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We consider supercritical site percolation on the $d$-dimensional hypercube $Q^d$. We show that typically all components in the percolated hypercube, besides the giant, are of size $O(d)$. This resolves a conjecture of Bollobás, Kohayakawa, and Łuczak from 1994.
New classes of conditionally integrable systems of nonlinear reaction–diffusion equations are introduced. They are obtained by extending a well-known nonclassical symmetry of a scalar partial differential equation to a vector equation. New exact solutions of nonlinear predator–prey systems with cross-diffusion are constructed. Infinite dimensional classes of exact solutions are made available for such nonlinear systems. Some of these solutions decay towards extinction and some oscillate or spiral around an interior fixed point. It is shown that the conditionally integrable systems are closely related to the standard diffusive Lotka–Volterra system, but they have additional features.
In the middle of the last century, after hearing a talk of Mostow on one of his rigidity theorems, Borel conjectured in a letter to Serre a purely topological version of rigidity for aspherical manifolds (i.e. manifolds with contractible universal covers). The Borel conjecture is now one of the central problems of topology with many implications for manifolds that need not be aspherical. Since then, the theory of rigidity has vastly expanded in both precision and scope. This book rethinks the implications of accepting his heuristic as a source of ideas. Doing so leads to many variants of the original conjecture - some true, some false, and some that remain conjectural. The author explores this collection of ideas, following them where they lead whether into rigidity theory in its differential geometric and representation theoretic forms, or geometric group theory, metric geometry, global analysis, algebraic geometry, K-theory, or controlled topology.
A superelliptic curve over a discrete valuation ring $\mathscr{O}$ of residual characteristic p is a curve given by an equation $\mathscr{C}\;:\; y^n=\,f(x)$, with $\textrm{Disc}(\,f)\neq 0$. The purpose of this article is to describe the Galois representation attached to such a curve under the hypothesis that f(x) has all its roots in the fraction field of $\mathscr{O}$ and that $p \nmid n$. Our results are inspired on the algorithm given in Bouw and WewersGlasg (Math. J.59(1) (2017), 77–108.) but our description is given in terms of a cluster picture as defined in Dokchitser et al. (Algebraic curves and their applications, Contemporary Mathematics, vol. 724 (American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2019), 73–135.).
We demonstrate that two supersoluble complements of an abelian base in a finite split extension are conjugate if and only if, for each prime $p$, a Sylow $p$-subgroup of one complement is conjugate to a Sylow $p$-subgroup of the other. As a corollary, we find that any two supersoluble complements of an abelian subgroup $N$ in a finite split extension $G$ are conjugate if and only if, for each prime $p$, there exists a Sylow $p$-subgroup $S$ of $G$ such that any two complements of $S\cap N$ in $S$ are conjugate in $G$. In particular, restricting to supersoluble groups allows us to ease D. G. Higman's stipulation that the complements of $S\cap N$ in $S$ be conjugate within $S$. We then consider group actions and obtain a fixed point result for non-coprime actions analogous to Glauberman's lemma.
A $(p,q)$-colouring of a graph $G$ is an edge-colouring of $G$ which assigns at least $q$ colours to each $p$-clique. The problem of determining the minimum number of colours, $f(n,p,q)$, needed to give a $(p,q)$-colouring of the complete graph $K_n$ is a natural generalization of the well-known problem of identifying the diagonal Ramsey numbers $r_k(p)$. The best-known general upper bound on $f(n,p,q)$ was given by Erdős and Gyárfás in 1997 using a probabilistic argument. Since then, improved bounds in the cases where $p=q$ have been obtained only for $p\in \{4,5\}$, each of which was proved by giving a deterministic construction which combined a $(p,p-1)$-colouring using few colours with an algebraic colouring.
In this paper, we provide a framework for proving new upper bounds on $f(n,p,p)$ in the style of these earlier constructions. We characterize all colourings of $p$-cliques with $p-1$ colours which can appear in our modified version of the $(p,p-1)$-colouring of Conlon, Fox, Lee, and Sudakov. This allows us to greatly reduce the amount of case-checking required in identifying $(p,p)$-colourings, which would otherwise make this problem intractable for large values of $p$. In addition, we generalize our algebraic colouring from the $p=5$ setting and use this to give improved upper bounds on $f(n,6,6)$ and $f(n,8,8)$.
We prove a double commutant theorem for separable subalgebras of a wide class of corona C*-algebras, largely resolving a problem posed by Pedersen in 1988. Double commutant theorems originated with von Neumann, whose seminal result evolved into an entire field now called von Neumann algebra theory. Voiculescu later proved a C*-algebraic double commutant theorem for subalgebras of the Calkin algebra. We prove a similar result for subalgebras of a much more general class of so-called corona C*-algebras.
We study the asymptotic behaviour of the periodically mixed Zaremba problem. We cover the part of the boundary by a chess board with a small period (square size) $\varepsilon$ and impose the Dirichlet condition on black and the Neumann condition on white squares. As $\varepsilon \to 0$, we get the effective boundary condition which is always of the Dirichlet type. The Dirichlet data on the boundary, however, depend on the ratio between the magnitudes of the two boundary values.
In this paper, we prove that the ratio of the modulus of the iterates of two points in an escaping Fatou component could be bounded even if the orbit of the component contains a sequence of annuli whose moduli tend to infinity, and this cannot happen when the maximal modulus of the meromorphic function is uniformly large enough. In this way we extend certain related results for entire functions to meromorphic functions with infinitely many poles.
Symmetries and adjoint-symmetries are two fundamental (coordinate-free) structures of PDE systems. Recent work has developed several new algebraic aspects of adjoint-symmetries: three fundamental actions of symmetries on adjoint-symmetries; a Lie bracket on the set of adjoint-symmetries given by the range of a symmetry action; a generalised Noether (pre-symplectic) operator constructed from any non-variational adjoint-symmetry. These results are illustrated here by considering five examples of physically interesting nonlinear PDE systems – nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations, Navier-Stokes equations for compressible viscous fluid flow, surface-gravity water wave equations, coupled solitary wave equations and a nonlinear acoustic equation.
In this paper, we study the Friedrichs extensions of Sturm–Liouville operators with complex coefficients according to the classification of B. M. Brown et al. [3]. We characterize the Friedrichs extensions both by boundary conditions at regular endpoint and asymptotic behaviours of elements in the maximal operator domains at singular endpoint. Some of spectral properties are also involved.
Rupert L. Frank, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,Ari Laptev, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London,Timo Weidl, Universität Stuttgart
We provide a short introduction to the area of Lieb–Thirring inequalities and their applications. We also explain the structure of the book and summarize some of our notation and conventions.
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Sharp Constants in Lieb–Thirring Inequalities
Rupert L. Frank, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,Ari Laptev, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London,Timo Weidl, Universität Stuttgart
We discuss the problem of finding the optimal constant in Lieb–Thirring and Cwikel–Lieb–Rozenblum inequalities, thereby introducing, in particular, the semiclassical constant and the one-particle constants, which appear in the Lieb–Thirring conjecture. We discuss Keller's problem of minimizing the lowest eigenvalue of a Schrödinger operator among all potentials with a given L^p norm. We present the Aizenman–Lieb monotonicity argument, as well as semiexplicit computations for eigenvalues of the harmonic oscillator (including the counterexample of Helffer and Robert) and the Pöschl–Teller potential. In the one-dimensional case, we present the optimal bounds due to Hundertmark–Lieb–Thomas and Gardner–Greene–Kruskal–Miura. We provide two proofs of the latter bound, namely, the original one based on trace formulas and a more recent one by Benguria and Loss based on the commutation method.
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Sharp Constants in Lieb–Thirring Inequalities
Rupert L. Frank, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,Ari Laptev, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London,Timo Weidl, Universität Stuttgart
We prove Lieb–Thirring inequalities with optimal, semiclassical constant in higher dimensions by following the Laptev–Weidl approach of "lifting in dimension." We introduce Schrödinger operators with matrix-valued potentials and show how Lieb–Thirring inequalities with semiclassical constants for such operators in one dimension imply the Lieb–Thirring inequality with semiclassical constant in higher dimensions. Subsequently, we prove a sharp Lieb–Thirring inequality in one dimension with exponent 3/2 for Schrödinger operators with matrix-valued potentials. We give a complete proof using the commutation method by Benguria and Loss. We also sketch the original proof by Laptev and Weidl based on trace formula for Schrödinger operators with matrix-valued potentials.
Rupert L. Frank, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,Ari Laptev, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London,Timo Weidl, Universität Stuttgart
Rupert L. Frank, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,Ari Laptev, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London,Timo Weidl, Universität Stuttgart
Rupert L. Frank, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,Ari Laptev, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London,Timo Weidl, Universität Stuttgart
Rupert L. Frank, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,Ari Laptev, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London,Timo Weidl, Universität Stuttgart