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AF‐embeddability for Lie groups with T1 primitive ideal spaces J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2021-01-14 Ingrid Beltiţă; Daniel Beltiţă
We study simply connected Lie groups G for which the hull‐kernel topology of the primitive ideal space Prim ( G ) of the group C ∗ ‐algebra C ∗ ( G ) is T 1 , that is, the finite subsets of Prim ( G ) are closed. Thus, we prove that C ∗ ( G ) is AF‐embeddable. To this end, we show that if G is solvable and its action on the centre of [ G , G ] has at least one imaginary weight, then Prim ( G ) has
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Strengthened inequalities for the mean width and the ℓ‐norm J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2021-01-13 Károly J. Böröczky; Ferenc Fodor; Daniel Hug
Barthe proved that the regular simplex maximizes the mean width of convex bodies whose John ellipsoid (maximal volume ellipsoid contained in the body) is the Euclidean unit ball; or equivalently, the regular simplex maximizes the ℓ ‐norm of convex bodies whose Löwner ellipsoid (minimal volume ellipsoid containing the body) is the Euclidean unit ball. Schmuckenschläger verified the reverse statement;
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The Strong Maximal Rank conjecture and higher rank Brill–Noether theory J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2021-01-13 Ethan Cotterill; Adrián Alonso Gonzalo; Naizhen Zhang
In this paper, we compute the cohomology class of certain ‘special maximal‐rank loci’ originally defined by Aprodu and Farkas. By showing that such classes are non‐zero, we are able to verify the non‐emptiness portion of the Strong Maximal Rank Conjecture in a wide range of cases. As an application, we obtain new evidence for the existence portion of a well‐known conjecture due to Bertram, Feinberg
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Homogenization of random convolution energies J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2021-01-12 Andrea Braides; Andrey Piatnitski
We prove a homogenization theorem for a class of quadratic convolution energies with random coefficients. Under suitably stated hypotheses of ergodicity and stationarity, we prove that the Γ ‐limit of such energy is almost surely a deterministic quadratic Dirichlet‐type integral functional, whose integrand can be characterized through an asymptotic formula. The proof of this characterization relies
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Optimization results for the higher eigenvalues of the p‐Laplacian associated with sign‐changing capacitary measures J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2021-01-12 Marco Degiovanni; Dario Mazzoleni
In this paper we prove the existence of an optimal set for the minimization of the k th variational eigenvalue of the p ‐Laplacian among p ‐quasi open sets of fixed measure included in a box of finite measure. An analogous existence result is obtained for eigenvalues of the p ‐Laplacian associated with Schrödinger potentials. In order to deal with these nonlinear shape optimization problems, we develop
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On the L‐invariant of the adjoint of a weight one modular form J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2021-01-12 Marti Roset; Victor Rotger; Vinayak Vatsal
The purpose of this article is proving the equality of two natural L ‐invariants attached to the adjoint representation of a weight one cusp form, each defined by purely analytic, respectively, algebraic means. The proof departs from Greenberg's definition of the algebraic L ‐invariant as a universal norm of a canonical Z p ‐extension of Q p associated to the representation. We relate it to a certain
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C1,1 regularity of geodesics of singular Kähler metrics J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2021-01-09 Jianchun Chu; Nicholas McCleerey
We show the optimal C 1 , 1 regularity of geodesics in nef and big cohomology class on Kähler manifolds away from the non‐Kähler locus, assuming sufficiently regular initial data. As a special case, we prove the C 1 , 1 regularity of geodesics of Kähler metrics on compact Kähler varieties away from the singular locus. Our main novelty is an improved boundary estimate for the complex Monge–Ampère equation
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Oscillating wandering domains for functions with escaping singular values J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2021-01-09 Kirill Lazebnik
We construct a transcendental entire f : C → C such that (1) f has bounded singular set, (2) f has a wandering domain, and (3) each singular value of f escapes to infinity under iteration by f .
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On arithmetic sums of fractal sets in Rd J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-12-29 De‐Jun Feng; Yu‐Feng Wu
A compact set E ⊂ R d is said to be arithmetically thick if there exists a positive integer n so that the n ‐fold arithmetic sum of E has non‐empty interior. We prove the arithmetic thickness of E , if E is uniformly non‐flat, in the sense that there exists ε 0 > 0 such that for x ∈ E and 0 < r ⩽ diam ( E ) , E ∩ B ( x , r ) never stays ε 0 r ‐close to a hyperplane in R d . Moreover, we prove the arithmetic
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The size‐Ramsey number of powers of bounded degree trees J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-12-27 Sören Berger; Yoshiharu Kohayakawa; Giulia Satiko Maesaka; Taísa Martins; Walner Mendonça; Guilherme Oliveira Mota; Olaf Parczyk
Given a positive integer s , the s ‐colour size‐Ramsey number of a graph H is the smallest integer m such that there exists a graph G with m edges with the property that, in any colouring of E ( G ) with s colours, there is a monochromatic copy of H . We prove that, for any positive integers k and s , the s ‐colour size‐Ramsey number of the k th power of any n ‐vertex bounded degree tree is linear
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The moduli space of cubic surface pairs via the intermediate Jacobians of Eckardt cubic threefolds J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Sebastian Casalaina‐Martin; Zheng Zhang
We study the moduli space of pairs consisting of a smooth cubic surface and a smooth hyperplane section, via a Hodge theoretic period map due to Laza, Pearlstein, and the second‐named author. The construction associates to such a pair a so‐called Eckardt cubic threefold, admitting an involution, and the period map sends the pair to the anti‐invariant part of the intermediate Jacobian of this cubic
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Real Springer fibers and odd arc algebras J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Jens Niklas Eberhardt; Grégoire Naisse; Arik Wilbert
We give a topological description of the two‐row Springer fiber over the real numbers. We show its cohomology ring coincides with the oddification of the cohomology ring of the complex Springer fiber introduced by Lauda–Russell. We also realize Ozsváth–Rasmussen–Szabó's odd TQFT from pullbacks and exceptional pushforwards along inclusion and projection maps between hypertori. Using these results, we
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Partial sums of random multiplicative functions and extreme values of a model for the Riemann zeta function J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Marco Aymone; Winston Heap; Jing Zhao
We consider partial sums of a weighted Steinhaus random multiplicative function and view this as a model for the Riemann zeta function. We give a description of the tails and high moments of this object. Using these we determine the likely maximum of T log T independently sampled copies of our sum and find that this is in agreement with a conjecture of Farmer–Gonek–Hughes on the maximum of the Riemann
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Sparse Kneser graphs are Hamiltonian J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Torsten Mütze; Jerri Nummenpalo; Bartosz Walczak
For integers k ⩾ 1 and n ⩾ 2 k + 1 , the Kneser graph K ( n , k ) is the graph whose vertices are the k ‐element subsets of { 1 , … , n } and whose edges connect pairs of subsets that are disjoint. The Kneser graphs of the form K ( 2 k + 1 , k ) are also known as the odd graphs. We settle an old problem due to Meredith, Lloyd, and Biggs from the 1970s, proving that for every k ⩾ 3 , the odd graph K
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Delayed blow‐up for chemotaxis models with local sensing J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Martin Burger; Philippe Laurençot; Ariane Trescases
The aim of this paper is to analyze a model for chemotaxis based on a local sensing mechanism instead of the gradient sensing mechanism used in the celebrated minimal Keller–Segel model. The model we study has the same entropy as the minimal Keller–Segel model, but a different dynamics to minimize this entropy. Consequently, the conditions on the mass for the existence of stationary solutions or blow‐up
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Compatible Poisson brackets associated with 2‐splittings and Poisson commutative subalgebras of S(g) J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Dmitri I. Panyushev; Oksana S. Yakimova
Let S ( g ) be the symmetric algebra of a reductive Lie algebra g equipped with the standard Poisson structure. If C ⊂ S ( g ) is a Poisson‐commutative subalgebra, then tr . deg C ⩽ b ( g ) , where b ( g ) = ( dim g + rk g ) / 2 . We present a method for constructing the Poisson‐commutative subalgebra Z ⟨ h , r ⟩ of transcendence degree b ( g ) via a vector space decomposition g = h ⊕ r into a sum
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Higher genus relative Gromov–Witten theory and double ramification cycles J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-12-06 H. Fan; L. Wu; F. You
We extend the definition of relative Gromov–Witten invariants with negative contact orders to all genera. Then we show that relative Gromov–Witten theory forms a partial CohFT. Some cycle relations on the moduli space of stable maps are also proved.
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On the monoidal center of Deligne's category Re̲p(St) J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Johannes Flake; Robert Laugwitz
We explicitly compute a monoidal subcategory of the monoidal center of Deligne's interpolation category Re ̲ p ( S t ) , for t not necessarily a natural number, and we show that this subcategory is a ribbon category. For t = n , a natural number, there exists a functor onto the braided monoidal category of modules over the Drinfeld double of S n which is essentially surjective and full. Hence the new
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Open and discrete maps with piecewise linear branch set images are piecewise linear maps J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Rami Luisto; Eden Prywes
The image of the branch set of a piecewise linear (PL)‐branched cover between PL n ‐manifolds is a simplicial ( n − 2 ) ‐complex. We demonstrate that the reverse implication also holds: an open and discrete map f : S n → S n with the image of the branch set contained in a simplicial ( n − 2 ) ‐complex is equivalent up to homeomorphism to a PL‐branched cover.
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Nonlinear stability of phase transition steady states to a hyperbolic–parabolic system modeling vascular networks J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Guangyi Hong; Hongyun Peng; Zhi‐An Wang; Changjiang Zhu
This paper is concerned with the existence and stability of phase transition steady states to a quasi‐linear hyperbolic–parabolic system of chemotactic aggregation, which was proposed in [Ambrosi, Bussolino and Preziosi, J. Theoret. Med. 6 (2005) 1–19; Gamba et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 (2003) 118101.] to describe the coherent vascular network formation observed in vitro experiment. Considering the
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The double point formula with isolated singularities and canonical embeddings J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-10-07 Fabrizio Catanese; Keiji Oguiso
Motivated by the embedding problem of canonical models in small codimension, we extend Severi's double point formula to the case of surfaces with rational double points, and we give more general double point formulae for varieties with isolated singularities. A concrete application is for surfaces with geometric genus p g = 5 : the canonical model is embedded in P 4 if and only if we have a complete
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Infinite families of hyperbolic 3‐manifolds with finite‐dimensional skein modules J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Renaud Detcherry
The Kauffman bracket skein module K ( M ) of a 3‐manifold M is the quotient of the Q ( A ) ‐vector space spanned by isotopy classes of links in M by the Kauffman relations. A conjecture of Witten states that if M is closed, then K ( M ) is finite dimensional. We introduce a version of this conjecture for manifolds with boundary and prove a stability property for generic Dehn filling of knots. As a
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Orders of units in integral group rings and blocks of defect 1 J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Mauricio Caicedo; Leo Margolis
We show that if a Sylow p ‐subgroup of a finite group G is of order p , then the normalized unit group of the integral group ring of G contains a normalized unit of order p q if and only if G contains an element of order p q , where q is any prime. We use this result to answer the Prime Graph Question for most sporadic simple groups and some simple groups of Lie type, including seven new infinite series'
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Resolutions of standard modules over KLR algebras of type A J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Doeke Buursma; Alexander Kleshchev; David J. Steinberg
Khovanov–Lauda–Rouquier algebras R θ of finite Lie type are affine quasi‐hereditary with standard modules Δ ( π ) labeled by Kostant partitions π of θ . In type A , we construct explicit projective resolutions of standard modules Δ ( π ) .
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Nondiscrete parabolic characters of the free group F2: supergroup density and Nielsen classes in the complement of the Riley slice J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-11-29 Gaven J. Martin
A parabolic representation of the free group F 2 is one in which the images of both generators are parabolic elements of P S L ( 2 , C ) . Roughly the Riley slice is an open subset R ⊂ C which is a model for the parabolic, discrete and faithful characters of F 2 . The complement of the closure of the Riley slice is a bounded Jordan domain within which there are isolated points, accumulating only at
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On singularity properties of convolutions of algebraic morphisms ‐ the general case J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-11-29 Itay Glazer; Yotam I. Hendel
Let K be a field of characteristic zero, X and Y be smooth K ‐varieties, and let G be an algebraic K ‐group. Given two algebraic morphisms φ : X → G and ψ : Y → G , we define their convolution φ ∗ ψ : X × Y → G by φ ∗ ψ ( x , y ) = φ ( x ) · ψ ( y ) . We then show that this operation yields morphisms with improved smoothness properties. More precisely, we show that for any morphism φ : X → G which
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Synchronicity phenomenon in cluster patterns J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-11-29 Tomoki Nakanishi
It has been known that several objects such as cluster variables, coefficients, seeds, and Y ‐seeds in different cluster patterns with common exchange matrices share the same periodicity under mutations. We call it synchronicity phenomenon in cluster patterns. In this expository note we explain the mechanism of synchronicity based on several fundamental results on cluster algebra theory such as separation
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Some new results in random matrices over finite fields J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-11-26 Kyle Luh; Sean Meehan; Hoi H. Nguyen
In this note, we give various characterizations of random walks with possibly different steps that have relatively large discrepancy from the uniform distribution modulo a prime p , and use these results to study the distribution of the rank of random matrices over F p and the equi‐distribution behavior of normal vectors of random hyperplanes. We also study the probability that a random square matrix
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Constructing convex projective 3‐manifolds with generalized cusps J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-11-24 Samuel A. Ballas
We prove that non‐compact finite volume hyperbolic 3‐manifolds that satisfy a mild cohomological condition (infinitesimal rigidity) admit a family of properly convex deformations of their complete hyperbolic structure where the ends become generalized cusps of type 1 or type 2. We also discuss methods for controlling which types of cusps occur. Using these methods we produce the first known example
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On affine invariant and local Loomis–Whitney type inequalities J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-11-24 David Alonso‐Gutiérrez; Julio Bernués; Silouanos Brazitikos; Anthony Carbery
We prove various extensions of the Loomis–Whitney inequality and its dual, where the subspaces on which the projections (or sections) are considered are either spanned by vectors w i of a not necessarily orthonormal basis of R n , or their orthogonal complements. In order to prove such inequalities, we estimate the constant in the Brascamp–Lieb inequality in terms of the vectors w i . Restricted and
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Almost everywhere convergence of Bochner–Riesz means on Heisenberg‐type groups J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Adam D. Horwich; Alessio Martini
We prove an almost everywhere convergence result for Bochner–Riesz means of L p functions on Heisenberg‐type groups, yielding the existence of a p > 2 for which convergence holds for means of arbitrarily small order. The proof hinges on a reduction of weighted L 2 estimates for the maximal Bochner–Riesz operator to corresponding estimates for the non‐maximal operator, and a ‘dual Sobolev trace lemma’
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On the counting problem in inverse Littlewood–Offord theory J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Asaf Ferber; Vishesh Jain; Kyle Luh; Wojciech Samotij
Let ε 1 , … , ε n be independent and identically distributed Rademacher random variables taking values ± 1 with probability 1 / 2 each. Given an integer vector a = ( a 1 , … , a n ) , its concentration probability is the quantity ρ ( a ) : = sup x ∈ Z Pr ( ε 1 a 1 + ⋯ + ε n a n = x ) . The Littlewood–Offord problem asks for bounds on ρ ( a ) under various hypotheses on a , whereas the inverse Littlewood–Offord
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Algebraic criteria for Lipschitz equivalence of dust‐like self‐similar sets J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-11-22 Li‐Feng Xi; Ying Xiong
This paper concerns the Lipschitz equivalence of dust‐like self‐similar sets with commensurable ratios. We obtain an algebraic criterion of Falconer–Marsh type to check whether such two self‐similar sets are Lipschitz equivalent, and prove that it is a sufficient and necessary condition.
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Applications of the moduli continuity method to log K‐stable pairs J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-11-04 Patricio Gallardo; Jesus Martinez‐Garcia; Cristiano Spotti
The ‘moduli continuity method’ permits an explicit algebraisation of the Gromov–Hausdorff compactification of Kähler–Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds in some fundamental examples. In this paper, we apply such method in the ‘log setting’ to describe explicitly some compact moduli spaces of K‐polystable log Fano pairs. We focus on situations when the angle of singularities is perturbed in an interval
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The joint spectrum J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 Emmanuel Breuillard; Cagri Sert
We introduce the notion of joint spectrum of a compact set of matrices S ⊂ GL d ( C ) , which is a multi‐dimensional generalization of the joint spectral radius. We begin with a thorough study of its properties (under various assumptions: irreducibility, Zariski‐density, and domination). Several classical properties of the joint spectral radius are shown to hold in this generalized setting and an analogue
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Maximal entropy measures of diffeomorphisms of circle fiber bundles J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Raúl Ures; Marcelo Viana; Jiagang Yang
We characterize the maximal entropy measures of partially hyperbolic C 2 diffeomorphisms whose center foliations form circle bundles, by means of suitable finite sets of saddle points, that we call skeletons.
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Minimising Hausdorff dimension under Hölder equivalence J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Samuel Colvin
We study the infimal value of the Hausdorff dimension of spaces that are Hölder equivalent to a given metric space; we call this bi‐Hölder‐invariant ‘Hölder dimension’. This definition and some of our methods are analogous to those used in the study of conformal dimension. We prove that Hölder dimension is bounded above by capacity dimension for compact, doubling metric spaces. As a corollary, we obtain
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Arithmetic hyperbolicity and a stacky Chevalley–Weil theorem J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Ariyan Javanpeykar; Daniel Loughran
We prove an analogue for algebraic stacks of Hermite–Minkowski's finiteness theorem from algebraic number theory, and establish a Chevalley–Weil type theorem for integral points on stacks. As an application of our results, we prove analogues of the Shafarevich conjecture for some surfaces of general type.
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Tilting modules for classical Lie superalgebras J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Chih‐Whi Chen; Shun‐Jen Cheng; Kevin Coulembier
We study tilting and projective‐injective modules in a parabolic BGG category O for an arbitrary classical Lie superalgebra. We establish a version of Ringel duality for this type of Lie superalgebras which allows to express the characters of tilting modules in terms of those of simple modules in that category. We also obtain a classification of projective‐injective modules in the full BGG category
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Spectral disjointness of rescalings of some surface flows J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Przemyslaw Berk; Adam Kanigowski
We study self‐similarity problem for two classes of flows: (1) special flows over circle rotations and under roof functions with symmetric logarithmic singularities (2) special flows over interval exchange transformations and under roof functions which are of two types piecewise constant with one additional discontinuity which is not a discontinuity of the IET; piecewise linear over exchanged intervals
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Optimal time‐decay rates for the 3D compressible Magnetohydrodynamic flows with discontinuous initial data and large oscillations J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Guochun Wu; Yinghui Zhang; Weiyuan Zou
This paper is concerned with time‐decay rates of the weak solutions to the 3D compressible magnetohydrodynamic flows with discontinuous initial data and large oscillations. The global existence of weak solutions to the Cauchy problem of the 3D compressible magnetohydrodynamic flows has been established by Suen–Hoff (Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 205 (2012) 27–58) and Suen (J. Differential Equations 268
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Vanishing cycles of matrix singularities J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Victor Goryunov
We study local singularities of holomorphic families of arbitrary square, symmetric and skew‐symmetric matrices, that is, of mappings of smooth manifolds to the matrix spaces. Our main object is the vanishing topology of the pre‐images of the hypersurface Δ of all degenerate matrices in assumption that the dimension of the source is at least the codimension of the singular locus of Δ in the ambient
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Webs of rational curves on real surfaces and a classification of real weak del Pezzo surfaces J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Niels Lubbes
We classify webs of minimal degree rational curves on surfaces and give a criterion for webs being hexagonal. In addition, we classify Neron–Severi lattices of real weak del Pezzo surfaces. These two classifications are related to root subsystems of E8.
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Sylow branching coefficients for symmetric groups J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-10-13 Eugenio Giannelli; Stacey Law
Let p ⩾ 5 be a prime and let n be a natural number. In this article, we describe the irreducible constituents of the induced characters ϕ ↑ S n for arbitrary linear characters ϕ of a Sylow p ‐subgroup P n of the symmetric group S n , generalising results of Giannelli and Law (J. Algebra 506 (2018) 409–428). By doing this, we introduce Sylow branching coefficients for symmetric groups.
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Local geometry of Jordan classes in semisimple algebraic groups J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-10-08 Filippo Ambrosio; Giovanna Carnovale; Francesco Esposito
We prove that the closure of every Jordan class J in a semisimple simply connected complex algebraic group G at a point x with Jordan decomposition x = r v is smoothly equivalent to the union of closures of those Jordan classes in the centraliser of r that are contained in J and contain x in their closure. For x unipotent, we also show that the closure of J around x is smoothly equivalent to the closure
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Yang–Baxter endomorphisms J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-10-07 Roberto Conti; Gandalf Lechner
Every unitary solution of the Yang–Baxter equation (R‐matrix) in dimension d can be viewed as a unitary element of the Cuntz algebra O d and as such defines an endomorphism of O d . These Yang–Baxter endomorphisms restrict and extend to several other C ∗ ‐ and von Neumann algebras, and furthermore define a II 1 factor associated with an extremal character of the infinite braid group. This paper is
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Uniqueness among scalar‐flat Kähler metrics on non‐compact toric 4‐manifolds J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-09-30 Rosa Sena‐Dias
In [Abreu and Sena‐Dias, Ann. Global Anal. Geom. 41 (2012) 209–239], the authors construct two distinct families of scalar‐flat Kähler non‐compact toric metrics using Donaldson's rephrasing of Joyce's construction in action‐angle coordinates. In this paper and using the same set‐up, we show that these are the only scalar‐flat Kähler metrics on any given strictly unbounded toric surface. We also show
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Rational approximation to real points on quadratic hypersurfaces J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-09-30 Anthony Poëls; Damien Roy
Let Z be a quadratic hypersurface of P n ( R ) defined over Q containing points whose coordinates are linearly independent over Q . We show that, among these points, the largest exponent of uniform rational approximation is the inverse 1 / ρ of an explicit Pisot number ρ < 2 depending only on n if the Witt index (over Q ) of the quadratic form q defining Z is at most 1, and that it is equal to 1 otherwise
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The fundamental group of the p‐subgroup complex J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Elías Gabriel Minian; Kevin Iván Piterman
We study the fundamental group of the p ‐subgroup complex of a finite group G . We show first that π 1 ( A 3 ( A 10 ) ) is not a free group (here A 10 is the alternating group on ten letters). This is the first concrete example in the literature of a p ‐subgroup complex with non‐free fundamental group. We prove that, modulo a well‐known conjecture of Aschbacher, π 1 ( A p ( G ) ) = π 1 ( A p ( S G
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The motivic zeta functions of a matroid J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-09-27 David Jensen; Max Kutler; Jeremy Usatine
We introduce motivic zeta functions for matroids. These zeta functions are defined as sums over the lattice points of Bergman fans, and in the realizable case, they coincide with the motivic Igusa zeta functions of hyperplane arrangements. We show that these motivic zeta functions satisfy a functional equation arising from matroid Poincaré duality in the sense of Adiprasito–Huh–Katz. In the process
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A flat torus theorem for convex co‐compact actions of projective linear groups J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-09-21 Mitul Islam; Andrew Zimmer
In this paper, we consider discrete groups in PGL d ( R ) acting convex co‐compactly on a properly convex domain in real projective space. For such groups, we establish an analogue of the well‐known flat torus theorem for CAT ( 0 ) spaces.
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The WYSIWYG compactification J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-09-16 Dawei Chen; Alex Wright
We show that the partial compactification of a stratum of Abelian differentials previously considered by Mirzakhani and Wright is not an algebraic variety. Despite this, we use a combination of algebro‐geometric and other methods to provide a short, unconditional proof of Mirzakhani and Wright's formula for the tangent space to the boundary of a G L + ( 2 , R ) orbit closure, and give new results on
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Conformal transformations of the pseudo‐Riemannian metric of a homogeneous pair J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-09-16 Kotaro Kawai
We introduce a new notion of a homogeneous pair for a pseudo‐Riemannian metric g and a positive function f on a manifold M admitting a free R > 0 ‐action. There are many examples admitting this structure. For example, (a) a class of pseudo‐Hessian manifolds admitting a free R > 0 ‐action and a homogeneous potential function such as the moduli space of torsion‐free G 2 ‐structures, (b) the space of
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A semicircle law and decorrelation phenomena for iterated Kolmogorov loops J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-09-16 Karen Habermann
We consider a standard one‐dimensional Brownian motion on the time interval [0,1] conditioned to have vanishing iterated time integrals up to order N . We show that the resulting processes can be expressed explicitly in terms of shifted Legendre polynomials and the original Brownian motion, and we use these representations to prove that the processes converge weakly as N → ∞ to the zero process. This
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Harmonic surfaces in the Cayley plane J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-09-07 N. Correia; R. Pacheco; M. Svensson
We consider the twistor theory of nilconformal harmonic maps from a Riemann surface into the Cayley plane O P 2 = F 4 / Spin ( 9 ) . By exhibiting this symmetric space as a submanifold of the Grassmannian of 10‐dimensional subspaces of the fundamental representation of F 4 , techniques and constructions similar to those used in earlier works on twistor constructions of nilconformal harmonic maps into
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Small Gál sums and applications J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-09-07 Régis de la Bretèche; Marc Munsch; Gérald Tenenbaum
In recent years, maximizing Gál sums regained interest due to a firm link with large values of L ‐functions. In the present paper, we initiate an investigation of small sums of Gál type, with respect to the L 1 ‐norm. We also consider the intertwined question of minimizing weighted versions of the usual multiplicative energy. We apply our estimates to: (i) a logarithmic refinement of Burgess' bound
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Geometry of intersections of some secant varieties to algebraic curves J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-09-07 Mara Ungureanu
For a smooth projective curve, the cycles of subordinate or, more generally, secant divisors to a given linear series are among some of the most studied objects in classical enumerative geometry. We consider the intersection of two such cycles corresponding to secant divisors of two different linear series on the same curve and investigate the validity of the enumerative formulae counting the number
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Sectional monodromy groups of projective curves J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-09-07 Borys Kadets
Fix a degree d projective curve X ⊂ P r over an algebraically closed field K . Let U ⊂ ( P r ) ∗ be a dense open subvariety such that every hyperplane H ∈ U intersects X in d smooth points. Varying H ∈ U produces the monodromy action φ : π 1 ét ( U ) → S d . Let G X ≔ im ( φ ) . The permutation group G X is called the sectional monodromy group of X . In characteristic 0, G X is always the full symmetric
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Quantitative level lowering for Galois representations J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-08-19 Najmuddin Fakhruddin; Chandrashekhar Khare; Ravi Ramakrishna
We use Galois cohomology methods to produce optimal mod p d level lowering congruences to a p ‐adic Galois representation that we construct as a well‐chosen lift of a given residual mod p representation. Using our explicit Galois cohomology methods, for F a number field, Γ F its absolute Galois group and G a reductive group, k a finite field and a suitable representation ρ ¯ : Γ F → G ( k ) , ramified
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Wild globally hyperbolic maximal anti‐de Sitter structures J. Lond. Math. Soc. (IF 1.121) Pub Date : 2020-08-19 Andrea Tamburelli
Let Σ be a connected, oriented surface with punctures and negative Euler characteristic. We introduce wild globally hyperbolic anti‐de Sitter structures on Σ × R and provide two parameterisations of their deformation space: as a quotient of the product of two copies of the Teichmüller space of crowned hyperbolic surfaces and as the bundle over the Teichmüller space of Σ of meromorphic quadratic differentials
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