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We prove the McKay conjecture on characters of odd degree. A major step in the proof is the verification of the inductive McKay condition for groups of Lie type and primes ℓ such that a Sylow ℓ-subgroup or its maximal normal abelian subgroup is contained in a maximally split torus by means of a new equivariant version of Harish-Chandra induction. Specifics of characters of odd degree, namely, that most of them lie in the principal Harish-Chandra series, then allow us to deduce from it the McKay conjecture for the prime 2, hence for characters of odd degree.

In this article, we solve the strong openness conjecture on the multiplier ideal sheaf associated to any plurisubharmonic function, which was posed by Demailly.

The first two chapters of this book offer a modern, self-contained exposition of the elementary theory of triangulated categories and their quotients. The simple, elegant presentation of these known results makes these chapters eminently suitable as a text for graduate students. The remainder of the book is devoted to new research, providing, among other material, some remarkable improvements on Brown's classical representability theorem. In addition, the author introduces a class of triangulated categories\"--the \"well generated triangulated categories\"--and studies their properties. This exercise is particularly worthwhile in that many examples of triangulated categories are well generated, and the book proves several powerful theorems for this broad class. These chapters will interest researchers in the fields of algebra, algebraic geometry, homotopy theory, and mathematical physics.

This paper has two main results. Firstly, we complete the parametrisation of all p-blocks of finite quasi-simple groups by finding the so-called quasi-isolated blocks of exceptional groups of Lie type for bad primes. This relies on the explicit decomposition of Lusztig induction from suitable Levi subgroups. Our second major result is the proof of one direction of Brauer's long-standing height zero conjecture on blocks of finite groups, using the reduction by Berger and Knörr to the quasi-simple situation. We also use our result on blocks to verify a conjecture of Malle and Navarro on nilpotent blocks for all quasi-simple groups.

This paper is a continuation and a completion of the work of the first and the third author on the Jordan decomposition. We extend the Jordan decomposition of blocks: we show that blocks of finite groups of Lie type in nondescribing characteristic are Morita equivalent to blocks of subgroups associated to isolated elements of the dual group — this is the modular version of a fundamental result of Lusztig, and the best approximation of the character-theoretic Jordan decomposition that can be obtained via Deligne-Lusztig varieties. The key new result is the invariance of the part of the cohomology in a given modular series of Deligne-Lusztig varieties associated to a given Levi subgroup, under certain variations of parabolic subgroups. We also bring in local block theory methods: we show that the equivalence arises from a splendid Rickard equivalence. Even in the setting of the original work of the first and the third author, the finer homotopy equivalence was unknown. As a consequence, the equivalences preserve defect groups and categories of subpairs. We finally determine when Deligne-Lusztig induced representations of tori generate the derived category of representations. An additional new feature is an extension of the results to disconnected reductive algebraic groups, which is required to handle local subgroups.

The Research Committee focuses on several systemic barriers that have impeded the equitable development of students' mathematics knowledge, including school and school-system structures that foster the social reproduction of inequity. To develop an equitable context for all students to learn mathematics, the Research Committee posits that we need to change beliefs about students, about particular groups of students, about how students learn, and about grouping students

We study asymptotic distribution of zeros of random holomorphic sections of high powers of positive line bundles defined over projective homogenous manifolds. We work with a wide class of distributions that includes real and complex Gaussians. As a special case, we obtain asymptotic zero distribution of multivariate complex polynomials given by linear combinations of orthogonal polynomials with independent identically distributed random coefficients. Specifically, we prove that normalized zero measures of m iid random polynomials, orthonormalized on a regular compact set K ⊂ ℂm, are almost surely asymptotic to the equilibrium measure of K.

This paper focuses on unconditionally optimal error analysis of an uncoupled and linearized Crank–Nicolson Galerkin finite element method for the time-dependent nonlinear thermistor equations in d-dimensional space, d = 2, 3. In our analysis, we split the error function into two parts, one from the spatial discretization and one from the temporal discretization, by introducing a corresponding time-discrete (elliptic) system. We present a rigorous analysis for the regularity of the solution of the time-discrete system and error estimates of the time discretization. With these estimates and the proved regularity, optimal error estimates of the fully discrete Crank–Nicolson Galerkin method are obtained unconditionally. Numerical results confirm our analysis and show the efficiency of the method.

In this paper, we prove the optimality of disturbance-affine control policies in the context of one-dimensional, constrained, multistage robust optimization. Our results cover the finite-horizon case, with minimax (worst-case) objective, and convex state costs plus linear control costs. We develop a new proof methodology, which explores the relationship between the geometrical properties of the feasible set of solutions and the structure of the objective function. Apart from providing an elegant and conceptually simple proof technique, the approach also entails very fast algorithms for the case of piecewise-affine state costs, which we explore in connection with a classical inventory management application.