functions γ₁ ∈ \({L^{{p_1}}}\)(?¹), …, γ _m ∈ \({L^{{p_m}}}\)(?¹) are given. It is proved that if the set of “resonance points” of each of these functions is nonempty and the so-called “resonance condition” holds, then there are arbitrarily small (in norm) perturbations Δγ_k ∈ \({L^{{p_k}}}\)(?¹) under which the resonance set of each function γ_k + Δγ_k coincides with that of γ_k for 1 ≤ k ≤ m, but \({\left\| {\int\limits_0^t {\prod\limits_{k = 0}^m {\left[ {{\gamma _k}\left( \tau \right) + \Delta {\gamma _k}\left( \tau \right)} \right]d\tau } } } \right\|_{{L^\infty }\left( {{\mathbb{R}^1}} \right)}} = \infty \). The notion of a resonance point and the resonance condition for functions in the spaces L ^p (?¹), p ∈ (1, +∞], were introduced by the author in his previous papers.     

On a variety of commutative multiplicatively idempotent semirings

We prove that the variety \({{\mathscr {V}}}\) of commutative multiplicatively idempotent semirings satisfying \(x+y+xyz\approx x+y\) is generated by a single three-element semiring. Moreover, we describe a normal form system for terms in \({{\mathscr {V}}}\) and we show that the word problem in \({{\mathscr {V}}}\) is solvable. Although \({{\mathscr {V}}}\) is locally finite, it is residually big.     

Reflection positivity on real intervals

We study functions \(f : (a,b) \rightarrow {{\mathbb {R}}}\) on open intervals in \({{\mathbb {R}}}\) with respect to various kinds of positive and negative definiteness conditions. We say that f is positive definite if the kernel \(f\big (\frac{x + y}{2}\big )\) is positive definite. We call f negative definite if, for every \(h > 0\), the function \(e^{-hf}\) is positive definite. Our first main result is a Lévy–Khintchine formula (an integral representation) for negative definite functions on arbitrary intervals. For \((a,b) = (0,\infty )\) it generalizes classical results by Bernstein and Horn. On a symmetric interval \((-a,a)\), we call f reflection positive if it is positive definite and, in addition, the kernel \(f\big (\frac{x - y}{2}\big )\) is positive definite. We likewise define reflection negative functions and obtain a Lévy–Khintchine formula for reflection negative functions on all of \({{\mathbb {R}}}\). Finally, we obtain a characterization of germs of reflection negative functions on 0-neighborhoods in \({{\mathbb {R}}}\).     

Markoff–Lagrange spectrum and extremal numbers

Let \( \gamma = \frac{1}{2}\left( {1 + \sqrt {5} } \right) \) denote the golden ratio. H. Davenport and W. M. Schmidt showed in 1969 that, for each non-quadratic irrational real number ξ, there exists a constant c > 0 with the property that, for arbitrarily large values of X, the inequalities\( \left| {{x_0}} \right| \leqslant X,\,\,\,\left| {{x_0}\xi - {x_1}} \right| \leqslant c{X^{{{{ - 1}} \left/ {\gamma } \right.}}}\,\,\,{\text{and}}\,\,\,\left| {{x_0}{\xi^2} - {x_2}} \right| \leqslant c{X^{{{{ - 1}} \left/ {\gamma } \right.}}} \)admit no non-zero solution \( \left( {{x_0},{x_1},{x_2}} \right) \in {\mathbb{Z}^3} \). Their result is best possible in the sense that, conversely, there are countably many non-quadratic irrational real numbers ξ such that, for a larger value of c, the same inequalities admit a non-zero integer solution for each X ≥ 1. Such extremal numbers are transcendental and their set is stable under the action of \( {\text{G}}{{\text{L}}_2}\left( \mathbb{Z} \right) \) on \( \mathbb{R}\backslash \mathbb{Q} \) by linear fractional transformations. In this paper, it is shown that there exist extremal numbers ξ for which the Lagrange constant ν(ξ) = liminf _q→∞ q||qξ|| is \( \frac{1}{3} \), the largest possible value for a non-quadratic number, and that there is a natural bijection between the \( {\text{G}}{{\text{L}}_2}\left( \mathbb{Z} \right) \)-equivalence classes of such numbers and the non-trivial solutions of Markoff’s equation.     

On the Diophantine equation $$X^{2N}+2^{2\alpha }5^{2\beta }{p}^{2\gamma } = Z^5$$

We prove that for each prime p, positive integer \(\alpha \), and non-negative integers \(\beta \) and \(\gamma \), the Diophantine equation \(X^{2N} + 2^{2\alpha }5^{2\beta }{p}^{2\gamma } = Z^5\) has no solution with N, X, \(Z\in \mathbb {Z}^+\), \(N > 1\), and \(\gcd (X,Z) = 1\).     

On one complement to the Hölder inequality: I

Let m ≥ 2, the numbers p ₁,…, p _m ∈ (1, +∞] satisfy the inequality \(\frac{1}{{{p_1}}} + ...\frac{1}{{{p_m}}} < 1\), and γ₁ ∈ L ^p1(?¹), …, γ _m ∈ \({L^{{p_m}}}\)(?¹). We prove that, if the set of “resonance” points of each of these functions is nonempty and the “nonresonance” condition holds (both concepts have been introduced by the author for functions of spaces L ^p (?¹), p ∈ (1, +∞]), we have the inequality \(\mathop {\sup }\limits_{a,b \in {R^1}} \left| {\int\limits_a^b {\prod\limits_{k = 1}^m {\left[ {{\gamma _k}\left( \tau \right) + \Delta {\gamma _k}\left( \tau \right)} \right]} d\tau } } \right| \leqslant C{\prod\limits_{k = 1}^m {\left\| {{\gamma _k} + \Delta {\gamma _k}} \right\|} _{L_{{a_k}}^{{p_k}}}}\left( {{\mathbb{R}^1}} \right)\), where the constant C > 0 is independent of functions \(\Delta {\gamma _k} \in L_{{a_k}}^{{p_k}}\left( {{\mathbb{R}^1}} \right)\) and \(L_{{a_k}}^{{p_k}}\left( {{\mathbb{R}^1}} \right) \subset {L^{{p_k}}}\left( {{\mathbb{R}^1}} \right)\), 1 ≤ k ≤ m are some specially constructed normed spaces. In addition, we give a boundedness condition for the integral of the product of functions over a subset of ?¹.     

A note on <Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis>! modulo <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>

Let p be a prime, \(\varepsilon >0\) and \(0<L+1<L+N < p\). We prove that if \(p^{1/2+\varepsilon }< N <p^{1-\varepsilon }\), then

$$\begin{aligned} \#\{n!\,\,({\mathrm{mod}} \,p);\,\, L+1\le n\le L+N\} > c (N\log N)^{1/2},\,\, c=c(\varepsilon )>0. \end{aligned}$$

We use this bound to show that any \(\lambda \not \equiv 0\ ({\mathrm{mod}}\, p)\) can be represented in the form \(\lambda \equiv n_1!\cdots n_7!\ ({\mathrm{mod}}\, p)\), where \(n_i=o(p^{11/12})\). This refines the previously known range for \(n_i\).

     

The <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-adic order of some fibonomial coefficients whose entries are powers of <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>

Let (F _n ) _n≥0 be the Fibonacci sequence. For 1 ≤ k ≤ m, the Fibonomial coefficient is defined as

$${\left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} m \\ k \end{array}} \right]_F} = \frac{{{F_{m - k + 1}} \cdots {F_{m - 1}}{F_m}}}{{{F_1} \cdots {F_k}}}$$

. In 2013, Marques, Sellers and Trojovský proved that if p is a prime number such that p ≡ ±2 (mod 5), then \(p{\left| {\left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {{p^{a + 1}}} \\ {{p^a}} \end{array}} \right]} \right._F}\) for all integers a ≥ 1. In 2015, Marques and Trojovský worked on the p-adic order of \({\left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {{p^{a + 1}}} \\ {{p^a}} \end{array}} \right]_F}\) for all a ≥ 1 when p ≠ 5. In this paper, we shall provide the exact p-adic order of \({\left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {{p^{a + 1}}} \\ {{p^a}} \end{array}} \right]_F}\) for all integers a, b ≥ 1 and for all prime number p.

     

Intrinsic Structures of Certain Musielak–Orlicz Hardy Spaces

For any \(p\in (0,\,1]\), let \(H^{\Phi _p}(\mathbb {R}^n)\) be the Musielak–Orlicz Hardy space associated with the Musielak–Orlicz growth function \(\Phi _p\), defined by setting, for any \(x\in \mathbb {R}^n\) and \(t\in [0,\,\infty )\),

$$\begin{aligned}&\Phi _{p}(x,\,t)\\&\quad := {\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \displaystyle \frac{t}{\log {(e+t)}+[t(1+|x|)^n]^{1-p}}&{} \quad \text {when}\ n(1/p-1)\notin \mathbb N \cup \{0\},\\ \displaystyle \frac{t}{\log (e+t)+[t(1+|x|)^n]^{1-p}[\log (e+|x|)]^p}&{} \quad \text {when}\ n(1/p-1)\in \mathbb N\cup \{0\}, \end{array}\right. } \end{aligned}$$

which is the sharp target space of the bilinear decomposition of the product of the Hardy space \(H^p(\mathbb {R}^n)\) and its dual. Moreover, \(H^{\Phi _1}(\mathbb {R}^n)\) is the prototype appearing in the real-variable theory of general Musielak–Orlicz Hardy spaces. In this article, the authors find a new structure of the space \(H^{\Phi _p}(\mathbb {R}^n)\) by showing that, for any \(p\in (0,\,1]\), \(H^{\Phi _p}(\mathbb {R}^n)=H^{\phi _0}(\mathbb {R}^n) +H_{W_p}^p({{{\mathbb {R}}}^n})\) and, for any \(p\in (0,\,1)\), \(H^{\Phi _p}(\mathbb {R}^n)=H^{1}(\mathbb {R}^n) +H_{W_p}^p({{{\mathbb {R}}}^n})\), where \(H^1(\mathbb {R}^n)\) denotes the classical real Hardy space, \(H^{\phi _0}({{{\mathbb {R}}}^n})\) the Orlicz–Hardy space associated with the Orlicz function \(\phi _0(t):=t/\log (e+t)\) for any \(t\in [0,\infty )\), and \(H_{W_p}^p(\mathbb {R}^n)\) the weighted Hardy space associated with certain weight function \(W_p(x)\) that is comparable to \(\Phi _p(x,1)\) for any \(x\in \mathbb {R}^n\). As an application, the authors further establish an interpolation theorem of quasilinear operators based on this new structure.

     

A restriction theorem for Grushin operators

We study the Grushin operators acting on \(\mathbb{R}_x^{{d_1}} \times \mathbb{R}_t^{{d_2}}\) and defined by the formula \(L = - \sum\nolimits_{j = 1}^{{d_1}} {\partial _{{x_j}}^2} - {\sum\nolimits_{j = 1}^{{d_1}} {\left| {{x_j}} \right|} ^2}\sum\nolimits_{k = 1}^{{d_2}} {\partial _{{t_k}}^2} \). We establish a restriction theorem associated with the considered operators. Our result is an analogue of the restriction theorem on the Heisenberg group obtained by D. M¨uller [Ann. of Math., 1990, 131: 567–587].     

Linear sets in the projective line over the endomorphism ring of a finite field

Let \({{\mathrm{{PG}}}}(1,E)\) be the projective line over the endomorphism ring \( E={{\mathrm{End}}}_q({\mathbb F}_{q^t})\) of the \({\mathbb F}_q\)-vector space \({\mathbb F}_{q^t}\). As is well known, there is a bijection \(\varPsi :{{\mathrm{{PG}}}}(1,E)\rightarrow {\mathcal G}_{2t,t,q}\) with the Grassmannian of the \((t-1)\)-subspaces in \({{\mathrm{{PG}}}}(2t-1,q)\). In this paper along with any \({\mathbb F}_q\)-linear set L of rank t in \({{\mathrm{{PG}}}}(1,q^t)\), determined by a \((t-1)\)-dimensional subspace \(T^\varPsi \) of \({{\mathrm{{PG}}}}(2t-1,q)\), a subset \(L_T\) of \({{\mathrm{{PG}}}}(1,E)\) is investigated. Some properties of linear sets are expressed in terms of the projective line over the ring E. In particular, the attention is focused on the relationship between \(L_T\) and the set \(L'_T\), corresponding via \(\varPsi \) to a collection of pairwise skew \((t-1)\)-dimensional subspaces, with \(T\in L'_T\), each of which determine L. This leads among other things to a characterization of the linear sets of pseudoregulus type. It is proved that a scattered linear set L related to \(T\in {{\mathrm{{PG}}}}(1,E)\) is of pseudoregulus type if and only if there exists a projectivity \(\varphi \) of \({{\mathrm{{PG}}}}(1,E)\) such that \(L_T^\varphi =L'_T\).