Universal Similarity Factorization Equalities over Generalized Clifford Algebras

For any element a in a generalized 2^n-dimensional Clifford algebra Lln （F） over an arbitrary field F of characteristic not equal to two, it is shown that there exits a universal invertible matrix Pn over Lln（F） such that Pn^-1DnPn= φ（α）∈F^2n×2n, where φ（a） is a matrix representation of α over and Dα is a diagonal matrix consisting of a or its conjugate.     

On Generic Well-posedness of Restricted Chebyshev Center Problems in Banach Spaces

Let B （resp. K, BC,KC） denote the set of all nonempty bounded （resp. compact, bounded convex, compact convex） closed subsets of the Banach space X, endowed with the Hausdorff metric, and let G be a nonempty relatively weakly compact closed subset of X. Let B° stand for the set of all F ∈B such that the problem （F, G） is well-posed. We proved that, if X is strictly convex and Kadec, the set KC ∩ B° is a dense Gδ-subset of KC ／ G. Furthermore, if X is a uniformly convex Banach space, we will prove more, namely that the set B ／B° （resp. K ／ B°, BC ／B°, KC ／ B°） is a-porous in B （resp. K,BC, KC）. Moreover, we prove that for most （in the sense of the Baire category） closed bounded subsets G of X, the set K ／ B° is dense and uncountable in K.     

Local Recognition Of Non-Incident Point-Hyperplane Graphs

Let be a projective space. By H() we denote the graph whose vertices are the non-incident point-hyperplane pairs of , two vertices (p,H) and (q,I) being adjacent if and only if p I and q H. In this paper we give a characterization of the graph H() (as well as of some related graphs) by its local structure. We apply this result by two characterizations of groups G with PSL _n ( )GPGL _n ( ), by properties of centralizers of some (generalized) reflections. Here is the (skew) field of coordinates of .     

Structure of Degenerate Block Algebras

Given a non-trivial torsion-free abelian group (A,+,Q), a field F of characteristic 0, and a non-degenerate bi-additive skew-symmetric map : A A F, we define a Lie algebra = (A, ) over F with basis {e_x | x A/{0}} and Lie product [e_x,e_y] = (x,y)e_x+y. We show that is endowed uniquely with a non-degenerate symmetric invariant bilinear form and the derivation algebra Der of is a complete Lie algebra. We describe the double extension D( , T) of by T, where T is spanned by the locally finite derivations of , and determine the second cohomology group H²(D( , T),F) using anti-derivations related to the form on D( , T). Finally, we compute the second Leibniz cohomology groups HL²( , F) and HL²(D( , T), F).2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 17B05, 17B30This work was supported by the NNSF of China (19971044), the Doctoral Programme Foundation of Institution of Higher Education (97005511), and the Foundation of Jiangsu Educational Committee.     

The Automorphism Group of Plane Algebraic Curves with Singer Automorphisms

The main result in Cossidente and Siciliano (J. Number Theory, Vol. 99 (2003) pp. 373–382) states that if a Singer subgroup of PGL(3,q) is an automorphism group of a projective, geometric irreducible, non-singular plane algebraic curve then either or . In the former case is projectively equivalent to the curve with equation X^q+1Y+Y^q+1+X=0 studied by Pellikaan. Furthermore, the curve has a very nice property from Finite Geometry point of view: apart from the three distinguished points fixed by the Singer subgroup, the set of its -rational points can be partitioned into finite projective planes . In this paper, the full automorphism group of such curves is determined. It turns out that is the normalizer of a Singer group in .     

Clifford classes for isoclinic groups

Let G be a finite group, N a normal subgroup of G, and an irreducible character of G. Clifford Theory studies a whole collection of related irreducible characters of all the subgroups of G that contain N. The relationships among these characters as well as their Schur indices are controlled by the Clifford class c Clif(G/N, F) of with respect to N over some field F. This is an equivalence class of central simple G/N-algebras. Assume now that G/N is cyclic. One can obtain a new isoclinic group and character by multiplying each element of each coset of N in G by an appropriate power of a fixed root of unity . We show that there is a simple formula to calculate the Clifford class of in terms of c and . Hence, the Clifford class c controls not only the Schur index of the characters of all the subgroups of G that contain N, it also controls the Schur indices of the characters of the corresponding characters of the isoclinic groups When is a |G/N|-th root of 1, our formula shows that then When = i and |G/N| = 2, the implicit transformation on Clif(Z/2Z, F) yields a group homomorphism of the group structure introduced on the Brauer-Wall group of F to describe the Schur indices of all the irreducible characters of the double covers of the symmetric and alternating groups.Received: 17 August 2001     

Functional Approach of Large Deviations in General Spaces

Let X be a topological space, ( ) a net of Borel probability measures on X, and (t) a net in ]0,[ converging to 0. Let be a set of continuous functions such that for all x X that can be suitably distinguished by some continuous functions from any closed set not containing contains such a distinguishing function. Assuming that exists for all , we give a sufficient condition in order that ( ₎ satisfies a large deviation principle with powers (t₎ and not necessary tight rate function. When X is completely regular (not necessary Hausdorff), this condition is also necessary, and so strictly weaker than exponential tightness; this allows us to strengthen Brycs theorem in various ways. We give the general form of a rate function in terms of . A Prohorov-type theorem with a weaker notion than exponential tightness is obtained, which improves known results.     

Lectures on the Orbital Stability of Standing Waves and Application to the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

In the first part of these notes, we deal with first order Hamiltonian systems in the form where the phase space X may be infinite dimensional so as to accommodate some partial differential equations. The Hamiltonian is required to be invariant with respect to the action of a group of isometries where is skew-symmetric and JA  = AJ. A standing wave is a solution having the form for some and such that . Given a solution of this type, it is natural to investigate its stability with respect to perturbations of the initial condition. In this context, the appropriate notion of stability is orbital stability in the usual sense for a dynamical system. We present some of the important criteria for establishing orbital stability of standing waves. In the second part we consider the nonlinear Schr?dinger equation which provides an interesting example of this situation where standing waves appear as time-harmonic solutions. We show how the general theory applies to this case and review what is known about stability. Received: January 2008     

Set Systems with few Disjoint Pairs

Let X = {1, . . . , n}, and let be a family of subsets of X. Given the size of , at least how many pairs of elements of must be disjoint? In this paper we give a lower bound for the number of disjoint pairs in . The bound we obtain is essentially best possible. In particular, we give a new proof of a result of Frankl and of Ahlswede, that if satisfies then contains at least as many disjoint pairs as X^(r).The situation is rather different if we restrict our attention to : then we are asking for the minimum number of edges spanned by a subset of the Kneser graph of given size. We make a conjecture on this lower bound, and disprove a related conjecture of Poljak and Tuza on the largest bipartite subgraph of the Kneser graph.* Research partially supported by NSF grant DMS-9971788     

On <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-nilpotency of finite groups*

Let be a class of groups. A subgroup H of a group G is called -s-supplemented in G, if there exists a subgroup K of G such that G = HK and K/K ∩ H_G belongs to where H_G is the maximal normal subgroup of G which is contained in H. The main purpose of this paper is to study some subgroups of Fitting subgroup and generalized Fitting subgroup -s-supplemented and some new criterions of p-nilpotency of finite groups are obtained. *This research is supported by the grant of NSFC and TianYuan Fund of Mathematics of China (Grant #10626047).     

The Density of Linear Symplectic Cocycles with Simple Lyapunov Spectrum in YIC（X, SL（2, R））

Let （X, G（X）, m） be a probability space with a-algebra G（X） and probability measure m. The set V in G is called P-admissible, provided that for any positive integer n and positive-measure set Vn∈ contained in V, there exists a Zn∈G such that Zn belong to Vn and 0 〈 m（Zn） 〈 1/n. Let T be an ergodic automorphism of （X, G） preserving m, and A belong to the space of linear measurable symplectic cocycles     

A Local Analysis of Imprimitive Symmetric Graphs

Let Г be a G-symmetric graph admitting a nontrivial G-invariant partition . Let Г be the quotient graph of Г with respect to . For each block B ∊ , the setwise stabiliser G_B of B in G induces natural actions on B and on the neighbourhood Г (B) of B in Г . Let G_(B) and G_[B] be respectively the kernels of these actions. In this paper we study certain “local actions" induced by G_(B) and G_[B], such as the action of G_[B] on B and the action of G_(B) on Г (B), and their influence on the structure of Г. Supported by a Discovery Project Grant (DP0558677) from the Australian Research Council and a Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grant from The University of Melbourne.     

Embedding the diamond graph inLpand dimension reduction inL1

We show that any embedding of the level k diamond graph of Newman and Rabinovich [NR] into L_p, 1 < p 2, requires distortion at least . An immediate corollary is that there exist arbitrarily large n-point sets such that any D-embedding of X into requires . This gives a simple proof of a recent result of Brinkman and Charikar [BrC] which settles the long standing question of whether there is an L₁ analogue of the Johnson-Lindenstrauss dimension reduction lemma [JL].     

Refinement of Convergence Rates for Tail Probabilities

Let X₁, X₂,... be, i.i.d. random variables, and put . We find necessary and sufficient moment conditions for , where δ≥ 0 and q>0, and with a_n>0 and b_n is either or The series f(x) we deal with are classical series studied by Hsu and Robbins, Erdős, Spitzer, Baum and Katz, Davis, Lai, Gut, etc     

Group Pairs with Property (T), from Arithmetic Lattices

Let Γ be an arithmetic lattice in an absolutely simple Lie group G with trivial centre. We prove that there exists an integer N ≥ 2, a subgroup Λ of finite index in Γ, and an action of Λ on such that the pair ( ) has property (T). If G has property (T), then so does . If G is the adjoint group of Sp(n, 1), then is a property (T) group satisfying the Baum–Connes conjecture. If Γ is an arithmetic lattice in SO(n, 1), then the associated von Neumann algebra is a II₁-factor in Popa’s class . Elaborating on this result of Popa, we construct a countable family of pairwise nonstably isomorphic group II₁-factors in the class , all with trivial fundamental groups and with all L²-Betti numbers being zero.Mathematics Subject Classiffications (2000). 22E40, 22E47, 46L80, 37A20     

Second-Order Efficient Test for Inhomogeneous Poisson Processes

We observe a realization X ⁽ⁿ⁾ of a Poisson process on the set with intensity function depending on the unknown real parameter . Based on X ⁽ⁿ⁾ we test simple null hypothesis against one sided alternative for given . We improve the level of the well-known locally asymptotically uniformly most powerful (LAUMP) test by using the Edgeworth type expansion for stochastic integral. We show that the improved test is second-order efficient under certain regularity conditions.      

On the Relative Approximation Error of the Generalized Pareto Approximation for a High Quantile

Let F be a distribution function in the domain of attraction of an extreme value distribution . In case 0 and F has an infinite end-point, we study the asymptotic behaviour of the relative approximation error of a high quantile such that , where the order tends to 0. We use the approximation of the excesses over a high threshold u by a Generalized Pareto distribution. We give sufficient conditions under which tends to 0.AMS 2000 Subject Classification Primary—60G70, Secondary—62G20, 62G32     

Syndetically Hypercyclic Operators

Given a continuous linear operator T L(x) defined on a separable -space X, we will show that T satisfies the Hypercyclicity Criterion if and only if for any strictly increasing sequence of positive integers such that the sequence is hypercyclic. In contrast we will also prove that, for any hypercyclic vector x X of T, there exists a strictly increasing sequence such that and is somewhere dense, but not dense in X. That is, T and do not share the same hypercyclic vectors.