Structural interactions of conjugacy closed loops

We study conjugacy closed loops by means of their multiplication groups. Let be a conjugacy closed loop, its nucleus, the associator subloop, and and the left and right multiplication groups, respectively. Put . We prove that the cosets of agree with orbits of , that and that one can define an abelian group on . We also explain why the study of finite conjugacy closed loops can be restricted to the case of nilpotent. Group is shown to be a subgroup of a power of (which is abelian), and we prove that can be embedded into . Finally, we describe all conjugacy closed loops of order .

     

Topological dynamics on moduli spaces II

Let be an orientable genus 0$"> surface with boundary . Let be the mapping class group of fixing . The group acts on the space of -gauge equivalence classes of flat -connections on with fixed holonomy on . We study the topological dynamics of the -action and give conditions for the individual -orbits to be dense in .

     

Character degrees and nilpotence class of finite groups

Let be a finite set of powers of containing 1. It is known that for some choices of , if is a finite -group whose set of character degrees is , then the nilpotence class of is bounded by some integer that depends on , while for some other choices of such an integer does not exist. The sets of the first type are called class bounding sets. The problem of determining the class bounding sets has been studied in several papers whose results made it tempting to conjecture that a set is class bounding if and only if . In this article we provide a new approach to this problem. Our main result shows the relevance of certain -adic space groups in this problem. With its help, we are able to prove some results that provide new class bounding sets. We also show that there exist non-class-bounding sets such that .

     

On the unique representation of families of sets

Let and be uncountable Polish spaces. represents a family of sets provided each set in occurs as an -section of . We say that uniquely represents provided each set in occurs exactly once as an -section of . is universal for if every -section of is in . is uniquely universal for if it is universal and uniquely represents . We show that there is a Borel set in which uniquely represents the translates of if and only if there is a Vitali set. Assuming there is a Borel set with all sections sets and all non-empty sets are uniquely represented by . Assuming there is a Borel set with all sections which uniquely represents the countable subsets of . There is an analytic set in with all sections which represents all the subsets of , but no Borel set can uniquely represent the sets. This last theorem is generalized to higher Borel classes.

     

An application of the Littlewood restriction formula to the Kostant-Rallis Theorem

Consider a symmetric pair of linear algebraic groups with , where and are defined as the +1 and -1 eigenspaces of the involution defining . We view the ring of polynomial functions on as a representation of . Moreover, set , where is the space of homogeneous polynomial functions on of degree . This decomposition provides a graded -module structure on . A decomposition of is provided for some classical families when is within a certain stable range.

The stable range is defined so that the spaces are within the hypothesis of the classical Littlewood restriction formula. The Littlewood restriction formula provides a branching rule from the general linear group to the standard embedding of the symplectic or orthogonal subgroup. Inside the stable range the decomposition of is interpreted as a -analog of the Kostant-Rallis theorem.

     

Vertices for characters of -solvable groups

Suppose that is a finite -solvable group. We associate to every irreducible complex character of a canonical pair , where is a -subgroup of and , uniquely determined by up to -conjugacy. This pair behaves as a Green vertex and partitions into ``families" of characters. Using the pair , we give a canonical choice of a certain -radical subgroup of and a character associated to which was predicted by some conjecture of G. R. Robinson.

     

Sufficient conditions for zero-one laws

We generalize a result of Bateman and Erdos concerning partitions, thereby answering a question of Compton. From this result it follows that if is a class of finite relational structures that is closed under the formation of disjoint unions and the extraction of components, and if it has the property that the number of indecomposables of size is bounded above by a polynomial in , then has a monadic second order - law. Moreover, we show that if a class of finite structures with the unique factorization property is closed under the formation of direct products and the extraction of indecomposable factors, and if it has the property that the number of indecomposables of size at most is bounded above by a polynomial in , then this class has a first order - law. These results cover all known natural examples of classes of structures that have been proved to have a logical - law by Compton's method of analyzing generating functions.

     

Thick points for intersections of planar sample paths

Let denote the number of visits to of the simple planar random walk , up to step . Let be another simple planar random walk independent of . We show that for any , there are points for which . This is the discrete counterpart of our main result, that for any , the Hausdorff dimension of the set of thick intersection points for which , is almost surely . Here is the projected intersection local time measure of the disc of radius centered at for two independent planar Brownian motions run until time . The proofs rely on a ``multi-scale refinement' of the second moment method. In addition, we also consider analogous problems where we replace one of the Brownian motions by a transient stable process, or replace the disc of radius centered at by for general sets .

     

On the essential commutant of QC

Let (QC) (resp. ) be the -algebra generated by the Toeplitz operators QC (resp. ) on the Hardy space of the unit circle. A well-known theorem of Davidson asserts that (QC) is the essential commutant of . We show that the essential commutant of (QC) is strictly larger than . Thus the image of in the Calkin algebra does not satisfy the double commutant relation. We also give a criterion for membership in the essential commutant of (QC).

     

A Pieri-type formula for isotropic flag manifolds

We give the formula for multiplying a Schubert class on an odd orthogonal or symplectic flag manifold by a special Schubert class pulled back from the Grassmannian of maximal isotropic subspaces. This is also the formula for multiplying a type (respectively, type ) Schubert polynomial by the Schur -polynomial (respectively, the Schur -polynomial ). Geometric constructions and intermediate results allow us to ultimately deduce this formula from formulas for the classical flag manifold. These intermediate results are concerned with the Bruhat order of the infinite Coxeter group , identities of the structure constants for the Schubert basis of cohomology, and intersections of Schubert varieties. We show that most of these identities follow from the Pieri-type formula, and our analysis leads to a new partial order on the Coxeter group and formulas for many of these structure constants.

     

Automorphisms of finite order on Gorenstein del Pezzo surfaces

In this paper we shall determine all actions of groups of prime order with on Gorenstein del Pezzo (singular) surfaces of Picard number 1. We show that every order- element in ( , being the minimal resolution of ) is lifted from a projective transformation of . We also determine when is finite in terms of , and the number of singular members in . In particular, we show that either for some , or for every prime , there is at least one element of order in (hence is infinite).

     

Transition Probabilities for Symmetric Jump Processes

We consider symmetric Markov chains on the integer lattice in dimensions, where and the conductance between and is comparable to . We establish upper and lower bounds for the transition probabilities that are sharp up to constants.

     

On one-dimensional self-similar tilings and -tiles

Let be an integer base, a digit set and the set of radix expansions. It is well known that if has nonvoid interior, then can tile with some translation set ( is called a tile and a tile digit set). There are two fundamental questions studied in the literature: (i) describe the structure of ; (ii) for a given , characterize so that is a tile.

We show that for a given pair , there is a unique self-replicating translation set , and it has period for some . This completes some earlier work of Kenyon. Our main result for (ii) is to characterize the tile digit sets for when are distinct primes. The only other known characterization is for , due to Lagarias and Wang. The proof for the case depends on the techniques of Kenyon and De Bruijn on the cyclotomic polynomials, and also on an extension of the product-form digit set of Odlyzko.

     

Tilting theory and the finitistic dimension conjectures

Let be a right noetherian ring and let be the class of all finitely presented modules of finite projective dimension. We prove that findim iff there is an (infinitely generated) tilting module such that pd and . If is an artin algebra, then can be taken to be finitely generated iff is contravariantly finite. We also obtain a sufficient condition for validity of the First Finitistic Dimension Conjecture that extends the well-known result of Huisgen-Zimmermann and Smalø.

     

Detection of renewal system factors via the Conley index

Let be an isolating neighborhood for a map . If we can decompose into the disjoint union of compact sets and , then we can relate the dynamics on the maximal invariant set to the shift on two symbols by noting which component of each iterate of a point lies in. We examine a method, based on work by Mischaikow, Szymczak, et al., for using the discrete Conley index to detect explicit subshifts of the shift associated to . In essence, we measure the difference between the Conley index of and the sum of the indices of and .