Quadrangulations of sphere and ball quotients

We give a classification of sphere quadrangulations satisfying a condition of non‐negative curvature, following Thurston's classification of sphere triangulations under the same condition. The generic family of quadrangulations is parametrized by the points of positive square‐norm of an integral Gaußian lattice in the six‐dimensional complex Lorentz space. There is a subgroup of automorphisms of acting on this lattice whose orbits parametrize sphere quadrangulations in a one‐to‐one manner. This group acts discretely on the corresponding five‐dimensional complex hyperbolic space; is of finite co‐volume; its ball quotient is the moduli space of unordered 8 points on the Riemann sphere, and also appears in Picard‐Terada‐Deligne‐Mostow list. Both Thurston's lattice and our lattice may be thought of as parametrizations of certain families of subgroups of the modular group; equivalently, of certain families of dessins. These families also parametrize points of a moduli space.     

On the number of cusps on cuspidal curves on Hirzebruch surfaces

In this article we give an upper bound for the number of cusps on a cuspidal curve on a Hirzebruch surface. We adapt the results that have been found for a similar question asked for cuspidal curves on the projective plane, and restate the results in this new setting.     

Subsheaves of the cotangent bundle

For any smooth projective variety, we study a birational invariant, defined by Campana which depends on the Kodaira dimension of the subsheaves of the cotangent bundle of the variety and its exterior powers. We provide new bounds for a related invariant in any dimension and in particular we show that it is equal to the Kodaira dimension of the variety, in dimension up to 4, if this is not negative.     

Moduli of Polarised Abelian Surfaces

The moduli variety parametrising abelian surfaces over ? with a polarisation of type (1, p) may be compactified by toroidal methods. We show that if p is a prime and p ≥ 173 then the compactified moduli variety is of general type.     

Kodaira dimension of holomorphic singular foliations

We introduce numerical invariants of holomorphic singular foliations under bimeromorphic transformations of surfaces. The basic invariant is a foliated version of the Kodaira dimension of compact complex manifolds.The author was supported by CNPq-Brazil in 1998 and Conseil Régional de Bourgogne in 1999.     

典型群的增广商群

设G 为有限域K 上的一般线性群(特殊线性群、酉群、辛群及正交群), 记整群环ZG 的n 次增广理想为△ⁿ(G). 本文着重研究有限域上的典型群的增广商群Q_n(G) = △ⁿ(G)/△ⁿ⁺¹(G), 并刻画了这些连续商群的结构.     

Augmentation quotients for complex representation rings of dihedral groups

Denote by D _m the dihedral group of order 2m. Let ℛ(D _m ) be its complex representation ring, and let Δ(D _m ) be its augmentation ideal. In this paper, we determine the isomorphism class of the n-th augmentation quotient Δ ⁿ (D _m )/Δ ⁿ⁺¹(D _m ) for each positive integer n.     

The universal theta divisor over the moduli space of curves

By computing the class of the universal antiramification locus of the Gauss map, we obtain a complete birational classification by Kodaira dimension of the universal theta divisor over the moduli space of curves.     

Structure of augmentation quotients of finite homocyclic abelian groups

Let G be a finite abelian group and its Sylow p-subgroup a direct product of copies of a cyclic group of order p~r,i.e.,a finite homocyclic abelian group.LetΔ~n (G) denote the n-th power of the augmentation idealΔ(G) of the integral group ring ZG.The paper gives an explicit structure of the consecutive quotient group Q_n(G)=Δ~n(G)/Δ~(n 1)(G) for any natural number n and as a consequence settles a problem of Karpilovsky for this particular class of finite abelian groups.     

Products of Compactifications

A product operation of compactifications is defined and its different properties are studied. Some applications are considered.     

Rings of quotients of C(X) induced by points

We study two rings of quotients of C(X), the ring of continuous functions on the Tychonoff space X. The first, F(X), is the ring of quotients induced by the filter of ideals consisting of dense finite intersections of fixed maximal ideals. The second, C[F], is the ring of quotients induced by the filter of dense cofinite subspaces of X. After some preliminary information we explicitly describe in §2 and §3 the constructions of these rings of quotients. In the third section, we use F(X)and C[F] to define and study the class of h-points and h-spaces. In particular, we show that C-spaces and P-spaces are h-spaces. In the last section we construct an ideal of C(X)which will be used to give an ideal theoretic characterization of h-points. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

An introduction to presentations of monoid acts: quotients and subacts

The purpose of this article is to introduce the theory of presentations of monoids acts. We aim to construct “nice” general presentations for various act constructions pertaining to subacts and Rees quotients. More precisely, given an M-act A and a subact B of A, on the one hand, we construct presentations for B and the Rees quotient A/B using a presentation for A, and on the other hand, we derive a presentation for A from presentations for B and A/B. We also construct a general presentation for the union of two subacts. From our general presentations, we deduce a number of finite presentability results. Finally, we consider the case where a subact B has a finite complement in an M-act A. We show that if M is a finitely generated monoid and B is finitely presented, then A is finitely presented. We also show that if M belongs to a wide class of monoids, including all finitely presented monoids, then the converse also holds.     

On quotients of generalized Euclidean group rings

Let R = ?[C] be the integral group ring of a finite cyclic group C. Dennis et al. [4 Dennis, K., Magurn, B., Vaserstein, L. (1984). Generalized Euclidean group rings. J. Reine Angew. Math. 351:113–128.[Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] proved that R is a generalized Euclidean ring in the sense of Cohn [3 Cohn, P. M. (1966). On the structure of the GL₂ of a ring. Inst. Hautes Études Sci. Publ. Math. 30:5–53.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]], i.e., SL_n(R) is generated by the elementary matrices for all n. We prove that every proper quotient of R is also a generalized Euclidean ring.     

HOMOCENTRIC CONVERGENCE BALL OF THE SECANT METHOD

A local convergence theorem and five semi-local convergence theorems of the secant method are listed in this paper.For every convergence theorem,a convergence ball is respectively introduced,where the hypothesis conditions of the corresponding theorem can be satisfied.Since all of these convergence balls have the same center x~*,they can be viewed as a homocentric ball. Convergence theorems are sorted by the different sizes of various radii of this homocentric ball, and the sorted sequence represents the degree of weakness on the conditions of convergence theorems.     

Cubic surfaces and Borcherds products

We apply Borcherds' methods for constructing automorphic forms to embed the moduli space of marked complex cubic surfaces into . Specifically, we construct 270 automorphic forms on the complex 4-ball , automorphic with respect to a particular discrete group . We use the identification from [ACT2] of with the Baily-Borel compactification of . Our forms span a 10-dimensional space, and we exhibit the image of in as the intersection of 270 cubic hypersurfaces. Finally, we interpret the pairwise ratios of our forms as the original invariants of cubic surfaces, the cross-ratios introduced by Cayley. It turns out that this model of was found by Coble [C] in an entirely different way; see [vG]. Received: December 5, 2000