• Maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over non-isolated surface singularities and matrix problems 

      [OWP-2015-06] Burban, Igor; Drozd, Yuriy (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2015-05-13)
      In this article we develop a new method to deal with maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over non-isolated surface singularities. In particular, we give a negative answer on an old question of Schreyer about surface singularities ...
    • Maximal Quaternion Orders in Quadratic Extensions - in Hurwitz’s Diaries 

      [OWP-2020-16] Oswald, Nicola; Steuding, Jörn (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2020-08-03)
      We present and comment on some unpublished work of Adolf Hurwitz on quaternion arithmetic from his diaries.
    • A McKay Correspondence for Reflection Groups 

      [OWP-2018-14] Buchweitz, Ragnar-Olaf; Faber, Eleonore; Ingalls, Colin (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2018-07-02)
      We construct a noncommutative desingularization of the discriminant of a finite reflection group $G$ as a quotient of the skew group ring $A=S*G$. If $G$ is generated by order two reflections, then this quotient identifies ...
    • The McKay-conjecture for exceptional groups and odd primes 

      [OWP-2007-07] Späth, Britta (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2007)
      Let $\mathbf{G}$ be a simply-connected simple algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p with a Frobenius map $F:\mathbf{G}→\mathbf{G}$ and $\mathbf{G}:=\mathbf{G}^F$, such that the root system ...
    • Mehler-Heine asymptotics of a class of generalized hypergeometric polynomials : 

      [OWP-2013-23] Bracciali, Cleonice F.; Moreno-Balcázar, Juan José (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2013-10-29)
      We obtain a Mehler–Heine type formula for a class of generalized hypergeometric polynomials. This type of formula describes the asymptotics of polynomials scale conveniently. As a consequence of this formula, we obtain ...
    • Mesh Ratios for Best-Packing and Limits of Minimal Energy Configurations 

      [OWP-2013-13] Bondarenko, A. V.; Hardin, Douglas P.; Saff, Edward B. (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2013-06-10)
      For $N$-point best-packing configurations $\omega_N$ on a compact metric space $(A, \rho)$, we obtain estimates for the mesh-separation ratio $\gamma(\rho_N , A)$, which is the quotient of the covering radius of $\omega_N$ ...
    • Metric Connections with Parallel Skew-Symmetric Torsion 

      [OWP-2018-16] Cleyton, Richard; Moroianu, Andrei; Semmelmann, Uwe (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2018-07-16)
      A geometry with parallel skew-symmetric torsion is a Riemannian manifold carrying a metric connection with parallel skew-symmetric torsion. Besides the trivial case of the Levi-Civita connection, geometries with non-vanishing ...
    • Milnor fibre homology via deformation 

      [OWP-2015-22] Siersma, Dirk; Tibăr, Mihai-Marius (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2015)
      In case of one-dimensional singular locus, we use deformations in order toget refined information about the Betti numbers of the Milnor fibre.
    • Minimal Codimension One Foliation of a Symmetric Space by Damek-Ricci Spaces 

      [OWP-2019-11] Knieper, Gerhard; Parker, John R.; Peyerimhoff, Norbert (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2019-05-07)
      In this article we consider solvable hypersurfaces of the form $N \exp(\mathbb{R} H)$ with induced metrics in the symmetric space $M = SL(3,\mathbb{C})/SU(3)$, where $H$ a suitable unit length vector in the subgroup $A$ ...
    • The Minimal Resolution Conjecture on a general quartic surface in $\mathbb P^3$ 

      [OWP-2017-21] Boij, Mats; Migliore, Juan; Miró-Roig, Rosa M.; Nagel, Uwe (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2017-07-27)
      Mustaţă has given a conjecture for the graded Betti numbers in the minimal free resolution of the ideal of a general set of points on an irreducible projective algebraic variety. For surfaces in $\mathbb P^3$ this conjecture ...
    • Minimal Riesz energy on the sphere for axis-supported external fields 

      [OWP-2009-04] Brauchart, Johann S.; Dragnev, Peter D.; Saff, Edward B. (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2009)
      Abstract. We investigate the minimal Riesz $s$-energy problem for positive measures on the d-dimensional unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^d$ in the presence of an external field induced by a point charge, and more generally by ...
    • Module Categories for Group Algebras over Commutative Rings 

      [OWP-2012-12] Benson, David J.; Iyengar, Srikanth B.; Krause, Henning; Stevenson, Greg (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2012-10-01)
      We develop a suitable version of the stable module category of a finite group $G$ over an arbitrary commutative ring $k$. The purpose of the construction is to produce a compactly generated triangulated category whose ...
    • Monoid valuations and value ordered supervaluations 

      [OWP-2011-17] Izhakian, Zur; Knebusch, Manfred; Rowen, Louis (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2011)
      We complement two papers on supertropical valuation theory ([IKR1], [IKR2]) by providing natural examples of m-valuations (= monoid valuations), after that of supervaluations and transmissions between them. The supervaluations ...
    • MOSES: A Streaming Algorithm for Linear Dimensionality Reduction 

      [OWP-2018-12] Eftekhari, Armin; Hauser, Raphael A.; Grammenos, Andreas (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2018-06-26)
      This paper introduces Memory-limited Online Subspace Estimation Scheme (MOSES) for both estimating the principal components of data and reducing its dimension. More specifically, consider a scenario where the data vectors ...
    • Multi-Dimensional Summation-by-Parts Operators for General Function Spaces: Theory and Construction 

      [OWP-2023-13] Glaubitz, Jan; Klein, Simon-Christian; Nordström, Jan; Öffner, Philipp (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2023-07-25)
      Summation-by-parts (SBP) operators allow us to systematically develop energy-stable and high-order accurate numerical methods for time-dependent differential equations. Until recently, the main idea behind existing SBP ...
    • Multiple Bernoulli series and volumes of moduli spaces of flat bundles over surfaces 

      [OWP-2013-04] Baldoni, Maria Welleda; Boysal, Arzu; Vergne, Michèle (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2013-03-14)
      Using Szenes formula for multiple Bernoulli series, we explain how to compute Witten series associated to classical Lie algebras. Particular instances of these series compute volumes of moduli spaces of flat bundles over ...
    • Multivariate Hybrid Orthogonal Functions 

      [OWP-2020-04] Bracciali, Cleonice F.; Pérez, Teresa E. (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2020-03-12)
      We consider multivariate orthogonal functions satisfying hybrid orthogonality conditions with respect to a moment functional. This kind of orthogonality means that the product of functions of different parity order ...
    • The Nagata automorphism is shifted linearizable 

      [OWP-2008-09] Maubach, Stefan; Poloni, Pierre-Marie (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2008-03-13)
      A polynomial automorphism $F$ is called shifted linearizable if there exists a linear map $L$ such that $LF$ is linearizable. We prove that the Nagata automorphism $N:= (X-Y\Delta-Z\Delta^2,Y+Z\Delta,Z)$ where $\Delta=XZ+Y^2$ ...
    • Near critical density irregular sampling in bernstein spaces 

      [OWP-2013-16] Olevskij, Aleksandr M.; Ulanovskii, Alexander (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2013-07-23)
      We obtain sharp estimates for the sampling constants in Bernstein spaces when the density of the sampling set is near the critical value.
    • A nested family of k-total effective rewards for positional games 

      [OWP-2015-21] Boros, Endre; Elbassioni, Khaled; Gurvich, Vladimir; Makino, Kazuhisa (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2015)
      We consider Gillette's two-person zero-sum stochastic games with perfect information. For each $k \in \mathbb{Z}_+$ we introduce an effective reward function, called $k$-total. For $k = 0$ and $1$ this function is known ...