We give several characterizations of those sequences of holomorphic self-maps {φ_{$n$}}_{$n$≥1}of the unit disk for which there exists a function$F$in the unit ball $\mathcal{B}=\{f\in H^{\infty}: \|f\|_\infty\leq1\}$ of$H$^{∞}such that the orbit {$F$∘φ_{$n$}:$n$∈ℕ} is locally uniformly dense in $\mathcal{B}$ . Such a function$F$is said to be a $\mathcal{B}$ -universal function. One of our conditions is stated in terms of the hyperbolic derivatives of the functions φ_{$n$}. As a consequence we will see that if φ_{$n$}is the$n$th iterate of a map φ of $\mathbb{D}$ into $\mathbb{D}$ , then {φ_{$n$}}_{$n$≥1}admits a $\mathcal{B}$ -universal function if and only if φ is a parabolic or hyperbolic automorphism of $\mathbb{D}$ . We show that whenever there exists a $\mathcal{B}$ -universal function, then this function can be chosen to be a Blaschke product. Further, if there is a $\mathcal{B}$ -universal function, we show that there exist uniformly closed subspaces consisting entirely of universal functions.

We study the stability of traveling waves of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with nonzero condition at infinity obtained via a constrained variational approach. Two important physical models for this are the Gross–Pitaevskii (GP) equation and the cubic-quintic equation. First, under a non-degeneracy condition we prove a sharp instability criterion for 3D traveling waves of (GP), which had been conjectured in the physical literature. This result is also extended for general nonlinearity and higher dimensions, including 4D (GP) and 3D cubic-quintic equations. Second, for cubic-quintic type nonlinearity, we construct slow traveling waves and prove their nonlinear instability in any dimension. For dimension two, the non-degeneracy condition is also proved for these slow traveling waves. For general traveling waves without vortices (that is nonvanishing) and with general nonlinearity in any dimension, we find a sharp condition for linear instability. Third, we prove that any 2D traveling wave of (GP) is transversally unstable, and we find the sharp interval of unstable transversal wave numbers. Near unstable traveling waves of all of the above cases, we construct unstable and stable invariant manifolds.

We present a real-time approach for acquiring 3D objects with high fidelity using hand-held consumer-level RGB-D scanning devices. Existing real-time reconstruction methods typically do not take the point of interest into account, and thus might fail to produce clean reconstruction results of desired objects due to distracting objects or backgrounds. In addition, any changes in background during scanning, which can often occur in real scenarios, can easily break up the whole reconstruction process. To address these issues, we incorporate visual saliency into a traditional real-time volumetric fusion pipeline. Salient regions detected from RGB-D frames suggest user-intended objects, and by understanding user intentions our approach can put more emphasis on important targets, and meanwhile, eliminate disturbance of non-important objects. Experimental results on real world scans demonstrate that our system is capable of effectively acquiring geometric information of salient objects in cluttered real-world scenes, even if the backgrounds are changing.

For each simple Lie algebra g, we construct an algebra embedding of the quantum group Uq(g) into certain quantum torus algebra Dg via the positive representations of split real quantum group. The quivers corresponding to Dg is obtained from an amalgamation of two basic quivers, each of which is mutation equivalent to one describing the cluster structure of the moduli space of framed G-local system on a disk with 3 marked points on its boundary when G is of classical type. We derive a factorization of the universal R-matrix into quantum dilogarithms of cluster monomials, and show that conjugation by the R-matrix corresponds to a sequence of quiver mutations which produces the half-Dehn twist rotating one puncture about the other in a twice punctured disk.

The paper develops an existence theory for solutions of the Abreu equation, which include extremal metrics on toric surfaces. The technique employed is a continuity method, combined with “blow-up” arguments. General existence results are obtained, assuming a hypothesis (the “M-condition”) on the solutions, which is shown to be related to the injectivity radius.