We consider sample covariance matrices of the form $X^*X$, where $X$ is an $M times N$ matrix with independent random entries. We prove the isotropic local Marchenko-Pastur law, i.e. we prove that the resolvent $(X^* X - z)^{-1}$ converges to a multiple of the identity in the sense of quadratic forms. More precisely, we establish sharp high-probability bounds on the quantity $langle v, (X^* X - z)^{-1} w rangle - langle v,w rangle m(z)$, where $m$ is the Stieltjes transform of the Marchenko-Pastur law and $v, w in mathbb C^N$. We require the logarithms of the dimensions $M$ and $N$ to be comparable. Our result holds down to scales $Im z geq N^{-1+epsilon}$ and throughout the entire spectrum away from 0. We also prove analogous results for generalized Wigner matrices.

We obtain a growth estimate for the number of lattice points inside any Q-Gorenstein cone. Our proof uses the result of Futaki-Ono-Wang on Sasaki-Einstein metric for the toric Sasakian manifold associated to the cone, a Yau’s inequality, and the Kawasaki-Riemann-Roch formula for orbifolds.

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We investigate a problem of approximation of a large class of nonlinear expressions$f$($x, u$, ∇$u$), including polyconvex functions. Here$u$: Ω→$R$^{$m$}, Ω⊂$R$^{$n$}, is a mapping from the Sobolev space$W$^{$1,p$}. In particular, when$p=n$, we obtain the approximation by mappings which are continuous, differentiable a.e. and, if in addition$n=m$, satisfy the Luzin condition. From the point of view of applications such mappings are almost as good as Lipschitz mappings. As far as we know, for the nonlinear problems that we consider, no natural approximation results were known so far. The results about the approximation of$f$($x, u$, ∇$u$) are consequences of the main result of the paper, Theorem 1.3, on a very strong approximation of Sobolev functions by locally weakly monotone functions.

The topological group $\mathcal{D}^k(\mathbb{S})$ of diffeomorphisms of the unit circle $\mathbb{S}$ of Sobolev class$H$^{$k$}, for$k$large enough, is a Banach manifold modeled on the Hilbert space $H^k(\mathbb{S})$ . In this paper we show that the$H$^{1}right-invariant metric obtained by right-translation of the$H$^{1}inner product on $T_{\rm id}\mathcal{D}^k(\mathbb{S})\simeq H^k(\mathbb{S})$ defines a smooth Riemannian metric on $\mathcal{D}^k(\mathbb{S})$ , and we explicitly construct a compatible smooth affine connection. Once this framework has been established results from the general theory of affine connections on Banach manifolds can be applied to study the exponential map, geodesic flow, parallel translation, curvature etc. The diffeomorphism group of the circle provides the natural geometric setting for the Camassa–Holm equation – a nonlinear wave equation that has attracted much attention in recent years – and in this context it has been remarked in various papers how to construct a smooth Riemannian structure compatible with the$H$^{1}right-invariant metric. We give a self-contained presentation that can serve as a detailed mathematical foundation for the future study of geometric aspects of the Camassa–Holm equation.