Problème de Dirichlet pour une équation de Monge-Ampère réelle elliptique dégénérée en dimension

RÉSUMÉ. On considère dans un ouvert borné de , à bord régulier, le problème de Dirichlet

où , est positive et s'annule sur un ensemble fini de points de . On démontre alors sous certaines hypothèses sur et si est assez petit, que le problème (1) possède une solution convexe unique .

ABSTRACT. We consider in a bounded open set of , with regular boundary, the Dirichlet problem

where , is positive and vanishes on , a finite set of points in . We prove, under some hypothesis on and if is sufficiently small, that the problem (1) has a unique convex solution .

     

Counting integral Lamé equations by means of dessins d'enfants

We obtain an explicit formula for the number of Lamé equations (modulo linear changes of variable) with index and projective monodromy group of order , for given and . This is done by performing the combinatorics of the `dessins d'enfants' associated to the Belyi covers which transform hypergeometric equations into Lamé equations by pull-back.

     

Torsion freeness of symmetric powers of ideals

Let be an ideal in a Noetherian commutative ring with unit, let be an integer, and let be the canonical surjective -module homomorphism from the th symmetric power of to the th power of . When or when is a perfect Gorenstein ideal of grade , we provide a necessary and sufficient condition for to be an isomorphism in terms of upper bounds for the minimal number of generators of the localisations of . When is a maximal ideal of we show that is an isomorphism if and only if is a regular local ring. In all three cases for our results yield that if is an isomorphism, then is also an isomorphism for each .

     

A single minimal complement for the c.e. degrees

We show that there exists a minimal (Turing) degree such that for all non-zero c.e. degrees , . Since is minimal this means that complements all c.e. degrees other than and . Since every -c.e. degree bounds a non-zero c.e. degree, complements every -c.e. degree other than and .

     

Compatible valuations and generalized Milnor -theory

Given a field and a subgroup of there is a minimal group for which there exists an -compatible valuation whose units are contained in . Assuming that has finite index in and contains for prime, we describe in computable -theoretic terms.

     

Boundary blow-up in nonlinear elliptic equations of Bieberbach-Rademacher type

We establish the uniqueness of the positive solution for equations of the form in , . The special feature is to consider nonlinearities whose variation at infinity is not regular (e.g., , , , , , , or ) and functions in vanishing on . The main innovation consists of using Karamata's theory not only in the statement/proof of the main result but also to link the nonregular variation of at infinity with the blow-up rate of the solution near .

     

Construction de certaines opérades et bigèbres associées aux polytopes de Stasheff et hypercubes

Stasheff polytopes, introduced by Stasheff in his study of -spaces, are linked to associativity. The direct sum of their cellular complexes is the underlying complex of the operad which describes homotopy associative algebras. In particular, there exists a quasi-isomorphism .

Here, we define on the direct sum of their dual cellular complexes the structure of a differential graded operad. This construction extends the dendriform operad of Loday, which corresponds to the vertices of the polytopes. We also define the structure of a differential graded operad on the direct sum of the dual cellular complexes of the hypercubes. We define a quasi-isomorphism from to each of these operads.

We also define non-differential variants of the two preceding operads and a morphism from to each of these operads. We show that the free algebras have a coproduct which turns them into bialgebras.

RÉSUMÉ. Les polytopes de Stasheff, introduits pour l'étude des -espaces, sont liés à l'associativité. La somme directe de leurs complexes cellulaires forme le complexe sous-jacent à l'opérade qui décrit les algèbres associatives à homotopie près. En particulier, il existe un quasi-isomorphisme .

Ici, on munit la somme directe des duaux de leurs complexes cellulaires d'une structure d'opérade différentielle graduée. Cette construction généralise l'opérade des algèbres dendriformes de Loday, qui correspond aux sommets des polytopes. On munit aussi la somme directe des duaux des complexes cellulaires des hypercubes d'une structure d'opérade différentielle graduée. On définit un quasi-isomorphisme de dans chacune de ces deux opérades.

On construit également des variantes non différentielles des deux opérades précédentes. On définit un morphisme de dans chacune de ces opérades et on montre que les algèbres libres sont munies d'un coproduit coassociatif qui en fait des bigèbres.

     

Complex symmetric operators and applications II

A bounded linear operator on a complex Hilbert space is called complex symmetric if , where is a conjugation (an isometric, antilinear involution of ). We prove that , where is an auxiliary conjugation commuting with . We consider numerous examples, including the Poincaré-Neumann singular integral (bounded) operator and the Jordan model operator (compressed shift). The decomposition also extends to the class of unbounded -selfadjoint operators, originally introduced by Glazman. In this context, it provides a method for estimating the norms of the resolvents of certain unbounded operators.

     

The distance function from the boundary in a Minkowski space

Let the space be endowed with a Minkowski structure (that is, is the gauge function of a compact convex set having the origin as an interior point, and with boundary of class ), and let be the (asymmetric) distance associated to . Given an open domain of class , let be the Minkowski distance of a point from the boundary of . We prove that a suitable extension of to (which plays the rôle of a signed Minkowski distance to ) is of class in a tubular neighborhood of , and that is of class outside the cut locus of (that is, the closure of the set of points of nondifferentiability of in ). In addition, we prove that the cut locus of has Lebesgue measure zero, and that can be decomposed, up to this set of vanishing measure, into geodesics starting from and going into along the normal direction (with respect to the Minkowski distance). We compute explicitly the Jacobian determinant of the change of variables that associates to every point outside the cut locus the pair , where denotes the (unique) projection of on , and we apply these techniques to the analysis of PDEs of Monge-Kantorovich type arising from problems in optimal transportation theory and shape optimization.

     

Quadratic maps and Bockstein closed group extensions

Let be a central extension of the form where and are elementary abelian -groups. Associated to there is a quadratic map , given by the -power map, which uniquely determines the extension. This quadratic map also determines the extension class of the extension in and an ideal in which is generated by the components of . We say that is Bockstein closed if is an ideal closed under the Bockstein operator.

We find a direct condition on the quadratic map that characterizes when the extension is Bockstein closed. Using this characterization, we show for example that quadratic maps induced from the fundamental quadratic map given by yield Bockstein closed extensions.

On the other hand, it is well known that an extension is Bockstein closed if and only if it lifts to an extension for some -lattice . In this situation, one may write for a ``binding matrix' with entries in . We find a direct way to calculate the module structure of in terms of . Using this, we study extensions where the lattice is diagonalizable/triangulable and find interesting equivalent conditions to these properties.

     

On -adic intermediate Jacobians

For an algebraic variety of dimension with totally degenerate reduction over a -adic field (definition recalled below) and an integer with , we define a rigid analytic torus together with an Abel-Jacobi mapping to it from the Chow group of codimension algebraic cycles that are homologically equivalent to zero modulo rational equivalence. These tori are analogous to those defined by Griffiths using Hodge theory over . We compare and contrast the complex and -adic theories. Finally, we examine a special case of a -adic analogue of the Generalized Hodge Conjecture.

     

Spécialisation de la -équivalence pour les groupes réductifs

Soit un groupe réductif défini sur un corps de caractéristique distincte de . On montre que le groupes des classes de -équivalence de ne change pas lorsque l'on passe de au corps des séries de Laurent , c'est-à-dire que l'on a un isomorphisme naturel .

ABSTRACT. Let be a reductive group defined over a field of characteristic . We show that the group of -equivalence for is invariant by the change of fields given by the Laurent series. In other words, there is a natural isomorphism .

     

Vertex operator algebras, extended diagram, and McKay's observation on the Monster simple group

We study McKay's observation on the Monster simple group, which relates the -involutions of the Monster simple group to the extended diagram, using the theory of vertex operator algebras (VOAs). We first consider the sublattices of the lattice obtained by removing one node from the extended diagram at each time. We then construct a certain coset (or commutant) subalgebra associated with in the lattice VOA . There are two natural conformal vectors of central charge in such that their inner product is exactly the value predicted by Conway (1985). The Griess algebra of coincides with the algebra described in his Table 3. There is a canonical automorphism of of order . Such an automorphism can be extended to the Leech lattice VOA , and it is in fact a product of two Miyamoto involutions. In the sequel (2005) to this article, the properties of will be discussed in detail. It is expected that if is actually contained in the Moonshine VOA , the product of two Miyamoto involutions is in the desired conjugacy class of the Monster simple group.

     

The -stable pieces of the wonderful compactification

Let be a connected, simple algebraic group over an algebraically closed field. There is a partition of the wonderful compactification of into finite many -stable pieces, which was introduced by Lusztig. In this paper, we will investigate the closure of any -stable piece in . We will show that the closure is a disjoint union of some -stable pieces, which was first conjectured by Lusztig. We will also prove the existence of cellular decomposition if the closure contains finitely many -orbits.

     

The expansion factors of an outer automorphism and its inverse

A fully irreducible outer automorphism of the free group of rank  has an expansion factor which often differs from the expansion factor of . Nevertheless, we prove that the ratio between the logarithms of the expansion factors of and is bounded above by a constant depending only on the rank . We also prove a more general theorem applying to an arbitrary outer automorphism of and its inverse and their two spectrums of expansion factors.

     

Iwasawa theory for -local spectra

The Iwasawa algebra is a power series ring in one variable over the -adic integers. It has long been studied by number theorists in the context of -extensions of number fields. It also arises, however, as a ring of operations in -adic topological -theory. In this paper we study -local stable homotopy theory using the structure theory of modules over the Iwasawa algebra. In particular, for odd we classify -local spectra up to pseudo-equivalence (the analogue of pseudo-isomorphism for -modules) and give an Iwasawa-theoretic classification of the thick subcategories of the weakly dualizable spectra.

     

Finite generation of symmetric ideals

Let be a commutative Noetherian ring, and let be the polynomial ring in an infinite collection of indeterminates over . Let be the group of permutations of . The group acts on in a natural way, and this in turn gives the structure of a left module over the group ring . We prove that all ideals of invariant under the action of are finitely generated as -modules. The proof involves introducing a certain well-quasi-ordering on monomials and developing a theory of Gröbner bases and reduction in this setting. We also consider the concept of an invariant chain of ideals for finite-dimensional polynomial rings and relate it to the finite generation result mentioned above. Finally, a motivating question from chemistry is presented, with the above framework providing a suitable context in which to study it.

     

Parageometric outer automorphisms of free groups

We study those fully irreducible outer automorphisms of a finite rank free group which are parageometric, meaning that the attracting fixed point of  in the boundary of outer space is a geometric -tree with respect to the action of , but  itself is not a geometric outer automorphism in that it is not represented by a homeomorphism of a surface. Our main result shows that the expansion factor of is strictly larger than the expansion factor of . As corollaries (proved independently by Guirardel), the inverse of a parageometric outer automorphism is neither geometric nor parageometric, and a fully irreducible outer automorphism is geometric if and only if its attracting and repelling fixed points in the boundary of outer space are geometric -trees.

     

Projectivity and freeness over comodule algebras

Let be a Hopf algebra and an -simple right -comodule algebra. It is shown that under certain hypotheses every -Hopf module is either projective or free as an -module and is either a quasi-Frobenius or a semisimple ring. As an application it is proved that every weakly finite (in particular, every finite dimensional) Hopf algebra is free both as a left and a right module over its finite dimensional right coideal subalgebras, and the latter are Frobenius algebras. Similar results are obtained for -simple -module algebras.