A function space -compact space

Assuming that the minimal cardinality of a dominating family in is equal to , we construct a subset of a real line such that the space of continuous real-valued functions on does not admit any continuous bijection onto a -compact space. This gives a consistent answer to a question of Arhangel'skii.

     

Perfect cliques and colorings of Polish spaces

A coloring of a set is any subset of , where 1$"> is a natural number. We give some sufficient conditions for the existence of a perfect -homogeneous set, in the case where is and is a Polish space. In particular, we show that it is sufficient that there exist -homogeneous sets of arbitrarily large countable Cantor-Bendixson rank. We apply our methods to show that an analytic subset of the plane contains a perfect -clique if it contains any uncountable -clique, where is a natural number or (a set is a -clique in if the convex hull of any of its -element subsets is not contained in ).

     

Catégorie de Lusternik-Schnirelmann et genre des -espaces

Soit un espace ayant le type d'homotopie rationnelle d'un produit de sphères impaires. Si, pour tout nombre premier , la LS-catégorie de tous les -localisés de est majorée par , nous montrons que la LS-catégorie de est majorée par . Si est un élément dans le genre de Mislin de , nous en déduisons: . Dans le cas d'un -espace de rang 2, nous avons exactement , pour tout espace dans le genre de .

     

A characterization of compactly generated metric groups

Recall that a topological group is: (a) -compact if where each is compact, and (b) compactly generated if is algebraically generated by some compact subset of . Compactly generated groups are -compact, but the converse is not true: every countable non-finitely generated discrete group (for example, the group of rational numbers or the free (Abelian) group with a countable infinite set of generators) is a counterexample. We prove that a metric group is compactly generated if and only if is -compact and for every open subgroup of there exists a finite set such that algebraically generates . As a corollary, we obtain that a -compact metric group is compactly generated provided that one of the following conditions holds: (i) has no proper open subgroups, (ii) is dense in some connected group (in particular, if is connected itself), (iii) is totally bounded (= subgroup of a compact group). Our second major result states that a countable metric group is compactly generated if and only if it can be generated by a sequence converging to its identity element (eventually constant sequences are not excluded here). Therefore, a countable metric group can be generated by a (possibly eventually constant) sequence converging to its identity element in each of the cases (i), (ii) and (iii) above. Examples demonstrating that various conditions cannot be omitted or relaxed are constructed. In particular, we exhibit a countable totally bounded group which is not compactly generated.

     

Farrell sets for harmonic functions

Let denote a relatively closed subset of the unit ball of . The purpose of this paper is to characterize those sets which have the following property: any harmonic function on which satisfies on (where 0$">) can be locally uniformly approximated on by a sequence of harmonic polynomials which satisfy the same inequality on . This answers a question posed by Stray, who had earlier solved the corresponding problem for holomorphic functions on the unit disc.

     

On polynomial products in nilpotent and solvable Lie groups

We are dealing with Lie groups which are diffeomorphic to , for some . After identifying with , the multiplication on can be seen as a map . We show that if is a polynomial map in one of the two (sets of) variables or , then is solvable. Moreover, if one knows that is polynomial in one of the variables, the group is nilpotent if and only if is polynomial in both its variables.

     

Ordered group invariants for nonorientable one-dimensional generalized solenoids

Let be an edge-wrapping rule which presents a one-dimensional generalized solenoid , and let be the adjacency matrix of . When is a wedge of circles and leaves the unique branch point fixed, we show that the stationary dimension group of is an invariant of homeomorphism of even if is not orientable.

     

Segal-Bargmann transforms of one-mode interacting Fock spaces associated with Gaussian and Poisson measures

Let and denote the Gaussian and Poisson measures on , respectively. We show that there exists a unique measure on such that under the Segal-Bargmann transform the space is isomorphic to the space of analytic -functions on with respect to . We also introduce the Segal-Bargmann transform for the Poisson measure and prove the corresponding result. As a consequence, when and have the same variance, and are isomorphic to the same space under the - and -transforms, respectively. However, we show that the multiplication operators by on and on act quite differently on .

     

Borel subrings of the reals

A Borel (or even analytic) subring of either has Hausdorff dimension or is all of . Extensions of the method of proof yield (among other things) that any analytic subring of having positive Hausdorff dimension is equal to either or .

     

A simple proof for the finiteness of GIT-quotients

Let be an action of the reductive group on the projective scheme . For every linearization of this action in an ample line bundle, there is an open set of -semistable points. We provide an elementary and geometric proof for the fact that there exist only finitely many open sets of the form . This observation was originally due to Biaynicki-Birula and Dolgachev and Hu.

     

Reduction numbers and initial ideals

The reduction number of a standard graded algebra is the least integer such that there exists a minimal reduction of the homogeneous maximal ideal of such that . Vasconcelos conjectured that where is the initial ideal of an ideal in a polynomial ring with respect to a term order. The goal of this note is to prove the conjecture.

     

Discrete spectra of -algebras and complemented submodules in Hilbert -modules

Let be a -algebra and let be a full (right) Hilbert -module. It is shown that if the spectrum of is discrete, then every closed --submodule of is complemented in , and conversely that if is a -space and if every closed --submodule of is complemented in , then is discrete.

     

Deformations of minimal Lagrangian submanifolds with boundary

Let be a special Lagrangian submanifold of a compact Calabi-Yau manifold with boundary lying on the symplectic, codimension 2 submanifold . It is shown how deformations of which keep the boundary of confined to can be described by an elliptic boundary value problem, and two results about minimal Lagrangian submanifolds with boundary are derived using this fact. The first is that the space of minimal Lagrangian submanifolds near with boundary on is found to be finite dimensional and is parametrized over the space of harmonic 1-forms of satisfying Neumann boundary conditions. The second is that if is a symplectic, codimension 2 submanifold sufficiently near , then, under suitable conditions, there exists a minimal Lagrangian submanifold near with boundary on .

     

Characterizations of paracompactness and Lindelöfness by the separation property

The separation property in our title is that, for two spaces and , any two disjoint closed copies of in are separated by open sets in . It is proved that a Tychonoff space is paracompact if and only if this separation property holds for the space and every Tychonoff space which is a perfect image of (where denotes the Stone-Cech compactification of ). Moreover, we give a characterization of Lindelöfness in a similar way under the assumption of paracompactness.

     

Weak compactness of certain sets of measures

For a compact Hausdorff space and a Montel Hausdorff locally convex space , let being the uniform topology. We determine the necessary and sufficient conditions for an equicontinuous to be -compact. Special results are obtained when is an -space or a -Stonian space.

     

An inverse problem for an inhomogeneous conformal Killing field equation

Let be a Riemannian metric defined on a bounded domain with boundary and let be a vector field on satisfying . We show that if is a gradient field of a solution to the equation on , then both inner products and are uniquely determined by the restriction of the tensor to the gradient field , where is the Lie derivative of the metric tensor under the vector field and . This work solves a problem related to an inverse boundary value problem for nonlinear elliptic equations.

     

Tight frame oversampling and its equivalence to shift-invariance of affine frame operators

Let generate a tight affine frame with dilation factor , where , and sampling constant (for the zeroth scale level). Then for , oversampling (or oversampling by ) means replacing the sampling constant by . The Second Oversampling Theorem asserts that oversampling of the given tight affine frame generated by preserves a tight affine frame, provided that is relatively prime to (i.e., ). In this paper, we discuss the preservation of tightness in oversampling, where (i.e., and ). We also show that tight affine frame preservation in oversampling is equivalent to the property of shift-invariance with respect to of the affine frame operator defined on the zeroth scale level.

     

Weighted holomorphic spaces with trivial closed range multiplication operators

We deal with the space consisting of those analytic functions on the unit disc such that , with . We determine the critical rate of decay of such that the pointwise multiplication operator , and analytic, has closed range in only in the trivial case that is the product of an invertible function in and a finite Blaschke product.

     

The Whitehead products and powers in -topology

We initiate a study of -topology. This is a modification of ordinary topology in which morphisms exist after smashing with a fixed space . Several classical topics are considered in this setting, inter alia Whitehead products, Hopf invariants and the -- sequence. The main emphasis is on detection of non-trivial elements in the -homotopy groups of spheres.

     

Number of Sylow subgroups in -solvable groups

If is a finite group and is a prime number, let be the number of Sylow -subgroups of . If is a subgroup of a -solvable group , we prove that divides .