We give explicit formulas for Whittaker functions on real semisimple Lie groups of real rank two belonging to the class one principal series representations. By using these formulas we compute certain archimedean zeta integrals.

Let $G$ be a simple, compact, simply-connected Lie group localized at an odd prime $p$. We study the group of homotopy classes of self-maps $\left[ G,\,G \right]$ when the rank of $G$ is low and in certain cases describe the set of homotopy classes of multiplicative self-maps $H\left[ G,\,G \right]$. The low rank condition gives $G$ certain structural properties which make calculations accessible. Several examples and applications are given.

Let $L$ be an oriented Lagrangian submanifold in an $n$-dimensional Kähler manifold $M$. Let $u:\,D\,\to \,M$ be a minimal immersion from a disk $D$ with $u(\partial D)\,\subset \,L$ such that $u(D)$ meets $L$ orthogonally along $u(\partial D)$. Then the real dimension of the space of admissible holomorphic variations is at least $n\,+\,\mu (E,\,F)$, where $\mu (E,\,F)$ is a boundary Maslov index; the minimal disk is holomorphic if there exist $n$ admissible holomorphic variations that are linearly independent over $\mathbb{R}$ at some point $p\,\in \,\partial D;$; if $M=\mathbb{C}{{P}^{n}}$ and $u$ intersects $L$ positively, then $u$ is holomorphic if it is stable, and its Morse index is at least $n\,+\,\mu (E,\,F)$ if $u$ is unstable.

The fractional Galois ideal is a conjectural improvement on the higher Stickelberger ideals defined at negative integers, and is expected to provide non-trivial annihilators for higher $K$-groups of rings of integers of number fields. In this article, we extend the definition of the fractional Galois ideal to arbitrary (possibly infinite and non-abelian) Galois extensions of number fields under the assumption of Stark's conjectures and prove naturality properties under canonical changes of extension. We discuss applications of this to the construction of ideals in non-commutative Iwasawa algebras.

An $x$-pseudopower to base $g$ is a positive integer that is not a power of $g$, yet is so modulo $p$ for all primes $p\,\le \,x$. We improve an upper bound for the least such number, due to E. Bach, R. Lukes, J. Shallit, and H. C. Williams. The method is based on a combination of some bounds of exponential sums with new results about the average behaviour of the multiplicative order of $g$ modulo prime numbers.

Correspondence between torsion-free connections with nilpotent skew-symmetric curvature operator and IP Riemann extensions is shown. Some consequences are derived in the study of four-dimensional IP metrics and locally homogeneous affine surfaces.

Let $D$ be the $n$-dimensional Lie ball and let $B\text{(S)}$ be the space of hyperfunctions on the Shilov boundary $S$ of $D$. The aim of this paper is to give a necessary and sufficient condition on the generalized Poisson transform ${{P}_{l,\text{ }\!\!\lambda\!\!\text{ }}}f$ of an element $f$ in the space $B\text{(S)}$ for $f$ to be in ${{L}^{p}}\left( S \right)$, $1\,<\,p\,<\,\infty $. Namely, if $F$ is the Poisson transform of some $f\in \,B(S)$$F\,=\,{{P}_{l,\lambda }}f$), then for any $l\,\in \,Z$) and $\lambda \,\in \,C$ such that $Re[\text{i}\lambda ] > \frac{n}{2}\,-\,1$, we show that $f\,\in \,{{L}^{p}}\text{(}S\text{)}$ if and only if $f$ satisfies the growth condition

$${{\left\| F \right\|}_{\lambda ,p}}=\underset{0\le r<1}{\mathop{\sup }}\,{{\left( 1\,-\,{{r}^{2}} \right)}^{\operatorname{Re}\left[ \text{i }\lambda \text{ } \right]-\frac{n}{2}+l}}{{\left[ \,\int_{s}{{{\left| F\left( ru \right) \right|}^{p}}du} \right]}^{\frac{1}{p}}}<\,+\infty $$

We present the explicit formulas for the projectors on the generalized eigenspaces associated with some eigenvalues for linear neutral functional differential equations $\left( \text{NFDE} \right)$ in ${{L}^{p}}$ spaces by using integrated semigroup theory. The analysis is based on the main result established elsewhere by the authors and results by Magal and Ruan on non-densely defined Cauchy problem. We formulate the $\text{NFDE}$ as a non-densely defined Cauchy problem and obtain some spectral properties from which we then derive explicit formulas for the projectors on the generalized eigenspaces associated with some eigenvalues. Such explicit formulas are important in studying bifurcations in some semi-linear problems.

We study extrema of the first and the second mixed eigenvalues of the Laplacian on the disk among some families of Dirichlet–Neumann boundary conditions. We show that the minimizer of the second eigenvalue among all mixed boundary conditions lies in a compact 1-parameter family for which an explicit description is given. Moreover, we prove that among all partitions of the boundary with bounded number of parts on which Dirichlet and Neumann conditions are imposed alternately, the first eigenvalue is maximized by the uniformly distributed partition.

Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a complex separable Hilbert space and $\mathcal{L}\left( \mathcal{H} \right)$ denote the collection of bounded linear operators on $\mathcal{H}$. In this paper, we show that for any operator $A\,\in \,\mathcal{L}\left( \mathcal{H} \right)$, there exists a stably finitely $\left( \text{SI} \right)$ decomposable operator ${{A}_{\epsilon }}$, such that $\left\| A-{{A}_{\epsilon }} \right\|\,<\,\epsilon$ and ${{\mathcal{A}}^{\prime }}\left( {{A}_{\epsilon }} \right)/\text{rad}\,{{\mathcal{A}}^{\prime }}\left( {{A}_{\epsilon }} \right)$ is commutative, where rad ${{\mathcal{A}}^{\prime }}\left( {{A}_{\epsilon }} \right)$ is the Jacobson radical of ${{\mathcal{A}}^{\prime }}\left( {{A}_{\epsilon }} \right)$. Moreover, we give a similarity classification of the stably finitely decomposable operators that generalizes the result on similarity classification of Cowen–Douglas operators given by C. L. Jiang.

The space of Monge–Ampère functions, introduced by J. H. G. Fu, is a space of rather rough functions in which the map $u\,\mapsto \,\text{Det}\,{{\text{D}}^{2}}u$ is well defined and weakly continuous with respect to a natural notion of weak convergence. We prove a rigidity theorem for Lagrangian integral currents that allows us to extend the original definition of Monge–Ampère functions. We also prove that if a Monge–Ampère function $u$ on a bounded set $\Omega \,\subset \,{{\mathbb{R}}^{2}}$ satisfies the equation $\text{Det}\,{{D}^{2}}u\,=\,0$ in a particular weak sense, then the graph of $u$ is a developable surface, and moreover $u$ enjoys somewhat better regularity properties than an arbitrary Monge–Ampère function of 2 variables.

Let $G$ be a connected semisimple split group over a $p$-adic field. We establish the explicit link between principal nilpotent orbits and the irreducible constituents of principal series in terms of $L$-group objects.

A characterization of the Banach spaces of type $C\left( K \right)$ that admit an equivalent locally uniformly rotund norm is obtained, and a method to apply it to concrete spaces is developed. As an application the existence of such renorming is deduced when $K$ is a Namioka–Phelps compact or for some particular class of Rosenthal compacta, results which were originally proved with ad hoc methods.

S. Stahl conjectured that the zeros of genus polynomials are real. In this note, we disprove this conjecture.

An inductive approach to classifying all toric Fano varieties is given. As an application of this technique, we present a classification of the toric Fano threefolds with at worst canonical singularities. Up to isomorphism, there are 674,688 such varieties.

This paper studies the relationship between vector-valued $\text{BMO}$ functions and the Carleson measures defined by their gradients. Let $dA$ and $dm$ denote Lebesgue measures on the unit disc $D$ and the unit circle $\mathbb{T}$, respectively. For $1\,<\,q\,<\,\infty $ and a Banach space $B$, we prove that there exists a positive constant $c$ such that

$$\underset{{{z}_{0}}\in D}{\mathop{\sup }}\,{{\int }_{D}}{{\left( 1-\left| z \right| \right)}^{q-1}}{{\left\| \nabla f\left( z \right) \right\|}^{q}}{{P}_{{{Z}_{0}}}}\left( z \right)dA\left( z \right)\le {{c}^{q}}\underset{{{z}_{0}}\in D}{\mathop{\sup }}\,{{\int }_{\mathbb{T}}}{{\left\| f\left( z \right)-f\left( {{z}_{0}} \right) \right\|}^{q}}{{P}_{{{z}_{0}}}}\left( z \right)dm\left( z \right)$$

holds for all trigonometric polynomials $f$ with coefficients in $B$ if and only if $B$ admits an equivalent norm which is $q$-uniformly convex, where

$${{P}_{{{z}_{0}}}}\left( z \right)=\frac{1-|{{z}_{0}}{{|}^{2}}}{|1-{{{\bar{z}}}_{0}}z{{|}^{2}}}.$$

The validity of the converse inequality is equivalent to the existence of an equivalent $q$-uniformly smooth norm.

In this paper we construct an analogue of Iwahori–Hecke algebras of $\text{S}{{\text{L}}_{2}}$ over 2-dimensional local fields. After considering coset decompositions of double cosets of a Iwahori subgroup, we define a convolution product on the space of certain functions on $\text{S}{{\text{L}}_{2}}$, and prove that the product is well-defined, obtaining a Hecke algebra. Then we investigate the structure of the Hecke algebra. We determine the center of the Hecke algebra and consider Iwahori–Matsumoto type relations.

Let $A$ and $B$ be $n\,\times \,n$ complex Hermitian (or real symmetric) matrices with eigenvalues ${{a}_{1}}\,\ge \,\cdots \,\ge \,{{a}_{n}}$ and ${{b}_{1}}\,\ge \,\cdots \,\ge \,{{b}_{n}}$. All possible inertia values, ranks, and multiple eigenvalues of $A\,+\,B$ are determined. Extension of the results to the sum of $k$ matrices with $k\,>\,2$ and connections of the results to other subjects such as algebraic combinatorics are also discussed.

It is known that a Steiner triple system is projective if and only if it does not contain the four-triple configuration ${{C}_{14}}$. We find three configurations such that a Steiner triple system is affine if and only if it does not contain one of these configurations. Similarly, we characterise Hall triple systems using two forbidden configurations.

Our characterisations have several interesting corollaries in the area of edge-colourings of graphs. A cubic graph $G$ is $S$-edge-colourable for a Steiner triple system $S$ if its edges can be coloured with points of $S$ in such a way that the points assigned to three edges sharing a vertex form a triple in $S$. Among others, we show that all cubic graphs are $S$-edge-colourable for every non-projective non-affine point-transitive Steiner triple system $S$.

We show that the bicategory of (representable) orbifolds and good maps is equivalent to the bicategory of orbifold translation groupoids and generalized equivariant maps, giving a mechanism for transferring results from equivariant homotopy theory to the orbifold category. As an application, we use this result to define orbifold versions of a couple of equivariant cohomology theories: $K$-theory and Bredon cohomology for certain coefficient diagrams.