Milnor K-theory of rings,higher Chow groups and applications

If R is a smooth semi-local algebra of geometric type over an infinite field, we prove that the Milnor K-group K ^M _n (R) surjects onto the higher Chow group CH ⁿ (R , n) for all n≥0. Our proof shows moreover that there is an algorithmic way to represent any admissible cycle in CH ⁿ (R , n) modulo equivalence as a linear combination of “symbolic elements” defined as graphs of units in R. As a byproduct we get a new and entirely geometric proof of results of Gabber, Kato and Rost, related to the Gersten resolution for the Milnor K-sheaf. Furthermore it is also shown that in the semi-local PID case we have, under some mild assumptions, an isomorphism. Some applications are also given. Oblatum 17-XII-1998 & 1-X-2001?Published online: 18 January 2002     

On inhomogeneous diophantine approximation and Hausdorff dimension

Let Γ = Z A + Z ⁿ  ⊂ R ⁿ be a dense subgroup of rank n + 1 and let [^(w)] \hat{w} (A) denote the exponent of uniform simultaneous rational approximation to the generating point A. For any real number v ≥  [^(w)] \hat{w} (A), the Hausdorff dimension of the set B _v of points in R ⁿ that are v-approximable with respect to Γ is shown to be equal to 1/v.     

Exponents of someN-compact spaces

For any topological spaceT, S. Mrówka has defined Exp (T) to be the smallest cardinal κ (if any such cardinals exist) such thatT can be embedded as a closed subset of the productN ^κ of κ copies ofN (the discrete space of cardinality ℵ₀). We prove that forQ, the space of the rationals with the inherited topology, Exp (Q) is equal to a certain covering number, and we show that by modifying some earlier work of ours it can be seen that it is consistent with the usual axioms of set theory including the choice that this number equal any uncountable regular cardinal less than or equal to 2^ℵ ₀. Mrówka has also defined and studied the class ℳ={κ: Exp (N _κ)=κ} whereN _κ is the discrete space of cardinality κ. It is known that the first cardinal not in ℳ must not only be inaccessible but cannot even belong to any of the first ω Mahlo classes. However, it is not known whether every cardinal below 2^ℵ ₀ is contained in ℳ. We prove that if there exists a maximal family of almost-disjoint subsets ofN of cardinality κ, then κ∈ℳ, and we then use earlier work to prove that if it is consistent that there exist cardinals which are not in the first ω Mahlo classes, then it is consistent that there exist such cardinals below 2^ℵ ₀ and that ℳ nevertheless contain all cardinals no greater than 2^ℵ ₀. Finally, we consider the relationship between ℳ and certain “large cardinals”, and we prove, for example, that if μ is any normal measure on a measurable cardinal, then μ(ℳ)=0.     

On some properties of generalized quasiisometries with unbounded characteristic

We consider a family of open discrete mappings f:D ?[`(\mathbb R<sup>n</sup>)] f:D \to \overline {{{\mathbb R}^n}} that distort, in a special way, the p-modulus of a family of curves that connect the plates of a spherical condenser in a domain D in \mathbb R<sup>n</sup> {{\mathbb R}^n} ; p > n-1; p < n; and bypass a set of positive p-capacity. We establish that this family is normal if a certain real-valued function that controls the considered distortion of the family of curves has finite mean oscillation at every point or only logarithmic singularities of order not higher than n - 1: We show that, under these conditions, an isolated singularity x <sub>0</sub> ∈ D of a mapping f:D\{ x<sub>0</sub> } ?[`(\mathbb Rⁿ)] f:D\backslash \left\{ {{x_0}} \right\} \to \overline {{{\mathbb R}^n}} is removable, and, moreover, the extended mapping is open and discrete. As applications, we obtain analogs of the known Liouville and Sokhotskii–Weierstrass theorems.     

Normal limit theorems for symmetric random matrices

Using the machinery of zonal polynomials, we examine the limiting behavior of random symmetric matrices invariant under conjugation by orthogonal matrices as the dimension tends to infinity. In particular, we give sufficient conditions for the distribution of a fixed submatrix to tend to a normal distribution. We also consider the problem of when the sequence of partial sums of the diagonal elements tends to a Brownian motion. Using these results, we show that if O _n is a uniform random n×n orthogonal matrix, then for any fixed k>0, the sequence of partial sums of the diagonal of O ^k _n tends to a Brownian motion as n→∞. Received: 3 February 1998 / Revised version: 11 June 1998     

Distributivity conditions for lattices of dominions in quasivarieties of Abelian groups

Let ℳ be any quasivariety of Abelian groups, L_q(ℳ) be a subquasivariety lattice of ℳ, dom _G ^ℳ be the dominion of a subgroup H of a group G in ℳ, and G/dom _G ^ℳ (H) be a finitely generated group. It is known that the set L(G, H, ℳ) = {dom _G ^N (H)| N ∈ L_q(ℳ)} forms a lattice w.r.t. set-theoretic inclusion. We look at the structure of dom _G ^ℳ (H). It is proved that the lattice L(G,H,ℳ) is semidistributive and necessary and sufficient conditions are specified for its being distributive. __________ Translated from Algebra i Logika, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 484–499, July–August, 2006.     

Stable windings on hyperbolic surfaces

Let ℳ be a geometrically finite hyperbolic surface with infinite volume, having at least one cusp. We obtain the limit law under the Patterson-Sullivan measure on T ¹ℳ of the windings of the geodesics of ℳ around the cusps. This limit law is stable with parameter 2δ− 1, where δ is the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of the subgroup Γ of M?bius isometries associated with ℳ. The normalization is t ^{−1/(2δ−1)}, for geodesics of length t. Our method relies on a precise comparison between geodesics and diffusion paths, for which we need to approach the Patterson-Sullivan measure mentioned above by measures that are regular along the stable leaves. Received: 8 October 1999 / Revised version: 2 June 2000 / Published online: 21 December 2000     

Sets of Periods for Expanding Maps on Flat Manifolds

 It is proven that the sets of periods for expanding maps on n-dimensional flat manifolds are uniformly cofinite, i.e. there is a positive integer m ₀, which depends only on n, such that for any integer , for any n-dimensional flat manifold ℳ and for any expanding map F on ℳ, there exists a periodic point of F whose least period is exactly m.     

Weighted Polynomials on Discrete Sets

 For a real interval I of positive length, we prove a necessary and sufficient condition which ensures that the continuous L _p (0 < p ⩽ ∞) norm of a weighted polynomial, P _n w ⁿ , deg P _n  ⩽ n, n ⩾ 1 is in an nth root sense, controlled by its corresponding discrete H?lder norm on a very general class of discrete subsets of I. As a by product of our main result, we establish inequalities and theorems dealing with zero distribution, zero location and sup and L _p infinite–finite range inequalities.     

Some Exponential Inequalities for Positively Associated Random Variables and Rates of Convergence of the Strong Law of Large Numbers

We present some exponential inequalities for positively associated unbounded random variables. By these inequalities, we obtain the rate of convergence n ^−1/2 β _n log ^3/2 n in which β _n can be particularly taken as (log log n)^1/σ with any σ>2 for the case of geometrically decreasing covariances, which is faster than the corresponding one n ^−1/2(log log n)^1/2log ² n obtained by Xing, Yang, and Liu in J. Inequal. Appl., doi: (2008) for the case mentioned above, and derive the convergence rate n ^−1/2 β _n log ^1/2 n for the above β _n under the given covariance function, which improves the relevant one n ^−1/2(log log n)^1/2log n obtained by Yang and Chen in Sci. China, Ser. A 49(1), 78–85 (2006) for associated uniformly bounded random variables. In addition, some moment inequalities are given to prove the main results, which extend and improve some known results.     

The <Emphasis Type="Italic">k</Emphasis>-Centrum Straight-line Location Problem

A line is sought in the plane which minimizes the sum of the k largest (Euclidean) weighted distances from n given points. This problem generalizes the known straight-line center and median problems and, as far as the authors are aware, has not been tackled up to now. By way of geometric duality it is shown that such a line may always be found which either passes through two of the given points or lying at equal weighted distance from three of these. This allows construction of an algorithm to find all t-centrum lines for 1 ≤ t ≤ k in O((k + logn)n ³). Finally it is shown that both, the characterization of an optimal line and the algorithm, can be extended to any smooth norm.     

Sets of Periods for Expanding Maps on Flat Manifolds

 It is proven that the sets of periods for expanding maps on n-dimensional flat manifolds are uniformly cofinite, i.e. there is a positive integer m ₀, which depends only on n, such that for any integer , for any n-dimensional flat manifold ℳ and for any expanding map F on ℳ, there exists a periodic point of F whose least period is exactly m. (Received 10 April 1998; in revised form 20 January 1999)     

On the openness and discreteness of mappings with unbounded characteristic of quasiconformality

The paper is devoted to the investigation of topological properties of space mappings. It is shown that orientation-preserving mappings f:D ?[`(\mathbbRⁿ)] f:D \to \overline {{\mathbb{R}^n}} in a domain D ì \mathbbRⁿ D \subset {\mathbb{R}^n} , n ≥ 2; which are more general than mappings with bounded distortion, are open and discrete if a function Q corresponding to the control of the distortion of families of curves under these mappings has slow growth in the domain f (D), e.g., if Q has finite mean oscillation at an arbitrary point y ₀ ∈ f (D).     

On the existence of invariant probability measures

Let (X,A) be a measureable space andT:X →X a measurable mapping. Consider a family ℳ of probability measures onA which satisfies certain closure conditions. IfA ₀⊂A is a convergence class for ℳ such that, for everyA ∈A ₀, the sequence ((1/n) Σ _i ^=0/n−1 1 _A ∘T ⁱ) converges in distribution (with respect to some probability measurev ∈ ℳ), then there exists aT-invariant element in ℳ. In particular, for the special case of a topological spaceX and a continuous mappingT, sufficient conditions for the existence ofT-invariant Borel probability measures with additional regularity properties are obtained.     

Sharp determinants

We introduce a sharp trace Tr ^# ℳ and a sharp determinant Det ^# (1−z ℳ) for an algebra of operators ℳ acting on functions of bounded variation on the real line. We show that the zeroes of the sharp determinant describe the discrete spectrum of ℳ. The relationship with weighted zeta functions of interval maps and Milnor–Thurston kneading determinants is explained. This yields a result on convergence of the discrete spectrum of approximated operators. Oblatum 8-V-1995 & IX-1995     

The nearness problems for symmetric centrosymmetric with a special submatrix constraint

We say that X=[x_ij]_i,j=1ⁿX=[x_{ij}]_{i,j=1}^n is symmetric centrosymmetric if x _ij  = x _ji and x _{n − j + 1,n − i + 1}, 1 ≤ i,j ≤ n. In this paper we present an efficient algorithm for minimizing ||AXA ^T  − B|| where ||·|| is the Frobenius norm, A ∈ ℝ ^m×n , B ∈ ℝ ^m×m and X ∈ ℝ ^n×n is symmetric centrosymmetric with a specified central submatrix [x _ij ] _{p ≤ i,j ≤ n − p} . Our algorithm produces a suitable X such that AXA ^T  = B in finitely many steps, if such an X exists. We show that the algorithm is stable any case, and we give results of numerical experiments that support this claim.     

Weighted Polynomials on Discrete Sets

 For a real interval I of positive length, we prove a necessary and sufficient condition which ensures that the continuous L _p (0 < p ⩽ ∞) norm of a weighted polynomial, P _n w ⁿ , deg P _n  ⩽ n, n ⩾ 1 is in an nth root sense, controlled by its corresponding discrete H?lder norm on a very general class of discrete subsets of I. As a by product of our main result, we establish inequalities and theorems dealing with zero distribution, zero location and sup and L _p infinite–finite range inequalities. Received April 4, 2001; in final form June 21, 2002     

A Volumetric Penrose Inequality for Conformally Flat Manifolds

We consider asymptotically flat Riemannian manifolds with non-negative scalar curvature that are conformal to \mathbbRⁿ\ W, n 3 3{\mathbb{R}^{n}{\setminus} \Omega, n\ge 3}, and so that their boundary is a minimal hypersurface. (Here, W ì \mathbbRⁿ{\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^{n}} is open bounded with smooth mean-convex boundary.) We prove that the ADM mass of any such manifold is bounded below by \frac12(V/b_n)^(n-2)/n{\frac{1}{2}\left(V/\beta_{n}\right)^{(n-2)/n}}, where V is the Euclidean volume of Ω and β _n is the volume of the Euclidean unit n-ball. This gives a partial proof to a conjecture of Bray and Iga (Commun. Anal. Geom. 10:999–1016, 2002). Surprisingly, we do not require the boundary to be outermost.     

Real Paley-Wiener type theorems for the Dunkl transform on {\mathcal{S}}'(\mathbb{R}^{d})

We prove real Paley-Wiener type theorems for the Dunkl transform ℱ _D on the space of tempered distributions. Let T∈S′(ℝ ^d ) and Δ _κ the Dunkl Laplacian operator. First, we establish that the support of ℱ _D (T) is included in the Euclidean ball , M>0, if and only if for all R>M we have lim  _n→+∞ R ⁻²ⁿ Δ _κ ⁿ T=0 in S′(ℝ ^d ). Second, we prove that the support of ℱ _D (T) is included in ℝ ^d ∖B(0,M), M>0, if and only if for all R<M, we have lim  _n→+∞ R ²ⁿ  ℱ _D ⁻¹(‖y‖⁻²ⁿ ℱ _D (T))=0 in S′(ℝ ^d ). Finally, we study real Paley-Wiener theorems associated with -slowly increasing function.      

Clifford-Hermite-monogenic operators

In this paper we consider operators acting on a subspace ℳ of the space L ₂ (ℝ^m; ℂ_m) of square integrable functions and, in particular, Clifford differential operators with polynomial coefficients. The subspace ℳ is defined as the orthogonal sum of spaces ℳ_s,k of specific Clifford basis functions of L ₂(ℝ^m; ℂm). Every Clifford endomorphism of ℳ can be decomposed into the so-called Clifford-Hermite-monogenic operators. These Clifford-Hermite-monogenic operators are characterized in terms of commutation relations and they transform a space ℳ_s,k into a similar space ℳ_s′,k′. Hence, once the Clifford-Hermite-monogenic decomposition of an operator is obtained, its action on the space ℳ is known. Furthermore, the monogenic decomposition of some important Clifford differential operators with polynomial coefficients is studied in detail.