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.     

On Simultaneous Digital Expansions of Polynomial Values

Let s _q denote the q-ary sum-of-digits function and let \({P_1(X), P_2(X) \in \mathbb{Z}[X]}\) with \({P_1(\mathbb{N}), P_2(\mathbb{N}) \subset \mathbb{N}}\) be polynomials of degree \({h, l \geqq 1, h \neq l}\) , respectively. In this note we show that ( \({s_q(P_1(n))/s_q(P_2(n)))_{n \geqq 1}}\) is dense in \({\mathbb{R}^+}\) . This extends work by Stolarsky [9] and Hare, Laishram and Stoll [6].     

Invariance principle for the random conductance model

We study a continuous time random walk X in an environment of i.i.d. random conductances ${\mu_{e} \in [0,\infty)}$ in ${\mathbb{Z}^d}$ . We assume that ${\mathbb{P}(\mu_{e} > 0) > p_c}$ , so that the bonds with strictly positive conductances percolate, but make no other assumptions on the law of the μ _e . We prove a quenched invariance principle for X, and obtain Green’s functions bounds and an elliptic Harnack inequality.     

Weyl modules and q-Whittaker functions

Let $G$ be a semi-simple simply connected group over $\mathbb {C}$ . Following Gerasimov et al. (Comm Math Phys 294:97–119, 2010) we use the $q$ -Toda integrable system obtained by quantum group version of the Kostant–Whittaker reduction (cf. Etingof in Am Math Soc Trans Ser 2:9–25, 1999, Sevostyanov in Commun Math Phys 204:1–16, 1999) to define the notion of $q$ -Whittaker functions $\varPsi _{\check{\lambda }}(q,z)$ . This is a family of invariant polynomials on the maximal torus $T\subset G$ (here $z\in T$ ) depending on a dominant weight $\check{\lambda }$ of $G$ whose coefficients are rational functions in a variable $q\in \mathbb {C}^*$ . For a conjecturally the same (but a priori different) definition of the $q$ -Toda system these functions were studied by Ion (Duke Math J 116:1–16, 2003) and by Cherednik (Int Math Res Notices 20:3793–3842, 2009) [we shall denote the $q$ -Whittaker functions from Cherednik (Int Math Res Notices 20:3793–3842, 2009) by $\varPsi '_{\check{\lambda }}(q,z)$ ]. For $G=SL(N)$ these functions were extensively studied in Gerasimov et al. (Comm Math Phys 294:97–119, 2010; Comm Math Phys 294:121–143, 2010; Lett Math Phys 97:1–24, 2011). We show that when $G$ is simply laced, the function $\hat{\varPsi }_{\check{\lambda }}(q,z)=\varPsi _{\check{\lambda }}(q,z)\cdot {\prod \nolimits _{i\in I}\prod \nolimits _{r=1}^{\langle \alpha _i,\check{\uplambda }\rangle }(1-q^r)}$ (here $I$ denotes the set of vertices of the Dynkin diagram of $G$ ) is equal to the character of a certain finite-dimensional $G[[{\mathsf {t}}]]\rtimes \mathbb {C}^*$ -module $D(\check{\lambda })$ (the Demazure module). When $G$ is not simply laced a twisted version of the above statement holds. This result is known for $\varPsi _{\check{\lambda }}$ replaced by $\varPsi '_{\check{\lambda }}$ (cf. Sanderson in J Algebraic Combin 11:269–275, 2000 and Ion in Duke Math J 116:1–16, 2003); however our proofs are algebro-geometric [and rely on our previous work (Braverman, Finkelberg in Semi-infinite Schubert varieties and quantum $K$ -theory of flag manifolds, arXiv/1111.2266, 2011)] and thus they are completely different from Sanderson (J Algebraic Combin 11:269–275, 2000) and Ion (Duke Math J 116:1–16, 2003) [in particular, we give an apparently new algebro-geometric interpretation of the modules $D(\check{\lambda })]$ .     

Asymptotic behaviour of first passage time distributions for Lévy processes

Let $X$ be a real valued Lévy process that is in the domain of attraction of a stable law without centering with norming function $c.$ As an analogue of the random walk results in Vatutin and Wachtel (Probab Theory Relat Fields 143(1–2):177–217, 2009) and Doney (Probab Theory Relat Fields 152(3–4):559–588, 2012), we study the local behaviour of the distribution of the lifetime $\zeta $ under the characteristic measure $\underline{n}$ of excursions away from $0$ of the process $X$ reflected in its past infimum, and of the first passage time of $X$ below $0,$ $T_{0}=\inf \{t>0:X_{t}<0\},$ under $\mathbb{P }_{x}(\cdot ),$ for $x>0,$ in two different regimes for $x,$ viz. $x=o(c(\cdot ))$ and $x>D c(\cdot ),$ for some $D>0.$ We sharpen our estimates by distinguishing between two types of path behaviour, viz. continuous passage at $T_{0}$ and discontinuous passage. In order to prove our main results we establish some sharp local estimates for the entrance law of the excursion process associated to $X$ reflected in its past infimum.     

Harmonic mappings in Bergman spaces

In this paper, we investigate the properties of mappings in harmonic Bergman spaces. First, we discuss the coefficient estimate, the Schwarz-Pick Lemma and the Landau-Bloch theorem for mappings in harmonic Bergman spaces in the unit disk $\mathbb D $ of $\mathbb C $ . Our results are generalizations of the corresponding ones in Chen et al. (Proc Am Math Soc 128:3231–3240, 2000), Chen et al. (J Math Anal Appl 373:102–110, 2011), Chen et al. (Ann Acad Sci Fenn Math 36:567–576, 2011). Then, we study the Schwarz-Pick Lemma and the Landau-Bloch theorem for mappings in harmonic Bergman spaces in the unit ball $\mathbb B ^{n}$ of $\mathbb C ^{n}$ . The obtained results are generalizations of the corresponding ones in Chen and Gauthier (Proc Am Math Soc 139:583–595 2011). At last, we get a characterization for mappings in harmonic Bergman spaces on $\mathbb B ^{n}$ in terms of their complex gradients.     

Exact value of the resistance exponent for four dimensional random walk trace

Let S be a simple random walk starting at the origin in ${\mathbb{Z}^{4}}$ . We consider ${{\mathcal G}=S[0,\infty)}$ to be a random subgraph of the integer lattice and assume that a resistance of unit 1 is put on each edge of the graph ${{\mathcal G}}$ . Let ${R_{{\mathcal G}}(0,S_{n})}$ be the effective resistance between the origin and S _n . We derive the exact value of the resistance exponent; more precisely, we prove that ${n^{-1}E(R_{{\mathcal G}}(0,S_{n}))\approx (\log n)^{-\frac{1}{2}}}$ . As an application, we obtain sharp heat kernel estimates for random walk on ${\mathcal G}$ at the quenched level. These results give the answer to the problem raised by Burdzy and Lawler (J Phys A Math Gen 23:L23–L28, 1990) in four dimensions.     

A characterization for truncated cauchy random variables with nonzero skewness parameter

Soltani and Shirvani (Comput Stat 25:155–161, 2010) provided a characterization and a simulation method for truncated stable random variables when the characteristic exponent $\alpha \ne 1 $ , and left the case $\alpha =1$ open. The case of $\alpha =1$ is treated in this article.     

Sequential weak continuity of null Lagrangians at the boundary

We show weak* in measures on $\bar{\Omega }$ / weak- $L^1$ sequential continuity of $u\mapsto f(x,\nabla u):W^{1,p}(\Omega ;\mathbb{R }^m)\rightarrow L^1(\Omega )$ , where $f(x,\cdot )$ is a null Lagrangian for $x\in \Omega $ , it is a null Lagrangian at the boundary for $x\in \partial \Omega $ and $|f(x,A)|\le C(1+|A|^p)$ . We also give a precise characterization of null Lagrangians at the boundary in arbitrary dimensions. Our results explain, for instance, why $u\mapsto \det \nabla u:W^{1,n}(\Omega ;\mathbb{R }^n)\rightarrow L^1(\Omega )$ fails to be weakly continuous. Further, we state a new weak lower semicontinuity theorem for integrands depending on null Lagrangians at the boundary. The paper closes with an example indicating that a well-known result on higher integrability of determinant by Müller (Bull. Am. Math. Soc. New Ser. 21(2): 245–248, 1989) need not necessarily extend to our setting. The notion of quasiconvexity at the boundary due to J.M. Ball and J. Marsden is central to our analysis.     

The local circular law III: general case

In the first part (Bourgade et al., Local circular law for random matrices, preprint, arXiv:1206.1449, 2012) of this article series, Bourgade, Yau and the author of this paper proved a local version of the circular law up to the finest scale \(N^{-1/2+ {\varepsilon }}\) for non-Hermitian random matrices at any point \(z \in \mathbb {C}\) with \(||z| - 1| > c \) for any constant \(c>0\) independent of the size of the matrix. In the second part (Bourgade et al., The local circular law II: the edge case, preprint, arXiv:1206.3187, 2012), they extended this result to include the edge case \( |z|-1={{\mathrm{o}}}(1)\) , under the main assumption that the third moments of the matrix elements vanish. (Without the vanishing third moment assumption, they proved that the circular law is valid near the spectral edge \( |z|-1={{\mathrm{o}}}(1)\) up to scale \(N^{-1/4+ {\varepsilon }}\) .) In this paper, we will remove this assumption, i.e. we prove a local version of the circular law up to the finest scale \(N^{-1/2+ {\varepsilon }}\) for non-Hermitian random matrices at any point \(z \in \mathbb {C}\) .     

Subsets of full measure in a generic submanifold in \mathbb C ^n are non-plurithin

In this paper we prove that if $I\subset M $ is a subset of measure $0$ in a $C^2$ -smooth generic submanifold $M \subset \mathbb C ^n$ , then $M \setminus I$ is non-plurithin at each point of $M$ in $\mathbb C ^n$ . This result improves a previous result of A. Edigarian and J. Wiegerinck who considered the case where $I$ is pluripolar set contained in a $C^1$ -smooth generic submanifold $M \subset \mathbb C ^n$ (Edigarian and Wiegernick in Math. Z. 266(2):393–398, 2010). The proof of our result is essentially different.     

Right-convergence of sparse random graphs

The paper is devoted to the problem of establishing right-convergence of sparse random graphs. This concerns the convergence of the logarithm of number of homomorphisms from graphs or hyper-graphs \(\mathbb{G }_N, N\ge 1\) to some target graph \(W\) . The theory of dense graph convergence, including random dense graphs, is now well understood (Borgs et al. in Ann Math 176:151–219, 2012; Borgs et al. in Adv Math 219:1801–1851, 2008; Chatterjee and Varadhan in Eur J Comb 32:1000–1017, 2011; Lovász and Szegedy in J Comb Theory Ser B 96:933–957, 2006), but its counterpart for sparse random graphs presents some fundamental difficulties. Phrased in the statistical physics terminology, the issue is the existence of the limits of appropriately normalized log-partition functions, also known as free energy limits, for the Gibbs distribution associated with \(W\) . In this paper we prove that the sequence of sparse Erdös-Rényi graphs is right-converging when the tensor product associated with the target graph \(W\) satisfies a certain convexity property. We treat the case of discrete and continuous target graphs \(W\) . The latter case allows us to prove a special case of Talagrand’s recent conjecture [more accurately stated as level III Research Problem 6.7.2 in his recent book (Talagrand in Mean Field Models for Spin Glasses: Volume I: Basic examples. Springer, Berlin, 2010)], concerning the existence of the limit of the measure of a set obtained from \(\mathbb{R }^N\) by intersecting it with linearly in \(N\) many subsets, generated according to some common probability law. Our proof is based on the interpolation technique, introduced first by Guerra and Toninelli (Commun Math Phys 230:71–79, 2002) and developed further in (Abbe and Montanari in On the concentration of the number of solutions of random satisfiability formulas, 2013; Bayati et al. in Ann Probab Conference version in Proceedings of 42nd Ann. Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), 2010; Contucci et al. in Antiferromagnetic Potts model on the Erdös-Rényi random graph, 2011; Franz and Leone in J Stat Phys 111(3/4):535–564, 2003; Franz et al. in J Phys A Math Gen 36:10967–10985, 2003; Montanari in IEEE Trans Inf Theory 51(9):3221–3246, 2005; Panchenko and Talagrand in Probab Theory Relat Fields 130:312–336, 2004). Specifically, Bayati et al. (Ann Probab Conference version in Proceedings of 42nd Ann. Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), 2010) establishes the right-convergence property for Erdös-Rényi graphs for some special cases of \(W\) . In this paper most of the results in Bayati et al. (Ann Probab Conference version in Proceedings of 42nd Ann. Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), 2010) follow as a special case of our main theorem.     

Erratum to: Algèbres de lie quasi-réductives

In Corollary 12(ii) and Theorem 13(v) of [1] we omitted the hypothesis dim $ \mathfrak{z}\leq 1 $ . Moreover, in some places the symbol $ \mathbb{K} $ must be replaced by the symbol $ {{\mathbb{K}}^{\times }} $ .     

On a problem concerning the Banach algebra generated by the maps n\mapsto\lambda^{\binom{n}{k}}

In Jabbari and Namioka (Milan J. Math. 78:503?C522, 2010), the authors characterized the spectrum M(W) of the Weyl algebra W, i.e. the norm closure of the algebra generated by the family of functions $\{n\mapsto x^{n^{k}}; x\in\mathbb{T}, k\in\mathbb{N}\}$ , ( $\mathbb{T}$ the unit circle), with a closed subgroup of $E(\mathbb{T})^{\mathbb{N}}$ where $E(\mathbb{T})$ denotes the family of the endomorphisms of the multiplicative group $\mathbb{T}$ . But the size of M(W) in $E(\mathbb{T})^{\mathbb{N}}$ as well as the induced group operation were left as a problem. In this paper, we will give a solution to this problem.     

Discrete fractal dimensions of the ranges of random walks in {{\mathbb Z}^d} associate with random conductances

Let ${X= \{X_t, t \ge 0\}}$ be a continuous time random walk in an environment of i.i.d. random conductances ${\{\mu_e \in [1,\infty), e \in E_d\}}$ , where E _d is the set of nonoriented nearest neighbor bonds on the Euclidean lattice ${\mathbb{Z}^d}$ and d ≥ 3. Let ${{\rm R} = \{x \in \mathbb{Z}^d: X_t = x {\rm \,for\, some}\,t \ge 0\}}$ be the range of X. It is proved that, for almost every realization of the environment, dim_H R = dim_P R = 2 almost surely, where dim_H and dim_P denote, respectively, the discrete Hausdorff and packing dimension. Furthermore, given any set ${A \subseteq \mathbb{Z}^d}$ , a criterion for A to be hit by X _t for arbitrarily large t > 0 is given in terms of dim_H A. Similar results for Bouchoud’s trap model in ${\mathbb{Z}^d}$ (d ≥ 3) are also proven.     

On Radial Functions and Distributions and Their Fourier Transforms

We give formulas relating the Fourier transform of a radial function in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ and the Fourier transform of the same function in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ , completing the analysis of Grafakos and Teschl (J. Fourier Anal. Appl. 19:167–179, 2013) where the case of $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ and $\mathbb{R}^{n+2}$ was considered.     

Quadratic functions with prescribed spectra

We study a class of quadratic p-ary functions ${{\mathcal{F}}_{p,n}}$ from ${\mathbb{F}_{p^n}}$ to ${\mathbb{F}_p, p \geq 2}$ , which are well-known to have plateaued Walsh spectrum; i.e., for each ${b \in \mathbb{F}_{p^n}}$ the Walsh transform ${\hat{f}(b)}$ satisfies ${|\hat{f}(b)|^2 \in \{ 0, p^{(n+s)}\}}$ for some integer 0 ≤ s ≤ n ? 1. For various types of integers n, we determine possible values of s, construct ${{\mathcal{F}}_{p,n}}$ with prescribed spectrum, and present enumeration results. Our work generalizes some of the earlier results, in characteristic two, of Khoo et. al. (Des Codes Cryptogr, 38, 279–295, 2006) and Charpin et al. (IEEE Trans Inf Theory 51, 4286–4298, 2005) on semi-bent functions, and of Fitzgerald (Finite Fields Appl 15, 69–81, 2009) on quadratic forms.     

On the fast Khintchine spectrum in continued fractions

For $x\in [0,1)$ x ∈ [ 0 , 1 ) , let $x=[a_1(x), a_2(x),\ldots ]$ x = [ a 1 ( x ) , a 2 ( x ) , ... ] be its continued fraction expansion with partial quotients $\{a_n(x), n\ge 1\}$ { a n ( x ) , n ≥ 1 } . Let $\psi : \mathbb{N } \rightarrow \mathbb{N }$ ψ : N → N be a function with $\psi (n)/n\rightarrow \infty $ ψ ( n ) / n → ∞ as $n\rightarrow \infty $ n → ∞ . In this note, the fast Khintchine spectrum, i.e., the Hausdorff dimension of the set $$\begin{aligned} E(\psi ):=\left\{ x\in [0,1): \lim _{n\rightarrow \infty }\frac{1}{\psi (n)}\sum _{j=1}^n\log a_j(x)=1\right\} \end{aligned}$$ E ( ψ ) : = x ∈ [ 0 , 1 ) : lim n → ∞ 1 ψ ( n ) ∑ j = 1 n log a j ( x ) = 1 is completely determined without any extra condition on $\psi $ ψ . This fills a gap of the former work in Fan et al. (Ergod Theor Dyn Syst 29:73–109, 2009).     

Stability of a conditional Cauchy equation on a set of measure zero

In this paper, we prove the Hyers–Ulam stability theorem when \({f, g, h : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}}\) satisfy $$|f(x + y) - g(x) - h(y)| \leq \epsilon$$ in a set \({\Gamma \subset \mathbb{R}^{2}}\) of measure \({m(\Gamma) = 0}\) , which refines a previous result in Chung (Aequat Math 83:313–320, 2012) and gives an affirmative answer to the question in the paper. As a direct consequence we obtain that if \({f, g, h : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}}\) satisfy the Pexider equation $$f(x + y) - g(x) - h(y) = 0$$ in \({\Gamma}\) , then the equation holds for all \({x, y \in \mathbb{R}}\) . Using our method of construction of the set, we can find a set \({\Gamma \subset \mathbb{R}^{2n}}\) of 2n-dimensional measure 0 and obtain the above result for the functions \({f, g, h : \mathbb{R}^{n} \to \mathbb{C}}\) .     

Defect Functions of Holomorphic Contractive Operator Functions and the Scattering Suboperator Through the Internal Channels of a System: Part II

Let $\theta (\zeta )$ be a Schur operator function, i.e., it is defined on the unit disk ${\mathbb D}\,{:=}\,\{\zeta \in {\mathbb C}: |\zeta | < 1\}$ and its values are contractive operators acting from one Hilbert space into another one. In the first part of the paper the outer and $*$ -outer Schur operator functions $\varphi (\zeta )$ and $\psi (\zeta )$ which describe respectively the deviations of the function $\theta (\zeta )$ from inner and $*$ -inner operator functions are studied. If $\varphi (\zeta )\ne 0$ , then it means that in the scattering system for which $\theta (\zeta )$ is the transfer function a portion of “information” comes inward the system and does not go outward, i.e., it is left in the internal channels of the system ([11, Sect. 6]). The function $\psi (\zeta )$ has the analogous property. For this reason these functions are called defect ones of the function $\theta (\zeta )$ . The explicit form of the defect functions $\varphi (\zeta )$ and $\psi (\zeta )$ is obtained and the analytic connection of these functions with the function $\theta (\zeta )$ is described ([11, Sect. 3 and Sect. 5]). The operator functions $\left( \begin{matrix} \varphi (\zeta ) \\ \theta (\zeta ) \end{matrix}\right) $ and $(\psi (\zeta ), \theta (\zeta ))$ are Schur functions as well ([11, Sect. 3]). It is important that there exists the unique contractive operator function $\chi (t),t\in \partial {\mathbb D}$ , such that the operator function $\left( \begin{matrix} \chi (t) &{} \varphi (t) \\ \psi (t) &{} \theta (t) \end{matrix}\right) ,t\in \partial {\mathbb D},$ is also contractive (Sect. 6). The second part of the paper is devoted to introducing and studying the properties of the function $\chi (t)$ . Specifically, it is shown that the function $\chi (t)$ is the scattering suboperator through the internal channels of the scattering system for which $\theta (\zeta )$ is the transfer function (Sect. 6).