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   https://doi.org/10.1090/btran/197  

   Tolsa, Xavier; Toro, Tatiana (November 2024, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Series B)

   Let ${\mathrm{\Omega <\#comment/>}}^{+}\subset <\#comment/>{\mathbb{R}}^{n+1}$be a bounded $\mathrm{\delta <\#comment/>}$-Reifenberg flat domain, with $\mathrm{\delta <\#comment/>}>0$small enough, possibly with locally infinite surface measure. Assume also that ${\mathrm{\Omega <\#comment/>}}^{-<\#comment/>}={\mathbb{R}}^{n+1}\setminus <\#comment/>\stackrel{¯<\#comment/>}{{\mathrm{\Omega <\#comment/>}}^{+}}$is an NTA (non-tangentially accessible) domain as well and denote by ${\mathrm{\omega <\#comment/>}}^{+}$and ${\mathrm{\omega <\#comment/>}}^{-<\#comment/>}$the respective harmonic measures of ${\mathrm{\Omega <\#comment/>}}^{+}$and ${\mathrm{\Omega <\#comment/>}}^{-<\#comment/>}$with poles $p^{\pm <\#comment/>}\in <\#comment/>{\mathrm{\Omega <\#comment/>}}^{\pm <\#comment/>}$. In this paper we show that the condition that $\log <\#comment/>\frac{d{\mathrm{\omega <\#comment/>}}^{-<\#comment/>}}{d{\mathrm{\omega <\#comment/>}}^{+}}\in <\#comment/>\mathrm{VMO}<\#comment/>\left({\mathrm{\omega <\#comment/>}}^{+}\right)$is equivalent to ${\mathrm{\Omega <\#comment/>}}^{+}$being a chord-arc domain with inner unit normal belonging to $\mathrm{VMO}<\#comment/>\left({\mathcal{H}}^n{|}_{\mathrm{\partial <\#comment/>}{\mathrm{\Omega <\#comment/>}}^{+}}\right)$. 

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2. On the Size of the Singular Set of Minimizing Harmonic Maps

   https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/1519  

   Mazowiecka, Katarzyna; Miśkiewicz, Michał; Schikorra, Armin (October 2024, Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society)

   We consider minimizing harmonic maps $u$from $\mathrm{\Omega <\#comment/>}\subset <\#comment/>{\mathbb{R}}^n$into a closed Riemannian manifold $\mathcal{N}$and prove: 1. an extension to $n\ge <\#comment/>4$of Almgren and Lieb’s linear law. That is, if the fundamental group of the target manifold $\mathcal{N}$is finite, we have\[ ${\mathcal{H}}^{n-<\#comment/>3}(\mathrm{sing}<\#comment/>u)\le <\#comment/>C{\int <\#comment/>}_{\mathrm{\partial <\#comment/>}\mathrm{\Omega <\#comment/>}}|{\mathrm{\nabla <\#comment/>}}_{T}u{|}^{n-<\#comment/>1}\mathrm{d}{\mathcal{H}}^{n-<\#comment/>1};$\]2. an extension of Hardt and Lin’s stability theorem. Namely, assuming that the target manifold is $\mathcal{N}={\mathbb{S}}^2$we obtain that the singular set of $u$is stable under small $W^{1,n-<\#comment/>1}$-perturbations of the boundary data. In dimension $n=3$both results are shown to hold with weaker hypotheses, i.e., only assuming that the trace of our map lies in the fractional space $W^{s,p}$with $s\in <\#comment/>(\frac{1}{2},1]$and $p\in <\#comment/>[2,\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>})$satisfying $sp\ge <\#comment/>2$. We also discuss sharpness. 

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3. An optimal approximation problem for free polynomials

   https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/16474  

   Arora, Palak; Augat, Meric; Jury, Michael; Sargent, Meredith (November 2023, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society)

   Motivated by recent work on optimal approximation by polynomials in the unit disk, we consider the following noncommutative approximation problem: for a polynomial $f$in $d$freely noncommuting arguments, find a free polynomial $p_n$, of degree at most $n$, to minimize $c_n≔\Vert <\#comment/>p_{n}f-<\#comment/>1{\Vert <\#comment/>}^2$. (Here the norm is the ${\mathrm{\ell <\#comment/>}}^2$norm on coefficients.) We show that $c_n\to <\#comment/>0$if and only if $f$is nonsingular in a certain nc domain (the row ball), and prove quantitative bounds. As an application, we obtain a new proof of the characterization of polynomials cyclic for the $d$-shift. 

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4. Regularity, singularities and ℎ-vector of graded algebras

   https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/9089  

   Dao, Hailong; Ma, Linquan; Varbaro, Matteo (January 2024, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society)

   Let $R$be a standard graded algebra over a field. We investigate how the singularities of $\mathrm{Spec}<\#comment/>R$or $\mathrm{Proj}<\#comment/>R$affect the $h$-vector of $R$, which is the coefficient of the numerator of its Hilbert series. The most concrete consequence of our work asserts that if $R$satisfies Serre’s condition $\left(S_r\right)$and has reasonable singularities (Du Bois on the punctured spectrum or $F$-pure), then $h_0$, …, $h_r\ge <\#comment/>0$. Furthermore the multiplicity of $R$is at least $h_0+h_1+\cdots <\#comment/>+h_{r-<\#comment/>1}$. We also prove that equality in many cases forces $R$to be Cohen-Macaulay. The main technical tools are sharp bounds on regularity of certain $\mathrm{Ext}$modules, which can be viewed as Kodaira-type vanishing statements for Du Bois and $F$-pure singularities. Many corollaries are deduced, for instance that nice singularities of small codimension must be Cohen-Macaulay. Our results build on and extend previous work by de Fernex-Ein, Eisenbud-Goto, Huneke-Smith, Murai-Terai and others. 

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5. Products of normal subsets

   https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/8960  

   Larsen, Michael; Shalev, Aner; Tiep, Pham (February 2024, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society)

   In this paper we consider which families of finite simple groups $G$have the property that for each $\mathrm{ϵ<\#comment/>}>0$there exists $N>0$such that, if $|G|\ge <\#comment/>N$and $S,T$are normal subsets of $G$with at least $\mathrm{ϵ<\#comment/>}|G|$elements each, then every non-trivial element of $G$is the product of an element of $S$and an element of $T$. We show that this holds in a strong and effective sense for finite simple groups of Lie type of bounded rank, while it does not hold for alternating groups or groups of the form ${\mathrm{P}\mathrm{S}\mathrm{L}}_n\left(q\right)$where $q$is fixed and $n\to <\#comment/>\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}$. However, in the case $S=T$and $G$alternating this holds with an explicit bound on $N$in terms of $\mathrm{ϵ<\#comment/>}$. Related problems and applications are also discussed. In particular we show that, if $w_1,w_2$are non-trivial words, $G$is a finite simple group of Lie type of bounded rank, and for $g\in <\#comment/>G$, $P_{w_1\left(G\right),w_2\left(G\right)}\left(g\right)$denotes the probability that $g_1{g}_2=g$where $g_i\in <\#comment/>w_i\left(G\right)$are chosen uniformly and independently, then, as $|G|\to <\#comment/>\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}$, the distribution $P_{w_1\left(G\right),w_2\left(G\right)}$tends to the uniform distribution on $G$with respect to the $L^{\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}}$norm. 

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