On the Projective Dimensions of Mackey Functors

We examine the projective dimensions of Mackey functors and cohomological Mackey functors. We show over a field of characteristic p that cohomological Mackey functors are Gorenstein if and only if Sylow p-subgroups are cyclic or dihedral, and they have finite global dimension if and only if the group order is invertible or Sylow subgroups are cyclic of order 2. By contrast, we show that the only Mackey functors of finite projective dimension over a field are projective. This allows us to give a new proof of a theorem of Greenlees on the projective dimension of Mackey functors over a Dedekind domain. We conclude by completing work of Arnold on the global dimension of cohomological Mackey functors over ?.     

Generic vanishing index and the birationality of the bicanonical map of irregular varieties

We prove that any smooth complex projective variety with generic vanishing index bigger or equal than 2 has birational bicanonical map. Therefore, if X is a smooth complex projective variety φ with maximal Albanese dimension and non-birational bicanonical map, then the Albanese image of X is fibred by subvarieties of codimension at most 1 of an abelian subvariety of Alb X.     

On projective motions of five-dimensional spaces of special form

The paper is devoted to the problem of determining of 5-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian manifolds (M, g) admitting projective motions (h-spaces). A similar problem for n-dimensional proper Riemannian and Lorentz spaces was solved by Levi-Civita, Solodovnikov, Petrov and Aminova. For pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of arbitrary signature and dimension the problem of their classification in Lie algebras and Lie groups of projective transformations, set more than a hundred years ago, is still open. In this paper five-dimensional h-spaces of the type {221} are determined using the method of skew-normal frame (Aminova) and necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of projective motions of the same type are established.     

An extension theorem for holomorphic functions of slow growth on covering spaces of projective manifolds

LetX be a projective manifold of dimension n ≥ 2 andY →X an infinite covering space. EmbedX into projective space by sections of a sufficiently ample line bundle. We prove that any holomorphic function of sufficiently slow growth on the preimage of a transverse intersection ofX by a linear subspace of codimension <n extends toY. The proof uses a Hausdorff duality theorem for L₂ cohomology. We also show that every projective manifold has a finite branched covering whose universal covering space is Stein.     

Global-Affine Morphisms of Projective Lattice Geometries

The fundamental theorem of projective geometry gives an algebraic representation of isomorphisms between projective geometries of dimension at least 3 over vector spaces and has been generalized in different ways. This note briefly presents some further generalizations which will be proved in the author’s thesis. We introduce the notion of global-affine morphisms between projective lattice geometries. Our investigations result in a general partial representation of global-affine morphisms which yields a complete representation of global-affine homomorphisms between large classes of module-induced projective geometries by semilinear mappings between the underlying modules.     

On the zeta function of divisors for projective varieties with higher rank divisor class group

Given a projective variety X defined over a finite field, the zeta function of divisors attempts to count all irreducible, codimension one subvarieties of X, each measured by their projective degree. When the dimension of X is greater than one, this is a purely p-adic function, convergent on the open unit disk. Four conjectures are expected to hold, the first of which is p-adic meromorphic continuation to all of Cp. When the divisor class group (divisors modulo linear equivalence) of X has rank one, then all four conjectures are known to be true. In this paper, we discuss the higher rank case. In particular, we prove a p-adic meromorphic continuation theorem which applies to a large class of varieties. Examples of such varieties are projective nonsingular surfaces defined over a finite field (whose effective monoid is finitely generated) and all projective toric varieties (smooth or singular).     

Topologically invariant Chern numbers of projective varieties

We prove that a rational linear combination of Chern numbers is an oriented diffeomorphism invariant of smooth complex projective varieties if and only if it is a linear combination of the Euler and Pontryagin numbers. In dimension at least three we prove that only multiples of the top Chern number, which is the Euler characteristic, are invariant under diffeomorphisms that are not necessarily orientation-preserving. These results solve a long-standing problem of Hirzebruch's. We also determine the linear combinations of Chern numbers that can be bounded in terms of Betti numbers.     

Sections hyperplanes et endomorphismes de l'espace projectif

We show that any hyperplane section of a variety which is the inverse image of a smooth variety of dimension at least 2 by an endomorphism (which is not an automorphism) of the projective space, is linearly complete. We stress the case of smooth surfaces in P₄.     

Large semisimple groups on 16-dimensional compact projective planes are almost simple

The paper deals with the so-called Salzmann program aiming to classify special geometries according to their automorphism groups. Here, topological connected compact projective planes are considered. If finite-dimensional, such planes are of dimension 2, 4, 8, or 16. The classical example of a 16-dimensional, compact projective plane is the projective plane over the octonions with 78-dimensional automorphism group E₆(?26). A 16-dimensional, compact projective plane P admitting an automorphism group of dimension 41 or more is classical, [18] 87.5 and 87.7. For the special case of a semisimple group Δ acting on P the same result can be obtained if dim δ ≧ 37, see [16]. Our aim is to lower this bound. We show: if Δ is semisimple and dim δ ≧ 29, then P is either classical or a Moufang-Hughes plane or Δ is isomorphic to Spin₉ (?, r), r ∈ {0, 1 }. The underlying paper contains the first part of the proof showing that Δ is in fact almost simple.     

The concept of physical and fractal dimension I. The projective dimensions

The projective dimensional analysis based on the projective extension of scaling group and projective dimensional function is presented. We study the notion of self-similarity based on the physical quantities and not on topology. The projective analog of the classical theorem-π has been formulated in terms of (projective) numerical invariants. The additivity dimensions replacing fractal dimension are briefly discussed. Intuitive examples illustrate presented ideas.     

Base manifolds for fibrations of projective irreducible symplectic manifolds

Given a projective irreducible symplectic manifold M of dimension 2n, a projective manifold X and a surjective holomorphic map f:M→X with connected fibers of positive dimension, we prove that X is biholomorphic to the projective space of dimension n. The proof is obtained by exploiting two geometric structures at general points of X: the affine structure arising from the action variables of the Lagrangian fibration f and the structure defined by the variety of minimal rational tangents on the Fano manifold X.     

The directional p-median problem: Definition,complexity, and algorithms

An instance of a p-median problem gives n demand points. The objective is to locate p supply points in order to minimize the total distance of the demand points to their nearest supply point. p-Median is polynomially solvable in one dimension but NP-hard in two or more dimensions, when either the Euclidean or the rectilinear distance measure is used. In this paper, we treat the p-median problem under a new distance measure, the directional rectilinear distance, which requires the assigned supply point for a given demand point to lie above and to the right of it. In a previous work, we showed that the directional p-median problem is polynomially solvable in one dimension; we give here an improved solution through reformulating the problem as a special case of the constrained shortest path problem. We have previously proven that the problem is NP-complete in two or more dimensions; we present here an efficient heuristic to solve it. Compared to the robust Teitz and Bart heuristic, our heuristic enjoys substantial speedup while sacrificing little in terms of solution quality, making it an ideal choice for real-world applications with thousands of demand points.     

On the n-dimensional Dirichlet problem for isometric maps

We exhibit explicit Lipschitz maps from Rn to Rn which have almost everywhere orthogonal gradient and are equal to zero on the boundary of a cube. We solve the problem by induction on the dimension n.     

Low dimensional Lie groups admitting left invariant flat projective or affine structures

We prove that any real Lie group of dimension ?5 admits a left invariant flat projective structure. We also prove that a real Lie group L of dimension ?5 admits a left invariant flat affine structure if and only if the Lie algebra of L is not perfect.     

An extension of a theorem of Frobenius and Stickelberger to modules of projective dimension one over a factorial domain

Let R be a Cohen–Macaulay ring. A quasi-Gorenstein R-module is an R-module such that the grade of the module and the projective dimension of the module are equal and the canonical module of the module is isomorphic to the module itself. After discussing properties of finitely generated quasi-Gorenstein modules, it is shown that this definition allows for a characterization of diagonal matrices of maximal rank over a Cohen–Macaulay factorial domain R extending a theorem of Frobenius and Stickelberger to modules of projective dimension 1 over a commutative factorial Cohen–Macaulay domain.     

Fast orthogonalization to the kernel of the discrete gradient operator with application to Stokes problem

We obtain a simple tensor representation of the kernel of the discrete d-dimensional gradient operator defined on tensor semi-staggered grids. We show that the dimension of the nullspace grows as O(n^d-2), where d is the dimension of the problem, and n is one-dimensional grid size. The tensor structure allows fast orthogonalization to the kernel. The usefulness of such procedure is demonstrated on three-dimensional Stokes problem, discretized by finite differences on semi-staggered grids, and it is shown by numerical experiments that the new method outperforms usually used stabilization approach.     

A Criterion for Projective Modules

In case G is a finite group, there is a well-known criterion for projective modules: A ? G-module M is projective if and only if it is ? -free and has finite projective dimension. We first investigate whether only finite groups satisfy the above criterion. In the class of groups L H 𝔉, we conclude that this is true. Secondly, we consider the problem when a stably flat Γ-module is projective, where Γ is an arbitrary group. We show that if Γ is an L H 𝔉-group, then every stably flat cofibrant ? Γ-module is projective.     

Representation Dimension and Quasi-hereditary Algebras

We study Auslander's representation dimension of Artin algebras, which is by definition the minimal projective dimension of coherent functors on modules which are both generators and cogenerators. We show the following statements: (1) if an Artin algebra A is stably hereditary, then the representation dimension of A is at most 3. (2) If two Artin algebras are stably equivalent of Morita type, then they have the same representation dimension. Particularly, if two self-injective algebras are derived equivalent, then they have the same representation dimension. (3) Any incidence algebra of a finite partially ordered set over a field has finite representation dimension. Moreover, we use results on quasi-hereditary algebras to show that (4) the Auslander algebra of a Nakayama algebra has finite representation dimension.