On purely inseparable extensions and their generators

Let be a field of characteristic and a polynomial algebra in two variables. By a -generator of we mean an element of for which there exist and such that . We also define a -line of to mean any element of whose coordinate ring is that of a -generator. Then we prove that if is such that is a -line of (where is an indeterminate over ), then is a -generator of . This is analogous to the well-known fact that if is such that is a line of , then is a variable of . We also prove that if is a -line of for which there exist and such that , then is in fact a -generator of .

     

Almost linearity of -bi-Lipschitz maps between real Banach spaces

Let and be real Banach spaces. A map between and is called an -bi-Lipschitz map if for all . In this note we show that if is an -bi-Lipschitz map with from onto , then is almost linear. We also show that if is a surjective -bi-Lipschitz map with , then there exists a linear isomorphism such that

where as and .

     

Cohomological detection and regular elements in group cohomology

Suppose that is a compact Lie group or a discrete group of finite virtual cohomological dimension and that is a field of characteristic . Suppose that is a set of elementary abelian -subgroups such that the cohomology is detected on the centralizers of the elements of . Assume also that is closed under conjugation and that is in whenever some subgroup of is in . Then there exists a regular element in the cohomology ring such that the restriction of to an elementary abelian -subgroup is not nilpotent if and only if is in . The converse of the result is a theorem of Lannes, Schwartz and the second author. The results have several implications for the depth and associated primes of the cohomology rings.

     

Bounds for the operator norms of some Nörlund matrices

Suppose is a non-increasing sequence of non-negative numbers with , , , and is the lower triangular matrix defined by , , and , . We show that the operator norm of as a linear operator on is no greater than , for ; this generalizes, yet again, Hardy's inequality for sequences, and simplifies and improves, in this special case, more generally applicable results of D. Borwein, Cass, and Kratz. When the tend to a positive limit, the operator norm of on is exactly . We also give some cases when the operator norm of on is less than .

     

Rational nodal curves with no smooth Weierstrass points

Let denote the rational curve with nodes obtained from the Riemann sphere by identifying 0 with and with for , where is a primitive th root of unity. We show that if is even, then has no smooth Weierstrass points, while if is odd, then has smooth Weierstrass points.

     

On the prime model property

Assume is superstable, is a formula over , is countable and is countable and . We investigate models in assuming has the prime model property. We prove some corollaries on the number of models in . We show an example of an -stable and with having exactly 3 models.

     

On a pattern of reflexive operator spaces

A linear subspace is a separating subspace for an operator space if the only member of annihilating is 0. It is proved in this paper that if has a strictly separating vector and a separating subspace satisfying , then is reflexive. Applying this to finite dimensional leads to more results on reflexivity. For example, if dim , and every nonzero operator in has rank , then is reflexive.

     

Isometries of certain operator algebras

To a given basis on an -dimensional Hilbert space , we associate the algebra of all linear operators on having every as an eigenvector. So, is commutative, semisimple, and -dimensional. Given two algebras of this type, and , there is a natural algebraic isomorphism of and . We study the question: When does preserve the operator norm?

     

The second iterate of a map with dense orbit

Suppose that is a Hausdorff topological space having no isolated points and that is continuous. We show that if the orbit of a point under is dense in while the orbit of under is not, then the space decomposes into three sets relative to which the dynamics of are easy to describe. This decomposition has the following consequence: suppose that has dense orbit under and that the closure of the set of points of having odd period under has nonempty interior; then has dense orbit under .

     

Stability of semigroups commuting with a compact operator

It is proved that if are bounded -semigroups on Banach spaces and , resp., and , are bounded operators with dense ranges such that intertwines with and commutes with , then is strongly stable provided ---the generator of ---does not have eigenvalue on . An analogous result holds for power-bounded operators.

     

The statistics of continued fractions for polynomials over a finite field

Given a finite field of order and polynomials of degrees respectively, there is the continued fraction representation . Let denote the number of such pairs for which and for . We give both an exact recurrence relation, and an asymptotic analysis, for . The polynomial associated with the recurrence relation turns out to be of P-V type. We also study the distribution of . Averaged over all and as above, this presents no difficulties. The average value of is , and there is full information about the distribution. When is fixed and only is allowed to vary, we show that this is still the average. Moreover, few pairs give a value of that differs from this average by more than

     

Parametrizing maximal compact subvarieties

For the Lie group , let be the open orbit of Lagrangian planes of signature in the generalized flag variety of Lagrangian planes in . For a suitably chosen maximal compact subgroup of and a base point we have that the orbit of is a maximal compact subvariety of . We show that for the connected component containing in the space of translates of which lie in is biholomorphic to , where denotes with the opposite complex structure.

     

Banach spaces in which every -weakly summable sequence lies in the range of a vector measure

Let be a Banach space. For we prove that the identity map is -summing if and only if the operator is nuclear for every unconditionally summable sequence in , where is the conjugate number for . Using this result we find a characterization of Banach spaces in which every -weakly summable sequence lies inside the range of an -valued measure (equivalently, every -weakly summable sequence in , satisfying that the operator is compact, lies in the range of an -valued measure) with bounded variation. They are those Banach spaces such that the identity operator is -summing.

     

Polynomial rings over Goldie-Kerr commutative rings II

An overlooked corollary to the main result of the stated paper (Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 120 (1994), 989--993) is that any Goldie ring of Goldie dimension 1 has Artinian classical quotient ring , hence is a Kerr ring in the sense that the polynomial ring satisfies the on annihilators . More generally, we show that a Goldie ring has Artinian when every zero divisor of has essential annihilator (in this case is a local ring; see Theorem ). A corollary to the proof is Theorem 2: A commutative ring has Artinian iff is a Goldie ring in which each element of the Jacobson radical of has essential annihilator. Applying a theorem of Beck we show that any ring that has Noetherian local ring for each associated prime is a Kerr ring and has Kerr polynomial ring (Theorem 5).

     

-analyticity

Let be a finite-dimensional commutative algebra over and let , and be the ring of -differentiable functions of class , the ring of real analytic mappings with values in and the ring of -analytic functions, respectively, defined on an open subset of . We prove two basic results concerning -differentiability and -analyticity: ) , ) if and only if is defined over .

     

Correspondences of closed submodules

If is an -faithful -module, then there is an order-preserving correspondence between the closed -submodules of and the closed -submodules of , where .

     

On Voiculescu's double commutant theorem

For a separable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space , we consider the full algebra of bounded linear transformations and the unique non-trivial norm-closed two-sided ideal of compact operators . We also consider the quotient -algebra with quotient map

For any -subalgebra of , the relative commutant is given by for all in . It was shown by D. Voiculescu that, for any separable unital -subalgebra of ,

In this note, we exhibit a non-separable unital -subalgebra of for which (VDCT) fails.

     

Differences of vector-valued functions on topological groups

Let be a locally compact group equipped with right Haar measure. The right differences of functions on are defined by for . Let and suppose for some and all . We prove that is a right uniformly continuous function of . If is abelian and the Beurling spectrum does not contain the unit of the dual group , then we show . These results have analogues for functions , where is a separable or reflexive Banach space. Finally, we apply our methods to vector-valued right uniformly continuous differences and to absolutely continuous elements of left Banach -modules.

     

A reciprocity law for certain Frobenius extensions

Let be a finite Galois extension of algebraic number fields with Galois group . Assume that is a Frobenius group and is a Frobenius complement of . Let be the maximal normal nilpotent subgroup of . If is nilpotent, then every Artin L-function attached to an irreducible representation of arises from an automorphic representation over , i.e., the Langlands' reciprocity conjecture is true for such Galois extensions.