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In a recent paper Robinson has obtained an explicit formula for the expression of an invariant matrix of an invariant matrix as a direct sum of invariant matrices. The object of the present note is to show that this formula may be deduced from known properties of Schur functions, with the aid of a result which the author has proved elsewhere.

This paper classifies Poisson structures with the reduced simple normal crossing divisor on a product of Fano varieties of Picard number 1. The characterization of even-dimensional projective spaces from the viewpoint of Poisson structures is given by Lima and Pereira. In this paper, we generalize the characterization of projective spaces to any dimension.

This paper investigates regularity in Lorentz spaces for weak solutions of a class of divergence form quasi-linear parabolic equations with singular divergence-free drifts. In this class of equations, the principal terms are vector field functions that are measurable in ($x,t$)-variable, and nonlinearly dependent on both unknown solutions and their gradients. Interior, local boundary, and global regularity estimates in Lorentz spaces for gradients of weak solutions are established assuming that the solutions are in BMO space, the John–Nirenberg space. The results are even new when the drifts are identically zero, because they do not require solutions to be bounded as in the available literature. In the linear setting, the results of the paper also improve the standard Calderón–Zygmund regularity theory to the critical borderline case. When the principal term in the equation does not depend on the solution as its variable, our results recover and sharpen known available results. The approach is based on the perturbation technique introduced by Caffarelli and Peral together with a “double-scaling parameter” technique and the maximal function free approach introduced by Acerbi and Mingione.

Alfred Schild has established conditions that Lorentz transformationsmap world-vectors (ct, x, y, z) with integer coordinates onto vectors of the same kind. These transformations are called integral Lorentz transformations.This paper contains supplements to our earlier work with a new focus on group theory. To relate the results to the familiar matrix group nomenclature, we associate Lorentz transformations with matrices in SL(z, ℂ). We consider the lattice of subgroups of the group originated in Schild’s paper and obtain generating sets for the full group and its subgroups.

Ostrowski's theorem implies that $\log(x),\log(x+1),\ldots$ are algebraically independent over $\mathbb{C}(x)$. More generally, for a linear differential or difference equation, it is an important problem to find all algebraic dependencies among a non-zero solution $y$ and particular transformations of $y$, such as derivatives of $y$ with respect to parameters, shifts of the arguments, rescaling, etc. In the present paper, we develop a theory of Tannakian categories with semigroup actions, which will be used to attack such questions in full generality. Deligne studied actions of braid groups on categories and obtained a finite collection of axioms that characterizes such actions to apply it to various geometric constructions. In this paper, we find a finite set of axioms that characterizes actions of semigroups that are finite free products of semigroups of the form $\mathbb{N}^n\times \mathbb{Z}/n_1\mathbb{Z}\times\ldots\times\mathbb{Z}/n_r\mathbb{Z}$ on Tannakian categories. This is the class of semigroups that appear in many applications., Comment: minor revision

The closest infinite dimensional relatives of compact Lie algebras are Hilbert-Lie algebras, i.e. real Hilbert spaces with a Lie algebra structure for which the scalar product is invariant. Locally affine Lie algebras (LALAs) correspond to double extensions of (twisted) loop algebras over simple Hilbert-Lie algebras $\mathfrak{k}$, also called affinisations of $\mathfrak{k}$. They possess a root space decomposition whose corresponding root system is a locally affine root system of one of the $7$ families $A_J^{(1)}$, $B_J^{(1)}$, $C_J^{(1)}$, $D_J^{(1)}$, $B_J^{(2)}$, $C_J^{(2)}$ and $BC_J^{(2)}$ for some infinite set $J$. To each of these types corresponds a "minimal" affinisation of some simple Hilbert-Lie algebra $\mathfrak{k}$, which we call standard. In this paper, we give for each affinisation $\mathfrak{g}$ of a simple Hilbert-Lie algebra $\mathfrak{k}$ an explicit isomorphism from $\mathfrak{g}$ to one of the standard affinisations of $\mathfrak{k}$. The existence of such an isomorphism could also be derived from the classification of locally affine root systems, but for representation theoretic purposes it is crucial to obtain it explicitely as a deformation between two twists which is compatible with the root decompositions. We illustrate this by applying our isomorphism theorem to the study of positive energy highest weight representations of $\mathfrak{g}$. In subsequent work, the present paper will be used to obtain a complete classification of the positive energy highest weight representations of affinisations of $\mathfrak{k}$., Comment: 22 pages; Minor corrections

Let X(n), for n ∊ ℕ, be the set of all subsets of a metric space (X, d) of cardinality at most n. The set X(n) equipped with the Hausdorff metric is called a finite subset space. In this paper we are concerned with the existence of Lipschitz retractions r: X(n)→ X(n − 1) for n ≥ 2. It is known that such retractions do not exist if X is the one-dimensional sphere. On the other hand, Kovalev has recently established their existence if X is a Hilbert space, and he also posed a question as to whether or not such Lipschitz retractions exist when X is a Hadamard space. In this paper we answer the question in the positive.

Let G 1, G 2 , …, Gt be arbitrary graphs. The Ramsey number R(G 1 , G 2, …, Gt ) is the smallest positive integer n such that if the edges of the complete graph Kn are partitioned into t disjoint color classes giving t graphs H 1, H 2, …, H t, then at least one Hi has a subgraph isomorphic to Gi. In this paper, we provide the exact value of the R(Tn, Wm) for odd m, n ≥ m−1, where T n is either a caterpillar, a tree with diameter at most four, or a tree with a vertex adjacent to at least leaves, and W n is the wheel on n + 1 vertices. Also, we determine R(C n, W m) for even integers n and m, n ≥ m + 500, which improves a result of Shi and confirms a conjecture of Surahmat et al. In addition, the multicolor Ramsey number of trees versus an odd wheel is discussed in this paper.

Let Q be a finite acyclic quiver, let J be an ideal of kQ generated by all arrows in Q, and let A be a finite-dimensional k-algebra. The category of all finite-dimensional representations of (Q, J2) over A is denoted by rep(Q, J2, A). In this paper, we introduce the category exa(Q, J2, A), which is a subcategory of rep (Q, J2, A) of all exact representations. The main result of this paper explicitly describes the Gorenstein-projective representations in rep(Q, J2, A), via the exact representations plus an extra condition. As a corollary, A is a self-injective algebra if and only if the Gorensteinprojective representations are exactly the exact representations of (Q, J2) over A.

The normalized eigenvalues Ʌi(M, g) of the Laplace–Beltrami operator can be considered as functionals on the space of all Riemannian metrics g on a fixed surface M. In recent papers several explicit examples of extremal metrics were provided. These metrics are induced by minimal immersions of surfaces in 𝕊3 or 𝕊4. In this paper a family of extremal metrics induced by minimal immersions in 𝕊5 is investigated.

In this paper, we introduce weighted Carleson measure spaces associated with different homogeneities and prove that these spaces are the dual spaces of weighted Hardy spaces studied in a forthcoming paper. As an application, we establish the boundedness of composition of two Calderón–Zygmund operators with different homogeneities on the weighted Carleson measure spaces; this, in particular, provides the weighted endpoint estimates for the operators studied by Phong–Stein.

In a paper from 1976, Berg, Christensen, and Ressel prove that the closure of the cone of sums of squares in the polynomial ring in the topology induced by the ℓ1-norm is equal to Pos([–1; 1]n), the cone consisting of all polynomials that are non-negative on the hypercube [–1,1]n. The result is deduced as a corollary of a general result, established in the same paper, which is valid for any commutative semigroup. In later work, Berg and Maserick and Berg, Christensen, and Ressel establish an even more general result, for a commutative semigroup with involution, for the closure of the cone of sums of squares of symmetric elements in the weighted -seminorm topology associated with an absolute value. In this paper we give a new proof of these results, which is based on Jacobi’s representation theoremfrom2001. At the same time, we use Jacobi’s representation theorem to extend these results from sums of squares to sums of 2d-powers, proving, in particular, that for any integer d ≥ 1, the closure of the cone of sums of 2d-powers in the topology induced by the -norm is equal to Pos([–1; 1]n).

In this paper we first generalize to the case of partial flags a result proved both by Spaltenstein and by Steinberg that relates the relative position of two complete flags and the irreducible components of the flag variety in which they lie, using the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence. Then we use this result to generalize the mirabolic Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence defined by Travkin, to the case of two partial flags and a line., Comment: 27 pages, slightly rewritten to combine two papers into one and clarify some sections

In this paper, we give several pictorial fractal representations of the ample or Kahler cone for surfaces in a certain class of K3 surfaces. The class includes surfaces described by smooth (2, 2, 2) forms in P×P×P defined over a sufficiently large number field K, which have a line parallel to one of the axes, and have Picard number four. We relate the Hausdorff dimension of this fractal to the asymptotic growth of orbits of curves under the action of the surface’s group of automorphisms. We experimentally estimate the Hausdorff dimension of the fractal to be 1.296± .010. The ample cone or Kahler cone for a surface is a significant and often complicated geometric object. Though much is known about the ample cone, particularly for K3 surfaces, only a few non-trivial examples have been explicitly described. These include the ample cones with a finite number of sides (see [N1] for n = 3, and [N2, N3] for n ≥ 5; the case n = 4 is attributed to Vinberg in an unpublished work [N1]); the ample cone for a class of K3 surfaces with n = 3 [Ba3]; and the ample cones for several Kummer surfaces, which are K3 surfaces with n = 20 [V, K-K, Kon]. Though the complexity of the problem generically increases with n, the problem for K3 surfaces with maximal Picard number (n = 20) appear to be tractable because of the small size of the transcendental lattice. In this paper, we introduce accurate pictorial representations of the ample cone and the associated fractal for surfaces within a class of K3 surfaces with Picard number n = 4 (see Figures 1, 3, 4, and 5). As far as the author is aware, the associated fractal has not been studied in any great depth for any ample cone for which the fractal has a non-integer dimension, except the one in [Ba3]. The fractal in that case is Cantor-like (it is a subset of S) and rigorous bounds on its Hausdorff dimension are calculated in [Ba1]. The Hausdorff dimension of the fractal of this paper is estimated to be 1.296± .010. Our second main result is to relate the Hausdorff dimension of the fractal to the growth of the height of curves for an orbit of curves on a surface in this class. Precisely, let V be a surface within our class of K3 surfaces and let A = Aut(V/K) be its group of automorphisms over a sufficiently large number field K. Let D be an ample divisor on V and let C be a curve on V . Define NA(C)(t,D) = #{C′ ∈ A(C) : C′ ·D < t}. Here we have abused notation by letting C′ also represent the divisor class that contains C′. The intersection C′ ·D should be thought of as a logarithmic height of 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 14J28, 14J50, 11D41, 11D72, 11H56, 11G10, 37F35, 37D05.

Let f be a normalized Hecke eigenform with rational integer Fourier coefficients. It is an interesting question to know how often an integer n has a factor common with the n-th Fourier coefficient of f. It has been shown in previous papers that this happens very often. In this paper, we give an asymptotic formula for the number of integers n for which (n, a(n)) = 1, where a(n) is the n-th Fourier coefficient of a normalized Hecke eigenform f of weight 2 with rational integer Fourier coefficients and having complex multiplication.

In a previous paper the authors showed that, under some technical conditions, the local Galois representations attached to the members of a non-CM family of ordinary cusp forms are indecomposable for all except possibly finitely many members of the family. In this paper we use deformation theoretic methods to give examples of non-CM families for which every classical member of weight at least two has a locally indecomposable Galois representation. School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005, India. e-mail: eghate@math.tifr.res.in Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC e-mail: vatsal@math.ubc.ca Received by the editors August 5, 2008. Published electronically December 29, 2010. AMS subject classification: 11F80. 1

In this paper we give a sufficient condition for a complete, simply connected, and strict nearly Kähler manifold of dimension 6 to be a homogeneous nearly Kähler manifold. This result was announced in a previous paper by the first author.

This paper is concerned with the residual spectrum of the hermitian quaternionic classical groups G′n and H′n defined as algebraic groups for a quaternion algebra over an algebraic number field. Groups G′n and H′n are not quasi-split. They are inner forms of the split groups SO4n and Sp4n. Hence, the parts of the residual spectrum of G′n and H′n obtained in this paper are compared to the corresponding parts for the split groups SO4n and Sp4n.

In his seminal papers, Koblitz proposed curves for cryptographic use. For fast operations on these curves, these papers also initiated a study of the radix-τ expansion of integers in the number fields and . The (window) nonadjacent form of τ -expansion of integers in was first investigated by Solinas. For integers in , the nonadjacent form and the window nonadjacent form of the τ -expansion were studied. These are used for efficient point multiplications on Koblitz curves. In this paper, we complete the picture by producing the (window) nonadjacent radix-τ expansions for integers in all Euclidean imaginary quadratic number fields.

This paper is a continuation of three recent articles concerning the structure of hyperinvariant subspace lattices of operators on a (separable, infinite dimensional) Hilbert space . We show herein, in particular, that there exists a “universal” fixed block-diagonal operator B on such that if ε > 0 is given and T is an arbitrary nonalgebraic operator on , then there exists a compact operator K of norm less than ε such that (i) Hlat(T) is isomorphic as a complete lattice to Hlat(B + K) and (ii) B + K is a quasidiagonal, C00, (BCP)-operator with spectrum and left essential spectrum the unit disc. In the last four sections of the paper, we investigate the possible structures of the hyperlattice of an arbitrary algebraic operator. Contrary to existing conjectures, Hlat(T) need not be generated by the ranges and kernels of the powers of T in the nilpotent case. In fact, this lattice can be infinite.

The homotopy groups of a finite partially ordered set (poset) can be described entirely in the context of posets, as shown in a paper by B. Larose and C. Tardif. In this paper we describe the relative version of such a homotopy theory, for pairs (X, A) where X is a poset and A is a subposet of X. We also prove some theorems on the relevant version of the notion of weak homotopy equivalences for maps of pairs of such objects. We work in the category of reflexive binary relational structures which contains the posets as in the work of Larose and Tardif.

We study the cardinal invariants of analytic P-ideals, concentrating on the ideal Zof asymptotic density zero. Among other results we prove min{b, cov (N)} ≤ cov∗(Z) ≤ max{b, non(N)}. Introduction Analytic P-ideals and their quotients have been extensively studied in recent years. The first step to better understanding the structure of the quotient forcings P(ω)/I is to understand the structure of the ideal itself. Significant progress in understanding the way in which the structure of an ideal affects the structure of its quotient has been done by I. Farah [Fa1, Fa2, Fa3, Fa4, Fa5]. Typically (but not always) the quotients P(ω)/I, where I is an analytic P-ideal, are proper and weakly distributive. For some special ideals these quotients have been identified: P(ω)/Z is as forcing notion equivalent to P(ω)/fin ∗ B(2) [Fa5], and P(ω)/ tr(N) [HZ1] is as forcing notion equivalent to the iteration of B(ω) followed by an א0-distributive forcing (see the definitions below). A secondary motivation comes from the problem of which ideals can be destroyed by a weakly distributive forcing. Even for the class of analytic P-ideals only partial results are known (see Section 3). In this note we contribute to this line of research by investigating cardinal invariants of analytic P-ideals, comparing them to other, standard, cardinal invariants of the continuum. In the first section we introduce cardinal invariants of ideals on ω, along the lines of the cardinal invariants contained in the Cichon’s diagram. We also recall the definitions of standard orderings on ideals on ω (Rudin–Keisler, Tukey, Katětov) and their impact on the cardinal invariants of the ideals. Basic theory of analytic P-ideals on ω and examples are also reviewed here. Known results on additivity and cofinality of analytic P-ideals are summarized in the second section. The main part of the paper is contained in the third section. There we study the order of Katětov restricted to analytic P-ideals, giving a detailed description of how the summable and density ideals are placed in the Katětov order. For the rest of the section, we focus on the ideal of asymptotic density zero and compare its covering number to standard cardinal invariants of the continuum. We prove that min{b, cov(N)} ≤ cov(Z) ≤ max{b, non(N)} and mention some consistency results. We introduce the notion of a totally bounded analytic P-ideal and show that Received by the editors October 5, 2004; revised September 19, 2005. The authors gratefully acknowledge support from PAPIIT grant IN106705. The second author’s research was also partially supported by GA CR grant 201-03-0933 and CONACYT grant 40057-F AMS subject classification: 03E17, 03E40. c ©Canadian Mathematical Society 2007. 575 576 F. Hernandez-Hernandez and M. Hrusak all analytic P-ideals which are not totally bounded can be destroyed by a weakly distributive forcing. In the last section we study the separating number of analytic P-ideals, an invariant closely related to the Laver and Mathias–Prikry type forcings associated with the ideal. Two major problems remain open here: (1) Is add(I) = add(N) for every tall analytic P-ideal I? (2) Can every analytic P-ideal be destroyed by a weakly distributive forcing? What about Z? We assume knowledge of the method of forcing as well as the basic theory of cardinal invariants of the continuum as covered in [BJ]. Our notation is standard and follows [Ku, Je, BJ]. In particular, c0, l1 and l∞ denote the standard Banach spaces of sequences of reals. For A,B infinite subsets of ω, we say that A is almost contained in B (A ⊆ B) if A \ B is finite. The symbol A = Bmeans that A ⊆ B and B ⊆ A. For functions f , g ∈ ω we write f ≤ g to mean that there is some m ∈ ω such that f (n) ≤ g(n) for all n ≥ m. The bounding number b is the least cardinal of an ≤-unbounded family of functions in ω . The dominating number d is the least cardinal of a ≤-cofinal family of functions in ω . Recall that a family of subsets of ω has the strong finite intersection property if any finite subfamily has infinite intersection. The pseudointersection number p is the minimal size of a family of subsets of ω with the strong finite intersection property but without an infinite pseudointersection (i.e., without a common lower bound in the ⊆ order). A family S ⊆ P(ω) is a splitting family if for every infinite A ⊆ ω there is an S ∈ S such that S ∩ A and A \ S are infinite. The splitting number s is the minimal size of a splitting family in P(ω). The set 2 is equipped with the product topology, that is, the topology with basic open sets of the form [s] = {x ∈ 2 : s ⊆ x}, where s ∈ 2 . The topology of P(ω) is that obtained via the identification of each subset of ω with its characteristic function. An ideal on X is a family of subsets of X closed under taking finite unions and subsets of its members. We assume throughout the paper that all ideals contain all singletons {x} for x ∈ X. An ideal I on ω is called P-ideal if for any sequence Xn ∈ I, n ∈ ω, there exists X ∈ I such that Xn ⊆ ∗ X for all n ∈ ω. An ideal I on ω is analytic if it is analytic as a subspace of P(ω) with the above topology. Recall that an ideal on ω is tall (or dense) if every infinite set of ω contains an infinite set from the ideal. If I is an ideal on ω and Y ⊆ ω is an infinite set, then we denote by I↾Y the ideal {I ∩ Y : I ∈ I}; note that the underlying set of the ideal I↾Y is not the underlying set of I but Y . For an ideal I on ω, I denotes the dual filter, M denotes the ideal of meager subsets of R, and N the ideal of Lebesgue null subsets of R. Given an ideal I on a set X, the following are standard cardinal invariants associated with I: add(I) = min{|A| : A ⊆ I ∧ ⋃ A / ∈ I}, cov(I) = min{|A| : A ⊆ I ∧ ⋃ A = X}, cof(I) = min{|A| : A ⊆ I ∧ (∀I ∈ I)(∃A ∈ A)(I ⊆ A)}, non(I) = min{|Y | : Y ⊆ X ∧Y / ∈ I}. The provable relationships between the cardinal invariants of M and N are Cardinal Invariants of Analytic P-Ideals 577 summed up in the following diagram: cov(N) // non(M) // cof(M) // cof(N)

The main problem that is solved in this paper has the following simple formulation (which is not used in its solution). The group K = Op(C) × Oq(C) acts on the space Mp, q of p × q complex matrices by (a; b) · x = axb–1, and so does its identity component K0 = SOp(C)×SOq(C). A K-orbit (or K0-orbit) in Mp,q is said to be nilpotent if its closure contains the zero matrix. The closure, , of a nilpotent K-orbit (resp. K0-orbit) in Mp,q is a union of and some nilpotent K-orbits (resp. K0-orbits) of smaller dimensions. The description of the closure of nilpotent K-orbits has been known for some time, but not so for the nilpotent K0-orbits. A conjecture describing the closure of nilpotent K0-orbits was proposed in [11] and verièd when min(p, q) ≤ 7. In this paper we prove the conjecture. The proof is based on a study of two prehomogeneous vector spaces attached to and determination of the basic relative invariants of these spaces.The above problem is equivalent to the problem of describing the closure of nilpotent orbits in the real Lie algebra so(p, q) under the adjoint action of the identity component of the real orthogonal group O(p, q).

In this paper we study interpolating sequences for two related spaces of holomorphic functions in the unit ball of Cn, n > 1. We first give density conditions for a sequence to be interpolating for the class A−∞ of holomorphic functions with polynomial growth. The sufficient condition is formally identical to the characterizing condition in dimension 1, whereas the necessary one goes along the lines of the results given by Li and Taylor for some spaces of entire functions. In the second part of the paper we show that a density condition, which for n = 1 coincides with the characterizing condition given by Seip, is sufficient for interpolation in the (weighted) Bergman space.

Recent papers have shown that C1 maps whose Jacobians have constant eigenvalues can be completely characterized if either the eigenvalues are equal or F is a polynomial. Specifically, F = (u, v) must take the formfor some constants a, b, c, d, e, f , α, β and a C1 function ϕ in one variable. If, in addition, the function ϕ is not affine, thenThis paper shows how these theorems cannot be extended by constructing a real-analytic map whose Jacobian eigenvalues are ±1/2 and does not fit the previous form. This example is also used to construct non-obvious solutions to nonlinear PDEs, including the Monge—Ampère equation.

The paper considers the relationship between positive polynomials, sums of squares and the multi-dimensional moment problem in the general context of basic closed semi-algebraic sets in realn-space. The emphasis is on the non-compact case and on quadratic module representations as opposed to quadratic preordering presentations. The paper clarifies the relationship between known results on the algebraic side and on the functional-analytic side and extends these results in a variety of ways.

This paper studies the following question: Given an ω -symplectic action of a Lie group on a manifold M which coincides, as a smooth action, with a Hamiltonian ω-action, when is this action a Hamiltonian ω -action? Using a result of Morse-Bott theory presented in Section 2, we show in Section 3 of this paper that such an action is in fact a Hamiltonian ω -action, provided that M is compact and that the Lie group is compact and connected. This result was first proved by Lalonde-McDuffPolterovich in 1999 as a consequence of a more general theory that made use of hard geometric analysis. In this paper, we prove it using classical methods only. Received by the editors May 17, 2001. Supported by a postgraduate scholarship from theNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. AMS subject classification: 53D05, 37J25. c ©Canadian Mathematical Society 2003. 277

We study families of metrics on automorphic vector bundles associated to representations of the modular group. These metrics are defined using an Eisenstein series construction. We show that in certain cases, the residue of these Eisenstein metrics at their rightmost pole is a harmonic metric for the underlying representation of the modular group. The last section of the paper considers the case of a family of representations that are indecomposable but not irreducible. The analysis of the corresponding Eisenstein metrics, and the location of their rightmost pole, is an open question whose resolution depends on the asymptotics of matrix-valued Kloosterman sums., 24 pages, 1 figure, 1 table

In a 1987 paper, Gross introduced certain curves associated to a definite quaternion algebra B over Q; he then proved an analog of his result with Zagier for these curves. In Gross’ paper, the curves were defined in a somewhat ad hoc manner. In this article, we present an interpretation of these curves as projective varieties arising from graded rings of automorphic forms on B×, analogously to the construction in the Satake compactification. To define such graded rings, one needs to introduce a “multiplication” of automorphic forms that arises from the representation ring of B×. The resulting curves are unions of projective lines equipped with a collection of Hecke correspondences. They parametrize two-dimensional complex tori with quaternionic multiplication. In general, these complex tori are not abelian varieties; they are algebraic precisely when they correspond to CM points on these curves, and are thus isogenous to a product E × E, where E is an elliptic curve with complex multiplication. For these CM points one can make a relation between the action of the p-th Hecke operator and Frobenius at p, similar to the well-known congruence relation of Eichler and Shimura.

For an integer n, let d(n) denote the ordinary divisor function. This paper studies the asymptotic behavior of the sumIt is proved in the paper that, as x → ∞,where A1 and A2 are certain constants and ε is any fixed positive real number.The result corrects a false formula given in a paper of Gafurov concerning the same problem, and improves the error claimed by Gafurov.

This paper expresses the character of certain depth-zero supercuspidal representations of the rank-2 symplectic group as the Fourier transform of a finite linear combination of regular elliptic orbital integrals—an expression which is ideally suited for the study of the stability of those characters. Building on work of F. Murnaghan, our proof involves Lusztig’s Generalised Springer Correspondence in a fundamental way, and also makes use of some results on elliptic orbital integrals proved elsewhere by the author using Moy-Prasad filtrations of p-adic Lie algebras. Two applications of the main result are considered toward the end of the paper.

This paper contains two essentially independent results in the invariant theory of finite groups. First we prove that, for any faithful representation of a non-trivial p-group over a field of characteristic p, the ring of vector invariants ofmcopies of that representation is not Cohen-Macaulay for m ≥ 3. In the second section of the paper we use Poincaré series methods to produce upper bounds for the degrees of the generators for the ring of invariants as long as that ring is Gorenstein. We prove that, for a finite non-trivial group G and a faithful representation of dimension n with n > 1, if the ring of invariants is Gorenstein then the ring is generated in degrees less than or equal to n(|G| − 1). If the ring of invariants is a hypersurface, the upper bound can be improved to |G|.

The class of rings studied in this paper properly contains the class of right distributive rings which have at least one completely prime ideal in the Jacobson radical. Amongst other results we study prime and semiprime ideals, right noetherian rings with comparability and prove a structure theorem for rings with comparability. Several examples are also given. Received by the editors August 27, 1997; revised December 23, 1997. The first author was partially supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq, Brazil). The second author was supported by a fellowship granted by Coordenadoria de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal do Ensino Superior (CAPES, Brazil). Some results of this paper are contained in the Ph.D. thesis written by him and presented to UNICAMP(Brazil) [9]. AMS subject classification: Primary: 16U99; secondary: 16P40, 16D15, 16N60. c ©Canadian Mathematical Society 1999. 174

In an earlier paper [10], we studied a generalized Rao bound for ordered orthogonal arrays and (T, M, S)-nets. In this paper, we extend this to a coding-theoretic approach to ordered orthogonal arrays. Using a certain association scheme, we prove a MacWilliams-type theorem for linear ordered orthogonal arrays and linear ordered codes as well as a linear programming bound for the general case. We include some tables which compare this bound against two previously known bounds for ordered orthogonal arrays. Finally we show that, for even strength, the LP bound is always at least as strong as the generalized Rao bound.

This paper presents an approach to injectivity theorems via the Mountain Pass Lemma and raises an open question. The main result of this paper (Theorem 1.1) is proved by means of the Mountain Pass Lemma and states that if the eigenvalues of are uniformly bounded away from zero for x ∊ Rn, where is a class C1 map, then F is injective. This was discovered in a joint attempt by the authors to prove a stronger result conjectured by the first author: Namely, that a sufficient condition for injectivity of class C1 maps F of Rn into itself is that all the eigenvalues of F′(x) are bounded away from zero on Rn. This is stated as Conjecture 2.1. If true, it would imply (via Reduction-of-Degree) injectivity of polynomial mapssatisfying the hypothesis, det F′(x) ≡ 1, of the celebrated Jacobian Conjecture (JC) of Ott-Heinrich Keller. The paper ends with several examples to illustrate a variety of cases and known counterexamples to some natural questions.

In a previous paper, we gave a correspondence between certain exact solutions to a (2 + 1)-dimensional integrable Chiral Model and holomorphic bundles on a compact surface. In this paper, we use algebraic geometry to derive a closed-form expression for those solutions and show by way of examples how the algebraic data which parametrise the solution space dictates the behaviour of the solutions.

A sequence $\left \{g_k\right \}_{k=1}^{\infty }$ in a Hilbert space ${\cal H}$ has the expansion property if each $f\in \overline {\text {span}} \left \{g_k\right \}_{k=1}^{\infty }$ has a representation $f=\sum _{k=1}^{\infty } c_k g_k$ for some scalar coefficients $c_k.$ In this paper, we analyze the question whether there exist small norm-perturbations of $\left \{g_k\right \}_{k=1}^{\infty }$ which allow to represent all $f\in {\cal H};$ the answer turns out to be yes for frame sequences and Riesz sequences, but no for general basic sequences. The insight gained from the analysis is used to address a somewhat dual question, namely, whether it is possible to remove redundancy from a sequence with the expansion property via small norm-perturbations; we prove that the answer is yes for frames $\left \{g_k\right \}_{k=1}^{\infty }$ such that $g_k\to 0$ as $k\to \infty ,$ as well as for frames with finite excess. This particular question is motivated by recent progress in dynamical sampling.

In this paper we consider the following problem: Given a unital C*- algebra A and a collection of elements S in the identity component of the invertible group of A, denoted inv0(A), characterize the group of finite products of elements of S. The particular C*-algebras studied in this paper are either unital purely infinite simple or of the form (A ⊗ K)+, where A is any C*-algebra and K is the compact operators on an infinite dimensional separable Hilbert space. The types of elements used in the factorizations are unipotents (1+ nilpotent), positive invertibles and symmetries (s2 = 1). First we determine the groups of finite products for each collection of elements in (A ⊗ K)+. Then we give upper bounds on the number of factors needed in these cases. The main result, which uses results for (A ⊗ K)+, is that for A unital purely infinite and simple, inv0(A) is generated by each of these collections of elements.

In a recent paper [2] we defined four classes of infinite dimensional simple Lie algebras over a field of characteristic 0 which we called W*, S*, H*, and K*. As the names suggest, these classes generalize the Lie algebras of Cartan type. A second paper [3] investigates the derivations of the algebras W* and S*, and the possible isomorphisms between these algebras and the algebras defined by Block [1]. In the present paper we investigate the automorphisms of the algebras of type W*.

Positive, copositive, onesided and intertwining (co-onesided) polyno- mial and spline approximations of functions f W k( 1 1) are considered. Both uniform and pointwise estimates, which are exact in some sense, are obtained. 1. Introduction and main results. We start by recalling some of the notations and definitions used throughout this paper. Let C(a b )a nd C k ( a b) be, respectively, the sets of all continuous and k-times continuously differentiable functions on (a b), and let Lp(a b), 0 p , be the set of measurable functions on (a b) such that f Lp(a b) ,w here f L p ( a b ) := b a f (x) p dx 1 p Throughout this paper L (a b) is understood as C(a b) with the usual uniform norm, to simplify the notation. We also denote by W k (a b), p 1, the set of all functions f on (a b) such that f (k 1) are absolutely continuous and f (k) Lp, and by Pn the set of all m=0 m i ( 1) m i f (x mh 2 + ih) if x mh 2 (a b), 0 otherwise. Then the m-th (usual) modulus of smoothness of f Lp(a b )i s def ined by m ( f t ( a b))p := sup 0 h t Δ m (f ( a b)) Lp (a b) We will also use the so-called -modulus, an averaged modulus of smoothness, defined for all bounded measurable functions on (a b )b y m ( f t ( a b))p := m (f t ) L p ( a b )

Let X and Y be Tychonov spaces and suppose there exists a continuous linear bijection from Cp(X)to CP(Y). In this paper we develop a method that enables us to compare the Lindelöf number of Y with the Lindelöf number of some dense subset Z of X. As a corollary we get that if for perfect spaces X and Y, CP(X) and Cp(Y)are linearly homeomorphic, then the Lindelöf numbers of Jf and Fare equal. Another result in this paper is the following. Let X and Y be any two linearly ordered perfect Tychonov spaces such that Cp(X)and Cp(Y)are linearly homeomorphic. Let be a topological property that is closed hereditary, closed under taking countable unions and closed under taking continuous images. Then X has isproperty if and only if Y has. As examples of such properties we consider certain cardinal functions.

Let $N/K$ be a finite Galois extension of p-adic number fields, and let $\rho ^{\mathrm {nr}} \colon G_K \longrightarrow \mathrm {Gl}_r({{\mathbb Z}_{p}})$ be an r-dimensional unramified representation of the absolute Galois group $G_K$ , which is the restriction of an unramified representation $\rho ^{\mathrm {nr}}_{{{\mathbb Q}}_{p}} \colon G_{{\mathbb Q}_{p}} \longrightarrow \mathrm {Gl}_r({{\mathbb Z}_{p}})$ . In this paper, we consider the $\mathrm {Gal}(N/K)$ -equivariant local $\varepsilon $ -conjecture for the p-adic representation $T = \mathbb Z_p^r(1)(\rho ^{\mathrm {nr}})$ . For example, if A is an abelian variety of dimension r defined over ${{\mathbb Q}_{p}}$ with good ordinary reduction, then the Tate module $T = T_p\hat A$ associated to the formal group $\hat A$ of A is a p-adic representation of this form. We prove the conjecture for all tame extensions $N/K$ and a certain family of weakly and wildly ramified extensions $N/K$ . This generalizes previous work of Izychev and Venjakob in the tame case and of the authors in the weakly and wildly ramified case.

Let A be a bounded linear operator on a Hilbert space H. Assume that A is selfadjoint in the indefinite inner product defined by a selfadjoint, bounded, invertible linear operator G on H; [x,y] := (Gx,y). In the first part of the paper we define two orders of neutrality for the pair (G, A) and a connection is made with the "types" of numbers in the point and approximate point spectrum of A. The main results of the paper are in the second part and they deal with strong and uniform definitizability of a bounded selfadjoint operator on a Pontrjagin space. They state:A) Let A be a bounded strongly definitizable operator on a Pontrjagin space ΠK, then A is uniformly definitizable.B) A bounded selfadjoint operator A on a Pontrjagin space ΠK is uniformly definitizable if and only if all the eigenvalues of A are of definite type and all the nonisolated eigenvalues of A are of positive type.Some applications to the theory of linear selfadjoint operator pencils are given.

In this paper we obtain the asymptotic expansions of the Carathéodory and Kobayashi metrics of strictly pseudoconvex domains with C∞ smooth boundaries in ℂn. The main result of this paper can be stated as following:Main Theorem. Let Ω be a strictly pseudoconvex domain with C∞ smooth boundary. Let FΩ(z,X) be either the Carathéodory or the Kobayashi metric of Ω. Let δ(z) be the signed distance from z to ∂Ω with δ(z) < 0 for z ∊ Ω and δ(z) ≥ 0 for z ∉ Ω. Then there exist a neighborhood U of ∂Ω, a constant C > 0, and a continuous function C(z,X):(U ∩ Ω) × ℂn -> ℝ such that and|C(z,X)| ≤ C|X| for z ∊ U ∩ Ω and X ∊ ℂn

We formulate a conjecture analogous to Gross' refinement of the Stark conjectures on special values of abelian L-series at s = 0. Some evidence for the conjecture can be obtained, thanks to the fundamental ideas of F. Thaine. 1. Introduction. This paper formulates a refined analogue of the usual class number formula for a real quadratic extension of Q, using circular units. The statement of this conjecture is inspired by an analogous conjecture of Gross (Gr). Strong evidence for this conjecture can be given thanks to F. Thaine's powerful method (Th) for generating relations in ideal class groups using circular units. The first two sections briefly recall Dirichlet's analytic class number formula and Gross's refinement of it; they are there mainly to fix notations and provide motivation. Section 4 states the new conjecture. The remaining sections are devoted to proving various results that support it. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. I wish to thank Massimo Bertolini and Benedict Gross for many stimulating conversations on the topics of this paper. NOTATIONS. If K is a number field and w is a place of K lying above a prime v of Q, we denote by Kw the localization of K at w, and let Nw be the order of its residue field. The w-adic norm || || w is normalized so that it is equal to Nw" 1 on uniformizing elements.

We answer a 1975 question of G. R. Gordh by showing that if X is a homogeneous compactum which is the continuous image of a compact ordered space then at least one of the following holds: (i) X is metrizable, (ii) dimX = 0 or (iii) X is a union of finitely many pairwise disjoint generalized simple closed curves. We begin to examine the structure of homogeneous 0-dimensional spaces which are continuous images of ordered compacta. 1. Introduction. The aim of this paper is to investigate homogeneous spaces which are continuous images of ordered compacta. In 1975, G. R. Gordh proved that if a homo­ geneous and hereditarily unicoherent continuum is the continuous image of an ordered compactum, then it is metrizable, and so indecomposable (7, Theorem 3). Further, he asked if, in general, every homogeneous continuum which is the continuous image of an ordered compactum must be either metrizable or a generalized simple closed curve. Our Theorem 1 provides an affirmative answer to Gordh's question. Moreover, in Theorem 2, we prove that a homogeneous space which is not 0-dimensional and which is the continuous image of an ordered compactum is either metrizable or a union of finitely many pairwise disjoint generalized simple closed curves. Our methods of proof involve characterizations of continuous images of arcs obtained in ( 16) in terms of cyclic elements and T-sets. When dealing with the class A of all homogeneous and 0-dimensional spaces which are the continuous images of ordered compacta, the situation becomes less clear. By a recent theorem of M. Bell, each member of A is first countable. Moreover, by a result of (18), each member of A can be embedded into a dendron. We give a rather simple construction leading to a wide subclass of A. In particular, we show that not all members of A are orderable, and that there exists a strongly homogeneous space X which is the continuous image of an ordered compactum and which is not first countable. It follows that X $ A. Our investigations of the class A led to some natural questions which are stated at the end of the paper. All spaces considered in this paper are Hausdorff.

The purpose of this paper is twofold: we present some matrix inequalities of log-majorization type for eigenvalues indexed by a sequence; we then apply our main theorem to generalize and improve the Hua–Marcus’ inequalities. Our results are stronger and more general than the existing ones.

In the integral Khovanov homology of links, the presence of odd torsion is rare. Homologically thin links, that is links whose Khovanov homology is supported on two adjacent diagonals, are known to only contain $\mathbb{Z}_2$ torsion. In this paper, we prove a local version of this result. If the Khovanov homology of a link is supported in two adjacent diagonals over a range of homological gradings and the Khovanov homology satisfies some other mild restrictions, then the Khovanov homology of that link has only $\mathbb{Z}_2$ torsion over that range of homological gradings. These conditions are then shown to be met by an infinite family of 3-braids, strictly containing all 3-strand torus links, thus giving a partial answer to Sazdanovic and Przytycki's conjecture that 3-braids have only $\mathbb{Z}_2$ torsion in Khovanov homology. We also give explicit computations of integral Khovanov homology for all links in this family., Comment: 20 pages, 11 figures. Section 4 has been simplified

Let M be a closed, connected, orientable topological 4-manifold, and G be a finite group acting topologically and locally linearly on M. In this paper we investigate the Borel spectral sequence for the G-equivariant cohomology of M, and establish new bounds on the rank of G for homologically trivial actions with discrete singular set., 22 pages (v2). Accepted for publication in the Canadian Journal of Mathematics

Let $\mathbb {F}_q$ be the finite field of q elements. In this paper, we study the vanishing behavior of multizeta values over $\mathbb {F}_q[t]$ at negative integers. These values are analogs of the classical multizeta values. At negative integers, they are series of products of power sums $S_d(k)$ which are polynomials in t. By studying the t-valuation of $S_d(s)$ for $s < 0$ , we show that multizeta values at negative integers vanish only at trivial zeros. The proof is inspired by the idea of Sheats in the proof of a statement of “greedy element” by Carlitz.