In this paper, the author introduces the Morrey-Campanato spaces Lsp(X) and the spaces Cps(X) on spaces of homogeneous type including metric spaces and some fractals, and establishes some embedding theorems between these spaces under some restrictions and the Besov spaces and the Triebel-Lizorkin spaces. In particular, the author proves that Lsp(X) = Bs∞,∞(X) if 0 < s < ∞ and µ(X) < ∞. The author also introduces some new function spaces Asp(X) and Bsp(X) and proves that these new spaces when 0 < s < 1 and 1 < p < ∞ are just the Triebel-Lizorkin space Fsp,∞(X) if X is a metric space, and the spaces A1p(X) and B1p(X) when 1 < p < ∞ are just the Hajłasz-Sobolev spaces W1p(X). Finally, as an application, the author gives a new characterization of the Hajłasz-Sobolev spaces by making use of the sharp maximal function.

We characterize the tight closure of a homogeneous primary ideal in a normal homogeneous coordinate ring over an elliptic curve by a numerical condition and we show that it is in positive characteristic the same as the plus closure.

In this paper, we investigate the lower bound sHK(p, d) of Hilbert-Kunz multiplicities for non-regular unmixed local rings of Krull dimension d containing a field of characteristic p > 0. Especially, we focus on three-dimensional local rings. In fact, as a main result, we will prove that sHK (p, 3) = 4/3 and that a three-dimensional complete local ring of Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity 4/3 is isomorphic to the non-degenerate quadric hypersurface k[[X, Y, Z,W]]/(X2 + Y2 + Z2 + W2) under mild conditions.

Furthermore, we pose a generalization of the main theorem to the case of dim A ≥ 4 as a conjecture, and show that it is also true in case dim A = 4 using the similar method as in the proof of the main theorem.

For an abelian totally real number field F and an odd prime number p which splits totally in F, we present a functorial approach to special “p-units” previously built by D. Solomon using “wild” Euler systems. This allows us to prove a conjecture of Solomon on the annihilation of the p-class group of F (in the particular context here), as well as related annihilation results and index formulae.

We continue to study l-adic iterated integrals introduced in the first part. We shall show that the l-adic iterated integrals satisfy essentially the same functional equations as the classical complex iterated integrals. Next we are studying l-adic analogs of classical polylogarithms.

Fiber cones of 0-dimensional ideals with almost minimal multiplicity in Cohen-Macaulay local rings are studied. Ratliff-Rush closure of filtration of ideals with respect to another ideal is introduced. This is used to find a bound on the reduction number with respect to an ideal. Rossi’s bound on reduction number in terms of Hilbert coefficients is obtained as a consequence. Sufficient conditions are provided for the fiber cone of 0-dimensional ideals to have almost maximal depth. Hilbert series of such fiber cones are also computed.