Angular derivatives at boundary fixed points for self-maps of the disk

Let be a one-to-one analytic function of the unit disk into itself, with . The origin is an attracting fixed point for , if is not a rotation. In addition, there can be fixed points on where has a finite angular derivative. These boundary fixed points must be repelling (abbreviated b.r.f.p.). The Koenigs function of is a one-to-one analytic function defined on such that , where . If is the first iterate of that does have b.r.f.p., we compute the Hardy number of , , in terms of the smallest angular derivative of at its b.r.f.p.. In the case when no iterate of has b.r.f.p., then , and vice versa. This has applications to composition operators, since is a formal eigenfunction of the operator . When acts on , by a result of C. Cowen and B. MacCluer, the spectrum of is determined by and the essential spectral radius of , . Also, by a result of P. Bourdon and J. Shapiro, and our earlier work, can be computed in terms of . Hence, our result implies that the spectrum of is determined by the derivative of at the fixed point and the angular derivatives at b.r.f.p. of or some iterate of .

     

Subaveraging estimate for

Let be a smooth real hypersurface of and a compact submanifold of . We generalize a result of A. Boggess and R. Dwilewicz giving, under some geometric conditions on and , an estimate of the submeanvalue on of any function on a neighbourhood of , by the norm of on a neighbourhood of in .

     

Eigenvalues of the form valued Laplacian for Riemannian submersions

Let be a Riemannian submersion of closed manifolds. Let be an eigen -form of the Laplacian on with eigenvalue which pulls back to an eigen -form of the Laplacian on with eigenvalue . We are interested in when the eigenvalue can change. We show that , so the eigenvalue can only increase; and we give some examples where , so the eigenvalue changes. If the horizontal distribution is integrable and if is simply connected, then , so the eigenvalue does not change.

     

The property and the reals

The property may be generalized by using filters on in a very natural way. We analyze the necessary requirements for a space to have property for a filter . We construct special filters for which has the property, in particular a P-point and a Q-point.

     

On the suspension order of

It is shown that the suspension order of the -fold cartesian product of real projective -space is less than or equal to the suspension order of the -fold symmetric product of and greater than or equal to , where and satisfy and . In particular has suspension order , and for fixed the suspension orders of the spaces are unbounded while their stable suspension orders are constant and equal to .

     

Enveloping algebras of lie color algebras: primeness versus graded-primeness

Let be a finite abelian group and let be a, possibly restricted, -graded Lie color algebra. Then the enveloping algebra is also -graded, and we consider the question of whether being graded-prime implies that it is prime. The first section of this paper is devoted to the special case of Lie superalgebras over a field of characteristic . Specifically, we show that if and if has a unique minimal graded-prime ideal, then this ideal is necessarily prime. As will be apparent, the latter result follows quickly from the existence of an anti-automorphism of whose square is the automorphism of the enveloping algebra associated with its -grading. The second section, which is independent of the first, studies more general Lie color algebras and shows that if is graded-prime and if most homogeneous components of are infinite dimensional over , then is prime. Here we use -methods to study the grading on the extended centroid of . In particular, if is generated by the infinite support of , then we prove that is homogeneous.

     

On certain character sums over

Let be the finite field with elements and let denote the ring of polynomials in one variable with coefficients in . Let be a monic polynomial irreducible in . We obtain a bound for the least degree of a monic polynomial irreducible in ( odd) which is a quadratic non-residue modulo . We also find a bound for the least degree of a monic polynomial irreducible in which is a primitive root modulo .

     

Uniqueness for an overdetermined boundary value problem for the p-Laplacian

For set , and let be a measure with compact support. Suppose, for , there are functions and (bounded) domains , both containing the support of with the property that in (weakly) and in the complement of . If in addition is convex, then and .

     

On scrambled sets and a theorem of Kuratowski on independent sets

The measure of scrambled sets of interval self-maps was studied by many authors, including Smítal, Misiurewicz, Bruckner and Hu, and Xiong and Yang. In this note, first we introduce the notion of ``-chaos" which is related to chaos in the sense of Li-Yorke, and we prove a general theorem which is an improvement of a theorem of Kuratowski on independent sets. Second, we apply the result to scrambled sets of higher dimensional cases. In particular, we show that if a map of the unit -cube is -chaotic on , then for any there is a map such that and are topologically conjugate, and has a scrambled set which has Lebesgue measure 1, and hence if , then there is a homeomorphism with a scrambled set satisfying that is an -set in and has Lebesgue measure 1.

     

A remark on Gelfand-Kirillov dimension

Let be a finitely generated non-PI Ore domain and the quotient division algebra of . If is the center of , then .

     

Automorphic-differential identities and actions of pointed coalgebras on rings

In this paper, we prove the following two results which generalize the theorem concerning automorphic-differential endomorphisms asserted by J. Bergen. Let be a ring, its left Martindale quotient ring and a right ideal of having no nonzero left annihilator. (1) Let be a pointed coalgebra which measures such that the group-like elements of act as automorphisms of . If is prime and for , then . Furthermore, if the action of extends to and if such that , then . (2) Let be an endomorphism of given as a sum of composition maps of left multiplications, right multiplications, automorphisms and skew-derivations. If is semiprime and , then .

     

Sufficient conditions for one domain to contain another in a space of constant curvature

As an application of the analogue of C-S. Chen's kinematic formula in the 3-dimensional space of constant curvature , that is, Euclidean space , -sphere , hyperbolic space (, respectively), we obtain sufficient conditions for one domain to contain another domain in either an Euclidean space , or a -sphere or a hyperbolic space .

     

A uniqueness theorem for harmonic functions

The main result of this note is the following theorem: Theorem 1. Let be a half ball in and . Assume that is in and harmonic in , and that for every positive integer there exists a constant such that

Then .

First we prove it for , and then we show by induction that it holds for all .

     

Subnormal Subgroups of Group Ring Units

Let be an arbitrary group. If satisfies , , then the units , generate a nonabelian free subgroup of units. As an application we show that if is contained in an almost subnormal subgroup of units in then either contains a nonabelian free subgroup or all finite subgroups of are normal. This was known before to be true for finite groups only.

     

Renormalized oscillation theory for Dirac operators

Oscillation theory for one-dimensional Dirac operators with separated boundary conditions is investigated. Our main theorem reads: If and if solve the Dirac equation , (in the weak sense) and respectively satisfy the boundary condition on the left/right, then the dimension of the spectral projection equals the number of zeros of the Wronskian of and . As an application we establish finiteness of the number of eigenvalues in essential spectral gaps of perturbed periodic Dirac operators.

     

Multiplicity of periodic solutions for Duffing equations under nonuniform non-resonance conditions

This paper is devoted to the study of multiple -periodic solutions for Duffing equations

under the condition of nonuniform non-resonance related to the positive asymptotic behavior of at the first two eigenvalues and of the periodic BVP on for the linear operator , and the condition on the negative asymptotic behavior of at infinity. The techniques we use are degree theory and the upper and lower solution method.

     

A Borsuk theorem for antipodal links and a spectral characterization of linklessly embeddable graphs

For any undirected graph , let be the graph parameter introduced by Colin de Verdière. In this paper we show that if and only if is linklessly embeddable (in ). This forms a spectral characterization of linklessly embeddable graphs, and was conjectured by Robertson, Seymour, and Thomas. A key ingredient is a Borsuk-type theorem on the existence of a pair of antipodal linked -spheres in certain mappings . This result might be of interest in its own right. We also derive that for each linklessly embeddable graph , where is the graph parameter introduced by van der Holst, Laurent, and Schrijver. (It is the largest dimension of any subspace of such that for each nonzero , the positive support of induces a nonempty connected subgraph of .)

     

On weighted weak type inequalities for modified Hardy operators

We characterize the pairs of weights for which the modified Hardy operator applies into weak- where is a monotone function and .

     

A pointwise spectrum and representation of operators

For a self-adjoint operator commuting with an increasing family of projections we study the multifunction an open set of the topology containing , where is the spectrum of on . Let be the measure of maximal spectral type. We study the condition that is essentially a singleton, is not a singleton. We show that if is the density topology and if satisfies the density theorem, in particular if it is absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure, then this condition is equivalent to the fact that is a Borel function of . If is the usual topology then the condition is equivalent to the fact that is approched in norm by step functions , where the set of intervals covers the set where is a singleton.