The $${\overline{\partial}}$$-equation on homogeneous varieties with an isolated singularity

Let X be a regular irreducible variety in , Y the associated homogeneous variety in , and N the restriction of the universal bundle of to X. In the present paper, we compute the obstructions to solving the -equation in the L ^p -sense on Y for 1 ≤  p ≤  ∞ in terms of cohomology groups . That allows to identify obstructions explicitly if X is specified more precisely, for example if it is equivalent to or an elliptic curve.      

Kaplansky classes and derived categories

We put a monoidal model category structure on the category of chain complexes of quasi-coherent sheaves over a quasi-compact and semi-separated scheme X. The approach generalizes and simplifies the method used by the author in (Trans Am Math Soc 356(8) 3369–3390, 2004) and (Trans Am Math Soc 358(7), 2855–2874, 2006) to build monoidal model structures on the category of chain complexes of modules over a ring and chain complexes of sheaves over a ringed space. Indeed, much of the paper is dedicated to showing that in any Grothendieck category , any nice enough class of objects induces a model structure on the category Ch() of chain complexes. The main technical requirement on is the existence of a regular cardinal κ such that every object satisfies the following property: Each κ-generated subobject of F is contained in another κ-generated subobject S for which . Such a class is called a Kaplansky class. Kaplansky classes first appeared in Enochs and López-Ramos (Rend Sem Mat Univ Padova 107, 67–79, 2002) in the context of modules over a ring R. We study in detail the connection between Kaplansky classes and model categories. We also find simple conditions to put on which will guarantee that our model structure is monoidal. We will see that in several categories the class of flat objects form such Kaplansky classes, and hence induce monoidal model structures on the associated chain complex categories. We will also see that in any Grothendieck category , the class of all objects is a Kaplansky class which induces the usual (non-monoidal) injective model structure on Ch().     

$${\mathbb{Z}}_2^k$$ -Manifolds are isospectral on forms

We obtain a simple formula for the multiplicity of eigenvalues of the Hodge-Laplace operator, Δ _f , acting on sections of the full exterior bundle over an arbitrary compact flat Riemannian n-manifold M with holonomy group , 1 ≤ k ≤ n − 1. This formula implies that any two such manifolds having isospectral lattices of translations are isospectral with respect to Δ _f . As a consequence, we construct a large family of pairwise Δ _f -isospectral and nonhomeomorphic n-manifolds of cardinality greater than . Supported by Conicet, Secyt-UNC.     

A conic bundle degenerating on the Kummer surface

Let C be a genus 2 curve and the moduli space of semi-stable rank 2 vector bundles on C with trivial determinant. In Bolognesi (Adv Geom 7(1):113–144, 2007) we described the parameter space of non stable extension classes of the canonical sheaf ω of C by ω⁻¹. In this paper, we study the classifying rational map that sends an extension class to the corresponding rank two vector bundle. Moreover, we prove that, if we blow up along a certain cubic surface S and at the point p corresponding to the bundle , then the induced morphism defines a conic bundle that degenerates on the blow up (at p) of the Kummer surface naturally contained in . Furthermore we construct the -bundle that contains the conic bundle and we discuss the stability and deformations of one of its components.     

Distances to spaces of Baire one functions

Given a metric space X and a Banach space (E, ||·||) we use an index of σ-fragmentability for maps to estimate the distance of f to the space B ₁(X, E) of Baire one functions from X into (E, ||·||). When X is Polish we use our estimations for these distances to give a quantitative version of the well known Rosenthal’s result stating that in the pointwise relatively countably compact sets are pointwise relatively compact. We also obtain a quantitative version of a Srivatsa’s result that states that whenever X is metric any weakly continuous function belongs to B ₁(X, E): our result here says that for an arbitrary we have

A spinorial analogue of Aubin’s inequality

Let (M, g, σ) be a compact Riemannian spin manifold of dimension ≥ 2. For any metric conformal to g, we denote by the first positive eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on . We show that

Borel hierarchies in infinite products of Polish spaces

Let H be a product of countably infinite number of copies of an uncountable Polish space X. Let Σ_ξ be the class of Borel sets of additive class ξ for the product of copies of the discrete topology on X (the Polish topology on X), and let . We prove in the Lévy-Solovay model that

Weights of twisted exponential sums

Let k be a finite field of characteristic p, l a prime number different from p, a nontrivial additive character, and a character on . Then ψ defines an Artin-Schreier sheaf on the affine line , and χ defines a Kummer sheaf on the n-dimensional torus . Let be a Laurent polynomial. It defines a k-morphism . In this paper, we calculate the weights of under some non-degeneracy conditions on f. Our results can be used to estimate sums of the form

A priori bounds and a Liouville theorem on a half-space for higher-order elliptic Dirichlet problems

We consider the 2m-th order elliptic boundary value problem Lu = f (x, u) on a bounded smooth domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions on ∂Ω. The operator L is a uniformly elliptic operator of order 2m given by . For the nonlinearity we assume that , where are positive functions and q > 1 if N ≤ 2m, if N > 2m. We prove a priori bounds, i.e, we show that for every solution u, where C > 0 is a constant. The solutions are allowed to be sign-changing. The proof is done by a blow-up argument which relies on the following new Liouville-type theorem on a half-space: if u is a classical, bounded, non-negative solution of ( − Δ) ^m u  =  u ^q in with Dirichlet boundary conditions on and q > 1 if N ≤ 2m, if N > 2m then .      

Inflectional loci of scrolls

Let be a scroll over a smooth curve C and let denote the hyperplane bundle. The special geometry of X implies that certain sheaves related to the principal part bundles of are locally free. The inflectional loci of X can be expressed in terms of these sheaves, leading to explicit formulas for the cohomology classes of the loci. The formulas imply that the only uninflected scrolls are the balanced rational normal scrolls.      

Projective curves of degree=codimension+2

In this article we study nondegenerate projective curves of degree d which are not arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay. Note that for a rational normal curve and a point . Our main result is about the relation between the geometric properties of X and the position of P with respect to . We show that the graded Betti numbers of X are uniquely determined by the rank of P with respect to . In particular, X satisfies property N _2,p if and only if . Therefore property N _2,p of X is controlled by and conversely can be read off from the minimal free resolution of X. This result provides a non-linearly normal example for which the converse to Theorem 1.1 in (Eisenbud et al., Compositio Math 141:1460–1478, 2005) holds. Also our result implies that for nondegenerate projective curves of degree d which are not arithmetically Cohen–Macaulay, there are exactly distinct Betti tables.     

$$(O( V \oplus F), O( V))$$ is a Gelfand pair for any quadratic space V over a local field F

Let V be a quadratic space with a form q over an arbitrary local field F of characteristic different from 2. Let with the form Q extending q with Q(e) = 1. Consider the standard embedding and the two-sided action of on . In this note we show that any -invariant distribution on is invariant with respect to transposition. This result was earlier proven in a bit different form in van Dijk (Math Z 193:581–593, 1986) for , in Aparicio and van Dijk (Complex generalized Gelfand pairs. Tambov University, 2006) for and in Bosman and van Dijk (Geometriae Dedicata 50:261–282, 1994) for p-adic fields. Here we give a different proof. Using results from Aizenbud et al. (arXiv:0709.1273 (math.RT), submitted), we show that this result on invariant distributions implies that the pair (O(V), O(W)) is a Gelfand pair. In the archimedean setting this means that for any irreducible admissible smooth Fréchet representation (π, E) of we have A stronger result for p-adic fields is obtained in Aizenbud et al. (arXiv:0709.4215 (math.RT), submitted).     

Classification of arithmetically Gorenstein divisors on some Fano varieties

We find all the arithmetically Gorenstein divisors on Fano varieties of dimension n and index r with 3 ≤ n ≤ 2r − 1 and ρ(Y) ≥ 2, where Y is smooth, connected, subcanonical and linearly normal.      

On syzygies of non-complete embedding of projective varieties

Let X be a non-degenerate, not necessarily linearly normal projective variety in . Recently the generalization of property N _p to non-linearly normal projective varieties have been considered and its algebraic and geometric properties are studied extensively. One of the generalizations is the property N _d,p for the saturated ideal I _X (Eisenbud et al. in Compos Math 141: 1460–1478, 2005) and the other is the property for the graded module of the twisted global sections of (Kwak and Park in J Reine Angew Math 582: 87–105, 2005). In this paper, we are interested in the algebraic and geometric meaning of properties for every p ≥ 0 and the syzygetic behaviors of isomorphic projections and hyperplane sections of a given variety with property . Youngook Choi and Sijong Kwak were supported in part by KRF (grant No. 2005-070-C00005).     

Calderón–Zygmund estimates for higher order systems with p(x) growth

For weak solutions of higher order systems of the type , for all , with variable growth exponent p : Ω → (1,∞) we prove that if with , then . We should note that we prove this implication both in the non-degenerate (μ > 0) and in the degenerate case (μ = 0).     

Sobolev estimates for the Cauchy–Riemann complex on <Emphasis Type="Italic">C</Emphasis><Superscript>1</Superscript> pseudoconvex domains

Let be a bounded pseudoconvex domain with C ^k boundary, k ≥ 1. In this paper, we will prove that the Cauchy–Riemann operator has a bounded solution operator in the Sobolev space for all .     

On the rate of convergence of <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Subscript> norms in the CLT for poisson and gamma random variables

In the paper, we present upper bounds of L _p norms of order ( X)^-1/2 for all 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞ in the central limit theorem for a standardized random variable (X− X)/ √ X, where a random variable X is distributed by the Poisson distribution with parameter λ > 0 or by the standard gamma distribution Γ(α, 0, 1) with parameter α > 0. The research was partially supported by the Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation, grant No. T-70/09.