We embed the quantum Heisenberg manifold in a crossed product -algebra. This enables us to show that all tracial states on induce the same homomorphism on , whose range is the group .
In this article, we study dihedral coverings of algebraic surfaces branched along curves with at most simple singularities. A criterion for a reduced curve to be the branch locus of some dihedral covering is given. As an application we have the following:
Let be a reduced plane curve of even degree having only nodes and cusps. If 2d^2 - 6d + 6$">, then is non-abelian.
Note that Nori's result implies that is abelian, provided that .
Genus zero Willmore surfaces immersed in the three-sphere correspond via the stereographic projection to minimal surfaces in Euclidean three-space with finite total curvature and embedded planar ends. The critical values of the Willmore functional are , where , with . When the ambient space is the four-sphere , the regular homotopy class of immersions of the two-sphere is determined by the self-intersection number ; here we shall prove that the possible critical values are , where . Moreover, if , the corresponding immersion, or its antipodal, is obtained, via the twistor Penrose fibration , from a rational curve in and, if , via stereographic projection, from a minimal surface in with finite total curvature and embedded planar ends. An immersion lies in both families when the rational curve is contained in some or (equivalently) when the minimal surface of is complex with respect to a suitable complex structure of .
Let denote a sequence of complex numbers ( 0, \gamma _{ij}=\bar{\gamma}_{ji}$">), and let denote a closed subset of the complex plane . The Truncated Complex -Moment Problem for entails determining whether there exists a positive Borel measure on such that ( ) and . For a semi-algebraic set determined by a collection of complex polynomials , we characterize the existence of a finitely atomic representing measure with the fewest possible atoms in terms of positivity and extension properties of the moment matrix and the localizing matrices . We prove that there exists a -atomic representing measure for supported in if and only if and there is some rank-preserving extension for which , where or .
A computably enumerable Boolean algebra is effectively dense if for each we can effectively determine an such that implies . We give an interpretation of true arithmetic in the theory of the lattice of computably enumerable ideals of such a Boolean algebra. As an application, we also obtain an interpretation of true arithmetic in all theories of intervals of (the lattice of computably enumerable sets under inclusion) which are not Boolean algebras. We derive a similar result for theories of certain initial intervals of subrecursive degree structures, where is the degree of a set of relatively small complexity, for instance a set in exponential time.
Peter Jones' theorem on the factorization of weights is sharpened for weights with bounds near , allowing the factorization to be performed continuously near the limiting, unweighted case. When and is an weight with bound , it is shown that there exist weights such that both the formula and the estimates hold. The square root in these estimates is also proven to be the correct asymptotic power as .
We prove the Farrell-Jones Isomorphism Conjecture for groups acting properly discontinuously via isometries on (real) hyperbolic -space with finite volume orbit space. We then apply this result to show that, for any Bianchi group , , , and vanish for .
An explicit formula for the toric -vector of an Eulerian poset in terms of the -index is developed using coalgebra techniques. The same techniques produce a formula in terms of the flag -vector. For this, another proof based on Fine's algorithm and lattice-path counts is given. As a consequence, it is shown that the Kalai relation on dual posets, , is the only equation relating the -vectors of posets and their duals. A result on the -vectors of oriented matroids is given. A simple formula for the -index in terms of the flag -vector is derived.
Let , be finite-dimensional Lie algebras over a field of characteristic zero. Regard and , the dual Lie coalgebra of , as Lie bialgebras with zero cobracket and zero bracket, respectively. Suppose that a matched pair of Lie bialgebras is given, which has structure maps . Then it induces a matched pair of Hopf algebras, where is the universal envelope of and is the Hopf dual of . We show that the group of cleft Hopf algebra extensions associated with is naturally isomorphic to the group of Lie bialgebra extensions associated with . An exact sequence involving either of these groups is obtained, which is a variation of the exact sequence due to G.I. Kac. If , there follows a bijection between the set of all cleft Hopf algebra extensions of by and the set of all Lie bialgebra extensions of by .
The Bryant-Ferry-Mio-Weinberger surgery exact sequence for compact homology manifolds of dimension is used to obtain transversality, splitting and bordism results for homology manifolds, generalizing previous work of Johnston.
First, we establish homology manifold transversality for submanifolds of dimension : if is a map from an -dimensional homology manifold to a space , and is a subspace with a topological -block bundle neighborhood, and , then is homology manifold -cobordant to a map which is transverse to , with an -dimensional homology submanifold.
Second, we obtain a codimension splitting obstruction in the Wall -group for a simple homotopy equivalence from an -dimensional homology manifold to an -dimensional Poincaré space with a codimension Poincaré subspace with a topological normal bundle, such that if (and for only if) splits at up to homology manifold -cobordism.
Third, we obtain the multiplicative structure of the homology manifold bordism groups .
We show that the expressive power of first-order logic over finite models embedded in a model is determined by stability-theoretic properties of . In particular, we show that if is stable, then every class of finite structures that can be defined by embedding the structures in , can be defined in pure first-order logic. We also show that if does not have the independence property, then any class of finite structures that can be defined by embedding the structures in , can be defined in first-order logic over a dense linear order. This extends known results on the definability of classes of finite structures and ordered finite structures in the setting of embedded finite models. These results depend on several results in infinite model theory. Let be a set of indiscernibles in a model and suppose is elementarily equivalent to where is -saturated. If is stable and is saturated, then every permutation of extends to an automorphism of and the theory of is stable. Let be a sequence of -indiscernibles in a model , which does not have the independence property, and suppose is elementarily equivalent to where is a complete dense linear order and is -saturated. Then -types over are order-definable and if is -saturated, every order preserving permutation of can be extended to a back-and-forth system.
We define a pseudovariety of groups to be arboreous if all finitely generated free pro- groups are dendral (with respect to a free generating set). Our motivation for studying such pseudovarieties of groups is to answer several open questions in the theory of profinite topologies and the theory of finite monoids. We prove, for arboreous pseudovarieties , a pro- analog of the Ribes and Zalesski product theorem for the profinite topology on a free group. Also, arboreous pseudovarieties are characterized as precisely the solutions to the much studied pseudovariety equation .