Van der Waerden spaces

A topological space is van der Waerden if for every sequence in there exists a converging subsequence so that contains arbitrarily long finite arithmetic progressions. Not every sequentially compact space is van der Waerden. The product of two van der Waerden spaces is van der Waerden.

The following condition on a Hausdorff space is sufficent for to be van der Waerden:

The closure of every countable set in is compact and first-countable.

A Hausdorff space that satisfies satisfies, in fact, a stronger property: for every sequence in :

There exists so that is converging, and contains arbitrarily long finite arithmetic progressions and sets of the form for arbitrarily large finite sets .

There are nonmetrizable and noncompact spaces which satisfy . In particular, every sequence of ordinal numbers and every bounded sequence of real monotone functions on satisfy .

     

On the absolute continuity of a class of invariant measures

Let be a compact connected subset of , let , be contractive self-conformal maps on a neighborhood of , and let be a family of positive continuous functions on . We consider the probability measure that satisfies the eigen-equation

for some 0$">. We prove that if the attractor is an -set and is absolutely continuous with respect to , the Hausdorff -dimensional measure restricted on the attractor , then is absolutely continuous with respect to (i.e., they are equivalent). A special case of the result was considered by Mauldin and Simon (1998). In another direction, we also consider the -property of the Radon-Nikodym derivative of and give a condition for which is unbounded.

     

Subgroup growth in some pro- groups

For a group let be the number of subgroups of index and let be the number of normal subgroups of index . We show that for 2$">. If and does not divide or if and or , we show that for all sufficiently large . On the other hand if and divides , then is not even bounded as a function of .

     

Radicals and Plotkin's problem concerning geometrically equivalent groups

If and are groups and is a normal subgroup of , then the -closure of in is the normal subgroup of . In particular, is the -radical of . Plotkin calls two groups and geometrically equivalent, written , if for any free group of finite rank and any normal subgroup of the -closure and the -closure of in are the same. Quasi-identities are formulas of the form for any words in a free group. Generally geometrically equivalent groups satisfy the same quasi-identities. Plotkin showed that nilpotent groups and satisfy the same quasi-identities if and only if and are geometrically equivalent. Hence he conjectured that this might hold for any pair of groups. We provide a counterexample.

     

Universal perturbations of linear differential equations

Let be a fundamental solution of with and bounded on . We prove that there exist arbitrary small matrix functions with limit as such that has solutions with dense in .

     

The point spectrum of the Dirac operator on noncompact symmetric spaces

In this note, we consider the Dirac operator on a Riemannian symmetric space  of noncompact type. Using representation theory, we show that has point spectrum iff the -genus of its compact dual does not vanish. In this case, if  is irreducible, then with  odd, and  .

     

-Weyl's theorem for operator matrices

If is a upper triangular matrix on the Hilbert space , then -Weyl's theorem for and need not imply -Weyl's theorem for , even when . In this note we explore how -Weyl's theorem and -Browder's theorem survive for operator matrices on the Hilbert space.

     

On one problem of uniqueness of meromorphic functions concerning small functions

In this paper, we show that if two non-constant meromorphic functions and satisfy for , where are five distinct small functions with respect to and , and is a positive integer or with , then . As a special case this also answers the long-standing problem on uniqueness of meromorphic functions concerning small functions.

     

Existence of multiwavelets in

For a -regular Multiresolution Analysis of multiplicity with arbitrary dilation matrix for a general lattice in , we give necessary and sufficient conditions in terms of the mask and the symbol of the vector scaling function in order that an associated wavelet basis exists. We also show that if where is the absolute value of the determinant of , then these conditions are always met, and therefore an associated wavelet basis of -regular functions always exists. This extends known results to the case of multiwavelets in several variables with an arbitrary dilation matrix for a lattice .

     

A global pinching theorem for surfaces with constant mean curvature in

Let be a compact immersed surface in the unit sphere with constant mean curvature . Denote by the linear map from into , , where is the linear map associated to the second fundamental form and is the identity map. Let denote the square of the length of . We prove that if , then is either totally umbilical or an -torus, where is a constant depending only on the mean curvature .

     

Invertibility preserving linear maps and algebraic reflexivity of elementary operators of length one

Let and be real or complex Banach spaces. We show that a surjective linear map preserving invertibility in both directions is either of the form or the form , where , , , and are bounded invertible linear operators. As an application we improve a result of Larson and Sourour on algebraic reflexivity of elementary operators of length one.

     

The strong radical and finite-dimensional ideals

Let be a semi-prime Banach algebra with strong radical (intersection of its two-sided modular maximal ideals). A minimal left or right ideal of is infinite-dimensional if and only if . Thus all minimal one-sided ideals in are finite-dimensional if is strongly semi-simple.

     

Singular integrals generated by zonal measures

We study -mapping properties of the rough singular integral operator depending on a finite Borel measure on the unit sphere in . It is shown that the conditions , imply the -boundedness of for all provided that 2$"> and is zonal.

     

Convexity numbers of closed sets in

For 2$"> let be the -ideal in generated by all sets which do not contain equidistant points in the usual metric on . For each 2$"> a set is constructed in so that the -ideal which is generated by the convex subsets of restricted to the convexity radical is isomorphic to . Thus is equal to the least number of convex subsets required to cover -- the convexity number of .

For every non-increasing function \aleph_0\}$"> we construct a model of set theory in which for each . When is strictly decreasing up to , uncountable cardinals are simultaneously realized as convexity numbers of closed subsets of . It is conjectured that , but never more than , different uncountable cardinals can occur simultaneously as convexity numbers of closed subsets of . This conjecture is true for and .     

On a conjectured noncommutative Beals-Cordes-type characterization

Given a skew-symmetric matrix we prove that a bounded operator on for which is smooth, and which commutes with all pseudodifferential operators is of the form with possessing bounded derivatives of all orders on Here, and denote the translation and the gauge representations of This was conjectured by Rieffel (1993) and is an application of the well-known Cordes' characterization of the the Heisenberg-smooth operators as pseudodifferential operators.

     

Critical points of the area functional of a complex closed curve on the manifold of Kähler metrics

We consider a compact complex manifold of dimension that admits Kähler metrics and we assume that is a closed complex curve. We denote by the space of classes of Kähler forms that define Kähler metrics of volume 1 on and define by . We show how the Riemann-Hodge bilinear relations imply that any critical point of is the strict global minimum and we give conditions under which there is such a critical point : A positive multiple of is the Poincaré dual of the homology class of . Applying this to the Abel-Jacobi map of a curve into its Jacobian, , we obtain that the Theta metric minimizes the area of within all Kähler metrics of volume 1 on .

     

Metric entropy of convex hulls in type spaces--The critical case

Given a precompact subset of a type Banach space , where , we prove that for every and all

holds, where is the absolutely convex hull of and denotes the dyadic entropy number. With this inequality we show in particular that for given and with for all the inequality holds true for all . We also prove that this estimate is asymptotically optimal whenever has no better type than . For this answers a question raised by Carl, Kyrezi, and Pajor which has been solved up to now only for the Hilbert space case by F. Gao.

     

Primary decomposition: Compatibility, independence and linear growth

For finitely generated modules over a Noetherian ring , we study the following properties about primary decomposition: (1) The Compatibility property, which says that if and is a -primary component of for each , then ; (2) For a given subset , is an open subset of if and only if the intersections for all possible -primary components and of ; (3) A new proof of the `Linear Growth' property, which says that for any fixed ideals of there exists a such that for any there exists a primary decomposition of such that every -primary component of that primary decomposition contains .

     

On the class number of certain imaginary quadratic fields

Theorem. Let 2$"> denote an integer, the square-free part of and the class number of the field . Then except for the case , divides .

     

Hilbert transform of

There are two general ways to evaluate the Hilbert transform of a function of real variable . We can extend to a harmonic function in the upper half plane by the Poisson integral formula. Non-tangential limit of its harmonic conjugate exists almost everywhere and is defined to be the Hilbert transform of . There is also a singular integral formula for the Hilbert transform of . It is fairly difficult to directly evaluate the Hilbert transform of . In this paper we give an explicit formula for the Hilbert transform of , where is a function in the Cartwright class.