Yang-Mills Connections on Orientable and Nonorientable Surfaces

Yang-Mills Connections on Orientable and Nonorientable Surfaces
Author: Nan-Kuo Ho
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2009-10-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821844911

In ``The Yang-Mills equations over Riemann surfaces'', Atiyah and Bott studied Yang-Mills functional over a Riemann surface from the point of view of Morse theory. In ``Yang-Mills Connections on Nonorientable Surfaces'', the authors study Yang-Mills functional on the space of connections on a principal $G_{\mathbb{R}}$-bundle over a closed, connected, nonorientable surface, where $G_{\mathbb{R}}$ is any compact connected Lie group. In this monograph, the authors generalize the discussion in ``The Yang-Mills equations over Riemann surfaces'' and ``Yang-Mills Connections on Nonorientable Surfaces''. They obtain explicit descriptions of equivariant Morse stratification of Yang-Mills functional on orientable and nonorientable surfaces for non-unitary classical groups $SO(n)$ and $Sp(n)$.

In the Tradition of Ahlfors-Bers, VI

In the Tradition of Ahlfors-Bers, VI
Author: Ursula Hamenstädt
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821874276

The Ahlfors-Bers Colloquia commemorate the mathematical legacy of Lars Ahlfors and Lipman Bers. The core of this legacy lies in the fields of geometric function theory, Teichmuller theory, hyperbolic geometry, and partial differential equations. However,

Center Manifolds for Semilinear Equations with Non-Dense Domain and Applications to Hopf Bifurcation in Age Structured Models

Center Manifolds for Semilinear Equations with Non-Dense Domain and Applications to Hopf Bifurcation in Age Structured Models
Author: Pierre Magal
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2009
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821846531

Several types of differential equations, such as delay differential equations, age-structure models in population dynamics, evolution equations with boundary conditions, can be written as semilinear Cauchy problems with an operator which is not densely defined in its domain. The goal of this paper is to develop a center manifold theory for semilinear Cauchy problems with non-dense domain. Using Liapunov-Perron method and following the techniques of Vanderbauwhede et al. in treating infinite dimensional systems, the authors study the existence and smoothness of center manifolds for semilinear Cauchy problems with non-dense domain. As an application, they use the center manifold theorem to establish a Hopf bifurcation theorem for age structured models.

Towards Non-Abelian P-adic Hodge Theory in the Good Reduction Case

Towards Non-Abelian P-adic Hodge Theory in the Good Reduction Case
Author: Martin C. Olsson
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2011-02-07
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 082185240X

The author develops a non-abelian version of $p$-adic Hodge Theory for varieties (possibly open with ``nice compactification'') with good reduction. This theory yields in particular a comparison between smooth $p$-adic sheaves and $F$-isocrystals on the level of certain Tannakian categories, $p$-adic Hodge theory for relative Malcev completions of fundamental groups and their Lie algebras, and gives information about the action of Galois on fundamental groups.

Generalized Noncrossing Partitions and Combinatorics of Coxeter Groups

Generalized Noncrossing Partitions and Combinatorics of Coxeter Groups
Author: Drew Armstrong
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2009-10-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821844903

This memoir is a refinement of the author's PhD thesis -- written at Cornell University (2006). It is primarily a desription of new research but also includes a substantial amount of background material. At the heart of the memoir the author introduces and studies a poset $NC^{(k)}(W)$ for each finite Coxeter group $W$ and each positive integer $k$. When $k=1$, his definition coincides with the generalized noncrossing partitions introduced by Brady and Watt in $K(\pi, 1)$'s for Artin groups of finite type and Bessis in The dual braid monoid. When $W$ is the symmetric group, the author obtains the poset of classical $k$-divisible noncrossing partitions, first studied by Edelman in Chain enumeration and non-crossing partitions.

Hypocoercivity

Hypocoercivity
Author: CŽdric Villani
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2009-10-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821844989

This memoir attempts at a systematic study of convergence to stationary state for certain classes of degenerate diffusive equations, taking the general form ${\frac{\partial f}{\partial t}}+ L f =0$. The question is whether and how one can overcome the degeneracy by exploiting commutators.

Unfolding CR Singularities

Unfolding CR Singularities
Author: Adam Coffman
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2010
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821846574

"Volume 205, number 962 (first of 5 numbers)."

Small Modifications of Quadrature Domains

Small Modifications of Quadrature Domains
Author: Makoto Sakai
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2010
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821848100

For a given plane domain, the author adds a constant multiple of the Dirac measure at a point in the domain and makes a new domain called a quadrature domain. The quadrature domain is characterized as a domain such that the integral of a harmonic and integrable function over the domain equals the integral of the function over the given domain plus the integral of the function with respect to the added measure. The family of quadrature domains can be modeled as the Hele-Shaw flow with a free-boundary problem. The given domain is regarded as the initial domain and the support point of the Dirac measure as the injection point of the flow.