Pfaffian representations of cubic surfaces

Let $\mathbb{K }$ be a field of characteristic zero. We describe an algorithm which requires a homogeneous polynomial $F$ of degree three in $\mathbb{K }[x_{0},x_1,x_{2},x_{3}]$ and a zero ${\mathbf{a }}$ of $F$ in $\mathbb{P }^{3}_{\mathbb{K }}$ and ensures a linear Pfaffian representation of $\text{ V}(F)$ with entries in $\mathbb{K }[x_{0},x_{1},x_{2},x_{3}]$ , under mild assumptions on $F$ and ${\mathbf{a }}$ . We use this result to give an explicit construction of (and to prove the existence of) a linear Pfaffian representation of $\text{ V}(F)$ , with entries in $\mathbb{K }^{\prime }[x_{0},x_{1},x_{2},x_{3}]$ , being $\mathbb{K }^{\prime }$ an algebraic extension of $\mathbb{K }$ of degree at most six. An explicit example of such a construction is given.     

Constructible \nabla -modules on curves

Let $\mathcal{V }$ be a complete discrete valuation ring of mixed characteristic with perfect residue field. Let $X$ be a geometrically connected smooth proper curve over $\mathcal{V }$ . We introduce the notion of constructible convergent $\nabla $ -module on the analytification $X_{K}^{\mathrm{an}}$ of the generic fiber of $X$ . A constructible module is an $\mathcal{O }_{X_{K}^{\mathrm{an}}}$ -module which is not necessarily coherent, but becomes coherent on a stratification by locally closed subsets of the special fiber $X_{k}$ of $X$ . The notions of connection, of (over-) convergence and of Frobenius structure carry over to this situation. We describe a specialization functor from the category of constructible convergent $\nabla $ -modules to the category of $\mathcal{D }^\dagger _{\hat{X} \mathbf{Q }}$ -modules. We show that specialization induces an equivalence between constructible $F$ - $\nabla $ -modules and perverse holonomic $F$ - $\mathcal{D }^\dagger _{\hat{X} \mathbf{Q }}$ -modules.     

The topology of parabolic character varieties of free groups

Let $G$ be a complex affine algebraic reductive group, and let $K\,\subset \, G$ be a maximal compact subgroup. Fix h $\,:=\,(h_{1}\,,\ldots \,,h_{m})\,\in \, K^{m}$ . For $n\, \ge \, 0$ , let $\mathsf X _{\mathbf{{h}},n}^{G}$ (respectively, $\mathsf X _{\mathbf{{h}},n}^{K}$ ) be the space of equivalence classes of representations of the free group on $m+n$ generators in $G$ (respectively, $K$ ) such that for each $1\le i\le m$ , the image of the $i$ -th free generator is conjugate to $h_{i}$ . These spaces are parabolic analogues of character varieties of free groups. We prove that $\mathsf X _{\mathbf{{h}},n}^{K}$ is a strong deformation retraction of $\mathsf X _{\mathbf{{h}},n}^{G}$ . In particular, $\mathsf X _{\mathbf{{h}},n}^{G}$ and $\mathsf X _{\mathbf{{h}},n}^{K}$ are homotopy equivalent. We also describe explicit examples relating $\mathsf X _{\mathbf{{h}},n}^{G}$ to relative character varieties.     

The Hopf–Lax formula in Carnot groups: a control theoretic approach

The purpose of this paper is to bring a new light on the state-dependent Hamilton–Jacobi equation and its connection with the Hopf–Lax formula in the framework of a Carnot group $(\mathbf G ,\circ ).$ The equation we shall consider is of the form $$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{l@{\quad }l} u_{t}+ \Psi (X_{1}u, \ldots , X_{m}u)=0\qquad &{}(x,t)\in \mathbf G \times (0,\infty ) \\ {u}(x,0)=g(x)&{}x\in \mathbf G , \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}$$ where $X_{1},\ldots , X_{m}$ are a basis of the first layer of the Lie algebra of the group $\mathbf G ,$ and $\Psi : \mathbb{R }^{m} \rightarrow \mathbb{R }$ is a superlinear, convex function. The main result shows that the unique viscosity solution of the Hamilton–Jacobi equation can be given by the Hopf–Lax formula $$\begin{aligned} u(x,t) = \inf _{y\in \mathbf G }\left\{ t \Psi ^\mathbf{G }\left( \delta _{\frac{1}{t}}(y^{-1}\circ x)\right) + g(y) \right\} , \end{aligned}$$ where $\Psi ^\mathbf{G }:\mathbf G \rightarrow \mathbb{R }$ is the $\mathbf G $ -Legendre–Fenchel transform of $\Psi ,$ defined by a control theoretical approach. We recover, as special cases, some known results like the classical Hopf–Lax formula in the Euclidean spaces $\mathbb{R }^n,$ showing that $\Psi ^{\mathbb{R }^n}$ is the Legendre–Fenchel transform $\Psi ^*$ of $\Psi ;$ moreover, we recover the result by Manfredi and Stroffolini in the Heisenberg group for particular Hamiltonian function $\Psi .$ In this paper we follow an optimal control problem approach and we obtain several properties for the value functions $u$ and $\Psi ^\mathbf G .$      

The Lagrangian Radon Transform and the Weil Representation

We consider the operator $\mathcal {R}$ , which sends a function on ${\mathbb {R}}^{2n}$ to its integrals over all affine Lagrangian subspaces in ${\mathbb {R}}^{2n}$ . We discuss properties of the operator $\mathcal {R}$ and of the representation of the affine symplectic group in several function spaces on ${\mathbb {R}}^{2n}$ .     

The Generalization of the Decomposition of Functions by Energy Operators

This work starts with the introduction of a family of differential energy operators. Energy operators $({\varPsi}_{R}^{+}, {\varPsi}_{R}^{-})$ were defined together with a method to decompose the wave equation in a previous work. Here the energy operators are defined following the order of their derivatives $(\varPsi^{-}_{k}, \varPsi^{+}_{k}, k=\{0,\pm 1,\pm 2,\ldots\})$ . The main part of the work demonstrates for any smooth real-valued function f in the Schwartz space $(\mathbf{S}^{-}(\mathbb{R}))$ , the successive derivatives of the n-th power of f ( $n \in \mathbb{Z}$ and n≠0) can be decomposed using only $\varPsi^{+}_{k}$ (Lemma); or if f in a subset of $\mathbf{S}^{-}(\mathbb{R})$ , called $\mathbf{s}^{-}(\mathbb{R})$ , $\varPsi^{+}_{k}$ and $\varPsi^{-}_{k}$ ( $k\in \mathbb{Z}$ ) decompose in a unique way the successive derivatives of the n-th power of f (Theorem). Some properties of the Kernel and the Image of the energy operators are given along with the development. Finally, the paper ends with the application to the energy function.     

On nonlinear elliptic equations with Hardy potential and L^{1}-data

We consider a class of nonlinear elliptic equations involving the Hardy potential and lower order terms whose simplest model is $$\begin{aligned} -\Delta u +b(|u|)|\nabla u|^{2}+\nu |u|^{s-1}u=\lambda \frac{u}{|x|^{2}}+f \end{aligned}$$ in a bounded open $\varOmega $ of $\mathbf{R }^{N}, N\ge 3,$ containing the origin, $s>\frac{N}{N-2}, \nu $ and $\lambda $ are positive real numbers. We prove that the presence of the term $\nu |u|^{s-1}u$ has an effect on the existence of solutions when $f\in L^{1}(\varOmega )$ assuming only that $b\in L^{1}(\mathbf{R })$ without any sign condition (i.e. $b(s)s\ge 0$ ).     

Biharmonic PNMC submanifolds in spheres

We obtain several rigidity results for biharmonic submanifolds in $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ with parallel normalized mean curvature vector fields. We classify biharmonic submanifolds in $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ with parallel normalized mean curvature vector fields and with at most two distinct principal curvatures. In particular, we determine all biharmonic surfaces with parallel normalized mean curvature vector fields in $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ . Then we investigate, for (not necessarily compact) proper-biharmonic submanifolds in $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ , their type in the sense of B.-Y. Chen. We prove that (i) a proper-biharmonic submanifold in $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ is of 1-type or 2-type if and only if it has constant mean curvature f=1 or f∈(0,1), respectively; and (ii) there are no proper-biharmonic 3-type submanifolds with parallel normalized mean curvature vector fields in $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ .     

A hybrid inequality of Erdös–Turán–Koksma for digital sequences

For bases $\mathbf{b}=(b_1, \ldots , b_s)$ of $s$ not necessarily distinct integers $b_i\ge 2$ , we prove a version of the inequality of Erdös–Turán–Koksma for the hybrid function system composed of the Walsh functions in base $\mathbf{b}^{(1)}=(b_1, \ldots , b_{s_1})$ and, as second component, the $\mathbf{b}^{(2)}$ -adic functions, $\mathbf{b}^{(2)}=(b_{s_1+1}, \ldots , b_s)$ , with $s=s_1+s_2$ , $s_1$ and $s_2$ not both equal to 0. Further, we point out why this choice of a hybrid function system covers all possible cases of sequences that employ addition of digit vectors as their main construction principle.     

On the distinctness of modular reductions of primitive sequences over Z/(232−1)

This paper studies the distinctness of modular reductions of primitive sequences over ${\mathbf{Z}/(2^{32}-1)}$ . Let f(x) be a primitive polynomial of degree n over ${\mathbf{Z}/(2^{32}-1)}$ and H a positive integer with a prime factor coprime with 2³²?1. Under the assumption that every element in ${\mathbf{Z}/(2^{32}-1)}$ occurs in a primitive sequence of order n over ${\mathbf{Z}/(2^{32}-1)}$ , it is proved that for two primitive sequences ${\underline{a}=(a(t))_{t\geq 0}}$ and ${\underline{b}=(b(t))_{t\geq 0}}$ generated by f(x) over ${\mathbf{Z}/(2^{32}-1), \underline{a}=\underline{b}}$ if and only if ${a\left( t\right) \equiv b\left( t\right) \bmod{H}}$ for all t ≥ 0. Furthermore, the assumption is known to be valid for n between 7 and 100, 000, the range of which is sufficient for practical applications.     

Global symplectic coordinates on gradient Kähler–Ricci solitons

A classical result of McDuff [14] asserts that a simply connected complete Kähler manifold $(M,g,\omega )$ with non positive sectional curvature admits global symplectic coordinates through a symplectomorphism $\Psi \ : M \rightarrow \mathbb{R }^{2n}$ (where $n$ is the complex dimension of $M$ ), satisfying the following property (proved by E. Ciriza in [4]): the image $\Psi (T)$ of any complex totally geodesic submanifold $T\subset M$ through the point $p$ such that $\Psi (p)=0$ , is a complex linear subspace of $\mathbb C ^n\simeq \mathbb{R }^{2n}$ . The aim of this paper is to exhibit, for all positive integers $n$ , examples of $n$ -dimensional complete Kähler manifolds with non-negative sectional curvature globally symplectomorphic to $\mathbb{R }^{2n}$ through a symplectomorphism satisfying Ciriza’s property.     

Complete bounded null curves immersed in {\mathbb {C}^3} and {\rm {SL}(2,\mathbb {C})}

We construct a simply connected complete bounded mean curvature one surface in the hyperbolic 3-space ${\mathcal {H}^3}$ . Such a surface in ${\mathcal {H}^3}$ can be lifted as a complete bounded null curve in ${\rm {SL}(2,\mathbb {C})}$ . Using a transformation between null curves in ${\mathbb {C}^3}$ and null curves in ${\rm {SL}(2,\mathbb {C})}$ , we are able to produce the first examples of complete bounded null curves in ${\mathbb {C}^3}$ . As an application, we can show the existence of a complete bounded minimal surface in ${\mathbb {R}^3}$ whose conjugate minimal surface is also bounded. Moreover, we can show the existence of a complete bounded immersed complex submanifold in ${\mathbb {C}^2}$ .     

Uniqueness of the embedding continuous convolution semigroup of a Gaussian probability measure on the affine group and an application in mathematical finance

Let $\{\mu _{t}^{(i)}\}_{t\ge 0}$ ( $i=1,2$ ) be continuous convolution semigroups (c.c.s.) of probability measures on $\mathbf{Aff(1)}$ (the affine group on the real line). Suppose that $\mu _{1}^{(1)}=\mu _{1}^{(2)}$ . Assume furthermore that $\{\mu _{t}^{(1)}\}_{t\ge 0}$ is a Gaussian c.c.s. (in the sense that its generating distribution is a sum of a primitive distribution and a second-order differential operator). Then $\mu _{t}^{(1)}=\mu _{t}^{(2)}$ for all $t\ge 0$ . We end up with a possible application in mathematical finance.     

Classification of hypersurfaces with constant M?bius curvature in {\mathbb{S}^{m+1}}

Let ${x: M^{m} \rightarrow \mathbb{S}^{m+1}}$ be an m-dimensional umbilic-free hypersurface in an (m?+?1)-dimensional unit sphere ${\mathbb{S}^{m+1}}$ , with standard metric I?= dx · dx. Let II be the second fundamental form of isometric immersion x. Define the positive function ${\rho=\sqrt{\frac{m}{m-1}}\|II-\frac{1}{m}tr(II)I\|}$ . Then positive definite (0,2) tensor ${\mathbf{g}=\rho^{2}I}$ is invariant under conformal transformations of ${\mathbb{S}^{m+1}}$ and is called M?bius metric. The curvature induced by the metric g is called M?bius curvature. The purpose of this paper is to classify the hypersurfaces with constant M?bius curvature.     

Sufficient conditions for Willmore immersions in \mathbb{R }^3 to be minimal surfaces

We provide two sharp sufficient conditions for immersed Willmore surfaces in $\mathbb{R }^3$ to be already minimal surfaces, i.e. to have vanishing mean curvature on their entire domains. These results turn out to be particularly suitable for applications to Willmore graphs. We can therefore show that Willmore graphs on bounded $C^4$ -domains $\overline{\varOmega }$ with vanishing mean curvature on the boundary $\partial \varOmega $ must already be minimal graphs, which in particular yields some Bernstein-type result for Willmore graphs on $\mathbb{R }^2$ . Our methods also prove the non-existence of Willmore graphs on bounded $C^4$ -domains $\overline{\varOmega }$ with mean curvature $H$ satisfying $H \ge c_0>0 \,{\text{ on }}\, \partial \varOmega $ if $\varOmega $ contains some closed disc of radius $\frac{1}{c_0} \in (0,\infty )$ , and they yield that any closed Willmore surface in $\mathbb{R }^3$ which can be represented as a smooth graph over $\mathbb{S }^2$ has to be a round sphere. Finally, we demonstrate that our results are sharp by means of an examination of some certain part of the Clifford torus in $\mathbb{R }^3$ .