Boundary structure of hyperbolic -manifolds admitting annular fillings at large distance

We show that if a hyperbolic -manifold with a union of tori admits two annular Dehn fillings at distance , then is bounded by at most three tori.

     

The manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and collapsing volume

Let be a complete noncompact -manifold with collapsing volume and . The paper proves that is of finite topological type under some restrictions on volume growth.

     

The length of a shortest closed geodesic and the area of a -dimensional sphere

Let be a Riemannian manifold homeomorphic to . The purpose of this paper is to establish the new inequality for the length of a shortest closed geodesic, , in terms of the area of . This result improves previously known inequalities by C.B. Croke (1988), by A. Nabutovsky and the author (2002) and by S. Sabourau (2004).

     

On the invariant translation approximation property for discrete groups

Recently J.Roe considered the question of whether for a discrete group the reduced group -algebra is the fixed point algebra of Ad acting on the uniform Roe algebra . is said to have the invariant translation approximation property in this case. We consider a slight generalization of this property which, for exact , is equivalent to the operator space approximation property of . We also give a new characterization of exactness and a short proof of the equivalence of exactness of and exactness of for discrete groups.

     

On maximal operators on -spheres in

A. Magyar's result on -bounds for a family of operators on -spheres () in is improved to match the corresponding theorem for -spheres.

     

Failure of Krull-Schmidt for invertible lattices over a discrete valuation ring

Let be a prime greater than , and let be the semi-direct product of a group of order by a cyclic group of order , which acts faithfully on . Let be the localization of at . We show that the Krull-Schmidt Theorem fails for the category of invertible -lattices.

     

Two characterizations of pure injective modules

Let be a commutative ring with identity and an -module. It is shown that if is pure injective, then is isomorphic to a direct summand of the direct product of a family of finitely embedded modules. As a result, it follows that if is Noetherian, then is pure injective if and only if is isomorphic to a direct summand of the direct product of a family of Artinian modules. Moreover, it is proved that is pure injective if and only if there is a family of -algebras which are finitely presented as -modules, such that is isomorphic to a direct summand of a module of the form , where for each , is an injective -module.

     

On stable equivalences induced by exact functors

Let and be two Artin algebras with no semisimple summands. Suppose that there is a stable equivalence between and such that is induced by exact functors. We present a nice correspondence between indecomposable modules over and . As a consequence, we have the following: (1) If is a self-injective algebra, then so is ; (2) If and are finite dimensional algebras over an algebraically closed field , and if is of finite representation type such that the Auslander-Reiten quiver of has no oriented cycles, then and are Morita equivalent.

     

A selection theorem in metric trees

In this paper, we show that nonempty closed convex subsets of a metric tree enjoy many properties shared by convex subsets of Hilbert spaces and admissible subsets of hyperconvex spaces. Furthermore, we prove that a set-valued mapping of a metric tree with convex values has a selection for which for each . Here by we mean the Hausdroff distance. Many applications of this result are given.

     

Submanifolds of real algebraic varieties

By the Nash-Tognoli theorem, each compact smooth manifold is diffeomorphic to a nonsingular real algebraic set, called an algebraic model of . We construct algebraic models of with controlled behavior of the group of cohomology classes represented by algebraic subsets of .

     

Automatic continuity of -derivations on -algebras

Let be a -algebra acting on a Hilbert space , let be a linear mapping and let be a -derivation. Generalizing the celebrated theorem of Sakai, we prove that if is a continuous -mapping, then is automatically continuous. In addition, we show the converse is true in the sense that if is a continuous --derivation, then there exists a continuous linear mapping such that is a --derivation. The continuity of the so-called - -derivations is also discussed.

     

On the topology of the boundary of a basin of attraction

Suppose is a continuous flow on a locally compact metrizable space and is an (asymptotically stable) attractor. Let be the boundary of the basin of attraction of . In the present paper it will be shown how the Conley index of plays an important role in determining the topological nature of and allows one to obtain information about the global dynamics of in .

     

A strong hot spot theorem

A real number is said to be -normal if every -long string of digits appears in the base- expansion of with limiting frequency . We prove that is -normal if and only if it possesses no base- ``hot spot'. In other words, is -normal if and only if there is no real number such that smaller and smaller neighborhoods of are visited by the successive shifts of the base- expansion of with larger and larger frequencies, relative to the lengths of these neighborhoods.

     

Fiber products, Poincaré duality and -ring spectra

For a Poincaré duality space and a map , consider the homotopy fiber product . If is orientable with respect to a multiplicative cohomology theory , then, after suitably regrading, it is shown that the -homology of has the structure of a graded associative algebra. When is the diagonal map of a manifold , one recovers a result of Chas and Sullivan about the homology of the unbased loop space .

     

Simultaneous non-vanishing of twists

Let be a newform of even weight , level and character and let be a newform of even weight , level and character . We give a generalization of a theorem of Elliott, regarding the average values of Dirichlet -functions, in the context of twisted modular -functions associated to and . Using this result, we find a lower bound in terms of for the number of primitive Dirichlet characters modulo prime whose twisted product -functions are non-vanishing at a fixed point with .

     

A structure theorem for quasi-Hopf comodule algebras

If is a quasi-Hopf algebra and is a right -comodule algebra such that there exists a morphism of right -comodule algebras, we prove that there exists a left -module algebra such that . The main difference when comparing to the Hopf case is that, from the multiplication of , which is associative, we have to obtain the multiplication of , which in general is not; for this we use a canonical projection arising from the fact that becomes a quasi-Hopf -bimodule.

     

Fixed point spaces, primitive character degrees and conjugacy class sizes

Let be a finite group that acts on a nonzero finite dimensional vector space over an arbitrary field. Assume that is completely reducible as a -module, and that fixes no nonzero vector of . We show that some element has a small fixed-point space in . Specifically, we prove that we can choose so that , where is the smallest prime divisor of .

     

An ascending HNN extension of a free group inside

We give an example of a subgroup of which is a strictly ascending HNN extension of a non-abelian finitely generated free group . In particular, we exhibit a free group in of rank which is conjugate to a proper subgroup of itself. This answers positively a question of Drutu and Sapir (2005). The main ingredient in our construction is a specific finite volume (non-compact) hyperbolic 3-manifold which is a surface bundle over the circle. In particular, most of comes from the fundamental group of a surface fiber. A key feature of is that there is an element of in with an eigenvalue which is the square root of a rational integer. We also use the Bass-Serre tree of a field with a discrete valuation to show that the group we construct is actually free.

     

The weak Dirichlet problem for Baire functions

Let be a simplex and a compact subset of the set of all extreme points of . We show that any bounded function of Baire class on can be extended to a function of affine class on . Moreover, can be chosen in such a way that .