rational singularities and almost split sequences the main aim of this paper is to relate almost split sequences to singularity theory by showing that the mckay quiver built from the finite dimen sional representations of a finite subgroup g of gl 2 c where c is the complex numbers is isomorphic to the ar quiver of the reflexive modules of the quotient singularity associated with g over the past decade almost split sequences have been playing an increasingly important role in the representation theories of finite dimensional algebras and classical orders see 5 and 3 8 for basic existence theorems in these contexts while they have been known for some time to exist in higher dimensional situations 3 it has not been at all clear how they related to singularity theory if at all the main aim of this paper is to relate almost split sequences to singularity theory by showing that the mckay quiver built from the fimte dimensional complex represen tations of a finite subgroup g of gl 2 c where c is the complex numbers is isomorphic to the ar quiver of the reflexive modules over the quotient singularity r associated with g as in the case of finite dimensional algebras the ar quiver of reflexive r modules is defined in terms of the almost split sequences of reflexive r modules in the case g c sl 2 c mckay observed that the underlying graph of the mckay quiver with the trivial module removed is isomorphic to the desingulariza tion graph of the associated singularity various explanations of this phenomenon have been given by knorrer gonzalez sprinberg verdier 6 and artin verdier 1 which along the way have established most explicitly in 1 a natural one to one correspondence between the indecomposable reflexive r modules and the nodes of the desingularization graph but why the almost split sequences describe the edge of the desingularization graph still remains to be explained an effort has been made to make this paper as self contained as possible in particular no prior knowledge of almost split sequences is required before describing the contents of the six sections of this paper we fix some notation throughout this paper g is a finite group k an algebraically closed field of characteristic not dividing the order of g and v a two dimensional k representation of g setting s k x y the k algebra of formal power series the two dimen sional representation v gives a linear action of g on s as a group of k algebra automorphisms we denote by s g the skew group ring given by this action

the gl 2 c mckay correspondence in this paper we show that for any affine complete rational surface singularity the quiver of the reconstruction algebra can be determined combinatorially from the dual graph of the minimal resolution as a consequence the derived category of the minimal resolution is equivalent to the derived category of an algebra whose quiver is determined by the dual graph also for any finite subgroup g of rm gl 2 mathbb c it means that the endomorphism ring of the special cm mathbb c x y g modules can be used to build the dual graph of the minimal resolution of mathbb c 2 g extending mckay s observation mckay proc symp pure math 37 183 186 1980 for finite subgroups of rm sl 2 mathbb c to all finite subgroups of rm gl 2 mathbb c

markowitz s mean variance portfolio selection with regime switching a continuous time model a continuous time version of the markowitz mean variance portfolio selection model is proposed and analyzed for a market consisting of one bank account and multiple stocks the market parameters including the bank interest rate and the appreciation and volatility rates of the stocks depend on the market mode that switches among a finite number of states the random regime switching is assumed to be independent of the underlying brownian motion this essentially renders the underlying market incomplete a markov chain modulated diffusion formulation is employed to model the problem using techniques of stochastic linear quadratic control mean variance efficient portfolios and efficient frontiers are derived explicitly in closed forms based on solutions of two systems of linear ordinary differential equations related issues such as a minimum variance portfolio and a mutual fund theorem are also addressed all the results are markedly different from those for the case when there is no regime switching an interesting observation is however that if the interest rate is deterministic then the results exhibit rather unexpected similarity to their no regime switching counterparts even if the stock appreciation and volatility rates are markov modulated

non reciprocity in nonlinear elastodynamics abstract reciprocity is a fundamental property of linear time invariant lti acoustic waveguides governed by self adjoint operators with symmetric green s functions the break of reciprocity in lti elastodynamics is only possible through the break of time reversal symmetry on the micro level and this can be achieved by imposing external biases adding nonlinearities or allowing for time varying system properties we present a volterra series based asymptotic analysis for studying spatial non reciprocity in a class of one dimensional 1d time invariant elastic systems with weak stiffness nonlinearities we show that nonlinearity is neither necessary nor sufficient for breaking reciprocity in this class of systems rather it depends on the boundary conditions the symmetries of the governing linear and nonlinear operators and the choice of the spatial points where the non reciprocity criterion is tested extension of the analysis to higher dimensions and time varying systems is straightforward from a mathematical point of view but not in terms of new non reciprocal physical phenomena whereas the connection of non reciprocity and time irreversibility can be studied as well finally we show that suitably defined non reciprocity measures enable optimization and can provide physical understanding of the nonlinear effects in the dynamics enabling one to establish regimes of maximum nonlinearity we highlight the theoretical developments by means of a numerical example

generalized conditional symmetries of evolution equations we analyze the relationship of generalized conditional symmetries of evolution equations to the formal compatibility and passivity of systems of differential equations as well as to systems of vector fields in involution earlier results on the connection between generalized conditional invariance and generalized reduction of evolution equations are revisited this leads to a no go theorem on determining equations for operators of generalized conditional symmetry it is also shown that up to certain equivalences there exists a one to one correspondence between generalized conditional symmetries of an evolution equation and parametric families of its solutions

syzygies of modules with positive codimension abstract a higher syzygy of a module with positive codimension is a maximal cohen macaulay module that plays an important role in cohen macaulay approximation over gorenstein rings we show that every maximal cohen macaulay module is a higher syzygy of some positive codimensional module if and only if the ring is an integral domain also we discuss the hierarchy of rings with respect to cohen macaulay approximation by codimensions of modules

on negativity of higher euler characteristics positivity of higher euler characteristics on equicharacteristic and unramified regular local rings follow from the works of serre lichtenbaum and hochster here we prove that such higher euler characteristics could be negative on complete intersections even for a pair of intersecting modules both having finite projective dimension satisfying serre vanishing

on separable schrodinger equations we classify 1 3 dimensional schrodinger equations for a particle interacting with the electromagnetic field that are solvable by the method of separation of variables as a result we get 11 classes of the vector potentials of the electromagnetic field a t x a0 t x a t x providing separability of the corresponding schrodinger equations it is established in particular that the necessary condition for the schrodinger equation to be separable is that the magnetic field must be independent of the spatial variables next we prove that any schrodinger equation admitting variable separation into second order ordinary differential equations can be reduced to one of the 11 separable schrodinger equations mentioned above and carry out variable separation in the latter furthermore we apply the results obtained for separating variables in the hamilton jacobi equation

control of error in the homotopy analysis of nonlinear klein gordon initial value problems in the present paper we discuss the application of homotopy analysis to general nonlinear klein gordon type equations we first outline the method for general forms of the nonlinearity as well as for general functional forms of the initial conditions in particular we discuss a method of controlling the residual error in approximate solutions which may be found via homotopy analysis through adequate selection of the convergence control parameter with the general problem outlined we apply the method to various equations including the quasilinear cubic klein gordon equation the modified liouville equation the sinh gordon equation and the tanh gordon equation for each of these equations and related initial data we obtain residual error minimizing solutions which demonstrate the qualitative behavior of the true solutions in each case

the classification of special cohen macaulay modules in this paper we completely classify all the special cohen macaulay cm modules corresponding to the exceptional curves in the dual graph of the minimal resolutions of all two dimensional quotient singularities in every case we exhibit the specials explicitly in a combinatorial way our result relies on realizing the specials as those cm modules whose first ext group vanishes against the ring r thus reducing the problem to combinatorics on the ar quiver such possible ar quivers were classified by auslander and reiten we also give some general homological properties of the special cm modules and their corresponding reconstruction algebras

new variable separation approach application to nonlinear diffusion equations the concept of the derivative dependent functional separable solution ddfss as a generalization to the functional separable solution is proposed as an application it is used to discuss the generalized nonlinear diffusion equations based on the generalized conditional symmetry approach as a consequence a complete list of canonical forms for such equations which admit the ddfss is obtained and some exact solutions to the resulting equations are described

on the reduction of the nonlinear multi dimensional wave equations and compatibility of the d alembert hamilton system abstract the necessary conditions of the compatibility of the d alembert hamilton system in minkowsky space r 1 n are established the problem of reduction of p 1 n invariant wave equations to ordinary differential equations is discussed

variable separation approach for a differential difference system special toda equation a bilinear variable separation approach is used to construct some special solutions for a differential difference toda equation the semi discrete form of the continuous formula which describes some types of special solutions for many 2 1 dimensional continuous systems is found for a suitable quantity of the differential difference toda equation thus abundant semi discrete localized coherent structures are constructed by appropriately selecting the arbitrary functions

conditional lie backlund symmetry and reduction of evolution equations we suggest a generalization of the notion of invariance of a given partial differential equation with respect to a lie backlund vector field such a generalization proves to be effective and enables us to construct principally new ansatz reducing evolution type equations to several ordinary differential equations in the framework of the said generalization we obtain principally new reductions of a number of nonlinear heat conductivity equations ut uxx f u ux with poor lie symmetry and obtain their exact solutions it is shown that these solutions cannot be constructed by means of the symmetry reduction procedure

ergodic control of switching diffusions we study the ergodic control problem of switching diffusions representing a typical hybrid system that arises in numerous applications such as fault tolerant control systems flexible manufacturing systems etc under fairly general conditions we establish the existence of a stable nonrandomized markov policy which almost surely minimizes the pathwise long run average cost we then study the corresponding hamilton jacobi bellman hjb equation and establish the existence of a unique solution in a certain class using this we characterize the optimal policy as a minimizing selector of the hamiltonian associated with the hjb equations as an example we apply the results to a failure prone manufacturing system and obtain closed form solutions for the optimal policy

spectral method for analysis of switching diffusions the analysis problem of switching diffusions is considered this paper presents a new approach based on the spectral method formalism for solving generalized fokker planck equations the proposed method allows to transform partial differential equations into the linear algebraic equations and to arrive at a solution in an explicit form the aspects of applications are discussed a numerical example is given to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed method

three dimensional flops and noncommutative rings limburgs univ ctr dept math b 3590 diepenbeek belgium van den bergh m limburgs univ ctr dept math univ campus b 3590 diepenbeek belgium vdbergh luc ac be

separation of variables in the nonlinear wave equation we develop a technique making it possible to handle the problem of separation of variables in nonlinear differential equations using it we obtain a number of new two dimensional nonlinear wave equations admitting separation of variables and construct their exact solutions

functionally separable solutions to nonlinear wave equations by group foliation method abstract we apply functional separation of variables within the approach of the group foliation method to the nonlinear wave equation with variable speed and external force u t t a x d u u x x b x q u a x 0 a classification of these equations admitting functionally separable solutions is performed and the resulting solutions are obtained in explicit form in many cases

separation of variables and exact solutions to quasilinear diffusion equations with nonlinear source abstract a solution of a partial differential equation with two real variables t and x is functionally separable in these variables if q u x t for some single variable functions q and in this paper the generalized conditional symmetry approach is used to study the separation of variables of quasilinear diffusion equations with nonlinear source we obtain a complete list of canonical forms for such equations which admit the functionally separable solutions as a result we get broad families of exact solutions to some quasilinear diffusion equations with nonlinear source the behavior and blow up properties of some solutions are described

deformations of rational surface singularities and reflexive modules with an application to flops abstract blowing up a rational surface singularity in a reflexive module gives a any partial resolution dominated by the minimal resolution the main theorem shows how deformations of the pair singularity module relates to deformations of the corresponding pair of partial resolution and locally free strict transform and to deformations of the underlying spaces the results imply some recent conjectures on small resolutions and flops

stably reflexive modules and a lemma of knudsen abstract in his fundamental work on the stack m g n of stable n pointed genus g curves finn f knudsen introduced the concept of a stably reflexive module in order to prove a key technical lemma we propose an alternative definition and generalise the results in his appendix to 21 then we give a coordinate free generalisation of his lemma generalise a construction used in knudsen s proof concerning versal families of pointed algebras and show that knudsen s stabilisation construction works for plane curve singularities in addition we prove approximation theorems generalising cohen macaulay approximation with stably reflexive modules in flat families the generalisation is not covered even in the closed fibres by the auslander buchweitz axioms

separation of variables for scalar evolution equations in one space dimension the flow of an autonomous kth order evolution equation in one space dimension is generated by a kth order ordinary differential operator on the space of fields the characteristic fields are the solutions of the characteristic equation of the operator a solution of the evolution equation is separable if and only if it is a curve in the k c 1 parameter space of characteristic fields the non stationary characteristic fields with separable evolution are those which remain characteristic under small dilation every characteristic field has local separable evolution if and only if the characteristic equation is infinitesimally dilation invariant this is the case when the evolutionary generator is an infinitesimal symmetry of the characteristic equation so that its flow stabilizes the space of characteristic fields the evolution equation is then locally homogeneous if and only if the characteristic value is an invariant of the restricted flow which is a non generic property the separable kth order evolution equations are parametrized by the kth order invariants of the locally homogeneous k c 1 th order ordinary differential equations

separation of variables of a generalized porous medium equation with nonlinear source this paper considers a general form of the porous medium equation with nonlinear source term ut d u u n x f u n 1 the functional separation of variables of this equation is studied by using the generalized conditional symmetry approach we obtain a complete list of canonical forms for such equations which admit the functional separable solutions as a consequence some exact solutions to the resulting equations are constructed and their behavior are also investigated 2002 elsevier science usa all rights reserved

tilting modules of finite projective dimension tilting modules are well known and are useful in the representation theory of artinian algebras 2 4 6 11 the purpose of this paper is to define tilting modules of finite projective dimension and prove some fundamental results a unital left a module a t over a ring a is said to be a tilting module of projective dimension 0 is an integer if it satisfies the following three conditions 1 a t has a projective resolution

orthogonal and non orthogonal separation of variables in the wave equation utt uxx v x u 0utt uxx v x u 0 we develop a direct approach to the separation of variables in partial differential equations within the framework of this approach the problem of the separation of variables in the wave equation with time independent potential reduces to solving an over determined system of nonlinear differential equations we have succeeded in constructing its general solution and as a result all potentials v x permitting variable separation have been found for each of them we have constructed all inequivalent coordinate systems providing separability of the equation under study it should be noted that the above approach yields both orthogonal and non orthogonal systems of coordinates

flops and clusters in the homological minimal model programme suppose that f x rightarrow mathrm spec r is a minimal model of a complete local gorenstein 3 fold where the fibres of f are at most one dimensional so by van den bergh duke math j 122 3 423 455 2004 there is a noncommutative ring lambda derived equivalent to x for any collection of curves above the origin we show that this collection contracts to a point without contracting a divisor if and only if a certain factor of lambda is finite dimensional improving a result of donovan and wemyss contractions and deformations arxiv 1511 00406 we further show that the mutation functor of iyama and wemyss invent math 197 3 521 586 2014 6 is functorially isomorphic to the inverse of the bridgeland chen flop functor in the case when the factor of lambda is finite dimensional these results then allow us to jump between all the minimal models of mathrm spec r in an algorithmic way without having to compute the geometry at each stage we call this process the homological mmp this has several applications in git approaches to derived categories and also to birational geometry first using mutation we are able to compute the full git chamber structure by passing to surfaces we say precisely which chambers give the distinct minimal models and also say which walls give flops and which do not enabling us to prove the craw ishii conjecture in this setting second we are able to precisely count the number of minimal models and also give bounds for both the maximum and the minimum numbers of minimal models based only on the dual graph enriched with scheme theoretic multiplicity third we prove a bijective correspondence between maximal modifying r module generators and minimal models and for each such pair in this correspondence give a further correspondence linking the endomorphism ring and the geometry this lifts the auslander mckay correspondence to dimension three

nonlinear evolution equations admitting multilinear variable separable solutions based on the hirota s bilinear transformation method it is shown that a family of nonlinear partial differential equations admit multilinear variable separation solutions this extends the class of nonlinear partial differential equations which admit the multilinear variable separation solutions

on the new approach to variable separation in the time dependent schrodinger equation with two space dimensions we suggest an effective approach to separation of variables in the schrodinger equation with two space variables using it we classify inequivalent potentials v x1 x2 such that the corresponding schrodinger equations admit separation of variables besides that we carry out separation of variables in the schrodinger equation with the anisotropic harmonic oscillator potential v k1x21 k2x22 and obtain a complete list of coordinate systems providing its separability most of these coordinate systems depend essentially on the form of the potential and do not provide separation of variables in the free schrodinger equation v 0

separation of variables in 1 2 dimensional schrodinger equations using our classification of separable schrodinger equations with two space dimensions published in j math phys 36 5506 1995 we give an exhaustive description of the coordinate systems providing their separability furthermore we apply these results to separate variables in the heat hamilton jacobi and fokker planck equations

cohen macaulay approximation in fibred categories abstract we extend the auslander buchweitz axioms and prove cohen macaulay approximation results for fibred categories we show that these axioms apply for the fibred category of pairs consisting of a finite type flat family of cohen macaulay rings and modules in particular such a pair admits an approximation with a flat family of maximal cohen macaulay modules and a hull with a flat family of modules with finite injective dimension the existence of minimal approximations and hulls in the local flat case implies extension of upper semi continuous invariants as an example of mcm approximation we define a relative version of auslander s fundamental module

the symmetry and some exact solutions of the nonlinear many dimensional liouville d alembert and eikonal equations multiparametrical exact solutions of the many dimensional nonlinear d alembert liouville sine gordon and eikonal equations are obtained the maximally extensive local invariance groups of the equations are determined and invariants of the extended poincare group are found

noncommutative deformations and flops we prove that the functor of noncommutative deformations of every flipping or flopping irreducible rational curve in a 33 fold is representable and hence we associate to every such curve a noncommutative deformation algebra aconacon this new invariant extends and unifies known invariants for flopping curves in 33 folds such as the width of reid and the bidegree of the normal bundle it also applies in the settings of flips and singular schemes we show that the noncommutative deformation algebra aconacon is finite dimensional and give a new way of obtaining the commutative deformations of the curve allowing us to make explicit calculations of these deformations for certain 3 1 3 1 curves we then show how our new invariant aconacon also controls the homological algebra of flops for any flopping curve in a projective 33 fold with only gorenstein terminal singularities we construct an autoequivalence of the derived category of the 33 fold by twisting around a universal family over the noncommutative deformation algebra aconacon and prove that this autoequivalence is an inverse of bridgeland s flop flop functor this demonstrates that it is strictly necessary to consider noncommutative deformations of curves in order to understand the derived autoequivalences of a 33 fold and thus the bridgeland stability manifold