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We consider the class of quasiprojective varieties admitting a dominant morphism onto a curve with negative Euler characteristic. The existence of such a morphism is a property of the fundamental group. We show that for a variety in this class the number of maps onto a hyperbolic curve or surfaces can be estimated in terms of the numerical invariants of the fundamental group. We use this estimates to find the number of biholomorphic automorphisms of complements to some arrangements of lines.

Currently the quantitative description of confinement inside nuclear matter is exclusively limited to computer experiments, mainly on lattices, and concentrating upon calculating the static potential. There is no independent reference for comparison and support of the results, especially when it comes to the quark potential in the continuum limit. Yet, we are entitled to be optimistic, for the basic results of these calculations seem to be correct from an entirely different point of view, suggested by Manton's geometrization of Skyrme theory. The present work shows the reasons of this point of view, and offers a static potential that might serve as independent reference for comparison and endorsement of any lattice calculations, and in fact of any structural hypotheses of nuclear matter. A historical review of the pertinent key moments in the history of modeling of nuclear matter, as well as an outlook anticipating the necessary future work, close the argument.

We investigate the properties of recurrence of the type , known as Lyness iterations from [Lyness, 1942, 1945, 1961] and recently analyzed by several authors in the case a > 0, see e.g. [Kocic et al., 1993; Csornyei & Laczkovich, 2000]. We reconsider Lyness recurrences at the light of some recent results on iterated maps with denominator, given in [Bischi et al., 1999a], where new kinds of singularities, such as focal points and prefocal curves, have been defined. In this paper, in particular, we give an answer to one of the open problems proposed in [Kocic & Ladas, 1993, pp. 141] concerning the dynamic behavior of Lyness recurrences for a < 0. We also give some new results in the case a > 0, and we improve a previous result on Lyness "periodic recurrences".

We compare dynamical and algebraic properties of semigroups of rational maps. In particular, we show a version of the Day-von Neumann conjecture and give a partial positive answer to “Sushkievich’s problem” for semigroups of rational maps. We relate these conjectures with Furstenberg’s $\times 2\times 3$ problem and prove a coarse version of Furstenberg’s problem for semigroups of non-exceptional polynomials.

We consider rational maps of degree d ≥ 2 on the Riemann sphere and obtain large deviation results for Hölder observables under the measure of maximal entropy.

This work deals with the notion of Newton complementary duality as raised originally in the work of the second author and B. Costa. A conceptual revision of the main steps of the notion is accomplished which then leads to a vast simplification and improvement of several statements concerning rational maps and their images. A ring-homomorphism like map is introduced that allows for a close comparison between the respective graphs of a rational map and its Newton dual counterpart.

For polynomials and rational maps of fixed degree over a finite field, we bound both the average number of components of their functional graphs as well as the average number of periodic points of their associated dynamical systems.

We construct the general vortex solution in a fully-Higgsed, color-flavor locked vacuum of a non-Abelian gauge theory, where the gauge group is taken to be the product of an arbitrary simple group and U(1), with a Fayet-Iliopoulos term. The strict correspondence between vortices and lumps in the associated NLσM which arise in the limit of strong coupling is pointed out. The construction of the vortex moduli space is derived here as a consequence of this correspondence.