Modular group algebras of -separable -groups

Under the assumptions of MA and CH, it is proved that if is a field of prime characteristic and is an -separable abelian -group of cardinality , then an isomorphism of the group algebras and implies an isomorphism of and .

     

Discrete spectra of -algebras and complemented submodules in Hilbert -modules

Let be a -algebra and let be a full (right) Hilbert -module. It is shown that if the spectrum of is discrete, then every closed --submodule of is complemented in , and conversely that if is a -space and if every closed --submodule of is complemented in , then is discrete.

     

A Beurling-type theorem for the Fock space

Let be a finite codimensional quasi-invariant subspace of the Fock space . Then there exists a polynomial such that . We show that generates if and only if for some .

     

Isomorphisms of subalgebras of nest algebras

Let be a subalgebra of a nest algebra . If contains all rank one operators in , then is said to be large; if the set of rank one operators in coincides with that in the Jacobson radical of , is said to be radical-type. In this paper, algebraic isomorphisms of large subalgebras and of radical-type subalgebras are characterized. Let be a nest of subspaces of a Hilbert space and be a subalgebra of the nest algebra associated to (). Let be an algebraic isomorphism from onto . It is proved that is spatial if one of the following occurs: (1) () is large and contains a masa; (2) () is large and closed; (3) () is a closed radical-type subalgebra and ( is quasi-continuous (i.e. the trivial elements of are limit points); (4) () is large and one of and is not quasi-continuous.

     

Number of Sylow subgroups in -solvable groups

If is a finite group and is a prime number, let be the number of Sylow -subgroups of . If is a subgroup of a -solvable group , we prove that divides .

     

Hardy spaces of spaces of homogeneous type

Let be a space of homogeneous type, and be the generator of a semigroup with Gaussian kernel bounds on . We define the Hardy spaces of for a range of , by means of area integral function associated with the Poisson semigroup of , which is proved to coincide with the usual atomic Hardy spaces on spaces of homogeneous type.

     

Graphs that are not complete pluripolar

Let be domains in . Under very mild conditions on we show that there exist holomorphic functions , defined on with the property that is nowhere extendible across , while the graph of over is not complete pluripolar in . This refutes a conjecture of Levenberg, Martin and Poletsky (1992).

     

Approximation of measurable mappings by sequences of continuous functions

Let be a completely regular Hausdorff space, a positive, finite Baire measure on , and a separable metrizable locally convex space. Suppose is a measurable mapping. Then there exists a sequence of functions in which converges to a.e. . If the function is assumed to be weakly continuous and the measure is assumed to be -smooth, then a separability condition is not needed.

     

An example in holomorphic fixed point theory

If is the open unit ball in the Cartesian product furnished with the -norm , where and , then a holomorphic self-mapping of has a fixed point if and only if for some

     

Poincaré duality in P.A. Smith theory

Let , or more generally be a finite -group, where is an odd prime. If acts on a space whose cohomology ring fulfills Poincaré duality (with appropriate coefficients ), we prove a mod congruence between the total Betti number of and a number which depends only on the -module structure of . This improves the well known mod congruences that hold for actions on general spaces.

     

Criteria for irrationality of Euler's constant

By modifying Beukers' proof of Apéry's theorem that is irrational, we derive criteria for irrationality of Euler's constant, . For 0$">, we define a double integral and a positive integer , and prove that with the following are equivalent:

1. The fractional part of is given by for some .

2. The formula holds for all sufficiently large .

3. Euler's constant is a rational number.

A corollary is that if infinitely often, then is irrational. Indeed, if the inequality holds for a given (we present numerical evidence for and is rational, then its denominator does not divide . We prove a new combinatorial identity in order to show that a certain linear form in logarithms is in fact . A by-product is a rapidly converging asymptotic formula for , used by P. Sebah to compute correct to 18063 decimals.

     

The Banach algebra induced by a double centralizer

Given a Banach algebra , R. Larsen defined, in his book ``An introduction to the theory of multipliers", a Banach algebra by means of a multiplier on , and essentially used it in the case of a commutative semisimple Banach algebra to prove a result on multiplications which preserve regular maximal ideals. Here, we consider the analogue Banach algebra induced by a bounded double centralizer of a Banach algebra . Then, our main concern is devoted to the relationships between , , and the algebras of bounded double centralizers and of and , respectively. By removing the assumption of semisimplicity, we generalize some results proven by Larsen.

     

On the best possible character of the norm in some a priori estimates for non-divergence form equations in Carnot groups

Let be a group of Heisenberg type with homogeneous dimension . For every we construct a non-divergence form operator and a non-trivial solution to the Dirichlet problem: in , on . This non-uniqueness result shows the impossibility of controlling the maximum of with an norm of when . Another consequence is the impossiblity of an Alexandrov-Bakelman type estimate such as

where is the dimension of the horizontal layer of the Lie algebra and is the symmetrized horizontal Hessian of .

     

-injective rings and -stable primes

The notion of stability of the highest local cohomology module with respect to the Frobenius functor originates in the work of R. Hartshorne and R. Speiser. R. Fedder and K.-i. Watanabe examined this concept for isolated singularities by relating it to -rationality. The purpose of this note is to study what happens in the case of non-isolated singularities and to show how this stability concept encapsulates a few of the subtleties of tight closure theory. Our study can be seen as a generalization of the work by Fedder and Watanabe. We introduce two new ring invariants, the -stability number and the set of -stable primes. We associate to every ideal generated by a system of parameters and an ideal of multipliers denoted and obtain a family of ideals . The set is independent of and consists of finitely many prime ideals. It also equals prime ideal such that is -stable. The maximal height of such primes defines the -stability number.

     

On polynomial products in nilpotent and solvable Lie groups

We are dealing with Lie groups which are diffeomorphic to , for some . After identifying with , the multiplication on can be seen as a map . We show that if is a polynomial map in one of the two (sets of) variables or , then is solvable. Moreover, if one knows that is polynomial in one of the variables, the group is nilpotent if and only if is polynomial in both its variables.

     

The Hochschild cohomology ring of a selfinjective algebra of finite representation type

This paper describes the Hochschild cohomology ring of a selfinjective algebra of finite representation type over an algebraically closed field , showing that the quotient of the Hochschild cohomology ring by the ideal generated by all homogeneous nilpotent elements is isomorphic to either or , and is thus finitely generated as an algebra. We also consider more generally the property of a finite dimensional algebra being selfinjective, and as a consequence show that if all simple -modules are -periodic, then is selfinjective.

     

Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of simplicial semigroup rings with isolated singularity

Let be the polynomial ring in variables over a field and its graded maximal ideal. Let be homogeneous polynomials of degree generating an -primary ideal, and let be arbitrary homogeneous polynomials of degree . In the present paper it will be proved that the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of the standard graded -algebra is at most . By virtue of this result, it follows that the regularity of a simplicial semigroup ring with isolated singularity is at most , where is the multiplicity of and is the codimension of .

     

The class equation and counting in factorizable monoids

For orders and conjugacy in finite group theory, Lagrange's Theorem and the class equation have universal application. Here, the class equation (extended to monoids via standard group action by conjugation) is applied to factorizable submonoids of the symmetric inverse monoid. In particular, if is a monoid induced by a subgroup of the symmetric group , then the center (all elements of that commute with every element of ) is if and only if is transitive. In the case where is both transitive and of order either or (for prime), formulas are provided for the order of as well as the number and sizes of its conjugacy classes.

     

-inner automorphisms of finite groups

We refer to an automorphism of a group as -inner if given any subset of with cardinality less than , there exists an inner automorphism of agreeing with on . Hence is 2-inner if it sends every element of to a conjugate. New examples are given of outer -inner automorphisms of finite groups for all natural numbers .

     

Farrell sets for harmonic functions

Let denote a relatively closed subset of the unit ball of . The purpose of this paper is to characterize those sets which have the following property: any harmonic function on which satisfies on (where 0$">) can be locally uniformly approximated on by a sequence of harmonic polynomials which satisfy the same inequality on . This answers a question posed by Stray, who had earlier solved the corresponding problem for holomorphic functions on the unit disc.