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1. Stable Big Bang formation for Einstein’s equations: The complete sub-critical regime

   https://doi.org/10.1090/jams/1015  

   Fournodavlos, Grigorios ; Rodnianski, Igor ; Speck, Jared ( July 2023 , Journal of the American Mathematical Society)

   For$(t,x) \in (0,\infty )\times \mathbb {T}^{\mathfrak {D}}$, the generalized Kasner solutions (which we refer to as Kasner solutions for short) are a family of explicit solutions to various Einstein-matter systems that, exceptional cases aside, start out smooth but then develop a Big Bang singularity as$t \downarrow 0$, i.e., a singularity along an entire spacelike hypersurface, where various curvature scalars blow up monotonically. The family is parameterized by the Kasner exponents$\widetilde {q}_1,\cdots ,\widetilde {q}_{\mathfrak {D}} \in \mathbb {R}$, which satisfy two algebraic constraints. There are heuristics in the mathematical physics literature, going back more than 50 years, suggesting that the Big Bang formation should be dynamically stable, that is, stable under perturbations of the Kasner initial data, given say at$\lbrace t = 1 \rbrace$, as long as the exponents are “sub-critical” in the following sense:$\underset {\substack {I,J,B=1,\cdots , \mathfrak {D}\\ I > J}}{\max } \{\widetilde {q}_I+\widetilde {q}_J-\widetilde {q}_B\}>1$. Previous works have rigorously shown the dynamic stability of the Kasner Big Bang singularity under stronger assumptions: (1) the Einstein-scalar field system with$\mathfrak {D}= 3$and$\widetilde {q}_1 \approx \widetilde {q}_2 \approx \widetilde {q}_3 \approx 1/3$, which corresponds to the stability of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker solution’s Big Bang or (2) the Einstein-vacuum equations for$\mathfrak {D}\geq 38$with$\underset {I=1,\cdots ,\mathfrak {D}}{\max } |\widetilde {q}_I| > 1/6$. In this paper, we prove that the Kasner singularity is dynamically stable forallsub-critical Kasner exponents, thereby justifying the heuristics in the literature in the full regime where stable monotonic-type curvature-blowup is expected. We treat in detail the$1+\mathfrak {D}$-dimensional Einstein-scalar field system for all$\mathfrak {D}\geq 3$and the$1+\mathfrak {D}$-dimensional Einstein-vacuum equations for$\mathfrak {D}\geq 10$; both of these systems feature non-empty sets of sub-critical Kasner solutions. Moreover, for the Einstein-vacuum equations in$1+3$dimensions, where instabilities are in general expected, we prove that all singular Kasner solutions have dynamically stable Big Bangs under polarized$U(1)$-symmetric perturbations of their initial data. Our results hold for open sets of initial data in Sobolev spaces without symmetry, apart from our work on polarized$U(1)$-symmetric solutions.

   Our proof relies on a new formulation of Einstein’s equations: we use a constant-mean-curvature foliation, and the unknowns are the scalar field, the lapse, the components of the spatial connection and second fundamental form relative to a Fermi–Walker transported spatial orthonormal frame, and the components of the orthonormal frame vectors with respect to a transported spatial coordinate system. In this formulation, the PDE evolution system for the structure coefficients of the orthonormal frame approximately diagonalizes in a way that sharply reveals the significance of the Kasner exponent sub-criticality condition for the dynamic stability of the flow: the condition leads to the time-integrability of many terms in the equations, at least at the low derivative levels. At the high derivative levels, the solutions that we study can be much more singular with respect to$t$, and to handle this difficulty, we use$t$-weighted high order energies, and we control non-linear error terms by exploiting monotonicity induced by the$t$-weights and interpolating between the singularity-strength of the solution’s low order and high order derivatives. Finally, we note that our formulation of Einstein’s equations highlights the quantities that might generate instabilities outside of the sub-critical regime.

    

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2. The stable exotic Cuntz algebras are higher-rank graph algebras

   https://doi.org/10.1090/bproc/180  

   Boersema, Jeffrey ; Browne, Sarah ; Gillaspy, Elizabeth ( March 2024 , Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Series B)

   For each odd integer$n \geq 3$, we construct a rank-3 graph$\Lambda _n$with involution$\gamma _n$whose real$C^*$-algebra$C^*_{\scriptscriptstyle \mathbb {R}}(\Lambda _n, \gamma _n)$is stably isomorphic to the exotic Cuntz algebra$\mathcal E_n$. This construction is optimal, as we prove that a rank-2 graph with involution$(\Lambda ,\gamma )$can never satisfy$C^*_{\scriptscriptstyle \mathbb {R}}(\Lambda , \gamma )\sim _{ME} \mathcal E_n$, and Boersema reached the same conclusion for rank-1 graphs (directed graphs) in [Münster J. Math.10(2017), pp. 485–521, Corollary 4.3]. Our construction relies on a rank-1 graph with involution$(\Lambda , \gamma )$whose real$C^*$-algebra$C^*_{\scriptscriptstyle \mathbb {R}}(\Lambda , \gamma )$is stably isomorphic to the suspension$S \mathbb {R}$. In the Appendix, we show that the$i$-fold suspension$S^i \mathbb {R}$is stably isomorphic to a graph algebra iff$-2 \leq i \leq 1$.

    

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3. 𝐿₁-distortion of Wasserstein metrics: A tale of two dimensions

   https://doi.org/10.1090/btran/143  

   Baudier, F. ; Gartland, C. ; Schlumprecht, Th. ( August 2023 , Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Series B)

   By discretizing an argument of Kislyakov, Naor and Schechtman proved that the 1-Wasserstein metric over the planar grid$\{0,1,\dots , n\}^2$has$L_1$-distortion bounded below by a constant multiple of$\sqrt {\log n}$. We provide a new “dimensionality” interpretation of Kislyakov’s argument, showing that if$\{G_n\}_{n=1}^\infty$is a sequence of graphs whose isoperimetric dimension and Lipschitz-spectral dimension equal a common number$\delta \in [2,\infty )$, then the 1-Wasserstein metric over$G_n$has$L_1$-distortion bounded below by a constant multiple of$(\log |G_n|)^{\frac {1}{\delta }}$. We proceed to compute these dimensions for$\oslash$-powers of certain graphs. In particular, we get that the sequence of diamond graphs$\{\mathsf {D}_n\}_{n=1}^\infty$has isoperimetric dimension and Lipschitz-spectral dimension equal to 2, obtaining as a corollary that the 1-Wasserstein metric over$\mathsf {D}_n$has$L_1$-distortion bounded below by a constant multiple of$\sqrt {\log | \mathsf {D}_n|}$. This answers a question of Dilworth, Kutzarova, and Ostrovskii and exhibits only the third sequence of$L_1$-embeddable graphs whose sequence of 1-Wasserstein metrics is not$L_1$-embeddable.

    

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4. The reduced ring of the 𝑅𝑂(𝐶₂)-graded 𝐶₂-equivariant stable stems

   https://doi.org/10.1090/bproc/203  

   Belmont, Eva ; Xu, Zhouli ; Zhang, Shangjie ( January 2024 , Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Series B)

   We describe in terms of generators and relations the ring structure of the$RO(C_2)$-graded$C_2$-equivariant stable stems$\pi _\star ^{C_2}$modulo the ideal of all nilpotent elements. As a consequence, we also record the ring structure of the homotopy groups of the rational$C_2$-equivariant sphere$\pi _\star ^{C_2}(\mathbb {S}_\mathbb {Q})$.

    

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5. The Vlasov–Poisson–Landau system in the weakly collisional regime

   https://doi.org/10.1090/jams/1014  

   Chaturvedi, Sanchit ; Luk, Jonathan ; Nguyen, Toan ( January 2023 , Journal of the American Mathematical Society)

   Consider the Vlasov–Poisson–Landau system with Coulomb potential in the weakly collisional regime on a$3$-torus, i.e.$\begin{align*} \partial _t F(t,x,v) + v_i \partial _{x_i} F(t,x,v) + E_i(t,x) \partial _{v_i} F(t,x,v) = \nu Q(F,F)(t,x,v),\\ E(t,x) = \nabla \Delta ^{-1} (\int _{\mathbb R^3} F(t,x,v)\, \mathrm {d} v - {{\int }\llap {-}}_{\mathbb T^3} \int _{\mathbb R^3} F(t,x,v)\, \mathrm {d} v \, \mathrm {d} x), \end{align*}$with$\nu \ll 1$. We prove that for$\epsilon >0$sufficiently small (but independent of$\nu$), initial data which are$O(\epsilon \nu ^{1/3})$-Sobolev space perturbations from the global Maxwellians lead to global-in-time solutions which converge to the global Maxwellians as$t\to \infty$. The solutions exhibit uniform-in-$\nu$Landau damping and enhanced dissipation.

   Our main result is analogous to an earlier result of Bedrossian for the Vlasov–Poisson–Fokker–Planck equation with the same threshold. However, unlike in the Fokker–Planck case, the linear operator cannot be inverted explicitly due to the complexity of the Landau collision operator. For this reason, we develop an energy-based framework, which combines Guo’s weighted energy method with the hypocoercive energy method and the commuting vector field method. The proof also relies on pointwise resolvent estimates for the linearized density equation.

    

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