Line bundles over a moduli space of logarithmic connections on a Riemann surface

We consider logarithmic connections, on rank n and degree d vector bundles over a compact Riemann surface X, singular over a fixed point x₀ ∈ X with residue in the center of the integers n and d are assumed to be mutually coprime. A necessary and sufficient condition is given for a vector bundle to admit such a logarithmic connection. We also compute the Picard group of the moduli space of all such logarithmic connections. Let denote the moduli space of all such logarithmic connections, with the underlying vector bundle being of fixed determinant L, and inducing a fixed logarithmic connection on the determinant line L. Let be the Zariski open dense subset parametrizing all connections such that the underlying vector bundle is stable. The space of all global sections of certain line bundles on are computed. In particular, there are no nonconstant algebraic functions on Therefore, there are no nonconstant algebraic functions on although is biholomorphic to a representation space which admits nonconstant algebraic functions. The moduli space admits a natural compactification by a smooth divisor. We investigate numerically effectiveness of this divisor at infinity. It turns out that the divisor is not numerically effective in general. Received: March 2004 Revision: May 2004 Accepted: May 2004     

Sufficient conditions for local equivalence of mappings

Let $$f,g:({\mathbb {R}}^n,0)\rightarrow ({\mathbb {R}}^m,0)$$ be $$C^{r+1}$$ mappings and let $$Z=\{x\in \mathbf {\mathbb {R}}^n:\nu (df (x))=0\}$$ , $$0\in Z$$ , $$m\le n$$ . We will show that if there exist a neighbourhood U of $$0\in {\mathbb {R}}^n$$ and constants $$C,C'>0$$ and $$k>1$$ such that for $$x\in U$$ $$\begin{aligned}&\nu (df(x))\ge C{\text {dist}}(x,Z)^{k-1}, \\&\left| \partial ^{s} (f_i-g_i)(x) \right| \le C'\nu (df(x))^{r+k-|s|}, \end{aligned}$$ for any $$i\in \{1,\dots , m\}$$ and for any $$s \in \mathbf {\mathbb {N}}^n_0$$ such that $$|s|\le r$$ , then there exists a $$C^r$$ diffeomorphism $$\varphi :({\mathbb {R}}^n,0)\rightarrow ({\mathbb {R}}^n,0)$$ such that $$f=g\circ \varphi $$ in a neighbourhood of $$0\in {\mathbb {R}}^n$$ . By $$\nu (df)$$ we denote the Rabier function.     

Harmonic currents of finite energy and laminations

We introduce a notion of energy for harmonic currents of bidegree (1, 1) on a complex K?hler manifold (M, ω). This allows us to define for positive harmonic currents. We then show that for a lamination with singularities of a compact set in without directed positive closed currents, there is a unique positive harmonic current which minimizes energy. If X is a compact laminated set in of class it carries a unique positive harmonic current T of mass 1. The current T can be obtained by an Ahlfors type construction starting with an arbitrary leaf of X. When X has a totally disconnected set of singularities, contained in a countable union of analytic sets, the above construction still gives positive harmonic currents. Received: February 2004 Revision: December 2004 Accepted: June 2005     

Removable singularities of some strongly nonlinear elliptic equations

Let Ω be some open subset of ?^N containing 0 and Ω′=Ω?{0}. If g is a continuous function from ? × ? into ? satisfying some power like growth assumption, then any u∈L _loc ^∞ (Ω′) satisfying $$\begin{array}{*{20}c} { - div (Du \left| {Du} \right|^{p - 2} ) + g(.,u) = 0} & {in \mathcal{D}'(\Omega ')} \\ \end{array} $$ , remains bounded in Ω and satisfies the equation in D'(Ω). We give extensions when the singular set is some compact submanifold of Ω. When g is bounded below on ?⁺ and above on ?^?, then we prove that any subset Σ with 1-capacity zero is a removable singularity for a function u∈L _loc ^∞ (ω?Σ) satisfying $$\begin{array}{*{20}c} { - div \left( {\frac{{Du}}{{\sqrt {1 + \left| {Du} \right|^2 } }}} \right) + g(.,u) = 0} & {in \mathcal{D}'(\Omega - \Sigma )} \\ \end{array} $$ .     

Reconstruction of Function Fields

For k an algebraic closure of the finite field , ℓ prime distinct from p and X a surface over k, we prove that the field of rational functions k(X) can be recovered from the maximal pro-ℓ-quotient of its absolute Galois group – in fact already from the second central descending series quotient of . Submitted: July 2004, Revision: October 2005, Final revision: February 2008, Accepted: February 2008     

Equidistribution of Rational Matrices in their Conjugacy Classes

Let G be a connected simply connected almost -simple algebraic group with non-compact and a cocompact congruence subgroup. For any homogeneous manifold of finite volume, and a , we show that the Hecke orbit T _a (x ₀ H) is equidistributed on as , provided H is a non-compact commutative reductive subgroup of G. As a corollary, we generalize the equidistribution result of Hecke points ([COU], [EO1]) to homogeneous spaces G/H. As a concrete application, we describe the equidistribution result in the rational matrices with a given characteristic polynomial. The second author partially supported by DMS 0333397. Received: May 2005 Revision: March 2006 Accepted: June 2006     

Multilinear Exponential Sums in Prime Fields Under Optimal Entropy Condition on the Sources

The main result of this paper is an exponential sum bound in prime fields for multilinear expressions of the type under nearly optimal conditions on . It provides the expected generalization of the well-known inequality for r = 2. We also establish a new result on Gauss sums for multiplicative subgroups H of , obtaining a nontrivial estimate provided . This is a further improvement on [BGK]. Received: May 2007, Revision: October 2007, Accepted: October 2007     

The problem of the solvability of nonlinear two-point boundary-value problems

We establish sufficient conditions for the solvability of boundary-value problems of the form $$\begin{gathered} u'' = f(t,u,u'); \hfill \\ \begin{array}{*{20}c} {(u(0),} & {u'(0)) \in S_0 ,} & {(u(1),} & {u'(1)) \in S_1 .} \\ \end{array} \hfill \\ \end{gathered} $$      

Some Explicit Distributions Related to the First Exit Time from a Bounded Interval for Certain Functionals of Brownian Motion

Let (B _t ) _{t≥ 0} be standard Brownian motion starting at y and set X _t = for , with V(y) = y ^γ if y≥ 0, V(y) = −K(−y)^γ if y≤ 0, where γ and K are some given positive constants. Set . In this paper, we provide some formulas for the probability distribution of the random variable as well as for the probability (or b)}. The formulas corresponding to the particular cases x = a or b are explicitly expressed by means of hypergeometric functions.      

Fine Properties of the Integrated Density of States and a Quantitative Separation Property of the Dirichlet Eigenvalues

We consider one-dimensional difference Schr?dinger equations with real analytic function V(x). Suppose V(x) is a small perturbation of a trigonometric polynomial V ₀(x) of degree k ₀, and assume positive Lyapunov exponents and Diophantine ω. We prove that the integrated density of states is H?lder continuous for any k > 0. Moreover, we show that is absolutely continuous for a.e. ω. Our approach is via finite volume bounds. I.e., we study the eigenvalues of the problem on a finite interval [1, N] with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Then the averaged number of these Dirichlet eigenvalues which fall into an interval , does not exceed , k > 0. Moreover, for , this averaged number does not exceed exp , for any . For the integrated density of states of the problem this implies that for any . To investigate the distribution of the Dirichlet eigenvalues of on a finite interval [1, N] we study the distribution of the zeros of the characteristic determinants with complexified phase x, and frozen ω, E. We prove equidistribution of these zeros in some annulus and show also that no more than 2k ₀ of them fall into any disk of radius exp. In addition, we obtain the lower bound (with δ > 0 arbitrary) for the separation of the eigenvalues of the Dirichlet eigenvalues over the interval [0, N]. This necessarily requires the removal of a small set of energies. Received: February 2006, Accepted: December 2007     

On closures of cycle spaces of flag domains

Open orbits D of noncompact real forms G ₀ acting on flag manifolds Z = G/Q of their semisimple complexifications G are considered. Given D and a maximal compact subgroup K ₀ of G ₀, there is a unique complex K ₀–orbit in D which is regarded as a point in the space of q-dimensional cycles in D. The group theoretical cycle space is defined to be the connected component containing C ₀ of the intersection of the G–orbit G(C ₀) with . The main result of the present article is that is closed in . This follows from an analysis of the closure of the universal domain in any G-equivariant compactification of the affine symmetric space G/K, where K is the complexification of K ₀ in G.     

On ideals and quotients of A \mathcal{T} -algebras

Some results on A -algebras are given. We study the problem when ideals, quotients and hereditary subalgebras of A -algebras are A -algebras or A -algebras, and give a necessary and sufficient condition of a hereditary subalgebra of an A -algebra being an A -algebra.     

Fourier coefficients of Siegel cusp forms of genus n

Let F(Z) be a cusp form of integral weight k relative to the Siegel modular group Sp_n(Z) and let f(N) be its Fourier coefficient with index N. Making use of Rankin's convolution, one proves the estimate (1) $$f(\mathcal{N}) = O(\left| \mathcal{N} \right|^{\tfrac{k}{2} - \tfrac{1}{2}\delta (n)} ),$$ where $$\delta (n) = \frac{{n + 1}}{{\left( {n + 1} \right)\left( {2n + \tfrac{{1 + ( - 1)^n }}{2}} \right) + 1}}.$$ Previously, for n ≥ 2 one has known Raghavan's estimate $$f(\mathcal{N}) = O(\left| \mathcal{N} \right|^{\tfrac{k}{2}} )$$ In the case n=2, Kitaoka has obtained a result, sharper than (1), namely: (2) $$f(\mathcal{N}) = O(\left| \mathcal{N} \right|^{\tfrac{k}{2} - \tfrac{1}{4} + \varepsilon } ).$$ At the end of the paper one investigates specially the case n=2. It is shown that in some cases the result (2) can be improved to, apparently, unimprovable estimates if one assumes some analogues of the Petersson conjecture. These results lead to a conjecture regarding the optimal estimates of f(N), n=2.     

Certain invariants of extension algebras of C({\mathbb{T}}^{2})

In this paper, we compute certain invariants of extension algebras of the torus algebra by , where is the C*-algebra of compact operators on an infinite dimensional separable Hilbert space H. These extension algebras are also constructed up to isomorphism. Received: 5 July 2007, Revised: 14 February 2008     

On convex perturbations with a bounded isotropic constant

Let be a convex body and ɛ > 0. We prove the existence of another convex body , whose Banach–Mazur distance from K is bounded by 1 + ɛ, such that the isotropic constant of K’ is smaller than , where c > 0 is a universal constant. As an application of our result, we present a slight improvement on the best general upper bound for the isotropic constant, due to Bourgain. The author is a Clay Research Fellow, and was also supported by NSF grant #DMS-0456590. Received: November 2005; Accepted: February 2006     

Concentration of mass on convex bodies

We establish sharp concentration of mass inequality for isotropic convex bodies: there exists an absolute constant c >  0 such that if K is an isotropic convex body in , then

Reconstruction and Subgaussian Operators in Asymptotic Geometric Analysis

We present a randomized method to approximate any vector from a set . The data one is given is the set T, vectors of and k scalar products , where are i.i.d. isotropic subgaussian random vectors in , and . We show that with high probability, any for which is close to the data vector will be a good approximation of , and that the degree of approximation is determined by a natural geometric parameter associated with the set T. We also investigate a random method to identify exactly any vector which has a relatively short support using linear subgaussian measurements as above. It turns out that our analysis, when applied to {−1, 1}-valued vectors with i.i.d. symmetric entries, yields new information on the geometry of faces of a random {−1, 1}-polytope; we show that a k- dimensional random {−1, 1}-polytope with n vertices is m-neighborly for The proofs are based on new estimates on the behavior of the empirical process when F is a subset of the L ₂ sphere. The estimates are given in terms of the γ ₂ functional with respect to the ψ ₂ metric on F, and hold both in exponential probability and in expectation. Received: November 2005, Revision: May 2006, Accepted: June 2006     

Skew representations of twisted Yangians

Analogs of the classical Sylvester theorem have been known for matrices with entries in noncommutative algebras including the quantized algebra of functions on GL_N and the Yangian for $$ \mathfrak{g}\mathfrak{l}_{{N}} $$ . We prove a version of this theorem for the twisted Yangians $$ {\text{Y(}}\mathfrak{g}_{N} {\text{)}} $$associated with the orthogonal and symplectic Lie algebras $$ \mathfrak{g}_{N} = \mathfrak{o}_{N} {\text{ or }}\mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{p}_{N} $$. This gives rise to representations of the twisted Yangian $$ {\text{Y}}{\left( {\mathfrak{g}_{{N - M}} } \right)} $$ on the space of homomorphisms $$ {\text{Hom}}_{{\mathfrak{g}_{M} }} {\left( {W,V} \right)} $$, where W and V are finite-dimensional irreducible modules over $$ \mathfrak{g}_{{M}} {\text{ and }}\mathfrak{g}_{{N}} $$, respectively. In the symplectic case these representations turn out to be irreducible and we identify them by calculating the corresponding Drinfeld polynomials.We also apply the quantum Sylvester theorem to realize the twisted Yangian as a projective limit of certain centralizers in universal enveloping algebras.     

Skew representations of twisted Yangians

Analogs of the classical Sylvester theorem have been known for matrices with entries in noncommutative algebras including the quantized algebra of functions on GL _N and the Yangian for $$ \mathfrak{g}\mathfrak{l}_{{N}} $$ . We prove a version of this theorem for the twisted Yangians $$ {\text{Y(}}\mathfrak{g}_{N} {\text{)}} $$associated with the orthogonal and symplectic Lie algebras $$ \mathfrak{g}_{N} = \mathfrak{o}_{N} {\text{ or }}\mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{p}_{N} $$. This gives rise to representations of the twisted Yangian $$ {\text{Y}}{\left( {\mathfrak{g}_{{N - M}} } \right)} $$ on the space of homomorphisms $$ {\text{Hom}}_{{\mathfrak{g}_{M} }} {\left( {W,V} \right)} $$, where W and V are finite-dimensional irreducible modules over $$ \mathfrak{g}_{{M}} {\text{ and }}\mathfrak{g}_{{N}} $$, respectively. In the symplectic case these representations turn out to be irreducible and we identify them by calculating the corresponding Drinfeld polynomials.We also apply the quantum Sylvester theorem to realize the twisted Yangian as a projective limit of certain centralizers in universal enveloping algebras.     

Triangle in a triangle: On a problem of Steinhaus

A necessary and sufficient condition on the sidesp, q, r of a trianglePQR and the sidesa, b, c of a triangleABC in order thatABC contains a congruent copy ofPQR is the following: At least one of the 18 inequalities obtained by cyclic permutation of {a, b, c} and arbitrary permutation of {itp, q, r} in the formula $$\begin{array}{l} Max\{ F(q^2 + r^2 - p^2 ), F'(b^2 + c^2 - a^2 )\} \\ + Max\{ F(p^2 + r^2 - q^2 ), F'(a^2 + c^2 - b^2 )\} \le 2Fcr \\ \end{array}$$ is satisfied. In this formulaF andF′ denote the surface areas of the triangles, i.e. $$\begin{array}{l} F = {\textstyle{1 \over 4}}(2a^2 b^2 + 2b^2 c^2 + 2c^2 a^2 - a^4 - b^4 - c^4 )^{1/2} \\ F' = {\textstyle{1 \over 4}}(2p^2 q^2 + 2q^2 r^2 + 2r^2 p^2 - p^4 - q^4 - r^4 )^{1/2} . \\ \end{array}$$