We calculate all ${{\ell }^{2}}$-Betti numbers of the universal discrete Kac quantum groups $\widehat{\text{U}}_{n}^{+}$ as well as their half-liberated counterparts $\widehat{\text{U}}_{n}^{*}$.

In this paper, periodic steady-state of a liquid film flowing over a periodic uneven wall is investigated via a classical method. Specifically, we analyze a long-wave model that is valid at the near-critical Reynolds number. For the periodic wall surface, we construct an iteration scheme in terms of an integral form of the original steady-state problem. The uniform convergence of the scheme is proved so that we can derive the existence and the uniqueness as well as the asymptotic formula of the periodic solutions.

We show that if $x$ is a strongly extreme point of a bounded closed convex subset of a Banach space and the identity has a geometrically and topologically good enough local approximation at $x$, then $x$ is already a denting point. It turns out that such an approximation of the identity exists at any strongly extreme point of the unit ball of a Banach space with the unconditional compact approximation property. We also prove that every Banach space with a Schauder basis can be equivalently renormed to satisfy the suõcient conditions mentioned.

We consider the curved $4$-body problems on spheres and hyperbolic spheres. After obtaining a criterion for the existence of quadrilateral configurations on the equator of the sphere, we study two restricted $4$-body problems, one in which two masses are negligible and another in which only one mass is negligible. In the former, we prove the evidence square-like relative equilibria, whereas in the latter we discuss the existence of kite-shaped relative equilibria.

A classification of simple weight modules over the Schrödinger algebra is given. The Krull and the global dimensions are found for the centralizer ${{C}_{S}}(H)$ (and some of its prime factor algebras) of the Cartan element $H$ in the universal enveloping algebra $S$ of the Schrödinger (Lie) algebra. The simple ${{C}_{S}}(H)$-modules are classified. The Krull and the global dimensions are found for some (prime) factor algebras of the algebra $S$ (over the centre). It is proved that some (prime) factor algebras of $S$ and ${{C}_{S}}(H)$ are tensor homological$/$Krull minimal.

We give a short proof of a result of T. Bates and T. Giordano stating that any uniformly bounded Borel cocycle into a finite von Neumann algebra is cohomologous to a unitary cocycle. We also point out a separability issue in their proof. Our approach is based on the existence of a non-positive curvature metric on the positive cone of a finite von Neumann algebra.

We give a new proof that bounded non-commutative functions on polynomial polyhedra can be represented by a realization formula, a generalization of the transfer function realization formula for bounded analytic functions on the unit disk.

The prime, completely prime, maximal, and primitive spectra are classified for the universal enveloping algebra of the Schrödinger algebra. The explicit generators are given for all of these ideals. A counterexample is constructed to the conjecture of Cheng and Zhang about nonexistence of simple singular Whittaker modules for the Schrödinger algebra (and all such modules are classified). It is proved that the conjecture holds ‘generically’.

Using known operator-valued Fourier multiplier results on vector-valued Hölder continuous function spaces ${{C}^{\alpha }}(\mathbb{R};\,X)$, we completely characterize the ${{C}^{\alpha }}$-well-posedness of the first order degenerate differential equations with finite delay $(Mu{)}'(t)\,=\,Au(t)\,+\,F{{u}_{t}}\,+\,f(t)$ for $t\,\in \,\mathbb{R}$ by the boundedness of the $(M,\,F)$-resolvent of A under suitable assumption on the delay operator $F$, where $A,M$ are closed linear operators on a Banach space $X$ satisfying $D(A)\,\cap \,D(M)\,\ne \,\{0\}$, the delay operator $F$ is a bounded linear operator from $C([-r,0];X)$ to $X$, and $r\,>\,0$ is fixed.

The generalized orthogonal matching pursuit $\left( \text{gOMP} \right)$ algorithm has received much attention in recent years as a natural extension of the orthogonal matching pursuit $\left( \text{OMP} \right)$. It is used to recover sparse signals in compressive sensing. In this paper, a new bound is obtained for the exact reconstruction of every $K$-sparse signal via the $\text{gOMP}$ algorithm in the noiseless case. That is, if the restricted isometry constant $\left( \text{RIC} \right)$${{\delta }_{NK+1}}$ of the sensing matrix $A$ satisfies

${{\delta }_{NK+1}}\,<\frac{1}{\sqrt{\frac{K}{N}+\,1}},$

then the $\text{gOMP}$ can perfectly recover every $K$-sparse signal $x$ from $y\,=\,Ax$. Furthermore, the bound is proved to be sharp. In the noisy case, the above bound on $\text{RIC}$ combining with an extra condition on the minimum magnitude of the nonzero components of $K$-sparse signals can guarantee that the $\text{gOMP}$ selects all of the support indices of the $K$-sparse signals.

The aim of this note is to provide a conceptually simple demonstration of the fact that repetitive model sets are characterized as the repetitive Meyer sets with an almost automorphic associated dynamical system.

We discuss the concept of inner function in reproducing kernelHilbert spaces with an orthogonal basis of monomials and examine connections between inner functions and optimal polynomial approximants to ${1}/{f}\;$, where $f$ is a function in the space. We revisit some classical examples from this perspective, and show how a construction of Shapiro and Shields can be modiûed to produce inner functions.

A 2-cell embedding of an Eulerian digraph $D$ into a closed surface is said to be directed if the boundary of each face is a directed closed walk in $D$. In this paper, a method is developed with the purpose of enumerating unlabelled embeddings for an Eulerian digraph. As an application, we obtain explicit formulas for the number of unlabelled embeddings of directed bouquets of cycles ${{B}_{n}}$, directed dipoles $O{{D}_{2n}}$ and for a class of regular tournaments ${{T}_{2n+1}}$.

The Jacobi coefficients $c_{j}^{\ell }\left( \alpha ,\,\beta \right)\,\left( 1\,\le \,j\,\le \,\ell ,\,\alpha ,\,\beta \,>\,-1 \right)$ are linked to the Maclaurin spectral expansion of the Schwartz kernel of functions of the Laplacian on a compact rank one symmetric space. It is proved that these coefficients can be computed by transforming the even derivatives of the Jacobi polynomials $P_{k}^{\left( \alpha ,\,\beta \right)}\,\left( k\,\ge \,0,\,\alpha ,\,\beta \,>\,-1 \right)$ into a spectral sum associated with the Jacobi operator. The first few coefficients are explicitly computed, and a direct trace interpretation of the Maclaurin coefficients is presented.

We give necessary and sufficient conditions of the ${{L}^{p}}$-well-posedness (resp. $B_{p,\,q}^{s}$-wellposedness) for the second order degenerate differential equation with finite delays

$${{\left( Mu \right)}^{\prime \prime }}\left( t \right)+B{u}'\left( t \right)+Au\left( t \right)=G{{{u}'}_{t}}+F{{u}_{t}}+f\left( t \right),\left( t\in \left[ 0,2\pi \right] \right)$$

with periodic boundary conditions $\left( Mu \right)\,\left( 0 \right)\,=\,\left( Mu \right)\,\left( 2\pi \right),\,{{\left( Mu \right)}^{\prime }}\left( 0 \right)\,=\,{{\left( Mu \right)}^{\prime }}\left( 2\pi \right)$, where $A,\,B,\,\text{and}\,M$ are closed linear operators on a complex Banach space $X$ satisfying $D\left( A \right)\,\cap \,D\left( B \right)\,\subset \,D\left( M \right)$, $F\,\text{and}\,G$ are bounded linear operators from ${{L}^{p}}\left( \left[ -2\pi ,\,0 \right];\,X \right)\,\left( \text{resp}\text{.}\,\text{B}_{p,q}^{s}\left( \left[ -2\pi ,\,0 \right];\,X \right) \right)$ into $X$.

In this paper we consider two natural notions of connectivity for hypergraphs: weak and strong. We prove that the strong vertex connectivity of a connected hypergraph is bounded by its weak edge connectivity, thereby extending a theorem of Whitney from graphs to hypergraphs. We find that, while determining a minimum weak vertex cut can be done in polynomial time and is equivalent to finding a minimum vertex cut in the 2-section of the hypergraph in question, determining a minimum strong vertex cut is NP-hard for general hypergraphs. Moreover, the problem of finding minimum strong vertex cuts remains NP-hard when restricted to hypergraphs with maximum edge size at most 3. We also discuss the relationship between strong vertex connectivity and the minimum transversal problem for hypergraphs, showing that there are classes of hypergraphs for which one of the problems is NP-hard, while the other can be solved in polynomial time.

We prove an equivalence between weighted Poincaré inequalities and the existence of weak solutions to a Neumann problem related to a degenerate $p$-Laplacian. The Poincaré inequalities are formulated in the context of degenerate Sobolev spaces defined in terms of a quadratic form, and the associated matrix is the source of the degeneracy in the $p$-Laplacian.

Associated with any closed quantum subgroup $G\,\subset \,U_{N}^{+}$ and any index set $I\,\subset \,\{1,\,.\,.\,.\,,\,N\}$ is a certain homogeneous space ${{X}_{G,I}}\subset S_{\mathbb{C},+}^{N-1},$ called an affine homogeneous space. Using Tannakian duality methods, we discuss the abstract axiomatization of the algebraic manifolds $X\subset S_{\mathbb{C},+}^{N-1}$ that can appear in this way.

Let $X$ be a $\text{CW}$ complex with a continuous action of a topological group $G$. We show that if $X$ is equivariantly formal for singular cohomology with coefficients in some field $\Bbbk $, then so are all symmetric products of $X$ and in fact all its $\Gamma $-products. In particular, symmetric products of quasi-projective $\text{M}$-varieties are again $\text{M}$-varieties. This generalizes a result by Biswas and D’Mello about symmetric products of $\text{M}$-curves. We also discuss several related questions.

In this paper we study the Hilbert transformations over ${{L}^{2}}(\mathbb{R})$ and ${{L}^{2}}(\mathbb{T})$ from the viewpoint of symmetry. For a linear operator over ${{L}^{2}}(\mathbb{R})$ commutative with the $ax\,+\,b$ group, we show that the operator is of the form $\lambda I+\eta H$, where $I$ and $H$ are the identity operator and Hilbert transformation, respectively, and $\lambda ,\eta $ are complex numbers. In the related literature this result was proved by first invoking the boundedness result of the operator using some machinery. In our setting the boundedness is a consequence of the boundedness of the Hilbert transformation. The methodology that we use is the Gelfand–Naimark representation of the $ax\,+\,b$ group. Furthermore, we prove a similar result on the unit circle. Although there does not exist a group like the $ax\,+\,b$ group on the unit circle, we construct a semigroup that plays the same symmetry role for the Hilbert transformations over the circle ${{L}^{2}}(\mathbb{T})$.