Picard groups and infinite matrix rings

We describe a connection between the Picard group of a ring with local units and the Picard group of the unital overring . Using this connection, we show that the three groups , , and are isomorphic for any unital ring . Furthermore, each element of arises from an automorphism of , which yields an isomorphsm between and . As one application we extend a classical result of Rosenberg and Zelinsky by showing that the group is abelian for any commutative unital ring .

     

The Classification of the Simple Modular Lie Algebras: VI. Solving the Final Case

We investigate the structure of simple Lie algebras over an algebraically closed field of characteristic . Let denote a torus in the -envelope of in of maximal dimension. We classify all for which every 1-section with respect to every such torus is solvable. This settles the remaining case of the classification of these algebras.

     

A Singular Quasilinear Anisotropic Elliptic Boundary Value Problem. II

Let with . We consider the equations

with and . We show that if is a convex bounded region in , there exists at least one classical solution to this boundary value problem. If the region is not convex, we show the existence of a weak solution. Partial results for the existence of classical solutions for non-convex domains in are also given.

     

Approximation by polynomials with nonnegative coefficients and the spectral theory of positive operators

For a compact subset of symmetric with respect to conjugation and a continuous function, we obtain sharp conditions on and that insure that can be approximated uniformly on by polynomials with nonnegative coefficients. For a real Banach space, a closed but not necessarily normal cone with , and a bounded linear operator with , we use these approximation theorems to investigate when the spectral radius of belongs to its spectrum . A special case of our results is that if is a Hilbert space, is normal and the 1-dimensional Lebesgue measure of is zero, then . However, we also give an example of a normal operator (where is unitary and ) for which and .

     

Lower bounds for dimensions of representation varieties

The set of -dimensional complex representations of a finitely generated group form a complex affine variety . Suppose that is such a representation and consider the associated representation on complex matrices obtained by following with conjugation of matrices. Then it is shown that the dimension of at is at least the difference of the complex dimensions of and . It is further shown that in the latter cohomology may be replaced by various proalgebraic groups associated to and .

     

The Santaló-regions of a convex body

Motivated by the Blaschke-Santaló inequality, we define for a convex body in and for the Santaló-regions of . We investigate the properties of these sets and relate them to a concept of affine differential geometry, the affine surface area of .

     

Baire and

Let be a locally compact Hausdorff space and let be the Banach space of all bounded complex Radon measures on . Let and be the -rings generated by the compact subsets and by the compact subsets of , respectively. The members of are called Baire sets of and those of are called -Borel sets of (since they are precisely the -bounded Borel sets of ). Identifying with the Banach space of all Borel regular complex measures on , in this note we characterize weakly compact subsets of in terms of the Baire and -Borel restrictions of the members of . These characterizations permit us to give a generalization of a theorem of Dieudonné which is stronger and more natural than that given by Grothendieck.

     

Double Walsh series with coefficients of bounded variation of higher order

Let denote the Cesàro sums of order of the Walsh functions. The estimates of given by Fine back in 1949 are extended to the case . As a corollary, the following properties are established for the rectangular partial sums of those double Walsh series whose coefficients satisfy conditions of bounded variation of order , and for some : (a) regular convergence; (b) uniform convergence; (c) -integrability and -metric convergence for ; and (d) Parseval's formula. Extensions to those with coefficients of generalized bounded variation are also derived.

     

Scattering theory for twisted automorphic functions

The purpose of this paper is to develop a scattering theory for twisted automorphic functions on the hyperbolic plane, defined by a cofinite (but not cocompact) discrete group with an irreducible unitary representation and satisfying . The Lax-Phillips approach is used with the wave equation playing a central role. Incoming and outgoing subspaces are employed to obtain corresponding unitary translation representations, and , for the solution operator. The scattering operator, which maps into , is unitary and commutes with translation. The spectral representation of the scattering operator is a multiplicative operator, which can be expressed in terms of the constant term of the Eisenstein series. When the dimension of is one, the elements of the scattering operator cannot vanish. However when this is no longer the case.

     

Solutions of nonlinear differential equations on a Riemannian manifold and their trace on the Martin boundary

Let be a second order elliptic differential operator on a Riemannian manifold with no zero order terms. We say that a function is -harmonic if . Every positive -harmonic function has a unique representation

where is the Martin kernel, is the Martin boundary and is a finite measure on concentrated on the minimal part of . We call the trace of on . Our objective is to investigate positive solutions of a nonlinear equation

for [the restriction is imposed because our main tool is the -superdiffusion, which is not defined for ]. We associate with every solution of (*) a pair , where is a closed subset of and is a Radon measure on . We call the trace of on . is empty if and only if is dominated by an -harmonic function. We call such solutions moderate. A moderate solution is determined uniquely by its trace. In general, many solutions can have the same trace. In an earlier paper, we investigated the case when is a second order elliptic differential operator in and is a bounded smooth domain in . We obtained necessary and sufficient conditions for a pair to be a trace, and we gave a probabilistic formula for the maximal solution with a given trace. The general theory developed in the present paper is applicable, in particular, to elliptic operators with bounded coefficients in an arbitrary bounded domain of , assuming only that the Martin boundary and the geometric boundary coincide.

     

Morita equivalence for crossed products by Hilbert -bimodules

We introduce the notion of the crossed product of a -algebra by a Hilbert -bimodule . It is shown that given a -algebra which carries a semi-saturated action of the circle group (in the sense that is generated by the spectral subspaces and ), then is isomorphic to the crossed product . We then present our main result, in which we show that the crossed products and are strongly Morita equivalent to each other, provided that and are strongly Morita equivalent under an imprimitivity bimodule satisfying as Hilbert -bimodules. We also present a six-term exact sequence for -groups of crossed products by Hilbert -bimodules.

     

Test ideals in quotients of -finite regular local rings

Let be an -finite regular local ring and an ideal contained in . Let . Fedder proved that is -pure if and only if . We have noted a new proof for his criterion, along with showing that , where is the pullback of the test ideal for . Combining the the -purity criterion and the above result we see that if is -pure then is also -pure. In fact, we can form a filtration of , that stabilizes such that each is -pure and its test ideal is . To find examples of these filtrations we have made explicit calculations of test ideals in the following setting: Let , where is either a polynomial or a power series ring and is generated by monomials and the are regular. Set . Then .

     

On transversality with deficiency and a conjecture of Sard

Let be a map between manifolds and a manifold. In this paper, by using the Sard theorem, we study the topological properties of the space of maps which satisfy a certain transversality condition with respect to in a weak sense. As an application, by considering the case where is a point, we obtain some new results about the topological properties of , where is the set of points of where the rank of the differential of is less than or equal to . In particular, we show a result about the topological dimension of , which is closely related to a conjecture of Sard concerning the Hausdorff measure of .

     

The average edge order of triangulations of 3-manifolds with boundary

Feng Luo and Richard Stong introduced the average edge order of a triangulation and showed in particular that for closed 3-manifolds being less than 4.5 implies that is on . In this paper, we establish similar results for 3-manifolds with non-empty boundary; in particular it is shown that being less than 4 implies that is on the 3-ball.

     

The

In this paper we analyze the localization of , the fiber of the double suspension map , with respect to . If four cells at the bottom of , the th extended power spectrum of the Moore spectrum, are collapsed to a point, then one obtains a spectrum . Let be the James-Hopf map followed by the collapse map. Then we show that the secondary suspension map has a lifting to the fiber of and this lifting is shown to be a -periodic equivalence, hence an -equivalence.

     

Bounds for multiplicities

Let and be a homogeneous -algebra. We establish bounds for the multiplicity of certain homogeneous -algebras in terms of the shifts in a free resolution of over . Huneke and we conjectured these bounds as they generalize the formula of Huneke and Miller for the algebras with pure resolution, the simplest case. We prove these conjectured bounds for various algebras including algebras with quasi-pure resolutions. Our proof for this case gives a new and simple proof of the Huneke-Miller formula. We also settle these conjectures for stable and square free strongly stable monomial ideals . As a consequence, we get a bound for the regularity of . Further, when is not Cohen-Macaulay, we show that the conjectured lower bound fails and prove the upper bound for almost Cohen-Macaulay algebras as well as algebras with a -linear resolution.

     

Factorisation in nest algebras. II

The main result of this paper is Theorem 5, which provides a necessary and sufficient condition on a positive operator for the existence of an operator in the nest algebra of a nest satisfying (resp. . In Section 3 we give a new proof of a result of Power concerning outer factorisation of operators. We also show that a positive operator has the property that there exists for every nest an operator in satisfying (resp. ) if and only if is a Fredholm operator. In Section 4 we show that for a given operator in there exists an operator in satisfying if and only if the range of is equal to the range of some operator in . We also determine the algebraic structure of the set of ranges of operators in . Let be the set of positive operators for which there exists an operator in satisfying . In Section 5 we obtain information about this set. In particular we discuss the following question: Assume and are positive operators such that and belongs to . Which further conditions permit us to conclude that belongs to ?