Uniqueness of left invariant symplectic structures on the affine Lie group

We show the uniqueness of left invariant symplectic structures on the affine Lie group under the adjoint action of , by giving an explicit formula of the Pfaffian of the skew symmetric matrix naturally associated with , and also by giving an unexpected identity on it which relates two left invariant symplectic structures. As an application of this result, we classify maximum rank left invariant Poisson structures on the simple Lie groups and . This result is a generalization of Stolin's classification of constant solutions of the classical Yang-Baxter equation for and .

     

Stability of disjointness preserving mappings

Let and be compact Hausdorff spaces and let . A linear mapping is called -disjointness preserving if implies that . If is a continuous or surjective -disjointness preserving linear mapping, we prove that there exists a disjointness preserving linear mapping satisfying . We also prove that every unbounded -disjointness preserving linear functional on is disjointness preserving.

     

Derived subgroups and centers of capable groups

A group is said to be capable if it is isomorphic to the central factor group for some group . It is shown in this paper that if is finite and capable, then the index of the center in is bounded above by some function of the order of the derived subgroup . If is cyclic and its elements of order are central, then, in fact, .

     

Types in reductive -adic groups: The Hecke algebra of a cover

In this paper, is a non-Archimedean local field and is the group of -points of a connected reductive algebraic group defined over . Also, is an irreducible representation of a compact open subgroup of , the pair being a type in . The pair is assumed to be a cover of a type in a Levi subgroup of . We give conditions, generalizing those of earlier work, under which the Hecke algebra is the tensor product of a canonical image of and a sub-algebra , for a compact open subgroup of containing .

     

Diagonal type conditions on group C-algebras

Let be a locally compact group with and its enveloping and reduced C-algebras respectively. We show that if is residually finite dimensional, then is maximally almost periodic, and is residually finite dimensional if and only if is both amenable and maximally almost periodic. Letting be the left regular representation of , we show that a certain quasidiagonality condition on implies that is amenable.

     

Sufficient conditions for a linear functional to be multiplicative

A commutative Banach algebra is said to have the property if the following holds: Let be a closed subspace of finite codimension such that, for every , the Gelfand transform has at least distinct zeros in , the maximal ideal space of . Then there exists a subset of of cardinality such that vanishes on , the set of common zeros of . In this paper we show that if is compact and nowhere dense, then , the uniform closure of the space of rational functions with poles off , has the property for all . We also investigate the property for the algebra of real continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space.

     

Les transformations de Cremona stellaires

On construit explicitement toutes les transformations de Cremona de qui satisfont à la propriété suivante: il existe tels que les droites par sont envoyées sur les droites par . On caractérise de plusieurs manières ces transformations et pour chaque entier non-négatif on donne des formules pour la dimension de l'ensemble constitué de celles qui ont degré .

ABSTRACT. We construct the Cremona transformations of satisfying the following property: there exist such that the image of all straight lines through are straight lines through . We characterise these transformations, and for all non-negative integer we give a formula for the dimension of the set of those whose degree is .

     

Spectra of operators with Bishop's property

Let be a Banach space and let be the class that consists of all operators such that for every , the range of has a finite-codimension when it is closed. For an integer , we define the class as an extension of . We then study spectral properties of such operators, and we extend some known results of multi-cyclic operators with .

     

A splitting theorem for degrees

We prove that, for any , and with _{T}A\oplus U$"> and r.e., in , there are pairs and such that ; ; and, for any and from and any set , if and , then . We then deduce that for any degrees , , and such that and are recursive in , , and is into , can be split over avoiding . This shows that the Main Theorem of Cooper (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 23 (1990), 151-158) is false.

     

Invertible completions of upper triangular operator matrices

In this note we prove that if

is a upper triangular operator matrix acting on the Banach space , then is invertible for some if and only if and satisfy the following conditions:

(i)

is left invertible;

(ii)

is right invertible;

(iii)

.

Furthermore we show that , where is the union of certain of the holes in which happen to be subsets of .

     

Automatic continuity of -derivations on -algebras

Let be a -algebra acting on a Hilbert space , let be a linear mapping and let be a -derivation. Generalizing the celebrated theorem of Sakai, we prove that if is a continuous -mapping, then is automatically continuous. In addition, we show the converse is true in the sense that if is a continuous --derivation, then there exists a continuous linear mapping such that is a --derivation. The continuity of the so-called - -derivations is also discussed.

     

A note on branching theorems

Let be a complex, simply connected semisimple analytic group with a closed connected reductive subgroup. Suppose is an irreducible holomorphic -module and an irreducible holomorphic -module. We prove that Hom possesses the structure of an irreducible -module whenever is . Moreover, for all and if and only if is commutative.

     

Conditional weak compactness in vector-valued function spaces

Let be an ideal of over a -finite measure space and let be the Köthe dual of with . Let be a real Banach space, and the topological dual of . Let be a subspace of the space of equivalence classes of strongly measurable functions and consisting of all those for which the scalar function belongs to . For a subset of for which the set is -bounded the following statement is equivalent to conditional -compactness: the set is conditionally -compact and is a conditionally weakly compact subset of for each , with . Applications to Orlicz-Bochner spaces are given.

     

Sur une question de capitulation

Let and be prime numbers such that and . Let , , and let be the 2-Hilbert class field of , the 2-Hilbert class field of and the Galois group of . The 2-part of the class group of is of type , so contains three extensions . Our goal is to study the problem of capitulation of the 2-classes of in , and to determine the structure of .

RSESUM´E. Soient et deux nombres premiers tels que et , , , , le 2-corps de classes de Hilbert de , le 2-corps de classes de Hilbert de et le groupe de Galois de . La 2-partie du groupe de classes de est de type , par suite contient trois extensions . On s'intéresse au problème de capitulation des 2-classes de dans , et à déterminer la structure de .

     

Minimal sufficiency of order statistics in convex models

Let be a convex and dominated statistical model on the measurable space , with minimal sufficient, and let . Then , the -algebra of all permutation invariant sets belonging to the -fold product -algebra , is shown to be minimal sufficient for the corresponding model for independent observations, .

The main technical tool provided and used is a functional analogue of a theorem of Grzegorek (1982) concerning generators of .

     

Critical points of the area functional of a complex closed curve on the manifold of Kähler metrics

We consider a compact complex manifold of dimension that admits Kähler metrics and we assume that is a closed complex curve. We denote by the space of classes of Kähler forms that define Kähler metrics of volume 1 on and define by . We show how the Riemann-Hodge bilinear relations imply that any critical point of is the strict global minimum and we give conditions under which there is such a critical point : A positive multiple of is the Poincaré dual of the homology class of . Applying this to the Abel-Jacobi map of a curve into its Jacobian, , we obtain that the Theta metric minimizes the area of within all Kähler metrics of volume 1 on .

     

Invariant subspaces for bounded operators with large localizable spectrum

Suppose is a complex Hilbert space and is a bounded operator. For each closed set let denote the corresponding spectral manifold. Let denote the set of all points with the property that for any open neighborhood of In this paper we show that if is dominating in some bounded open set, then has a nontrivial invariant subspace. As a corollary, every Hilbert space operator which is a quasiaffine transform of a subdecomposable operator with large spectrum has a nontrivial invariant subspace.

     

Approximating discrete valuation rings by regular local rings

Let be a field of characteristic zero and let be a discrete rank-one valuation domain containing with . Assume that the fraction field of has finite transcendence degree over . For every positive integer , we prove that can be realized as a directed union of regular local -subalgebras of of dimension .

     

Spectrally bounded -derivations on Banach algebras

Applying the density theorem on algebras with -derivations, we show that if a -derivation of a unital Banach algebra is spectrally bounded, then . Also, if and only if , where denotes the spectral radius of .

     

On the Berezin-Toeplitz calculus

We consider the problem of composing Berezin-Toeplitz operators on the Hilbert space of Gaussian square-integrable entire functions on complex -space, . For several interesting algebras of functions on , we have for all in the algebra, where is the Berezin-Toeplitz operator associated with and is a ``twisted' associative product on the algebra of functions. On the other hand, there is a function for which is bounded but for any .