TY - JOUR A1 - Azzali, Sara A1 - Wahl, Charlotte T1 - Two-cocycle twists and Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index theory JF - Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society N2 - We construct eta- and rho-invariants for Dirac operators, on the universal covering of a closed manifold, that are invariant under the projective action associated to a 2-cocycle of the fundamental group. We prove an Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index theorem in this setting, as well as its higher generalisation. Applications concern the classification of positive scalar curvature metrics on closed spin manifolds. We also investigate the properties of these twisted invariants for the signature operator and the relation to the higher invariants. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305004118000427 SN - 0305-0041 SN - 1469-8064 VL - 167 IS - 3 SP - 437 EP - 487 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bandara, Menaka Lashitha A1 - Rosen, Andreas T1 - Riesz continuity of the Atiyah-Singer Dirac operator under perturbations of local boundary conditions JF - Communications in partial differential equations N2 - On a smooth complete Riemannian spin manifold with smooth compact boundary, we demonstrate that Atiyah-Singer Dirac operator in depends Riesz continuously on perturbations of local boundary conditions The Lipschitz bound for the map depends on Lipschitz smoothness and ellipticity of and bounds on Ricci curvature and its first derivatives as well as a lower bound on injectivity radius away from a compact neighbourhood of the boundary. More generally, we prove perturbation estimates for functional calculi of elliptic operators on manifolds with local boundary conditions. KW - Boundary value problems KW - Dirac operator KW - functional calculus KW - real-variable harmonic analysis KW - Riesz continuity KW - spectral flow Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/03605302.2019.1611847 SN - 0360-5302 SN - 1532-4133 VL - 44 IS - 12 SP - 1253 EP - 1284 PB - Taylor & Francis Group CY - Philadelphia ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Becker, Christian A1 - Benini, Marco A1 - Schenkel, Alexander A1 - Szabo, Richard J. T1 - Cheeger-Simons differential characters with compact support and Pontryagin duality JF - Communications in analysis and geometry N2 - By adapting the Cheeger-Simons approach to differential cohomology, we establish a notion of differential cohomology with compact support. We show that it is functorial with respect to open embeddings and that it fits into a natural diagram of exact sequences which compare it to compactly supported singular cohomology and differential forms with compact support, in full analogy to ordinary differential cohomology. We prove an excision theorem for differential cohomology using a suitable relative version. Furthermore, we use our model to give an independent proof of Pontryagin duality for differential cohomology recovering a result of [Harvey, Lawson, Zweck - Amer. J. Math. 125 (2003), 791]: On any oriented manifold, ordinary differential cohomology is isomorphic to the smooth Pontryagin dual of compactly supported differential cohomology. For manifolds of finite-type, a similar result is obtained interchanging ordinary with compactly supported differential cohomology. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4310/CAG.2019.v27.n7.a2 SN - 1019-8385 SN - 1944-9992 VL - 27 IS - 7 SP - 1473 EP - 1522 PB - International Press of Boston CY - Somerville ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Beckus, Siegfried A1 - Bellissard, Jean A1 - Cornean, Horia T1 - Holder Continuity of the Spectra for Aperiodic Hamiltonians JF - Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré N2 - We study the spectral location of a strongly pattern equivariant Hamiltonians arising through configurations on a colored lattice. Roughly speaking, two configurations are "close to each other" if, up to a translation, they "almost coincide" on a large fixed ball. The larger this ball, the more similar they are, and this induces a metric on the space of the corresponding dynamical systems. Our main result states that the map which sends a given configuration into the spectrum of its associated Hamiltonian, is Holder (even Lipschitz) continuous in the usual Hausdorff metric. Specifically, the spectral distance of two Hamiltonians is estimated by the distance of the corresponding dynamical systems. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-019-00848-6 SN - 1424-0637 SN - 1424-0661 VL - 20 IS - 11 SP - 3603 EP - 3631 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Biskaborn, Boris K. A1 - Smith, Sharon L. A1 - Noetzli, Jeannette A1 - Matthes, Heidrun A1 - Vieira, Goncalo A1 - Streletskiy, Dmitry A. A1 - Schoeneich, Philippe A1 - Romanovsky, Vladimir E. A1 - Lewkowicz, Antoni G. A1 - Abramov, Andrey A1 - Allard, Michel A1 - Boike, Julia A1 - Cable, William L. A1 - Christiansen, Hanne H. A1 - Delaloye, Reynald A1 - Diekmann, Bernhard A1 - Drozdov, Dmitry A1 - Etzelmueller, Bernd A1 - Grosse, Guido A1 - Guglielmin, Mauro A1 - Ingeman-Nielsen, Thomas A1 - Isaksen, Ketil A1 - Ishikawa, Mamoru A1 - Johansson, Margareta A1 - Johannsson, Halldor A1 - Joo, Anseok A1 - Kaverin, Dmitry A1 - Kholodov, Alexander A1 - Konstantinov, Pavel A1 - Kroeger, Tim A1 - Lambiel, Christophe A1 - Lanckman, Jean-Pierre A1 - Luo, Dongliang A1 - Malkova, Galina A1 - Meiklejohn, Ian A1 - Moskalenko, Natalia A1 - Oliva, Marc A1 - Phillips, Marcia A1 - Ramos, Miguel A1 - Sannel, A. Britta K. A1 - Sergeev, Dmitrii A1 - Seybold, Cathy A1 - Skryabin, Pavel A1 - Vasiliev, Alexander A1 - Wu, Qingbai A1 - Yoshikawa, Kenji A1 - Zheleznyak, Mikhail A1 - Lantuit, Hugues T1 - Permafrost is warming at a global scale JF - Nature Communications N2 - Permafrost warming has the potential to amplify global climate change, because when frozen sediments thaw it unlocks soil organic carbon. Yet to date, no globally consistent assessment of permafrost temperature change has been compiled. Here we use a global data set of permafrost temperature time series from the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost to evaluate temperature change across permafrost regions for the period since the International Polar Year (2007-2009). During the reference decade between 2007 and 2016, ground temperature near the depth of zero annual amplitude in the continuous permafrost zone increased by 0.39 +/- 0.15 degrees C. Over the same period, discontinuous permafrost warmed by 0.20 +/- 0.10 degrees C. Permafrost in mountains warmed by 0.19 +/- 0.05 degrees C and in Antarctica by 0.37 +/- 0.10 degrees C. Globally, permafrost temperature increased by 0.29 +/- 0.12 degrees C. The observed trend follows the Arctic amplification of air temperature increase in the Northern Hemisphere. In the discontinuous zone, however, ground warming occurred due to increased snow thickness while air temperature remained statistically unchanged. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08240-4 SN - 2041-1723 VL - 10 PB - Nature Publ. Group CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Zadorozhnyi, Oleksandr T1 - Concentration of weakly dependent Banach-valued sums and applications to statistical learning methods JF - Bernoulli : official journal of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability N2 - We obtain a Bernstein-type inequality for sums of Banach-valued random variables satisfying a weak dependence assumption of general type and under certain smoothness assumptions of the underlying Banach norm. We use this inequality in order to investigate in the asymptotical regime the error upper bounds for the broad family of spectral regularization methods for reproducing kernel decision rules, when trained on a sample coming from a tau-mixing process. KW - Banach-valued process KW - Bernstein inequality KW - concentration KW - spectral regularization KW - weak dependence Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3150/18-BEJ1095 SN - 1350-7265 SN - 1573-9759 VL - 25 IS - 4B SP - 3421 EP - 3458 PB - International Statistical Institute CY - Voorburg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bär, Christian T1 - The curl operator on odd-dimensional manifolds JF - Journal of mathematical physics N2 - We study the spectral properties of curl, a linear differential operator of first order acting on differential forms of appropriate degree on an odd-dimensional closed oriented Riemannian manifold. In three dimensions, its eigenvalues are the electromagnetic oscillation frequencies in vacuum without external sources. In general, the spectrum consists of the eigenvalue 0 with infinite multiplicity and further real discrete eigenvalues of finite multiplicity. We compute the Weyl asymptotics and study the zeta-function. We give a sharp lower eigenvalue bound for positively curved manifolds and analyze the equality case. Finally, we compute the spectrum for flat tori, round spheres, and 3-dimensional spherical space forms. Published under license by AIP Publishing. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5082528 SN - 0022-2488 SN - 1089-7658 VL - 60 IS - 3 PB - American Institute of Physics CY - Melville ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bär, Christian A1 - Strohmaier, Alexander T1 - An index theorem for Lorentzian manifolds with compact spacelike Cauchy boundary JF - American Journal of Mathematics N2 - We show that the Dirac operator on a compact globally hyperbolic Lorentzian spacetime with spacelike Cauchy boundary is a Fredholm operator if appropriate boundary conditions are imposed. We prove that the index of this operator is given by the same expression as in the index formula of Atiyah-Patodi-Singer for Riemannian manifolds with boundary. The index is also shown to equal that of a certain operator constructed from the evolution operator and a spectral projection on the boundary. In case the metric is of product type near the boundary a Feynman parametrix is constructed. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1353/ajm.2019.0037 SN - 0002-9327 SN - 1080-6377 VL - 141 IS - 5 SP - 1421 EP - 1455 PB - Johns Hopkins Univ. Press CY - Baltimore ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Clavier, Pierre J. A1 - Guo, Li A1 - Paycha, Sylvie A1 - Zhang, Bin T1 - An algebraic formulation of the locality principle in renormalisation JF - European Journal of Mathematics N2 - We study the mathematical structure underlying the concept of locality which lies at the heart of classical and quantum field theory, and develop a machinery used to preserve locality during the renormalisation procedure. Viewing renormalisation in the framework of Connes and Kreimer as the algebraic Birkhoff factorisation of characters on a Hopf algebra with values in a Rota-Baxter algebra, we build locality variants of these algebraic structures, leading to a locality variant of the algebraic Birkhoff factorisation. This provides an algebraic formulation of the conservation of locality while renormalising. As an application in the context of the Euler-Maclaurin formula on lattice cones, we renormalise the exponential generating function which sums over the lattice points in a lattice cone. As a consequence, for a suitable multivariate regularisation, renormalisation from the algebraic Birkhoff factorisation amounts to composition by a projection onto holomorphic multivariate germs. KW - Locality KW - Renormalisation KW - Algebraic Birkhoff factorisation KW - Partial algebra KW - Hopf algebra KW - Rota-Baxter algebra KW - Multivariate meromorphic functions KW - Lattice cones Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s40879-018-0255-8 SN - 2199-675X SN - 2199-6768 VL - 5 IS - 2 SP - 356 EP - 394 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Conforti, Giovanni A1 - Kosenkova, Tetiana A1 - Roelly, Sylvie T1 - Conditioned Point Processes with Application to Levy Bridges JF - Journal of theoretical probability N2 - Our first result concerns a characterization by means of a functional equation of Poisson point processes conditioned by the value of their first moment. It leads to a generalized version of Mecke’s formula. En passant, it also allows us to gain quantitative results about stochastic domination for Poisson point processes under linear constraints. Since bridges of a pure jump Lévy process in Rd with a height a can be interpreted as a Poisson point process on space–time conditioned by pinning its first moment to a, our approach allows us to characterize bridges of Lévy processes by means of a functional equation. The latter result has two direct applications: First, we obtain a constructive and simple way to sample Lévy bridge dynamics; second, it allows us to estimate the number of jumps for such bridges. We finally show that our method remains valid for linearly perturbed Lévy processes like periodic Ornstein–Uhlenbeck processes driven by Lévy noise. KW - Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10959-018-0863-8 SN - 0894-9840 SN - 1572-9230 VL - 32 IS - 4 SP - 2111 EP - 2134 PB - Springer CY - New York ER -