Geometric lattice actions, entropy and fundamental groups

Let be a lattice in a noncompact simple Lie Group G, where . Suppose acts analytically and ergodically on a compact manifold M preserving a unimodular rigid geometric structure (e.g. a connection and a volume). We show that either the action is isometric or there exists a "large image" linear representation of . Under an additional assumption on the dynamics of the action, we associate to a virtual arithmetic quotient of full entropy. Received: December 14, 2000     

The Two-Step Nilpotent Representations of the Extended Affine Hecke Algebra of Type A

We define a set of cell modules for the extended affine Hecke algebra of type A which are parametrised by SL_n()-conjugacy classes of pairs (s, N), where s SL_n() is semisimple and N is a nilpotent element of the Lie algebra which has at most two Jordan blocks and satisfies Ad(s)·N=q ² N. When q ²–1, each of these has irreducible head, and the irreducible representations of the affine Hecke algebra so obtained are precisely those which factor through its Temperley–Lieb quotient. When q ²=–1, the above remarks apply to a subset of the cell modules. Using our work on the cellular nature of those quotients, we are able to obtain complete information on the decomposition of the cell modules in all cases, even when q is a root of unity. They turn out to be multiplicity free, and the composition factors may be precisely described in terms of a partial order on the pairs (s, N). These results give explicit formulae for the dimensions of the irreducibles. Assuming our modules are identified with the standard modules earlier defined by Bernstein–Zelevinski, Kazhdan–Lusztig and others, our results may be interpreted as the determination of certain Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials. [This has now been proved and will appear in a subsequent work of the authors.]The second author thanks the Australian Research Council and the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung for support and the Universität Bielefeld for hospitality during the preparation of this work.     

W/Cu梯度功能材料的高热负荷性能研究

用等离子体喷涂和热压方法制作了W/Cu梯度功能材料(FGM)样品,用大功率ND∶YAG激光对其进行了高热负载模拟实验.结果表明,在100～400MW@m-2的瞬时(脉冲宽度为4ms)热负载下,经过200～700次热循环,未发现有W-Cu复合体开裂.在123MW@m-2的功率密度下作用700次,发现钨表面有再结晶现象及严重的晶界腐蚀和裂纹,再结晶的平均晶粒尺寸约为5～10μm,垂直于表面呈柱状结构,再结晶层厚度约20～30μm.由于激光的淬冷效应,晶粒生长的趋势并不明显.在398MW@m-2功率密度下出现了明显的腐蚀坑,坑内呈疏松的蜂窝结构,坑的边缘出现了明显沉积区,能谱分析表明沉积区集聚了大量的金属杂质.等离子体喷涂试样比热压试样更易产生晶界的断裂的裂纹.在相同的热负荷条件下,W/Cu FGM的重量损失低于石墨材料的重量损失.     

Analysis of an FRW cosmological model

The Einstein field equations for the Friedmann universe reduce to a system of three first-order equations for the space-like components and a constraint from the temporal component. We analyse the system from the viewpoints of symmetry and singularity analyses. The solutions of particular relevance to Cosmology are highlighted.      

Sur l'' application de réciprocité pour une surface fibrée en coniques définie sur un corps local

For a proper smooth variety X defined over a local field k, unramified class field theory investigates the reciprocity map _X: SK₁(X) ^ab ₁(X) as introduced by S. Saito. We study this map in the case when X is a surface admitting a proper surjection onto a smooth geometrically connected curve C with a smooth conic as generic fibre. Without any assumption on the reduction of C, we prove that _X is injective modulo n for all n invertible in k and its cokernel is the same as that of _C.     

Topological density of ccc Boolean algebras--Every cardinality occurs

For every uncountable cardinal there is a ccc Boolean algebra whose topological density is .

     

En">Characters and Composition Factor Multiplicities for the Lie Superalgebra $${\mathfrak{g}}{\mathfrak{l}}$$ ( m / n )

The multiplicities a of simple modules L in the composition series of Kac modules V lambda for the Lie superalgebra (m/n ) were described by Serganova, leading to her solution of the character problem for (m/n ). In Serganova's algorithm all with nonzero a are determined for a given this algorithm, turns out to be rather complicated. In this Letter, a simple rule is conjectured to find all nonzero a for any given weight . In particular, we claim that for an r-fold atypical weight there are 2r distinct weights such that a = 1, and a = 0 for all other weights . Some related properties on the multiplicities a are proved, and arguments in favour of our main conjecture are given. Finally, an extension of the conjecture describing the inverse of the matrix of Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials is discussed.     

Homotopy Structures for Algebras over a Monad

Let T be a monad over a category A. Then a homotopy structure for A, defined by a cocylinder P : A A, or path-endofunctor, can be lifted to the category A ^T of Eilenberg–Moore algebras over T, provided that P is consistent with T in a natural sense, i.e. equipped with a natural transformation : T P P T satisfying some obvious axioms. In this way, homotopy can be lifted from well-known, basic situations to various categories of algebras for instance, from topological spaces to topological semigroups, or spaces over a fixed space (fibrewise homotopy), or actions of a fixed topological group (equivariant homotopy); from categories to strict monoidal categories; from chain complexes to associative chain algebras. The interest is given by the possibility of lifting the homotopy operations (as faces, degeneracy, connections, reversion, interchange, vertical composition, etc.) and their axioms from A to A ^T , just by verifying the consistency between these operations and : T P P T. When this holds, the structure we obtain on our category of algebras is sufficiently powerful to ensure the main general properties of homotopy.