Geometry of chain complexes and outer automorphisms under derived equivalence

The two main theorems proved here are as follows: If is a finite dimensional algebra over an algebraically closed field, the identity component of the algebraic group of outer automorphisms of is invariant under derived equivalence. This invariance is obtained as a consequence of the following generalization of a result of Voigt. Namely, given an appropriate geometrization of the family of finite -module complexes with fixed sequence of dimensions and an ``almost projective' complex , there exists a canonical vector space embedding

where is the pertinent product of general linear groups acting on , tangent spaces at are denoted by , and is identified with its image in the derived category .

     

Properties of Anick's spaces

We prove three useful properties of Anick's space  . First, at odd primes a map from into a homotopy commutative, homotopy associative -space can be extended to a unique -map from into . Second, at primes larger than , is itself homotopy commutative and homotopy associative. And third, the first two properties combine to show that the order of the identity map on  is .

     

Representations as elements in affine composition algebras

Let be the path algebra of a Euclidean quiver over a finite field . The aim of this paper is to classify the modules with the property , where is Ringel's composition algebra. Namely, the main result says that if , then if and only if the regular direct summand of is a direct sum of modules from non-homogeneous tubes with quasi-dimension vectors non-sincere. The main methods are representation theory of affine quivers, the structure of triangular decompositions of tame composition algebras, and the invariant subspaces of skew derivations. As an application, we see that if and only if the quiver of is of Dynkin type.     

Anick's spaces and the double loops of odd primary Moore spaces

Several properties of Anick's spaces are established which give a retraction of Anick's off if and . The proof is alternate to and more immediate than the two proofs of Neisendorfer's.

     

Boundedness and differentiability for nonlinear elliptic systems

We consider the elliptic system , and an obstacle problem for a similar system of variational inequalities. The functions and satisfy certain ellipticity and boundedness conditions with a -admissible weight and exponent . The growth of in and is of order . We show that weak solutions of the above systems are locally bounded and differentiable almost everywhere in the classical sense.

     

On the commutativity of the algebra of invariant differential operators on certain nilpotent homogeneous spaces

Let be a simply connected connected real nilpotent Lie group with Lie algebra , a connected closed subgroup of with Lie algebra and satisfying . Let be the unitary character of with differential at the origin. Let be the unitary representation of induced from the character of . We consider the algebra of differential operators invariant under the action of on the bundle with basis associated to these data. We consider the question of the equivalence between the commutativity of and the finite multiplicities of . Corwin and Greenleaf proved that if is of finite multiplicities, this algebra is commutative. We show that the converse is true in many cases.

     

Limits of interpolatory processes

Given distinct real numbers and a positive approximation of the identity , which converges weakly to the Dirac delta measure as goes to zero, we investigate the polynomials which solve the interpolation problem

with prescribed data . More specifically, we are interested in the behavior of when the data is of the form for some prescribed function . One of our results asserts that if is sufficiently nice and has sufficiently well-behaved moments, then converges to a limit which can be completely characterized. As an application we identify the limits of certain fundamental interpolatory splines whose knot set is , where is an arbitrary finite subset of the integer lattice , as their degree goes to infinity.

     

Singular limit of solutions of the porous medium equation with absorption

We prove that as the solutions of , , , , , , , converges in to the solution of the ODE , , where , , satisfies in for some function , , satisfying whenever for a.e. , for and for , where is a constant and is any measurable subset of .

     

Serre's generalization of Nagao's theorem: An elementary approach

Let be a smooth projective curve over a field . For each closed point of let be the coordinate ring of the affine curve obtained by removing from . Serre has proved that is isomorphic to the fundamental group, , of a graph of groups , where is a tree with at most one non-terminal vertex. Moreover the subgroups of attached to the terminal vertices of are in one-one correspondence with the elements of , the ideal class group of . This extends an earlier result of Nagao for the simplest case .

Serre's proof is based on applying the theory of groups acting on trees to the quotient graph , where is the associated Bruhat-Tits building. To determine he makes extensive use of the theory of vector bundles (of rank 2) over . In this paper we determine using a more elementary approach which involves substantially less algebraic geometry.

The subgroups attached to the edges of are determined (in part) by a set of positive integers , say. In this paper we prove that is bounded, even when Cl is infinite. This leads, for example, to new free product decomposition results for certain principal congruence subgroups of , involving unipotent and elementary matrices.

     

Good ideals in Gorenstein local rings

Let be an -primary ideal in a Gorenstein local ring (, ) with , and assume that contains a parameter ideal in as a reduction. We say that is a good ideal in if is a Gorenstein ring with . The associated graded ring of is a Gorenstein ring with if and only if . Hence good ideals in our sense are good ones next to the parameter ideals in . A basic theory of good ideals is developed in this paper. We have that is a good ideal in if and only if and . First a criterion for finite-dimensional Gorenstein graded algebras over fields to have nonempty sets of good ideals will be given. Second in the case where we will give a correspondence theorem between the set and the set of certain overrings of . A characterization of good ideals in the case where will be given in terms of the goodness in their powers. Thanks to Kato's Riemann-Roch theorem, we are able to classify the good ideals in two-dimensional Gorenstein rational local rings. As a conclusion we will show that the structure of the set of good ideals in heavily depends on . The set may be empty if , while is necessarily infinite if and contains a field. To analyze this phenomenon we shall explore monomial good ideals in the polynomial ring in three variables over a field . Examples are given to illustrate the theorems.

     

A product formula for spherical representations of a group of automorphisms of a homogeneous tree, II

Let be the group of automorphisms of a homogeneous tree and let be the tensor product of two spherical irreducible unitary representations of . We complete the explicit decomposition of commenced in part I of this paper, by describing the discrete series representations of which appear as subrepresentations of .

     

Groups with two extreme character degrees and their normal subgroups

We study the finite groups for which the set of irreducible complex character degrees consists of the two most extreme possible values, that is, and . We are easily reduced to finite -groups, for which we derive the following group theoretical characterization: they are the -groups such that is a square and whose only normal subgroups are those containing or contained in . By analogy, we also deal with -groups such that is not a square, and we prove that if and only if a similar property holds: for any , either or . The proof of these results requires a detailed analysis of the structure of the -groups with any of the conditions above on normal subgroups, which is interesting for its own sake. It is especially remarkable that these groups have small nilpotency class and that, if the nilpotency class is greater than , then the index of the centre is small, and in some cases we may even bound the order of .

     

surfaces of genus 8 and varieties of sums of powers of cubic fourfolds

The main result of this paper is that the variety of presentations of a general cubic form in variables as a sum of cubes is isomorphic to the Fano variety of lines of a cubic -fold , in general different from .

A general surface of genus determines uniquely a pair of cubic -folds: the apolar cubic and the dual Pfaffian cubic (or for simplicity and ). As Beauville and Donagi have shown, the Fano variety of lines on the cubic is isomorphic to the Hilbert scheme of length two subschemes of . The first main result of this paper is that parametrizes the variety of presentations of the cubic form , with , as a sum of cubes, which yields an isomorphism between and . Furthermore, we show that sets up a correspondence between and . The main result follows by a deformation argument.

     

On the relation between upper central quotients and lower central series of a group

Let be a group with a normal subgroup contained in the upper central subgroup . In this article we study the influence of the quotient group on the lower central subgroup . In particular, for any finite group we give bounds on the order and exponent of . For equal to a dihedral group, or quaternion group, or extra-special group we list all possible groups that can arise as . Our proofs involve: (i) the Baer invariants of , (ii) the Schur multiplier of relative to a normal subgroup , and (iii) the nonabelian tensor product of groups. Some results on the nonabelian tensor product may be of independent interest.

     

A product formula for spherical representations of a group of automorphisms of a homogeneous tree, I

Let be the group of automorphisms of a homogeneous tree , and let be a lattice subgroup of . Let be the tensor product of two spherical irreducible unitary representations of . We give an explicit decomposition of the restriction of to . We also describe the spherical component of  explicitly, and this decomposition is interpreted as a multiplication formula for associated orthogonal polynomials.

     

Exact Hausdorff measure and intervals of maximum density for Cantor sets

Consider a linear Cantor set , which is the attractor of a linear iterated function system (i.f.s.) , , on the line satisfying the open set condition (where the open set is an interval). It is known that has Hausdorff dimension given by the equation , and that is finite and positive, where denotes Hausdorff measure of dimension . We give an algorithm for computing exactly as the maximum of a finite set of elementary functions of the parameters of the i.f.s. When (or more generally, if and are commensurable), the algorithm also gives an interval that maximizes the density . The Hausdorff measure is not a continuous function of the i.f.s. parameters. We also show that given the contraction parameters , it is possible to choose the translation parameters in such a way that , so the maximum density is one. Most of the results presented here were discovered through computer experiments, but we give traditional mathematical proofs.

     

Uniqueness of volume-minimizing submanifolds calibrated by the first Pontryagin form

One way to understand the geometry of the real Grassmann manifold parameterizing oriented -dimensional subspaces of is to understand the volume-minimizing subvarieties in each homology class. Some of these subvarieties can be determined by using a calibration. In previous work, one of the authors calculated the set of -planes calibrated by the first Pontryagin form on for all , and identified a family of mutually congruent round -spheres which are consequently homologically volume-minimizing. In the present work, we associate to the family of calibrated planes a Pfaffian system on the symmetry group , an analysis of which yields a uniqueness result; namely, that any connected submanifold of calibrated by is contained in one of these -spheres. A similar result holds for -calibrated submanifolds of the quotient Grassmannian of non-oriented -planes.

     

A geometric parametrization for the virtual Euler characteristics of the moduli spaces of real and complex algebraic curves

We determine an expression for the virtual Euler characteristics of the moduli spaces of -pointed real ) and complex () algebraic curves. In particular, for the space of real curves of genus with a fixed point free involution, we find that the Euler characteristic is where is the th Bernoulli number. This complements the result of Harer and Zagier that the Euler characteristic of the moduli space of complex algebraic curves is

The proof uses Strebel differentials to triangulate the moduli spaces and some recent techniques for map enumeration to count cells. The approach involves a parameter that permits specialization of the formula to the real and complex cases. This suggests that itself may describe the Euler characteristics of some related moduli spaces, although we do not yet know what these spaces might be.

     

Local derivations on -algebras are derivations

Kadison has shown that local derivations from a von Neumann algebra into any dual bimodule are derivations. In this paper we extend this result to local derivations from any -algebra into any Banach -bimodule . Most of the work is involved with establishing this result when is a commutative -algebra with one self-adjoint generator. A known result of the author about Jordan derivations then completes the argument. We show that these results do not extend to the algebra of continuously differentiable functions on . We also give an automatic continuity result, that is, we show that local derivations on -algebras are continuous even if not assumed a priori to be so.

     

Simple holonomic modules over rings of differential operators with regular coefficients of Krull dimension 2

Let be an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. Let be the ring of (-linear) differential operators with coefficients from a regular commutative affine domain of Krull dimension which is the tensor product of two regular commutative affine domains of Krull dimension . Simple holonomic -modules are described. Let a -algebra be a regular affine commutative domain of Krull dimension and be the ring of differential operators with coefficients from . We classify (up to irreducible elements of a certain Euclidean domain) simple -modules (the field is not necessarily algebraically closed).