Multi-dimensional versions of a theorem of Fine and Wilf and a formula of Sylvester

Let be vectors in which generate . We show that a body with the vectors as edge vectors is an almost minimal set with the property that every function with periods is constant. For the result reduces to the theorem of Fine and Wilf, which is a refinement of the famous Periodicity Lemma.

Suppose is not a non-trivial linear combination of with non-negative coefficients. Then we describe the sector such that every interior integer point of the sector is a linear combination of over , but infinitely many points on each of its hyperfaces are not. For the result reduces to a formula of Sylvester corresponding to Frobenius' Coin-changing Problem in the case of coins of two denominations.

     

Trudinger type inequalities in and their best exponents

We study Trudinger type inequalities in and their best exponents . We show for , ( is the surface area of the unit sphere in ), there exists a constant such that

for all . Here is defined by

It is also shown that with is false, which is different from the usual Trudinger's inequalities in bounded domains.

     

On polynomial products in nilpotent and solvable Lie groups

We are dealing with Lie groups which are diffeomorphic to , for some . After identifying with , the multiplication on can be seen as a map . We show that if is a polynomial map in one of the two (sets of) variables or , then is solvable. Moreover, if one knows that is polynomial in one of the variables, the group is nilpotent if and only if is polynomial in both its variables.

     

Quadratic initial ideals of root systems

Let be one of the root systems , , and and write for the set of positive roots of together with the origin of . Let denote the Laurent polynomial ring over a field and write for the affine semigroup ring which is generated by those monomials with , where if . Let denote the polynomial ring over and write for the toric ideal of . Thus is the kernel of the surjective homomorphism defined by setting for all . In their combinatorial study of hypergeometric functions associated with root systems, Gelfand, Graev and Postnikov discovered a quadratic initial ideal of the toric ideal of . The purpose of the present paper is to show the existence of a reverse lexicographic (squarefree) quadratic initial ideal of the toric ideal of each of , and . It then follows that the convex polytope of the convex hull of each of , and possesses a regular unimodular triangulation arising from a flag complex, and that each of the affine semigroup rings , and is Koszul.     

Constraints for the normality of monomial subrings and birationality

Let be a field and let be a finite set of monomials whose exponents lie on a positive hyperplane. We give necessary conditions for the normality of both the Rees algebra and the subring . If the monomials in have the same degree, one of the consequences is a criterion for the -rational map defined by to be birational onto its image.

     

Hyperelliptic jacobians and simple groups

In a previous paper, the author proved that in characteristic zero the jacobian of a hyperelliptic curve has only trivial endomorphisms over an algebraic closure of the ground field if the Galois group of the irreducible polynomial is either the symmetric group or the alternating group . Here 4$"> is the degree of . In another paper by the author this result was extended to the case of certain ``smaller' Galois groups. In particular, the infinite series and were treated. In this paper the case of and is treated.

     

Finite rank operators in closed maximal triangular algebras II

In this paper, we discuss finite rank operators in a closed maximal triangular algebra . Based on the following result that each finite rank operator of can be written as a finite sum of rank one operators each belonging to , we proved that , where , if ; and , if . We also proved that the Erdos Density Theorem holds in if and only if is strongly reducible.

     

Catégorie de Lusternik-Schnirelmann et genre des -espaces

Soit un espace ayant le type d'homotopie rationnelle d'un produit de sphères impaires. Si, pour tout nombre premier , la LS-catégorie de tous les -localisés de est majorée par , nous montrons que la LS-catégorie de est majorée par . Si est un élément dans le genre de Mislin de , nous en déduisons: . Dans le cas d'un -espace de rang 2, nous avons exactement , pour tout espace dans le genre de .

     

Arbitrarily large solutions of the conformal scalar curvature problem at an isolated singularity

We study the conformal scalar curvature problem

where is a continuous function. We show that a necessary and sufficient condition on for this problem to have positive solutions which are arbitrarily large at is that be less than 1 on a sequence of points in which tends to .

     

Hierarchical structure of the family of curves with maximal genus verifying flag conditions

Fix integers such that and , and let be the set of all integral, projective and nondegenerate curves of degree in the projective space , such that, for all , does not lie on any integral, projective and nondegenerate variety of dimension and degree . We say that a curve satisfies the flag condition if belongs to . Define where denotes the arithmetic genus of . In the present paper, under the hypothesis , we prove that a curve satisfying the flag condition and of maximal arithmetic genus must lie on a unique flag such as , where, for any , denotes an integral projective subvariety of of degree and dimension , such that its general linear curve section satisfies the flag condition and has maximal arithmetic genus . This proves the existence of a sort of a hierarchical structure of the family of curves with maximal genus verifying flag conditions.

     

A note on invertibility preservers on Banach algebras

Let be be semisimple Banach algebras and let be a unital bijective linear operator that preserves invertibility. If the socle of is an essential ideal of , then is a Jordan isomorphism.

     

Algebraic structures determined by 3 by 3 matrix geometry

Using a ``3 by 3 matrix trick' we show that multiplication (an algebraic structure) in a *-algebra is determined by the geometry of the *-algebra of the 3 by 3 matrices with entries from , . This is an example of an algebra-geometry duality which, we claim, has applications.

     

Helly-type theorems for homothets of planar convex curves

Helly's theorem implies that if is a finite collection of (positive) homothets of a planar convex body , any three having non-empty intersection, then has non-empty intersection. We show that for collections of homothets (including translates) of the boundary , if any four curves in have non-empty intersection, then has non-empty intersection. We prove the following dual version: If any four points of a finite set in the plane can be covered by a translate [homothet] of , then can be covered by a translate [homothet] of . These results are best possible in general.

     

A remark on the Debs-Saint-Raymond theorem

A theorem of Debs and Saint-Raymond gives sufficient conditions for a -ideal of compact sets to have the covering property. We discuss the necessity of these conditions. Namely, we show that there exists a -ideal that is locally non-Borel, has no Borel basis and has the covering property. This partially answers a question posed by Kechris.

     

Irreducible plane curves with the Albanese dimension 2

Let be a plane curve given by an equation , and let be the affine plane curve given by . Let denote a cyclic covering of determined by . The number is called the Albanese dimension of . In this article, we shall give examples of with the Albanese dimension 2.

     

A simple proof for the finiteness of GIT-quotients

Let be an action of the reductive group on the projective scheme . For every linearization of this action in an ample line bundle, there is an open set of -semistable points. We provide an elementary and geometric proof for the fact that there exist only finitely many open sets of the form . This observation was originally due to Biaynicki-Birula and Dolgachev and Hu.

     

Injective modules and linear growth of primary decompositions

The purposes of this paper are to generalize, and to provide a short proof of, I. Swanson's Theorem that each proper ideal in a commutative Noetherian ring has linear growth of primary decompositions, that is, there exists a positive integer such that, for every positive integer , there exists a minimal primary decomposition with for all . The generalization involves a finitely generated -module and several ideals; the short proof is based on the theory of injective -modules.

     

Isolated invariant curves of a foliation

We bound the equisingularity type of the set of isolated separatrices of a holomorphic foliation of in terms of the Milnor number of . This result gives a bound for the degree of an algebraic invariant curve of a foliation of in terms of the degree of , provided that all the branches of are isolated separatrices.

     

-summand vectors in Banach spaces

The aim of this paper is to study the set of all -summand vectors of a real Banach space . We provide a characterization of -summand vectors in smooth real Banach spaces and a general decomposition theorem which shows that every real Banach space can be decomposed as an -sum of a Hilbert space and a Banach space without nontrivial -summand vectors. As a consequence, we generalize some results and we obtain intrinsic characterizations of real Hilbert spaces.