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Our main purpose in this paper is to establish the existence and nonexistence of extremal functions (also known as maximizers) and symmetry of extremals for several Trudinger-Moser type inequalities on the entire space R n , including both the critical and subcritical Trudinger-Moser inequalities (see Theorems 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5). Most of earlier works on existence of maximizers in the literature rely on the complicated blow-up analysis of PDEs for the associated Euler-Lagrange equations of the corresponding Moser functionals. The new approaches developed in this paper are using the identities and relationship between the supremums of the subcritical Trudinger-Moser inequalities and the critical ones established by the same authors in [25] , combining with the continuity of the supremum function that is observed for the first time in the literature. These allow us to establish the existence and nonexistence of the maximizers for the Trudinger-Moser inequalities in different ranges of the parameters (including those inequalities with the exact growth). This method is considerably simpler and also allows us to study the symmetry problem of the extremal functions and prove that the extremal functions for the subcritical singular Truddinger-Moser inequalities are symmetric. Moreover, we will be able to calculate the exact values of the supremums of the Trudinger-Moser type in certain cases. These appear to be the first results in this direction.

We introduce topological notions of normal crossings symplectic divisor and variety and establish that they are equivalent, in a suitable sense, to the desired geometric notions. Our proposed concept of equivalence of associated topological and geometric notions fits ideally with important constructions in symplectic topology. This partially answers Gromov's question on the feasibility of defining singular symplectic (sub)varieties and lays foundation for rich developments in the future. In subsequent papers, we establish a smoothability criterion for symplectic normal crossings varieties, in the process providing the multifold symplectic sum envisioned by Gromov, and introduce symplectic analogues of logarithmic structures in the context of normal crossings symplectic divisors., Comment: 65 pages, 4 figures; a number of typos fixed; the exposition has been significantly revised, fixing a technical error in the non-compact case in the process; this paper is now restricted to the simple normal crossings case; the arbitrary normal crossings case will be detailed in a followup paper

This paper is the second part of our comprehensive study on the structure of the solutions for the following Chern–Simons–Higgs equation: (0.1) { Δ u + 1 e 2 e u ( 1 − e u ) = 4 π ∑ j = 1 N δ p j , in Ω , u is doubly periodic on ∂ Ω , where Ω is a parallelogram in R 2 and e > 0 is a small parameter. In part 1 [29] , we proved the non-coexistence of different bubbles in the bubbling solutions and obtained an existence result for the Chern–Simons type bubbling solutions under some nearly necessary conditions. Mean field type bubbling solutions for (0.1) have been constructed in [27] . In this paper, we shall study two other important issues for the mean field type bubbling solutions: the necessary conditions for the existence and the local uniqueness. The results in this paper lay the foundation to find the exact number of solutions for (0.1) .

Quasi-elliptic cohomology is a variant of elliptic cohomology theories. It is the orbifold K-theory of a space of constant loops. For global quotient orbifolds, it can be expressed in terms of equivariant K-theories. Thus, the constructions on it can be made in a neat way. This theory reflects the geometric nature of the Tate curve. In this paper we provide a systematic introduction of its construction and definition., Comment: Final Version. 26 pages. To appear in Advances in Mathematics. In this paper we generalize the construction in arXiv:1612.00930. The subtle point of this generalization is explained in Section 2

Decomposition spaces are simplicial $\infty$-groupoids subject to a certain exactness condition, needed to induce a coalgebra structure on the space of arrows. Conservative ULF functors (CULF) between decomposition spaces induce coalgebra homomorphisms. Suitable added finiteness conditions define the notion of M\"obius decomposition space, a far-reaching generalisation of the notion of M\"obius category of Leroux. In this paper, we show that the Lawvere-Menni Hopf algebra of M\"obius intervals, which contains the universal M\"obius function (but is not induced by a M\"obius category), can be realised as the homotopy cardinality of a M\"obius decomposition space $U$ of all M\"obius intervals, and that in a certain sense $U$ is universal for M\"obius decomposition spaces and CULF functors., Comment: 35 pages. This paper is one of six papers that formerly constituted the long manuscript arXiv:1404.3202. v3: minor expository improvements. Final version to appear in Adv. Math

This paper establishes a version of Nevanlinna theory based on Askey–Wilson divided difference operator for meromorphic functions of finite logarithmic order in the complex plane C . A second main theorem that we have derived allows us to define an Askey–Wilson type Nevanlinna deficiency which gives a new interpretation that one should regard many important infinite products arising from the study of basic hypergeometric series as zero/pole-scarce. That is, their zeros/poles are indeed deficient in the sense of difference Nevanlinna theory. A natural consequence is a version of Askey–Wilson type Picard theorem. We also give an alternative and self-contained characterisation of the kernel functions of the Askey–Wilson operator. In addition we have established a version of unicity theorem in the sense of Askey–Wilson. This paper concludes with an application to difference equations generalising the Askey–Wilson second-order divided difference equation.

In this paper, we describe a surprising link between the theory of the Goldman–Turaev Lie bialgebra on surfaces of genus zero and the Kashiwara–Vergne (KV) problem in Lie theory. Let Σ be an oriented 2-dimensional manifold with non-empty boundary and K a field of characteristic zero. The Goldman–Turaev Lie bialgebra is defined by the Goldman bracket { − , − } and Turaev cobracket δ on the K -span of homotopy classes of free loops on Σ. Applying an expansion θ : K π → K 〈 x 1 , … , x n 〉 yields an algebraic description of the operations { − , − } and δ in terms of non-commutative variables x 1 , … , x n . If Σ is a surface of genus g = 0 the lowest degree parts { − , − } − 1 and δ − 1 are canonically defined (and independent of θ). They define a Lie bialgebra structure on the space of cyclic words which was introduced and studied by Schedler [31] . It was conjectured by the second and the third authors that one can define an expansion θ such that { − , − } = { − , − } − 1 and δ = δ − 1 . The main result of this paper states that for surfaces of genus zero constructing such an expansion is essentially equivalent to the KV problem. In [24] , Massuyeau constructed such expansions using the Kontsevich integral. In order to prove this result, we show that the Turaev cobracket δ can be constructed in terms of the double bracket (upgrading the Goldman bracket) and the non-commutative divergence cocycle which plays the central role in the KV theory. Among other things, this observation gives a new topological interpretation of the KV problem and allows to extend it to surfaces with arbitrary number of boundary components (and of arbitrary genus, see [2] ).

Dolgachev surfaces are simply connected minimal elliptic surfaces with $p_g=q=0$ and of Kodaira dimension 1. These surfaces were constructed by logarithmic transformations of rational elliptic surfaces. In this paper, we explain the construction of Dolgachev surfaces via $\mathbb Q$-Gorenstein smoothing of singular rational surfaces with two cyclic quotient singularities. This construction is based on the paper by Lee-Park. Also, some exceptional bundles on Dolgachev surfaces associated with $\mathbb Q$-Gorenstein smoothing are constructed based on the idea of Hacking. In the case if Dolgachev surfaces were of type $(2,3)$, we describe the Picard group and present an exceptional collection of maximal length. Finally, we prove that the presented exceptional collection is not full, hence there exist a nontrivial phantom category in the derived category., Comment: 35 pages; 3 figures; exposition improved; Adv. Math. (to appear)

A concept of emergence was recently introduced in the paper [Berger] in order to quantify the richness of possible statistical behaviors of orbits of a given dynamical system. In this paper, we develop this concept and provide several new definitions, results, and examples. We introduce the notion of topological emergence of a dynamical system, which essentially evaluates how big the set of all its ergodic probability measures is. On the other hand, the metric emergence of a particular reference measure (usually Lebesgue) quantifies how non-ergodic this measure is. We prove fundamental properties of these two emergences, relating them with classical concepts such as Kolmogorov's $\epsilon$-entropy of metric spaces and quantization of measures. We also relate the two types of emergences by means of a variational principle. Furthermore, we provide several examples of dynamics with high emergence. First, we show that the topological emergence of some standard classes of hyperbolic dynamical systems is essentially the maximal one allowed by the ambient. Secondly, we construct examples of smooth area-preserving diffeomorphisms that are extremely non-ergodic in the sense that the metric emergence of the Lebesgue measure is essentially maximal. These examples confirm that super-polynomial emergence indeed exists, as conjectured in the paper [Berger]. Finally, we prove that such examples are locally generic among smooth diffeomorphisms., Comment: v3: Final version; to appear in Advances in Mathematics

This paper considers the problem of establishing L p -improving inequalities for Radon-like operators in intermediate dimensions (i.e., for averages overs submanifolds which are neither curves nor hypersurfaces). Due to limitations in existing approaches, previous results in this regime are comparatively sparse and tend to require special numerical relationships between the dimension n of the ambient space and the dimension k of the submanifolds. This paper develops a new approach to this problem based on a continuum version of the Kakeya-Brascamp-Lieb inequality, established by Zhang [28] and extended by Zorin-Kranich [29] , and on recent results for geometric nonconcentration inequalities [11] . As an initial application of this new approach, this paper establishes sharp restricted strong type L p -improving inequalities for certain model quadratic submanifolds in the range k n ≤ 2 k .

We present a covering conjecture that we expect to be true below superstrong cardinals. We then show that the conjecture is true in hod mice. This work is a continuation of the work that started in Covering with Universally Baire Functions Advances in Mathematics, and the main conjecture of the current paper is a revision of the UB Covering Conjecture of the aforementioned paper.

Let $G$ be a reductive group over an algebraically closed field and let $W$ be its Weyl group. In a series of papers, Lusztig introduced a map from the set $[W]$ of conjugacy classes of $W$ to the set $[G_u]$ of unipotent classes of $G$. This map, when restricted to the set of elliptic conjugacy classes $[W_e]$ of $W$, is injective. In this paper, we show that Lusztig's map $[W_e] \to [G_u]$ is order-reversing, with respect to the natural partial order on $[W_e]$ arising from combinatorics and the natural partial order on $[G_u]$ arising from geometry., Comment: 25 pages

In a recent paper [5] S. Solecki proved a finite self-dual Ramsey theorem that extends simultaneously the classical finite Ramsey theorem [4] and the Graham–Rothschild theorem [2] . In this paper we prove the corresponding infinite dimensional version of the self-dual theorem. As a consequence, we extend the classical infinite Ramsey theorem [4] and the Carlson–Simpson theorem [1] .

In a paper in 1962, Guido Zappa asked whether a non-trivial coset of a Sylow p-subgroup of a finite group could contain only elements whose orders are powers of p, and also in that case, at least one element of order p. The first question was raised again recently in a 2014 paper by Daniel Goldstein and Robert Guralnick, when generalising an answer by John Thompson in 1967 to a similar question by L.J. Paige. In this paper we give a positive answer to both questions of Zappa, showing somewhat surprisingly that in a number of non-abelian finite simple groups (including PSL ( 3 , 4 ) , PSU ( 5 , 2 ) and the Janko group J 3 ), some non-trivial coset of a Sylow 5-subgroup (of order 5) contains only elements of order 5. Also Zappa's first question is studied in more detail. Various possibilities for the group and its Sylow p-subgroup P are eliminated, and it then follows that | P | ≥ 5 and | P | ≠ 8 . It is an open question as to whether the order of the Sylow p-subgroup can be 7 or 9 or more.

Let E be an elliptic curve defined over an algebraically closed field k whose characteristic is not 2 or 3. Let τ be a translation automorphism of E that is not of order 2. In a previous paper we studied an algebra A = A ( E , τ ) that depends on this data: A ( E , τ ) = ( S ( E , τ ) ⊗ M 2 ( k ) ) Γ where S ( E , τ ) is the 4-dimensional Sklyanin algebra associated to ( E , τ ) , M 2 ( k ) is the ring of 2 × 2 matrices over k, and Γ is ( Z / 2 ) × ( Z / 2 ) acting in a particular way as automorphisms of S and M 2 ( k ) . The action of Γ on S is compatible with the translation action of the 2-torsion subgroup E [ 2 ] on E. Following the ideas and results in papers of Artin–Tate–Van den Bergh, Smith–Stafford, and Levasseur–Smith, this paper examines the line modules, point modules, and fat point modules, over A, and their incidence relations. The right context for the results is non-commutative algebraic geometry: we view A as a homogeneous coordinate ring of a non-commutative analogue of P 3 that we denote by Proj n c ( A ) . Point modules and fat point modules determine “points” in Proj n c ( A ) . Line modules determine “lines” in Proj n c ( A ) . Line modules for A are in bijection with certain lines in P ( A 1 ⁎ ) ≅ P 3 and therefore correspond to the closed points of a certain subscheme L of the Grassmannian G ( 1 , 3 ) . Shelton–Vancliff call L the line scheme for A. We show that L is the union of 7 reduced and irreducible components, 3 quartic elliptic space curves and 4 plane conics in the ambient Plucker P 5 , and that deg ⁡ ( L ) = 20 . The union of the lines corresponding to the points on each elliptic curve is an elliptic scroll in P ( A 1 ⁎ ) . Thus, the lines on that elliptic scroll are in natural bijection with a corresponding family of line modules for A.

This is the second article of the two papers, in which we investigate the holomorphic and formal flattening problem of a non-degenerate CR singular point of a codimension two real submanifold in C n with n ≥ 3 . The problem is motivated from the study of the complex Plateau problem that looks for the Levi-flat hypersurface bounded by a given real submanifold and by the classical complex analysis problem of finding the local hull of holomorphy of a real submanifold in a complex space. The present article is focused on non-degenerate flat CR singular points with at least one non-parabolic Bishop invariant. We will solve the formal flattening problem in this setting. The results in this paper and those in [23] are taken from our earlier arxiv post [22] . We split [22] into two independent articles to avoid it being too long.

In this paper we study the representation theory of filtered algebras with commutative associated graded whose spectrum has finitely many symplectic leaves. Examples are provided by the algebras of global sections of quantizations of symplectic resolutions, quantum Hamiltonian reductions, and spherical symplectic reflection algebras. We introduce the notion of holonomic modules for such algebras. We show that, provided the algebraic fundamental groups of all leaves are finite, the generalized Bernstein inequality holds for the simple modules and turns into equality for holonomic simples. Under the same finiteness assumption, we prove that the associated variety of a simple holonomic module is equi-dimensional. We also prove that, if the regular bimodule has finite length, then any holonomic module has finite length. This allows one to reduce the Bernstein inequality for arbitrary modules to simple ones. We prove that the regular bimodule has finite length for the global sections of quantizations of symplectic resolutions, for quantum Hamiltonian reductions and for Rational Cherednik algebras. The paper contains a joint appendix by the author and Etingof that motivates the definition of a holonomic module in the case of global sections of a quantization of a symplectic resolution.

This paper is devoted to the study of some fundamental problems on modulus and extremal length of curve families, capacity, and n-harmonic functions in the Euclidean space R n . One of the main goals is to establish the existence, uniqueness, and boundary behavior of the extremal function for the conformal capacity cap ( A , B ; Ω ) of a capacitor in R n . This generalizes some well known results and has its own interests in geometric function theory and potential theory. It is also used as a major ingredient in this paper to establish a sharp upper bound for the quasiextremal distance (or QED) constant M ( Ω ) of a domain in terms of its local boundary quasiconformal reflection constant H ( Ω ) , a bound conjectured by Shen in the plane. Along the way, several interesting results are established for modulus and extremal length. One of them is a decomposition theorem for the extremal length λ ( A , B ; Ω ) of the curve family joining two disjoint continua A and B in a domain Ω.

The focus of this paper commences with an examination of three (not obviously related) pages in Ramanujan's lost notebook, pages 336, 335, and 332, in decreasing order of attention. On page 336, Ramanujan proposes two identities, but the formulas are wrong – each is vitiated by divergent series. We concentrate on only one of the two incorrect “identities,” which may have been devised to attack the extended divisor problem. We prove here a corrected version of Ramanujan's claim, which contains the convergent series appearing in it. The convergent series in Ramanujan's faulty claim is similar to one used by G.F. Voronoi, G.H. Hardy, and others in their study of the classical Dirichlet divisor problem. This now brings us to page 335, which comprises two formulas featuring doubly infinite series of Bessel functions, the first being conjoined with the classical circle problem initiated by Gauss, and the second being associated with the Dirichlet divisor problem. The first and fourth authors, along with Sun Kim, have written several papers providing proofs of these two difficult formulas in different interpretations. In this monograph, we return to these two formulas and examine them in more general settings. The aforementioned convergent series in Ramanujan's “identity” is also similar to one that appears in a curious identity found in Chapter 15 in Ramanujan's second notebook, written in a more elegant, equivalent formulation on page 332 in the lost notebook. This formula may be regarded as a formula for ζ ( 1 2 ) , and in 1925, S. Wigert obtained a generalization giving a formula for ζ ( 1 k ) for any even integer k ≥ 2 . We extend the work of Ramanujan and Wigert in this paper. The Voronoi summation formula appears prominently in our study. In particular, we generalize work of J.R. Wilton and derive an analogue involving the sum of divisors function σ s ( n ) . The modified Bessel functions K s ( x ) arise in several contexts, as do Lommel functions. We establish here new series and integral identities involving modified Bessel functions and modified Lommel functions. Among other results, we establish a modular transformation for an infinite series involving σ s ( n ) and modified Lommel functions. We also discuss certain obscure related work of N.S. Koshliakov. We define and discuss two new related classes of integral transforms, which we call Koshliakov transforms, because he first found elegant special cases of each.

In this paper we introduce a counterpart structure to the shamrocks studied in the paper A dual of Macmahon's theorem on plane partitions by M. Ciucu and C. Krattenthaler (2013) [5] , which, just like the latter, can be included at the center of a lattice hexagon on the triangular lattice so that the region obtained from the hexagon by removing it has its number of lozenge tilings given by a simple product formula. The new structure, called a fern, consists of an arbitrary number of equilateral triangles of alternating orientations lined up along a lattice line. The shamrock and the fern seem to be the only such connected structures with this property. It would be interesting to understand the reason for this.

In this paper, we prove that the algebra of an \'etale groupoid with totally disconnected unit space has a simple algebra over a field if and only if the groupoid is minimal and effective and the only function of the algebra that vanishes on every open subset is the null function. Previous work on the subject required the groupoid to be also topologically principal in the non-Hausdorff case, but we do not. Furthermore, we provide the first examples of minimal and effective but not topologically principal \'etale groupoids with totally disconnected unit spaces. Our examples come from self-similar group actions of uncountable groups. More generally, we show that the essential algebra of an \'etale groupoid (the quotient by the ideal of functions vanishing on every open set), is simple if and only if the groupoid is minimal and topologically free, generalizing to the algebraic setting a recent result for essential $C^*$-algebras. The main application of our work is to provide a description of the simple contracted inverse semigroup algebras, thereby answering a question of Munn from the seventies. Using Galois descent, we show that simplicity of \'etale groupoid and inverse semigroup algebras depends only on the characteristic of the field and can be lifted from positive characteristic to characteristic $0$. We also provide examples of inverse semigroups and \'etale groupoids with simple algebras outside of a prescribed set of prime characteristics., Comment: Revisions after a referee report. We define the essential algebra of an ample groupoid as the quotient of the Steinberg algebra by its ideal of singular functions and we prove that the essential algebra is simple if and only if the groupoid is minimal and topologically free. When the singular ideal vanishes, one recovers the simplicity result of the previous version of the paper

In this paper we formulate and prove a general theorem of stability of exactness properties under the pro-completion, which unifies several such theorems in the literature and gives many more. The theorem depends on a formal approach to exactness properties proposed in this paper, which is based on the theory of sketches. Our stability theorem has applications in proving theorems that establish links between exactness properties, as well as in establishing embedding (representation) theorems for classes of categories defined by exactness properties.

This paper focuses on the 3D incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with mixed partial dissipation and magnetic diffusion. Our main result assesses the global stability of perturbations near the steady solution given by a background magnetic field. The stability problem on the MHD equations with partial or no dissipation has attracted considerable interests recently and there are substantial developments. The new stability result presented here is among the very few stability conclusions currently available for ideal or partially dissipated MHD equations. As a special consequence of the techniques introduced in this paper, we obtain the small data global well-posedness for the 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations without vertical dissipation., Comment: Submitted to Advances in Mathematics on December 28, 2018

Let q be a prime, P ⩾ 1 and let N q ( P ) denote the number of rational primes p ⩽ P that split in the imaginary quadratic field Q ( − q ) . The first part of this paper establishes various unconditional and conditional (under existence of a Siegel zero) lower bounds for N q ( P ) in the range q 1 / 4 + e ⩽ P ⩽ q , for any fixed e > 0 . This improves upon what is implied by work of Pollack and Benli–Pollack. The second part of this paper is dedicated to proving an estimate for a bilinear form involving Weyl sums for modular square roots (equivalently Salie sums). Our estimate has a power saving in the so-called Polya–Vinogradov range, and our methods involve studying an additive energy coming from quadratic residues in F q . This bilinear form is inspired by the recent automorphic motivation: the second moment for twisted L-functions attached to Kohnen newforms has recently been computed by the first and fourth authors. So the third part of this paper links the above two directions together and outlines the arithmetic applications of this bilinear form. These include the equidistribution of quadratic roots of primes, products of primes, and relaxations of a conjecture of Erdős–Odlyzko–Sarkozy.

We consider models given by Hamiltonians of the form H ( I , φ , p , q , t ; e ) = h ( I ) + ∑ j = 1 n ± ( 1 2 p j 2 + V j ( q j ) ) + e Q ( I , φ , p , q , t ; e ) where I ∈ I ⊂ R d , φ ∈ T d , p , q ∈ R n , t ∈ T 1 . These are higher dimensional analogues, both in the center and hyperbolic directions, of the models studied in [28] , [29] , [43] and are usually called “a-priori unstable Hamiltonian systems”. All these models present the large gap problem. We show that, for 0 e ≪ 1 , under regularity and explicit non-degeneracy conditions on the model, there are orbits whose action variables I perform rather arbitrary excursions in a domain of size O ( 1 ) . This domain includes resonance lines and, hence, large gaps among d-dimensional KAM tori. This phenomenon is known as Arnold diffusion. The method of proof follows closely the strategy of [28] , [29] . The main new phenomenon that appears when the dimension d of the center directions is larger than one is the existence of multiple resonances in the space of actions I ∈ I ⊂ R d . We show that, since these multiple resonances happen in sets of codimension greater than one in the space of actions I, they can be contoured. This corresponds to the mechanism called diffusion across resonances in the Physics literature. The present paper, however, differs substantially from [28] , [29] . On the technical details of the proofs, we have taken advantage of the theory of the scattering map developed in [31] —notably the symplectic properties—which were not available when the above papers were written. We have analyzed the conditions imposed on the resonances in more detail. More precisely, we have found that there is a simple condition on the Melnikov potential which allows us to conclude that the resonances are crossed. In particular, this condition does not depend on the resonances. So that the results are new even when applied to the models in [28] , [29] .

In the first edition of Classification Theory, the second author characterized the stable theories in terms of saturation of ultrapowers. Prior to this theorem, stability had already been defined in terms of counting types, and the unstable formula theorem was known. A contribution of the ultrapower characterization was that it involved sorting out the global theory, and introducing nonforking, seminal for the development of stability theory. Prior to the present paper, there had been no such ultrapower characterization of an unstable class. In the present paper, we first establish the existence of so-called optimal ultrafilters on (suitable) Boolean algebras, which are to simple theories as Keisler's good ultrafilters [15] are to all (first-order) theories. Then, assuming a supercompact cardinal, we characterize the simple theories in terms of saturation of ultrapowers. To do so, we lay the groundwork for analyzing the global structure of simple theories, in ZFC, via complexity of certain amalgamation patterns. This brings into focus a fundamental complexity in simple unstable theories having no real analogue in stability.

Using results in a previous paper "Non-semistable exceptional objects in hereditary categories", we focus here on studying the topology of the space of Bridgeland stability conditions on $D^b(Rep_k(Q ))$, where $Q$ is the acyclic triangular quiver (the underlying graph is the extended Dynkin diagram $\widetilde{\mathbb A}_2$). In particular, we prove that this space is contractible (in the previous paper it was shown that it is connected)., Comment: 51 pages

In this paper, we prove that the quantum toroidal algebra of gl_n is isomorphic to the double shuffle algebra of Feigin and Odesskii for the cyclic quiver. The shuffle algebra viewpoint will allow us to prove a factorization formula for the universal R-matrix of the quantum toroidal algebra., The previous version of this paper was broken into two parts: the present version contains the representation-theoretic half (to which we added a number of additional results) and the geometric half has been moved to arXiv:1811.01011

If $M$ is a finite volume complete hyperbolic $3$-manifold, the quantity $\mathcal A_1(M)$ is defined as the infimum of the areas of closed minimal surfaces in $M$. In this paper we study the continuity property of the functional $\mathcal A_1$ with respect to the geometric convergence of hyperbolic manifolds. We prove that it is lower semi-continuous and even continuous if $\mathcal A_1(M)$ is realized by a minimal surface satisfying some hypotheses. Understanding the interaction between minimal surfaces and short geodesics in $M$ is the main theme of this paper, Comment: 35 pages, 4 figures

The purpose of this paper is to study the local zeta integrals of Friedberg-Jacquet at complex place and to establish similar results to the recent work [4] joint with C. Chen and D. Jiang. In this paper, we will (1) give a necessary and sufficient condition on an irreducible essentially tempered cohomological representation π of GL 2 n ( C ) with a non-zero Shalika model; (2) construct a new twisted linear period Λ s , χ and give a different expression of the linear model for π; (3) give a necessary and sufficient condition on the character χ such that there exists a uniform cohomological test vector v ∈ V π (which we construct explicitly) for Λ s , χ . As a consequence, we obtain the non-vanishing of local Friedberg-Jacquet integral at complex place. All of the above are essential preparations for attacking a global period relation problem in the forthcoming paper ( [11] ).

Markov numbers are integers that appear in the solution triples of the Diophantine equation, $x^2+y^2+z^2=3xyz$, called the Markov equation. A classical topic in number theory, these numbers are related to many areas of mathematics such as combinatorics, hyperbolic geometry, approximation theory and cluster algebras. There is a natural map from the rational numbers between zero and one to the Markov numbers. In this paper, we prove two conjectures seen in Martin Aigner's book, Markov's theorem and 100 years of the uniqueness conjecture, that determine an ordering on subsets of the Markov numbers based on their corresponding rational. The proof relies on a relationship between Markov numbers and continuant polynomials which originates in Frobenius' 1913 paper., 16 pages

Though much progress has been made with respect to the existence of extremals of the critical first order Trudinger-Moser inequalities in W 1 , n ( R n ) and higher order Adams inequalities on finite domain Ω ⊂ R n , whether there exists an extremal function for the critical higher order Adams inequalities on the entire space R n still remains open. The current paper represents the first attempt in this direction by considering the critical second order Adams inequality in the entire space R 4 . The classical blow-up procedure cannot apply to solving the existence of critical Adams type inequality because of the absence of the Polya-Szego type inequality. In this paper, we develop some new ideas and approaches based on a sharp Fourier rearrangement principle (see [31] ), sharp constants of the higher-order Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequalities and optimal poly-harmonic truncations to study the existence and nonexistence of the maximizers for the Adams inequalities in R 4 of the form S ( α ) = sup ‖ u ‖ H 2 = 1 ⁡ ∫ R 4 ( exp ⁡ ( 32 π 2 | u | 2 ) − 1 − α | u | 2 ) d x , where α ∈ ( − ∞ , 32 π 2 ) . We establish the existence of the threshold α ⁎ , where α ⁎ ≥ ( 32 π 2 ) 2 B 2 2 and B 2 ≥ 1 24 π 2 , such that S ( α ) is attained if 32 π 2 − α α ⁎ , and is not attained if 32 π 2 − α > α ⁎ . This phenomenon has not been observed before even in the case of first order Trudinger-Moser inequality. Therefore, we also establish the existence and non-existence of an extremal function for the Trudinger-Moser inequality on R 2 . Furthermore, the symmetry of the extremal functions can also be deduced through the Fourier rearrangement principle.

The recent work of George Andrews and Mircea Merca on the truncated version of Euler's pentagonal number theorem has opened up a new study on truncated theta series. Since then several papers on the topic have followed. The main purpose of this paper is to generalize the study to Hecke-Rogers type double series, which are associated with some interesting partition functions. Our proofs heavily rely on a formula from the work of Zhi-Guo Liu on the q-partial differential equations and q-series.

Motivated by the works of Liu, we provide a unified approach to find Appell-Lerch series and Hecke-type series representations for mock theta functions. We establish a number of parameterized identities with two parameters $a$ and $b$. Specializing the choices of $(a,b)$, we not only give various known and new representations for the mock theta functions of orders 2, 3, 5, 6 and 8, but also present many other interesting identities. We find that some mock theta functions of different orders are related to each other, in the sense that their representations can be deduced from the same $(a,b)$-parameterized identity. Furthermore, we introduce the concept of false Appell-Lerch series. We then express the Appell-Lerch series, false Appell-Lerch series and Hecke-type series in this paper using the building blocks $m(x,q,z)$ and $f_{a,b,c}(x,y,q)$ introduced by Hickerson and Mortenson, as well as $\overline{m}(x,q,z)$ and $\overline{f}_{a,b,c}(x,y,q)$ introduced in this paper. We also show the equivalences of our new representations for several mock theta functions and the known representations., Comment: 87 pages, comments are welcome. We have extended the previous version

Let $X \subseteq \mathbb{P}^r$ be a non-degenerate smooth projective variety of dimension $n$, codimension $e$, and degree $d$ defined over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. In this paper, we first show that $\text{reg} (\mathcal{O}_X) \leq d-e$, and classify the extremal and the next to extremal cases. Our result reduces the Eisenbud-Goto regularity conjecture for the smooth case to the problem finding a Castelnuovo-type bound for normality. It is worth noting that McCullough-Peeva recently constructed counterexamples to the regularity conjecture by showing that $\text{reg} (\mathcal{O}_X)$ is not even bounded above by any polynomial function of $d$ when $X$ is not smooth. For a normality bound in the smooth case, we establish that $\text{reg}(X) \leq n(d-2)+1$, which improves previous results obtained by Mumford, Bertram-Ein-Lazarsfeld, and Noma. Finally, by generalizing Mumford's method on double point divisors, we prove that $\text{reg}(X) \leq d-1+m$, where $m$ is an invariant arising from double point divisors associated to outer general projections. Using double point divisors associated to inner projection, we also obtain a slightly better bound for $\text{reg}(X)$ under suitable assumptions., Comment: 23 pages. This paper has been largely rewritten after McCullough-Peeva's counterexamples to the Eisenbud-Goto regularity conjecture, which appeared in J. Amer. Math. Soc. in 2018. We also added new results on the regularity of smooth projective varieties of arbitrary dimension

In this paper, given an integral domain U, we investigate the main properties of a relation ← m o d which is based on the interrelation between subdomains of U and finitely generated unitary submodules of U. We shall characterize it in terms of a second relation ≺ ⋄ between n-tuples ( u 1 , … , u n ) of elements of U and subdomains D of U defined by the vanishing in ( u 1 , … , u n ) of some polynomial p ( Z 1 , … , Z n ) belonging to a specific subset of the polynomial ring in several variables D [ Z 1 , … , Z n ] . Such an equivalence shall be used in order to introduce three specific collections of subdomains X U , B U and P U , whose algebraic properties present a close connection with geometrical and combinatorial properties induced by ← m o d . On the other hand, the characterization of the subdomains of X U leads to the more general problem of finding a map Ψ associating with a subdomain D of U a collection Ψ ( D ) of subdomains of K U such that the intersection of some or of any member of Ψ ( D ) gives D. In this perspective, in the present paper we shall study two further collections of subdomains of U, denoted respectively by E U and L U , whose main properties are related to those of the families P U and B U . Finally, our investigation of all the aforementioned subdomain families shall be also related to the study of pairs ( e , ξ ) , where e ∈ U ∖ { 0 } and ξ is an idempotent ring endomorphism of U whose kernel agrees with the ideal of U generated by e. We shall exhibit several results concerning the membership of ξ ( U ) and of ξ ( U ) [ e ] to the above subdomain families.

In this paper we study the moduli spaces Simp n m of degree n + 1 morphisms A K 1 → A K 1 with “ramification length Simp n m is a Zariski open subset of the space of degree n + 1 polynomials over K up to A u t ( A K 1 ) . It is, in a way, orthogonal to the many papers about polynomials with prescribed zeroes- here we are prescribing, instead, the ramification data. Exploiting the topological properties of the poset that encodes the ramification behavior, we use a sheaf-theoretic argument to compute H ⁎ ( Simp n m ( C ) ; Q ) as well as the etale cohomology H e ´ t ⁎ ( Simp n m / K ; Q l ) for c h a r K = 0 or c h a r K > n + 1 , when n and m are such that n ≥ 3 m . As a by-product we obtain that H ⁎ ( Simp n m ( C ) ; Q ) is independent of n, thus implying rational cohomological stability. When c h a r K > 0 our methods compute H e ´ t ⁎ ( Simp n m ; Q l ) provided c h a r K > n + 1 and show that the etale cohomology groups in positive characteristics do not stabilize.

In this paper we show how \emph{the metric theory of tensor products} developed by Grothendieck perfectly fits in the study of channel capacities, a central topic in \emph{Shannon's information theory}. Furthermore, in the last years Shannon's theory has been generalized to the quantum setting to let the \emph{quantum information theory} step in. In this paper we consider the classical capacity of quantum channels with restricted assisted entanglement. In particular these capacities include the classical capacity and the unlimited entanglement-assisted classical capacity of a quantum channel. To deal with the quantum case we will use the noncommutative version of $p$-summing maps. More precisely, we prove that the (product state) classical capacity of a quantum channel with restricted assisted entanglement can be expressed as the derivative of a completely $p$-summing norm., Comment: V2: Some proofs have been explained in more detail. New references added. Same results

We show that there is the same number of ( n , l ) -alternating sign trapezoids as there is of column strict shifted plane partitions of class l − 1 with at most n parts in the top row, thereby proving a result that was conjectured independently by Behrend and Aigner. The first objects generalize alternating sign triangles, which have recently been introduced by Ayyer, Behrend and the author who showed that they are counted by the same formula as alternating sign matrices. Column strict shifted plane partitions of a fixed class were introduced in a slightly different form by Andrews, and they essentially generalize descending plane partitions. They also correspond to cyclically symmetric lozenge tilings of a hexagon with a triangular hole in the center. In addition, we also provide three statistics on each class of objects and show that their joint distribution is the same. We prove our result by employing a constant term approach that is based on the author's operator formula for monotone triangles. This paper complements a forthcoming paper of Behrend and the author, where the six-vertex model approach is used to show equinumeracy as well as generalizations involving statistics that are different from those considered in the present paper.

In this paper we establish a new connection between central sets and the strong coincidence conjecture for fixed points of irreducible primitive substitutions of Pisot type. Central sets, first introduced by Furstenberg using notions from topological dynamics, constitute a special class of subsets of N possessing strong combinatorial properties: Each central set contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions, and solutions to all partition regular systems of homogeneous linear equations. We give an equivalent reformulation of the strong coincidence condition in terms of central sets and minimal idempotent ultrafilters in the Stone–Cech compactification β N . This provides a new arithmetical approach to an outstanding conjecture in tiling theory, the Pisot substitution conjecture. The results in this paper rely on interactions between different areas of mathematics, some of which had not previously been directly linked: They include the general theory of combinatorics on words, abstract numeration systems, tilings, topological dynamics and the algebraic/topological properties of Stone–Cech compactification of N .

An m-ballot path of size n is a path on the square grid consisting of north and east unit steps, starting at (0,0), ending at (mn,n), and never going below the line {x=my}. The set of these paths can be equipped with a lattice structure, called the m-Tamari lattice and denoted by T_n^{m}, which generalizes the usual Tamari lattice T_n obtained when m=1. This lattice was introduced by F. Bergeron in connection with the study of diagonal coinvariant spaces in three sets of n variables. The representation of the symmetric group S_n on these spaces is conjectured to be closely related to the natural representation of S_n on (labelled) intervals of the m-Tamari lattice, which we study in this paper. An interval [P,Q] of T_n^{m} is labelled if the north steps of Q are labelled from 1 to n in such a way the labels increase along any sequence of consecutive north steps. The symmetric group S_n acts on labelled intervals of T_n^{m} by permutation of the labels. We prove an explicit formula, conjectured by F. Bergeron and the third author, for the character of the associated representation of S_n. In particular, the dimension of the representation, that is, the number of labelled m-Tamari intervals of size n, is found to be (m+1)^n(mn+1)^{n-2}. These results are new, even when m=1. The form of these numbers suggests a connection with parking functions, but our proof is not bijective. The starting point is a recursive description of m-Tamari intervals. It yields an equation for an associated generating function, which is a refined version of the Frobenius series of the representation. This equation involves two additional variables x and y, a derivative with respect to y and iterated divided differences with respect to x. The hardest part of the proof consists in solving it, and we develop original techniques to do so, partly inspired by previous work on polynomial equations with "catalytic" variables., Comment: 29 pages --- This paper subsumes the research report arXiv:1109.2398, which will not be submitted to any journal

The classical n -logarithm is a multivalued analytic function defined inductively: Li n ( z ) : = ∫ 0 z Li n − 1 ( t ) d log t , Li 1 ( z ) = − log ( 1 − z ) . In this paper we give a simple explicit construction of the Grassmannian n -logarithm, which is a multivalued analytic function on the quotient of the Grassmannian of n -dimensional subspaces in C 2 n in generic position to the coordinate hyperplanes by the natural action of the torus ( C ∗ ) 2 n . The classical n -logarithm appears at a certain one dimensional boundary stratum. We study Tate iterated integrals, which are homotopy invariant integrals of 1-forms d log f i where f i are rational functions. We give a simple explicit formula for the Tate iterated integral which describes the Grassmannian n -logarithm. Another example is the Tate iterated integrals for the multiple polylogarithms on the moduli spaces M 0 , n , calculated in Section 4.4 of Goncharov (2005) [13] using the combinatorics of plane trivalent trees decorated by the arguments of the multiple polylogarithms. Variations of mixed Hodge–Tate structures on X are described by a Hopf algebra H • ( X ) . We upgrade Tate iterated integrals on a (rational) complex variety X to elements of H • ( X ) . The coproducts of these elements are very interesting invariants of the iterated integrals. In general their calculation is a non-trivial problem. We show however, that working modulo the ideal of H • ( X ) generated by constant variations, there is a simple way to calculate the coproduct. It is a pleasure to dedicate this paper to Andrey Suslin, whose works Suslin (1984) [21] and Suslin (1991) [22] played an essential role in the development of the story.

The main purpose of this paper is to study the generalized Hilbert operator {equation*} \mathcal{H}_g(f)(z)=\int_0^1f(t)g'(tz)\,dt {equation*} acting on the weighted Bergman space $A^p_\om$, where the weight function $\om$ belongs to the class $\R$ of regular radial weights and satisfies the Muckenhoupt type condition {equation}\label{Mpconditionaabstract} \sup_{0\le r, Comment: This paper has been accepted for publication in Advances in Mathematics

Generalizing Atiyah extensions, we introduce and study differential abelian tensor categories over differential rings. By a differential ring, we mean a commutative ring with an action of a Lie ring by derivations. In particular, these derivations act on a differential category. A differential Tannakian theory is developed. The main application is to the Galois theory of linear differential equations with parameters. Namely, we show the existence of a parameterized Picard-Vessiot extension and, therefore, the Galois correspondence for many differential fields with, possibly, non-differentially closed fields of constants, that is, fields of functions of parameters. Other applications include a substantially simplified test for a system of linear differential equations with parameters to be isomonodromic, which will appear in a separate paper. This application is based on differential categories developed in the present paper, and not just differential algebraic groups and their representations., Comment: 90 pages, minor corrections

One of the algebraic structures that has emerged recently in the study of the operator product expansions of chiral fields in conformal field theory is that of a Lie conformal algebra. A Lie pseudoalgebra is a generalization of the notion of a Lie conformal algebra for which C[∂] is replaced by the universal enveloping algebra H of a finite-dimensional Lie algebra. The finite (i.e.,finitely generated over H) simple Lie pseudoalgebras were classified in our previous work (Bakalov etal., 2001) [2] . The present paper is the second in our series on representation theory of simple Lie pseudoalgebras. In the first paper we showed that any finite irreducible module over a simple Lie pseudoalgebra of type W or S is either an irreducible tensor module or the kernel of the differential in a member of the pseudo de Rham complex. In the present paper we establish a similar result for Lie pseudoalgebras of type K, with the pseudo de Rham complex replaced by a certain reduction called the contact pseudo de Rham complex. This reduction in the context of contact geometry was discovered by Rumin., National Science Foundation (U.S.)

We prove a version of the Deligne conjecture for $n$-fold monoidal abelian categories $A$ over a field $k$ of characteristic 0, assuming some compatibility and non-degeneracy conditions for $A$. The output of our construction is a weak Leinster $(n,1)$-algebra over $k$, a relaxed version of the concept of Leinster $n$-algebra in $Alg(k)$. The difference between the Leinster original definition and our relaxed one is apparent when $n>1$, for $n=1$ both concepts coincide. We believe that there exists a functor from weak Leinster $(n,1)$-algebras over $k$ to $C(E_{n+1},k)$-algebras, well-defined when $k=\mathbb{Q}$, and preserving weak equivalences. For the case $n=1$ such a functor is constructed in [Sh4] by elementary simplicial methods, providing (together with this paper) a complete solution for 1-monoidal abelian categories. Our approach to Deligne conjecture is divided into two parts. The first part, completed in the present paper, provides a construction of a weak Leinster $(n,1)$-algebra over $k$, out of an $n$-fold monoidal $k$-linear abelian category (provided the compatibility and non-degeneracy condition are fulfilled). The second part (still open for $n>1$) is a passage from weak Leinster $(n,1)$-algebras to $C(E_{n+1},k)$-algebras. As an application, we prove that the Gerstenhaber-Schack complex of a Hopf algebra over a field $k$ of characteristic 0 admits a structure of a weak Leinster (2,1)-algebra over $k$ extending the Yoneda structure. It relies on our earlier construction [Sh1] of a 2-fold monoidal structure on the abelian category of tetramodules over a bialgebra., v6: 49 pages, some inaccuracies in v5 are corrected

In the first part of this paper, we establish the global existence of solutions of the liquid crystal (gradient) flow for the well-known Oseen–Frank model. The liquid crystal flow is a prototype of equations from the Ericksen–Leslie system in the hydrodynamic theory and generalizes the heat flow for harmonic maps into the 2-sphere. The Ericksen–Leslie system is a system of the Navier–Stokes equations coupled with the liquid crystal flow. In the second part of this paper, we also prove the global existence of solutions of the Ericksen–Leslie system for a general Oseen–Frank model in R 2 .

This is the first of a series of papers where we develop a theory of total positivity for loop groups. In this paper, we completely describe the totally nonnegative part of the polynomial loop group GL_n(\R[t,t^{-1}]), and for the formal loop group GL_n(\R((t))) we describe the totally nonnegative points which are not totally positive. Furthermore, we make the connection with networks on the cylinder. Our approach involves the introduction of distinguished generators, called whirls and curls, and we describe the commutation relations amongst them. These matrices play the same role as the poles and zeroes of the Edrei-Thoma theorem classifying totally positive functions (corresponding to our case n=1). We give a solution to the ``factorization problem'' using limits of ratios of minors. This is in a similar spirit to the Berenstein-Fomin-Zelevinsky Chamber Ansatz where ratios of minors are used. A birational symmetric group action arising in the commutation relation of curls appeared previously in Noumi-Yamada's study of discrete Painlev\'{e} dynamical systems and Berenstein-Kazhdan's study of geometric crystals., Comment: 49 pages, 7 figures

Let N be the set of all nonnegative integers, A ⊆ N be a finite set, and 2A be the set of all numbers of the form a + b for all a and b in A. In [G.A. Freiman, Foundations of a Structural Theory of Set Addition, Transl. Math. Monogr., vol. 37, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1973 (translated from the Russian)] the arithmetic structure of A was optimally characterized when | 2 A | ⩽ 3 | A | − 3 . 2 In [G.A. Freiman, Foundations of a Structural Theory of Set Addition, Transl. Math. Monogr., vol. 37, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1973 (translated from the Russian)] the structure of A was also characterized without proof when | 2 A | = 3 | A | − 2 . Since then the efforts have been made to generalize these results, see [V. Lev, P.Y. Smeliansky, On addition of two distinct sets of integers, Acta Arith. 70 (1) (1995) 85–91; V. Lev, On the structure of sets of integers with small doubling property, unpublished manuscripts, 1995; Y.O. Hamidoune, A. Plagne, A generalization of Freiman's 3 k − 3 theorem, Acta Arith. 103 (2) (2002) 147–156] for example. However, no optimal characterization of the structure of A has been obtained without imposing extra conditions, until now, when | 2 A | > 3 | A | − 2 . In this paper we optimally characterize, with the help of nonstandard analysis, the arithmetic structure of A when | 2 A | = 3 | A | − 3 + b , where b is positive but not too large. Precisely, we prove that there is a real number ϵ > 0 and there is K ∈ N such that if | A | > K and | 2 A | = 3 | A | − 3 + b for 0 ⩽ b ⩽ ϵ | A | , then A is either a subset of an arithmetic progression of length at most 2 | A | − 1 + 2 b or a subset of a bi-arithmetic progression 3 of length at most | A | + b . An application of this result to the inverse problem for upper asymptotic density is presented near the end of the paper. In the application we improve the most important part of the main theorem in [R. Jin, Solution to the inverse problem for upper asymptotic density, J. Reine Angew. Math. (Crelle's J.) 595 (2006) 121–166].

The sub-elliptic obstacle problem arises in various branches of the applied sciences, e.g., in mechanical engineering and robotics, mathematical finance, image reconstruction and neurophysiology. In the recent paper [Donatella Danielli, Nicola Garofalo, Sandro Salsa, Variational inequalities with lack of ellipticity. I. Optimal interior regularity and non-degeneracy of the free boundary, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 52 (2) (2003) 361?398; MR1976081 (2004c:35424)] it was proved that weak solutions to the sub-elliptic obstacle problem in a Carnot group belong to the Folland?Stein (optimal) Lipschitz class (the analogue of the well-known interior local regularity for the classical obstacle problem). However, the regularity of the free boundary remained a challenging open problem. In this paper we prove that, in Carnot groups of step r=2, the free boundary is (Euclidean) C1,a near points satisfying a certain thickness condition. This constitutes the sub-elliptic counterpart of a celebrated result due to Caffarelli [Luis A. Caffarelli, The regularity of free boundaries in higher dimensions, Acta Math. 139 (3?4) (1977) 155?184; MR0454350 (56 #12601)].