We determine the automorphism groups of unbounded homogeneous domains with boundaries of light cone type. Furthermore we present a group-theoretic characterization of one of the domains. As a corollary we prove the non-existence of compact quotients of the homogeneous domain. We also give a counterexample of the characterization.

Some new properties concerning BLO martingales are given. The BMO-BLO boundedness of martingale maximal functions and Bennett type characterization of BLO martingales are shown. Also, a non-negative BMO martingale that is not in BLO is constructed.

A motive over a field $k$ is of abelian type if it belongs to the thick and rigid subcategory of Chow motives spanned by the motives of abelian varieties over $k$. This paper contains three sections of independent interest. First, we show that a motive which becomes of abelian type after a base field extension of algebraically closed fields is of abelian type. Given a field extension $K$/$k$ and a motive $M$ over $k$, we also show that $M$ is finite-dimensional if and only if $M_K$ is finite-dimensional. As a corollary, we obtain Chow–Künneth decompositions for varieties that become isomorphic to an abelian variety after some field extension. Second, let $\varOmega$ be a universal domain containing $k$. We show that Murre’s conjectures for motives of abelian type over $k$ reduce to Murre’s conjecture (D) for products of curves over $\varOmega$. In particular, we show that Murre’s conjecture (D) for products of curves over $\varOmega$ implies Beauville’s vanishing conjecture on abelian varieties over $k$. Finally, we give criteria on Chow groups for a motive to be of abelian type. For instance, we show that $M$ is of abelian type if and only if the total Chow group of algebraically trivial cycles $\textrm{CH}_*(M_{\varOmega})_{\textrm{alg}}$ is spanned, via the action of correspondences, by the Chow groups of products of curves. We also show that a morphism of motives $f: N \rightarrow M$, with $N$ finite-dimensional, which induces a surjection $f_* : \textrm{CH}_*(N_{\varOmega})_{\textrm{alg}} \rightarrow \textrm{CH}_*(M_{\varOmega})_{\textrm{alg}}$ also induces a surjection $f_* : \textrm{CH}_*(N_{\varOmega})_{\textrm{hom}} \rightarrow \textrm{CH}_*(M_{\varOmega})_{\textrm{hom}}$ on homologically trivial cycles.

We adapt the theory of non-Archimedean uniformization to construct a smooth surface from a lattice in PGL$_3(\mathbb{Q}_2)$ that has nontrivial torsion. It turns out to be a fake projective plane, commensurable with Mumford’s fake plane yet distinct from it and the other fake planes that arise from 2-adic uniformization by torsion-free groups. As part of the proof, and of independent interest, we compute the homotopy type of the Berkovich space of our plane.

In the study of the holomorphic automorphism groups, many researches have been carried out inside the category of bounded or hyperbolic domains. On the contrary to these cases, for unbounded non-hyperbolic cases, only a few results are known about the structure of the holomorphic automorphism groups. Main result of the present paper gives a class of unbounded non-hyperbolic Reinhardt domains with non-compact automorphism groups, Cartan’s linearity theorem and explicit Bergman kernels. Moreover, a reformulation of Cartan’s linearity theorem for finite volume Reinhardt domains is also given.

We consider a semilinear Robin problem with an indefinite and unbounded potential and a reaction which exhibits asymmetric behavior as $x\rightarrow\pm\infty$. More precisely it is sublinear near $-\infty$ with possible resonance with respect to the principal eigenvalue of the negative Robin Laplacian and it is superlinear at $+\infty$. Resonance is also allowed at zero with respect to any nonprincipal eigenvalue. We prove two multiplicity results. In the first one, we obtain two nontrivial solutions and in the second, under stronger regularity conditions on the reaction, we produce three nontrivial solutions. Our work generalizes the recent one by Recova-Rumbos (Nonlin. Anal. 112 (2015), 181–198).

We study contiguity relations of Lauricella’s hypergeometric function $F_D$, by using the twisted cohomology group and the intersection form. We derive contiguity relations from those in the twisted cohomology group and give the coefficients in these relations by the intersection numbers. Furthermore, we construct twisted cycles corresponding to a fundamental set of solutions to the system of differential equations satisfied by $F_D$, which are expressed as Laurent series. We also give the contiguity relations of these solutions.

Toponogov’s triangle comparison theorem and its generalizations are important tools for studying the topology of Riemannian manifolds. In these theorems, one assumes that the curvature of a given manifold is bounded from below by the curvature of a model surface. The models are either of constant curvature, or, in the generalizations, rotationally symmetric about some point. One concludes that geodesic triangles in the manifold correspond to geodesic triangles in the model surface which have the same corresponding side lengths, but smaller corresponding angles. In addition, a certain rigidity holds: Whenever there is equality in one of the corresponding angles, the geodesic triangle in the surface embeds totally geodesically and isometrically in the manifold.

In this paper, we discuss a condition relating the geometry of a Riemannian manifold to that of a model surface which is weaker than the usual curvature hypothesis in the generalized Toponogov theorems, but yet is strong enough to ensure that a geodesic triangle in the manifold has a corresponding triangle in the model with the same corresponding side lengths, but smaller corresponding angles. In contrast, it is interesting that rigidity fails in this setting.