Multiview geometry is the study of two-dimensional images of three-dimensional scenes, a foundational subject in computer vision. We determine a universal Gröbner basis for the multiview ideal of $n$ generic cameras. As the cameras move, the multiview varieties vary in a family of dimension $11n\,-\,15$. This family is the distinguished component of a multigraded Hilbert scheme with a unique Borel-fixed point. We present a combinatorial study of ideals lying on that Hilbert scheme.

We introduce the concept of a rare element in a non-associative normed algebra and show that the existence of such an element is the only obstruction to continuity of a surjective homomorphism from a non-associative Banach algebra to a unital normed algebra with simple completion. Unital associative algebras do not admit any rare elements, and hence automatic continuity holds.

Let $G$ be a locally compact group. Let ${{A}_{M}}\left( G \right)\,\left( {{A}_{0}}\left( G \right) \right)$ denote the closure of $A\left( G \right)$, the Fourier algebra of $G$ in the space of bounded (completely bounded) multipliers of $A\left( G \right)$. We call a locally compact group $\text{M}$-weakly amenable if ${{A}_{M}}\left( G \right) $ has a bounded approximate identity. We will show that when $G$ is $\text{M}$-weakly amenable, the algebras ${{A}_{M}}\left( G \right) $ and ${{A}_{0}}\left( G \right)$ have properties that are characteristic of the Fourier algebra of an amenable group. Along the way we show that the sets of topologically invariant means associated with these algebras have the same cardinality as those of the Fourier algebra.

Hurwitz numbers count branched covers of the Riemann sphere with specified ramification data, or equivalently, transitive permutation factorizations in the symmetric group with specified cycle types. Monotone Hurwitz numbers count a restricted subset of these branched covers related to the expansion of complete symmetric functions in the Jucys–Murphy elements, and have arisen in recent work on the the asymptotic expansion of the Harish-Chandra–Itzykson–Zuber integral. In this paper we begin a detailed study of monotone Hurwitz numbers. We prove two results that are reminiscent of those for classical Hurwitz numbers. The first is the monotone join-cut equation, a partial differential equation with initial conditions that characterizes the generating function for monotone Hurwitz numbers in arbitrary genus. The second is our main result, in which we give an explicit formula for monotone Hurwitz numbers in genus zero.

We study locally compact quantum groups $\mathbb{G}$ through the convolution algebras ${{L}_{1}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right)$ and $\left( T\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right),\triangleright \right)$. We prove that the reduced quantum group ${{C}^{*}}$ -algebra ${{C}_{0}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right)$ can be recovered from the convolution $\triangleright $ by showing that the right $T\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right)$-module $\left\langle K\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right)\,\triangleright \,T\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right) \right\rangle $ is equal to ${{C}_{0}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right)$. On the other hand, we show that the left $T\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right)$-module $\left\langle T\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right)\,\triangleright \,K\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right) \right\rangle $ is isomorphic to the reduced crossed product ${{C}_{0}}\left( \widehat{\mathbb{G}} \right){{\,}_{r}}\,\ltimes \,{{C}_{0}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right)$, and hence is a much larger ${{C}^{*}}$ -subalgebra of $B\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right)$.

We establish a natural isomorphism between the completely bounded right multiplier algebras of ${{L}_{1}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right)$ and $\left( T\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right),\,\triangleright \right)$, and settle two invariance problems associated with the representation theorem of Junge–Neufang–Ruan (2009). We characterize regularity and discreteness of the quantum group $\mathbb{G}$ in terms of continuity properties of the convolution $\triangleright $ on $T\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right)$. We prove that if $\mathbb{G}$ is semiregular, then the space $\left\langle T\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right)\,\triangleright \,B\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right) \right\rangle $ of right $\mathbb{G}$-continuous operators on ${{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right)$, which was introduced by Bekka (1990) for ${{L}_{\infty }}\left( G \right)$, is a unital ${{C}^{*}}$-subalgebra of $B\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right)$. In the representation framework formulated by Neufang–Ruan–Spronk (2008) and Junge–Neufang–Ruan, we show that the dual properties of compactness and discreteness can be characterized simultaneously via automatic normality of quantum group bimodule maps on $B\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right)$. We also characterize some commutation relations of completely bounded multipliers of $\left( T\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right),\,\triangleright \right)$ over $B\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right)$.

In this paper we use the recent developments in the representation theory of locally compact quantum groups, to assign to each locally compact quantum group $\mathbb{G}$ a locally compact group $\tilde{\mathbb{G}}$ that is the quantum version of point-masses and is an invariant for the latter. We show that “quantum point-masses” can be identified with several other locally compact groups that can be naturally assigned to the quantum group $\mathbb{G}$. This assignment preserves compactness as well as discreteness (hence also finiteness), and for large classes of quantum groups, amenability. We calculate this invariant for some of the most well-known examples of non-classical quantum groups. Also, we show that several structural properties of $\mathbb{G}$ are encoded by $\tilde{\mathbb{G}}$ the latter, despite being a simpler object, can carry very important information about $\mathbb{G}$.

Nous considérons les perturbations $H\,:=\,{{H}_{0}}\,+\,V$ et $D\,:=\,{{D}_{0}}\,+\,V$ des Hamiltoniens libres ${{H}_{0}}$ de Pauli et ${{D}_{0}}$ de Dirac en dimension 3 avec champ magnétique non constant, $V$ étant un potentiel électrique qui décroıt super-exponentiellement dans la direction du champ magnétique. Nous montrons que dans des espaces de Banach appropriés, les résolvantes de $H$ et $D$ définies sur le demi-plan supérieur admettent des prolongements méromorphes. Nous définissons les résonances de $H$ et $D$ comme étant les pôles de ces extensions méromorphes. D’une part, nous étudions la répartition des résonances de $H$ prés de l’origine 0 et d’autre part, celle des résonances de $D$ près de $\pm m$ où m est la masse d’une particule. Dans les deux cas, nous obtenons d’abord des majorations du nombre de résonances dans de petits domaines au voisinage de 0 et $\pm m$. Sous des hypothèses supplémentaires, nous obtenons des développements asymptotiques du nombre de résonances qui entraınent leur accumulation près des seuils 0 et $\pm m$. En particulier, pour une perturbation $V$ de signe défini, nous obtenons des informations sur la répartition des valeurs propres de $H$ et $D$ près de 0 et $\pm m$ respectivement.

In this paper, we study the reduced loci of special cycles on local models of the Shimura variety for $\text{GU}\left( 1,\,n\,-\,1 \right)$. Those special cycles are defined by Kudla and Rapoport. We explicitly compute the irreducible components of the reduced locus of a single special cycle, as well as of an arbitrary intersection of special cycles, and their intersection behaviour in terms of Bruhat–Tits theory. Furthermore, as an application of our results, we prove the connectedness of arbitrary intersections of special cycles, as conjectured by Kudla and Rapoport.

We define partial differential ($\text{PD}$ in the following), i.e., field theoretic analogues of Hamiltonian systems on abstract symplectic manifolds and study their main properties, namely, $\text{PD}$ Hamilton equations, $\text{PD}$ Noether theorem, $\text{PD}$ Poisson bracket, etc. Unlike the standard multisymplectic approach to Hamiltonian field theory, in our formalism, the geometric structure (kinematics) and the dynamical information on the “phase space” appear as just different components of one single geometric object.