Abstract polytopes are combinatorial objects that generalise geometric objects such as convex polytopes, maps on surfaces and tilings of the space. Chiral polytopes are those abstract polytopes that admit full combinatorial rotational symmetry but do not admit reflections. In this paper we build chiral polytopes whose facets (maximal faces) are isomorphic to a prescribed regular cubic tessellation

We determine the excluded minors characterising the class of countable graphs that embed into some compact surface.

A subset \(\mathcal {C}\subseteq \{0,1,2\}^n\) is said to be a trifferent code (of block length n) if for every three distinct codewords \(x,y, z \in \mathcal {C}\), there is a coordinate \(i\in \{1,2,\ldots ,n\}\) where they all differ, that is, \(\{x(i),y(i),z(i)\}\) is same as \(\{0,1,2\}\). Let T(n) denote the size of the largest trifferent code of block length n. Understanding the asymptotic behavior

A majority edge-coloring of a graph without pendant edges is a coloring of its edges such that, for every vertex v and every color \(\alpha \), there are at most as many edges incident to v colored with \(\alpha \) as with all other colors. We extend some known results for finite graphs to infinite graphs, also in the list setting. In particular, we prove that every infinite graph without pendant edges

In this paper we give anticoncentration bounds for sums of independent random vectors in finite-dimensional vector spaces. In particular, we asymptotically establish a conjecture of Leader and Radcliffe (SIAM J Discrete Math 7:90–101, 1994) and a question of Jones (SIAM J Appl Math 34:1–6, 1978). The highlight of this work is an application of the strong perfect graph theorem by Chudnovsky et al. (Ann

We introduce a modification of the linear sieve whose weights satisfy strong factorization properties, and consequently equidistribute primes up to size x in arithmetic progressions to moduli up to x10∕17. This surpasses the level of distribution x4∕7 with the linear sieve weights from well-known work of Bombieri, Friedlander, and Iwaniec, and which was recently extended to x7∕12 by Maynard. As an

Let A be an abelian variety over a number field F, and suppose that ℤ[ζn] embeds in End ⁡ F¯A, for some root of unity ζn of order n = 3m. Assuming that the Galois action on the finite group A[1 − ζn] is sufficiently reducible, we bound the average rank of the Mordell–Weil groups Ad(F), as Ad varies through the family of μ2n-twists of A. Combining this result with the recently proved uniform Mordell–Lang

Let X be a K3 surface over a number field. We prove that X has infinitely many specializations where its Picard rank jumps, hence extending our previous work with Shankar, Shankar and Tang to the case where X has bad reduction. We prove a similar result for generically ordinary nonisotrivial families of K3 surfaces over curves over 𝔽¯p which extends previous work of Maulik, Shankar and Tang. As a

Let K be a number field, and S a finite set of nonarchimedean places of K, and write 𝒪× for the group of S-units of K. A famous theorem of Siegel asserts that the S-unit equation 𝜀 + δ = 1, with 𝜀, δ ∈𝒪×, has only finitely many solutions. A famous theorem of Shafarevich asserts that there are only finitely many isomorphism classes of elliptic curves over K with good reduction outside S. Now instead

We prove vanishing results for the coherent cohomology of the good reduction modulo p of the Siegel modular variety with coefficients in some automorphic bundles. We show that for an automorphic bundle with highest weight λ near the walls of the antidominant Weyl chamber, there is an integer e ≥ 0 such that the cohomology is concentrated in degrees [0,e]. The accessible weights with our method are

Let E be a field of characteristic p. In a previous paper of ours, we defined and studied super-Hölder vectors in certain E-linear representations of ℤp. In the present paper, we define and study super-Hölder vectors in certain E-linear representations of a general p-adic Lie group. We then consider certain p-adic Lie extensions K∞∕K of a p-adic field K, and compute the super-Hölder vectors in the

We study the variation of linear sections of hypersurfaces in ℙn. We completely classify all plane curves, necessarily singular, whose line sections do not vary maximally in moduli. In higher dimensions, we prove that the family of hyperplane sections of any smooth degree d hypersurface in ℙn varies maximally for d ≥ n + 3. In the process, we generalize the classical Grauert–Mülich theorem about lines

We describe separating G2-invariants of several copies of the algebra of octonions over an algebraically closed field of characteristic two. We also obtain a minimal separating and a minimal generating set for G2-invariants of several copies of the algebra of octonions in case of a field of odd characteristic.

We construct scattering diagrams for Chekhov–Shapiro generalized cluster algebras where exchange polynomials are factorized into binomials, generalizing the cluster scattering diagrams of Gross, Hacking, Keel and Kontsevich. They turn out to be natural objects arising in Fock and Goncharov’s cluster duality. Analogous features and structures (such as positivity and the cluster complex structure) in

We study a family of exponential sums that arises in the study of expanding horospheres on GL ⁡ n. We prove an explicit version of general purity and find optimal bounds for these sums.

We prove that the Galois equidistribution of torsion points of the algebraic torus 𝔾md extends to the singular test functions of the form log ⁡ |P|, where P is a Laurent polynomial having algebraic coefficients that vanishes on the unit real d-torus in a set whose Zariski closure in 𝔾md has codimension at least 2. Our result includes a power-saving quantitative estimate of the decay rate of the equidistribution

We show the image of rooted tree maps forms a subspace of the kernel of the evaluation map of multiple L-values. To prove this, we define the diamond product as a modified harmonic product and describe its properties. We also show that τ-conjugate rooted tree maps are their antipodes.

The local structure of terminal Brauer classes on arithmetic surfaces was classified (2021), generalising the classification on geometric surfaces (2005). Part of the interest in these classifications is that it enables the minimal model program to be applied to the noncommutative setting of orders on surfaces. We give étale local structure theorems for terminal orders on arithmetic surfaces, at least

Fix a finite field K of order q and a word w in a free group F on r generators. A w-random element in GL ⁡ N(K) is obtained by sampling r independent uniformly random elements g1,… ⁡,gr ∈ GL ⁡ N(K) and evaluating w(g1,… ⁡,gr). Consider 𝔼w[fix ⁡ ], the average number of vectors in KN fixed by a w-random element. We show that 𝔼w[fix ⁡ ] is a rational function in qN. If w = ud with u a nonpower, then

We investigate the distribution of the maximum of character sums over the family of primitive quadratic characters attached to fundamental discriminants |d|≤ x. In particular, our work improves results of Montgomery and Vaughan, and gives strong evidence that the Omega result of Bateman and Chowla for quadratic character sums is optimal. We also obtain similar results for real characters with prime

We explain how logarithmic structures select principal components in an intersection of schemes. These manifest in Chow homology and can be understood using strict transforms under logarithmic blowups. Our motivation comes from Gromov–Witten theory. The toric contact cycles in the moduli space of curves parameterize curves that admit a map to a fixed toric variety with prescribed contact orders. We

Spectral moment formulae of various shapes have proven very successful in studying the statistics of central L-values. We establish, in a completely explicit fashion, such formulae for the family of GL ⁡ (3) × GL ⁡ (2) Rankin–Selberg L-functions using the period integral method. Our argument does not rely on either the Kuznetsov or Voronoi formulae. We also prove the essential analytic properties and

We prove that the double (or canonical unramified) wavefront set of an irreducible depth-0 supercuspidal representation of a reductive p-adic group is a singleton provided p > 3(h − 1), where h is the Coxeter number. We deduce that the geometric wavefront set is also a singleton in this case, proving a conjecture of Mœglin and Waldspurger. When the group is inner to split and the representation belongs

We associate with a generalised deep hole of the Leech lattice vertex operator algebra a generalised hole diagram. We show that this Dynkin diagram determines the generalised deep hole up to conjugacy and that there are exactly 70 such diagrams. In an earlier work we proved a bijection between the generalised deep holes and the strongly rational, holomorphic vertex operator algebras of central charge

Given a smooth projective toric variety X of Picard rank 2, we resolve the diagonal sheaf on X × X by a linear complex of length dim ⁡ X consisting of finite direct sums of line bundles. As applications, we prove a new case of a conjecture of Berkesch, Ermana and Smith that predicts a version of Hilbert’s syzygy theorem for virtual resolutions, and we obtain a Horrocks-type splitting criterion for

We generalize an inequality for the determinant of a real matrix proved by A. Schinzel, to more general exterior products of vectors in Euclidean space. We apply this inequality to the logarithmic embedding of S-units contained in a number field k. This leads to a bound for the exterior product of S-units expressed as a product of heights. Using a volume formula of P. McMullen we show that our inequality

We prove an asymptotic formula for primes of the shape f(a,b2) with a, b integers and of the shape f(a,p2) with p prime. Here f is a binary quadratic form with integer coefficients, irreducible over ℚ and has no local obstructions. This refines the seminal work of Friedlander and Iwaniec on primes of the form x2 + y4 and of Heath-Brown and Li on primes of the form a2 + p4, as well as earlier work of

We study affine Deligne–Lusztig varieties Xw(b) when the finite part of the element w in the Iwahori–Weyl group is a partial σ-Coxeter element. We show that such w is a cordial element and Xw(b)≠∅ if and only if b satisfies a certain Hodge–Newton indecomposability condition. Our main result is that for such w and b, Xw(b) has a simple geometric structure: the σ-centralizer of b acts transitively on

We consider Shimura varieties associated to a unitary group of signature (n − 2,2). We give regular p-adic integral models for these varieties over odd primes p which ramify in the imaginary quadratic field with level subgroup at p given by the stabilizer of a selfdual lattice in the hermitian space. Our construction is given by an explicit resolution of a corresponding local model.

We realize two families of combinatorial symmetric functions via the complex character theory of the finite general linear group GL ⁡ n(𝔽q): chromatic quasisymmetric functions and vertical strip LLT polynomials. The associated GL ⁡ n(𝔽q) characters are elementary in nature and can be obtained by induction from certain well-behaved characters of the unipotent upper triangular groups UT ⁡ n(𝔽q). The

Building on recent work of the authors, we use degenerations to chains of elliptic curves to prove two cases of the Aprodu–Farkas strong maximal rank conjecture, in genus 22 and 23. This constitutes a major step forward in Farkas’ program to prove that the moduli spaces of curves of genus 22 and 23 are of general type. Our techniques involve a combination of the Eisenbud–Harris theory of limit linear

We prove that the Galois pseudorepresentation valued in the mod pn cuspidal Hecke algebra for GL ⁡ (2) over a totally real number field F, of parallel weight 1 and level prime to p, is unramified at any place above p. The same is true for the noncuspidal Hecke algebra at places above p whose ramification index is not divisible by p−1. A novel geometric ingredient, which is also of independent interest

We prove the failure of the local-global principle, with respect to discrete valuations, for isotropy of quadratic forms in 2n variables over function fields of transcendence degree n ≥ 2 over an algebraically closed field of characteristic ≠2. Our construction involves the generalized Kummer varieties considered by Borcea and by Cynk and Hulek as well as new results on the nontriviality of unramified

Let a polynomial f ∈ ℤ[X1,… ⁡,Xn] be given. The square sieve can provide an upper bound for the number of integral x ∈ [−B,B]n such that f(x) is a perfect square. Recently this has been generalized substantially: first to a power sieve, counting x ∈ [−B,B]n for which f(x) = yr is solvable for y ∈ ℤ; then to a polynomial sieve, counting x ∈ [−B,B]n for which f(x) = g(y) is solvable, for a given polynomial

We provide a simple procedure for resolving, in characteristic 0, singularities of a variety X embedded in a smooth variety Y by repeatedly blowing up the worst singularities, in the sense of stack-theoretic weighted blowings up. No history, no exceptional divisors, and no logarithmic structures are necessary to carry this out; the steps are explicit geometric operations requiring no choices; and the

For all integers \(n \ge k > d \ge 1\), let \(m_{d}(k,n)\) be the minimum integer \(D \ge 0\) such that every k-uniform n-vertex hypergraph \({\mathcal {H}}\) with minimum d-degree \(\delta _{d}({\mathcal {H}})\) at least D has an optimal matching. For every fixed integer \(k \ge 3\), we show that for \(n \in k \mathbb {N}\) and \(p = \Omega (n^{-k+1} \log n)\), if \({\mathcal {H}}\) is an n-vertex

A storage code on a graph G is a set of assignments of symbols to the vertices such that every vertex can recover its value by looking at its neighbors. We consider the question of constructing large-size storage codes on triangle-free graphs constructed as coset graphs of binary linear codes. Previously it was shown that there are infinite families of binary storage codes on coset graphs with rate

In the first part of this paper we study the coaction dual to the action of the cosmic Galois group on the motivic lift of the sunrise Feynman integral with generic masses and momenta, and we express its conjugates in terms of motivic lifts of Feynman integrals associated to related Feynman graphs. Only one of the conjugates of the motivic lift of the sunrise, other than itself, can be expressed in

We study vector spaces associated to a family of generalized Euler integrals. Their dimension is given by the Euler characteristic of a very affine variety. Motivated by Feynman integrals from particle physics, this has been investigated using tools from homological algebra and the theory of $D$-modules. We present an overview and uncover new relations between these approaches. We also provide new

In this paper, we prove a conjecture by Gukov–Pei–Putrov–Vafa for a wide class of plumbed $3$-manifolds. Their conjecture states that Witten–Reshetikhin–Turaev (WRT) invariants are radial limits of homological blocks, which are $q$-series introduced by them for plumbed $3$-manifolds with negative definite linking matrices. The most difficult point in our proof is to prove the vanishing of weighted

Dubrovin $\href{https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-015-0449-2}{[10]}$ has shown that the spectrum of the quantization (with respect to the first Poisson structure) of the dispersionless Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) hierarchy is given by shifted symmetric functions; the latter are related by the Bloch–Okounkov Theorem $\href{https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2014)141}{[1]}$ to quasimodular forms on the full modular

We develop the theory of colored bosonic models (initiated by Borodin and Wheeler). We will show how a family of such models can be used to represent the values of Iwahori vectors in the “spherical model” of representations of $\mathrm{GL}_r (F)$, where $F$ is a nonarchimedean local field. Among our results are a monochrome factorization, which is the realization of the Boltzmann weights by fusion

We show that, for any prime p and integer \(k \ge 2\), a simple \({{\,\textrm{GF}\,}}(p)\)-representable matroid with sufficiently high rank has a rank-k flat which is either independent in M, or is a projective or affine geometry. As a corollary we obtain a Ramsey-type theorem for \({{\,\textrm{GF}\,}}(p)\)-representable matroids. For any prime p and integer \(k\ge 2\), if we 2-colour the elements

We formulate and prove the weight part of Serre’s conjecture for three-dimensional mod p Galois representations under a genericity condition when the field is unramified at p. This removes the assumption made previously that the representation be tamely ramified at p. We also prove a version of Breuil’s lattice conjecture and a mod p multiplicity one result for the cohomology of U(3)-arithmetic manifolds

We combine two of Igusa’s conjectures with recent semicontinuity results by Mustaţă and Popa to form a new, natural conjecture about bounds for exponential sums. These bounds have a deceivingly simple and general formulation in terms of degrees and dimensions only. We provide evidence consisting partly of adaptations of already known results about Igusa’s conjecture on exponential sums, but also some

We develop a lower bound sieve for primes under the (unlikely) assumption of infinitely many exceptional characters. Compared with the illusory sieve due to Friedlander and Iwaniec which produces asymptotic formulas, we show that less arithmetic information is required to prove nontrivial lower bounds. As an application of our method, assuming the existence of infinitely many exceptional characters

A flag positroid of ranks r := (r1 < ⋯ < rk) on [n] is a flag matroid that can be realized by a real rk × n matrix A such that the ri × ri minors of A involving rows 1,2,… ⁡,ri are nonnegative for all 1 ≤ i ≤ k. In this paper we explore the polyhedral and tropical geometry of flag positroids, particularly when r := (a,a + 1,… ⁡,b) is a sequence of consecutive numbers. In this case we show that the

Given a finite group G and a prime p, let 𝒜p(G) be the poset of nontrivial elementary abelian p-subgroups of G. The group G satisfies the Quillen dimension property at p if 𝒜p(G) has nonzero homology in the maximal possible degree, which is the p-rank of G minus 1. For example, D. Quillen showed that solvable groups with trivial p-core satisfy this property, and later, M. Aschbacher and S. D. Smith

Given a graph G with a set F(v) of forbidden values at each \(v \in V(G)\), an F-avoiding orientation of G is an orientation in which \(\deg ^+(v) \not \in F(v)\) for each vertex v. Akbari, Dalirrooyfard, Ehsani, Ozeki, and Sherkati conjectured that if \(|F(v)| < \frac{1}{2} \deg (v)\) for each \(v \in V(G)\), then G has an F-avoiding orientation, and they showed that this statement is true when \(\frac{1}{2}\)

$\def\M{\mathscr{M}}\def\Rscr{\mathscr{R}}\def\Rsf{\mathsf{R}}\def\Tsf{\mathsf{T}}\def\tildeM{\widetilde{\M}}$For any positive integer $n$, we introduce a modular vector field $\Rsf$ on a moduli space $\Tsf$ of enhanced Calabi–Yau $n$-folds arising from the Dwork family. By Calabi–Yau quasi-modular forms associated to $\Rsf$ we mean the elements of the graded $\mathbb{C}$-algebra $\tildeM$ generated