On certain degenerate and singular elliptic PDEs I: Nondivergence form operators with unbounded drifts and applications to subelliptic equations

We prove a Harnack inequality for nonnegative strong solutions to degenerate and singular elliptic PDEs modeled after certain convex functions and in the presence of unbounded drifts. Our main theorem extends the Harnack inequality for the linearized Monge–Ampère equation due to Caffarelli and Gutiérrez and it is related, although under different hypotheses, to a recent work by N.Q. Le.Since our results are shown to apply to the convex functions $|x{|}^p$ with $p\ge 2$ and their tensor sums, the degenerate elliptic operators that we can consider include subelliptic Grushin and Grushin-like operators as well as a recent example by A. Montanari of a nondivergence-form subelliptic operator arising from the geometric theory of several complex variables. In the light of these applications, it follows that the Monge–Ampère quasi-metric structure can be regarded as an alternative to the usual Carnot–Carathéodory metric in the study of certain subelliptic PDEs.     

A generalized rotationally symmetric case of the centroaffine Minkowski problem

In this paper the centroaffine Minkowski problem, a critical case of the $L_p$-Minkowski problem in the $n+1$ dimensional Euclidean space, is studied. By its variational structure and the method of blow-up analyses, we obtain two sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions, for a generalized rotationally symmetric case of the problem.     

The Lp dual Minkowski problem for p > 1 and q > 0

General $L_p$ dual curvature measures have recently been introduced by Lutwak, Yang and Zhang [24]. These new measures unify several other geometric measures of the Brunn–Minkowski theory and the dual Brunn–Minkowski theory. $L_p$ dual curvature measures arise from qth dual intrinsic volumes by means of Alexandrov-type variational formulas. Lutwak, Yang and Zhang [24] formulated the $L_p$ dual Minkowski problem, which concerns the characterization of $L_p$ dual curvature measures. In this paper, we solve the existence part of the $L_p$ dual Minkowski problem for $p>1$ and $q>0$, and we also discuss the regularity of the solution.     

Sur un théorème de Castelnuovo

We continue the study of G. Castelnuovo on the group of birational transformations of the complex plane that fix each point of a curve of genus > 1 ; we use adjoint linear system of the curve as Castelnuovo does. We prove that these groups are abelian, and that these are either finite, of order 2 or 3, or conjuguate to a subgroup of the de Jonquières group. We show also that these results do not generalise to curves of genus ≤ 1. *Partiellement soutenu par le CNPq-Brasil et la Section de Mathématiques de l'Université de Genève.     

Exact asymptotics in eigenproblems for fractional Brownian covariance operators

Many results in the theory of Gaussian processes rely on the eigenstructure of the covariance operator. However, eigenproblems are notoriously hard to solve explicitly and closed form solutions are known only in a limited number of cases. In this paper we set up a framework for the spectral analysis of the fractional type covariance operators, corresponding to an important family of processes, which includes the fractional Brownian motion and its noise. We obtain accurate asymptotic approximations for the eigenvalues and the eigenfunctions. Our results provide a key to several problems, whose solution is long known in the standard Brownian case, but was missing in the more general fractional setting. This includes computation of the exact limits of $L^2$-small ball probabilities and asymptotic analysis of singularly perturbed integral equations, arising in mathematical physics and applied probability.     

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.     

A characterization of affine hyperquadrics

In this paper, using the existence of special exhaustions that satisfy the complex homogeneous Monge–Ampère equation and curvature properties are given characterizations of the affine hyperquadric and other special Stein manifolds. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) 32W20, 32V40     

Dead ends in misère play: The misère monoid of canonical numbers

We find the misère monoids of normal-play canonical-form integer and non-integer numbers. These come as consequences of more general results for the universe of dead-ending games. Left and right ends have previously been defined as games in which Left or Right, respectively, have no moves; here we define a dead left (right) end to be a left (right) end whose options are all left (right) ends, and we define a dead-ending game to be one in which all end followers are dead. We find the monoids and partial orders of dead ends, integers, and all numbers, and construct an infinite family of games that are equivalent to zero in the dead-ending universe.