Automorphisms ofTwo-Generator Free Groups and Spaces of Isometric Actions on the Hyperbolic Plane
Automorphisms ofTwo-Generator Free Groups and Spaces of Isometric Actions on the Hyperbolic Plane

Author: William Goldman

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 2019-06-10

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 1470436140

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The automorphisms of a two-generator free group F acting on the space of orientation-preserving isometric actions of F on hyperbolic 3-space defines a dynamical system. Those actions which preserve a hyperbolic plane but not an orientation on that plane is an invariant subsystem, which reduces to an action of a group on by polynomial automorphisms preserving the cubic polynomial and an area form on the level surfaces .

Automorphisms of Fusion Systems of Finite Simple Groups of Lie Type
Automorphisms of Fusion Systems of Finite Simple Groups of Lie Type

Author: Carles Broto

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 2020-02-13

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1470437724

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For a finite group G of Lie type and a prime p, the authors compare the automorphism groups of the fusion and linking systems of G at p with the automorphism group of G itself. When p is the defining characteristic of G, they are all isomorphic, with a very short list of exceptions. When p is different from the defining characteristic, the situation is much more complex but can always be reduced to a case where the natural map from Out(G) to outer automorphisms of the fusion or linking system is split surjective. This work is motivated in part by questions involving extending the local structure of a group by a group of automorphisms, and in part by wanting to describe self homotopy equivalences of BG∧p in terms of Out(G).

Geometry and Physics: Volume 2
Geometry and Physics: Volume 2

Author: Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-10-18

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 019252237X

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Nigel Hitchin is one of the world's foremost figures in the fields of differential and algebraic geometry and their relations with mathematical physics, and he has been Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford since 1997. Geometry and Physics: A Festschrift in honour of Nigel Hitchin contain the proceedings of the conferences held in September 2016 in Aarhus, Oxford, and Madrid to mark Nigel Hitchin's 70th birthday, and to honour his far-reaching contributions to geometry and mathematical physics. These texts contain 29 articles by contributors to the conference and other distinguished mathematicians working in related areas, including three Fields Medallists. The articles cover a broad range of topics in differential, algebraic and symplectic geometry, and also in mathematical physics. These volumes will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in geometry and mathematical physics.

The Triangle-Free Process and the Ramsey Number R(3,k)
The Triangle-Free Process and the Ramsey Number R(3,k)

Author: Gonzalo Fiz Pontiveros

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 2020-04-03

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1470440717

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The areas of Ramsey theory and random graphs have been closely linked ever since Erdős's famous proof in 1947 that the “diagonal” Ramsey numbers R(k) grow exponentially in k. In the early 1990s, the triangle-free process was introduced as a model which might potentially provide good lower bounds for the “off-diagonal” Ramsey numbers R(3,k). In this model, edges of Kn are introduced one-by-one at random and added to the graph if they do not create a triangle; the resulting final (random) graph is denoted Gn,△. In 2009, Bohman succeeded in following this process for a positive fraction of its duration, and thus obtained a second proof of Kim's celebrated result that R(3,k)=Θ(k2/logk). In this paper the authors improve the results of both Bohman and Kim and follow the triangle-free process all the way to its asymptotic end.

Rigid Character Groups, Lubin-Tate Theory, and (φ,Γ)-Modules
Rigid Character Groups, Lubin-Tate Theory, and (φ,Γ)-Modules

Author: Laurent Berger

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 2020-04-03

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 1470440733

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The construction of the p-adic local Langlands correspondence for GL2(Qp) uses in an essential way Fontaine's theory of cyclotomic (φ,Γ)-modules. Here cyclotomic means that Γ=Gal(Qp(μp∞)/Qp) is the Galois group of the cyclotomic extension of Qp. In order to generalize the p-adic local Langlands correspondence to GL2(L), where L is a finite extension of Qp, it seems necessary to have at our disposal a theory of Lubin-Tate (φ,Γ)-modules. Such a generalization has been carried out, to some extent, by working over the p-adic open unit disk, endowed with the action of the endomorphisms of a Lubin-Tate group. The main idea of this article is to carry out a Lubin-Tate generalization of the theory of cyclotomic (φ,Γ)-modules in a different fashion. Instead of the p-adic open unit disk, the authors work over a character variety that parameterizes the locally L-analytic characters on oL. They study (φ,Γ)-modules in this setting and relate some of them to what was known previously.

The Bounded and Precise Word Problems for Presentations of Groups
The Bounded and Precise Word Problems for Presentations of Groups

Author: S. V. Ivanov

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 2020-05-13

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 1470441438

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The author introduces and studies the bounded word problem and the precise word problem for groups given by means of generators and defining relations. For example, for every finitely presented group, the bounded word problem is in NP, i.e., it can be solved in nondeterministic polynomial time, and the precise word problem is in PSPACE, i.e., it can be solved in polynomial space. The main technical result of the paper states that, for certain finite presentations of groups, which include the Baumslag-Solitar one-relator groups and free products of cyclic groups, the bounded word problem and the precise word problem can be solved in polylogarithmic space. As consequences of developed techniques that can be described as calculus of brackets, the author obtains polylogarithmic space bounds for the computational complexity of the diagram problem for free groups, for the width problem for elements of free groups, and for computation of the area defined by polygonal singular closed curves in the plane. The author also obtains polynomial time bounds for these problems.

Subgroup Decomposition in Out(Fn)
Subgroup Decomposition in Out(Fn)

Author: Michael Handel

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 2020-05-13

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1470441136

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In this work the authors develop a decomposition theory for subgroups of Out(Fn) which generalizes the decomposition theory for individual elements of Out(Fn) found in the work of Bestvina, Feighn, and Handel, and which is analogous to the decomposition theory for subgroups of mapping class groups found in the work of Ivanov.

Global Well-Posedness of High Dimensional Maxwell–Dirac for Small Critical Data
Global Well-Posedness of High Dimensional Maxwell–Dirac for Small Critical Data

Author: Cristian Gavrus

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 2020-05-13

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 147044111X

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In this paper, the authors prove global well-posedness of the massless Maxwell–Dirac equation in the Coulomb gauge on R1+d(d≥4) for data with small scale-critical Sobolev norm, as well as modified scattering of the solutions. Main components of the authors' proof are A) uncovering null structure of Maxwell–Dirac in the Coulomb gauge, and B) proving solvability of the underlying covariant Dirac equation. A key step for achieving both is to exploit (and justify) a deep analogy between Maxwell–Dirac and Maxwell-Klein-Gordon (for which an analogous result was proved earlier by Krieger-Sterbenz-Tataru, which says that the most difficult part of Maxwell–Dirac takes essentially the same form as Maxwell-Klein-Gordon.

A Unified Approach to Structural Limits and Limits of Graphs with Bounded Tree-Depth
A Unified Approach to Structural Limits and Limits of Graphs with Bounded Tree-Depth

Author: Jaroslav Nešetřil

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 2020-04-03

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1470440652

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In this paper the authors introduce a general framework for the study of limits of relational structures and graphs in particular, which is based on a combination of model theory and (functional) analysis. The authors show how the various approaches to graph limits fit to this framework and that the authors naturally appear as “tractable cases” of a general theory. As an outcome of this, the authors provide extensions of known results. The authors believe that this puts these into a broader context. The second part of the paper is devoted to the study of sparse structures. First, the authors consider limits of structures with bounded diameter connected components and prove that in this case the convergence can be “almost” studied component-wise. They also propose the structure of limit objects for convergent sequences of sparse structures. Eventually, they consider the specific case of limits of colored rooted trees with bounded height and of graphs with bounded tree-depth, motivated by their role as “elementary bricks” these graphs play in decompositions of sparse graphs, and give an explicit construction of a limit object in this case. This limit object is a graph built on a standard probability space with the property that every first-order definable set of tuples is measurable. This is an example of the general concept of modeling the authors introduce here. Their example is also the first “intermediate class” with explicitly defined limit structures where the inverse problem has been solved.