The zero set of semi-invariants for extended Dynkin quivers

We show that the set of common zeros of all semi-invariants vanishing at 0 on the variety of all representations with dimension vector of an extended Dynkin quiver under the group is a complete intersection if is ``big enough'. In case does not contain an open -orbit, which is the case not considered so far, the number of irreducible components of grows with , except if is an oriented cycle.

     

(APD)-property of -algebras by extensions of -algebras with (APD)

A unital -algebra is said to have the (APD)-property if every nonzero element in has the approximate polar decomposition. Let be a closed ideal of . Suppose that and have (APD). In this paper, we give a necessary and sufficient condition that makes have (APD). Furthermore, we show that if and or is a simple purely infinite -algebra, then has (APD).

     

Generating continuous mappings with Lipschitz mappings

If is a metric space, then and denote the semigroups of continuous and Lipschitz mappings, respectively, from to itself. The relative rank of modulo is the least cardinality of any set where generates . For a large class of separable metric spaces we prove that the relative rank of modulo is uncountable. When is the Baire space , this rank is . A large part of the paper emerged from discussions about the necessity of the assumptions imposed on the class of spaces from the aforementioned results.

     

The -invariant and Gorensteinness of graded rings associated to filtrations of ideals in regular local rings

Let be a regular local ring and let be a filtration of ideals in such that is a Noetherian ring with . Let and let be the -invariant of . Then the theorem says that is a principal ideal and for all if and only if is a Gorenstein ring and . Hence , if is a Gorenstein ring, but the ideal is not principal.

     

Enriched Reedy categories

We define the notion of an enriched Reedy category and show that if is a -Reedy category for some symmetric monoidal model category and is a -model category, the category of -functors and -natural transformations from to is again a model category.

     

Serre duality for non-commutative -bundles

Let be a smooth scheme of finite type over a field , let be a locally free -bimodule of rank , and let be the non-commutative symmetric algebra generated by . We construct an internal functor, , on the category of graded right -modules. When has rank 2, we prove that is Gorenstein by computing the right derived functors of . When is a smooth projective variety, we prove a version of Serre Duality for using the right derived functors of .

     

-actions whose fixed data has a section

Given a collection of real vector bundles over a closed manifold , suppose that, for some is of the form , where is the trivial one-dimensional bundle. In this paper we prove that if is the fixed data of a -action, then the same is true for the Whitney sum obtained from by replacing by . This stability property is well-known for involutions. Together with techniques previously developed, this result is used to describe, up to bordism, all possible -actions fixing the disjoint union of an even projective space and a point.     

The Whitney extension problem and Lipschitz selections of set-valued mappings in jet-spaces

We study a variant of the Whitney extension problem (1934) for the space . We identify with a space of Lipschitz mappings from into the space of polynomial fields on equipped with a certain metric. This identification allows us to reformulate the Whitney problem for as a Lipschitz selection problem for set-valued mappings into a certain family of subsets of . We prove a Helly-type criterion for the existence of Lipschitz selections for such set-valued mappings defined on finite sets. With the help of this criterion, we improve estimates for finiteness numbers in finiteness theorems for due to C. Fefferman.

     

Average size of -Selmer groups of elliptic curves, I

In this paper, we study a class of elliptic curves over with -torsion group , and prove that the average order of the -Selmer groups is bounded.

     

Jordan isomorphisms of nest algebras

Let and be two nest algebras. A Jordan isomorphism from onto is a bijective linear map such that for every . In this note, we prove that every Jordan isomorphism of nest algebras is of the form or and then is, in fact, an isomorphism or an anti-isomorphism.

     

Invariant distributions supported on the nilpotent cone of a semisimple Lie algebra

Let be a semisimple complex Lie algebra with adjoint group and be the algebra of differential operators with polynomial coefficients on . If is a real form of , we give the decomposition of the semisimple -module of invariant distributions on supported on the nilpotent cone.

     

Extensions of Hopf Algebras and Lie Bialgebras

Let , be finite-dimensional Lie algebras over a field of characteristic zero. Regard and , the dual Lie coalgebra of , as Lie bialgebras with zero cobracket and zero bracket, respectively. Suppose that a matched pair of Lie bialgebras is given, which has structure maps . Then it induces a matched pair of Hopf algebras, where is the universal envelope of and is the Hopf dual of . We show that the group of cleft Hopf algebra extensions associated with is naturally isomorphic to the group of Lie bialgebra extensions associated with . An exact sequence involving either of these groups is obtained, which is a variation of the exact sequence due to G.I. Kac. If , there follows a bijection between the set of all cleft Hopf algebra extensions of by and the set of all Lie bialgebra extensions of by .

     

The structure of quantum spheres

We show that the C*-algebra of a quantum sphere , 1$">, consists of continuous fields of operators in a C*-algebra , which contains the algebra of compact operators with , such that is a constant function of , where is the quotient map and is the unit circle.

     

Some exact sequences for Toeplitz algebras of spherical isometries

A family of commuting bounded operators on a Hilbert space is said to be a spherical isometry if in the weak operator topology. We show that every commuting family of spherical isometries is jointly subnormal, which means that it has a commuting normal extension on some Hilbert space Suppose now that the normal extension is minimal. Then we show that every bounded operator in the commutant of has a unique norm preserving extension to an operator in the commutant of Moreover, if is the commutator ideal in then is *-isomorphic to We also show that the commutant of the minimal normal extension is completely isometric, via the compression mapping, to the space of Toeplitz-type operators associated to We apply these results to construct exact sequences for Toeplitz algebras on generalized Hardy spaces associated to strictly pseudoconvex domains.

     

Tangentially positive isometric actions and conjugate points

Let be a complete Riemannian manifold with no conjugate points and a principal -bundle, where is a Lie group acting by isometries and the smooth quotient with the Riemannian submersion metric.

We obtain a characterization of conjugate point-free quotients in terms of symplectic reduction and a canonical pseudo-Riemannian metric on the tangent bundle , from which we then derive necessary conditions, involving and , for the quotient metric to be conjugate point-free, particularly for a reducible Riemannian manifold.

Let , with the Lie Algebra of , be the moment map of the tangential -action on and let be the canonical pseudo-Riemannian metric on defined by the symplectic form and the map , . First we prove a theorem, stating that if is not positive definite on the action vector fields for the tangential action along then acquires conjugate points. (We proved the converse result in 2005.) Then, we characterize self-parallel vector fields on in terms of the positivity of the -length of their tangential lifts along certain canonical subsets of . We use this to derive some necessary conditions, on and , for actions to be tangentially positive on relevant subsets of , which we then apply to isometric actions on complete conjugate point-free reducible Riemannian manifolds when one of the irreducible factors satisfies certain curvature conditions.

     

The generalized triangular decomposition

Given a complex matrix , we consider the decomposition , where is upper triangular and and have orthonormal columns. Special instances of this decomposition include the singular value decomposition (SVD) and the Schur decomposition where is an upper triangular matrix with the eigenvalues of on the diagonal. We show that any diagonal for can be achieved that satisfies Weyl's multiplicative majorization conditions:

where is the rank of , is the -th largest singular value of , and is the -th largest (in magnitude) diagonal element of . Given a vector which satisfies Weyl's conditions, we call the decomposition , where is upper triangular with prescribed diagonal , the generalized triangular decomposition (GTD). A direct (nonrecursive) algorithm is developed for computing the GTD. This algorithm starts with the SVD and applies a series of permutations and Givens rotations to obtain the GTD. The numerical stability of the GTD update step is established. The GTD can be used to optimize the power utilization of a communication channel, while taking into account quality of service requirements for subchannels. Another application of the GTD is to inverse eigenvalue problems where the goal is to construct matrices with prescribed eigenvalues and singular values.

     

On the triple jump of the set of atoms of a Boolean algebra

We prove the following result concerning the degree spectrum of the atom relation on a computable Boolean algebra. Let be a computable Boolean algebra with infinitely many atoms and be the Turing degree of the atom relation of . If is a c.e. degree such that , then there is a computable copy of where the atom relation has degree . In particular, for every c.e. degree , any computable Boolean algebra with infinitely many atoms has a computable copy where the atom relation has degree .

     

Are covering (enveloping) morphisms minimal?

We prove that for certain classes of modules such that direct sums of -covers ( -envelopes) are -covers ( -envelopes), -covering ( -enveloping) homomorphisms are always right (left) minimal. As a particular case we see that over noetherian rings, essential monomorphisms are left minimal. The same type of results are given when direct products of -covers are -covers. Finally we prove that over commutative noetherian rings, any direct product of flat covers of modules of finite length is a flat cover.     

Hyperbolic unit groups

In this paper we study the groups whose integral group rings have hyperbolic unit groups . We classify completely the torsion subgroups of and the polycyclic-by-finite subgroups of the group . Finally, we classify the groups for which the boundary of has dimension zero.

     

Bounded Hochschild cohomology of Banach algebras with a matrix-like structure

Let be a unital Banach algebra. A projection in which is equivalent to the identitity may give rise to a matrix-like structure on any two-sided ideal in . In this set-up we prove a theorem to the effect that the bounded cohomology vanishes for all . The hypotheses of this theorem involve (i) strong H-unitality of , (ii) a growth condition on diagonal matrices in , and (iii) an extension of in by an amenable Banach algebra. As a corollary we show that if is an infinite dimensional Banach space with the bounded approximation property, is an infinite dimensional -space, and is the Banach algebra of approximable operators on , then for all .