The syzygies of a generic canonical curve are expected to be as simple as possible for p≤(g−3)/2. We prove this result here for p≤(g−2)/3 only. The proof is carried out by considering infinitesimal deformations near a hyperelliptic curve.

We prove here that the semiclassical asymptotic expansion for the propagation of quantum observables, for C\sp ^∞-Hamiltonians growing at most quadratically at infinity, is uniformly dominated at any order by an exponential term whose argument is linear in time. In particular, we recover the Ehrenfest time for the validity of the semiclassical approximation. This extends the result proved in [BGP]. Furthermore, if the Hamiltonian and the initial observables are holomorphic in a complex neighborhood of the phase space, we prove that the quantum observable is an analytic semiclassical observable. Other results about the large time behavior of observables with emphasis on the classical dynamic are also given. In particular, precise Gevrey estimates are established for classically integrable systems.

We identify a combinatorial quantity (the alternating sum of the h-vector) defined for any simple polytope as the signature of a toric variety. This quantity was introduced by R. Charney and M. Davis in their work, which in particular showed that its nonnegativity is closely related to a conjecture of H. Hopf on the Euler characteristic of a nonpositively curved manifold.

We prove positive (or nonnegative) lower bounds for this quantity under geometric hypotheses on the polytope and, in particular, resolve a special case of their conjecture. These hypotheses lead to ampleness (or weaker conditions) for certain line bundles on toric divisors, and then the lower bounds follow from calculations using the Hirzebruch signature formula.

Moreover, we show that under these hypotheses on the polytope, the ith L-class of the corresponding toric variety is (−1)ⁱ times an effective class for any i.

We construct minimal cellular resolutions of squarefree monomial ideals arising from hyperplane arrangements, matroids, and oriented matroids. These are Stanley-Reisner ideals of complexes of independent sets and of triangulations of Lawrence matroid polytopes. Our resolution provides a cellular realization of R. Stanley's formula for their Betti numbers. For unimodular matroids our resolutions are related to hyperplane arrangements on tori, and we recover the resolutions constructed by D. Bayer, S. Popescu, and B. Sturmfels [3]. We resolve the combinatorial problems posed in [3] by computing Möbius invariants of graphic and cographic arrangements in terms of Hermite polynomials.

This paper generalizes Yu. Manin's approach toward a geometrical interpretation of Arakelov theory at infinity to linear cycles in projective spaces. We show how to interpret certain non-Archimedean Arakelov intersection numbers of linear cycles on ∙ⁿ⁻¹ with the combinatorial geometry of the Bruhat-Tits building associated to PGL(n)$. This geometric setting has an Archimedean analogue, namely, the Riemannian symmetric space associated to SL(n,ℂ), which we use to interpret analogous Archimedean intersection numbers of linear cycles in a similar way.

We consider a vector field whose coefficients are functions of bounded variation, with a bounded divergence. We prove the uniqueness of continuous solutions for the Cauchy problem.