Almost periodic compactifications of group extensions

Let and be groups and let be an extension of by . Given a property of group compactifications, one can ask whether there exist compactifications and of N and K such that the universal -compactification of G is canonically isomorphic to an extension of by . We prove a theorem which gives necessary and sufficient conditions for this to occur for general properties and then apply this result to the almost periodic and weakly almost periodic compactifications of G.     

Almost periodic homogeneous linear difference systems without almost periodic solutions

Almost periodic homogeneous linear difference systems are considered. It is supposed that the coefficient matrices belong to a group. The aim was to find such groups that the systems having no non-trivial almost periodic solution form a dense subset of the set of all considered systems. A closer examination of the used methods reveals that the problem can be treated in such a generality that the entries of coefficient matrices are allowed to belong to any complete metric field. The concepts of transformable and strongly transformable groups of matrices are introduced, and these concepts enable us to derive efficient conditions for determining what matrix groups have the required property.     

Riordan group involutions

We study involutions in the Riordan group, especially those with combinatorial meaning. We give a new determinantal criterion for a matrix to be a Riordan involution and examine several classes of examples. A complete characterization of involutions in the Appell subgroup is developed. In another direction we find several examples that generalize the RNA matrix but are of independent interest.     

Almost periodic divisors in a strip

Almost periodic divisors in a strip of the complex plane are studied and related to the divisors of holomorphic almost periodic functions in the strip.     

Almost periodic hyperfunctions

We characterize the almost periodic hyperfunctions by showing that the following statements are equivalent for any bounded hyperfunction . (i) is almost periodic. (ii) for every . (iii) There are two functions and an infinite order differential operator such that (iv) The Gauss transform of is almost periodic for every 0$">. Here is the space of almost periodic continuous functions, is the Sato space of test functions for the Fourier hyperfunctions, and is the heat kernel. This generalizes the result of Schwartz on almost periodic distributions and that of Cioranescu on almost periodic (non-quasianalytic) ultradistributions to the case of hyperfunctions.

     

Almost periodic weak solutions to forced pendulum type equations without friction

Summary We obtain sufficient conditions for the existence of almost periodic weak solutions to equations of the frictionless pendulum type with forcing.     

Geometric diffeomorphism finiteness in low dimensions and homotopy group finiteness

The main results of this note consist in the following two geometric finiteness theorems for diffeomorphism types and homotopy groups of closed simply connected manifolds: 1. For any given numbers C and D the class of closed smooth simply connected manifolds of dimension which admit Riemannian metrics with sectional curvature bounded in absolute value by $\vert K \vert\le C$ and diameter bounded from above by D contains at most finitely many diffeomorphism types. In each dimension there exist counterexamples to the preceding statement. 2. For any given numbers C and D and any dimension m there exist for each natural number up to isomorphism always at most finitely many groups which can occur as the k-th homotopy group of a closed smooth simply connected m-manifold which admits a metric with sectional curvature and diameter . Received: 21 August 1999 / Accepted: 20 April 2001 / Published online: 19 October 2001     

Almost periodic Harmonizable processes

The class of harmonizable processes is a natural extension of the class of stationary processes. This paper provides sufficient conditions for the sample paths of harmonizable processes to be almost periodic uniformly, Stepanov and Besicovitch.     

Cube term blockers without finiteness

We show that an idempotent variety has a d-dimensional cube term if and only if its free algebra on two generators has no d-ary compatible cross. We employ Hall’s Marriage Theorem to show that an idempotent variety \({\mathcal{V}}\) of finite signature whose fundamental operations have arities n ₁, . . . , n _k, has a d-dimensional cube term for some d if and only if it has one of dimension \({1 + \sum_{i=1}^{k} (n_{i} - 1)}\). This upper bound on the dimension of a minimal-dimension cube term for \({\mathcal{V}}\) is shown to be sharp. We show that a pure cyclic term variety has a cube term if and only if it contains no 2- element semilattice. We prove that the Maltsev condition “existence of a cube term” is join prime in the lattice of idempotent Maltsev conditions.     

Free groups and involutions in the unit group of a group algebra

We study the existence of free groups of rank 2 in the group generated by the involutions in the unit group of a group algebra over a non-absolute field.Received: 25 March 2004     

Almost periodic fuzzy-number-valued functions

In this paper we develop a theory of almost periodic fuzzy functions, i.e. of the almost periodic functions of real variable and with values fuzzy real numbers, Although the class of fuzzy real numbers does not form a linear normed space, the majority of main properties of almost periodic functions with values in Banach spaces are extended to this case. Applications to fuzzy differential equations and to (fuzzy) dynamical systems are given.     

The main involutions of the metaplectic group

We determine the set of automorphisms of a metaplectic group which lift the main involution of the general linear group over an infinite field. Some basic properties of these automorphisms are also established.