Topological and bornological characterisations of ideals in von Neumann algebras: I

Suppose is a von Neumann algebra on a Hilbert space and is any ideal in . We determine a topology on , for which the members of that are to norm continuous are exactly those in ; and a bornology on such that the elements of which map the unit ball to an element of , equivalently those members of that are norm to bounded, are exactly those in . This is achieved via analogues of the notions of injectivity and surjectivity in the theory of operator ideals on Banach spaces.     

Operator inequalities and construction of Krein spaces

Let be a Hilbert space. A continuous positive operatorT on uniquely determines a Hilbert space which is continuously imbedded in and for which with the canonical imbedding . A Kreîn space version of this result, however, is not valid in general. This paper provides a necessary and sufficient condition for that a continuous selfadjoint operatorT uniquely determines a Kreîn space ( ) which is continuously imbedded in and for which with the canonical imbedding .     

Isometric representations of some quotients ofH ∞ of an annulus

Let denote an annulus,E a finite subset of with at least three elements, and the ideal of functions in which vanish at the points ofE. The quotient does not have a completely isometric representation on a finite dimensional Hilbert space. This complements a result of [11] which implies that the quotient has an isometric representation on a Hilbert space of dimension twice the cardinality ofE.     

Transvection free groups and invariants of polynomial tensor exterior algebras

Let :GGl(n, ) be a representation of a finite groupG over a field such that the ring of invariants is a polynomial algebra . It is known that in the nonmodular case (i.e., when the order of the group is not divisible by the characteristic of ), the invariants ofG acting on the tensor product of a polynomial and an exterior algebra are given by ,d denoting the exterior derivative. We show that in the modular case, the ring of invariants in is of this form if and only if is a polynomial algebra and all pseudoreflections in (G) are diagonalizable.     

Notes on Brown-McCoy-radicals for Γ-near-rings

The Brown-McCoy radical is known to be an ideal-hereditary Kurosh-Amitsur radical in the variety of zerosymmetric near-rings. We define the Brown-McCoy and simplical radicals, and , respectively, for zerosymmetric -near-rings. Both and are ideal-hereditary Kurosh-Amitsur radicals in that variety. IfM is a zerosymmetric -near-ring with left operator near-ringL, it is shown that , with equality ifM has a strong left unity. is extended to the variety of arbitrary near-rings, and and are extended to the variety of arbitrary -near-rings, in a way that they remain Kurosh-Amitsur radicals. IfN is a near-ring andA N, then , with equality ifA if left invariant.     

Change of variables in a multiple integral for local fields

A proof of the formula for locally compact fields andC ¹-isomorphisms :UV, whereU andV are open subsets of , was never published. In this paper we give two short proofs, one of them is a more elementary variant of the other.     

Self-dual bases in\mathbb{F}_{q^n }

We characterize weakly self-dual bases of the field extension over , examine the existence of weakly self-dual polynomial bases, and use duality to analyze normal basis multiplication.     

Sylow subgroups of finitary linear groups

In this paper we describe the structure and the conjugacy classes of Sylow p-subgroups of FGL(V, ), the group of finitary -automorphisms of the -vector space V.The Author is member of the GNSAGA.     

On the convergence of powers of interval matrices (2)

Summary Let be a real irreduciblen×n interval matrix. Then a necessary and sufficient condition is given for the sequence of the powers of an interval matrix to converge to a matrix which is not the null matrix. In addition a criterion for is proved to decide whether the limit matrix satisfies the condition of symmetry .     

On a theorem of Seidel and Walsh

Given a sequence ( _n ) _n in with there are functions such that , is a dense subset of , and the set of functions with this property is residual in . We will show that in and some related Banach spaceX there are functionsf with is dense in , and we will give a sufficient condition when the set of such functions is residual inX.     

Common invariant subspaces for collections of operators

Let be a collection of bounded operators on a Banach spaceX of dimension at least two. We say that is finitely quasinilpotent at a vectorx ₀X whenever for any finite subset of the joint spectral radius of atx ₀ is equal 0. If such collection contains a non-zero compact operator, then and its commutant have a common non-trivial invariant, subspace. If in addition, is a collection of positive operators on a Banach lattice, then has a common non-trivial closed ideal. This result and a recent remarkable theorem of Turovskii imply the following extension of the famous result of de Pagter to semigroups. Let be a multiplicative semigroup of quasinilpotent compact positive operators on a Banach lattice of dimension at least two. Then has a common non-trivial invariant closed ideal.This work was supported by the Research Ministry of Slovenia.     

Sechzehndimensionale lokalkompakte Translationsebenen,deren Kollineationsgruppe G2 enthält

New results of Salzmann and Hubig say that a 16-dimensional (locally) compact topological projective plane in which the group of continuous collineations has dimension 40 is a translation plane. It is therefore important to determine all 16-dimensional locally compact translation planes with dim 40. From previous work of the author ([10]), it is known that such a plane is either the classical octonion plane, or dim =40 and contains a subgroup isomorphic to the compact exceptional group G₂, but no larger compact simple subgroup. In the present paper, all planes satisfying the latter property more generally with dim 38 are explicitly determined. Together with the classification of all 16-dimensional locally compact translation planes in which contains Spin(7) given by the author in [8], one thus knows all 16-dimensional locally compact translation planes with containing G₂ and dim 38. Via suitable Baer subplanes, the classification makes use of analogous results for 8-dimensional planes ([7]).

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Meinem verehrten Lehrer Helmut Salzmann zum 60. Geburtstag     

On periodic groups of automorphisms of extremal groups

It is proved that if a periodic group has an extremal normal divisor , determining a complete abelian factor group , then the center of the group contains a complete abelian subgroup , satisfying the relation and intersecting on a finite subgroup. It is also established with the aid of this proposition that every periodic group of automorphisms of an extremal group is a finite extension of a contained in it subgroup of inner automorphisms of the group .Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 91–96, July, 1968.     

Skew-symmetric derivations of a complex Lie algebra

Let be a complex Lie algebra, its underlying real Lie algebra, a real form of and ·, · the euclidean product induced by the real part of an hermitian inner product on . Let aut be the Lie algebra of skew-symmetric derivations of . We give necessary and sufficient conditions to ensure that aut is composed of skew-hermitian derivations. As an application, we study holomorphy in large subgroups of isometries of Lie groups.     

Reducibility of lacunary polynomials,VII

Letk>1 and let be non-zero algebraic numbers contained in the field . It is shown that for almost all, in the sense of density integer vectorsn ₁,...,n _k the polynomial becomes irreducible over on dividing by the product of all factorsx–, where is a root of unity.Dedicated to Professor E. Hlawka on the occasion of his seventieth birthday     

Groupwise density and related cardinals

We prove several theorems about the cardinal associated with groupwise density. With respect to a natural ordering of families of nond-ecreasing maps from to, all families of size are below all unbounded families. With respect to a natural ordering of filters on, all filters generated by sets are below all non-feeble filters. If then and . (The definitions of these cardinals are recalled in the introduction.) Finally, some consequences deduced from by Laflamme are shown to be equivalent to .     

Completion of an additive measure to a σ-additive measure by an extension of the space

For an algebra of subsets of a set X there is constructed a set and an algebra of its subsets so that the mapping is a one-to-one correspondence between and and for each additive measure on the measure on defined by the equation is countably additive.Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 71–76, January, 1968.The author wishes to express his deep appreciation to S. V. Fomin, under whose guidance this paper was written.     

A remark on H1 mappings

With , we here construct, for each positive integer N, a smooth function of degree zero so that there must be at least N singular points for any map that minimizes the energy in the family . The infimum of over U(g) is strictly smaller than the infimum of over the continuous functions in U(g). There are some generalizations to higher dimensions.Research partially supported by the National Science FoundationResearch supported by an Alfred P. Sloan Graduate Fellowship     

Homogeneous algebraic varieties defined by Jordan pairs

Every Jordan pair defines an algebraic varietyX containing as a dense open subset.X is projective (affine) if and only if is separable (radical). The Picard group ofX is generated by the irreducible factors of the generic norm of . If is separable then the automorphism group ofX is the projective group of .     

Operators of fibered groups

Let (G, ) denote a finite groupG with fibration . The group Aut (G, ) of operators of (G, ) is closely related to the group of collineations of (G, ). In this paper we investigate the geometric properties imposed on (G, ) by requiring that Aut (G, )=AutG. We find that in many instances this algebraic property restricts the geometry to a very special form.Dedicated to Professor Helmut Karzel on the occasion of his 60th birthday.