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math/0302053
We prove that ribbons, i.e. double structures associated with a line bundle $\SE$ over its reduced support, a smooth irreducible projective curve of arbitrary genus, are smoothable if their arithmetic genus is greater than or equal to $3 $ and the support curve possesses a smooth irreducible double cover with trace zero module $\SE$. The method we use is based on the infinitesimal techniques that we develop to show that if the support curve admits such a double cover then every embedded ribbon over the curve is ``infinitesimally smoothable'', i.e. the ribbon can be obtained as central fiber of the image of some first--order infinitesimal deformation of the map obtained by composing the double cover with the embedding of the reduced support in the ambient projective space containing the ribbon. We also obtain embeddings in the same projective space for all ribbons associated with $\SE$. Then, assuming the existence of the double cover, we prove that the ``infinitesimal smoothing'' can be extended to a global embedded smoothing for embedded ribbons of arithmetic genus greater than or equal to 3. As a consequence we obtain the smoothing results.
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math/0302054
In this paper we shall define the analytic continuation of the multiple polylogarithms by using Chen's theory of iterated path integrals and compute the monodromy of all multiple logarithms explicitly.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302055
It's well known that multiple polylogarithms give rise to good unipotent variations of mixed Hodge-Tate structures. In this paper we shall {\em explicitly} determine these structures related to multiple logarithms and some other multiple polylogarithms of lower weights. The purpose of this explicit construction is to give some important applications: First we study of the limit mixed Hodge-Tate structures and make a conjecture relating the variations of mixed Hodge-Tate structures of multiple logarithms to those of general multiple {\em poly}logarithms. Then following Deligne and Beilinson we describe an approach to defining the single-valued real analytic version of the multiple polylogarithms which generalizes the well-known result of Zagier on classical polylogarithms. In the process we find some interesting identities relating single-valued multiple polylogarithms of the same weight $k$ when $k=2$ and 3. At the end of this paper, motivated by Zagier's conjecture we pose a problem which relates the special values of multiple Dedekind zeta functions of a number field to the single-valued version of multiple polylogarithms.
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math/0302056
We analyze the general problem of determining optimally dense packings, in a Euclidean or hyperbolic space, of congruent copies of some fixed finite set of bodies. We are strongly guided by examples of aperiodic tilings in Euclidean space and a detailed analysis of a new family of examples in the hyperbolic plane. Our goal is to understand qualitative features of such optimum density problems, in particular the appropriate meaning of the uniqueness of solutions, and the role of symmetry in classfying optimally dense packings.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302057
We survey some recent results concerning the behaviour of the contact structure defined on the boundary of a complex isolated hypersurface singularity or on the boundary at infinity of a complex polynomial.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302058
We give an introduction to the theory of determinantal ideals and rings, their Groebner bases, initial ideals and algebras, respectively. The approach is based on the straightening law and the Knuth-Robinson-Schensted correspondence. The article contains a section treating the basic results about the passage to initial ideals and algebras.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302059
For some m \ge 4, let us color each column of the integer lattice L = Z^2 independently and uniformly into one of m colors. We do the same for the rows, independently from the columns. A point of L will be called blocked if its row and column have the same color. We say that this random configuration percolates if there is a path in L starting at the origin, consisting of rightward and upward unit steps, and avoiding the blocked points. As a problem arising in distributed computing, it has been conjectured that for m \ge 4, the configuration percolates with positive probability. This has now been proved (in a later paper), for large m. Here, we prove that the probability that there is percolation to distance n but not to infinity is not exponentially small in n. This narrows the range of methods available for proving the conjecture.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302060
The colored Jones polynomial of links has two natural normalizations: one in which the n-colored unknot evaluates to [n+1], the quantum dimension of the (n+1)-dimensional irreducible representation of quantum sl(2), and the other in which it evaluates to 1. For each normalization we construct a bigraded cohomology theory of links with the colored Jones polynomial as the Euler characteristic.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302061
Certain topological dynamical systems are considered that arise from actions of $\sigma$-compact locally compact Abelian groups on compact spaces of translation bounded measures. Such a measure dynamical system is shown to have pure point dynamical spectrum if and only if its diffraction spectrum is pure point.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302062
This is the second issue of the SPM Bulletin (SPM stands for "Selection Principles in Mathematics"). The first issue is math.GN/0301011 and contains some background and details.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302063
The traces of the quantum powers of a generic quantum matrix pairwise commute. This was conjectured by Kaoru Ikeda, in connection with certain Hamiltonian systems. The proof involves Newton's formulae for quantum matrices, relating traces of quantum powers with sums of principal minors.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302064
I construct some smooth Calabi-Yau threefolds in characteristic two and three that do not lift to characteristic zero. These threefolds are pencils of supersingular K3-surfaces. The construction depends on Moret-Bailly's pencil of abelian surfaces and Katsura's analysis of generalized Kummer surfaces. The threefold in characteristic two turns out to be nonrigid.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302065
We generalize the notion of parallel transport along paths for abelian bundles to parallel transport along surfaces for abelian gerbes using an embedded Topological Quantum Field Theory (TQFT) approach. We show both for bundles and gerbes with connection that there is a one-to-one correspondence between their local description in terms of locally-defined functions and forms and their non-local description in terms of a suitable class of embedded TQFT's.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302066
This article concerns the equations of motion of perfect incompressible fluids in a 3-D, smooth, bounded, simply connected domain. We suppose that the curl of the initial velocity field is a vortex patch, and examine the classical problems of the existence of a solution, either locally or globally in time, and of the persistence of the initial regularity.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302067
We quantize the Alekseev-Meinrenken solution r to the classical dynamical Yang-Baxter equation, associated to a Lie algebra g with an element t in S^2(g)^g. Namely, we construct a dynamical twist J with nonabelian base in the sense of P. Xu, whose quasiclassical limit is r-t/2. This twist gives rise to a dynamical quantum R-matrix, and also provides a quantization of the quasi-Poisson manifold and Poisson groupoid associated to r. The twist J is obtained by an appropriate renormalization of the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov associator for g, introduced by Drinfeld.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302068
A Calabi-Yau orbifold is locally modeled on C^n/G where G is a finite subgroup of SL(n, C). In dimension n=3 a crepant resolution is given by Nakamura's G-Hilbert scheme. This crepant resolution has a description as a GIT/symplectic quotient. We use tools from global analysis to give a geometrical generalization of the McKay Correspondence to this case.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302069
It has been pointed out to the author by David Glickenstein that the proof of the (closely related) Lemmas 1.2 and 3.2 in the title paper is incorrect. The statements of both Lemmas are correct, and the purpose of this note is to give a correct argument. The argument is of some interest in its own right.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302070
We establish a glueing theorem for the Ginzburg-Landau equations in dimension $n > 2$. To this end, we consider a nondegenerate minimal submanifold of codimension 2, and construct a one-parameter family of solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau equations such that the energy density concentrates near this submanifold. The proof is based on a construction of suitable approximate solutions and the implicite function theorem.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302071
In our previous paper math.QA/9907181, to every finite dimensional representation V of the quantum group U_q(g), we attached the trace function F^V(\lambda,\mu), with values in End V[0], obtained by taking the (weighted) trace in a Verma module of an intertwining operator. We showed that these trace functions satisfy the Macdonald-Ruijsenaars and the qKZB equations, their dual versions, and the symmetry identity. In this paper we show that the trace functions satisfy the orthogonality relation and the qKZB-heat equation. For g=sl_2, this statement is the trigonometric degeneration of a conjecture of Felder and the second author, proved by them for the 3-dimensional irreducible V. We also establish the orthogonality relation and qKZB-heat equation for trace functions obtained by taking traces in finite dimensional representations (rather than Verma modules). If g=sl_n and V=S^{kn}C^n, these functions are known to be Macdonald polynomials of type A. In this case, the orthogonality relation reduces to the Macdonald inner product identities, and the qKZB-heat equation coincides with the q-Macdonald-Mehta identity, proved by Cherednik.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302072
Let $S^{n}$ be the $n$-sphere of constant positive curvature. For $n \geq 2$, we will show that a measure on the unit tangent bundle of $S^{2n}$, which is even and invariant under the geodesic flow, is not uniquely determined by its projection to $S^{2n}$.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302073
In this paper, we investigate higher direct images of log canonical divisors. After we reformulate Koll\'ar's torsion-free theorem, we treat the relationship between higher direct images of log canonical divisors and the canonical extensions of Hodge filtration of gradedly polarized variations of mixed Hodge structures. As a corollary, we obtain a logarithmic version of Fujita-Kawamata's semi-positivity theorem. By this semi-positivity theorem, we generalize Kawamata's positivity theorem and apply it to the study of a log canonical bundle formula. The final section is an appendix, which is a result of Morihiko Saito.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302074
Flat connections induced over covering maps are studied and the trivial ones among them are described. In the sequel, we deal with the resulting holonomy bundles.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302075
We study some basic properties of the variety of characters in PSL(2,C) of a finitely generated group. In particular we give an interpretation of its points as characters of representations. We construct 3-manifolds whose variety of characters has arbitrarily many components that do not lift to SL(2,C). We also study the singular locus of the variety of characters of a free group.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302076
We consider random walks in a random environment of the type p_0+\gamma\xi_z, where p_0 denotes the transition probabilities of a stationary random walk on \BbbZ^d, to nearest neighbors, and \xi_z is an i.i.d. random perturbation. We give an explicit expansion, for small \gamma, of the asymptotic speed of the random walk under the annealed law, up to order 2. As an application, we construct, in dimension d\ge2, a walk which goes faster than the stationary walk under the mean environment.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302077
This article accompanies my ICM talk in August 2002. Three conjectural directions in Gromov-Witten theory are discussed: Gorenstein properties, BPS states, and Virasoro constraints. Each points to basic structures in the subject which are not yet understood.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302078
Let $X$ be an integral projective scheme satisfying the condition $S_3$ of Serre and $H^1({\mathcal O}_X(n)) = 0$ for all $n \in {\mathbb Z}$. We generalize Rao's theorem by showing that biliaison equivalence classes of codimension two subschemes without embedded components are in one-to-one correspondence with pseudo-isomorphism classes of coherent sheaves on $X$ satisfying certain depth conditions. We give a new proof and generalization of Strano's strengthening of the Lazarsfeld--Rao property, showing that if a codimension two subscheme is not minimal in its biliaison class, then it admits a strictly descending elementary biliaison. For a three-dimensional arithmetically Gorenstein scheme $X$, we show that biliaison equivalence classes of curves are in one-to-one correspondence with triples $(M,P,\alpha)$, up to shift, where $M$ is the Rao module, $P$ is a maximal Cohen--Macaulay module on the homogeneous coordinate ring of $X$, and $\alpha: P^{\vee} \to M^* \to 0$ is a surjective map of the duals.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302079
Log-linear models are a well-established method for describing statistical dependencies among a set of n random variables. The observed frequencies of the n-tuples are explained by a joint probability such that its logarithm is a sum of functions, where each function depends on as few variables as possible. We obtain for this class a new model selection criterion using nonasymptotic concepts of statistical learning theory. We calculate the VC dimension for the class of k-factor log-linear models. In this way we are not only able to select the model with the appropriate complexity, but obtain also statements on the reliability of the estimated probability distribution. Furthermore we show that the selection of the best model among a set of models with the same complexity can be written as a convex optimization problem.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302080
The Andrews-Curtis conjecture claims that every balanced presentation of the trivial group can be reduced to the standard one by a sequence of ``elementary transformations" which are Nielsen transformations augmented by arbitrary conjugations. It is a prevalent opinion that this conjecture is false; however, not many potential counterexamples are known. In this paper, we show that some of the previously proposed examples are actually not counterexamples. We hope that the tricks we used in constructing relevant chains of elementary transformations will be useful to those who attempt to establish the Andrews-Curtis equivalence in other situations. On the other hand, we give two rather general and simple methods for constructing balanced presentations of the trivial group; some of these presentations can be considered potential counterexamples to the Andrews-Curtis conjecture. One of the methods is based on a simple combinatorial idea of composition of group presentations, whereas the other one uses "exotic" knot diagrams of the unknot. We also consider the Andrews-Curtis equivalence in metabelian groups and reveal some interesting connections of relevant problems to well-known problems in K-theory.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302081
We prove the Lefchetz theorem for CR submanifolds in Hermitian symmetric spaces. As an application we prove the nonexistence of real analytic Levi flat submanifolds in such manifolds.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302082
We prove that the relative commutant of a diffuse von Neumann subalgebra in a hyperbolic group von Neumann algebra is always injective. It follows that any non-injective subfactor in a hyperbolic group von Neumann algebra is non-Gamma and prime. The proof is based on C*-algebra theory.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302083
We observe that a sharp result on the exponential growth rate of the number of primitive elements exists for the free group on two generators.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302084
Euler's transformation formula for the Gauss hypergeometric function 2F1 is extended to hypergeometric functions of higher order. Unusually, the generalized transformation constrains the hypergeometric function parameters algebraically but not linearly. Its consequences for hypergeometric summation are explored. It has as corollary a summation formula of Slater. From this formula new one-term evaluations of 2F1(-1) and 3F2(1) are derived, by applying transformations in the Thomae group. Their parameters are also constrained nonlinearly. Several new one-term evaluations of 2F1(-1) with linearly constrained parameters are derived as well.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302085
Let p be a prime and let F_pbar be the algebraic closure of the finite field of p elements. Let f(x) be any one variable rational function over F_pbar with n poles of orders d_1, ...,d_n. Suppose p is coprime to d_i for every i. We prove that there exists a Hodge polygon, depending only on d_i's, which is a lower bound to the Newton polygon of L functions of exponential sums of f(x). Moreover, we show that these two polygons coincide if p=1 mod d_i for every i=1,...,n. As a corollary, we obtain a tight lower bound of Newton polygon of Artin-Schreier curve.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302086
We give the description of the t-structure on the derived category of regular holonomic D-modules corresponding to the trivial t-structure on the derived category of constructible sheaves via Riemann-Hilbert correspondence. We give also the condition for a decreasing sequence of families of supports to give a t-structure on the derived category of coherent O-modules.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302087
We announce a new proof of the uniform estimate on the curvature of solutions to the Ricci flow on a compact K\"ahler manifold $M^n$ with positive bisectional curvature. In contrast to the recent work of X. Chen and G. Tian, our proof of the uniform estimate does not rely on the exsitence of K\"ahler-Einstein metrics on $M^n$, but instead on the first author's Harnack inequality for the K\"ahler-Ricc flow, and a very recent local injectivity radius estimate of Perelman for the Ricci flow.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302088
We apply ideas from conformal field theory to study symplectic four-manifolds, by using modular functors to "linearise" Lefschetz fibrations. In Chern-Simons theory this leads to the study of parabolic vector bundles of conformal blocks. Motivated by the Hard Lefschetz theorem, we show the bundles of SU(2) conformal blocks associated to Kaehler surfaces are Brill-Noether special, although the associated flat connexions may be irreducible if the surface is simply-connected and not spin.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302089
A picture P of a graph G = (V,E) consists of a point P(v) for each vertex v in V and a line P(e) for each edge e in E, all lying in the projective plane over a field k and subject to containment conditions corresponding to incidence in G. A graph variety is an algebraic set whose points parametrize pictures of G. We consider three kinds of graph varieties: the picture space X(G) of all pictures, the picture variety V(G), an irreducible component of X(G) of dimension 2|V|, defined as the closure of the set of pictures on which all the P(v) are distinct, and the slope variety S(G), obtained by forgetting all data except the slopes of the lines P(e). We use combinatorial techniques (in particular, the theory of combinatorial rigidity) to obtain the following geometric and algebraic information on these varieties: (1) a description and combinatorial interpretation of equations defining each variety set-theoretically; (2) a description of the irreducible components of X(G); and (3) a proof that V(G) and S(G) are Cohen-Macaulay when G satisfies a sparsity condition, rigidity independence. In addition, our techniques yield a new proof of the equality of two matroids studied in rigidity theory.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302090
We show that coefficients in the Laurent series of Igusa Zeta functions are periods. This will be used in a subsequent paper (by P. Brosnan) to show that certain numbers occurring in study of Feynman amplitudes (upto gamma factors) are periods.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302091
Let A be a set of integers. For every integer n, let r_{A,h}(n) denote the number of representations of n in the form n = a_1 + a_2 + ... + a_h, where a_1, a_2,...,a_h are in A and a_1 \leq a_2 \leq ... \leq a_h. The function r_{A,h}: Z \to N_0 \cup \infty is the representation function of order h for A. The set A is called an asymptotic basis of order h if r_{A,h}^{-1}(0) is finite, that is, if every integer with at most a finite number of exceptions can be represented as the sum of exactly h not necessarily distinct elements of A. It is proved that every function is a representation function, that is, if f: Z \to N_0 \cup \infty is any function such that f^{-1}(0) is finite, then there exists a set A of integers such that f(n) = r_{A,h}(n) for all n in Z. Moreover, the set A can be arbitrarily sparse in the sense that, if \phi(x) \to \infty, then there exists a set A with f(n) = r_{A,h}(n) such that card{a in A : |a| \leq x} < \phi(x) for all sufficiently large x.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302092
Using techniques developed in [Lasserre02], we show that some minimum cardinality problems subject to linear inequalities can be represented as finite sequences of semidefinite programs. In particular, we provide a semidefinite representation of the minimum rank problem on positive semidefinite matrices. We also use this technique to cast the problem of finding convex lower bounds on the objective as a semidefinite program.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302093
We describe a glueing construction for the Yang-Mills equations in dimension $n > 4$. Our method is based on a construction of approximate solutions, and a detailed analysis of the linearized operator near an approximate solution.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302094
We describe a glueing construction for a certain self-dual reduction of the Yang-Mills equations in dimension 8.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302095
We study contraction groups for automorphisms of totally disconnected locally compcat groups using the scale of the automorphism as a tool. The contraction group is shown to be unbounded when the inverse automorphism has non-trivial scale and this scale is shown to be the inverse value of the modular function on the closure of the contraction group at the automorphism. The closure of the contraction group is represented as acting on a homogenous tree and closed contraction groups are characterised.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302096
The use of bundle gerbes and bundle gerbe modules is considered as a replacement for the usual theory of Clifford modules on manifolds that fail to be spin. It is shown that both sides of the Atiyah-Singer index formula for coupled Dirac operators can be given natural interpretations using this language and that the resulting formula is still an identity.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302097
Three examples of free field constructions for the vertex operators of the elliptic quantum group ${\cal A}_{q,p}(\hat{sl}_2)$ are obtained. Two of these (for $p^{1/2}=\pm q^{3/2},p^{1/2}=-q^2$) are based on representation theories of the deformed Virasoro algebra, which correspond to the level 4 and level 2 $Z$-algebra of Lepowsky and Wilson. The third one ($p^{1/2}=q^{3}$) is constructed over a tensor product of a bosonic and a fermionic Fock spaces. The algebraic structure at $p^{1/2}=q^{3}$, however, is not related to the deformed Virasoro algebra. Using these free field constructions, an integral formula for the correlation functions of Baxter's eight-vertex model is obtained. This formula shows different structure compared with the one obtained by Lashkevich and Pugai.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302098
We show that several torsion free 3-manifold groups are not left-orderable. Our examples are groups of cyclic branched covers of S^3 branched along links. The figure eight knot provides simple nontrivial examples. The groups arising in these examples are known as Fibonacci groups which we show not to be left-orderable. Many other examples of non-orderable groups are obtained by taking 3-fold branched covers of S^3 branched along various hyperbolic 2-bridge knots. The manifold obtained in such a way from the 5_2 knot is of special interest as it is conjectured to be the hyperbolic 3-manifold with the smallest volume.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302099
We introduce topological invariants of knots and braid conjugacy classes, in the form of differential graded algebras, and present an explicit combinatorial formulation for these invariants. The algebras conjecturally give the relative contact homology of certain Legendrian tori in five-dimensional contact manifolds. We present several computations and derive a relation between the knot invariant and the determinant.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302100
An equivariant version of the twisted inverse pseudofunctor is defined, and equivariant versions of some important properties, including the Grothendieck duality of proper morphisms and flat base change are proved. As an application, a generalized version of Watanabe's theorem on the Gorenstein property of the ring of invariants is proved.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302101
In this article we discuss some numerical parts of the mirror conjecture. For any 3 - dimensional Calabi - Yau manifold author introduces a generalization of the Casson invariant known in 3 - dimensional geometry, which is called Casson - Donaldson invariant. In the framework of the mirror relationship it corresponds to the number of SpLag cycles which are Bohr - Sommerfeld with respect to the given polarization. To compute the Casson - Donaldson invariant the author uses well known in classical algebraic geometry degeneration principle. By it, when the given Calabi - Yau manifold is deformed to a pair of quasi Fano manifolds glued upon some K3 - surface, one can compute the invariant in terms of "flag geometry" of the pairs (quasi Fano, K3 - surface).
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302102
Dyson a associe aux determinants de Fredholm des noyaux de Dirichlet pairs (resp. impairs) une equation de Schrodinger sur un demi-axe et a employe les methodes du scattering inverse de Gel'fand-Levitan et de Marchenko, en tandem, pour etudier l'asymptotique de ces determinants. Nous avons propose suite a notre mise-au-jour de l'operateur conducteur de chercher a realiser la transformation de Fourier elle-meme comme un scattering, et nous obtenons ici dans ce but deux systemes de Dirac sur l'axe reel tout entier et qui sont associes intrinsequement, respectivement, aux transformations en cosinus et en sinus. (Dyson has associated with the Fredholm determinants of the even (resp. odd) Dirichlet kernels a Schrodinger equation on the half-axis and has used, in tandem, the Gel'fand-Levitan and Marchenko methods of inverse scattering theory to study the asymptotics of these determinants. We have proposed following our unearthing of the conductor operator to seek to realize the Fourier transform itself as a scattering, and we obtain here to this end two Dirac systems on the entire real axis which are intrinsically associated, respectively, to the cosine and to the sine transforms.)
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302103
We consider the equations governing incompressible, viscous fluids in three space dimensions, rotating around an inhomogeneous vector B(x): this is a generalization of the usual rotating fluid model (where B is constant). We prove the weak convergence of Leray--type solutions towards a vector field which satisfies the usual 2D Navier--Stokes equation in the regions of space where B is constant, with Dirichlet boundary conditions, and a heat--type equation elsewhere. The method of proof uses weak compactness arguments.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302104
This article examines arbitrage investment in a mispriced asset when the mispricing follows the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and a credit-constrained investor maximizes a generalization of the Kelly criterion. The optimal differentiable and threshold policies are derived. The optimal differentiable policy is linear with respect to mispricing and risk-free in the long run. The optimal threshold policy calls for investing immediately when the mispricing is greater than zero with the investment amount inversely proportional to the risk aversion parameter. The investment is risky even in the long run. The results are consistent with the belief that credit-constrained arbitrageurs should be risk-neutral if they are to engage in convergence trading.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302105
We propose the first algebraic determinantal formula to enumerate tilings of a centro-symmetric octagon of any size by rhombi. This result uses the Gessel-Viennot technique and generalizes to any octagon a formula given by Elnitsky in a special case.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302106
Let $m_{12}$, $m_{13}$, ..., $m_{n-1,n}$ be the slopes of the $\binom{n}{2}$ lines connecting $n$ points in general position in the plane. The ideal $I_n$ of all algebraic relations among the $m_{ij}$ defines a configuration space called the {\em slope variety of the complete graph}. We prove that $I_n$ is reduced and Cohen-Macaulay, give an explicit Gr\"obner basis for it, and compute its Hilbert series combinatorially. We proceed chiefly by studying the associated Stanley-Reisner simplicial complex, which has an intricate recursive structure. In addition, we are able to answer many questions about the geometry of the slope variety by translating them into purely combinatorial problems concerning enumeration of trees.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302107
We provide new arguments to see topological Kac-Moody groups as generalized semisimple groups over local fields: they are products of topologically simple groups and their Iwahori subgroups are the normalizers of the pro-p Sylow subgroups. We use a dynamical characterization of parabolic subgroups to prove that some countable Kac-Moody groups with Fuchsian buildings are not linear. We show for this that the linearity of a countable Kac-Moody group implies the existence of a closed embedding of the corresponding topological group in a non-Archimedean simple Lie group, thanks to a commensurator super-rigidity theorem proved in the Appendix by P. Bonvin.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302108
We prove here that in the Theorem on Local Ergodicity for Semi-Dispersive Billiards (proved by N. I. Chernov and Ya. G. Sinai in 1987) the condition of the so called ``Ansatz'' can be dropped. That condition assumed that almost every singular phase point had a hyperbolic trajectory after the singularity. Having this condition dropped, the cited theorem becomes much stronger and easier to apply. At the end of the paper two immediate corollaries of this improvement are discussed: One of them is the (fully hyperbolic) Bernoulli mixing property of every hard disk system (D=2), the other one claims that the ergodic components of every hard ball system ($D\ge3$) are open.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302109
Let $X\subset \P^n$ be a possibly singular hypersurface of degree $d\le n$, defined over a finite field $k$. We show that the diagonal, suitably interpreted, is decomposable. This gives a proof that the eigenvalues of the Frobenius action on its $\ell$-adic cohomology $H^i(\bar{X}, \Q_\ell)$, for $\ell \neq {\rm char}(k)$, are divisible by $q$, without using the result on the existence of rational points by Ax and Katz.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302110
Let G be a finite group and \rho: G--> End(E) be a group representation of G on a coherent sheaf over an integral scheme. The purpose of this paper shall give a decomposition theorem of such representations in non-splitting components and apply this results to the studie of Galois covers
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302111
Let G be the group of rational points of a semisimple algebraic group of rank 1 over a nonarchimedean local field. We improve upon Lubotzky's analysis of graphs of groups describing the action of lattices in G on its Bruhat-Tits tree assuming a condition on unipotents in G. The condition holds for all but a few types of rank 1 groups. A fairly straightforward simplification of Lubotzky's definition of a cusp of a lattice is the key step to our results. We take the opportunity to reprove Lubotzky's part in the analysis from this foundation.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302112
We consider dimension reduction for solutions of the K\"ahler-Ricci flow with nonegative bisectional curvature. When the complex dimension $n=2$, we prove an optimal dimension reduction theorem for complete translating K\"ahler-Ricci solitons with nonnegative bisectional curvature. We also prove a general dimension reduction theorem for complete ancient solutions of the K\"ahler-Ricci flow with nonnegative bisectional curvature on noncompact complex manifolds under a finiteness assumption on the Chern number $c^n_1$.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302113
We introduce and develop a language of semigroups over the braid groups for a study of braid monodromy factorizations (bmf's) of plane algebraic curves and other related objects. As an application we give a new proof of Orevkov's theorem on realization of a bmf over a disc by algebraic curves and show that the complexity of such a realization can not be bounded in terms of the types of the factors of the bmf. Besides, we prove that the type of a bmf is distinguishing Hurwitz curves with singularities of inseparable types up to $H$-isotopy and $J$-holomorphic cuspidal curves in $\C P^2$ up to symplectic isotopy.
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math/0302114
We prove a summation formula for a bilateral series whose terms are products of two basic hypergeometric functions. In special cases, series of this type arise as matrix elements of quantum group representations.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302115
We relate the formulas giving Brownian (and other) intersection exponents to the absolute continuity relations between Bessel process of different dimensions, via the two-parameter family of Schramm-Loewner Evolution processes SLE(kappa,rho) introduced in arXiv:math.PR/0209343. This allows also to compute the value of some new exponents (``hiding exponents'') related to SLEs and planar Brownian motions.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302116
In general the processes of taking a homotopy inverse limit of a diagram of spectra and smashing spectra with a fixed space do not commute. In this paper we investigate under what additional assumptions these two processes do commute. In fact we deal with an equivariant generalization which involves spectra and smash products over the orbit category of a discrete group. Such a situation naturally occurs if one studies the equivariant homology theory associated to topological cyclic homology. The main theorem of this paper will play a role in the generalization of the results obtained by Boekstedt, Hsiang and Madsen about the algebraic K-theory Novikov Conjecture to the assembly map for the family of virtually cyclic subgroups.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302117
Let K be a number field and A an abelian variety over K. We are interested in the following conjecture of Morita: if the Mumford-Tate group of A does not contain unipotent Q-rational points then A has potentially good reduction at any discrete place of K. The Mumford-Tate group is an object of analytical nature whereas having good reduction is an arithmetical notion, linked to the ramification of Galois representations. This conjecture has been proved by Morita for particular abelian varieties with many endomorphisms (called of PEL type). Noot obtained results for abelian varieties without non trivial endomorphisms (Mumford's example, not of PEL type). We give new results for abelian varieties not of PEL type.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302118
We consider the topological entropy of state space and quasi-state space homeomorphisms induced from C*-algebra automorphisms. Our main result asserts that, for automorphisms of separable exact C*-algebras, zero Voiculescu-Brown entropy implies zero topological entropy on the quasi-state space (and also more generally on the entire unit ball of the dual). As an application we obtain a simple description of the topological Pinsker algebra in terms of local Voiculescu-Brown entropy.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302119
The aim of this paper is to study harmonic polynomials on the quantum Euclidean space E^N_q generated by elements x_i, i=1,2,...,N, on which the quantum group SO_q(N) acts. The harmonic polynomials are defined as solutions of the equation \Delta_q p=0, where p is a polynomial in x_i, i=1,2,...,N, and the q-Laplace operator \Delta_q is determined in terms of the differential operators on E^N_q. The projector H_m: {cal A}_m\to {\cal H}_{m} is constructed, where {\cal A}_{m} and {\cal H}_m are the spaces of homogeneous of degree m polynomials and homogeneous harmonic polynomials, respectively. By using these projectors, a q-analogue of the classical zonal polynomials and associated spherical polynomials with respect to the quantum subgroup SO_q(N-2) are constructed. The associated spherical polynomials constitute an orthogonal basis of {\cal H}_m. These polynomials are represented as products of polynomials depending on q-radii and x_j, x_{j'}, j'=N-j+1. This representation is in fact a q-analogue of the classical separation of variables. The dual pair (U_q(sl_2), U_q(so_n)) is related to the action of SO_q(N) on E^N_q. Decomposition into irreducible constituents of the representation of the algebra U_q(sl_2)\times U_q(so_n) defined by the action of this algebra on the space of all polynomials on E^N_q is given.
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math/0302120
The holomorph of a discrete group $G$ is the universal semi-direct product of $G$. In chapter 1 we describe why it is an interesting object and state main results. In chapter 2 we recall the classical definition of the holomorph as well as this universal property, and give some group theoretic properties and examples of holomorphs. In particular, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a map of split extensions for holomorphs of two groups. In chapter 3 we construct a resolution for $Hol(Z_{p^r})$ for every prime $p$, where ${\mathbb Z}_m$ denotes a cyclic group of order $m$, and use it to compute the integer homology and mod $p$ cohomology ring of $Hol(Z_{p^r})$. In chapter 4 we study the holomorph of the direct sum of several copies of $Z_{p^r}$. We identify this holomorph as a nice subgroup of $GL(n+1, Z_{p^r})$, thus its cohomology informs on the cohomology of the general linear group which has been of interest in the subject. We show that the LHS spectral sequence for $H^*(Hol(\bigoplus_n Z_{p^r}); F_p)$ does not collapse at the $E_2$ stage for $p^r\ge 8$. Also, we compute mod $p$ cohomology and the first Bockstein homomorphisms of the congruence subgroups given by $Ker (Hol(\bigoplus_n Z_{p^r}) \to Hol(\bigoplus_n Z_p)).$ In chapter 5 we recall wreath products and permutative categories, and their connections with holomorphs. In chapter 6 we give a short proof of the well-known fact due to S. Eilenberg and J. C. Moore that the only injective object in the category of groups is the trivial group.
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math/0302121
Combining the idea of motivic zeta function, due to Kapranov, and Pellikaan's definition of a two- variable zeta function for curves over finite fields in the present note we introduce a motivic two- variable zeta function for curves over arbitrary fields and prove the generalizations of Pellikaan's results in this context.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302122
We use the DPW method to obtain the associate family of Delaunay surfaces and derive a formula for the neck size of the surface in terms of the entries of the holomorphic potential.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302123
We consider a model of lattice gas dynamics in the d-dimensional cubic lattice in the presence of disorder. If the particle interaction is only mutual exclusion and if the disorder field is given by i.i.d. bounded random variables, we prove the almost sure existence of the hydrodynamical limit in dimension d>2. The limit equation is a non linear diffusion equation with diffusion matrix characterized by a variational principle.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302124
In this paper, we prove a global rigidity theorem for negatively curved Finsler metrics on a compact manifold of dimension n>2. We show that for such a Finsler manifold, if the flag curvature is a scalar function on the tangent bundle, then the Finsler metric is of Randers type. We also study the case when the Finsler metric is locally projectively flat.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302125
In this paper we prove, assuming the Generalised Riemann Hypothesis, a conjecture of Yves Andre that that asserts that a curve in a Shimura variety containing an infinite set of special points is of Hodge type.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302126
For any finite set $\A$ of $n$ points in $\R^2$, we define a $(3n-3)$-dimensional simple polyhedron whose face poset is isomorphic to the poset of ``non-crossing marked graphs'' with vertex set $\A$, where a marked graph is defined as a geometric graph together with a subset of its vertices. The poset of non-crossing graphs on $\A$ appears as the complement of the star of a face in that polyhedron. The polyhedron has a unique maximal bounded face, of dimension $2n_i +n -3$ where $n_i$ is the number of points of $\A$ in the interior of $\conv(\A)$. The vertices of this polytope are all the pseudo-triangulations of $\A$, and the edges are flips of two types: the traditional diagonal flips (in pseudo-triangulations) and the removal or insertion of a single edge. As a by-product of our construction we prove that all pseudo-triangulations are infinitesimally rigid graphs.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302127
For nonsmooth Euler-Lagrange extremals, Noether's conservation laws cease to be valid. We show that Emmy Noether's theorem of the calculus of variations is still valid in the wider class of Lipschitz functions, as long as one restrict the Euler-Lagrange extremals to those which satisfy the DuBois-Reymond necessary condition. In the smooth case all Euler-Lagrange extremals are DuBois-Reymond extremals, and the result gives a proper extension of the classical Noether's theorem. This is in contrast with the recent developments of Noether's symmetry theorems to the optimal control setting, which give rise to non-proper extensions when specified for the problems of the calculus of variations.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302128
We describe a variant of K-theory for spaces with involution, built from vector bundles which are sent to their negative under the involution.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302129
We study a dissipative nonlinear equation modelling certain features of the Navier-Stokes equations. We prove that the evolution of radially symmetric compactly supported initial data does not lead to singularities in dimensions $n\leq 4$. For dimensions $n>4$ we present strong numerical evidence supporting existence of blow-up solutions. Moreover, using the same techniques we numerically confirm a conjecture of Lepin regarding existence of self-similar singular solutions to a semi-linear heat equation.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302130
We classify module categories over the category of representations of quantum $SL(2)$ in a case when $q$ is not a root of unity. In a case when $q$ is a root of unity we classify module categories over the semisimple subquotient of the same category.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302131
This is the first in a series of papers exploring the relationship between the Rohlin invariant and gauge theory. We discuss the Casson-type invariant of a 3-manifold with the integral homology of a torus, given by counting projectively flat connections. We show that its mod 2 evaluation is given by the triple cup product in cohomology, and so it coincides with a sum of Rohlin invariants. Our counting argument makes use of a natural action of the first cohomology on the moduli space of projectively flat connections; along the way we construct perturbations that are equivariant with respect to this action. Combined with the Floer exact triangle, this gives a purely gauge-theoretic proof that Casson's homology sphere invariant reduces mod 2 to the Rohlin invariant.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302132
The paper describes a method to determine symmetrized weight enumerators of $p^m$-linear codes based on the notion of a disjoint weight enumerator. Symmetrized weight enumerators are given for the lifted quadratic residue codes of length 24 modulo $2^m$ and modulo $3^m$, for any positive $m$.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302133
Let C be a smooth complex projective curve of genus at least 2 and let M be the moduli space of rank 2, stable vector bundles on C, with fixed determinant of degree 1. For any k>1, we find two irreducible components of the space of rational curves of degree k on M. One component, which we call the nice component has the property that the general element is a very free curve if k is sufficiently large. The other component has the general element a free curve. Both components have the expected dimension and their maximal rationally connected fibration is the Jacobian of the curve C.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302134
For the implicit systems of first order ordinary differential equations on the plane there is presented the complete local classification of generic singularities of family of its phase curves up to smooth orbital equivalence. Besides the well known singularities of generic vector fields on the plane and the singularities described by a generic first order implicit differential equations, there exists only one generic singularity described by the implicit first order equation supplied by Whitney umbrella surface generically embedded to the space of directions on the plane.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302135
This is a continuation of "Rational families of vector bundles on curves, I". Let C be a smooth projective curve of genus at least 2 and let M be the moduli space of rank 2, stable vector bundles on C, with fixed determinant of degree 1. For any k>0, we find all the irreducible components of the space of rational curves of degree k on M and their maximal rationally connected quotients.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302136
Let $W$ be a finite Weyl group of classical type which may not be irreducible, $F$ an algebraically closed field, $q$ an invertible element of $F$. We denote by $\mathcal H_W(q)$ the associated Hecke algebra. If $q=1$ then it is $FW$ and we know the representation type. Thus, we assume that $q\ne 1$. Let $P_W(x)$ be the Poincare polynomial of $W$. It is well-known that $\mathcal H_W(q)$ is semisimple if and only if $x-q$ does not divide $P_W(x)$. We show that the similar results hold for finiteness, tameness and wildness. In other words, the Poincare polynomial governs the representation type of $\mathcal H_W(q)$ completely. Note that the finiteness result was already given in the author's previous papers, some of which were written with Andrew Mathas. The proof uses the Fock space theory, which was developed for proving the LLT conjecture (see AMS Univ. Lec. Ser. 26), the Specht module theory, which was developed by Dipper, James and Murphy in this case, and results from the theory of finite dimensional algebras.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302137
In order to obtain solutions to problem $$ {{array}{c} -\Delta u=\dfrac{A+h(x)} {|x|^2}u+k(x)u^{2^*-1}, x\in {\mathbb R}^N, u>0 \hbox{in}{\mathbb R}^N, {and}u\in {\mathcal D}^{1,2}({\mathbb R}^N), {array}. $$ $h$ and $k$ must be chosen taking into account not only the size of some norm but the shape. Moreover, if $h(x)\equiv 0$, to reach multiplicity of solution, some hypotheses about the local behaviour of $k$ close to the points of maximum are needed.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302138
We prove the Andre-Oort conjecture on special points of Shimura varieties for arbitrary products of modular curves, assuming the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis. More explicitly, this means the following. Let n be a positive integer, and let S be a subset of C^n (with C the complex numbers) consisting of points all of whose coordinates are j-invariants of elliptic curves with complex multiplications. Then we prove (under GRH) that the irreducible components of the Zariski closure of S are ``special subvarieties'', i.e., determined by isogeny conditions on coordinates and pairs of coordinates. A weaker variant is proved unconditionally.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302139
We construct a finite 1-connected CW complex X such that $H_*(\Omega X; Z)$ has p-torsion for the infinitely many primes satisfying p ~ 5,7,17,19 mod 24, but no p-torsion for the infinitely many primes satisfying p ~ 13 or 23 mod 24.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302140
If A is a graded connected algebra then we define a new invariant, polydepth A, which is finite if $Ext_A^*(M,A) \neq 0$ for some A-module M of at most polynomial growth. Theorem 1: If f : X \to Y is a continuous map of finite category, and if the orbits of H_*(\Omega Y) acting in the homology of the homotopy fibre grow at most polynomially, then H_*(\Omega Y) has finite polydepth. Theorem 2: If L is a graded Lie algebra and polydepth UL is finite then either L is solvable and UL grows at most polynomially or else for some integer d and all r, $\sum_{i=k+1}^{k+d} {dim} L_i \geq k^r$, $k\geq$ some $k(r)$.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302141
Given a pair of dynamical systems we consider a pair of commuting von Neumann factors of type 11_1. The construction is a generalization of classical von Neumann-Murrey and grouppoid construction. It gives a natural examples of factors with non-unit coupling constant.As the partial cases we obtain Connes-Riffel-Faddeev examples of the representations of rotation algebra. We give also an example for infinite symmetric group.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302142
We revisit the ladder operators for orthogonal polynomials and re-interpret two supplementary conditions as compatibility conditions of two linear over-determined systems; one involves the variation of the polynomials with respect to the variable z (spectral parameter) and the other a recurrence relation in n (the lattice variable). For the Jacobi weight w(x) = (1-x)^a(1+x)^b, x in [-1,1],we show how to use the compatibility conditions to explicitly determine the recurrence coefficients of the monic Jacobi polynomials.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302143
In a recent paper, Dimca and Nemethi pose the problem of finding a homogeneous polynomial f such that the homology of the complement of the hypersurface defined by f is torsion-free, but the homology of the Milnor fiber of f has torsion. We prove that this is indeed possible, and show by construction that, for each prime p, there is a polynomial with p-torsion in the homology of the Milnor fiber. The techniques make use of properties of characteristic varieties of hyperplane arrangements.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302144
We prove lower bounds on $||T_t||$, where $T_t$ is a one-parameter semigroup, starting from information on the resolvent norms, i.e. the pseudospectra. We provide a physically important example in which the growth of the semigroup norm cannot be derived from spectral information. The generator is a self-adjoint Schr\"odinger operator, but the semigroup growth is measured using the $L^1$ norm rather than the $L^2$ norm. Numerical confirmation of the results is provided.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302145
We discuss the problems arising when computing eigenvalues of self-adjoint operators which lie in a gap between two parts of the essential spectrum. Spectral pollution, i.e. the apparent existence of eigenvalues in numerical computations, when no such eigenvalues actually exist, is commonplace in problems arising in applied mathematics. We describe a geometrically inspired method which avoids this difficulty, and show that it yields the same results as an algorithm of Zimmermann and Mertins.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302146
We define an analog of the Poisson integral formula for a family of the non-commutative Lobachevsky spaces. The $q$-Fourier transform of the Poisson kernel is expressed through the $q$-Bessel-Macdonald function.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302147
Let N_q(g) the maximal number of points on a genus g curve over F_q. We prove that N_3(5)=13.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302148
We present several formulae for the Selberg type integrals associated with the Lie algebra $sl_3$.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302149
In this article, we calculate the period determinant of an irrgular singular connection d+dy on the legendre curve U: y^2 =x(x-1)(x- lambda). We calculate its de Rham cohomology and the cycles in the homology of the dual connection and describe the period matrix. Terasoma's work is introduced to approximate the direct image connection pi_*(\nabla) by a sequence of regular connections as an intermediate step where pi:U -> A^1(y), (x,y) |-> y. Finally, we will compare the period obtained by this approximation of the direct image connection and the original.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302150
By applying the symplectic cutting operation to cotangent bundles, one can construct a large number of interesting symplectic cones. In this paper we show how to attach algebras of pseudodifferential operators to such cones and describe the symbolic properties of the algebras.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302151
We study a class of perverse sheaves on the variety of pairs (P,gU_P) where P runs through a conjugacy class of parabolics in a connected reductive group G and gU_P runs through G/U_P. This is a generalization of the theory of character sheaves.
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arxiv_abstracts
math/0302152
We survey some recent results and constructions of almost-K\"ahler manifolds whose curvature tensors have certain algebraic symmetries. This is an updated and corrected version of the (to be) published manuscript.
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