Minkowski’s Second Theorem over a Simple Algebra

We generalize the notion of successive minima, Minkowski’s second theorem and Siegel’s lemma to a free module over a simple algebra whose center is a global field. The author was partly supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.     

Parallelizable Preprocessing Method for Multistage Stochastic Programming Problems

Stochastic programming has extensive applications in practical problems such as production planning and portfolio selection. Typically, the model has very large size and some techniques are often used to exploit the special structure of the programs. It has been noticed that the coefficient matrix may not be of full rank in the well-known scenario formulation of stochastic programming; thus, the preprocessing is often necessary in developing rapid decomposition methods. In this paper, we propose a parallelizable preprocessing method, which exploits effectively the structure of the formulation. Although the underlying idea is simple, the method turns out to be very useful in practice, since it may help us to select the nonanticipativity constraints efficiently. Some numerical results are reported confirming the usefulness of the method.This work was partially supported by the Informatics Research Center for Development of Knowledge Society Infrastructure, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. The work of the first author was also supported in part by the National Science Foundation of China, Grant 10571039. The work of the second author was also supported in part by the Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. The authors are grateful to the referees for careful reading of the paper and helpful comments.This author’s work was done while he was visiting Kyoto University.     

On the locally univalent Bloch constant

We give a new lower bound of the locally univalent Bloch constant. Research supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China, #10231010, #10171047, and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (B), #1144048.     

On the first homology of automorphism groups of manifolds with geometric structures

Hermann and Thurston proved that the group of diffeomorphisms with compact support of a smooth manifold M which are isotopic to the identity is a perfect group. We consider the case where M has a geometric structure. In this paper we shall survey on the recent results of the first homology of the diffeomorphism groups which preserve a smooth G-action or a foliated structure on M. We also work in Lipschitz category. This research was partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 16540058), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. This research was partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 14540093), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.     

A note on p-supersolvable groups

The notion of Hankel operators associated with analytic crossed products were introduced and researched in [2]. In this paper, we study the adjoint of Hankel operators and give necessary and sufficient condition that the adjoint of a Hankel operator is again a Hankel operator. This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.     

Branching Brownian Motions on Riemannian Manifolds: Expectation of the Number of Branches Hitting Closed Sets

For a branching Brownian motion on Riemannian manifold, we give an analytic criterion for the expectation of the number of branches hitting a closed set being finite. The author was supported in part by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No.18340033 (B)), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.     

Existence of the non-primitive Weierstrass gap sequences on curves of genus 8

We show that for any possible Weierstrass gap sequence L on a non-singular curve of genus 8 with twice the smallest positive non-gap is less than the largest gap there exists a pointed non-singular curve (C, P) over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0 such that the Weierstrass gap sequence at P is L. Combining this with the result in [6] we see that every possible Weierstrass gap sequence of genus 8 is attained by some pointed non-singular curve. *Partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (17540046), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. **Partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (17540030), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.     

Some existence results for solutions to SU(3) Toda system

We study SU(3) Toda system in non-abelian relativistic self-dual gauge theory. In the range of parameters where the corresponding Trudinger-Moser inequality fails, we show the existence of the solution by a different variational formulation from Lucia-Nolasco's [15]. This work was supported by a grant of the Japan-Korea Scientific Cooperation Program - Joint Research “Mathematical analysis and mathematical science for self-interacting particles.” The second author was partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 16740103), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) 35B40 - 35J50 - 35J60 - 49Q99 - 58E15 - 58J05 - 70S15     

Boundary structure of hyperbolic 3-manifolds admitting toroidal fillings at large distance

We show that if a hyperbolic 3-manifold M has two toroidal Dehn fillings with distance at least 3, then ∂M consists of at most three tori. As a result, we can obtain an optimal estimate for the number of exceptional slopes on hyperbolic 3-manifolds with boundary a union of at least 4 tori. S. Lee was supported by the Korea Research Foundation Grant funded by the Korean Government (MOEHRD, Basic Research Promotion Fund) (KRF-2007-314-C00024). M. Teragaito was supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 19540089.     

Stability of anisotropic capillary surfaces between two parallel planes

We study the stability of capillary surfaces without gravity for anisotropic free surface energies. For a large class of rotationally symmetric energy functionals, it is shown that the only stable equilibria supported on parallel planes are either cylinders or a part of the Wulff shape. The first author is partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) No. 16540195 of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.     

Anisotropic capillary surfaces with wetting energy

We study the stability of capillary surfaces for anisotropic energies having boundaries supported in horizontal planes. A wetting energy term for the surface to plane interface is included. The first author is partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) No. 16540195 of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.     

Group invariance and <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Superscript>-bounded operators

The Hilbert and Riesz transforms can be characterized up to scalar as the translation invariant operators that satisfy additionally certain relative invariance of conformal transformation groups. In this article, we initiate a systematic study of translation invariant operators from group theoretic viewpoints, and formalize a geometric condition that characterizes specific multiplier operators uniquely up to scalar by means of relative invariance of affine subgroups. After providing some interesting examples of multiplier operators having “large symmetry”, we classify which of these examples can be extended to continuous operators on L ^p (R ⁿ ) (1 < p < ∞). T. Kobayashi was partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 18340037, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. A. Nilsson was partially supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.     

Interpolating Sequences of Parabolic Bergman Spaces

The parabolic Bergman space is a Banach space of L ^p -solutions of some parabolic equations on the upper half-space H. We study interpolating theorem for these spaces. It is shown that if a sequence in H is δ-separated with δ sufficiently near 1, then it interpolates on parabolic Bergman spaces. This work was supported in part by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) No.18540168, No.18540169, and No.19540193, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.     

Floer–Novikov cohomology and the flux conjecture

We study Floer–Novikov cohomology with local coefficients and prove the flux conjecture for general closed symplectic manifolds. Received: February 2005, Revised: May 2006, Accepted: May 2006 Partially supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research No. 14003419, Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences.     

Composition Operators on the Space of Bounded Harmonic Functions

We study composition operators on the space of bounded harmonic functions on the open unit disk. The principal goal of this paper is to provide criteria for determining the essential norm of difference of two composition operators. The third author is partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No.17540169), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.     

An SQP-type algorithm for nonlinear second-order cone programs

We propose an SQP-type algorithm for solving nonlinear second-order cone programming (NSOCP) problems. At every iteration, the algorithm solves a convex SOCP subproblem in which the constraints involve linear approximations of the constraint functions in the original problem and the objective function is a convex quadratic function. Those subproblems can be transformed into linear SOCP problems, for which efficient interior point solvers are available. We establish global convergence and local quadratic convergence of the algorithm under appropriate assumptions. We report numerical results to examine the effectiveness of the algorithm. This work was supported in part by the Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.     

Some Recent Progress and Applications in Graph Minor Theory

In the core of the seminal Graph Minor Theory of Robertson and Seymour lies a powerful theorem capturing the ``rough' structure of graphs excluding a fixed minor. This result was used to prove Wagner's Conjecture that finite graphs are well-quasi-ordered under the graph minor relation. Recently, a number of beautiful results that use this structural result have appeared. Some of these along with some other recent advances on graph minors are surveyed. Research partly supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant number 16740044, by Sumitomo Foundation, by C & C Foundation and by Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists Supported in part by the Research Grant P1–0297 and by the CRC program On leave from: IMFM & FMF, Department of Mathematics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia     

Convergence of Riemannian Manifolds and Laplace Operators, II

We study spectral convergence of compact Riemannian manifolds or more generally certain Dirichlet spaces, obtaining some compactness results on harmonic functions and harmonic maps. Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000) 53C21, 58D17, 58J50. Atsushi Kasue: Partly supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) No. 15340053 of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.     

A Second Main Theorem of Nevanlinna Theory for Meromorphic Functions on Complex Submanifolds in C<Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis></Superscript>

We show a second main theorem of Nevalinna theory for meromorphic functions on complex submanifolds in C ⁿ . This has a similar form to the classical one and has a remainder term including Ricci curvature. We also give a concrete computation of the remainder term in the case of nonsingular algebraic submanifolds. Partially supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.     

Collapsing to Riemannian manifolds with boundary and the convergence of the eigenvalues of the Laplacian

We prove that the eigenvalues of the Laplacian acting on functions converge to those of the limit manifold for a special collapsing family of closed Riemannian manifolds without curvature bounds. The proof uses L ²-analysis.Dedicated to Professor Hajime Urakawa on his sixtieth birthday.The author is partially supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research No. 16740026 of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.