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Volume 56

Number 1, February 2001

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COMMUNICATIONS OF THE MOSCOW MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY

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The paper is a survey of relationships among the following possible properties of a Riemannian homogeneous space X=G/K: Selberg's property of weak symmetry, commutativity of the algebra of K-invariant measures on X, commutativity of the algebra of G-invariant differential operators on X, commutativity of the Poisson algebra of G-invariant functions on the cotangent bundle of the space X, and (if G is a reductive group) the property of the spectrum of the linear representation of the group G on the algebra of polynomial functions on X being multiplicity-free. Diverse results on structure and classification are presented, including the author's classification of irreducible Riemannian homogeneous spaces of Heisenberg type for which the Poisson algebra of invariant functions on the cotangent bundle is commutative.

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This is a survey of the authors' results concerning non-linear hyperbolic equations of Liouville type. The definition is based on the condition that the chain of Laplace invariants of the linearized equation be two-way finite. New results include a procedure for finding the general solution and a solution of the classification problem for Liouville type equations.

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A detailed survey is given of various results pertaining to two well-known problems of combinatorial geometry: Borsuk's problem on partitions of an arbitrary bounded d-dimensional set of non-zero diameter into parts of smaller diameter, and the problem of finding chromatic numbers of some metric spaces. Furthermore, a general method is described for obtaining good lower bounds for the minimum number of parts of smaller diameter into which an arbitrary non-singleton set of dimension d can be divided as well as for the chromatic numbers of various metric spaces, in particular, and . Finally, some new lower bounds are proved for chromatic numbers in low dimensions, and new natural generalizations of the notion of chromatic number are proposed.