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Binomial Difference Ideal and Toric Difference Variety
In this paper, the concepts of binomial difference ideals and toric
difference varieties are defined and their properties are proved. Two canonical
representations for Laurent binomial difference ideals are given using the
reduced Groebner basis of Z[x]-lattices and regular and coherent difference
ascending chains, respectively. Criteria for a Laurent binomial difference
ideal to be reflexive, prime, well-mixed, perfect, and toric are given in terms
of their support lattices which are Z[x]-lattices. The reflexive, well-mixed,
and perfect closures of a Laurent binomial difference ideal are shown to be
binomial. Four equivalent definitions for toric difference varieties are
presented. Finally, algorithms are given to check whether a given Laurent
binomial difference ideal I is reflexive, prime, well-mixed, perfect, or toric,
and in the negative case, to compute the reflexive, well-mixed, and perfect
closures of I. An algorithm is given to decompose a finitely generated perfect
binomial difference ideal as the intersection of reflexive prime binomial
difference ideals.Comment: 72 page
A generalized Macdonald operator
We present an explicit difference operator diagonalized by the Macdonald
polynomials associated with an (arbitrary) admissible pair of irreducible
reduced crystallographic root systems. By the duality symmetry, this gives rise
to an explicit Pieri formula for the Macdonald polynomials in question. The
simplest examples of our construction recover Macdonald's celebrated difference
operators and associated Pieri formulas pertaining to the minuscule and
quasi-minuscule weights. As further by-products, explicit expansions and
Littlewood-Richardson type formulas are obtained for the Macdonald polynomials
associated with a special class of small weights.Comment: 11 pages. To appear in Int. Math. Res. Not. IMR
KOI 1224, a Fourth Bloated Hot White Dwarf Companion Found With Kepler
We present an analysis and interpretation of the Kepler binary system KOI
1224. This is the fourth binary found with Kepler that consists of a thermally
bloated, hot white dwarf in a close orbit with a more or less normal star of
spectral class A or F. As we show, KOI 1224 contains a white dwarf with Teff =
14400 +/- 1100 K, mass = 0.20 +/- 0.02 Msun, and radius = 0.103 +/- 0.004 Rsun,
and an F-star companion of mass = 1.59 +/- 0.07 Msun that is somewhat beyond
its terminal-age main sequence. The orbital period is quite short at 2.69802
days. The ingredients that are used in the analysis are the Kepler binary light
curve, including the detection of the Doppler boosting effect; the NUV and FUV
fluxes from the Galex images of this object; an estimate of the spectral type
of the F-star companion; and evolutionary models of the companion designed to
match its effective temperature and mean density. The light curve is modelled
with a new code named Icarus which we describe in detail. Its features include
the full treatment of orbital phase-resolved spectroscopy, Doppler boosting,
irradiation effects and transits/eclipses, which are particularly suited to
irradiated eclipsing binaries. We interpret the KOI 1224 system in terms of its
likely evolutionary history. We infer that this type of system, containing a
bloated hot white dwarf, is the direct descendant of an Algol-type binary. In
spite of this basic understanding of the origin of KOI 1224, we discuss a
number of problems associated with producing this type of system with this
short of an short orbital period.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables, submitted to Ap
On Congruence Compact Monoids
A universal algebra is called congruence compact if every family of congruence classes with the finite intersection property has a non-empty intersection. This paper determines the structure of all right congruence compact monoids S for which Green’s relations J and H coincide. The results are thus sufficiently general to describe, in particular, all congruence compact commutative monoids and all right congruence compact Clifford inverse monoids
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