| Title Page | 3 |
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| Copyright Page | 4 |
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| Table of Contents | 5 |
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| Preface | 7 |
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| Focus on youth | 8 |
| The subject | 8 |
| Organization | 9 |
| Extended Curriculum Vitae of Linda Preiss Rothschild | 11 |
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| Educational Background | 12 |
| Professional Employment | 12 |
| Honors and Fellowships | 12 |
| Selected Invited Lectures | 13 |
| Students | 13 |
| Selected National Committees and Offices | 13 |
| Editorial Positions | 14 |
| Publication List of Linda Preiss Rothschild | 15 |
| Oblique Polar Lines of X |f|2.|g|2µ | 21 |
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| Introduction | 21 |
| 1. Polar structure of X |f|2. | 23 |
| 2. Existence of polar oblique lines | 25 |
| 3. Pullback and interaction | 29 |
| 4. Interaction of strata revised | 31 |
| 5. Examples | 38 |
| References | 42 |
| On Involutive Systems of First-order Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations | 44 |
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| 0. Introduction | 44 |
| 1. Preliminaries | 45 |
| 2. Main results and examples | 49 |
| 3. Some lemmas and the proof of Theorem 2.1 | 56 |
| 4. Proofs of Theorem 2.4 and Theorem 2.7 | 63 |
| References | 68 |
| Gevrey Hypoellipticity for an Interesting Variant of Kohn’s Operator | 70 |
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| 1. Introduction | 70 |
| 2. The operator P is C8 hypoelliptic | 72 |
| 3. Gevrey hypoellipticity | 75 |
| 4. Computing . | 77 |
| 4.1. q-pseudodifferential calculus | 77 |
| 4.2. The actual computation of the eigenvalue | 83 |
| 4.3. Hypoellipticity of P | 88 |
| A. Appendix | 90 |
| References | 91 |
| Subelliptic Estimates | 93 |
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| 1. Introduction | 93 |
| 2. Definition of subelliptic estimates | 94 |
| 3. Subelliptic estimates in two dimensions | 95 |
| 4. Subelliptic multipliers | 97 |
| 5. Triangular systems | 100 |
| 6. Necessary and sufficient conditions for subellipticity | 106 |
| 7. Sharp subelliptic estimates | 108 |
| References | 110 |
| Invariant CR Mappings | 113 |
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| 1. Introduction | 113 |
| 2. Properties of the invariant polynomials | 116 |
| 3. Cyclic groups | 117 |
| 4. Asymptotic information | 119 |
| 5. Metacyclic groups | 122 |
| 6. An application | failure of rigidity123 |
| References | 125 |
| On the Subellipticity of Some Hypoelliptic Quasihomogeneous Systems of Complex Vector Fields | 126 |
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| 1. Introduction and main result | 127 |
| 1.1. Preliminaries on subellipticity and hypoellipticity | 127 |
| 1.2. The main results | 128 |
| 1.3. Comparison with previous results | 129 |
| 2. Derridj’s subellipticity criterion | 130 |
| 3. Quasihomogeneous structure | 131 |
| 3.1. Distorted geometry | 131 |
| 3.2. Distorted dynamics | 132 |
| 4. Analysis of the quasielliptic case ( . | 132 |
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| 4.1. Construction of . | 134 |
| 4.2. Analysis of .(t)m - .m | 134 |
| 4.3. The lower bound in the quasi-homogeneous case | 134 |
| 4.4. The case of arcs in . = 0 but with a zero at one end | 136 |
| 5. Completion of the proof | 137 |
| Appendix A. A technical proposition | 138 |
| References | 139 |
| Invariance of the Parametric Oka Property | 141 |
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| 1. Oka properties | 141 |
| 2. Subelliptic submersions and Serre fibrations | 145 |
| 3. Convex approximation property | 148 |
| 4. A parametric Oka principle for liftings | 148 |
| 5. Ascent and descent of the parametric Oka property | 157 |
| References | 158 |
| Positivity of the ¯ .-Neumann Laplacian | 161 |
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| 1. Introduction | 161 |
| 2. Preliminaries | 162 |
| 3. Positivity of the spectrum and essential spectrum | 166 |
| 4. Hearing pseudoconvexity | 168 |
| References | 172 |
| Compactness Estimates for the .-Neumann Problem in Weighted L2-spaces | 175 |
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| 1. Introduction | 175 |
| 2. Weighted basic estimates | 177 |
| 3. Weighted Sobolev spaces | 181 |
| 4. Compactness estimates | 184 |
| References | 188 |
| Remarks on the Homogeneous Complex Monge-Ampere Equation | 191 |
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| References | 200 |
| A Rado Theorem for Locally Solvable Structures of Co-rank One | 202 |
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| 1. Introduction | 202 |
| 2. The approximation theorem | 203 |
| 3. Structures of co-rank one | 209 |
| 4. A Rado theorem for structures of co-rank one | 210 |
| 5. An application to uniqueness | 215 |
| References | 217 |
| Applications of a Parametric Oka Principle for Liftings | 219 |
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| 1. Introduction | 219 |
| 2. The parametric Oka principle for liftings | 221 |
| 3. Equivalence of the basic and the parametric Oka properties | 222 |
| 4. The convex interpolation property | 223 |
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