We survey works on collapsing Riemannian manifolds with a lower bound of sectional curvature, focusing on the three-dimensional case. We also explain the basics of Seifert manifolds and Alexandrov spaces quickly and a key idea of our proof of the volume collapsing theorem.

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The study of mass problems and Muchnik degrees was originally motivated by Kolmogorov's non-rigorous 1932 interpretation of intuitionism as a calculus of problems. The purpose of this paper is to summarize recent investigations into the lattice of Muchnik degrees of nonempty effectively closed sets in Euclidean space. Let $\mathcal{E}_\mathrm{w}$ be this lattice. We show that $\mathcal{E}_\mathrm{w}$ provides an elegant and useful framework for the classification of certain foundationally interesting problems which are algorithmically unsolvable. We exhibit some specific degrees in $\mathcal{E}_\mathrm{w}$ which are associated with such problems. In addition, we present some structural results concerning the lattice $\mathcal{E}_\mathrm{w}$. One of these results answers a question which arises naturally from the Kolmogorov interpretation. Finally, we show how $\mathcal{E}_\mathrm{w}$ can be applied in symbolic dynamics, toward the classification of tiling problems and $\boldsymbol{Z}^d$-subshifts of finite type.

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We provide a necessary and sufficient condition that $L^p$-norms, $2<p<6$, of eigenfunctions of the square root of minus the Laplacian on two-dimensional compact boundaryless Riemannian manifolds $M$ are small compared to a natural power of the eigenvalue $\lambda$. The condition that ensures this is that their $L^2$-norms over $O(\lambda^{-1/2})$ neighborhoods of arbitrary unit geodesics are small when $\lambda$ is large (which is not the case for the highest weight spherical harmonics on $S^2$ for instance). The proof exploits Gauss' lemma and the fact that the bilinear oscillatory integrals in Hörmander's proof of the Carleson-Sjölin theorem become better and better behaved away from the diagonal. Our results are related to a recent work of Bourgain who showed that $L^2$-averages over geodesics of eigenfunctions are small compared to a natural power of the eigenvalue $\lambda$ provided that the $L^4(M)$ norms are similarly small. Our results imply that QUE cannot hold on a compact boundaryless Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ of dimension two if $L^p$-norms are saturated for a given $2<p<6$. We also show that eigenfunctions cannot have a maximal rate of $L^2$-mass concentrating along unit portions of geodesics that are not smoothly closed.

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Let $G$ be a connected semisimple linear real Lie group, and $Q$ (resp. $K$) a real parabolic subgroup (resp. maximal compact subgroup) of $G$. The space of $K$-finite solutions to a conformally invariant system of differential equations on a line bundle over the real flag manifold $G/Q$ is studied. The general theory is then applied to certain second order systems on the flag manifold that corresponds to the Heisenberg parabolic subgroup in a split simple Lie group.

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We study the existence of connecting orbits for the Fujita equation with a critical or supercritical exponent. For certain ranges of the exponent we prove the existence of heteroclinic connections from positive steady states to zero and a homoclinic orbit with respect to zero.

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A root system $R$ of rank $n$ defines an $n$-dimensional smooth projective toric variety $X(R)$ associated with its fan of Weyl chambers. We give a simple description of the functor of $X(R)$ in terms of the root system $R$ and apply this result in the case of root systems of type $A$ to give a new proof of the fact that the toric variety $X(A_n)$ is the fine moduli space $\overline{L}_{n+1}$ of stable $(n+1)$-pointed chains of projective lines investigated by Losev and Manin.

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We modify the definition of Ricci curvature of Ollivier of Markov chains on graphs to study the properties of the Ricci curvature of general graphs, Cartesian product of graphs, random graphs, and some special class of graphs.

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We study the behaviour of semistability under tensor product in various settings: vector bundles, euclidean and hermitian lattices (alias Humbert forms or Arakelov bundles), multifiltered vector spaces.
One approach to show that semistable vector bundles in characteristic zero are preserved by tensor product is based on the notion of nef vector bundles. We revisit this approach and show how far it can be transferred to hermitian lattices. J.-B. Bost conjectured that semistable hermitian lattices are preserved by tensor product. Using properties of nef hermitian lattices, we establish an inequality in that direction.
We axiomatize our method in the general context of monoidal categories, and then give an elementary proof of the fact that semistable multifiltered vector spaces (which play a role in diophantine approximation) are preserved by tensor product.

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We study the stability of a stationary solution for the Lugiato-Lefever equation with the periodic boundary condition in one space dimension, which is a damped and driven nonlinear Schrödinger equation introduced to model the optical cavity. In this paper, we prove the Strichartz estimates for the linear damped Schrödinger equation with potential and external forcing and investigate the stability of certain stationary solutions under the initial perturbation within the framework of $L^2$.

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We propose and discuss a new class of processes, web Markov skeleton processes (WMSP), arising from the information retrieval on the Web. The framework of WMSP covers various known classes of processes, and it contains also important new classes of processes. We explore the definition, the scope and the time homogeneity of WMSPs, and discuss in detail a new class of processes, mirror semi-Markov processes. In the last section we briefly review some applications of WMSPs in computing page importance on the Web.

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In this paper we define an invariant of a pair of a 6 dimensional symplectic manifold with vanishing 1st Chern class and its relatively spin Lagrangian submanifold with vanishing Maslov index. This invariant is a function on the set of the path connected components of bounding cochains (solutions of the $A_{\infty}$ version of the Maurer-Cartan equation of the filtered $A_{\infty}$ algebra associated to the Lagrangian submanifold). In the case when the Lagrangian submanifold is a rational homology sphere, it becomes a numerical invariant.
This invariant depends on the choice of almost complex structures. The way how it depends on the almost complex structures is described by a wall crossing formula which involves a moduli space of pseudo-holomorphic spheres.

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We show that any faithful quasi-free actions of a finite group on the Cuntz algebra $\mathcal{O}_\infty$ are mutually conjugate, and that they are asymptotically representable.

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The blow-up formula for Chow groups of smooth varieties is known; for smooth projective varieties there is a similar formula for motives. We generalize these and prove blow-up formulas for higher Chow groups and for mixed motives of smooth quasi-projective varieties.

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This article is devoted to studying the ramification of Galois torsors and of $\ell $-adic sheaves in characteristic $p>0$ (with $\ell \ne p$). Let $k$ be a perfect field of characteristic $p>0$, $X$ a smooth, separated and quasi-compact $k$-scheme, $D$ a simple normal crossing divisor on $X$, $U=X-D$, $\Lambda$ a finite local $\mathbb{Z}_{\ell} $-algebra and $\mathscr{F}$ a locally constant constructible sheaf of $\Lambda$-modules on $U$. We introduce a boundedness condition on the ramification of $\mathscr{F}$ along $D$, and study its main properties, in particular, some specialization properties that lead to the fundamental notion of cleanliness and to the definition of the characteristic cycle of $\mathscr{F}$. The cleanliness condition extends the one introduced by Kato for rank 1 sheaves. Roughly speaking, it means that the ramification of $\mathscr{F}$ along $D$ is controlled by its ramification at the generic points of $D$. Under this condition, we propose a conjectural Riemann-Roch type formula for $\mathscr{F}$. Some cases of this formula have been previously proved by Kato and by the second author (T. S.).

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In this paper we continue the investigation of the regularity of optimal transport maps on Riemannian manifolds, in relation with the geometric conditions of Ma-Trudinger-Wang and the geometry of the cut locus. We derive some sufficient and some necessary conditions to ensure that the optimal transport map is always continuous. In dimension two, we can sharpen our result into a necessary and sufficient condition. We also provide some sufficient conditions for regularity, and review existing results.

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We study a reaction-diffusion evolution equation perturbed by a Gaussian noise. Here the leading operator is the infinitesimal generator of a $C_0$-semigroup of strictly negative type, the nonlinear term has at most polynomial growth and is such that the whole system is dissipative.
The corresponding Itô stochastic equation describes a process on a Hilbert space with dissipative nonlinear, non globally Lipschitz drift and a Gaussian noise.
Under smoothness assumptions on the nonlinearity, asymptotics to all orders in a small parameter in front of the noise are given, with uniform estimates on the remainders. Applications to nonlinear SPDEs with a linear term in the drift given by a Laplacian in a bounded domain are included. As a particular example we consider the small noise asymptotic expansions for the stochastic FitzHugh-Nagumo equations of neurobiology around deterministic solutions.

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