Abstract blowing down

Assume that is a surface over an algebraically closed field . Let be obtained from by blowing up a smooth point and let be the exceptional curve. Let be the category of coherent sheaves on . In this note we show how to recover from , if we know the object .

     

The first occurrence for the irreducible modules of general linear groups in the polynomial algebra

Let be a prime number and let be the group of all invertible matrices over the prime field . It is known that every irreducible -module can occur as a submodule of , the polynomial algebra with variables over . Given an irreducible -module , the purpose of this paper is to find out the first value of the degree of which occurs as a submodule of , the subset of consisting of homogeneous polynomials of degree . This generalizes Schwartz-Tri's result to the case of any prime .

     

Lomonosov's theorem cannot be extended to chains of four operators

We show that the celebrated Lomonosov theorem cannot be improved by increasing the number of commuting operators. Specifically, we prove that if is the operator without a non-trivial closed invariant subspace constructed by C. J. Read, then there are three operators , and (non-multiples of the identity) such that commutes with , commutes with , commutes with , and is compact. It is also shown that the commutant of contains only series of .

     

Every -regular

We prove the following: Theorem A. If is a -regular ultrafilter, then either

(a)

is -regular, or

(b)

the cofinality of the linear order is , and is -regular for all .

Corollary B. Suppose that is singular, and either is regular, or . Then every -regular ultrafilter is -regular.

We also discuss some consequences and variations.

     

Asymptotic behaviour of Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity

Let be a polynomial ring over a field. For a graded -module generated in degree at most , the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of each of (i) its symmetric power, (ii) its torsion-free symmetric power and (iii) the integral closure of its torsion-free symmetric power is bounded above by a linear function in with leading coefficient at most . For a graded ideal of , the regularity of is given by a linear function of for all sufficiently large . The leading coefficient of this function is identified.

     

A note on -bases of rings

Let be a tower of rings of characteristic . Suppose that is a finitely presented -module. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of -bases of over . Next, let be a polynomial ring where is a perfect field of characteristic , and let be a regular noetherian subring of containing such that . Suppose that is a free -module. Then, applying the above result to a tower of rings, we shall show that a polynomial of minimal degree in is a -basis of over .

     

A note on restricted weak-type estimates for Bochner-Riesz operators with negative index in

It is shown that the Bochner-Riesz operator on of negative order is of restricted weak type in the critical points and , where , for in the two-dimensional case and , for if .

     

Yang index of the deleted product

For any a -dimensional polyhedron is constructed such that the Yang index of its deleted product equals . This answers a question of Izydorek and Jaworowski (1995). For any a -dimensional closed manifold with involution is constructed such that , but can be mapped into a -dimensional polyhedron without antipodal coincidence.

     

Reflection and uniqueness theorems for harmonic functions

Suppose that is harmonic on an open half-ball in such that the origin 0 is the centre of the flat part of the boundary . If has non-negative lower limit at each point of and tends to 0 sufficiently rapidly on the normal to at 0, then has a harmonic continuation by reflection across . Under somewhat stronger hypotheses, the conclusion is that . These results strengthen recent theorems of Baouendi and Rothschild. While the flat boundary set can be replaced by a spherical surface, it cannot in general be replaced by a smooth -dimensional manifold.

     

The best possibility of the grand Furuta inequality

Let be invertible bounded linear operators on a Hilbert space satisfying , and let be real numbers satisfying Furuta showed that if , then . This inequality is called the grand Furuta inequality, which interpolates the Furuta inequality
and the Ando-Hiai inequality ( ).

In this paper, we show the grand Furuta inequality is best possible in the following sense: that is, if , then there exist invertible matrices with which do not satisfy .

     

Solving the -Laplacian on manifolds

We prove in this paper that the equation on a -hyperbolic manifold has a solution with -integrable gradient for any bounded measurable function with compact support.

     

A characterization of total reflection orders

Let be a Coxeter system with set of reflections . It is known that if is a total reflection order for , then, for each , and its complement are stable under conjugation by . Moreover the upper and lower -conjugates of are still total reflection orders. For any total order on , say that is stable if is stable under conjugation by for each . We prove that if and all orders obtained from by successive lower or upper -conjugations are stable, then is a total reflection order.

     

Gradient estimates for positive solutions of the Laplacian with drift

Let be a complete Riemannian manifold of dimension without boundary and with Ricci curvature bounded below by where If is a vector field such that and on for some nonnegative constants and then we show that any positive solution of the equation satisfies the estimate

on , for all In particular, for the case when this estimate is advantageous for small values of and when it recovers the celebrated Liouville theorem of Yau (Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 28 (1975), 201-228).

     

Iwasawa invariants and class numbers of quadratic fields for the prime

Let be a square-free integer with and . Put and . For the cyclotomic -extension of , we denote by the -th layer of over . We prove that the -Sylow subgroup of the ideal class group of is trivial for all integers if and only if the class number of is not divisible by the prime . This enables us to show that there exist infinitely many real quadratic fields in which splits and whose Iwasawa -invariant vanishes.

     

-sequences

A sequence of positive integers is called a -sequence if every integer has at most representations with all in and . A -sequence is also called a -sequence or Sidon sequence. The main result is the following

Theorem. Let be a -sequence and for an integer . Then there is a -sequence of size , where .

Corollary. Let . The interval then contains a -sequence of size , when .

     

Conjugate -connections and holonomy groups

In this article we show that when the structure group of the reducible principal bundle is and is an -subbundle of , the rank of the holonomy group of a connection which is gauge equivalent to its conjugate connection is less than or equal to , and use the estimate to show that for all odd prime , if the holonomy group of the irreducible connection as above is simple and is not isomorphic to , , or , then it is isomorphic to .

     

Open covers and partition relations

An open cover of a topological space is said to be an -cover if there is for each finite subset of the space a member of the cover which contains the finite set, but the space itself is not a member of the cover. We prove theorems which imply that a set of real numbers has Rothberger's property if, and only if, for each positive integer , for each -cover of , and for each function from the two-element subsets of , there is a subset of such that is constant on , and each element of belongs to infinitely many elements of (Theorem 1). A similar characterization is given of Menger's property for sets of real numbers (Theorem 6).

     

On a theorem of Barbara Schmid

Let be a finite group and a complex representation. Barbara Schmid has shown that the algebra of invariant polynomial functions on the vector space is generated by homogeneous polynomials of degree at most , where is the largest degree of a generator in a minimal generating set for , and is the complex regular representation of . In this note we give a new proof of this result, and at the same time extend it to fields whose characteristic is larger than , the order of the group .

     

A factorization theorem for the derivative of a function in

We show that a function is the derivative of a function in the Hardy space of the unit disk for if and only if where and . Here, can be chosen to be non-vanishing, , and . As an application, we characterize positive measures on the unit disk such that the operator is bounded from the tent space to , where .

     

Inequalities for the gamma function

We prove the following two theorems:

(i) Let be the th power mean of and . The inequality

holds for all if and only if , where denotes Euler's constant. This refines results established by W. Gautschi (1974) and the author (1997).

(ii) The inequalities

are valid for all if and only if and , while holds for all if and only if and . These bounds for improve those given by G. D. Anderson an S.-L. Qiu (1997).