A Characteristic Property of Injective Holomorphic Germs

Let X ₀ be the germ at 0 of a complex variety and let be a holomorphic germ. We say that f is pseudoimmersive if for any such that , we have . We prove that f is pseudoimmersive if and only if it is injective. Some results about the real case are also considered.     

Inequalities for irregular Gabor frames

In [C.K. Chui and X.L. Shi, Inequalities of Littlewood-Paley type for frames and wavelets, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 24 (1993), 263–277], the authors proved that if is a Gabor frame for with frame bounds A and B, then the following two inequalities hold: and . In this paper, we show that similar inequalities hold for multi-generated irregular Gabor frames of the form , where Δ _k and Λ _k are arbitrary sequences of points in and , 1 ≤ k ≤ r. Corresponding author for second author Authors’ address: Lili Zang and Wenchang Sun, Department of Mathematics and LPMC, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China     

On products of <Emphasis Type="Italic">k</Emphasis> atoms

Let H be an atomic monoid. For let denote the set of all with the following property: There exist atoms (irreducible elements) u ₁, …, u _k , v ₁, …, v _m ∈ H with u ₁· … · u _k = v ₁ · … · v _m . We show that for a large class of noetherian domains satisfying some natural finiteness conditions, the sets are almost arithmetical progressions. Suppose that H is a Krull monoid with finite cyclic class group G such that every class contains a prime (this includes the multiplicative monoids of rings of integers of algebraic number fields). We show that, for every , max which settles Problem 38 in [4]. Authors’ addresses: W. Gao, Center for Combinatorics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P.R. China; A. Geroldinger, Institut für Mathematik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Karl-Franzens-Universit?t Graz, Heinrichstra?e 36, 8010 Graz, Austria     

On the Dimension of Coinvariants of Permutation Representations

Let be a univariate, separable polynomial of degree n with roots x ₁,…,x _n in some algebraic closure of the ground field . It is a classical problem of Galois theory to find all the relations between the roots. It is known that the ideal of all such relations is generated by polynomials arising from G-invariant polynomials, where G is the Galois group of f(Z). Namely: The action of G on the ordered set of roots induces an action on by permutation of the coordinates and each defines a relation P − P(x ₁,…,x _n ) called a G-invariant relation. These generate the ideal of all relations. In this note we show that the ideal of relations admits an H-basis of G-invariant relations if and only if the algebra of coinvariants has dimension ‖G‖ over . To complete the picture we then show that the coinvariant algebra of a transitive permutation representation of a finite group G has dimension ‖G‖ if and only if G = Σ _n acting via the tautological permutation representation.     

Geometric progressions in sumsets over finite fields

Given two sets , the set of d dimensional vectors over the finite field with q elements, we show that the sumset contains a geometric progression of length k of the form vΛ ^j , where j = 0,…, k − 1, with a nonzero vector and a nonsingular d × d matrix Λ whenever . We also consider some modifications of this problem including the question of the existence of elements of sumsets on algebraic varieties.     

Covering and packing in ${\Bbb Z}^n$ and ${\Bbb R}^n$, (I)

Given a finite subset of an additive group such as or , we are interested in efficient covering of by translates of , and efficient packing of translates of in . A set provides a covering if the translates with cover (i.e., their union is ), and the covering will be efficient if has small density in . On the other hand, a set will provide a packing if the translated sets with are mutually disjoint, and the packing is efficient if has large density. In the present part (I) we will derive some facts on these concepts when , and give estimates for the minimal covering densities and maximal packing densities of finite sets . In part (II) we will again deal with , and study the behaviour of such densities under linear transformations. In part (III) we will turn to . Authors’ address: Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Campus Box 395, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0395, USA The first author was partially supported by NSF DMS 0074531.     

Smooth Universal Taylor Series

Let be a simply connected domain in , such that is connected. If g is holomorphic in Ω and every derivative of g extends continuously on , then we write g ∈ A^∞ (Ω). For g ∈ A^∞ (Ω) and we denote . We prove the existence of a function f ∈ A^∞(Ω), such that the following hold:

Arithmetic mean of differences of Dedekind sums

Recently, Girstmair and Schoissengeier studied the asymptotic behavior of the arithmetic mean of Dedekind sums , as N → ∞. In this paper we consider the arithmetic mean of weighted differences of Dedekind sums in the form , where is a continuous function with , runs over , the set of Farey fractions of order Q in the unit interval [0,1] and are consecutive elements of . We show that the limit lim _Q→∞ A _h (Q) exists and is independent of h.     

Typical <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis></Superscript>-Dimensions of Measures

For a probability measure μ on a subset of , the lower and upper L^q-dimensions of order are defined by We study the typical behaviour (in the sense of Baire’s category) of the L^q-dimensions and . We prove that a typical measure μ is as irregular as possible: for all q ≥ 1, the lower L^q-dimension attains the smallest possible value and the upper L^q-dimension attains the largest possible value.     

Dirichlet and Bergman Spaces of Holomorphic Functions on the Unit Ball of ℂ<Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis></Superscript>

Let B denote the unit ball in ⁿ, n 1, and let and denote the volume measure and gradient with respect to the Bergman metric on B. In the paper we consider the weighted Dirichlet spaces , , and weighted Bergman spaces , , , of holomorphic functions f on B for which and respectively are finite, where and The main result of the paper is the following theorem.Theorem 1. Let f be holomorphic on B and .(a) If for some , then for all p, , with .(b) If for some p, , then for all with . Combining Theorem 1 with previous results of the author we also obtain the following.Theorem 2. Suppose is holomorphic in B. If for some p, , and , then . Conversely, if for some p, , then the series in * converges.     

Directed Projection Functions of Convex Bodies

For 1 ≤ i < j < d, a j-dimensional subspace L of and a convex body K in , we consider the projection K|L of K onto L. The directed projection function v _i,j (K;L,u) is defined to be the i-dimensional size of the part of K|L which is illuminated in direction u ∈ L. This involves the i-th surface area measure of K|L and is motivated by Groemer’s [17] notion of semi-girth of bodies in . It is well-known that centrally symmetric bodies are determined (up to translation) by their projection functions, we extend this by showing that an arbitrary body is determined by any one of its directed projection functions. We also obtain a corresponding stability result. Groemer [17] addressed the case i = 1, j = 2, d = 3. For j > 1, we then consider the average of v _1,j (K;L,u) over all spaces L containing u and investigate whether the resulting function determines K. We will find pairs (d,j) for which this is the case and some pairs for which it is false. The latter situation will be seen to be related to some classical results from number theory. We will also consider more general averages for the case of centrally symmetric bodies. The research of the first author was supported in part by NSF Grant DMS-9971202 and that of the second author by a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation.     

Probability measures on [SIN] groups and some related ideals in group algebras

In 1921, Blichfeldt gave an upper bound on the number of integral points contained in a convex body in terms of the volume of the body. More precisely, he showed that , whenever is a convex body containing n + 1 affinely independent integral points. Here we prove an analogous inequality with respect to the surface area F(K), namely . The proof is based on a slight improvement of Blichfeldt’s bound in the case when K is a non-lattice translate of a lattice polytope, i.e., K = t + P, where and P is an n-dimensional polytope with integral vertices. Then we have . Moreover, in the 3-dimensional case we prove a stronger inequality, namely . Authors’ addresses: Martin Henk, Institut für Algebra und Geometrie, Universit?t Magdeburg, Universit?tsplatz 2, D-39106 Magdeburg, Germany; J?rg M. Wills, Mathematisches Institut, Universit?t Siegen, ENC, D-57068 Siegen, Germany     

Regularity and relaxed problems of minimizing biharmonic maps into spheres

For and , we show that any minimizing biharmonic map from to S^k is smooth off a closed set whose Hausdorff dimension is at most n-5. When n = 5 and k = 4, for a parameter we introduce a -relaxed energy of the Hessian energy for maps in so that each minimizer of is also a biharmonic map. We also establish the existence and partial regularity of a minimizer of for .Received: 5 April 2004, Accepted: 19 October 2004, Published online: 10 December 2004     

Embedding metric spaces into normed spaces and estimates of metric capacity

Let be an arbitrary real normed space of finite dimension d ≥ 2. We define the metric capacity of as the maximal such that every m-point metric space is isometric to some subset of (with metric induced by ). We obtain that the metric capacity of lies in the range from 3 to , where the lower bound is sharp for all d, and the upper bound is shown to be sharp for d ∈ {2, 3}. Thus, the unknown sharp upper bound is asymptotically linear, since it lies in the range from d + 2 to . Research supported by the German Research Foundation, Project AV 85/1-1.     

Classification of Möbius Isoparametric Hypersurfaces in ${\Bbb S}^5$

Let M ⁿ be an immersed umbilic-free hypersurface in the (n + 1)-dimensional unit sphere , then M ⁿ is associated with a so-called M?bius metric g, a M?bius second fundamental form B and a M?bius form Φ which are invariants of M ⁿ under the M?bius transformation group of . A classical theorem of M?bius geometry states that M ⁿ (n ≥ 3) is in fact characterized by g and B up to M?bius equivalence. A M?bius isoparametric hypersurface is defined by satisfying two conditions: (1) Φ ≡ 0; (2) All the eigenvalues of B with respect to g are constants. Note that Euclidean isoparametric hypersurfaces are automatically M?bius isoparametrics, whereas the latter are Dupin hypersurfaces. In this paper, we determine all M?bius isoparametric hypersurfaces in by proving the following classification theorem: If is a M?bius isoparametric hypersurface, then x is M?bius equivalent to either (i) a hypersurface having parallel M?bius second fundamental form in ; or (ii) the pre-image of the stereographic projection of the cone in over the Cartan isoparametric hypersurface in with three distinct principal curvatures; or (iii) the Euclidean isoparametric hypersurface with four principal curvatures in . The classification of hypersurfaces in with parallel M?bius second fundamental form has been accomplished in our previous paper [7]. The present result is a counterpart of the classification for Dupin hypersurfaces in up to Lie equivalence obtained by R. Niebergall, T. Cecil and G. R. Jensen. Partially supported by DAAD; TU Berlin; Jiechu grant of Henan, China and SRF for ROCS, SEM. Partially supported by the Zhongdian grant No. 10531090 of NSFC. Partially supported by RFDP, 973 Project and Jiechu grant of NSFC.     

On Polynomially Normal Lattice Configurations

In this paper we extend Champernowne’s construction of a normal sequence in base b to the case and obtain an explicit construction of the generic point of the shift transformation of the set . We prove that the intersection of the constructed configuration with an arbitrary polynomial curve in the plane is a normal sequence in base b.     

Conjugates of Rational Equivariant Holomorphic Maps of Symmetric Domains

Let be an equivariant holomorphic map of symmetric domains associated to a homomorphism of semisimple algebraic groups defined over . If and are torsion-free arithmetic subgroups with , the map induces a morphism : of arithmetic varieties and the rationality of is defined by using symmetries on and as well as the commensurability groups of and . An element determines a conjugate equivariant holomorphic map of which induces the conjugate morphism of . We prove that is rational if is rational.     

Hypersurfaces and Codazzi tensors

In this paper we deal with the following problem. Let (M ⁿ ,〈,〉) be an n-dimensional Riemannian manifold and an isometric immersion. Find all Riemannian metrics on M ⁿ that can be realized isometrically as immersed hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space . More precisely, given another Riemannian metric on M ⁿ , find necessary and sufficient conditions such that the Riemannian manifold admits an isometric immersion into the Euclidean space . If such an isometric immersion exists, how can one describe in terms of f? Author’s address: Thomas Hasanis and Theodoros Vlachos, Department of Mathematics, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece     

Moments of Brownian Motions on Lie Groups

Let (B_t)_{t ≥ 0} be a Brownian motion on with the corresponding Gaussian convolution semigroup (μ_t)_{t ≥ 0} and generator L. We show that algebraic relations between L and the generators of the matrix semigroups lead to for t → s, k ≥ 1, and all coordinates i,j. These relations will form the basis for a martingale characterization of (B_t)_{t ≥ 0} in terms of generalized heat polynomials. This characterization generalizes a corresponding result for the Brownian motion on in terms of Hermite polynomials due to J. Wesolowski and may be regarded as a variant of the Lévy characterization without continuity assumptions.     

A <Emphasis Type="Italic">C</Emphasis><Superscript>∞</Superscript>-Regularity Theorem for Nondegenerate CR Mappings

We prove the following regularity result: If , are smooth generic submanifolds and M is minimal, then every C^k-CR-map from M into M which is k-nondegenerate is smooth. As an application, every CR diffeomorphism of k-nondegenerate minimal submanifolds in of class C^k is smooth.