Large indecomposables over representation-infinite orders and algebras

Let R be a complete discrete valuation domain with quotient field K, and let be an R-order in a semisimple K-algebra. Butler, Campbell, and Kovács have shown that R-free -modules decompose into -lattices when is representation-finite. Using the theory of ladder functors, we prove the converse by constructing indecomposable R-free -modules of infinite rank if is not representation-finite.Received: 23 March 2004     

Folgenräume als universelle Generatoren für Klassen lokalkonvexer Räume

Motivated by the known characterizations of equicontinuity in the dual of a Schwartz space, a nuclear space, or a strongly nuclear space,we introduce the concepts of a -sequence and of a ()-sequence in the dual of an arbitrary lcs [E,], and we investigate the corresponding topologies and ₍₎ on E of uniform convergence on these sequences. Here is a normal sequence space such that . Under favorable enough conditions on , including the nuclearity of its normal topology , [,] acts as a universal generator for those lcs [E,] which satisfy =. Under somewhat weaker assumptions on , [,₍₎] is a universal generator for the lcs [E,] with =₍₎. These results cover e.g. the cases of -nuclear spaces and of nuclear spaces known from the recent literature. As an application we show that every non-trivial ultrabornological lcs is representable as an inductive limit of isomorphic copies of [, ( , )], where is any nuclear power series space of infinite type with stable exponent sequence.     

An improved bound for the de Bruijn–Newman constant

The Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to the conjecture that the de Bruijn–Newman constant satisfies 0. However, so far all the bounds that have been proved for go in the other direction, and provide support for the conjecture of Newman that 0. This paper shows how to improve previous lower bounds and prove that –2.710^–9<. This can be done using a pair of zeros of the Riemann zeta function near zero number 10²⁰ that are unusually close together. The new bound provides yet more evidence that the Riemann hypothesis, if true, is just barely true.     

Contraction of Exterior Powers in Characteristic 2 and the Spin Module

Let K be a field of characteristic 2 and letV be a vector space of dimension 2m over K. Let f be a non-degenerate alternating bilinear form defined on V × V. The symplectic group Sp(2m, K) acts on the exterior powers ^k V for 0 k. 2m There is a contraction map defined on the exterior algebra , which commutes with the Sp(2m, K) action and satisfies ² = 0 and ( ^k V) ^k–1 V We prove that ( ^k V)= ker ^k–1 V except when k=m+2. In the exceptional case, ( ^m+2 V) has codimension 2^m in ker ^m V and we show that the quotient module ker ^m V/ ^m+2 V is a spin module for Sp(2m,K). When K is algebraically closed, we show that this spin module occurs with multiplicity 1 in ^m V and multiplicity 0 in all other components of V.     

Special Fibres and Critical Locus for a Pencil of Plane Curve Singularities

We will analyze the relationships between the special fibres of a pencil of plane curve singularities and the Jacobian curve J of (defined by the zero locus of the Jacobian determinant for any fixed basis ). From the results, we find decompositions of J (and of any special fibre of the pencil) in terms of the minimal resolution of . Using these decompositions and the topological type of any generic pair of curves of , we obtain some topological information about J. More precise decompositions for J can be deduced from the minimal embedded resolution of any pair of fibres (not necessarily generic) or from the minimal embedded resolution of all the special fibres.     

On nonlinear integral equations and Λ-bounded variation

Summary We discuss the existence or the existence and uniqueness of global and local -bounded variation (BV) solutions as well as continuous BV-solutions of nonlinear Hammerstein and Volterra-Hammerstein integral equations formulated in terms of the Lebesgue integral. Since the space of functions of bounded variation in the sense of Jordan is a proper subspace of functions of -bounded variation and for some class of functions , the space of functions of bounded -variation in the sense of Young is also a proper subspace of the space under consideration, our results extend known results in the literature.     

Division Algebras that Ramify only on a Plane Quartic Curve with Simply Connected Components

A central division algebra over the field of rational functions in two variables with coefficients over an algebraically closed field ramifies along a divisor on P ². If the ramification divisor of is a quartic curve which is the union of simply connected curves, we show that is a symbol algebra and satisfies the index equals exponent equation.     

Une variante à la Coxeter du groupe de Steinberg

LetG _n ()be the semi-direct product of the symmetric groupS _n by the Steinberg groupSt _n ()of a ringWe first prove thatG _n ()has a Coxeter-type presentation. The canonical morphism St _n () GL _n ()extends to a group homo G_n() GL _n ()We next determine the kernel of for n = We also give an expression for the generator of the algebraic K group K ₂(Z)of the integers in terms of permutation matrices.     

Standard pseudo-Hermitian structure on manifolds and seifert fibration

A strictly pseudoconvex pseudo-Hermitian manifoldM admits a canonical Lorentz metric as well as a canonical Riemannian metric. Using these metrics, we can define a curvaturelike function onM. AsM supports a contact form, there exists a characteristic vector field dual to the contact structure. If induces a local one-parameter group ofCR transformations, then a strictly pseudoconvex pseudo-Hermitian manifoldM is said to be a standard pseudo-Hermitian manifold. We study topological and geometric properties of standard pseudo-Hermitian manifolds of positive curvature or of nonpositive curvature . By the definition, standard pseudo-Hermitian manifolds are calledK-contact manifolds by Sasaki. In particular, standard pseudo-Hermitian manifolds of constant curvature turn out to be Sasakian space forms. It is well known that a conformally flat manifold contains a class of Riemannian manifolds of constant curvature. A sphericalCR manifold is aCR manifold whose Chern-Moser curvature form vanishes (equivalently, Weyl pseudo-conformal curvature tensor vanishes). In contrast, it is emphasized that a sphericalCR manifold contains a class of standard pseudo-Hermitian manifolds of constant curvature (i.e., Sasakian space forms). We shall classify those compact Sasakian space forms. When 0, standard pseudo-Hermitian closed aspherical manifolds are shown to be Seifert fiber spaces. We consider a deformation of standard pseudo-Hermitian structure preserving a sphericalCR structure.Dedicated to Professor Sasao Seiya for his sixtieth birthday     

Spectral pairs in cartesian coordinates

Let ^d have finite positive Lebesgue measure, and let () be the corresponding Hilbert space of -functions on . We shall consider the exponential functionse on given bye (x)=e ^i2·x . If these functions form an orthogonal basis for (), when ranges over some subset in ^d , then we say that (, ) is a spectral pair, and that is a spectrum. We conjecture that (, ) is a spectral pair if and only if the translates of some set by the vectors of tile ^d. In the special case of =I^d, the d-dimensional unit cube, we prove this conjecture, with =I^d, for d3, describing all the tilings by I^d, and for all d when is a discrete periodic set. In an appendix we generalize the notion of spectral pair to measures on a locally compact abelian group and its dual.Acknowledgements and Notes, Work supported by the National Science Foundation.Dedicated to the memory of Irving E. Segal     

An action functional for Lévy Brownian motion

Stoll's construction [7] of Lévy Brownian motion l on ^d as a white noise integral is used to obtain an action functional I(x) defined for the surfaces x of l. This provides a Cameron-Martin formula for translation of Lévy measure , and also a large deviation principle for scaled Lévy measures . Proofs follow the lines of [2], where nonstandard techniques were used to give natural proofs of the corresponding results for Wiener measure.The research for this paper was supported partly by a grant from the SERC.     

Generators of the group of principal units of a cyclic p-extension of a regular local field

Suppose k is a local field that is an extension of the field of p -adic numbers of degree n and does not contain a primitive p -th root of 1, and suppose K/k is a cyclic p-extension with Galois group G. The group E of principal units of K is a multiplicatively written module over the group ring =_p[G], where _p is the ring of p-adic integers. It was shown by Borevich (Ref. Zh. Mat., 1965, 3A256) that the -module E has a system of n+1 generators, of which n–1 are free and two are connected by certain relations. In the present paper these -generators are constructed explicitly and their arithmetical characteristics indicated.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 71, pp. 16–23, 1977.     

Nef cotangent bundles over line arrangements

In [1] Hirzebruch introduced and studied the compact complex surfaces (,n). In [2], Sommese characterized those. (,n) with ample cotangent bundles. In this addendum, the (,n) with nef cotangent bundles are characterized.Partially supported by NSF grant DMS 8405207     

Subgroups of the full linear group over a semilocal ring

Let be a semilocal ring (a factor ring with respect to the Jacobson-Artin radical) for which the residue field C/m of its center C with respect to each maximal idealmC contains no fewer than seven elements. The structure of subgroups H in the full linear group GL(n, ) containing the group of diagonal matrices is considered. The main theorem: for any subgroup H there is a uniquely determined D-net of ideals such that G()HN(), whereN() is the normalizer of the D-net subgroup . A transparent classification of subgroups GL(n, ) normalizable by diagonal matrices is thus obtained. Further, the factor groupN()/G() is studied.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 75, pp. 32–34, 1978.     

On the representation type of one point extensions of tame concealed algebras

Letk be an algebraically closed field and a finite dimensionalk-algebra. Letq be the quadratic Tits form associated with . If is tame we show thatq is weakly semipositive. Let be a one-point extension of a tame concealed algebra, then is tame iffq is weakly semipositive.     

On extremal perturbations of semi-Fredholm operators

Given a bounded linear operatorA in an infinite dimensional Banach space and a compact subset of a connected component of its semi-Fredholm domain, we construct a finite rank operatorF such that –A+F is bounded below (or surjective) for each ,F ²=0 and rankF=max min{dimN(–A), codimR(–A)}, if ind(–A)0 (or ind(–A)0, respectively) for each .     

Differentiation for Orders and Artinian Rings

The method of differentiation for the category -lat of lattices over an order will be extended to integral almost Abelian categories A instead of -lat. In particular, this yields a differentiation for finitely generated left modules over left Artinian rings.     

Computation of Almost Split Sequences with Applications to Relatively Projective and Prinjective Modules

Let be an Artin algebra, let mod be the category of finitely generated -modules, and let Amod be a contravariantly finite and extension closed subcategory. For an indecomposable and not Ext-projective module CA, we compute the almost split sequence 0ABC0 in A from the almost split sequence 0DTrCEC0 in mod. Since the computation is particularly simple if the minimal right A-approximation of DTrC is indecomposable for all indecomposable and not Ext-projective CA, we manufacture subcategories A with the desired property using orthogonal subcategories. The method of orthogonal subcategories is applied to compute almost split sequences for relatively projective and prinjective modules.     

Isomorphism of one-place functors Ext

Let be an associative ring with identity. One considers the category of left (unitary) -modules m and also the contravariant and the covariant functors Ext ¹ ( ,A) and Ext ¹ (A, ): M_z M. One proves the following results: (1) If the homomorphism of -modules A B induces an isomorphism Ext ¹ ( ,A)Ext ¹ ( ,B), then there exist injective -modules J₁ and J₂ such that AJ₁BJ₂. (2) Every functorial morphism Ext ¹ ( ,A)Ext ¹ ( ,B) induces a certain homomorphism of -modules AB. One also obtains a dual result.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 112, pp. 71–74, 1981.     

Subnormalizer of net subgroups in the general linear group over a ring

Let be a commutative ring in which the elements of the form ²–1, * generate the unit ideal and assume that a is any D-net of ideals of of order n. It is shown that the normalizerN() of the net subgroup G() (RZhMat, 1977, 2A280) coincides with its subnormalizer in GL(n, ). For noncommutative the corresponding result is obtained under the assumptions: 1) in the elements of the form — 1, where runs through all invertible elements of the center of , generate the unit ideal, and 2) the subgroup G() contains the group of block diagonal matrices with blocks of order 2.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 116, pp. 14–19, 1982.