The Lagrangian Radon Transform and the Weil Representation

We consider the operator $\mathcal {R}$ , which sends a function on ${\mathbb {R}}^{2n}$ to its integrals over all affine Lagrangian subspaces in ${\mathbb {R}}^{2n}$ . We discuss properties of the operator $\mathcal {R}$ and of the representation of the affine symplectic group in several function spaces on ${\mathbb {R}}^{2n}$ .     

Supercyclic abelian semigroups of matrices on \mathbb {C}^{n}

We give a complete characterization of a supercyclic abelian semigroup of matrices on \(\mathbb {C}^{n}\) . For finitely generated semigroups, this characterization is explicit and it is used to determine the minimal number of matrices in normal form over \(\mathbb {C}\) that form a supercyclic abelian semigroup on \({\mathbb {C}}^{n}\) . In particular, no abelian semigroup generated by \(n-1\) matrices on \(\mathbb {C}^{n}\) can be supercyclic.     

Renewal reward process for T-related fuzzy random variables on (\mathbb {R}^{p}, \mathbb {R}^{q})

In this paper, following our previous studies, we investigate the renewal rewards process with respect to the necessity, credibility, chance measure and the expected value in which the random inter-arrival times and random rewards are characterized as weighted fuzzy numbers under \(t\) -norm-based fuzzy operations on \(\mathbb {R}^{p}\) and \(\mathbb {R}^{q}\,\,p,\,q \ge 1,\) respectively. Many versions of \(T\) -related fuzzy renewal rewards theorems are proved by using the law of large numbers for weighted fuzzy variables on \(\mathbb {R}^{p}\) . An application example is provided to illustrate the utility of the results.     

Fischer decomposition in symplectic harmonic analysis

In the framework of quaternionic Clifford analysis in Euclidean space \(\mathbb {R}^{4p}\) , which constitutes a refinement of Euclidean and Hermitian Clifford analysis, the Fischer decomposition of the space of complex valued polynomials is obtained in terms of spaces of so-called (adjoint) symplectic spherical harmonics, which are irreducible modules for the symplectic group Sp \((p)\) . Its Howe dual partner is determined to be \(\mathfrak {sl}(2,\mathbb {C}) \oplus \mathfrak {sl}(2,\mathbb {C}) = \mathfrak {so}(4,\mathbb {C})\) .     

Structure of \mathrm {Gal}(\mathbb {k}_2^{(2)}/\mathbb {k}) for some fields \mathbb {k}=\mathbb {Q}(\sqrt{2p_1p_2},i) with \mathbf {C}l_2(\mathbb {k})\simeq (2, 2, 2)

Let \(p_1 \equiv p_2 \equiv 5\pmod 8\) be different primes. Put \(i=\sqrt{-1}\) and \(d=2p_1p_2\) , then the bicyclic biquadratic field \(\mathbb {k}=\mathbb {Q}(\sqrt{d},i)\) has an elementary abelian 2-class group of rank \(3\) . In this paper we determine the nilpotency class, the coclass, the generators and the structure of the non-abelian Galois group \(\mathrm {Gal}(\mathbb {k}_2^{(2)}/\mathbb {k})\) of the second Hilbert 2-class field \(\mathbb {k}_2^{(2)}\) of \(\mathbb {k}\) . We study the capitulation problem of the 2-classes of \(\mathbb {k}\) in its seven unramified quadratic extensions \(\mathbb {K}_i\) and in its seven unramified bicyclic biquadratic extensions \(\mathbb {L}_i\) .     

Trapped Reeb orbits do not imply periodic ones

We construct a contact form on \(\mathbb {R}^{2n+1}\) , \(n\ge 2\) , equal to the standard contact form outside a compact set and defining the standard contact structure on all of \(\mathbb {R}^{2n+1}\) , which has trapped Reeb orbits, including a torus invariant under the Reeb flow, but no closed Reeb orbits. This answers a question posed by Helmut Hofer.     

Simply transitive geodesic ball packings to \mathbf{S}^2\!\times \!\mathbf{R} space groups generated by glide reflections

The \(\mathbf{S}^2\!\times \!\mathbf{R}\) geometry can be derived by the direct product of the spherical plane \(\mathbf{S}^2\) and the real line \(\mathbf{R}\) . In (Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie (Contributions to Algebra and Geometry) 42:235–250, 2001), Farkas has classified and given the complete list of the space groups of \(\mathbf{S}^2\!\times \!\mathbf{R}\) . The \(\mathbf{S}^2\!\times \!\mathbf{R}\) manifolds were classified by Molnár and Farkas in [2] by similarity and diffeomorphism. In Szirmai (Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie (Contributions to Algebra and Geometry) 52(2):413–430, 2011), we have studied the geodesic balls and their volumes in \(\mathbf{S}^2\!\times \!\mathbf{R}\) space; moreover, we have introduced the notion of geodesic ball packing and its density and have determined the densest geodesic ball packing for generalized Coxeter space groups of \(\mathbf{S}^2\!\times \!\mathbf{R}\) . In this paper, we study the locally optimal ball packings to the \(\mathbf{S}^2\!\times \!\mathbf{R}\) space groups having Coxeter point groups, and at least one of the generators is a glide reflection. We determine the densest simply transitive geodesic ball arrangements for the above space groups; moreover, we compute their optimal densities and radii. The density of the densest packing is \(\approx 0.80407553\) , may be surprising enough in comparison with the Euclidean result \(\frac{\pi }{\sqrt{18}}\approx 0.74048\) . Molnár has shown in (Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie (Contributions to Algebra and Geometry) 38(2):261–288, 1997) that the homogeneous 3-spaces have a unified interpretation in the real projective 3-sphere \(\mathcal PS ^3(\mathbf{V}^4,\varvec{V}_4,\mathbb R )\) . In our work, we shall use this projective model of \(\mathbf{S}^2\!\times \!\mathbf{R}\) geometry.     

Logarithmic Mean Oscillation on the Polydisc,Multi-Parameter Paraproducts and Iterated Commutators

We introduce another notion of bounded logarithmic mean oscillation in the \(N\) -torus and give an equivalent definition in terms of boundedness of multi-parameter paraproducts from the dyadic little \(\mathrm {BMO}\) , \(\mathrm {bmo}^d(\mathbb {T}^N)\) to the dyadic product \(\mathrm {BMO}\) space, \(\mathrm {BMO}^d(\mathbb {T}^N)\) . We also obtain a sufficient condition for the boundedness of the iterated commutators from the subspace of \(\mathrm {bmo}(\mathbb {R}^N)\) consisting of functions with support in \([0,1]^N\) to \(\mathrm {BMO}(\mathbb {R}^N)\) .     

Classification of finite Morse index solutions for Hénon type elliptic equation -\Delta u = |x|^{\alpha } u_{+}^{p}

In this paper we investigate the non-autonomous elliptic equations \(-\Delta u = |x|^{\alpha } u_{+}^{p}\) in \( \mathbb{R }^{N}\) and in \( \mathbb{R }_+^{N}\) with the Dirichlet boundary condition, with \(N \ge 2\) , \(p>1\) and \(\alpha >-2\) . We consider the weak solutions with finite Morse index and obtain some classification results.     

Pro-\mathcal {C} completions of orientable \text{ PD }^3-pairs

Let \({\mathcal {C}}\) be a class of finite groups. We study some sufficient conditions for the pro- \({\mathcal {C}}\) completion of an orientable \(\text{ PD }^3\) -pair over \(\mathbb {Z}\) to be an orientable profinite \(\text{ PD }^3\) -pair over \(\mathbb {F}_p\) . More results are proven for the pro- \(p\) completion of \(\text{ PD }^3\) -pairs.     

Distributions and the Global Operator of Slice Monogenic Functions

In this paper we consider functions \(f\) defined on an open set \(U\) of the Euclidean space \(\mathbb{R }^{n+1}\) and with values in the Clifford Algebra \(\mathbb{R }_n\) . Slice monogenic functions \(f: U \subseteq \mathbb{R }^{n+1} \rightarrow \mathbb{R }_n\) belong to the kernel of the global differential operator with non constant coefficients given by \( \mathcal{G }=|{\underline{x}}|^2\frac{\partial }{\partial x_0} \ + \ {\underline{x}} \ \sum _{j=1}^n x_j\frac{\partial }{\partial x_j}. \) Since the operator \(\mathcal{G }\) is not elliptic and there is a degeneracy in \( {\underline{x}}=0\) , its kernel contains also less smooth functions that have to be interpreted as distributions. We study the distributional solutions of the differential equation \(\mathcal{G }F(x_0,{\underline{x}})=G(x_0,{\underline{x}})\) and some of its variations. In particular, we focus our attention on the solutions of the differential equation \( ({\underline{x}}\frac{\partial }{\partial x_0} \ - E)F(x_0,{\underline{x}})=G(x_0,{\underline{x}}), \) where \(E= \sum _{j=1}^n x_j\frac{\partial }{\partial x_j}\) is the Euler operator, from which we deduce properties of the solutions of the equation \( \mathcal{G }F(x_0,{\underline{x}})=G(x_0,{\underline{x}})\) .     

Fixed points and homology of superelliptic Jacobians

Let \(\eta : C_{f,N}\rightarrow \mathbb {P}^1\) be a cyclic cover of \(\mathbb {P}^1\) of degree \(N\) which is totally and tamely ramified for all the ramification points. We determine the group of fixed points of the cyclic covering group \({{\mathrm{Aut}}}(\eta )\simeq \mathbb {Z}/ N \mathbb {Z}\) acting on the Jacobian \(J_N:={{\mathrm{Jac}}}(C_{f,N})\) . For each prime \(\ell \) distinct from the characteristic of the base field, the Tate module \(T_\ell J_N\) is shown to be a free module over the ring \(\mathbb {Z}_\ell [T]/(\sum _{i=0}^{N-1}T^i)\) . We also study the subvarieties of \(J_N\) and calculate the degree of the induced polarization on the new part \(J_N^\mathrm {new}\) of the Jacobian.     

Approximate dual Gabor atoms via the adjoint lattice method

Regular Gabor frames for \({\boldsymbol {L}{^{2}}(\mathbb {R}^d)}\) are obtained by applying time-frequency shifts from a lattice in \(\boldsymbol {\Lambda } \vartriangleleft {\mathbb {R}^{d} \times \mathbb {\widehat {R}}}\) to some decent so-called Gabor atom g, which typically is something like a summability kernel in classical analysis, or a Schwartz function, or more generally some \(g \in {\boldsymbol {S}_{0}(\mathbb {R}^{d})}\) . There is always a canonical dual frame, generated by the dual Gabor atom \({\widetilde g}\) . The paper promotes a numerical approach for the efficient calculation of good approximations to the dual Gabor atom for general lattices, including the non-separable ones (different from \({a\mathbb {Z}^{d}\,{\times }\,b\mathbb {Z}^{d}}\) ). The theoretical foundation for the approach is the well-known Wexler-Raz biorthogonality relation and the more recent theory of localized frames. The combination of these principles guarantees that the dual Gabor atom can be approximated by a linear combination of a few time-frequency shifted atoms from the adjoint lattice \(\boldsymbol {\Lambda }\circ\) . The effectiveness of this approach is justified by a new theoretical argument and demonstrated by numerical examples.     

Pointwise convergence in Pringsheim’s sense of the summability of Fourier transforms on Wiener amalgam spaces

New multi-dimensional Wiener amalgam spaces \(W_c(L_p,\ell _\infty )(\mathbb{R }^d)\) are introduced by taking the usual one-dimensional spaces coordinatewise in each dimension. The strong Hardy-Littlewood maximal function is investigated on these spaces. The pointwise convergence in Pringsheim’s sense of the \(\theta \) -summability of multi-dimensional Fourier transforms is studied. It is proved that if the Fourier transform of \(\theta \) is in a suitable Herz space, then the \(\theta \) -means \(\sigma _T^\theta f\) converge to \(f\) a.e. for all \(f\in W_c(L_1(\log L)^{d-1},\ell _\infty )(\mathbb{R }^d)\) . Note that \(W_c(L_1(\log L)^{d-1},\ell _\infty )(\mathbb{R }^d) \supset W_c(L_r,\ell _\infty )(\mathbb{R }^d) \supset L_r(\mathbb{R }^d)\) and \(W_c(L_1(\log L)^{d-1},\ell _\infty )(\mathbb{R }^d) \supset L_1(\log L)^{d-1}(\mathbb{R }^d)\) , where \(1 . Moreover, \(\sigma _T^\theta f(x)\) converges to \(f(x)\) at each Lebesgue point of \(f\in W_c(L_1(\log L)^{d-1},\ell _\infty )(\mathbb{R }^d)\) .     

Divide and Conquer Roadmap for Algebraic Sets

Let \(\mathrm{R}\) be a real closed field and \(\hbox {D}\subset \mathrm{R}\) an ordered domain. We describe an algorithm that given as input a polynomial \(P \in \hbox {D}[ X_{1} , \ldots ,X_{{ k}} ]\) and a finite set, \(\mathcal {A}= \{ p_{1} , \ldots ,p_{m} \}\) , of points contained in \(V= {\mathrm{{Zer}}} ( P, \mathrm{R}^{{ k}})\) described by real univariate representations, computes a roadmap of \(V\) containing \(\mathcal {A}\) . The complexity of the algorithm, measured by the number of arithmetic operations in \(\hbox {D}\) , is bounded by \(\big ( \sum _{i=1}^{m} D^{O ( \log ^{2} ( k ) )}_{i} +1 \big ) ( k^{\log ( k )} d )^{O ( k\log ^{2} ( k ))}\) , where \(d= \deg ( P )\) and \(D_{i}\) is the degree of the real univariate representation describing the point \(p_{i}\) . The best previous algorithm for this problem had complexity card \(( \mathcal {A} )^{O ( 1 )} d^{O ( k^{3/2} )}\) (Basu et al., ArXiv, 2012), where it is assumed that the degrees of the polynomials appearing in the representations of the points in \(\mathcal {A}\) are bounded by \(d^{O ( k )}\) . As an application of our result we prove that for any real algebraic subset \(V\) of \(\mathbb {R}^{k}\) defined by a polynomial of degree \(d\) , any connected component \(C\) of \(V\) contained in the unit ball, and any two points of \(C\) , there exists a semi-algebraic path connecting them in \(C\) , of length at most \(( k ^{\log (k )} d )^{O ( k\log ( k ) )}\) , consisting of at most \(( k ^{\log (k )} d )^{O ( k\log ( k ) )}\) curve segments of degrees bounded by \(( k ^{\log ( k )} d )^{O ( k \log ( k) )}\) . While it was known previously, by a result of D’Acunto and Kurdyka (Bull Lond Math Soc 38(6):951–965, 2006), that there always exists a path of length \(( O ( d ) )^{k-1}\) connecting two such points, there was no upper bound on the complexity of such a path.     

Conformal blocks,Berenstein–Zelevinsky triangles,and group-based models

Work of Buczyńska, Wi?niewski, Sturmfels and Xu, and the second author has linked the group-based phylogenetic statistical model associated with the group \(\mathbb {Z}/2\mathbb {Z}\) with the Wess–Zumino–Witten (WZW) model of conformal field theory associated to \(\mathrm {SL}_2(\mathbb {C})\) . In this article we explain how this connection can be generalized to establish a relationship between the phylogenetic statistical model for the cyclic group \(\mathbb {Z}/m\mathbb {Z}\) and the WZW model for the special linear group \(\mathrm {SL}_m(\mathbb {C}).\) We use this relationship to also show how a combinatorial device from representation theory, the Berenstein–Zelevinsky triangle, corresponds to elements in the affine semigroup algebra of the \(\mathbb {Z}/3\mathbb {Z}\) phylogenetic statistical model.     

Regularity and uniqueness of a class of biharmonic map heat flows

We consider a class of weak solutions of the heat flow of biharmonic maps from \(\Omega \subset \mathbb{R }^n\) to the unit sphere \(\mathbb{S }^L\subset \mathbb{R }^{L+1}\) , that have small renormalized total energies locally at each interior point. For any such a weak solution, we prove the interior smoothness, and the properties of uniqueness, convexity of hessian energy, and unique limit at \(t=\infty \) . We verify that any weak solution \(u\) to the heat flow of biharmonic maps from \(\Omega \) to a compact Riemannian manifold \(N\) without boundary, with \(\nabla ^2 u\in L^q_tL^p_x\) for some \(p>\frac{n}{2}\) and \(q>2\) satisfying (1.12), has small renormalized total energy locally and hence enjoys both the interior smoothness and uniqueness property. Finally, if an initial data \(u_0\in W^{2,r}(\mathbb{R }^n, N)\) for some \(r>\frac{n}{2}\) , then we establish the local existence of heat flow of biharmonic maps \(u\) , with \(\nabla ^2 u\in L^q_tL^p_x\) for some \(p>\frac{n}{2}\) and \(q>2\) satisfying (1.12).     

Histograms for stationary linear random fields

Denote the integer lattice points in the \(N\) -dimensional Euclidean space by \(\mathbb {Z}^N\) and assume that \(X_\mathbf{n}\) , \(\mathbf{n} \in \mathbb {Z}^N\) is a linear random field. Sharp rates of convergence of histogram estimates of the marginal density of \(X_\mathbf{n}\) are obtained. Histograms can achieve optimal rates of convergence \(({\hat{\mathbf{n}}}^{-1} \log {\hat{\mathbf{n}}})^{1/3}\) where \({\hat{\mathbf{n}}}=n_1 \times \cdots \times n_N\) . The assumptions involved can easily be checked. Histograms appear to be very simple and good estimators from the point of view of uniform convergence.     

Randomized large distortion dimension reduction

Consider a random matrix \(H:{\mathbb {R}}^{n}\longrightarrow {\mathbb {R}}^{m}\) . Let \(D\ge 2\) and let \(\{W_l\}_{l=1}^{p}\) be a set of \(k\) -dimensional affine subspaces of \({\mathbb {R}}^{n}\) . We ask what is the probability that for all \(1\le l\le p\) and \(x,y\in W_l\) , $$\begin{aligned} \Vert x-y\Vert _2\le \Vert Hx-Hy\Vert _2\le D\Vert x-y\Vert _2. \end{aligned}$$ We show that for \(m=O\big (k+\frac{\ln {p}}{\ln {D}}\big )\) and a variety of different classes of random matrices \(H\) , which include the class of Gaussian matrices, existence is assured and the probability is very high. The estimate on \(m\) is tight in terms of \(k,p,D\) .