Mazur and Tate proposed a conjecture which compares the Mordell-Weil rank of an elliptic curve overQwith the order of vanishing of Mazur-Tate elements, which are analogues of Stickelberger elements. Under some relatively mild assumptions, we prove this conjecture. Our strategy of the proof is to study divisibility of certain derivatives of Kato’s Euler system. CONTENTS

when 0 < k ≤ p. We will say that a smooth projective variety X has Bott vanishing if for every ample line bundle L, i > 0 and j H(X,ΩjX ⊗ L) = 0 The purpose of this paper is to show that Bott vanishing is a simple consequence of a very specific condition on the Frobenius morphism in prime characteristic p. Recall that the absolute Frobenius morphism F : X → X on X, where X is a variety over Z/p...

This paper describes a method of interpreting three dimensional motion of an object by making use of r i g i d i t y assumption and orientation of i t s edge. We employ a vanishing point to determine the orientat ion. We propose a new idea of using cross ra t i o , i .e . one of the most fundamental concepts in projective geometry to f ind a vanishing point of a l ine . This allows to calculate...

Gradients are natural first order differential operators depending on Riemannian metrics. The principal symbols of them are related to the enveloping algebra and higher Casimir elements. We give certain relations in the enveloping algebra, which induce not only identities for higher Casimir elements but also all Bochner-Weitzenböck formulas for gradients. As applications, we give some vanishing...

The planar polynomial vector fields with a center at the origin can be written as an scalar differential equation, for example Abel equation. If the coefficients of an Abel equation satisfy the composition condition, then the Abel equation has a center at the origin. Also the composition condition is sufficient for vanishing the first order moments of the coefficients. The composition conjectur...

The idea in this paper is to show how a generalized “log” version of the Kodaira vanishing theorem can be employed to improve the results of Theorem 1 (which was also proved by Kodaira vanishing) when we have more knowledge about the equations for Y . The idea is to find a hypersurface F ⊂ P which has high multiplicity along Y , is “log canonical” near Y , and has relatively small degree, then ...

We study the polynomial equations vanishing on tensors of a given rank. By means of polarization we reduce them to elements A of the group algebra Q[Sn×Sn] and describe explicitely linear equations on the coefficients of A to vanish on tensors of a given rank. Further, we reduce the study to the Schur ring over the group Sn × Sn that arises from the diagonal conjugacy action of Sn. More closely...

The space of divergence-free functions with vanishing normal ux on the boundary is approximated by subspaces of nite elements that have the same property. The easiest way of generating basis functions in these subspaces is considered.

The purpose of the current paper is to introduce some new methods for studying the p-adic Banach spaces introduced by Emerton [9]. We first relate these spaces to more familiar sheaf cohomology groups. As an application, we obtain a more general version of Emerton’s spectral sequence. We also calculate the spaces in some easy cases. As a consequence, we obtain a number of vanishing theorems.