Free subalgebras of division algebras over uncountable fields

We study the existence of free subalgebras in division algebras, and prove the following general result: if $A$ is a noetherian domain which is countably generated over an uncountable algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic $0$ , then either the quotient division algebra of $A$ contains a free algebra on two generators, or it is left algebraic over every maximal subfield. As an application, we prove that if $k$ is an uncountable algebraically closed field and $A$ is a finitely generated $k$ -algebra that is a domain of GK-dimension strictly less than $3$ , then either $A$ satisfies a polynomial identity, or the quotient division algebra of $A$ contains a free $k$ -algebra on two generators.     

The distribution of the zeros of the Goss zeta-function for A=\mathbb{F }\,\!{}_2[x,y]/(y^2+y+x^3+x+1)

Let $F$ be a global function field over a finite constant field and $\infty $ a place of $F$ . The ring $A$ of functions regular away from $\infty $ in $F$ is a Dedekind domain. For such $A$ Goss defined a $\zeta $ -function which is a continuous function from $\mathbb{Z }_p$ to the ring of entire power series with coefficients in the completion $F_\infty $ of $F$ at $\infty $ . He asks what one can say about the distribution of the zeros of the entire function at any parameter of $\mathbb{Z }_p$ . In the simplest case $A$ is the polynomial ring in one variable over a finite field. Here the question was settled completely by J. Sheats, after previous work by J. Diaz-Vargas, B. Poonen and D. Wan: for any parameter in $\mathbb{Z }_p$ the zeros of the power series have pairwise different valuations and they lie in  $F_\infty $ . In the present article we completely determine the distribution of zeros for the simplest case different from polynomial rings, namely $A=\mathbb{F }\,\!{}_2[x,y]/(y^2+y+x^3+x+1)$ —this $A$ has class number $1$ , it is the affine coordinate ring of a supersingular elliptic curve and the place $\infty $ is $\mathbb{F }\,\!{}_2$ -rational. The answer is slightly different from the above case of polynomial rings. For arbitrary $A$ such that $\infty $ is a rational place of $F$ , we describe a pattern in the distribution of zeros which we observed in some computational experiments. Finally, we present some precise conjectures on the fields of rationality of these zeroes for one particular hyperelliptic $A$ of genus  $2$ .     

The Euler class group of a polynomial algebra with coefficients in a line bundle

Let $A$ be a commutative Noetherian ring and $P$ be a projective $A$ -module of rank $=(\text {dim}(A)-1)$ . An intriguing open question is to find the precise obstruction for $P$ to split as: $P\simeq Q\oplus A$ for some $A$ -module $Q$ . In this paper we settle this question when $A=R[T]$ for some ring $R$ containing the field of rationals and $P$ is a projective $A$ -module of rank $=\text {dim}(R)$ .     

How large dimension guarantees a given angle?

We study the following two problems: (1) Given $n\ge 2$ and $0\le \alpha \le 180^\circ $ , how large Hausdorff dimension can a compact set $A\subset \mathbb{R }^n$ have if $A$ does not contain three points that form an angle $\alpha $ ? (2) Given $\alpha $ and $\delta $ , how large Hausdorff dimension can a subset $A$ of a Euclidean space have if $A$ does not contain three points that form an angle in the $\delta $ -neighborhood of $\alpha $ ? An interesting phenomenon is that different angles show different behaviour in the above problems. Apart from the clearly special extreme angles $0$ and $180^\circ $ , the angles $60^\circ , 90^\circ $ and $120^\circ $ also play special role in problem (2): the maximal dimension is smaller for these angles than for the other angles. In problem (1) the angle $90^\circ $ seems to behave differently from other angles.     

Asymptotically Spirallike Mappings in Reflexive Complex Banach Spaces

In this paper we consider the notion of asymptotic spirallikeness in reflexive complex Banach spaces $X$ , and the connection with univalent subordination chains. Poreda initially introduced the notion of asymptotic starlikeness to characterize biholomorphic mappings on the unit polydisc in $\mathbb{C }^{n}$ which have parametric representation in the sense of Loewner theory. The authors introduced the notions of $A$ -asymptotic spirallikeness and $A$ -parametric representation on the Euclidean unit ball of $\mathbb{C }^{n}$ , where $A\in L(\mathbb{C }^{n})$ with $m(A)>0$ . They showed that these notions are equivalent whenever $k_+(A)<2m(A)$ . In this paper we prove that if $k_+(A)<2m(A)$ and $f\in S(B)$ has $A$ -parametric representation, then $f$ is also $A$ -asymptotically spirallike on the unit ball $B$ of $X$ . For the converse, we need the additional assumption that $f$ is a smooth $A$ -asymptotically spirallike mapping, except in the finite-dimensional case $X=\mathbb{C }^{n}$ with an arbitrary norm. The notion of asymptotic spirallikeness involves differential equations and may be regarded as giving a geometric characterization of certain domains in $X$ . That is one of the motivations for considering this notion in the case of reflexive complex Banach spaces.     

Rational matrix pseudodifferential operators

The skewfield $\mathcal{K }(\partial )$ of rational pseudodifferential operators over a differential field $\mathcal{K }$ is the skewfield of fractions of the algebra of differential operators $\mathcal{K }[\partial ]$ . In our previous paper, we showed that any $H\in \mathcal{K }(\partial )$ has a minimal fractional decomposition $H=AB^{-1}$ , where $A,B\in \mathcal{K }[\partial ],\,B\ne 0$ , and any common right divisor of $A$ and $B$ is a non-zero element of $\mathcal{K }$ . Moreover, any right fractional decomposition of $H$ is obtained by multiplying $A$ and $B$ on the right by the same non-zero element of $\mathcal{K }[\partial ]$ . In the present paper, we study the ring $M_n(\mathcal{K }(\partial ))$ of $n\times n$ matrices over the skewfield $\mathcal{K }(\partial )$ . We show that similarly, any $H\in M_n(\mathcal{K }(\partial ))$ has a minimal fractional decomposition $H=AB^{-1}$ , where $A,B\in M_n(\mathcal{K }[\partial ]),\,B$ is non-degenerate, and any common right divisor of $A$ and $B$ is an invertible element of the ring $M_n(\mathcal{K }[\partial ])$ . Moreover, any right fractional decomposition of $H$ is obtained by multiplying $A$ and $B$ on the right by the same non-degenerate element of $M_n(\mathcal{K } [\partial ])$ . We give several equivalent definitions of the minimal fractional decomposition. These results are applied to the study of maximal isotropicity property, used in the theory of Dirac structures.     

Extensions of Perron–Frobenius theory

The classical Perron–Frobenius theory asserts that, for two matrices $A$ and $B$ , if $0\le B \le A$ and $r(A)=r(B)$ with $A$ being irreducible, then $A=B$ . It has been extended to infinite-dimensional Banach lattices under certain additional conditions, including that $r(A)$ is a pole of the resolvent of $A$ . In this paper, we prove that the same result holds if $B$ is irreducible and $r(B)$ is a pole of the resolvent for $B$ . We also prove some other interesting extensions of the theorem for infinite-dimensional Banach lattices.     

Hypercentralizing generalized skew derivations on left ideals in prime rings

Let $\mathcal{R }$ be a prime ring of characteristic different from $2, \mathcal{Q }_r$ the right Martindale quotient ring of $\mathcal{R }, \mathcal{C }$ the extended centroid of $\mathcal{R }, \mathcal{I }$ a nonzero left ideal of $\mathcal{R }, F$ a nonzero generalized skew derivation of $\mathcal{R }$ with associated automorphism $\alpha $ , and $n,k \ge 1$ be fixed integers. If $[F(r^n),r^n]_k=0$ for all $r \in \mathcal{I }$ , then there exists $\lambda \in \mathcal{C }$ such that $F(x)=\lambda x$ , for all $x\in \mathcal{I }$ . More precisely one of the following holds: (1) $\alpha $ is an $X$ -inner automorphism of $\mathcal{R }$ and there exist $b,c \in \mathcal{Q }_r$ and $q$ invertible element of $\mathcal{Q }_r$ , such that $F(x)=bx-qxq^{-1}c$ , for all $x\in \mathcal{Q }_r$ . Moreover there exists $\gamma \in \mathcal{C }$ such that $\mathcal{I }(q^{-1}c-\gamma )=(0)$ and $b-\gamma q \in \mathcal{C }$ ; (2) $\alpha $ is an $X$ -outer automorphism of $\mathcal{R }$ and there exist $c \in \mathcal{Q }_r, \lambda \in \mathcal{C }$ , such that $F(x)=\lambda x-\alpha (x)c$ , for all $x\in \mathcal{Q }_r$ , with $\alpha (\mathcal{I })c=0$ .     

Open Gromov–Witten invariants in dimension six

Let $L$ be a closed orientable Lagrangian submanifold of a closed symplectic six-manifold $(X , \omega )$ . We assume that the first homology group $H_1 (L ; A)$ with coefficients in a commutative ring $A$ injects into the group $H_1 (X ; A)$ and that $X$ contains no Maslov zero pseudo-holomorphic disc with boundary on $L$ . Then, we prove that for every generic choice of a tame almost-complex structure $J$ on $X$ , every relative homology class $d \in H_2 (X , L ; \mathbb{Z })$ and adequate number of incidence conditions in $L$ or $X$ , the weighted number of $J$ -holomorphic discs with boundary on $L$ , homologous to $d$ , and either irreducible or reducible disconnected, which satisfy the conditions, does not depend on the generic choice of $J$ , provided that at least one incidence condition lies in $L$ . These numbers thus define open Gromov–Witten invariants in dimension six, taking values in the ring $A$ .     

Tensor Rank: Matching Polynomials and Schur Rings

We study the polynomial equations vanishing on tensors of a given rank. By means of polarization we reduce them to elements  $A$ of the group algebra ${\mathbb {Q}}[S_n\times S_n]$ and describe explicit linear equations on the coefficients of  $A$ to vanish on tensors of a given rank. Further, we reduce the study to the Schur ring over the group $S_n\times S_n$ that arises from the diagonal conjugacy action of  $S_n$ . More closely, we consider elements of ${\mathbb {Q}}[S_n\times S_n]$ vanishing on tensors of rank $n-1$ and describe them in terms of triples of Young diagrams, their irreducible characters, and nonvanishing of their Kronecker coefficients. Also, we construct a family of elements in ${\mathbb {Q}}[S_n\times S_n]$ vanishing on tensors of rank $n-1$ and illustrate our approach by a sharp lower bound on the border rank of an explicitly produced tensor. Finally, we apply this construction to prove a lower bound $5n^2/4$ on the border rank of the matrix multiplication tensor (being, of course, weaker than the best known one $(2-\epsilon )\cdot n^2$ , due to Landsberg, Ottaviani).     

Hodge theory for elliptic complexes over unital C^*-algebras

For a unital $C^{*}$ -algebra $A$ , we prove that the cohomology groups of $A$ -elliptic complexes of pseudodifferential operators in finitely generated projective $A$ -Hilbert bundles over compact manifolds are finitely generated $A$ -modules and Banach spaces provided the images of certain extensions of the so-called associated Laplacians are closed. We also prove that under this condition, the cohomology groups are isomorphic to the kernels of the associated Laplacians. This establishes a Hodge theory for these structures.     

New results about normal pairs of rings with zero-divisors

Let $R\subset S$ be a (unital) extension of (commutative) rings. It is proved in Theorem 1, that $(R, S)$ is a normal pair (i.e. $T$ is integrally closed in $S$ for each ring $T$ such that $R \subseteq T \subseteq S$ ) if and only if $R\subset S$ is a $P$ -extension and $R$ is integrally closed in $S$ . Theorem 2 states that for rings $R\subseteq T \subseteq S, R\subseteq S$ is a $P$ -extension if and only if $R\subseteq T$ and $T\subseteq S$ are $P$ -extensions. As a consequence, we prove that if $R\subseteq T \subseteq B$ are rings and if $\overline{R}_T$ (respectively, $\overline{R}_B$ ) is the integral closure of $R$ in $T$ (respectively, in $B$ ), then $(\overline{R}_T, T)$ is a normal pair if and only if $(\overline{R}_B, \overline{R}_BT)$ is a normal pair. This generalizes results of Prüfer and Heinzer on Prüfer domains to normal pairs of arbitrary rings.     

Stability results for the N-dimensional Schiffer conjecture via a perturbation method

Given a eigenvalue $\mu _{0m}^2$ of $-\Delta $ in the unit ball $B_1$ , with Neumann boundary conditions, we prove that there exists a class $\mathcal{D}$ of $C^{0,1}$ -domains, depending on $\mu _{0m} $ , such that if $u$ is a no trivial solution to the following problem $ \Delta u+\mu u=0$ in $\Omega , u=0$ on $\partial \Omega $ , and $ \int \nolimits _{\partial \Omega }\partial _{\mathbf{n}}u=0$ , with $\Omega \in \mathcal{D}$ , and $\mu =\mu _{0m}^2+o(1)$ , then $\Omega $ is a ball. Here $\mu $ is a eigenvalue of $-\Delta $ in $\Omega $ , with Neumann boundary conditions.     

On the condition number of the total least squares problem

This paper concerns singular value decomposition (SVD)-based computable formulas and bounds for the condition number of the total least squares (TLS) problem. For the TLS problem with the coefficient matrix $A$ and the right-hand side $b$ , a new closed formula is presented for the condition number. Unlike an important result in the literature that uses the SVDs of both $A$ and $[A,\ b]$ , our formula only requires the SVD of $[A,\ b]$ . Based on the closed formula, both lower and upper bounds for the condition number are derived. It is proved that they are always sharp and estimate the condition number accurately. A few lower and upper bounds are further established that involve at most the smallest two singular values of $A$ and of $[A,\ b]$ . Tightness of these bounds is discussed, and numerical experiments are presented to confirm our theory and to demonstrate the improvement of our upper bounds over the two upper bounds due to Golub and Van Loan as well as Baboulin and Gratton. Such lower and upper bounds are particularly useful for large scale TLS problems since they require the computation of only a few singular values of $A$ and $[A, \ b]$ other than all the singular values of them.     

Equivariant map superalgebras

Suppose a group $\Gamma $ acts on a scheme $X$ and a Lie superalgebra $\mathfrak {g}$ . The corresponding equivariant map superalgebra is the Lie superalgebra of equivariant regular maps from $X$ to $\mathfrak {g}$ . We classify the irreducible finite dimensional modules for these superalgebras under the assumptions that the coordinate ring of $X$ is finitely generated, $\Gamma $ is finite abelian and acts freely on the rational points of $X$ , and $\mathfrak {g}$ is a basic classical Lie superalgebra (or $\mathfrak {sl}\,(n,n)$ , $n \ge 1$ , if $\Gamma $ is trivial). We show that they are all (tensor products of) generalized evaluation modules and are parameterized by a certain set of equivariant finitely supported maps defined on $X$ . Furthermore, in the case that the even part of $\mathfrak {g}$ is semisimple, we show that all such modules are in fact (tensor products of) evaluation modules. On the other hand, if the even part of $\mathfrak {g}$ is not semisimple (more generally, if $\mathfrak {g}$ is of type I), we introduce a natural generalization of Kac modules and show that all irreducible finite dimensional modules are quotients of these. As a special case, our results give the first classification of the irreducible finite dimensional modules for twisted loop superalgebras.     

On S-permutably embedded subgroups of finite groups

A subgroup $A$ of a finite group $G$ is said to be $S$ -permutably embedded in $G$ if for each prime $p$ dividing the order of $A$ , every Sylow $p$ -subgroup of $A$ is a Sylow $p$ -subgroup of some $S$ -permutable subgroup of $G$ . In this paper we determine how the $S$ -permutable embedding of several families of subgroups of a finite group influences its structure.     

Boundaries of Disk-Like Self-affine Tiles

Let $T:= T(A, \mathcal{D })$ T : = T ( A , D ) be a disk-like self-affine tile generated by an integral expanding matrix $A$ A and a consecutive collinear digit set $\mathcal{D }$ D , and let $f(x)=x^{2}+px+q$ f ( x ) = x 2 + px + q be the characteristic polynomial of $A$ A . In the paper, we identify the boundary $\partial T$ ? T with a sofic system by constructing a neighbor graph and derive equivalent conditions for the pair $(A,\mathcal{D })$ ( A , D ) to be a number system. Moreover, by using the graph-directed construction and a device of pseudo-norm $\omega $ ω , we find the generalized Hausdorff dimension $\dim _H^{\omega } (\partial T)=2\log \rho (M)/\log |q|$ dim H ω ( ? T ) = 2 log ρ ( M ) / log | q | where $\rho (M)$ ρ ( M ) is the spectral radius of certain contact matrix $M$ M . Especially, when $A$ A is a similarity, we obtain the standard Hausdorff dimension $\dim _H (\partial T)=2\log \rho /\log |q|$ dim H ( ? T ) = 2 log ρ / log | q | where $\rho $ ρ is the largest positive zero of the cubic polynomial $x^{3}-(|p|-1)x^{2}-(|q|-|p|)x-|q|$ x 3 ? ( | p | ? 1 ) x 2 ? ( | q | ? | p | ) x ? | q | , which is simpler than the known result.     

C^*-algebras of Toeplitz type associated with algebraic number fields

We associate with the ring $R$ of algebraic integers in a number field a C*-algebra ${\mathfrak T }[R]$ . It is an extension of the ring C*-algebra ${\mathfrak A }[R]$ studied previously by the first named author in collaboration with X. Li. In contrast to ${\mathfrak A }[R]$ , it is functorial under homomorphisms of rings. It can also be defined using the left regular representation of the $ax+b$ -semigroup $R\rtimes R^\times $ on $\ell ^2 (R\rtimes R^\times )$ . The algebra ${\mathfrak T }[R]$ carries a natural one-parameter automorphism group $(\sigma _t)_{t\in {\mathbb R }}$ . We determine its KMS-structure. The technical difficulties that we encounter are due to the presence of the class group in the case where $R$ is not a principal ideal domain. In that case, for a fixed large inverse temperature, the simplex of KMS-states splits over the class group. The “partition functions” are partial Dedekind $\zeta $ -functions. We prove a result characterizing the asymptotic behavior of quotients of such partial $\zeta $ -functions, which we then use to show uniqueness of the $\beta $ -KMS state for each inverse temperature $\beta \in (1,2]$ .