Extending partial automorphisms and the profinite topology on free groups

A class of structures is said to have the extension property for partial automorphisms (EPPA) if, whenever and are structures in , finite, , and are partial automorphisms of extending to automorphisms of , then there exist a finite structure in and automorphisms of extending the . We will prove that some classes of structures have the EPPA and show the equivalence of these kinds of results with problems related with the profinite topology on free groups. In particular, we will give a generalisation of the theorem, due to Ribes and Zalesskii stating that a finite product of finitely generated subgroups is closed for this topology.

     

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.

     

Sheared algebra maps and operation bialgebras for mod 2 homology and cohomology

The mod 2 Steenrod algebra and Dyer-Lashof algebra have both striking similarities and differences arising from their common origins in ``lower-indexed' algebraic operations. These algebraic operations and their relations generate a bigraded bialgebra , whose module actions are equivalent to, but quite different from, those of and . The exact relationships emerge as ``sheared algebra bijections', which also illuminate the role of the cohomology of . As a bialgebra, has a particularly attractive and potentially useful structure, providing a bridge between those of and , and suggesting possible applications to the Miller spectral sequence and the structure of Dickson algebras.

     

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.

     

The distributivity numbers of /fin and its square

We show that in a model obtained by forcing with a countable support iteration of Mathias forcing of length , the distributivity number of /fin is , whereas the distributivity number of r.o./fin) is . This answers a problem of Balcar, Pelant and Simon, and others.

     

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.

     

Rarified sums of the Thue-Morse sequence

Let be an odd number and the difference between the number of , , with an even binary digit sum and the corresponding number of , , with an odd binary digit sum. A remarkable theorem of Newman says that for all . In this paper it is proved that the same assertion holds if is divisible by 3 or . On the other hand, it is shown that the number of primes with this property is . Finally, analoga for ``higher parities' are provided.

     

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 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 .

     

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.

     

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.

     

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 .

     

Conditions for the Existence of SBR Measures for ``Almost Anosov' Diffeomorphisms

A diffeomorphism of a compact manifold is called ``almost Anosov' if it is uniformly hyperbolic away from a finite set of points. We show that under some nondegeneracy condition, every almost Anosov diffeomorphism admits an invariant measure that has absolutely continuous conditional measures on unstable manifolds. The measure is either finite or infinite, and is called SBR measure or infinite SBR measure respectively. Therefore, tends to either an SBR measure or for almost every with respect to Lebesgue measure. ( is the Dirac measure at .) For each case, we give sufficient conditions by using coefficients of the third order terms in the Taylor expansion of at .

     

Banach spaces with the Daugavet property

A Banach space is said to have the Daugavet property if every operator of rank satisfies . We show that then every weakly compact operator satisfies this equation as well and that contains a copy of . However, need not contain a copy of . We also study pairs of spaces and operators satisfying , where is the natural embedding. This leads to the result that a Banach space with the Daugavet property does not embed into a space with an unconditional basis. In another direction, we investigate spaces where the set of operators with is as small as possible and give characterisations in terms of a smoothness condition.

     

A new result on the Pompeiu problem

A nonempty bounded open set () is said to have the Pompeiu property if and only if the only continuous function on for which the integral of over is zero for all rigid motions of is . We consider a nonempty bounded open set with Lipschitz boundary and we assume that the complement of is connected. We show that the failure of the Pompeiu property for implies some geometric conditions. Using these conditions we prove that a special kind of solid tori in , , has the Pompeiu property. So far the result was proved only for solid tori in . We also examine the case of planar domains. Finally we extend the example of solid tori to domains in bounded by hypersurfaces of revolution.

     

Closed incompressible surfaces in knot complements

In this paper we show that given a knot or link in a -plat projection with and , where is the length of the plat, if the twist coefficients all satisfy then has at least nonisotopic essential meridional planar surfaces. In particular if is a knot then contains closed incompressible surfaces. In this case the closed surfaces remain incompressible after all surgeries except perhaps along a ray of surgery coefficients in .

     

Sums of squares of regular functions on real algebraic varieties

Let be an affine algebraic variety over (or any other real closed field ). We ask when it is true that every positive semidefinite (psd) polynomial function on is a sum of squares (sos). We show that for the answer is always negative if has a real point. Also, if is a smooth non-rational curve all of whose points at infinity are real, the answer is again negative. The same holds if is a smooth surface with only real divisors at infinity. The ``compact' case is harder. We completely settle the case of smooth curves of genus : If such a curve has a complex point at infinity, then every psd function is sos, provided the field is archimedean. If is not archimedean, there are counter-examples of genus .