We give a sufficient condition for the termination of flips. Then we discuss a semi-stable minimal model program for varieties with (numerically) trivial canonical divisor as an application. We also treat a slight refinement of dlt blow-ups.

We consider a family of singular unitary representations which are realized in Dolbeault cohomology groups over indefinite Grassmannian manifolds, and find a closed formula of irreducible decompositions with respect to reductive symmetric pairs $(A_{2n-1}, D_{n})$. The resulting branching rule is a multiplicity-free sum of infinite dimensional, irreducible representations.

We classify semisimple symmetric spaces $G/H$ for which there exist proper $SL(2,\mathbf{R})$-actions via $G$. This leads us to the classification of semisimple symmetric spaces that admit surface groups as discontinuous groups.

Let $\mathcal{M}$ be a differential module, whose coefficients are analytic elements on an open annulus $I$ ($\subset \mathbf{R}_{>0}$) in a valued field, complete and algebraically closed of inequal characteristic, and let $R(\mathcal{M}, r)$ be the radius of convergence of its solutions in the neighborhood of the generic point $t_{r}$ of absolute value $r$, with $r\in I$. Assume that $R(\mathcal{M}, r)<r$ on $I$ and, in the logarithmic coordinates, the function $r\longrightarrow R(\mathcal{M}, r)$ has only one slope on $I$. In this paper, we prove that for any $r\in I$, all the solutions of $\mathcal{M}$ in the neighborhood of $t_{r}$ are analytic and bounded in the disk $D(t_{r},R(\mathcal{M},r)^{-})$.