Semilinear elliptic problems and concentration compactness on non-compact Riemannian manifolds

Existence of solution for semilinear problem with the Laplace-Beltrami operator on non-compact Riemannian manifolds with rich symmetries is proved by concentration compactness based on actions of the manifold's isometry group.     

A remark on compact matrix quantum groups

A simpler set of axioms of the theory of compact matrix quantum groups (pseudogroups) is found.Supported by Japan Society for Promoting Science. On leave from the Department of Mathematical Methods in Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Hoa 74, 00-682 Warsaw, Poland.     

Presentations of the first homotopy groups of the unitary groups

We describe explicit presentations of all stable and the first nonstable homotopy groups of the unitary groups. In particular, for each n 2 we supply n homotopic maps that each represent the (n - 1)!-th power of a suitable generator of _2n SU(n) _n!. The product of these n commuting maps is the constant map to the identity matrix.     

On linear congruence relations for Kubota-Leopoldt 2-adic L-functions

Our purpose in the paper is to find the most general linear congruence relation of the Hardy-Williams type for linear combinations of special values of Kubota-Leopoldt 2-adic L-functions L₂(k,χω^1−k) with k running over any finite subset of not necessarily consisting of consecutive integers (see Acta Arith. 47 (1986) 263; Publ. Math. Fac. Sci. Besançon, Théorie des Nombres, 1995/1996; Publ. Math. Debrecen 56 (2000) 677 and cf. Mathematics and Its Applications, Vol. 511, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London, 2000). If k runs over finite subsets of consisting of consecutive integers see Compositio Math. 111 (1998) 289; Publ. Math. Debrecen 56 (2000) 677; Hardy and Williams, 1986; Compositio Math. 75 (1990) 271; Acta Arith. 71 (1995) 273; 52 (1989) 147; J. Number Theory 34 (1990) 362. In order to obtain the most general congruences of this type we make use of divisibility properties of the generalized Vandermonde determinants obtained in Spie? et al. (Divisibility properties of generalized Vandermonde and Cauchy determinants, Preprint 627, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 2002). This allows us to simplify our main Theorem 2 and obtain Theorem 3 where the most general form of the linear congruence relation is given.     

Writing certain commutators as products of cubes in free groups

Let Cu(γ) be the minimal number of cubes required to express an element γ of a free group F. We establish a method for showing that certain equations do not have solutions in free groups. Using it, we find Cu(γ) for certain elements of the derived subgroup of F. If is the wreath product of F by the infinite cyclic group, we also show that every element of W′ is a product of at most one commutator and three cubes in W.     

Remarks on the frame envelope of a σ-frame

The familiar equivalence between σ-frames and σ-coherent frames, given by the frame envelopes of σ-frames, is shown to induce an equivalence between stably continuous σ-frames and stably continuous frames. Similarly, the analogue of the former for σ-biframes is proved to provide an equivalence between compact regular σ-biframes and compact regular biframes. As an application we obtain the equivalence between stably continuous σ-frames and compact regular σ-biframes due to Matutu as an easy consequence of its frame counterpart established earlier by Banaschewski and Brümmer. This provides an affirmative answer to a question posed by Dana Scott.     

Energy functional depending on elastic strain and chemical composition

In this paper we deal with energy functionals depending on elastic strain and chemical composition and we obtain lower semicontinuity results, existence theorems and relaxation in the spacesH ^1,p(; ⁿ)×L ^q (; ^d) with respect to weak convergence. Our proofs use parametrized measures associated with weakly converging sequences.The research was partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. DMS-9000133 and DMS-9201215 and also by the Army Research Office and the National Science Foundation through the Center for Nonlinear Analysis.The research was partially supported by the National Science Foundation uncer Grants No. DMs 911572, the AFOSR 91 0301, the ARO DAAL03 92 G 003 and also by the ARO and the NSF through the Center for Nonlinear Analysis.The research was supported by DGICYT (Spain) through Programa de Perfeccionamiento y Movilidad del Personal Investigador and through grant PB90-0245, by the Army Research Office and the National Science Foundation through the Center for Nonlinear Analysis and also by the project EurHomogenization SC1-CT91-0732 of the European Comunity.     

Spaces from pieces IV

We are going to investigate simultaneous extensions of various topological structures (i.e. traces on several subsets at the same time are prescribed), also with separation axioms T₀, T₁, symmetry (in the sense of Part I, § 3), Riesz property, Lodato property. The following questions will be considered: (i) Under what conditions is there an extension? (ii) How can the finest extension be described? (iii) Is there a coarsest extension? (iv) Can we say more about extensions of two structures than in the general case? (v) Assume that certain subfamilies (e.g. the finite ones) can be extended; does the whole family have an extension, too? The general categorial results from Part I will be applied whenever possible (even they are not really needed).