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.

     

The Lipschitz continuity of the distance function to the cut locus

Let be a closed submanifold of a complete smooth Riemannian manifold and the total space of the unit normal bundle of . For each , let denote the distance from to the cut point of on the geodesic with the velocity vector The continuity of the function on is well known. In this paper we prove that is locally Lipschitz on which is bounded; in particular, if and are compact, then is globally Lipschitz on . Therefore, the canonical interior metric may be introduced on each connected component of the cut locus of and this metric space becomes a locally compact and complete length space.

     

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.

     

-continuity properties of the symmetric -stable process

Let be a domain of finite Lebesgue measure in and let be the symmetric -stable process killed upon exiting . Each element of the set of eigenvalues associated to , regarded as a function of , is right continuous. In addition, if is Lipschitz and bounded, then each is continuous in and the set of associated eigenfunctions is precompact.

     

Extension theory of separable metrizable spaces with applications to dimension theory

The paper deals with generalizing several theorems of the covering dimension theory to the extension theory of separable metrizable spaces. Here are some of the main results:

Generalized Eilenberg-Borsuk Theorem. Let be a countable CW complex. If is a separable metrizable space and is an absolute extensor of for some CW complex , then for any map , closed in , there is an extension of over an open set such that .

Theorem. Let be countable CW complexes. If is a separable metrizable space and is an absolute extensor of , then there is a subset of such that and .

Theorem. Suppose are countable, non-trivial, abelian groups and 0$">. For any separable metrizable space of finite dimension 0$">, there is a closed subset of with for .

Theorem. Suppose is a separable metrizable space of finite dimension and is a compactum of finite dimension. Then, for any , , there is a closed subset of such that and .

Theorem. Suppose is a metrizable space of finite dimension and is a compactum of finite dimension. If and are connected CW complexes, then

     

A sharp bound for the ratio of the first two Dirichlet eigenvalues of a domain in a hemisphere of

For a domain contained in a hemisphere of the -dimensional sphere we prove the optimal result for the ratio of its first two Dirichlet eigenvalues where , the symmetric rearrangement of in , is a geodesic ball in having the same -volume as . We also show that for geodesic balls of geodesic radius less than or equal to is an increasing function of which runs between the value for (this is the Euclidean value) and for . Here denotes the th positive zero of the Bessel function . This result generalizes the Payne-Pólya-Weinberger conjecture, which applies to bounded domains in Euclidean space and which we had proved earlier. Our method makes use of symmetric rearrangement of functions and various technical properties of special functions. We also prove that among all domains contained in a hemisphere of and having a fixed value of the one with the maximal value of is the geodesic ball of the appropriate radius. This is a stronger, but slightly less accessible, isoperimetric result than that for . Various other results for and of geodesic balls in are proved in the course of our work.

     

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.

     

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.

     

A condition for the stability of -covered on foliations of 3-manifolds

We give a sufficient condition for a codimension one, transversely orientable foliation of a closed 3-manifold to have the property that any foliation sufficiently close to it be -covered. This condition can be readily verified for many examples. Further, if an -covered foliation has a compact leaf , then any transverse loop meeting lifts to a copy of the leaf space, and the ambient manifold fibers over with as fiber.

     

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 .

     

On the invariant faces associated with a cone-preserving map

For an nonnegative matrix , an isomorphism is obtained between the lattice of initial subsets (of ) for and the lattice of -invariant faces of the nonnegative orthant . Motivated by this isomorphism, we generalize some of the known combinatorial spectral results on a nonnegative matrix that are given in terms of its classes to results for a cone-preserving map on a polyhedral cone, formulated in terms of its invariant faces. In particular, we obtain the following extension of the famous Rothblum index theorem for a nonnegative matrix: If leaves invariant a polyhedral cone , then for each distinguished eigenvalue of for , there is a chain of distinct -invariant join-irreducible faces of , each containing in its relative interior a generalized eigenvector of corresponding to (referred to as semi-distinguished -invariant faces associated with ), where is the maximal order of distinguished generalized eigenvectors of corresponding to , but there is no such chain with more than members. We introduce the important new concepts of semi-distinguished -invariant faces, and of spectral pairs of faces associated with a cone-preserving map, and obtain several properties of a cone-preserving map that mostly involve these two concepts, when the underlying cone is polyhedral, perfect, or strictly convex and/or smooth, or is the cone of all real polynomials of degree not exceeding that are nonnegative on a closed interval. Plentiful illustrative examples are provided. Some open problems are posed at the end.

     

Linear maps determining the norm topology

Let be a Banach function algebra on a compact space , and let be such that for any scalar the element is not a divisor of zero. We show that any complete norm topology on that makes the multiplication by continuous is automatically equivalent to the original norm topology of . Related results for general Banach spaces are also discussed.

     

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.

     

On the number of -equivalent non-isomorphic models

We prove that if is consistent then is consistent with the following statement: There is for every a model of cardinality which is -equivalent to exactly non-isomorphic models of cardinality . In order to get this result we introduce ladder systems and colourings different from the ``standard' counterparts, and prove the following purely combinatorial result: For each prime number and positive integer it is consistent with that there is a ``good' ladder system having exactly pairwise nonequivalent colourings.

     

-actions whose fixed data has a section

Given a collection of real vector bundles over a closed manifold , suppose that, for some is of the form , where is the trivial one-dimensional bundle. In this paper we prove that if is the fixed data of a -action, then the same is true for the Whitney sum obtained from by replacing by . This stability property is well-known for involutions. Together with techniques previously developed, this result is used to describe, up to bordism, all possible -actions fixing the disjoint union of an even projective space and a point.     

Essential cohomology and extraspecial -groups

Let be an odd prime number and let be an extraspecial -group. The purpose of the paper is to show that has no non-zero essential mod- cohomology (and in fact that is Cohen-Macaulay) if and only if and .

     

On supports and associated primes of modules over the enveloping algebras of nilpotent Lie algebras

Let be a nilpotent Lie algebra, over a field of characteristic zero, and its universal enveloping algebra. In this paper we study: (1) the prime ideal structure of related to finitely generated -modules , and in particular the set of associated primes for such (note that now is equal to the set of annihilator primes for ); (2) the problem of nontriviality for the modules when is a (maximal) prime of , and in particular when is the augmentation ideal of . We define the support of , as a natural generalization of the same notion from commutative theory, and show that it is the object of primary interest when dealing with (2). We also introduce and study the reduced localization and the reduced support, which enables to better understand the set . We prove the following generalization of a stability result given by W. Casselman and M. S. Osborne in the case when , as in the theorem, are abelian. We also present some of its interesting consequences.

Theorem. Let be a finite-dimensional Lie algebra over a field of characteristic zero, and an ideal of ; denote by the universal enveloping algebra of . Let be a -module which is finitely generated as an -module. Then every annihilator prime of , when is regarded as a -module, is -stable for the adjoint action of on .

     

Bloch constants in several variables

We give lower estimates for Bloch's constant for quasiregular holomorphic mappings. A holomorphic mapping of the unit ball into is -quasiregular if it maps infinitesimal spheres to infinitesimal ellipsoids whose major axes are less than or equal to times their minor axes. We show that if is a -quasiregular holomorphic mapping with the normalization then the image contains a schlicht ball of radius at least This result is best possible in terms of powers of Also, we extend to several variables an analogous result of Landau for bounded holomorphic functions in the unit disk.

     

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.     

On the telescopic homotopy theory of spaces

In telescopic homotopy theory, a space or spectrum is approximated by a tower of localizations , , taking account of -periodic homotopy groups for progressively higher . For each , we construct a telescopic Kuhn functor carrying a space to a spectrum with the same -periodic homotopy groups, and we construct a new functor left adjoint to . Using these functors, we show that the th stable monocular homotopy category (comprising the th fibers of stable telescopic towers) embeds as a retract of the th unstable monocular homotopy category in two ways: one giving infinite loop spaces and the other giving ``infinite -suspension spaces.' We deduce that Ravenel's stable telescope conjectures are equivalent to unstable telescope conjectures. In particular, we show that the failure of Ravenel's th stable telescope conjecture implies the existence of highly connected infinite loop spaces with trivial Johnson-Wilson -homology but nontrivial -periodic homotopy groups, showing a fundamental difference between the unstable chromatic and telescopic theories. As a stable chromatic application, we show that each spectrum is -equivalent to a suspension spectrum. As an unstable chromatic application, we determine the -localizations and -localizations of infinite loop spaces in terms of -localizations of spectra under suitable conditions. We also determine the -localizations and -localizations of arbitrary Postnikov -spaces.