Non–existence of theta–shaped self–similarly shrinking networks moving by curvature

We prove that there are no networks homeomorphic to the Greek “Theta” letter (a double cell) embedded in the plane with two triple junctions with angles of 120 degrees, such that under the motion by curvature they are self–similarly shrinking.

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Certain Cyclically Presented Groups with the Same Polynomial

We consider three infinite families of cyclic presentations of groups, depending on a finite set of integers and having the same polynomial. Then we prove that the corresponding groups with the same parameters are isomorphic, and that the groups are almost all infinite. Finally, we completely compute the maximal Abelian quotients of such groups, and show that their HNN extensions are high-dimensional knot groups. Our results contain as particular cases the main theorems obtained in two nice articles: Johnson et al. (1999 Johnson , D. L. , Kim , A. C. , O'Brien , E. A. ( 1999 ). Certain cyclically presented groups are isomorphic . Comm. Algebra 27 ( 7 ): 3531 – 3536 . [CSA] [Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) and Havas et al. (2001 Havas , G. , Holt , D. F. , Newman , M. F. ( 2001 ). Certain cyclically presented groups are infinite . Comm. Algebra 29 ( 11 ): 5175 – 5178 . [CSA] [CROSSREF] [Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]).     

Semilocal Convergence of Steffensen-Type Algorithms for Solving Nonlinear Equations

In this article, we provide a semilocal analysis for the Steffensen-type method (STTM) for solving nonlinear equations in a Banach space setting using recurrence relations. Numerical examples to validate our main results are also provided in this study to show that STTM is faster than other methods ([7 I. K. Argyros , J. Ezquerro , J. M. Gutiérrez , M. Hernández , and S. Hilout ( 2011 ). On the semilocal convergence of efficient Chebyshev-Secant-type methods . J. Comput. Appl. Math. 235 : 3195 – 3206 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 13 J. A. Ezquerro and M. A. Hernández ( 2009 ). An optimization of Chebyshev's method . J. Complexity 25 : 343 – 361 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]]) using similar convergence conditions.     

Dominance and Transmissions in Supertropical Valuation Theory

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A supervaluation ?: R → U is a multiplicative map from R to a supertropical semiring U, cf. [4 Izhakian , Z. , Knebusch , M. , Rowen , L. ( 2011 ). Supertropical semirings and supervaluations . J. Pure and Applied Alg. 215 ( 10 ): 2431 – 2463 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]], [7 Izhakian , Z. , Rowen , L. ( 2011 ). Supertropical matrix algebra . Israel J. Math. 182 ( 1 ): 383 – 424 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]], [8 Izhakian , Z. , Rowen , L. ( 2010 ). Supertropical polynomials and resultants . J. Alg. 324 : 1860 – 1886 . (Preprint at arXiv:0902.2155.) [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]], [5 Izhakian , Z. , Knebusch , M. , Rowen , L. Supertropical monoids: Basics and canonical factorization . Preprint at arXiv:1108.1880 . [Google Scholar]], [9 Maclane , S. ( 1998 ). Categories for the Working Mathemtician. , 4th ed. Springer Vereag . [Google Scholar]], with further properties, which mean that ? is a sort of refinement, or covering, of an m-valuation (= monoid valuation) v: R → M. In the most important case, that R is a ring, m-valuations constitute a mild generalization of valuations in the sense of Bourbaki [1 Bourbaki , N. Algèbre Commutative VI, §3 No. 1 . [Google Scholar]], while ? ≥ ψ means that ψ: R → V is a sort of coarsening of the supervaluation ?. If ?(R) generates the semiring U, then ? ≥ ψ iff there exists a “transmission” α: U → V with ψ = α ○ ?.

Transmissions are multiplicative maps with further properties, cf. [4 Izhakian , Z. , Knebusch , M. , Rowen , L. ( 2011 ). Supertropical semirings and supervaluations . J. Pure and Applied Alg. 215 ( 10 ): 2431 – 2463 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], Section 5]. Every semiring homomorphism α: U → V is a transmission, but there are others which lack additivity, and this causes a major difficulty. In the main body of the article we study surjective transmissions via equivalence relations on supertropical semirings. We put special emphasis on homomorphic equivalence relations. Even those are often much more complicated than congruences by ideals in usual commutative algebra.     

Central Extensions and Derivations of the Lie Algebras of Skew Derivations for the Quantum Torus

ABSTRACT

In this article, we study the central extensions and derivations of the Lie algebra of skew derivations for the quantum torus. The results of the article generalize those obtained in Jiang and Meng (1998a Jiang , C. , Meng , D. ( 1998a ). The derivation algebra of the associative algebra C _q [X, Y, X ^?1, Y ^?1] . Comm. Algebra 26 : 1723 – 1736 . [CSA] [Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] b Jiang , C. , Meng , D. ( 1998b ). The automorphism group of the derivation algebra of the Virasoro-like algebra . Adv. Math. (China) 27 : 175 – 183 . [CSA]  [Google Scholar]) and Kirkman et al. (1994 Kirkman , E. , Procesi , C. , Small , L. ( 1994 ). A q-analog for the Virasoro algebra . Comm. Algebra 22 : 3755 – 3774 . [CSA] [Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]).     

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In this note we extend the results of Bekkert and Futorny in [2 Bekkert , V. , Futorny , V. ( 2003 ). Derived categories of Schur algebras . Comm. Alg. 31 : 1799 – 1822 .[Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] and Hemmer, Kujawa and Nakano in [10 Hemmer , D. J. , Kujawa , J. , Nakano , D. K. ( 2006 ). Representation types of Schur superalgebras . J. Group Theory 9 : 283 – 306 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] and determine the derived representation type of Schur superalgebras.     

Classical Morita equivalence and linear topologies; applications to quasi-dualities

ABSTRACT

In this note,we answer a question of Hong et al. (2003 Hong , C. Y. , Kim , N. K. , Kwak , T. K. ( 2003 ). On skew Armendariz rings . Comm. Alg. 31 ( 1 ): 103 – 122 .[Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) by proving that if α is a monomorphism of a reduced ring R, and R is α-skew Armendariz, then R is α-rigid.     

The infinitesimal and the little q-Schur superalgebras

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A new family of set-theoretic solutions of the Yang–Baxter equation

A new family of non-degenerate involutive set-theoretic solutions of the Yang–Baxter equation is constructed. Two subfamilies, consisting of irretractable square-free solutions, are new counterexamples to Gateva-Ivanova’s Strong Conjecture [7 Gateva-Ivanova, T. (2004). A combinatorial approach to the set-theoretic solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation. J. Math. Phys. 45(10):3828–3858.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]]. They are in addition to those obtained by Vendramin [15 Vendramin, L. (2016). Extensions of set-theoretic solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation and a conjecture of Gateva-Ivanova. J. Pure Appl. Algebra 220:2064–2076.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] and [1 Bachiller, D., Cedó, F., Jespers, E., Okniński, J. (2017). A family of irretractable square-free solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation. Forum Math. (to appear). [Google Scholar]].     

Hilbert Function and Betti Numbers of Algebras with Lefschetz Property of Order m

The authors in Harima et al. (2003 Harima , T. , Migliore , J. C. , Nagel , U. , Watanabe , J. ( 2003 ). The weak and strong Lefschetz properties for artinian K-algebras . Journal of Algebra 262 : 99 – 126 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) characterize the Hilbert function of algebras with the Lefschetz property. We extend this characterization to algebras with the Lefschetz property m times. We also give upper bounds for the Betti numbers of Artinian algebras with a given Hilbert function and with the Lefschetz property m times and describe the cases in which these bounds are reached.     

The Complement Graph for Gaussian Integers Modulo n

This article is a continuation for the work done in [1 Abu Osba , E. , Al-Addasi , S. , Abu Jaradeh , N. ( 2008 ). Zero divisor graph for the ring of Gaussian integers modulo . n. Comm. Algebra 36 ( 10 ): 3865 – 3877 .[Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 2 Abu Osba , E. , Al-Addasi , S. , Al-Khamaiseh , B. ( 2011 ). Some properties of the zero divisor graph for the ring of gaussian integers modulo . n. Glasgow Journal of Mathematics 53 : 391 – 399 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] on the zero divisor graph for the ring of Gaussian integers modulo n. It investigates when the complement graph of the zero divisor graph for the Gaussian integers modulo n connected, planar, regular, or Eulerian. The girth and diameter were also studied.     

Classification of Pointed Fusion Categories of dimension 8 up to weak Morita equivalence

In this paper we give a complete classification of pointed fusion categories over ? of global dimension 8. We first classify the equivalence classes of pointed fusion categories of dimension 8, and then we proceed to determine which of these equivalence classes have equivalent categories of modules following the procedure presented in [9 Naidu, D. (2007). Categorical Morita equivalence for group-theoretical categories. Commun. Algebra 35(11):3544–3565.[Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 11 Uribe, B. (2017). On the classification of pointed fusion categories up to weak Morita equivalence. Pac. J. Math. 290(2):437–466.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]]. The results of this paper permit to recover the classification of twisted quantum doubles of groups of order 8 up to gauge equivalence of braided quasi-Hopf algebras that was previously done in [6 Mason, C., Ng, S.-H (2001). Group cohomology and gauge equivalence of some twisted quantum doubles. Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 353(9):3465–3509.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] and [5 Goff, C., Mason, G., Ng, S.-H (2007). On the gauge equivalence of twisted quantum doubles of elementary abelian and extra-special 2-groups. J. Algebra 312(2):849–875.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]].     

Hurwitz Generation of PSp 6(q)

We show that the symplectic groups PSp₆(q) are Hurwitz for all q = p ^m  ≥ 5, with p an odd prime. The result cannot be improved since, for q even and q = 3, it is known that PSp₆(q) is not Hurwitz. In particular, n = 6 turns out to be the smallest degree for which a family of classical simple groups of degree n, over 𝔽 _{p ^m} , contains Hurwitz groups for infinitely many values of m. This fact, for a given (possibly large) p, also follows from [9 Larsen , M. , Lubotzky , A. , Marion , C. ( 2014 ). Deformation theory and finite simple quotients of triangle groups I . J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 16 ( 7 ): 1349 – 1375 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] and [10 Larsen , M. , Lubotzky , A. , Marion , C. ( 2014 ). Deformation theory and finite simple quotients of triangle groups II . Groups Geom. Dyn. 8 ( 3 ): 811 – 836 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]].     

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Continuous Cohomology of Permutation Groups on Profinite Modules

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Model theorists have made use of low-dimensional continuous cohomology of infinite permutation groups on profinite modules, see Ahlbrandt and Ziegler (1991 Ahlbrandt , G. , Ziegler , M. ( 1991 ). What's so special about (?/4?)^ω? Archive for Math. Logic 31 : 115 – 132 . [CSA] [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), Evans (1997b Evans , D. M. ( 1997b ). Computation of first cohomology groups of finite covers . J. Algebra 193 : 214 – 238 . [CSA] [CROSSREF] [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), Evans et al. (1997 Evans , D. M. , Ivanov , A. A. , Macpherson , H. D. ( 1997 ). Finite covers . In: Evans , D. M. , ed. Model Theory of Groups and Automorphism Groups . London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes 244 . Cambridge : Cambridge Univ Press , pp. 1 – 72 .[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), and Hodges and Pillay (1994 Hodges , W. , Pillay , A. ( 1994 ). Cohomology of structures and some problems of Ahlbrandt and Ziegler . J. London Math. Soc. 50 ( 2 ): 1 – 16 . [CSA] [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), for example. We expand the module category in order to widen the cohomological toolkit. For an important class of groups we use these tools to establish criteria for finiteness of cohomology.     

On the almost Gorenstein property of determinantal rings

In this paper, we investigate the question of when the determinantal ring R over a field k is an almost Gorenstein local/graded ring in the sense of [14 Goto, S., Takahashi, R., Taniguchi, N. (2015). Almost Gorenstein rings - towards a theory of higher dimension. J. Pure Appl. Algebra 219:2666–2712.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]]. As a consequence of the main result, we see that if R is a non-Gorenstein almost Gorenstein local/graded ring, then the ring R has a minimal multiplicity.     

Graded Left Symmetric Pseudo-algebras

In the present article, we introduce G-graded left symmetric H-pseudoalgebras, where G is a grading group, and H is a cocommutative Hopf algebra. Some results about associative H-pseudoalgebras in [23 Retakh , A. ( 2004 ). Unital associative pseudoalgebras and their representations . J. Algebra 227 : 769 – 805 .[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]] are generalized. The commutator algebras of the G-graded left symmetric H-pseudo-algebras are Lie H-pseudoalgebras, which are classified when the grading group is trivial in [3 Bakalov , B. , D'Andrea , A. , Kac , V. G. ( 2001 ). Theory of finite pseudoalgebras . Adv. in Math. 162 : 1 – 140 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]]. We investigate the left symmetric structure of Lie H-pseudoalgebras W(𝔟), S(𝔟), and He defined in [3 Bakalov , B. , D'Andrea , A. , Kac , V. G. ( 2001 ). Theory of finite pseudoalgebras . Adv. in Math. 162 : 1 – 140 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]].     

Constructive Néron Desingularization of algebras with big smooth locus

An algorithmic proof of the General Néron Desingularization theorem and its uniform version is given for morphisms with big smooth locus. This generalizes the results for the one-dimensional case (cf. [10 Pfister, G., Popescu, D. (2017). Constructive General Neron Desingularization for one dimensional local rings. J. Symbolic Comput. 80:570–580.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]], [7 Khalid, A., Pfister, G., Popescu, D. (2018). A uniform General Neron Desingularization in dimension one. J. Algebra Appli. 16. arXiv:AC/1612.03416. [Google Scholar]]).