On codimension one submersions of euclidean spaces

Summary It is shown that when (n–1) first integrals of a dynamical systemX inR ⁿ are known (and they are independent at any point ofR ⁿ ) then one can have (n3) that certain orbits ofX are diffeomorphic to circles and others diffeomorphic to straight-lines. An analytical criterion is also given (involving only the first derivatives of the first integrals) in order thatall the orbits be diffeomorphic to straight lines. Therefore the criterion is sufficient in order to avoid the presence of geometrical chaos among the orbits of the dynamical systemX.     

Four-Dimensional Simply Connected Symplectic Symmetric Spaces

A symplectic is a symmetric space endowed with a symplectic structure which is invariant by the symmetries. We give here a classification of four-dimensional symplectic which are simply connected. This classification reveals a remarkable class of affine symmetric spaces with a non-Abelian solvable transvection group. The underlying manifold M of each element (M, ) belonging to this class is diffeomorphic to Rⁿwith the property that every tensor field on M invariant by the transvection group is constant; in particular, is not a metric connection. This classification also provides examples of nonflat affine symmetric connections on Rⁿwhich are invariant under the translations. By considering quotient spaces, one finds examples of locally affine symmetric tori which are not globally symmetric.     

-regularity of the Aronsson equation in

For a nonnegative, uniformly convex HC²(R²) with H(0)=0, if uC(Ω), ΩR², is a viscosity solution of the Aronsson equation (1.7), then uC¹(Ω). This generalizes the C¹-regularity theorem on infinity harmonic functions in R² by Savin [O. Savin, C¹-regularity for infinity harmonic functions in dimensions two, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 176 (3) (2005) 351–361] to the Aronsson equation.     

Sobolev -spaces on closed subsets of

For each p>n we use local oscillations and doubling measures to give intrinsic characterizations of the restriction of the Sobolev space to an arbitrary closed subset of Rⁿ.     

Phragmén-Lindelöf Theorems and p-harmonic Measures for Sets Near Low-dimensional Hyperplanes

We prove estimates of a p-harmonic measure, p∈(n?m,∞], for sets in Rⁿ which are close to an m-dimensional hyperplane Λ?Rⁿ, m∈[0,n?1]. Using these estimates, we derive results of Phragmén-Lindelöf type in unbounded domains Ω?Rⁿ?Λ for p-subharmonic functions. Moreover, we give local and global growth estimates for p-harmonic functions, vanishing on sets in Rⁿ, which are close to an m-dimensional hyperplane.     

Sobolev spaces associated to a polyhedron and Fourier integral operations inR n

The theory of the Sobolev spacesH _m ^p (R ⁿ ) (mR,p polyhedron in R ²ⁿ )of [BG]is revisited here in the frame of new classes of pseudodifferential operators related to the same polyhedron p.These operators generalize to corresponding classes of Fourier integral operators, for which we present the main lines of a symbolic calculus and results of continuity on the H _m ^p (R ⁿ ) spaces.     

-Linked planar graphs

A graph G is (m,n)-linked if for any two disjoint subsets R,BV(G) with |R|m and |B|n, G has two disjoint connected subgraphs containing R and B, respectively. We shall prove that a planar graph with at least six vertices is (3,3)-linked if and only if G is 4-connected and maximal.     

Exotic analytic structures and Eisenman intrinsic measures

Using Eisenman intrinsic measures we prove a cancellation theorem. This theorem allows to find new examples of exotic analytic structures onC ⁿ under which we understand smooth complex affine algebraic varietiers which are diffeomorphic toR ²ⁿ but not biholomorphic toC ⁿ . We also develop a new method of constructing these structures which enables us to produce exotic analytic structures onC ³ with a given number of hypersurfaces isomorphic toC ² and a family of these structures with a given number of moduli.     

Evolution Equations for Special Lagrangian 3-Folds in C3

This is the third in a series of papers constructing explicit examples of special Lagrangian submanifolds in C ^m . The previous paper (Math. Ann. 320 (2001), 757–797), defined the idea of evolution data, which includes an (m – 1)-submanifold P in R ⁿ , and constructed a family of special Lagrangian m-folds N in C ^m , which are swept out by the image of P under a 1-parameter family of affine maps _t : R ⁿ C ^m , satisfying a first-order o.d.e. in t. In this paper we use the same idea to construct special Lagrangian 3-folds in C³. We find a one-to-one correspondence between sets of evolution data with m = 3 and homogeneous symplectic 2-manifolds P. This enables us to write down several interesting sets of evolution data, and so to construct corresponding families of special Lagrangian 3-folds in C³.Our main results are a number of new families of special Lagrangian 3-foldsin C³, which we write very explicitly in parametric form. Generically these are nonsingular as immersed 3-submanifolds, and diffeomorphic to R³ or ¹× R². Some of the 3-folds are singular, and we describe their singularities, which we believe are of a new kind.We hope these 3-folds will be helpful in understanding singularities ofcompact special Lagrangian 3-folds in Calabi–Yau 3-folds. This will beimportant in resolving the SYZ conjecture in Mirror Symmetry.     

Theorems about traces and the extension of distributions

In this paper we present the necessary and sufficient condition of epimorphism of the operator where the Q_i(d) are differential operators with constant coefficients, R^m is a subspace of Rⁿ, and H(Rⁿ) and H^vi(R^m) are distribution spaces introduced in [1]. We prove the existence of a linear continuous operator which is the right inverse of. There are 4 references.Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 2, No. 6, pp. 577–588, December, 1967.     

CAT(0) 4-manifolds possessing a single tame point are Euclidean

The concepts of geometric and topological tame point are introduced for a space of nonpositive curvature. These concepts are applied to the characterization problem forCAT(0) 4-manifolds. It is shown that everyCAT(0)M ⁴ having a single (geometric or topological) tame point is homeomorphic toR ⁴. Davis and Januszkiewicz have recently constructedCAT(0)n-manifolds,M ⁿ withn ≥ 5 such that the set of tame points form a dense open subset ofM ⁿ , butM ⁿ ≠R ⁿ .     

Topological change in mean convex mean curvature flow

Consider the mean curvature flow of an (n+1)-dimensional compact, mean convex region in Euclidean space (or, if n<7, in a Riemannian manifold). We prove that elements of the mth homotopy group of the complementary region can die only if there is a shrinking S ^k ×R ^n?k singularity for some k≤m. We also prove that for each m with 1≤m≤n, there is a nonempty open set of compact, mean convex regions K in R ⁿ⁺¹ with smooth boundary ?K for which the resulting mean curvature flow has a shrinking S ^m ×R ^n?m singularity.     

The topological structure of fuzzy sets with endograph metric

For a non-degenerate convex subset Y of the n-dimensional Euclidean space Rⁿ, let be the family of all fuzzy sets ofRⁿ, which are upper-semicontinuous, fuzzy convex and normal with compact supports contained in Y. We show that the space with the topology of endograph metric is homeomorphic to the Hilbert cube Q=[-1,1]^ω iff Y is compact; and the space is homeomorphic to {(x_n)Q:sup|x_n|<1} iff Y is non-compact and locally compact.     

Calibrations and the size of Grassmann faces

Summary In the past fifteen years or so, convex geometry and the theory of calibrations have provided a deeper understanding of the behavior and singular structure ofm-dimensional area-minimizing surfaces inR ⁿ . Calibrations correspond to faces of the GrassmannianG(m,R ⁿ ) of orientedm-planes inR ⁿ , viewed as a compact submanifold of the exterior algebra ^m R ⁿ . Large faces typically provide many examples of area-minimizing surfaces. This paper studies the sizes of such faces. It also considers integrands more general than area. One result implies that form-dimensional surfaces inR ⁿ , with 2 m n – 2, for any integrand , there are -minimizing surfaces with interior singularities.     

Separating convex sets in the plane

Given a setA inR ² and a collectionS of plane sets, we say that a lineL separatesA fromS ifA is contained in one of the closed half-planes defined byL, while every set inS is contained in the complementary closed half-plane.We prove that, for any collectionF ofn disjoint disks inR ², there is a lineL that separates a disk inF from a subcollection ofF with at least (n–7)/4 disks. We produce configurationsH _n andG _n , withn and 2n disks, respectively, such that no pair of disks inH _n can be simultaneously separated from any set with more than one disk ofH _n , and no disk inG _n can be separated from any subset ofG _n with more thann disks.We also present a setJ _m with 3m line segments inR ², such that no segment inJ _m can be separated from a subset ofJ _m with more thanm+1 elements. This disproves a conjecture by N. Alonet al. Finally we show that ifF is a set ofn disjoint line segments in the plane such that they can be extended to be disjoint semilines, then there is a lineL that separates one of the segments from at least n/3+1 elements ofF.     

A Nonsymmetric Correlation Inequality for Gaussian Measure

Letμbe a Gaussian measure (say, onRⁿ) and letK,LRⁿbe such thatKis convex,Lis a “layer” (i.e.,L={x: ax, ub} for somea, bRanduRⁿ), and the centers of mass (with respect toμ) ofKandLcoincide. Thenμ(K∩L)μ(K)·μ(L). This is motivated by the well-known “positive correlation conjecture” for symmetric sets and a related inequality of Sidak concerning confidence regions for means of multivariate normal distributions. The proof uses the estimateΦ(x)> 1−((8/π)^1/2/(3x+(x²+8)^1/2))e^−x2/2,x>−1, for the (standard) Gaussian cumulative distribution function, which is sharper than the classical inequality of Komatsu.     

Décomposition spectrale dans des algèbres munies d'un star-produit

Summary The purpose of this paper is to study, in intrinsic way, the Moyal's product, defined in the flat space R ²ⁿ. This product is defined here with the twisted convolution and the Fourier transform. The S(R ²ⁿ) and L²(R ²ⁿ) spaces are_*5-algebras. Because of this definition, the_*V-product of some tempered distributions is defined. Let O _M ^v be the set of multiplication operators in S(R ²ⁿ). By transposition, the S(R ²ⁿ) space is a right-module on O _M ^v . The support of f_*v g is different from the support of f·g; under large enough hypotheses, there is a Taylor's formula for the star-product function of the v variable. The ^v space of the multiplication operators in L²(R ²ⁿ) is defined here as the space of tempered distributions, the image of which is the set of bounded operators in L²(R ²ⁿ) by the Weyl map. After the study of ^v space, it is possible to show the spectral resolution of the real elements of ^v or of O _M ^v , which satisfies a, probably superfluous, hypothesis.     

Discrepancy and approximations for bounded VC-dimension

Let (X, ) be a set system on ann-point setX. For a two-coloring onX, itsdiscrepancy is defined as the maximum number by which the occurrences of the two colors differ in any set in . We show that if for anym-point subset the number of distinct subsets induced by onY is bounded byO(m ^d) for a fixed integerd, then there is a coloring with discrepancy bounded byO(n ^1/2–1/2d(logn)^1+1/2d ). Also if any subcollection ofm sets of partitions the points into at mostO(m ^d) classes, then there is a coloring with discrepancy at mostO(n ^1/2–1/2dlogn). These bounds imply improved upper bounds on the size of -approximations for (X, ). All the bounds are tight up to polylogarithmic factors in the worst case. Our results allow to generalize several results of Beck bounding the discrepancy in certain geometric settings to the case when the discrepancy is taken relative to an arbitrary measure.Work of J.M. and E.W. was partially supported by the ESPRIT II Basic Research Actions Program of the EC under contract no. 3075 (project ALCOM). L.W. acknowledges support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft under grant We 1265/1-3, Schwerpunktprogramm Datenstrukturen und effiziente Algorithmen.     

Bessel Potentials with Logarithmic Components and Sobolev-Type Embeddings

In a recent paper Edmunds, Gurka, and Opic [5] showed that Sobolev spaces of order k, based on the Zygmund spaces L ^n/k (log L) (R ⁿ ), are continuously embedded into L (R ⁿ ) if > 1/p, p n/k. In this paper we replace L ^n/k (log L) (R ⁿ ) by the Lebesgue space L ^n/k (R ⁿ ) and increase the smoothness of the functions involved by a "logarithmic" order > 1/p to obtain the continuous embedding into L (R ⁿ ). Both approaches turn out to be equivalent. We also derive results of Trudinger-type [16] on embeddings into Orlicz spaces in the limit case k = n/p as well as results of Brézis-Wainger-type [2] on almost Lipschitz continuity in the superlimiting case k = n/p + 1.     

Global controllability of conditionally periodic linear system

We use the notation: Rⁿ Is n-dimensional Euclidean space;S _a (x⁰)={x Rⁿ: ¦x-x ⁰ ¦ }; int Q is the interior of setQ Rⁿ. With any linear systemx=A (t)x +B (t) u, x Rⁿ,u R^m, (1)Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 169–174, August, 1982.