This is an announcement for the paper "A dichotomy for the number of
ultrapowers" by Ilijas Farah and Saharon Shelah.
Abstract: We prove a strong dichotomy for the number of ultrapowers of
a given countable model associated with nonprincipal ultrafilters on
N. They are either all isomorphic, or else there are $2^{2^{\aleph_0}}$
many nonisomorphic ultrapowers. We prove the analogous result for metric
structures, including C*-algebras and II$_1$ factors, as well as their
relative commutants and include several applications. We also show that
the C*-algebra B(H) always has nonisomorphic relative commutants in its
ultrapowers associated with nonprincipal ultrafilters on N.
Archive classification: math.LO math.OA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 03C20, 46M07
Report Number: Shelah [FaSh:954]
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This is an announcement for the paper "Stafney's lemma holds for several
"classical" interpolation methods" by Alon Ivtsan.
Abstract: Let (B_0,B_1) be a Banach pair. Stafney showed that in the
definition of the norm in the Calderon complex interpolation method on the
strip, one can replace the space F(B_0,B_1) with its subspace G(B_0,B_1)
if the element belongs to the intersection of B_0 and B_1. We extend
this result to a more general setting, which contains several well-known
interpolation methods, namely the Calderon complex interpolation method
on the annulus, an appropriate version of the Lions-Peetre real method,
and the Peetre "plus minus" method.
Archive classification: math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B70 (primary); 46B45 (secondary)
Remarks: 7 pages
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This is an announcement for the paper "Minimal sequences and the
Kadison-Singer problem" by W. Lawton.
Abstract: The Kadison-Singer problem asks: does every pure state on
the C$^*$-algebra $\ell^{\infty}(Z)$ admit a unique extension to the
C$^*$-algebra $\cB(\ell^2(Z))$? A yes answer is equivalent to several
open conjectures including Feichtinger's: every bounded frame is a finite
union of Riesz sequences. We prove that for measurable $S \subset \TT,$
$\{ \chi_{_S} \, e^{2\pi i k t} \}_{_{k\in \ZZ}}$ is a finite union of
Riesz sequences in $L^2(\TT)$ if and only if there exists a nonempty
$\Lambda \subset \ZZ$ such that $\chi_{_\Lambda}$ is a minimal sequence
and $\{ \chi_{_S} \, e^{2\pi i k t} \}_{_{k \in \Lambda}}$ is a Riesz
sequence. We also suggest some directions for future research.
Archive classification: math.FA math.DS
Mathematics Subject Classification: 37B10, 42A55, 46L05
Remarks: 10 pages, Theorem 1.1 was announced during conferences in St.
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This is an announcement for the paper "On best proximity points in metric
and Banach spaces" by Rafa Espinola and Aurora Fernandez-Leon.
Abstract: In this paper we study the existence and uniqueness of best
proximity points of cyclic contractions as well as the convergence of
iterates to such proximity points. We do it from two different approaches,
leading each one of them to different results which complete, if not
improve, other similar results in the theory. Results in this paper
stand for Banach spaces, geodesic metric spaces and metric spaces. We
also include an appendix on CAT(0) spaces where we study the particular
behavior of these spaces regarding the problems we are concerned with.
Archive classification: math.FA math.MG
Mathematics Subject Classification: 54H25, 47H09
Remarks: 17 pages. Accepted for publication in the Canadian Mathematical
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CONFERENCE ON "PERSPECTIVES IN HIGH DIMENSIONS," CLEVELAND, AUGUST 1-7, 2010
This is an announcement of the conference on "Perspectives in High Dimensions," to be held
on the campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. from August 1
until August 7, 2010.
The aim of the conference is to reflect on recent and future developments in broadly
understood geometric functional analysis, with emphasis on interactions with other subfields
of mathematics and with other mathematical sciences, including but not limited to computer
science, mathematical physics and statistics. The scientific program will be set up under the
guidance of the Scientific Committee consisting of
Jean Bourgain
Emmanuel Candes
Persi Diaconis
Boaz Klartag
Stanislaw Szarek
Santosh Vempala
Roman Vershynin
Elisabeth Werner
The conference will be supported by the NSF via Focused Research Grant, which involves
CWRU, Kent State University, University of Michigan and University of Missouri. We expect to
be able to provide support to a substantial number of participants, with priority given to
graduate students, junior researchers and to those lacking their own research funding, as
well as to members of underrepresented groups.
More details will be provided in the coming months. Should you have any questions, please
contact one of the organizers (below), or check the temporary conference website at
http://www.case.edu/artsci/math/perspectivesInHighDimensions/
Alexander Koldobsky (koldobskiya at missouri.edu)
Mark Rudelson (rudelsonm at missouri.edu)
Dmitry Ryabogin (ryabogin at math.kent.edu)
Stanislaw Szarek (szarek at cwru.edu)
Roman Vershynin (romanv at umich.edu)
Elisabeth Werner (elisabeth.werner at case.edu)
Artem Zvavitch (zvavitch at math.kent.edu)
Local committee:
Elizabeth Meckes (ese3 at cwru.edu)
Mark Meckes (mark.meckes at case.edu)
Dmitry Ryabogin (ryabogin at math.kent.edu)
Stanislaw Szarek (szarek at cwru.edu)
Elisabeth Werner (elisabeth.werner at case.edu)
Artem Zvavitch (zvavitch at math.kent.edu)
This is an announcement for the paper "An elementary proof of the
Restricted Invertibility Theorem" by Daniel A. Spielman and Nikhil
Srivastava.
Abstract: We give an elementary proof of a generalization of Bourgain
and Tzafriri's Restricted Invertibility Theorem, which says roughly that
any matrix with columns of unit length and bounded operator norm has a
large coordinate subspace on which it is well-invertible. Our proof gives
the tightest known form of this result, is constructive, and provides a
deterministic polynomial time algorithm for finding the desired subspace.
Archive classification: math.FA
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This is an announcement for the paper "On the Homothety Conjecture"
by Elisabeth M. Werner and Deping Ye.
Abstract: Let $K$ be a convex body in $\bbR^n$ and $\d>0$. The homothety
conjecture asks: Does $K_{\d}=c K$ imply that $K$ is an ellipsoid? Here
$K_{\d}$ is the (convex) floating body and $c$ is a constant depending
on $\d$ only. In this paper we prove that the homothety conjecture holds
true in the class of the convex bodies $B^n_p$, $1\leq p\leq \infty$, the
unit balls of $l_p^n$; namely, we show that $(B^n_p)_{\d} = c B^n_p$ if
and only if $p=2$. We also show that the homothety conjecture is true for
a general convex body $K$ if $\d$ is small enough. This improvs earlier
results by Sch\"utt and Werner \cite{SW1994} and Stancu \cite{Stancu2009}.
Archive classification: math.MG math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 52A20, 53A15
Remarks: 24 pages, 2 figures
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This is an announcement for the paper "Approximating the moments of
marginals of high dimensional distributions" by Roman Vershynin.
Abstract: For probability distributions on R^n, we study the optimal
sample size N=N(n,p) that suffices to uniformly approximate the p-th
moments of all one-dimensional marginals. Under the assumption that the
support of the distribution lies in the Euclidean ball of radius \sqrt{n}
and the marginals have bounded 4p moments, we obtain the optimal bound
N = O(n^{p/2}) for p > 2. This bound goes in the direction of bridging
the two recent results: a theorem of Guedon and Rudelson which has an
extra logarithmic factor in the sample size, and a recent result of
Adamczak, Litvak, Pajor and Tomczak-Jaegermann which requires stronger
subexponential moment assumptions.
Archive classification: math.PR math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B09; 52A21; 62J10
Remarks: 12 pages
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This is an announcement for the paper "SIC-POVMs: A new computer study"
by A. J. Scott and M. Grassl.
Abstract: We report on a new computer study into the existence of
d^2 equiangular lines in d complex dimensions. Such maximal complex
projective codes are conjectured to exist in all finite dimensions and are
the underlying mathematical objects defining symmetric informationally
complete measurements in quantum theory. We provide numerical solutions
in all dimensions d <= 67 and, moreover, a putatively complete list of
Weyl-Heisenberg covariant solutions for d <= 50. A symmetry analysis
of this list leads to new algebraic solutions in dimensions d = 24,
35 and 48, which are given together with algebraic solutions for d =
4,..., 15 and 19.
Archive classification: quant-ph math.CO math.FA
Remarks: 20 pages + 189 pages of raw data (also accessible in the
source in
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This is an announcement for the paper "Free probability theory" by
Roland Speicher.
Abstract: Free probability theory was created by Dan Voiculescu around
1985, motivated by his efforts to understand special classes of von
Neumann algebras. His discovery in 1991 that also random matrices
satisfy asymptotically the freeness relation transformed the theory
dramatically. Not only did this yield spectacular results about the
structure of operator algebras, but it also brought new concepts and
tools into the realm of random matrix theory. In the following we will
give, mostly from the random matrix point of view, a survey on some of
the basic ideas and results of free probability theory.
Archive classification: math.PR math.OA
Remarks: 21 pages; my contribution for the Handbook on Random Matrix
Theory, to be published by Oxford University Press
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