We analyze the central discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for time-dependent linear conservation laws. In one dimension, optimal a priori $L^2$ error estimates of order $k+1$ are obtained for the semidiscrete scheme when piecewise polynomials of degree at most $k$ ($k\geq0$) are used on overlapping uniform meshes. %Our analysis is valid for both periodic boundary conditions and %for inflow-outflow boundary conditions. We then extend the analysis to multidimensions on uniform Cartesian meshes when piecewise tensor product polynomials are used on overlapping meshes. Numerical experiments are given to demonstrate the theoretical results.

We study variants of the local models constructed by the second author and Zhu and consider corresponding integral models of Shimura varieties of abelian type. We determine all cases of good, resp. of semi-stable, reduction under tame ramification hypotheses.

We study the existence of Artin–Schreier curves with large a‑number. We show that Artin–Schreier curves with large a‑number can be written in certain forms and discuss their supersingularity. We also give a basis of the de Rham cohomology of Artin–Schreier curves. By computing the rank of the Hasse–Witt matrix of the curve, we also give bounds on the a‑number of trigonal curves of genus 5 in small characteristic.

In this paper, we prove a sum set estimate and the exact sum set theorem for unimodular Kac algebras. Combining the characterization of minimizers of the Donoso–Stark uncertainty principle and the Hirschman–Beckner uncertainty principle, we characterize the extremal pairs of Young’s inequality and extremal operators of the Hausdorff–Young inequality for unimodular Kac algebras.

Some new differentiable sphere theorems are obtained via the Ricci flow and stable currents. We prove that if Mn is a compact manifold whose normalized scalar curvature and sectional curvature satisfy the pointwise pinching condition R0 > nKmax, where n 2 ( 1 4 , 1) is an explicit positive constant, then M is diffeomorphic to a spherical space form. We also provide a partial answer to Yau’s conjecture on the pinching theorem. Moreover, we prove that if Mn(n  3) is a compact manifold whose (n . 2)-th Ricci curvature and normalized scalar curvature satisfy the pointwise condition Ric(n.2) min > n(n .2)R0, where n 2 ( 1 4 , 1) is an explicit positive constant, then M is diffeomorphic to a spherical space form. We then extend the sphere theorems above to submanifolds in a Riemannian manifold. Finally we give a classification of submanifolds with weakly pinched curvatures, which improves the differentiable pinching theorems due to Andrews, Baker, and the authors.