Iterated monoidal categories

We develop a notion of an n-fold monoidal category and show that it corresponds in a precise way to the notion of an n-fold loop space. Specifically, the group completion of the nerve of such a category is an n-fold loop space, and free n-fold monoidal categories give rise to a finite simplicial operad of the same homotopy type as the classical little cubes operad used to parametrize the higher H-space structure of an n-fold loop space. We also show directly that this operad has the same homotopy type as the n-th Smith filtration of the Barratt-Eccles operad and the n-th filtration of Berger's complete graph operad. Moreover, this operad contains an equivalent preoperad which gives rise to Milgram's small model for when n=2 and is very closely related to Milgram's model of for n>2.     

The L resolvents of elliptic operators with uniformly continuous coefficients

We consider the strongly elliptic operator A of order 2m in the divergence form with bounded measurable coefficients and assume that the coefficients of top order are uniformly continuous. For 1<p<∞, A is a bounded linear operator from the L^p Sobolev space H^m,p into H^−m,p. We will prove that (A−λ)⁻¹ exists in H^−m,p for some λ and estimate its operator norm.     

On the commutator of the Marcinkiewicz integral

boundedness is considered for the commutator of higher-dimensional Marcinkiewicz integral. Some conditions implying the and the boundedness for the commutator of the Marcinkiewicz integral are obtained.     

Uniform asymptotic regularity for Mann iterates

In Numer. Funct. Anal. Optim. 22 (2001) 641-656, we obtained an effective quantitative analysis of a theorem due to Borwein, Reich, and Shafrir on the asymptotic behavior of general Krasnoselski-Mann iterations for nonexpansive self-mappings of convex sets C in arbitrary normed spaces. We used this result to obtain a new strong uniform version of Ishikawa's theorem for bounded C. In this paper we give a qualitative improvement of our result in the unbounded case and prove the uniformity result for the bounded case under the weaker assumption that C contains a point x whose Krasnoselski-Mann iteration (x_k) is bounded. We also consider more general iterations for which asymptotic regularity is known only for uniformly convex spaces (Groetsch). We give uniform effective bounds for (an extension of) Groetsch's theorem which generalize previous results by Kirk, Martinez-Yanez, and the author.     

Positive solutions for (n−1,1) three-point boundary value problems with coefficient that changes sign

In this paper, we establish existence results for positive solutions for the (n−1,1) three-point boundary value problems consisting of the equation

     

On the Iwasawa -invariants of real abelian fields

For a prime number and a number field , let denote the projective limit of the -parts of the ideal class groups of the intermediate fields of the cyclotomic -extension over . It is conjectured that is finite if is totally real. When is an odd prime and is a real abelian field, we give a criterion for the conjecture, which is a generalization of results of Ichimura and Sumida. Furthermore, in a special case where divides the degree of , we also obtain a rather simple criterion.

     

of Hamiltonian manifolds

Let be a connected, compact symplectic manifold equipped with a Hamiltonian action. We prove that, as fundamental groups of topological spaces, , where is the symplectic quotient at any value in the image of the moment map .

     

Two exact algorithms for the capacitated p-median problem

The p-median problem has been widely studied in combinatorial optimisation, but its generalisation to the capacitated case has not. We propose a branch and price algorithm, comparing it with a standard MIP solver and a branch and bound algorithm based on Lagrangean relaxation. We present computational experience, using test instances drawn from the literature and new instances with higher ratio between the number of medians p and the number of nodes N. The branch and price algorithm shows very good performances and computational time robustness in solving problems for any ratio.Received: December 2002, Revised: August 2003AMS classification: 90C10, 90C27     

Classification of two-orbit varieties

We obtain the classification of two-orbit varieties, i.e. the normal complete complex algebraic varieties on which a reductive complex algebraic group acts with two orbits. We prove also Luna's conjecture saying that these varieties are spherical, i.e. admit a dense orbit of a Borel subgroup. Received: September 1, 2000