The closure diagram for nilpotent orbits of the split real form of E8

Let and be adjoint nilpotent orbits in a real semisimple Lie algebra. Write ≥ if is contained in the closure of . This defines a partial order on the set of such orbits, known as the closure ordering. We determine this order for the split real form of the simple complex Lie algebra, E ₈. The proof is based on the fact that the Kostant-Sekiguchi correspondence preserves the closure ordering. We also present a comprehensive list of simple representatives of these orbits, and list the irreeducible components of the boundaries and of the intersections .     

How big are the increments of lp-valued Gaussian processes?

Let be a sequence of independent Gaussian processes with (h) Put . The large increments forY(·) with bounded σ(p, h) are investigated. As an example the large increments of infinite-dimensional fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process in I^P are given. The method can also be applied to certain processes with stationary increments. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province.     

The convergence of\tilde a_s^{(n)} h_0 h_k

It is proved that (i) for survives to E∞; (ii) for survives to E∞. Project supported by the Doctoral Program Foundation of China.     

Elementary properties of free extensions

For any partial groupoid , let Fr be the free extension of to a total groupoid. We show that implies and that the theory of Fr is uniformly recursive in the theory of . These results fail if “groupoid” is replaced by “semigroup”, “commutative semigroup”, “group”, “abelian group”, “semilattice”, “K-lattice” for any nontrivial varietyK of lattices, or “Boolean algebra”. Research supported in part by NSF Grant MCS78-01867. We thank the referee for his valuable comments. Presented by B. Jónsson.     

Asymptotic enumeration theorems for the numbers of spanning trees and Eulerian trails in circulant digraphs and graphs

The asymptotic properties of the numbers of spanning trees and Eulerian trails in circulant digraphs and graphs are studied. Let be a directed circulant graph. Let and be the numbers of spanning trees and of Eulerian trails, respectively. Then

Furstenberg family and chaos

A Furstenberg family F is a family,consisting of some subsets of the set of positive integers,which is hereditary upwards,i.e.A■B and A∈F imply B∈F.For a given system (i.e.,a pair of a complete metric space and a continuous self-map of the space) and for a Furstenberg family F, the definition of F-scrambled pairs of points in the space has been given,which brings the well-known scrambled pairs in Li-Yorke sense and the scrambled pairs in distribution sense to be F-scrambled pairs corresponding respectively to suitable Furstenberg family F.In the present paper we explore the basic properties of the set of F-scrambled pairs of a system.The generically F-chaotic system and the generically strongly F-chaotic system are defined.A criterion for a generically strongly F-chaotic system is showed.     

Generalized interval exchanges and the 2–3 conjecture

We introduce the notion of a generalized interval exchange induced by a measurable k-partition of [0,1). can be viewed as the corresponding restriction of a nondecreasing function on ℝ with . A is called λ-dense if λ(A _i ∩(a, b))>0 for each i and any 0≤ a< b≤1. We show that the 2–3 Furstenberg conjecture is invalid if and only if there are 2 and 3 λ-dense partitions A and B of [0,1), such that . We give necessary and sufficient conditions for this equality to hold. We show that for each integer m≥2, such that 3∤2m+1, there exist 2 and 3 non λ-dense partitions A and B of [0,1), corresponding to the interval exchanges on 2m intervals, for which and commute.     

Baer cotorsion Pairs

LetR be a unital associative ring and two classes of leftR-modules. In [St3] the notion of a ( ) pair was introduced. In analogy to classical cotorsion pairs, a pair (V,W) of subclasses is called a ( ) pair if it is maximal with respect to the classes and the condition Ext _R ¹ (V, W)=0 for all . In this paper we study pairs whereR = ℤ and is the class of all torsion-free abelian groups andT is the class of all torsion abelian groups. A complete characterization is obtained assumingV=L. For example, it is shown that every pair is singly cognerated underV=L. The author was supported by a DFG grant.     

Polynomial solutions of quasi-homogeneous partial differential equations

By means of a method of analytic number theory the following theorem is proved. Letp be a quasi-homogeneous linear partial differential operator with degreem,m > 0, w.r.t a dilation given by ( a₁, …, a_n). Assume that either a₁, …, a_n are positive rational numbers or for some Then the dimension of the space of polynomial solutions of the equationp[u] = 0 on ℝⁿ must be infinite     

A family of transitive modular Lie superalgebras with depth one

The embedding theorem is established for Z-graded transitive modular Lie superalgebras g=(?)satisfying the conditions: (i)g0(?)(g-1)and g0-module g-1 is isomorphic to the natural(?)(g-1)-module; (ii)dim g1=2/3n(2n~2 1),where n=1/2dim g-1. In particular,it is proved that the finite-dimensional simple modular Lie superalgebras satisfying the conditions above are isomorphic to the odd Hamiltonian superalgebras.The restricted Lie superalgebras are also considered.     

Chaos and asymptotical stability in discrete-time recurrent neural networks with generalized input-output function

We theoretically investigate the asymptotical stability, local bifurcations and chaos of discrete-time recurrent neural networks with the form of

Propagation of oscillations to 2D incompressible Euler equations

The asymptotic expansions are studied for the vorticity to 2D incompressible Euler equations with-initial vorticity , where ϕ₀(x) satisfies |d ϕ₀(x)|≠0 on the support of and is sufficiently smooth and with compact support in ℝ² (resp. ℝ²×T) The limit,v(t,x), of the corresponding velocity fields {v ^ɛ(t,x)} is obtained, which is the unique solution of (E) with initial vorticity ω₀(x). Moreover, (ℤ²)) for all 1≽p∞, where and ϕ(t,x) satisfy some modulation equation and eikonal equation, respectively.     

Some projectively flat (α, β)-metrics

In this paper, we study a class of Finsler metrics in the form , where is a Riemannian metric, β = b _i y ⁱ is a 1-form, and ε and k ≠ 0 are constants. We obtain a sufficient and necessary condition for F to be locally projectively flat and give the non-trivial special solutions. Moreover, it is proved that such projectively flat Finsler metrics with the constant flag curvature must be locally Minkowskian.     

Asymptotic properties for median cross-validated nearest neighbor median estimate in nonparametric regression

Consider the nonparametric regression model , whereg is an unknown function to be estimated on [0, 1], are the fixed design points in the interval [0, 1] and is a triangular array of row iid random variables having median zero. The nearest neighbor median estimator is taken as the estimator of the unknown functiong(x). Median cross validation (mev) criterion is employed to select the smoothing parameterh. Leth _π ^* be the smoothing parameter chosen by mev criterion. Under mild regularity conditions, the upper and lower bounds ofh _π ^* , the rate of convergence and the weak consistency of the median cross-validated estimate are obtained. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Doctoral Foundation of Education of China.     

Property ∏σ and tensor products of operator algebras

In this paper, we introduce Property ∏σ of operator algebras and prove that nest subalgebras and the finite-width CSL subalgebras of arbitrary von Neumann algebras have Property ∏σ.Finally, we show that the tensor product formula alg ML1-(×)algNL2 = algM-(×)N(L1 (×) L2) holds for any two finite-width CSLs L1 and L2 in arbitrary von Neumann algebras M and N, respectively.     

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 .     

Proof of class number formulae by machine

As an attempt to follow the direction of machine proof, a personal computer LE0386/25 is used to prove some class number formulae for certain imaginary quadratic number fields ,q=3, 7, 11, 19, 23, 31, 43 and 47) if the real quadratic number field has class number one for a primep = 4N ² + 1 (N is a positive integer). Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.     

Primitive systems of elements in the variety\mathfrak{A}\mathfrak{N}_2 and some locally finite varieties of groupsand some locally finite varieties of groups

Part of any basis of a relatively free group in the variety is called a primitive system of elements. We provide a criterion of being primitive for , where is a variety of Abelian groups satisfying x^m=1, and a variety generated by a finite group. Let be a variety of nilpotent groups of class ≤c. It is proved that, for the group , the property of being primitive for an element g is stronger than the condition of being unimodular on a vector composed of values of Fox derivatives in the ring . The group is not residually finite whenever a system of elements is primitive. Supported by RFFR grant No. 96-01-01948. Translated fromAlgebra i Logika, Vol. 37, No. 6, pp. 687–699, November–December, 1998.     

Asymptotic properties of the maximum likelihood estimate in the first order autoregressive process

Summary In this paper we obtain an asymptotic expansion of the distribution of the maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) based onT observations from the first order Gaussian process up to the term of orderT ⁻¹. The expansion is used to compare with a generalized estimate including the least square estimate (LSE) , based on the asymptotic probabilities around the true value of the estimates up to the terms of orderT ⁻¹. It is shown that (or the modified MLE ) is better than (or the modified estimate ). Further, we note that does not attain the bound for third order asymptotic median unbiased estimates.