Bredon-Illman cohomology with actions of totally disconnected groups

We study the Bredon-Illman cohomology with local coefficients for a G-space X in the case of G being a totally disconnected, locally compact group. We prove that any short exact sequence of equivariant local coefficients systems on X gives a long exact sequence of the associated Bredon-Illman cohomology groups with local coefficients.     

Estimating the spectral measure of an extreme value distribution

Let (X₁, Y₁), (X₂, Y₂),…, (X_n, Y_n) be a random sample from a bivariate distribution function F which is in the domain of attraction of a bivariate extreme value distribution function G. This G is characterized by the extreme value indices and its spectral measure or angular measure. The extreme value indices determine both the marginals and the spectral measure determines the dependence structure. In this paper, we construct an empirical measure, based on the sample, which is a consistent estimator of the spectral measure. We also show for positive extreme value indices the asymptotic normality of the estimator under a suitable 2nd order strengthening of the bivariate domain of attraction condition.     

Some algebraic constructions in rational homotopy theory

In this note we describe constructions in the category of differential graded commutative algebras over the rational numbers Q which are analogs of the space F(X, Y) of continuous maps of X to Y, the component F(X, Y,ƒ) containing ƒ ε F(X, Y), fibrations, induced fibrations, the space Γ(π) of sections of a fibration π: E → X, and the component Γ(π,σ) containing σ ε Γ (π). As a focus, we address the problem of expressing π^*(F(X, Y, ƒ)) = Hom(π_*(F(X,Y, ƒ)),Q) in terms of differential graded algebra models for X and Y.     

The extreme set condition of a graph

Let G be a simple graph. The size of any largest matching in G is called the matching number of G and is denoted by ν(G). Define the deficiency of G, def(G), by the equation def(G)=|V(G)|−2ν(G). A set of points X in G is called an extreme set if def(G−X)=def(G)+|X|. Let c₀(G) denote the number of the odd components of G. A set of points X in G is called a barrier if c₀(G−X)=def(G)+|X|. In this paper, we obtain the following:

(1) Let G be a simple graph containing an independent set of size i, where i2. If X is extreme in G for every independent set X of size i in G, then there exists a perfect matching in G.

(2) Let G be a connected simple graph containing an independent set of size i, where i2. Then X is extreme in G for every independent set X of size i in G if and only if G=(U,W) is a bipartite graph with |U|=|W|i, and |Γ(Y)||U|−i+m+1 for any Y U, |Y|=m (1mi−1).

(3) Let G be a connected simple graph containing an independent set of size i, where i2. Then X is a barrier in G for every independent set X of size i in G if and only if G=(U,W) is a bipartite graph with |U|=|W|=i, and |Γ(Y)|m+1 for any Y U, |Y|=m (1mi−1).     

Stable 2-pairs and (X,Y)-intersection graphs

Given two fixed graphs X and Y, the (X,Y)-intersection graph of a graph G is a graph where

1. each vertex corresponds to a distinct induced subgraph in G isomorphic to Y, and

2. two vertices are adjacent iff the intersection of their corresponding subgraphs contains an induced subgraph isomorphic to X.

This notion generalizes the classical concept of line graphs since the (K₁,K₂)-intersection graph of a graph G is precisely the line graph of G.

Let ( , respectively) denote the family of line graphs of bipartite graphs (bipartite multigraphs, respectively), and refer to a pair (X,Y) as a 2-pair if Y contains exactly two induced subgraphs isomorphic to X. Then and , respectively, are the smallest families amongst the families of (X,Y)-intersection graphs defined by so called hereditary 2-pairs and hereditary non-compact 2-pairs. Furthermore, they can be characterized through forbidden induced subgraphs. With this motivation, we investigate the properties of a 2-pair (X,Y) for which the family of (X,Y)-intersection graphs coincides with (or ). For this purpose, we introduce a notion of stability of a 2-pair and obtain the desired characterization for such stable 2-pairs. An interesting aspect of the characterization is that it is based on a graph determined by the structure of (X,Y).     

Factorization theorems for cohomological dimension

The well-known factorization theorems for covering dimension dim and compact Hausdorff spaces are here established for the cohomological dimension dim using a new characterization of dim In particular, it is proved that every mapping f: X → Y from a compact Hausdorff space X with to a compact metric space Y admits a factorization f = hg, where g: X → Z, h: Z → Y and Z is a metric compactum with . These results are applied to the well-known open problem whether . It is shown that the problem has a positive answer for compact Hausdorff spaces X if and only if it has a positive answer for metric compacta X.     

Function-space compactifications of function spaces

If X and Y are Hausdorff spaces with X locally compact, then the compact-open topology on the set C(X,Y) of continuous maps from X to Y is known to produce the right function-space topology. But it is also known to fail badly to be locally compact, even when Y is locally compact. We show that for any Tychonoff space Y, there is a densely injective space Z containing Y as a densely embedded subspace such that, for every locally compact space X, the set C(X,Z) has a compact Hausdorff topology whose relative topology on C(X,Y) is the compact-open topology. The following are derived as corollaries: (1) If X and Y are compact Hausdorff spaces then C(X,Y) under the compact-open topology is embedded into the Vietoris hyperspace V(X×Y). (2) The space of real-valued continuous functions on a locally compact Hausdorff space under the compact-open topology is embedded into a compact Hausdorff space whose points are pairs of extended real-valued functions, one lower and the other upper semicontinuous. The first application is generalized in two ways.     

Graphs of groups and von Neumann dimension

The ℓ²-invariants of the fundamental group G of a graph of groups acting on a CW-complex X are related to the ℓ²-invariants of the edge and vertex groups of G acting on X. Various consequences are derived.     

Compact open topology and CW homotopy type

The class of spaces having the homotopy type of a CW complex is not closed under formation of function spaces. In 1959, Milnor proved the fundamental theorem that, given a space and a compact Hausdorff space X, the space Y^X of continuous functions X→Y, endowed with the compact open topology, belongs to . P.J. Kahn extended this in 1982, showing that if X has finite n-skeleton and π_k(Y)=0, k>n.

Using a different approach, we obtain a further generalization and give interesting examples of function spaces where is not homotopy equivalent to a finite complex, and has infinitely many nontrivial homotopy groups. We also obtain information about some topological properties that are intimately related to CW homotopy type.

As an application we solve a related problem concerning towers of fibrations between spaces of CW homotopy type.     

ContributionsGraph partitions with minimum degree constraints

Given a graph with n nodes and minimum degree δ, we give a polynomial time algorithm that constructs a partition of the nodes of the graph into two sets X and Y such that the sum of the minimum degrees in X and in Y is at least δ and the cardinalities of X and Y differ by at most δ(δ + 1 if n ≠ δ(mod 2)). The existence of such a partition was shown by Sheehan (1988).     

Efficient robust estimation of parameter in the random censorship model

For an open set Θ of ^k, let \s{P_θ: θ Θ\s} be a parametric family of probabilities modeling the distribution of i.i.d. random variables X₁,…, X_n. Suppose X_i's are subject to right censoring and one is only able to observe the pairs (min(X_i, Y_i), [X_i Y_i]), i = 1,…, n, where [A] denotes the indicator function of the event A, Y₁,…, Y_n are independent of X₁,…, X_n and i.i.d. with unknown distribution Q₀. This paper investigates estimation of the value θ that gives a fitted member of the parametric family when the distributions of X₁ and Y₁ are subject to contamination. The constructed estimators are adaptive under the semi-parametric model and robust against small contaminations: they achieve a lower bound for the local asymptotic minimax risk over Hellinger neighborhoods, in the Hájel—Le Cam sense. The work relies on Beran (1981). The construction employs some results on product-limit estimators.     

Coincidence of the upper Kuratowski topology with the co-compact topology on compact sets, and the Prohorov property

For a Hausdorff space X, let F be the hyperspace of all closed subsets of X and H a sublattice of F. Following Nogura and Shakhmatov, X is said to be H-trivial if the upper Kuratowski topology and the co-compact topology coincide on H. F-trivial spaces are the consonant spaces first introduced and studied by Dolecki, Greco and Lechicki. In this paper, we deal with K-trivial spaces and Fin-trivial space, where K and Fin are respectively the lattices of compact and of finite subsets of X. It is proved that if C_k(X) is a Baire space or more generally if X has ‘the moving off property’ of Gruenhage and Ma, then X is K-trivial. If X is countable, then C_p(X) is Baire if and only if X is Fin-trivial and all compact subsets of X are finite. As for consonant spaces, it turns out that every regular K-trivial space is a Prohorov space. This result remains true for any regular Fin-trivial space in which all compact subsets are scattered. It follows that every regular first countable space without isolated points, all compact subsets of which are countable, is Fin-nontrivial. Examples of K-trivial non-consonant spaces, of Fin-trivial K-nontrivial spaces and of countably compact Prohorov Fin-nontrivial spaces, are given. In particular, we show that all (generalized) Fréchet–Urysohn fans are K-trivial, answering a question by Nogura and Shakhmatov. Finally, we describe an example of a continuous open compact-covering mapping f :X→Y, where X is Prohorov and Y is not Prohorov, answering a long-standing question by Topsøe.     

Enumeration of difference graphs

A difference graph is a bipartite graph G = (X, Y; E) such that all the neighborhoods of the vertices of X are comparable by inclusion. We enumerate labeled and unlabeled difference graphs with or without a bipartition of the vertices into two stable sets. The labeled enumerations are expressed in terms of combinatorial numbers related to the Stirling numbers of the second kind.     

Torus Actions, Equivariant Moment-Angle Complexes, and Coordinate Subspace Arrangements

We show that the cohomology algebra of the complement of a coordinate subspace arrangement in the m-dimensional complex space is isomorphic to the cohomology algebra of the StanleyReisner face ring of a certain simplicial complex on m vertices. (The face ring is regarded as a module over the polynomial ring on m generators.) After that we calculate the latter cohomology algebra by means of the standard Koszul resolution of a polynomial ring. To prove these facts, we construct a homotopy equivalence (equivariant with respect to the torus action) between the complement of a coordinate subspace arrangement and the moment-angle complex defined by a simplicial complex. The moment-angle complex is a certain subset of the unit polydisk in the m-dimensional complex space invariant with respect to the action of the m-dimensional torus. This complex is a smooth manifold provided that the simplicial complex is a simplicial sphere; otherwise, the complex has a more complicated structure. Then we investigate the equivariant topology of the moment-angle complex and apply the EilenbergMoore spectral sequence. We also relate our results with well-known facts in the theory of toric varieties and symplectic geometry. Bibliography: 23 titles.     

Spectral analysis and the Riemann hypothesis

The explicit formulas of Riemann and Guinand-Weil relate the set of prime numbers with the set of nontrivial zeros of the zeta function of Riemann. We recall Alain Connes’ spectral interpretation of the critical zeros of the Riemann zeta function as eigenvalues of the absorption spectrum of an unbounded operator in a suitable Hilbert space. We then give a spectral interpretation of the zeros of the Dedekind zeta function of an algebraic number field K of degree n in an automorphic setting.

If K is a complex quadratic field, the torical forms are the functions defined on the modular surface X, such that the sum of this function over the “Gauss set” of K is zero, and Eisenstein series provide such torical forms.

In the case of a general number field, one can associate to K a maximal torus T of the general linear group G. The torical forms are the functions defined on the modular variety X associated to G, such that the integral over the subvariety induced by T is zero. Alternately, the torical forms are the functions which are orthogonal to orbital series on X.

We show here that the Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to certain conditions bearing on spaces of torical forms, constructed from Eisenstein series, the torical wave packets. Furthermore, we define a Hilbert space and a self-adjoint operator on this space, whose spectrum equals the set of critical zeros of the Dedekind zeta function of K.     

Arc-smooth generalized universal covering spaces

Let Y be a path-connected subset of a CAT(0) space Z, allowing for a map to a 1-dimensional separable metric space X, such that the nontrivial point preimages of f form a null sequence of convex subsets of Z. Such Y need not be homotopy equivalent to a 1-dimensional space.

We prove that Y admits a generalized universal covering space, which we equip with an arc-smooth structure by consistently and continuously selecting one tight representative from each path homotopy class of Y. It follows that all homotopy groups of Y vanish in dimensions greater than 1.     

The exponent of the primitive Cayley digraphs on finite Abelian groups

Let G be finite group and let S be a subset of G. We prove a necessary and sufficient condition for the Cayley digraph X_{(G, S)} to be primitive when S contains the central elements of G. As an immediate consequence we obtain that a Cayley digraph X_{(G, S)} on an Abelian group is primitive if and only if S^−1S is a generating set for G. Moreover, it is shown that if a Cayley digraph X_{(G, S)} on an Abelian group is primitive, then its exponent either is or is not exceeding . Finally, we also characterize those Cayley digraphs on Abelian groups with exponent . In particular, we generalize a number of well-known results for the primitive circulant matrices.     

Equivariant simplicial cohomology with local coefficients and its classification

We introduce equivariant twisted cohomology of a simplicial set equipped with simplicial action of a discrete group and prove that for suitable twisting function induced from a given equivariant local coefficients, the simplicial version of Bredon-Illman cohomology with local coefficients is isomorphic to equivariant twisted cohomology. The main aim of this paper is to prove a classification theorem for equivariant simplicial cohomology with local coefficients.     

On strong 1-factors and Hamilton weights of cubic graphs

A 1-factor M of a cubic graph G is strong if |M∩T|=1 for each 3-edge-cut T of G. It is proved in this paper that a cubic graph G has precisely three strong 1-factors if and only if the graph can be obtained from K₄ via a series of ↔Y operations. Consequently, the graph G admits a Hamilton weight and is uniquely edge-3-colorable.