Si $M$ est une variété de dimension $n$, compacte non simplement connexe, on caractérise les métriques riemanniennes sur $M$ dont la fonction croissance a exactement deux singularités.

We explicitly describe, in terms of indecomposable ${{\mathbb{Z}}_{2}}\left[ G \right]$-modules, the Galois module structure of ideals in totally ramified biquadratic extensions of local number fields with only one break in their ramification filtration. This paper completeswork begun in [Elder: Canad. J.Math. (5) 50(1998), 1007–1047].

It is known that the $K$-groups that appear in the calculation of the $K$-theory of a large class of groups can be computed from the $K$-theory of their virtually infinite cyclic subgroups. On the other hand, Nil-groups appear to be the obstacle in calculations involving the $K$-theory of the latter. The main difficulty in the calculation of Nil-groups is that they are infinitely generated when they do not vanish. We develop methods for computing the exponent of $\text{N}{{\text{K}}_{0}}$-groups that appear in the calculation of the ${{K}_{0}}$-groups of virtually infinite cyclic groups.

We prove that the Mahler measure of an algebraic number cannot be too close to an integer, unless we have equality. The examples of certain Pisot numbers show that the respective inequality is sharp up to a constant. All cases when the measure is equal to the integer are described in terms of the minimal polynomials.

We compute the rational Chow groups of supersingular abelian varieties and some other related varieties, such as supersingular Fermat varieties and supersingular $K3$ surfaces. These computations are concordant with the conjectural relationship, for a smooth projective variety, between the structure of Chow groups and the coniveau filtration on the cohomology.

The Griffiths group $\text{G}{{\text{r}}^{r}}\left( X \right)$ of a smooth projective variety $X$ over an algebraically closed field is defined to be the group of homologically trivial algebraic cycles of codimension $r$ on $X$ modulo the subgroup of algebraically trivial algebraic cycles. The main result of this paper is that the Griffiths group $\text{G}{{\text{r}}^{2}}\left( {{A}_{{\bar{k}}}} \right)$ of a supersingular abelian variety ${{A}_{{\bar{k}}}}$ over the algebraic closure of a finite field of characteristic $p$ is at most a $p$-primary torsion group. As a corollary the same conclusion holds for supersingular Fermat threefolds. In contrast, using methods of $\text{C}$. Schoen it is also shown that if the Tate conjecture is valid for all smooth projective surfaces and all finite extensions of the finite ground field $k$ of characteristic $p\,>\,2$, then the Griffiths group of any ordinary abelian threefold ${{A}_{{\bar{k}}}}$ over the algebraic closure of $k$ is non-trivial; in fact, for all but a finite number of primes $\ell \,\ne \,p$ it is the case that $\text{G}{{\text{r}}^{2}}\left( {{A}_{{\bar{k}}}} \right)\,\otimes \,{{\mathbb{Z}}_{\ell }}\,\ne \,0$.

An irreducible supercuspidal representation $\pi$ of $G\,=\,\text{GL}\left( n,\,F \right)$, where $F$ is a nonarchimedean local field of characteristic zero, is said to be “distinguished” by a subgroup $H$ of $G$ and a quasicharacter $\text{ }\!\!\chi\!\!\text{ }$ of $H$ if $\text{Ho}{{\text{m}}_{H}}\left( \pi ,\,\text{ }\!\!\chi\!\!\text{ } \right)\,\ne \,0$. There is a suitable global analogue of this notion for an irreducible, automorphic, cuspidal representation associated to $\text{GL}\left( n \right)$. Under certain general hypotheses, it is shown in this paper that every distinguished, irreducible, supercuspidal representation may be realized as a local component of a distinguished, irreducible automorphic, cuspidal representation. Applications to the theory of distinguished supercuspidal representations are provided.

The geometry of indicatrices is the foundation of Minkowski geometry. A strongly convex indicatrix in a vector space is a strongly convex hypersurface. It admits a Riemannian metric and has a distinguished invariant—(Cartan) torsion. We prove the existence of non-trivial strongly convex indicatrices with vanishing mean torsion and discuss the relationship between the mean torsion and the Riemannian curvature tensor for indicatrices of Randers type.

We combine the deep methods of Frey, Ribet, Serre and Wiles with some results of Darmon, Merel and Poonen to solve certain explicit diophantine equations. In particular, we prove that the area of a primitive Pythagorean triangle is never a perfect power, and that each of the equations ${{X}^{4}}\,-\,4{{Y}^{4}}\,=\,{{Z}^{p}},\,{{X}^{4}}\,+\,4{{Y}^{p}}\,=\,{{Z}^{2}}$ has no non-trivial solution. Proofs are short and rest heavily on results whose proofs required Wiles’ deep machinery.

We use the theory of Jacobi-like forms to construct modular forms for a congruence subgroup of $\text{SL}\left( 2,\,\mathbb{R} \right)$ which can be expressed as linear combinations of products of certain theta functions.

H. O. Kim has shown that contrary to the case of ${{H}^{p}}$-space, the Smirnov class $M$ defined by the radial maximal function is essentially smaller than the classical Smirnov class of the disk. In the paper we show that these two classes have the same corresponding locally convex structure, i.e. they have the same dual spaces and the same Fréchet envelopes. We describe a general form of a continuous linear functional on $M$ and multiplier from $M$ into ${{H}^{p}},\,0\,<\,p\,\le \,\infty $.

In this note we show that the image of the transfer for permutation representations of finite groups is generated by the transfers of special monomials. This leads to a description of the image of the transfer of the alternating groups. We also determine the height of these ideals.

A new construction of the ordinary residue of differential forms is given. This construction is intrinsic, i.e., it is defined without local coordinates, and it is geometric: it is constructed out of the geometric structure of the local and global cohomology groups of the differentials. The Residue Theorem and the local calculation then follow from geometric reasons.

We study a class of subgroups of $\text{PS}{{\text{L}}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{Z} \right)$ which can be characterized in different ways, such as congruence groups, modular forms, modular curves, elliptic surfaces, lattices and graphs.

A well-known theorem of Sarason [11] asserts that if $\left[ {{T}_{f}},\,{{T}_{h}} \right]$ is compact for every $h\,\in \,{{H}^{\infty }}$, then $f\,\in \,{{H}^{\infty }}\,+\,C\left( T \right)$. Using local analysis in the full Toeplitz algebra $T\,=\,T\left( {{L}^{\infty }} \right)$, we show that the membership $f\,\in \,{{H}^{\infty }}\,+\,C\left( T \right)$ can be inferred from the compactness of a much smaller collection of commutators $\left[ {{T}_{f}},\,{{T}_{h}} \right]$. Using this strengthened result and a theorem of Davidson [2], we construct a proper ${{C}^{*}}$-subalgebra $T\left( \mathcal{L} \right)$ of $T$ which has the same essential commutant as that of $T$. Thus the image of $T\left( \mathcal{L} \right)$ in the Calkin algebra does not satisfy the double commutant relation [12], [1]. We will also show that no separable subalgebra $\mathcal{S}$ of $T$ is capable of conferring the membership $f\,\in \,{{H}^{\infty }}\,+\,C\left( T \right)$ through the compactness of the commutators $\left\{ \left[ {{T}_{f,}}\,S \right]\,:\,S\,\in \,\mathcal{S} \right\}$.