Real projective structures on Riemann surfaces
We construct an intrinsic regular surface in the first Heisenberg group equipped wiht its Carnot-Carathéodory metric which has euclidean Hausdorff dimension . Moreover we prove that each intrinsic regular surface in this setting is a -dimensional topological manifold admitting a -Hölder continuous parameterization.
We study finite perimeter sets in step 2 Carnot groups. In this way we extend the classical De Giorgi’s theory, developed in Euclidean spaces by De Giorgi, as well as its generalization, considered by the authors, in Heisenberg groups. A structure theorem for sets of finite perimeter and consequently a divergence theorem are obtained. Full proofs of these results, comments and an exhaustive bibliography can be found in our preprint (2001).
Let N be a simply connected nilpotent Lie group and let be a semidirect product, acting on N by diagonal automorphisms. Let (Qₙ,Mₙ) be a sequence of i.i.d. random variables with values in S. Under natural conditions, including contractivity in the mean, there is a unique stationary measure ν on N for the Markov process Xₙ = MₙXn-1 + Qₙ. We prove that for an appropriate homogeneous norm on N there is χ₀ such that . In particular, this applies to classical Poisson kernels on symmetric spaces,...
Let H₀ be a regular element of an irreducible Lie algebra , and let be the orbital measure supported on . We show that if and only if k > dim /(dim - rank ).
The “regular”trace formula, for a test function with a local component which is Iwahori-biinvariant and sufficiently regular with respect to the other components, is developed in the context of a reductive group. It is used to give a simple proof of the theory of base-change for cuspidal automorphic representations of which have a supercuspidal component. A purely local proof is given to transfer orbital integrals of sufficiently many spherical functions, by relating them to regular Iwahori functions....
We prove the hypoellipticity for systems of Hörmander type with constant coefficients in Carnot groups of step 2. This result is used to implement blow-up methods and prove partial regularity for local minimizers of non-convex functionals, and for solutions of non-linear systems which appear in the study of non-isotropic metric structures with scalings. We also establish estimates of the Hausdorff dimension of the singular set.