Estimation du nombre des μ-valeurs propres

La notion de -valeur propre de –+V sera définie pour un ouvert borné de R ^d ; étant une mesure dans la classe de Kato généralisée. On établira une estimation du nombre des -valeurs propres inférieures à un réel positif E.The notion of -eigenvalue of –+V will be defined for a bounded open subset of R ^d ; is in the generalized Kato class. An estimate for the number of -eigenvalues which are smaller then a positive real E is given.     

Categorification and Group Extensions

We review several known categorification procedures, and introduce a functorial categorification of group extensions (Section 4.1) with applications to non-Abelian group cohomology (Section 4.2). The obstruction to the existence of group extensions (Section 4.2.4, Equation (9)) is interpreted as a coboundary condition (Proposition 4.5).     

The f-depth of an ideal on a module

Let be an ideal of a Noetherian local ring and a finitely generated -module. The f-depth of on is the least integer such that the local cohomology module is not Artinian. This paper presents some part of the theory of f-depth including characterizations of f-depth and a relation between f-depth and f-modules.

     

Associated primes of graded components of local cohomology modules

The -th local cohomology module of a finitely generated graded module over a standard positively graded commutative Noetherian ring , with respect to the irrelevant ideal , is itself graded; all its graded components are finitely generated modules over , the component of of degree . It is known that the -th component of this local cohomology module is zero for all > 0$">. This paper is concerned with the asymptotic behaviour of as .

The smallest for which such study is interesting is the finiteness dimension of relative to , defined as the least integer for which is not finitely generated. Brodmann and Hellus have shown that is constant for all (that is, in their terminology, is asymptotically stable for ). The first main aim of this paper is to identify the ultimate constant value (under the mild assumption that is a homomorphic image of a regular ring): our answer is precisely the set of contractions to of certain relevant primes of whose existence is confirmed by Grothendieck's Finiteness Theorem for local cohomology.

Brodmann and Hellus raised various questions about such asymptotic behaviour when f$">. They noted that Singh's study of a particular example (in which ) shows that need not be asymptotically stable for . The second main aim of this paper is to determine, for Singh's example, quite precisely for every integer , and, thereby, answer one of the questions raised by Brodmann and Hellus.

     

The structure of some virtually free pro- groups

We prove two conjectures on pro- groups made by Herfort, Ribes and Zalesskii. The first says that a finitely generated pro- group which has an open free pro- subgroup of index is a free pro- product , where the are free pro- of finite rank and the are cyclic of order . The second says that if is a free pro- group of finite rank and is a finite -group of automorphisms of , then is a free factor of . The proofs use cohomology, and in particular a ``Brown theorem' for profinite groups.

     

The heat kernel weighted Hodge Laplacian on noncompact manifolds

On a compact orientable Riemannian manifold, the Hodge Laplacian has compact resolvent, therefore a spectral gap, and the dimension of the space of harmonic -forms is a topological invariant. By contrast, on complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds, is known to have various pathologies, among them the absence of a spectral gap and either ``too large' or ``too small' a space . In this article we use a heat kernel measure to determine the space of square-integrable forms and to construct the appropriate Laplacian . We recover in the noncompact case certain results of Hodge's theory of in the compact case. If the Ricci curvature of a noncompact connected Riemannian manifold is bounded below, then this ``heat kernel weighted Laplacian' acts on functions on in precisely the manner we would wish, that is, it has a spectral gap and a one-dimensional kernel. We prove that the kernel of on -forms is zero-dimensional on , as we expect from topology, if the Ricci curvature is nonnegative. On Euclidean space, there is a complete Hodge theory for . Weighted Laplacians also have a duality analogous to Poincaré duality on noncompact manifolds. Finally, we show that heat kernel-like measures give desirable spectral properties (compact resolvent) in certain general cases. In particular, we use measures with Gaussian decay to justify the statement that every topologically tame manifold has a strong Hodge decomposition.

     

Représentations des algèbres de clifford des formes binaires et ternaires cubiques

Clifford algebras of polynomial forms of degreed>2 defined by N. Roby are infinite dimensional when the module has rank bigger than 1. So the study of their representations differs from that of Clifford algebras of quadratic forms. Some authors have established several results in this domain, especially in the case of binary cubic forms, which can be found in the bibliography. In the first section of this paper, we consider the case of binary cubic forms and the base fieldK is algebraically closed. We define an explicit family of irreducible representations of their Clifford algebras, indexed by only one parameter, such that every 3-dimensional representation is equivalent to an element of this family. When the form is ternary cubic, Revoy and Tesser on one hand, Van den Bergh on the other, proved in two different ways, in [7] and [9] respectively, the existence of 3-dimensional linearizations. In the last section, we show directly that the number of classes of 3-dimensional representations is finite and non zero.     

Cyclic Cohomology of étale Groupoids: The General Case

We give a general method for computing the cyclic cohomology of crossed products by étale groupoids, extending the Feigin–Tsygan–Nistor spectral sequences. In particular we extend the computations performed by Brylinski, Burghelea, Connes, Feigin, Karoubi, Nistor, and Tsygan for the convolution algebra C _c (G) of an étale groupoid, removing the Hausdorffness condition and including the computation of hyperbolic components. Examples like group actions on manifolds and foliations are considered.