Hankel Operators on Bounded Analytic Functions

For a domain in the complex plane and a bounded measurable function on , the generalized Hankel operator on is the operator of multiplication by followed by projection into . Under certain conditions on we show that either is compact or there is an embedded on which is bicontinuous. We characterize those 's for which is compact in the case that is a Behrens roadrunner domain.

     

Tight closure, plus closure and Frobenius closure in cubical cones

We consider tight closure, plus closure and Frobenius closure in the rings , where is a field of characteristic and . We use a -grading of these rings to reduce questions about ideals in the quotient rings to questions about ideals in the regular ring . We show that Frobenius closure is the same as tight closure in certain classes of ideals when . Since , we conclude that for these ideals. Using injective modules over the ring , the union of all th roots of elements of , we reduce the question of whether for -graded ideals to the case of -graded irreducible modules. We classify the irreducible -primary -graded ideals. We then show that for most irreducible -primary -graded ideals in , where is a field of characteristic and . Hence for these ideals.

     

Random intersections of thick Cantor sets

Let , be Cantor sets embedded in the real line, and let , be their respective thicknesses. If , then it is well known that the difference set is a disjoint union of closed intervals. B. Williams showed that for some , it may be that is as small as a single point. However, the author previously showed that generically, the other extreme is true; contains a Cantor set for all in a generic subset of . This paper shows that small intersections of thick Cantor sets are also rare in the sense of Lebesgue measure; if , then contains a Cantor set for almost all in .

     

Orbit equivalence of global attractors of semilinear parabolic differential equations

We consider global attractors of dissipative parabolic equations

on the unit interval with Neumann boundary conditions. A permutation is defined by the two orderings of the set of (hyperbolic) equilibrium solutions according to their respective values at the two boundary points and We prove that two global attractors, and , are globally orbit equivalent, if their equilibrium permutations and coincide. In other words, some discrete information on the ordinary differential equation boundary value problem characterizes the attractor of the above partial differential equation, globally, up to orbit preserving homeomorphisms.

     

The spectrum of infinite regular line graphs

Let be an infinite -regular graph and its line graph. We consider discrete Laplacians on and , and show the exact relation between the spectrum of and that of . Our method is also applicable to -semiregular graphs, subdivision graphs and para-line graphs.

     

Finite groups of matrices over group rings

We investigate certain finite subgroups of , where is a finite nilpotent group. Such a group gives rise to a -module; we study the characters of these modules to limit the structure of . We also exhibit some exotic subgroups .

     

A local Peter-Weyl theorem

An invariant inner product on the Lie algebra of a compact connected Lie group extends to a Hermitian inner product on the Lie algebra of the complexified Lie group . The Laplace-Beltrami operator, , on induced by the Hermitian inner product determines, for each number , a Green's function by means of the identity . The Hilbert space of holomorphic functions on which are square integrable with respect to is shown to be finite dimensional. It is spanned by the holomorphic extensions of the matrix elements of those irreducible representations of whose Casimir operator is appropriately related to .

     

A bracket power characterization of analytic spread one ideals

The main theorem characterizes, in terms of bracket powers, analytic spread one ideals in local rings. Specifically, let be regular nonunits in a local (Noetherian) ring and assume that , the integral closure of , where . Then the main result shows that for all but finitely many units in that are non-congruent modulo and for all large integers and it holds that for and not divisible by , where is the -th bracket power of . And, conversely, if there exist positive integers , , and such that has a basis such that , then has analytic spread one.

     

The metric projection onto the soul

We study geometric properties of the metric projection of an open manifold with nonnegative sectional curvature onto a soul . is shown to be up to codimension 3. In arbitrary codimensions, small metric balls around a soul turn out to be convex, so that the unit normal bundle of also admits a metric of nonnegative curvature. Next we examine how the horizontal curvatures at infinity determine the geometry of , and study the structure of Sharafutdinov lines. We conclude with regularity properties of the cut and conjugate loci of .

     

Characterizations of spectra with -injective cohomology which satisfy the Brown-Gitler property

We work in the stable homotopy category of -complete connective spectra having mod homology of finite type. means cohomology with coefficients, and is a left module over the Steenrod algebra .

A spectrum is called spacelike if it is a wedge summand of a suspension spectrum, and a spectrum satisfies the Brown-Gitler property if the natural map is onto, for all spacelike .

It is known that there exist spectra satisfying the Brown-Gitler property, and with isomorphic to the injective envelope of in the category of unstable -modules.

Call a spectrum standard if it is a wedge of spectra of the form , where is a stable wedge summand of the classifying space of some elementary abelian -group. Such spectra have -injective cohomology, and all -injectives appear in this way.

Working directly with the two properties of stated above, we clarify and extend earlier work by many people on Brown-Gitler spectra. Our main theorem is that, if is a spectrum with -injective cohomology, the following conditions are equivalent:

(A) there exist a spectrum whose cohomology is a reduced -injective and a map that is epic in cohomology, (B) there exist a spacelike spectrum and a map that is epic in cohomology, (C) is monic in cohomology, (D) satisfies the Brown-Gitler property, (E) is spacelike, (F) is standard. ( is reduced if it has no nontrivial submodule which is a suspension.)

As an application, we prove that the Snaith summands of are Brown-Gitler spectra-a new result for the most interesting summands at odd primes. Another application combines the theorem with the second author's work on the Whitehead conjecture.

Of independent interest, enroute to proving that (B) implies (C), we prove that the homology suspension has the following property: if an -connected space admits a map to an -fold suspension that is monic in mod homology, then is onto in mod homology.

     

Avoidable algebraic subsets of Euclidean space

Fix an integer and consider real -dimensional . A partition of avoids the polynomial , where each is an -tuple of variables, if there is no set of the partition which contains distinct such that . The polynomial is avoidable if some countable partition avoids it. The avoidable polynomials are studied here. The polynomial is an especially interesting example of an avoidable one. We find (1) a countable partition which avoids every avoidable polynomial over , and (2) a characterization of the avoidable polynomials. An important feature is that both the ``master' partition in (1) and the characterization in (2) depend on the cardinality of .

     

Embeddings in generalized manifolds

We prove that a ()-connected map from a compact PL -manifold to a generalized -manifold with the disjoint disks property, , is homotopic to a tame embedding. There is also a controlled version of this result, as well as a version for noncompact and proper maps that are properly ()-connected. The techniques developed lead to a general position result for arbitrary maps , , and a Whitney trick for separating submanifolds of that have intersection number 0, analogous to the well-known results when is a manifold.

     

Positive definite spherical functions on Olshanskii domains

Let be a simply connected complex Lie group with Lie algebra , a real form of , and the analytic subgroup of corresponding to . The symmetric space together with a -invariant partial order is referred to as an Olshanskii space. In a previous paper we constructed a family of integral spherical functions on the positive domain of . In this paper we determine all of those spherical functions on which are positive definite in a certain sense.

     

Representing nonnegative homology classes of by minimal genus smooth embeddings

For any nonnegative class in , the minimal genus of smoothly embedded surfaces which represent is given for , and in some cases with , the minimal genus is also given. For the finiteness of orbits under diffeomorphisms with minimal genus , we prove that it is true for with and for with .

     

A construction of homologically area minimizing hypersurfaces with higher dimensional singular sets

We show that a large variety of singular sets can occur for homologically area minimizing codimension one surfaces in a Riemannian manifold. In particular, as a result of Theorem A, if is smooth, compact dimensional manifold, , and if is an embedded, orientable submanifold of dimension , then we construct metrics on such that the homologically area minimizing hypersurface , homologous to , has a singular set equal to a prescribed number of spheres and tori of codimension less than . Near each component of the singular set, is isometric to a product , where is any prescribed, strictly stable, strictly minimizing cone. In Theorem B, other singular examples are constructed.

     

Cohomology of uniformly powerful -groups

In this paper we will study the cohomology of a family of -groups associated to -Lie algebras. More precisely, we study a category of -groups which will be equivalent to the category of -bracket algebras (Lie algebras minus the Jacobi identity). We then show that for a group in this category, its -cohomology is that of an elementary abelian -group if and only if it is associated to a Lie algebra.

We then proceed to study the exponent of in the case that is associated to a Lie algebra . To do this, we use the Bockstein spectral sequence and derive a formula that gives in terms of the Lie algebra cohomologies of . We then expand some of these results to a wider category of -groups. In particular, we calculate the cohomology of the -groups which are defined to be the kernel of the mod reduction

     

Operator ideal norms on

Let be a real number such that and its conjugate exponent . We prove that for an operator defined on with values in a Banach space, the image of the unit ball determines whether belongs to any operator ideal and its operator ideal norm. We also show that this result fails to be true in the remaining cases of . Finally we prove that when the result holds in finite dimension, the map which associates to the image of the unit ball the operator ideal norm is continuous with respect to the Hausdorff metric.

     

Combinatorial families that are exponentially far from being listable in Gray code sequence

Let be a collection of subsets of . In this paper we study numerical obstructions to the existence of orderings of for which the cardinalities of successive subsets satisfy congruence conditions. Gray code orders provide an example of such orderings. We say that an ordering of is a Gray code order if successive subsets differ by the adjunction or deletion of a single element of . The cardinalities of successive subsets in a Gray code order must alternate in parity. It follows that if is the difference between the number of elements of having even (resp. odd) cardinality, then is a lower bound for the cardinality of the complement of any subset of which can be listed in Gray code order. For , the collection of -blockfree subsets of is defined to be the set of all subsets of such that if and . We will construct a Gray code order for . In contrast, for we find the precise (positive) exponential growth rate of with as . This implies is far from being listable in Gray code order if is large. Analogous results for other kinds of orderings of subsets of are proved using generalizations of . However, we will show that for all , one can order so that successive elements differ by the adjunction and/or deletion of an integer from . We show that, over an -letter alphabet, the words of length which contain no block of consecutive letters cannot, in general, be listed so that successive words differ by a single letter. However, if and or if and , such a listing is always possible.