We extend the notion of regular coherence from rings to additive categories and show that well-known consequences of regular coherence for rings also apply to additive categories. For instance, the negative K-groups and all twisted Nil-groups vanish for an additive category, if it is regular coherent. This will be applied to nested sequences of additive categories, motivated by our ongoing project to determine the algebraic K-theory of the Hecke algebra of a reductive p-adic group.

We discuss representations of product systems (of $W^*$-correspondences) over the semigroup $\mathbb{Z}^n_+$ and show that, under certain pureness and Szegö positivity conditions, a completely contractive representation can be dilated to an isometric representation. For $n=1,2$ this is known to hold in general (without assuming the conditions), but for $n\geq 3$, it does not hold in general (as is known for the special case of isometric dilations of a tuple of commuting contractions). Restricting to the case of tuples of commuting contractions, our result reduces to a result of Barik, Das, Haria, and Sarkar (Isometric dilations and von Neumann inequality for a class of tuples in the polydisc. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 372 (2019), 1429–1450). Our dilation is explicitly constructed, and we present some applications.

The monogenic free inverse semigroup $FI_1$ is not finitely presented as a semigroup due to the classic result by Schein (1975). We extend this result and prove that a finitely generated subsemigroup of $FI_1$ is finitely presented if and only if it contains only finitely many idempotents. As a consequence, we derive that an inverse subsemigroup of $FI_1$ is finitely presented as a semigroup if and only if it is a finite semilattice.

We consider the existence and stability of constrained solitary wave solutions to the generalized Ostrovsky equation

\begin{align*}\partial_x\left(\partial_t u+ \alpha\partial_x u+\partial_x(f(u))+\beta \partial_x^3u\right)=\gamma u,\quad \|u\|_{L^2}^2=\lambda \gt 0,\end{align*}

$f(s)=\alpha_0|s|^p+\alpha_1|s|^{p-1}s$

$\alpha_0,\alpha_1 \gt 0$

$\alpha\in\mathbb{R}$

$\beta\gamma=-1$

$1 \lt p \lt 5$

$\omega \gt \alpha-2$

We consider the space $\mathcal{P}_d$ of smooth complex projective plane curves of degree $d$. There is the tautological family of plane curves defined over $\mathcal{P}_d$, which has an associated monodromy representation $\rho _d: \pi _1(\mathcal{P}_d) \to \textrm{Mod}(\Sigma _g)$ into the mapping class group of the fiber. For $d \le 4$, classical algebraic geometry implies the surjectivity of $\rho _d$. For $d \ge 5$, the existence of a $(d-3)^{rd}$ root of the canonical bundle implies that $\rho _d$ cannot be surjective. The main result of this paper is that for $d = 5$, the image of $\rho _5$ is as large as possible, subject to this constraint. This requires combining the algebro-geometric work of Lönne with Johnson’s theory of the Torelli subgroup of $\textrm{Mod}(\Sigma _g)$.

We study the existence and strong instability of standing wave solutions for the fractional nonlinear Schrödinger equation

\begin{equation*}\begin{cases}\mathrm{i} \psi_{t}=\left(-\Delta\right)^s \psi-\left(|\psi|^{p-2}\psi+\mu|\psi|^{q-2}\psi\right), & \quad(t,x)\in(0,\infty)\times\mathbb{R}^N,\\\psi(0,x)=\psi_0(x),&\quad x\in\mathbb{R}^N,\end{cases}\end{equation*}

where $N\geq2$, $0 \lt s \lt 1$, $2 \lt q \lt p \lt 2_s^*=2N/(N-2s)$, and $\mu\in\mathbb{R}$. The primary challenge lies in the inhomogeneity of the nonlinearity.We deal with the following three cases: (i) for $2 \lt q \lt p \lt 2+4s/N$ and µ < 0, there exists a threshold mass a0 for the existence of the least energy normalized solution; (ii) for $2+4s/N \lt q \lt p \lt 2_s^*$ and µ > 0, we reveal the existence of the ground state solution, explore the strong instability of standing waves, and provide a blow-up criterion; (iii) for $2 \lt q\leq2+4s/N \lt p \lt 2_s^*$ and µ < 0, the strong instability of standing wave solutions is demonstrated. These findings are illuminated through variational characterizations, the profile decomposition, and the virial estimate.

The goal of this paper is to show that the theory of curvature invariant, as introduced by Arveson, admits a natural extension to the framework of ${\mathcal U}$-twisted polyballs $B^{\mathcal U}({\mathcal H})$ which consist of k-tuples $(A_1,\ldots, A_k)$ of row contractions $A_i=(A_{i,1},\ldots, A_{i,n_i})$ satisfying certain ${\mathcal U}$-commutation relations with respect to a set ${\mathcal U}$ of unitary commuting operators on a Hilbert space ${\mathcal H}$. Throughout this paper, we will be concerned with the curvature of the elements $A\in B^{\mathcal U}({\mathcal H})$ with positive trace class defect operator $\Delta_A(I)$. We prove the existence of the curvature invariant and present some of its basic properties. A distinguished role as a universal model among the pure elements in ${\mathcal U}$-twisted polyballs is played by the standard $I\otimes{\mathcal U}$-twisted multi-shift S acting on $\ell^2({\mathbb F}_{n_1}^+\times\cdots\times {\mathbb F}_{n_k}^+)\otimes {\mathcal H}$. The curvature invariant $\mathrm{curv} (A)$ can be any non-negative real number and measures the amount by which A deviates from the universal model S. Special attention is given to the $I\otimes {\mathcal U}$-twisted multi-shift S and the invariant subspaces (co-invariant) under S and $I\otimes {\mathcal U}$, due to the fact that any pure element $A\in B^{\mathcal U}({\mathcal H})$ with $\Delta_A(I)\geq 0$ is the compression of S to such a co-invariant subspace.