On Bernstein-Sato polynomials

We show that for fixed and the set of Bernstein-Sato polynomials of all the polynomials in at most variables of degrees at most is finite. As a corollary, we show that there exists an integer depending only on and such that generates as a module over the ring of the -linear differential operators of , where is an arbitrary field of characteristic 0, is the ring of polynomials in variables over and is an arbitrary non-zero polynomial of degree at most .

     

Finite linear groups and theorems of Minkowski and Schur

Let be a finite group with a faithful rational valued character of degree . A theorem of I. Schur gives a bound for the order of in terms of , generalizing an earlier result of H. Minkowski who showed that the same bound holds if . This note contains strengthened versions of these results which in particular show that a -subgroup of of maximum possible order contains a reflection.

     

Commensurators of parabolic subgroups of Coxeter groups

Let be a Coxeter system, and let be a subset of . The subgroup of generated by is denoted by and is called a parabolic subgroup. We give the precise definition of the commensurator of a subgroup in a group. In particular, the commensurator of in is the subgroup of in such that has finite index in both and . The subgroup can be decomposed in the form where is finite and all the irreducible components of are infinite. Let be the set of in such that for all . We prove that the commensurator of is . In particular, the commensurator of a parabolic subgroup is a parabolic subgroup, and is its own commensurator if and only if .

     

Fixed points of the mapping class group in the moduli spaces

Let be a compact oriented surface with or without boundary components. In this note we prove that if then there exist infinitely many integers such that there is a point in the moduli space of irreducible flat connections on which is fixed by any orientation preserving diffeomorphism of . Secondly we prove that for each orientation preserving diffeomorphism of and each there is some such that has a fixed point in the moduli space of irreducible flat connections on . Thirdly we prove that for all there exists an integer such that the 'th power of any diffeomorphism fixes a certain point in the moduli space of irreducible flat connections on .

     

Hilbert Cmodules in which all closed submodules are complemented

Let be a Calgebra. If there exists a full Hilbert module such that for each closed submodule , then is *-isomorphic to a Calgebra of (not neccesarily all) compact operators on a Hilbert space.

     

Hypersurfaces in a sphere with constant mean curvature

Let be a closed hypersurface of constant mean curvature immersed in the unit sphere . Denote by the square of the length of its second fundamental form. If , is a small hypersphere in . We also characterize all with .

     

When is a -block?

Let and be distinct prime numbers and let be a finite group. If is a -block of and is a -block, we study when the set of ordinary irreducible characters in the blocks and coincide.

     

Wavelet bases in rearrangement invariant function spaces

We point out that the well known characterization of spaces () in terms of orthogonal wavelet bases extends to any separable rearrangement invariant Banach function space on (equipped with Lebesgue measure) with nontrivial Boyd's indices. Moreover we show that such bases are unconditional bases of .

     

On normal solvability of the Riemann problem with singular coefficient

Suppose is a singular matrix function on a simple, closed, rectifiable contour . We present a necessary and sufficient condition for normal solvability of the Riemann problem with coefficient in the case where admits a spectral (or generalized Wiener-Hopf) factorization with essentially bounded. The boundedness of is not required when takes injective values a.e. on .

     

Fixed point property and normal structure for Banach spaces associated to locally compact groups

In this paper we investigate when various Banach spaces associated to a locally compact group have the fixed point property for nonexpansive mappings or normal structure. We give sufficient conditions and some necessary conditions about for the Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes algebras to have the fixed point property. We also show that if a -algebra has the fixed point property then for any normal element of , the spectrum is countable and that the group -algebra has weak normal structure if and only if is finite.

     

Orbifolds with lower Ricci curvature bounds

We show that the first betti number of a compact Riemannian orbifold with Ricci curvature and diameter is bounded above by a constant , depending only on dimension, curvature and diameter. In the case when the orbifold has nonnegative Ricci curvature, we show that the is bounded above by the dimension , and that if, in addition, , then is a flat torus .

     

Mordell-Weil groups of the Jacobian of the 5-th Fermat curve

Let denote the Jacobian of the Fermat curve of exponent 5 and let . We compute the groups , , , where is the unique quadratic subfield of . As an application, we present a new proof that there are no -rational points on the 5-th Fermat curve, except the so called ``points at infinity".

     

On `Clifford's theorem' for primitive finitary groups

Let be an infinite-dimensional vector space over any division ring , and let be an irreducible primitive subgroup of the finitary group . We prove that every non-identity ascendant subgroup of is also irreducible and primitive. For a field, this was proved earlier by U. Meierfrankenfeld.

     

The boundary of a Busemann space

Let be a proper Busemann space. Then there is a well defined boundary, , for . Moreover, if is (Gromov) hyperbolic (resp. non-positively curved), then this boundary is homeomorphic to the hyperbolic (resp. non-positively curved) boundary.

     

A Characterization of the Leinert property

Let be a discrete group and denote by its left regular representation on . Denote further by the free group on generators and its left regular representation. In this paper we show that a subset of has the Leinert property if and only if for some real positive coefficients the identity

holds. Using the same method we obtain some metric estimates about abstract unitaries satisfying the similar identity

     

A commutativity theorem for semibounded operators in hilbert space

Let and be semibounded (bounded from below) operators in a Hilbert space and a dense linear manifold contained in the domains of , , , and , and such that for all in . It is shown that if the restriction of to is essentially self-adjoint, then and are essentially self-adjoint and and commute, i.e. their spectral projections permute.

     

Cohomological dimension and approximate limits

Approximate (inverse) systems of compacta have been useful in the study of covering dimension, dim, and cohomological dimension over an abelian group , . Such systems are more general than (classical) inverse systems. They have limits and structurally have similar properties. In particular, the limit of an approximate system of compacta satisfies the important property of being an approximate resolution. We shall prove herein that if is an abelian group, a compactum is the limit of an approximate system of compacta , , and for each , then .

     

A monotoneity property of the gamma function

In this paper we obtain a monotoneity property for the gamma function that yields sharp asymptotic estimates for as tends to , thus proving a conjecture about .

     

Group homomorphisms inducing cohomology monomorphisms

Let be a homomorphism of -groups such that
is injective, for . We prove that the non-bijectivity of implies the existence of a quotient of containing as a proper direct factor. This gives a refined proof of a result of Evens, which asserts that is bijective if is.