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    On the geometry of regular maps from a quasi-projective surface to a curve
    (Oberwolfach : Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2013) Parameswaran, A.J.; Tibar, M.
    We explore consequences of the triviality of the monodromy group, using the condition of purity of the mixed Hodge structure on the cohomology of the surface X.
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    On the Markov inequality in the L2-norm with the Gegenbauer weight
    (Oberwolfach : Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2017) Nikolov, Geno P.; Shadrin, Alexei
    Let wλ(t):=(1−t2)λ−1/2, where λ>−12, be the Gegenbauer weight function, let ∥⋅∥wλ be the associated L2-norm, |f∥wλ={∫1−1|f(x)|2wλ(x)dx}1/2, and denote by Pn the space of algebraic polynomials of degree ≤n. We study the best constant cn(λ) in the Markov inequality in this norm ∥p′n∥wλ≤cn(λ)∥pn∥wλ,pn∈Pn, namely the constant cn(λ):=suppn∈Pn∥p′n∥wλ∥pn∥wλ. We derive explicit lower and upper bounds for the Markov constant cn(λ), which are valid for all n and λ.
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    Mehler-Heine asymptotics of a class of generalized hypergeometric polynomials
    (Oberwolfach : Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2013) Bracciali, Cleonice F.; Moreno-Balcázar, Juan José
    We obtain a Mehler–Heine type formula for a class of generalized hypergeometric polynomials. This type of formula describes the asymptotics of polynomials scale conveniently. As a consequence of this formula, we obtain the asymptotic behavior of the corresponding zeros. We illustrate these results with numerical experiments and some figures.
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    Noncompact harmonic manifolds
    (Oberwolfach : Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2013) Knieper, Gerhard; Peyerimhoff, Norbert
    The Lichnerowicz conjecture asserts that all harmonic manifolds are either flat or locally symmetric spaces of rank 1. This conjecture has been proved by Z.I. Szab´o [Sz] for harmonic manifolds with compact universal cover. E. Damek and F. Ricci [DR] provided examples showing that in the noncompact case the conjecture is wrong. However, such manifolds do not admit a compact quotient. The classification of all noncompact harmonic spaces is still a very difficult open problem. In this paper we provide a survey on recent results on noncompact simply connected harmonic manifolds, and we also prove many new results, both for general noncompact harmonic manifolds and for noncompact harmonic manifolds with purely exponential volume growth.
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    G-complete reducibility in non-connected groups
    (Oberwolfach : Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2013) Bate, Michael; Herpel, Sebastian; Martin, Benjamin; Röhrle, Gerhard
    In this paper we present an algorithm for determining whether a subgroup H of a non-connected reductive group G is G-completely reducible. The algorithm consists of a series of reductions; at each step, we perform operations involving connected groups, such as checking whether a certain subgroup of G0 is G0-cr. This essentially reduces the problem of determining G-complete reducibility to the connected case.
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    An extension problem and trace Hardy inequality for the sublaplacian on H-type groups
    (Oberwolfach : Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2017) Roncal, Luz; Thangavelu, Sundaram
    In this paper we study the extension problem for the sublaplacian on a H-type group and use the solutions to prove trace Hardy and Hardy inequalities for fractional powers of the sublaplacian.
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    On the derived category of Grassmannians in arbitrary characteristic
    (Oberwolfach : Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2013) Buchweitz, Ragnar-Olaf; Leuschke, Graham J.; Van den Bergh, Michel
    In this paper we consider Grassmannians in arbitrary characteristic. Generalizing Kapranov's well-known characteristic-zero results we construct dual exceptional collections on them (which are however not strong) as well as a tilting bundle. We show that this tilting bundle has a quasi-hereditary endomorphism ring and we identify the standard, costandard, projective and simple modules of the latter.
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    On the autonomous metric on the groups of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of closed hyperbolic surfaces
    (Oberwolfach : Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2013) Brandenbursky, Michael
    Let g be a closed hyperbolic surface of genus g and let Ham g be the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of g. The most natural word metric on this group is the autonomous metric. It has many interesting properties, most important of which is the bi-invariance of this metric. In this work we show that Ham g is unbounded with respect to this metric
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    Height functions on quaternionic Stiefel manifolds
    (Oberwolfach : Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2015) Macías-Virgós, Enrique; Oprea, John; Strom, Jeff; Tanré, Daniel
    In this note, we study height functions on quaternionic Stiefel manifolds and prove that all these height functions are Morse-Bott. Among them, we characterize the Morse functions and give a lower bound for their number of critical values. Relations with the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category are discussed.
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    Generalized killing spinors and Lagrangian graphs
    (Oberwolfach : Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2014) Moroianu, Andrei; Semmelmann, Uwe
    We study generalized Killing spinors on the standard sphere S3, which turn out to be related to Lagrangian embeddings in the nearly Kähler manifold S3×S3 and to great circle flows on S3. Using our methods we generalize a well known result of Gluck and Gu [6] concerning divergence-free geodesic vector fields on the sphere and we show that the space of Lagrangian submanifolds of S3×S3 has at least three connected components.