For a two-sided sequence of compact linear operators acting on a Banach space, we consider the notion of spectrum defined in terms of the existence of exponential dichotomies under homotheties of the dynamics. This can be seen as a natural generalization of the spectrum of a matrix—the set of its eigenvalues. We give a characterization of all possible spectra and explicit examples of sequences for which the spectrum takes a form not occurring in finite-dimensional spaces. We also consider the case of a one-sided sequence of compact linear operators.

The 𝑄-polynomial is an invariant of the isotopy type of an unoriented link defined by Brandt, Lickorish, Millett, and Ho around 1985. It is shown that there exist infinitely many prime knots and links with trivial 𝑄-polynomial, and so the 𝑄-polynomial does not detect trivial links.

Regular canal surfaces of ℝ³ or 𝕊³ admit foliations by circles: the characteristic circles of the envelope. In order to build a foliation of 𝕊³ with leaves being canal surfaces, one has to relax the condition “canal” a little (“weak canal condition”) in order to accept isolated umbilics. Here, we define a topological condition which generalizes this “weak canal” condition imposed on leaves, and classify the foliations of compact orientable 3-manifolds we can obtain this way.

We show vanishing theorems of 𝐿²-cohomology groups of Kodaira–Nakano type on complete Hessian manifolds by introducing a new operator ∂'_𝐹. We obtain further vanishing theorems of 𝐿²-cohomology groups $𝐿^2 𝐻^{𝑝,𝑞}_{\bar{∂}}(Ω)$ on a regular convex cone Ω with the Cheng–Yau metric for 𝑝 > 𝑞.

Let 𝐿₁ and 𝐿₂ be nonnegative self-adjoint operators acting on 𝐿²(𝑋₁) and 𝐿²(𝑋₂), respectively, where 𝑋₁ and 𝑋₂ are spaces of homogeneous type. Assume that 𝐿₁ and 𝐿₂ have Gaussian heat kernel bounds. This paper aims to study some equivalent characterizations of the weighted product Hardy spaces $𝐻^{𝑝}_{𝑤, 𝐿_1, 𝐿_2}(𝑥_1 × 𝑥_2)$ associated to 𝐿₁ and 𝐿₂, for 𝑝 ∈ (0, ∞) and the weight 𝑤 belongs to the product Muckenhoupt class 𝐴_∞(𝑋₁ × 𝑋₂). Our main result is that the spaces $𝐻^{𝑝}_{𝑤, 𝐿_1, 𝐿_2}(𝑥_1 × 𝑥_2)$ introduced via area functions can be equivalently characterized by the Littlewood–Paley 𝑔-functions and $𝑔^{\ast}_{𝜆_1, 𝜆_2}$-functions, as well as the Peetre type maximal functions, without any further assumption beyond the Gaussian upper bounds on the heat kernels of 𝐿₁ and 𝐿₂. Our results are new even in the unweighted product setting.

In Berkes' striking paper of the early 1990s, he presented another limit theorem different from the central limit theorem for a lacunary trigonometric series not satisfying Erdős' lacunary condition. In this paper, we upgrade his result to the limit theorem having high versatility, which we would call Berkes' limit theorem. By this limit theorem, it is explained in a unified way that Fukuyama–Takahashi's counterexample and Takahashi's counterexample are all convergent to limiting distributions of the same type as Berkes.

We prove that the modified Korteweg–de Vries equation is unconditionally well-posed in 𝐻^𝑠(𝕋) for 𝑠 ≥ 1/3. For this we gather the smoothing effect first discovered by Takaoka and Tsutsumi with an approach developed by the authors that combines the energy method, with Bourgain's type estimates, improved Strichartz estimates and the construction of modified energies.

We study some limit theorems for the law of a generalized one-dimensional diffusion weighted and normalized by a non-negative function of the local time evaluated at a parametrized family of random times (which we will call a clock). As the clock tends to infinity, we show that the initial process converges towards a new penalized process, which generally depends on the chosen clock. However, unlike with deterministic clocks, no specific assumptions are needed on the resolvent of the diffusion. We then give a path interpretation of these penalized processes via some universal 𝜎-finite measures.

In 1956, 48 years after Hausdorff provided a comprehensive account on ordered sets and defined the notion of a scattered order, Erdős and Rado founded the partition calculus in a seminal paper. The present paper gives an account of investigations into generalisations of scattered linear orders and their partition relations for both singletons and pairs. We consider analogues for these order-types of known partition theorems for ordinals or scattered orders and prove a partition theorem from assumptions about cardinal characteristics. Together, this continues older research by Erdős, Galvin, Hajnal, Larson and Takahashi and more recent investigations by Abraham, Bonnet, Cummings, Džamonja, Komjáth, Shelah and Thompson.

We prove that the Kobayashi pseudo distance of a closed subvariety 𝑋 of an abelian variety 𝐴 is a true distance outside the special set Sp(𝑋) of 𝑋, where Sp(𝑋) is the union of all positive dimensional translated abelian subvarieties of 𝐴 which are contained in 𝑋. More strongly, we prove that a closed subvariety 𝑋 of an abelian variety is taut modulo Sp(𝑋); Every sequence 𝑓_𝑛 : 𝔻 → 𝑋 of holomorphic mappings from the unit disc 𝔻 admits a subsequence which converges locally uniformly, unless the image 𝑓_𝑛(𝐾) of a fixed compact set 𝐾 of 𝔻 eventually gets arbitrarily close to Sp(𝑋) as 𝑛 gets larger. These generalize a classical theorem on algebraic degeneracy of entire curves in irregular varieties.

Let 𝑆 be a nonsingular projective surface equipped with a line bundle 𝐻. Lehn's conjecture is a formula for the top Segre class of the tautological bundle associated to 𝐻 on the Hilbert scheme of points of 𝑆. Voisin has recently reduced Lehn's conjecture to the vanishing of certain coefficients of special power series. The first result here is a proof of the vanishings required by Voisin by residue calculations (A. Szenes and M. Vergne have independently found the same proof). Our second result is an elementary solution of the parallel question for the top Segre class on the symmetric power of a nonsingular projective curve 𝐶 associated to a higher rank vector bundle 𝑉 on 𝐶. Finally, we propose a complete conjecture for the top Segre class on the Hilbert scheme of points of 𝑆 associated to a higher rank vector bundle on 𝑆 in the 𝐾-trivial case.

We study a question of Etnyre and Van Horn-Morris whether a symmetric mapping class admitting a positive factorization is a lift of a quasipositive braid. We answer the question affirmatively for mapping classes satisfying certain cyclic conditions.

In this paper, we introduce a new nontrivial filtration, called F-order, for classical and virtual knot invariants; this filtration produces filtered knot invariants, which are called finite type invariants similar to Vassiliev knot invariants. Finite type invariants introduced by Goussarov, Polyak, and Viro are well-known, and we call them finite type invariants of GPV-order. We show that for any positive integer 𝑛 and for any classical knot 𝐾, there exist infinitely many of nontrivial classical knots, all of whose finite type invariants of GPV-order ≤ 𝑛 − 1, coincide with those of 𝐾 (Theorem 1). Further, we show that for any positive integer 𝑛, there exists a nontrivial virtual knot whose finite type invariants of our F-order ≤ 𝑛 − 1 coincide with those of the trivial knot (Theorem 2). In order to prove Theorem 1 (Theorem 2, resp.), we define an 𝑛-triviality via a certain unknotting operation, called virtualization (forbidden moves, resp.), and for any positive integer 𝑛, find an 𝑛-trivial classical knot (virtual knot, resp.).