On Deformations of Lie Algebroids

For any Lie algebroid A, its 1-jet bundle ${\mathfrak{J} A}$ is a Lie algebroid naturally and there is a representation ${\pi:\mathfrak{J} A\longrightarrow\mathfrak{D} A}$ . Denote by ${{\rm d}_{\mathfrak{J}}}$ the corresponding coboundary operator. In this paper, we realize the deformation cohomology of a Lie algebroid A introduced by M. Crainic and I. Moerdijk as the cohomology of a subcomplex ${(\Gamma({\rm Hom}(\wedge^\bullet\mathfrak{J} A,A)_{{\mathfrak{D}} A}),{\rm d}_{\mathfrak{J}})}$ of the cochain complex ${(\Gamma({\rm Hom}(\wedge^\bullet\mathfrak{J} A, A)),{\rm d}_\mathfrak{J})}$ .     

Immunity properties and strong positive reducibilities

We use certain strong Q-reducibilities, and their corresponding strong positive reducibilities, to characterize the hyperimmune sets and the hyperhyperimmune sets: if A is any infinite set then A is hyperimmune (respectively, hyperhyperimmune) if and only if for every infinite subset B of A, one has ${\overline{K}\not\le_{\rm ss} B}$ (respectively, ${\overline{K}\not\le_{\overline{\rm s}} B}$ ): here ${\le_{\overline{\rm s}}}$ is the finite-branch version of s-reducibility, ??_ss is the computably bounded version of ${\le_{\overline{\rm s}}}$ , and ${\overline{K}}$ is the complement of the halting set. Restriction to ${\Sigma^0_2}$ sets provides a similar characterization of the ${\Sigma^0_2}$ hyperhyperimmune sets in terms of s-reducibility. We also show that no ${A \geq_{\overline{\rm s}}\overline{K}}$ is hyperhyperimmune. As a consequence, ${\deg_{\rm s}(\overline{K})}$ is hyperhyperimmune-free, showing that the hyperhyperimmune s-degrees are not upwards closed.     

Restrictions of generalized Verma modules to symmetric pairs

We initiate a new line of investigation on branching problems for generalized Verma modules with respect to reductive symmetric pairs $ \left( {\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{g}'} \right) $ . In general, Verma modules may not contain any simple module when restricted to a reductive subalgebra. In this article we give a necessary and sufficient condition on the triple $ \left( {\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{g}',\mathfrak{p}} \right) $ such that the restriction $ {\left. X \right|_{\mathfrak{g}'}} $ always contains simple $ \mathfrak{g}' $ -modules for any $ \mathfrak{g} $ -module X lying in the parabolic BGG category $ {\mathcal{O}^\mathfrak{p}} $ attached to a parabolic subalgebra $ \mathfrak{p} $ of $ \mathfrak{g} $ . Formulas are derived for the Gelfand?CKirillov dimension of any simple module occurring in a simple generalized Verma module. We then prove that the restriction $ {\left. X \right|_{\mathfrak{g}'}} $ is generically multiplicity-free for any $ \mathfrak{p} $ and any $ X \in {\mathcal{O}^\mathfrak{p}} $ if and only if $ \left( {\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{g}'} \right) $ is isomorphic to (A _n , A _n-1), (B _n , D _n ), or (D _n+1, B _n ). Explicit branching laws are also presented.     

A Note on Drazin Invertibility for Upper Triangular Block Operators

A bounded linear operator A acting on a Banach space X is said to be an upper triangular block operators of order n, and we write ${A \in \mathcal{UT}_{n}(X)}$ , if there exists a decomposition of ${X = X_{1} \oplus . . . \oplus X_{n}}$ and an n × n matrix operator ${(A_{i,j})_{\rm 1 \leq i, j \leq n}}$ such that ${A = (A_{i, j})_{1 \leq i, j \leq n}, A_{i, j} = 0}$ for i > j. In this note we characterize a large set of entries A _{i, j} with j > i such that ${\sigma_{\rm D} (A) = {\bigcup\limits_{i = 1}^{n}} \sigma_{\rm D} (A_{i, i})}$ ; where σ_D(.) is the Drazin spectrum. Some applications concerning the Fredholm theory and meromorphic operators are given.     

Continuity of solutions to n-harmonic equations

In this paper, we study the nonhomogeneous n-harmonic equation $$-{\rm div}\,(|{\nabla} u|^{n-2}{\nabla} u)=f$$ in domains ${\Omega\subset {\mathbb {R}^n}}$ (n?≥?2), where ${f\in W^{-1,\frac{n}{n-1}}(\Omega)}$ . We derive a sharp condition to guarantee the continuity of solutions u. In particular, we show that when n?≥ 3, the condition that, for some ${\epsilon >0 ,}$ f belongs to $${\mathfrak{L}}({\rm log}\,{\mathfrak{L}})^{n-1}({\rm log}\,{\rm log}\,{\mathfrak{L}})^{n-2}\cdots({\rm log}\cdots{\rm log}\,{\mathfrak{L}})^{n-2}({\rm log}\cdots{\rm log}\,{\mathfrak{L}})^{n-2+\epsilon}(\Omega)$$ is sufficient for continuity of u, but not for ${\epsilon=0}$ .     

Numerical Techniques in Lévy Fluctuation Theory

This paper presents a framework for numerical computations in fluctuation theory for Lévy processes. More specifically, with $\bar X_t:= \sup_{0\le s\le t} X_s$ denoting the running maximum of the Lévy process X _t , the aim is to evaluate ${\mathbb P}(\bar X_t \le x)$ for t,x?>?0. We do so by approximating the Lévy process under consideration by another Lévy process for which the double transform ${\mathbb E} e^{-\alpha \bar X_{\tau(q)}}$ is known, with τ(q) an exponentially distributed random variable with mean 1/q; then we use a fast and highly accurate Laplace inversion technique (of almost machine precision) to obtain the distribution of $\bar X_t$ . A broad range of examples illustrates the attractive features of our approach.     

A sharp equivalence between H ∞ functional calculus and square function estimates

Let (T _t ) _{t?≥ 0} be a bounded analytic semigroup on L ^p (Ω), with 1?<?p?<?∞. Let ?A denote its infinitesimal generator. It is known that if A and A ^* both satisfy square function estimates ${\bigl\|\bigl(\int_{0}^{\infty} \vert A^{\frac{1}{2}} T_t(x)\vert^2 {\rm d}t \bigr)^{\frac{1}{2}}\bigr\|_{L^p} \lesssim \|x\|_{L^p}}$ and ${\bigl\|\bigl(\int_{0}^{\infty} \vert A^{*\frac{1}{2}} T_t^*(y) \vert^2 {\rm d}t \bigr)^{\frac{1}{2}}\bigr\|_{L^{p^\prime}} \lesssim \|y\|_{L^{p^\prime}}}$ for ${x\in L^p(\Omega)}$ and ${y\in L^{p^\prime}(\Omega)}$ , then A admits a bounded ${H^{\infty}(\Sigma_\theta)}$ functional calculus for any ${\theta>\frac{\pi}{2}}$ . We show that this actually holds true for some ${\theta<\frac{\pi}{2}}$ .     

The submartingale problem for a class of degenerate elliptic operators

We consider the degenerate elliptic operator acting on ${C^2_b}$ functions on [0,∞) ^d : $$\mathcal{L}f(x)=\sum_{i=1}^d a_i(x) x_i^{\alpha_i} \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x_i^2} (x) +\sum_{i=1}^d b_i(x) \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_i}(x), $$ where the a _i are continuous functions that are bounded above and below by positive constants, the b _i are bounded and measurable, and the ${\alpha_i\in (0,1)}$ . We impose Neumann boundary conditions on the boundary of [0,∞) ^d . There will not be uniqueness for the submartingale problem corresponding to ${\mathcal{L}}$ . If we consider, however, only those solutions to the submartingale problem for which the process spends 0 time on the boundary, then existence and uniqueness for the submartingale problem for ${\mathcal{L}}$ holds within this class. Our result is equivalent to establishing weak uniqueness for the system of stochastic differential equations $$ {\rm d}X_t^i=\sqrt{2a_i(X_t)} (X_t^i)^{\alpha_i/2}{\rm d}W^i_t + b_i(X_t) {\rm d}t + {\rm d}L_t^{X^i},\quad X^i_t \geq 0, $$ where ${W_t^i}$ are independent Brownian motions and ${L^{X_i}_t}$ is a local time at 0 for X ⁱ .     

A perturbation result for semi-linear stochastic differential equations in UMD Banach spaces

We consider the effect of perturbations of A on the solution to the following semi-linear parabolic stochastic partial differential equation: $$\left\{\begin{array}{ll}{\rm d}U(t) & = AU(t)\,{\rm d}t + F(t,U(t))\,{\rm d}t + G(t,U(t))\,{\rm d}W_H(t), \quad t > 0;\\U(0)& = x_0. \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad({\rm SDE})\end{array} \right.$$ Here, A is the generator of an analytic C ₀-semigroup on a UMD Banach space X, H is a Hilbert space, W _H is an H-cylindrical Brownian motion, ${G:[0,T]\times X\rightarrow \mathcal{L}(H, X_{\theta_G}^{A})}$ , and ${F : [0, T]\times X \rightarrow X_{\theta_F}^{A}}$ for some ${\theta_G > -\frac{1}{2}, \theta_F > -\frac{3}{2}+\frac{1}{\tau}}$ , where ${\tau\in [1, 2]}$ denotes the type of the Banach space and ${X_{\theta_F}^{A}}$ denotes the fractional domain space or extrapolation space corresponding to A. We assume F and G to satisfy certain global Lipschitz and linear growth conditions. Let A ₀ denote the perturbed operator and U ₀ the solution to (SDE) with A substituted by A ₀. We provide estimates for ${\|U - U_0\|_{L^p(\Omega;C([0,T];X))}}$ in terms of ${D_{\delta}(A, A_0) := \|R(\lambda : A) - R(\lambda : A_0)\|_{\mathcal{L}(X^{A}_{\delta-1},X)}}$ . Here, ${\delta\in [0, 1]}$ is assumed to satisfy ${0\leq \delta < {\rm min}\{\frac{3}{2} - \frac{1}{\tau} + \theta_F,\, \frac{1}{2} - \frac{1}{p} + \theta_G \}}$ . The work is inspired by the desire to prove convergence of space approximations of (SDE). In this article, we prove convergence rates for the case that A is approximated by its Yosida approximation.     

Characterization of (generalized) Lie derivations on {\mathcal{J}}-subspace lattice algebras by local action

Let ${\mathcal{L}}$ be a ${\mathcal{J}}$ -subspace lattice on a Banach space X over the real or complex field ${\mathbb{F}}$ with dim X ≥ 2 and Alg ${\mathcal{L}}$ be the associated ${\mathcal{J}}$ -subspace lattice algebra. For any scalar ${\xi \in \mathbb{F}}$ , there is a characterization of any linear map L : Alg ${\mathcal{L} \rightarrow {\rm Alg} {\mathcal{L}}}$ satisfying ${L([A,B]_\xi) = [L(A),B]_\xi + [A,L(B)]_\xi}$ for any ${A, B \in{\rm Alg} {\mathcal{L}}}$ with AB = 0 (rep. ${[A,B]_ \xi = AB - \xi BA = 0}$ ) given. Based on these results, a complete characterization of (generalized) ξ-Lie derivations for all possible ξ on Alg ${\mathcal{L}}$ is obtained.     

Categories of partial algebras for critical points between varieties of algebras

We denote by Con_c A the ${(\vee, 0)}$ -semilattice of all finitely generated congruences of an algebra A. A lifting of a ${(\vee, 0)}$ -semilattice S is an algebra A such that ${S \cong {\rm Con}_{\rm c} A}$ . The assignment Conc can be extended to a functor. The notion of lifting is generalized to diagrams of ${(\vee, 0)}$ -semilattices. A gamp is a partial algebra endowed with a partial subalgebra together with a semilattice-valued distance; gamps form a category that lends itself to a universal algebraic-type study. The raison d’être of gamps is that any algebra can be approximated by its finite subgamps, even in case it is not locally finite. Let ${\mathcal{V}}$ and ${\mathcal{W}}$ be varieties of algebras (on finite, possibly distinct, similarity types). Let P be a finite lattice. We assume the existence of a combinatorial object, called an ${\aleph_0}$ -lifter of P, of infinite cardinality ${\lambda}$ . Let ${\vec{A}}$ be a P-indexed diagram of finite algebras in ${\mathcal{V}}$ . If ${{\rm Con}_{\rm c} \circ \vec{A}}$ has no partial lifting in the category of gamps of ${\mathcal{W}}$ , then there is an algebra ${A \in \mathcal{V}}$ of cardinality ${\lambda}$ such that Con_c A is not isomorphic to Con_c B for any ${B \in \mathcal{W}}$ . This makes it possible to generalize several known results. In particular, we prove the following theorem, without assuming that ${\mathcal{W}}$ is locally finite. Let ${\mathcal{V}}$ be locally finite and let ${\mathcal{W}}$ be congruence-proper (i.e., congruence lattices of infinite members of ${\mathcal{W}}$ are infinite). The following equivalence holds. Every countable ${(\vee, 0)}$ -semilattice with a lifting in ${\mathcal{V}}$ has a lifting in ${\mathcal{W}}$ if and only if every ${\omega}$ -indexed diagram of finite ${(\vee, 0)}$ -semilattices with a lifting in ${\mathcal{V}}$ has a lifting in ${\mathcal{W}}$ . Gamps are also applied to the study of congruence-preserving extensions. Let ${\mathcal{V}}$ be a non-semidistributive variety of lattices and let n ≥ 2 be an integer. There is a bounded lattice ${A \in \mathcal{V}}$ of cardinality ${\aleph_1}$ with no congruence n-permutable, congruence-preserving extension. The lattice A is constructed as a condensate of a square-indexed diagram of lattices.     

Homotopy Groups of Spheres and Lipschitz Homotopy Groups of Heisenberg Groups

We provide a sufficient condition for the nontriviality of the Lipschitz homotopy group of the Heisenberg group, ${\pi_m^{\rm Lip}(\mathbb{H}_n)}$ , in terms of properties of the classical homotopy group of the sphere, ${\pi_m(\mathbb{S}^n)}$ . As an application we provide a new simplified proof of the fact that ${\pi_n^{\rm Lip}(\mathbb{H}_n)\neq \{0\}, n=1,2,\ldots}$ , and we prove a new result that ${\pi_{4n-1}^{\rm Lip}(\mathbb{H}_{2n})\neq \{0\}}$ for n = 1,2,… The last result is based on a new generalization of the Hopf invariant. We also prove that Lipschitz mappings are not dense in the Sobolev space ${W^{1,p}(\mathcal{M},\mathbb{H}_{2n})}$ when ${\dim \mathcal{M} \geq 4n}$ and 4n?1 ≤  p < 4n.     

On the annihilators and attached primes of top local cohomology modules

Let ${\mathfrak{a}}$ be an ideal of a commutative Noetherian ring R and M a finitely generated R-module. It is shown that ${{\rm Ann}_R(H_{\mathfrak{a}}^{{\rm dim} M}(M))= {\rm Ann}_R(M/T_R(\mathfrak{a}, M))}$ , where ${T_R(\mathfrak{a}, M)}$ is the largest submodule of M such that ${{\rm cd}(\mathfrak{a}, T_R(\mathfrak{a}, M)) < {\rm cd}(\mathfrak{a}, M)}$ . Several applications of this result are given. Among other things, it is shown that there exists an ideal ${\mathfrak{b}}$ of R such that ${{\rm Ann}_R(H_{\mathfrak{a}}^{{\rm dim} M}(M))={\rm Ann}_R(M/H_{\mathfrak{b}}^{0}(M))}$ . Using this, we show that if ${ H_{\mathfrak{a}}^{{\rm dim} R}(R)=0}$ , then ${{{\rm Att}_R} H^{{\rm dim} R-1}_{\mathfrak a}(R)= \{\mathfrak{p} \in {\rm Spec} R | \,{\rm cd}(\mathfrak{a}, R/\mathfrak{p}) = {\rm dim} R-1\}.}$ These generalize the main results of Bahmanpour et al. (see [2, Theorem 2.6]), Hellus (see [7, Theorem 2.3]), and Lynch (see [10, Theorem 2.4]).     

Local probabilities for random walks conditioned to stay positive

Let S ₀ = 0, {S _n , n ≥ 1} be a random walk generated by a sequence of i.i.d. random variables X ₁, X ₂, . . . and let $\tau ^{-}={\rm min} \{ n \geq 1:S_{n}\leq 0 \}$ and $\tau ^{+}={\rm min}\{n\geq1:S_{n} > 0\} $ . Assuming that the distribution of X ₁ belongs to the domain of attraction of an α-stable law we study the asymptotic behavior, as ${n\rightarrow \infty }$ , of the local probabilities ${\bf P}{(\tau ^{\pm }=n)}$ and prove the Gnedenko and Stone type conditional local limit theorems for the probabilities ${\bf P}{(S_{n} \in [x,x+\Delta )|\tau^{-} > n)}$ with fixed Δ and ${x=x(n)\in (0,\infty )}$ .     

Spectral Projections of the Complex Cubic Oscillator

We prove the spectral instability of the complex cubic oscillator \({-\frac{{\rm d}^{2}}{{\rm d}x^{2}} + ix^{3} + i \alpha x}\) for non-negative values of the parameter α, by getting the exponential growth rate of \({\|\Pi_{n}(\alpha)\|}\) , where \({\Pi_{n}(\alpha)}\) is the spectral projection associated with the nth eigenvalue of the operator. More precisely, we show that for all non-negative α $$\lim\limits_{n \to + \infty} \frac{1}{n} {\rm log}\|\Pi_{n}(\alpha)\| = \frac{\pi}{\sqrt{3}}$$ .     

Variation of Discrete Spectra for Non-Selfadjoint Perturbations of Selfadjoint Operators

Let B = A + K where A is a bounded selfadjoint operator and K is an element of the von Neumann–Schatten ideal ${\mathcal{S}_{p}}$ with p > 1. Let {λ _n } denote an enumeration of the discrete spectrum of B. We show that ${\sum_n {\rm dist}(\lambda_n, \sigma(A))^p}$ is bounded from above by a constant multiple of ${\|K\|_{p}^p}$ . We also derive a unitary analog of this estimate and apply it to obtain new estimates on zero-sets of Cauchy transforms.     

About the maximal rank of 3-tensors over the real and the complex number field

Tensor data are becoming important recently in various application fields. In this paper, we consider the maximal rank problem of 3-tensors and extend Atkinson and Stephens’ and Atkinson and Lloyd’s results over the real number field. We also prove the assertion of Atkinson and Stephens: ${{\rm max.rank}_{\mathbb{R}}(m,n,p) \leq m+\lfloor p/2\rfloor n}$ , ${{\rm max.rank}_{\mathbb{R}}(n,n,p) \leq (p+1)n/2}$ if p is even, ${{\rm max.rank}_{\mathbb{F}}(n,n,3)\leq 2n-1}$ if ${\mathbb{F}=\mathbb{C}}$ or n is odd, and ${{\rm max.rank}_{\mathbb{F}}(m,n,3)\leq m+n-1}$ if m < n where ${\mathbb{F}}$ stands for ${\mathbb{R}}$ or ${\mathbb{C}}$ .     

Monotonicity and logarithmic convexity relating to the volume of the unit ball

Let Ω _n denote the volume of the unit ball in ${\mathbb{R}^n}$ for ${n\in\mathbb{N}}$ . In the present paper, the authors prove that the sequence ${\Omega_{n}^{1/(n\,{\rm ln}\,n)}}$ is logarithmically convex and that the sequence ${\frac{\Omega_{n}^{1/(n\,{\rm ln}\,n)}}{\Omega_{n+1}^{1/[(n+1)\,{\rm ln}(n+1)]}}}$ is strictly decreasing for n ≥ 2. In addition, some monotonic and concave properties of several functions relating to Ω _n are extended and generalized.