Khovanov homology, open books, and tight contact structures

We define the reduced Khovanov homology of an open book (S,?), and identify a distinguished “contact element” in this group which may be used to establish the tightness or non-fillability of contact structures compatible with (S,?). Our construction generalizes the relationship between the reduced Khovanov homology of a link and the Heegaard Floer homology of its branched double cover. As an application, we give combinatorial proofs of tightness for several contact structures which are not Stein-fillable. Lastly, we investigate a comultiplication structure on the reduced Khovanov homology of an open book which parallels the comultiplication on Heegaard Floer homology defined in Baldwin (2008) [4].     

Asymptotic Fredholm Modules, Vector Bundles with Small Variation and a Nonvanishing Theorem for K-Theoretic Indices

We introduce the concept of asymptotic Fredholm module to prove a nonvanishing theorem for K theoretic indices of elliptic operators. The nonvanishing theorem is applied to study positive scalar curvature and spectrum of the Laplacian on noncompact manifolds.     

Kähler Surfaces of Positive Scalar Curvature

We construct Kähler metrics of positive scalar curvature on almost all blown-up ruled surfaces of arbitrary genus. The metrics have an explicit form on ruled surfaces blown up at most twice successively from a minimal model. Our surfaces are generic in the sense that they make up a dense set in the deformations of a given ruled surface.     

Obstructions to the equivalence of Poisson structures near a symplectic leaf of semisimple and compact type

We describe cohomological obstructions to the equivalence of Poisson structures around a symplectic leaf of semisimple and compact type. The result is based on Conn’s linearization theorem and the theory of Poisson coupling.     

Zero dissipation limit to strong contact discontinuity for the 1-D compressible Navier-Stokes equations

In this paper, we study the zero dissipation limit problem for the one-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations. We prove that if the solution of the inviscid Euler equations is piecewise constants with a contact discontinuity, then there exist smooth solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations which converge to the inviscid solution away from the contact discontinuity at a rate of as the heat-conductivity coefficient κ tends to zero, provided that the viscosity μ is of higher order than the heat-conductivity κ. Without loss of generality, we set μ≡0. Here we have no need to restrict the strength of the contact discontinuity to be small.     

Invariants of contact structures and transversally oriented foliations

We exhibit new invariants of the contact structure E(), the contact flow F and the transverse symplectic geometry of a contact manifold (M, ). The invariant of contact structures generalizes to transversally oriented foliations. We focus on the particular cases of orientations of smooth manifolds and transverse orientations of foliations. We define the transverse Calabi invariants and determine their kernels.Supported in part by NSF grants DMS 90-01861 and DMS 94-03196.     

On the blowing up of solutions to one-dimensional quantum Navier-Stokes equations

The blow-up in finite time for the solutions to the initial-boundary value problem associated to the one-dimensional quantum Navier-Stokes equations in a bounded domain is proved. The model consists of the mass conservation equation and a momentum balance equation, including a nonlinear third-order differen- tial operator, with the quantum Bohm potential, and a density-dependent viscosity. It is shown that, under suitable boundary conditions and assumptions on the initial data, the solution blows up after a finite time, if the viscosity constant is not bigger than the scaled Planck constant. The proof is inspired by an observable constructed by Gamba, Gualdani and Zhang, which has been used to study the blowing up of solutions to quantum hydrodynamic models.     

Stability of contact discontinuities to 1-D piston problem for the compressible Euler equations

We consider 1-D piston problem for the compressible Euler equations when the piston is static relatively to the gas in the tube. By a modified wave front tracking method, we prove that a contact discontinuity is structurally stable under the assumptions that the total variation of the initial data and the perturbation of the piston velocity are both sufficiently small. Meanwhile, we study the asymptotic behavior of the solutions by the generalized characteristic method and approximate conservation law theory as $t\to +\infty$.     

Difference discrete connection and curvature on cubic lattice Dedicated to Professor Sheng GONG on the occasion of his 75th birthday

In a way similar to the continuous case formally, we define in different but equivalent manners the difference discrete connection and curvature on discrete vector bundle over the regular lattice as base space. We deal with the difference operators as the discrete counterparts of the derivatives based upon the differential calculus on the lattice. One of the definitions can be extended to the case over the random lattice. We also discuss the relation between our approach and the lattice gauge theory and apply to the discrete integrable systems.     

On the blowing up of solutions to quantum hydrodynamic models on bounded domains

The blow-up in finite time for the solutions to the initial-boundary value problem associated to the multi-dimensional quantum hydrodynamic model in a bounded domain is proved. The model consists on conservation of mass equation and a momentum balance equation equivalent to a compressible Euler equations corrected by a dispersion term of the third order in the momentum balance. The proof is based on a priori estimates for the energy functional for a new observable constructed with an auxiliary function, and it is shown that, under suitable boundary conditions and assumptions on the initial data, the solution blows up after a finite time. I.M. Gamba is supported by NSF-DMS0507038. M.P. Gualdani acknowledges partial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, grants JU359/5 and was partially supported under the Feodor Lynen Research fellowship. P. Zhang is partially supported by the NSF of China under Grant 10525101 and 10421101, and the innovation grant from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Part of the work was done when P. Zhang visited the Department of Mathematics of Texas University at Austin, the author would like to thank the hospitality of the department. Support from the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin is also gratefully acknowledged.     

Dirichlet regularity in arbitrary o‐minimal structures on the field ℝ up to dimension 4

In this article we show that the set of Dirichlet regular boundary points of a bounded domain of dimension up to 4, definable in an arbitrary o‐minimal structure on the field ?, is definable in the same structure. Moreover we give estimates for the dimension of the set of non‐regular boundary points, depending on whether the structure is polynomially bounded or not. This paper extends the results from the author's Ph.D. thesis [6, 7] where the problem was solved for polynomially bounded o‐minimal structures expanding the real field. (© 2006 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Normal almost contact metric structures of hyperbolic type of the first kind on hypersurfaces of a space of constant holomorphic curvature of hyperbolic type

We consider normal integrable Sasakian almost contact metric structures of hyperbolic type of the first kind on hypersurfaces of a space of constant holomorphic curvature of hyperbolic type, in particular, on hypersurfaces of a flat A-space of hyperbolic type.__________Translated from Lietuvos Matematikos Rinkinys, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 22–32, January–March, 2005.Translated by V. Mackeviius     

On Quasiclassical Field Theories Invariant with Respect to a Lie Group

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On the asymptotic solution to a type of piecewise-continuous second-order Dirichlet problems of Tikhonov system

A Type of second-order Dirichlet problems of Tikhonov system with piecewise-continuous right hand side is studied. By using the multiscale theory and the theory of contrast structures, a first-order continuous, uniform and effective asymptotic solution of the problem is constructed. Existence of the solution is proved and the remainder is estimated. An illustrative example for explaining this method is also given.