String theory contains solutions with SL(2,R)_R x U(1)_L-invariant warped AdS3 (WAdS3) factors arising as continuous deformations of ordinary AdS3 factors. We propose that some of these are holographically dual to the IR limits of nonlocal dipole-deformed 2D D-brane gauge theories, referred to as "dipole CFTs". Neither the bulk nor boundary theories are currently well-understood, and consequences of the proposed duality for both sides is investigated. The bulk entropy-area law suggests that dipole CFTs have (at large N) a high-energy density of states which does not depend on the deformation parameter. Putting the boundary theory on a spatial circle leads to closed timelike curves in the bulk, suggesting a relation of the latter to dipole-type nonlocality.

We introduce K-theoretic Gromov-Witten invariants of algebraic orbifold target spaces. Using the methods developed by Givental-Tonita we characterize Giventals Lagrangian cone of quantum K theory of orbifolds in terms of the cohomological cone.

On Shimura varieties of orthogonal type over totally real fields, we prove a product formula and the modularity of Kudla’s generating series of special cycles in Chow groups.

Let X, Y be realcompact spaces or completely regular spaces consisting of X, Y -points. Let X, Y be a linear bijective map from X, Y (resp. X, Y ) onto X, Y (resp. X, Y ). We show that if X, Y preserves nonvanishing functions, that is,

(1) Ker (f,) is a characteristic subgroup of T,(M),(2) the group G leaves Ker (f*) invariant. This assumption is needed in the last two statements of Corollary 6,(vi) of Theorems 8, Theorem 11 and Theorem 13. In Theorem 12, the corresponding assumption can be stated as follows: Let H be the subspace of H,(M, I?) defined by {PIP U ai, U... U ai, _,= 0 for all ii}. Then G leaves H invariant.