Immersed

We give two congruence formulas concerning the number of non-trivial double point circles and arcs of a smooth map with generic singularities --- the Whitney umbrellas --- of an -manifold into , which generalize the formulas by Szücs for an immersion with normal crossings. Then they are applied to give a new geometric proof of the congruence formula due to Mahowald and Lannes concerning the normal Euler number of an immersed -manifold in . We also study generic projections of an embedded -manifold in into and prove an elimination theorem of Whitney umbrella points of opposite signs, which is a direct generalization of a recent result of Carter and Saito concerning embedded surfaces in . The problem of lifting a map into to an embedding into is also studied.

     

Gauge Invariant Eigenvalue Problems in

This paper is devoted to the study of the eigenvalue problems for the Ginzburg-Landau operator in the entire plane and in the half plane . The estimates for the eigenvalues are obtained and the existence of the associate eigenfunctions is proved when is a non-zero constant. These results are very useful for estimating the first eigenvalue of the Ginzburg-Landau operator with a gauge-invariant boundary condition in a bounded domain, which is closely related to estimates of the upper critical field in the theory of superconductivity.

     

Noncommutative spaces

Let be a von Neumann algebra with a faithful, finite, normal tracial state , and let be a finite, maximal subdiagonal algebra of . Let be the closure of in the noncommutative Lebesgue space . Then possesses several of the properties of the classical Hardy space on the circle, including a commutant lifting theorem, some results on Toeplitz operators, an factorization theorem, Nehari's Theorem, and harmonic conjugates which are bounded.

     

A uniform

A uniform estimate of Bessel functions is obtained, which is used to get a characterization of the measures on the unit sphere of in terms of the mixed norm of the Fourier transform of the measures.

     

Common operator properties of the linear operators

Let and be bounded linear operators defined on Banach spaces, , . When , then the operators and have many basic operator properties in common. This situation is studied in this paper.

     

and the associated line bundles

Let be a compact semi-simple Lie group, and let be a maximal unipotent subgroup of the complexified group . In this paper, we classify all the -invariant Kaehler structures on . For each Kaehler structure , let be the line bundle with connection whose curvature is . We then study the holomorphic sections of , which constitute a -representation space.

     

Products of images

Let be the \u{C}ech-Stone remainder . We show that there exists a large class of images of such that whenever is a subset of of cardinality at most the continuum, then is again an image of . The class contains all separable compact spaces, all compact spaces of weight at most and all perfectly normal compact spaces.

     

Subaveraging estimate for

Let be a smooth real hypersurface of and a compact submanifold of . We generalize a result of A. Boggess and R. Dwilewicz giving, under some geometric conditions on and , an estimate of the submeanvalue on of any function on a neighbourhood of , by the norm of on a neighbourhood of in .

     

Tetragonal curves, scrolls and surfaces

In this paper we establish a theorem which determines the invariants of a general hyperplane section of a rational normal scroll of arbitrary dimension. We then construct a complete intersection surface on a four-dimensional scroll and prove it is regular with a trivial dualizing sheaf. We determine the invariants for which the surface is nonsingular, and hence a surface. A general hyperplane section of this surface is a tetragonal curve; we use the first theorem to determine for which tetragonal invariants such a construction is possible. In particular we show that for every genus there is a tetragonal curve of genus that is a hyperplane section of a surface. Conversely, if the tetragonal invariants are not sufficiently balanced, then the complete intersection must be singular. Finally we determine for which additional sets of invariants this construction gives a tetragonal curve as a hyperplane section of a singular canonically trivial surface, and discuss the connection with other recent results on canonically trivial surfaces.

     

A critical metric for the

The -norm of the curvature tensor

defines a Riemannian functional on the space of metrics. This work exhibits a metric on which is of Berger type but not of constant ricci curvature, and yet is critical for .

     

Prescribing Gaussian curvature on

We derive a sufficient condition for a radially symmetric function which is positive somewhere to be a conformal curvature on . In particular, we show that every nonnegative radially symmetric continuous function on is a conformal curvature.

     

The boundedness of Riesz

Let be a finite nonzero Borel measure in satisfying for all and and some . If the Riesz -transform

is essentially bounded, then is an integer. We also give a related result on the -boundedness.

     

Kernel of locally nilpotent

In this paper we study the kernel of a non-zero locally nilpotent -derivation of the polynomial ring over a noetherian integral domain containing a field of characteristic zero. We show that if is normal then the kernel has a graded -algebra structure isomorphic to the symbolic Rees algebra of an unmixed ideal of height one in , and, conversely, the symbolic Rees algebra of any unmixed height one ideal in can be embedded in as the kernel of a locally nilpotent -derivation of . We also give a necessary and sufficient criterion for the kernel to be a polynomial ring in general.

     

Affine and homeomorphic embeddings into

It is shown that

(1)

a locally compact convex subset of a topological vector space that admits a sequence of continuous affine functionals separating points of affinely embeds into a Hilbert space;

(2)

an infinite-dimensional locally compact convex subset of a metric linear space has a central point;

(3)

every -compact locally convex metric linear space topologically embeds onto a pre-Hilbert space.

     

Hausdorff measures and dimension on

We consider the Hausdorff measures , , defined on with the topology induced by the metric

for all . We study its properties, their relation to the ``Lebesgue measure" defined on by R. Baker in 1991, and the associated Hausdorff dimension. Finally, we give some examples.

     

Baire and

Let be a locally compact Hausdorff space and let be the Banach space of all bounded complex Radon measures on . Let and be the -rings generated by the compact subsets and by the compact subsets of , respectively. The members of are called Baire sets of and those of are called -Borel sets of (since they are precisely the -bounded Borel sets of ). Identifying with the Banach space of all Borel regular complex measures on , in this note we characterize weakly compact subsets of in terms of the Baire and -Borel restrictions of the members of . These characterizations permit us to give a generalization of a theorem of Dieudonné which is stronger and more natural than that given by Grothendieck.

     

coefficients

Let be a system of real smooth vector fields, satisfying Hörmander's condition in some bounded domain (). We consider the differential operator

where the coefficients are real valued, bounded measurable functions, satisfying the uniform ellipticity condition:

for a.e. , every , some constant . Moreover, we assume that the coefficients belong to the space VMO (``Vanishing Mean Oscillation'), defined with respect to the subelliptic metric induced by the vector fields . We prove the following local -estimate:

for every , . We also prove the local Hölder continuity for solutions to for any with large enough. Finally, we prove -estimates for higher order derivatives of , whenever and the coefficients are more regular.

     

The

ROSSER and SCHOENFELD have used the fact that the first 3,500,000 zeros of the RIEMANN zeta function lie on the critical line to give estimates on and . With an improvement of the above result by BRENTet al., we are able to improve these estimates and to show that the prime is greater than for . We give further results without proof.