Characterization,structure and analysis on abelian ℒ∞ groups

An abelian topological group is an group if and only if it is a locally -compactk-space and every compact subset in it is contained in a compactly generated locally compact subgroup. Every abelian groupG is topologically isomorphic to G ₀ where ₀ andG ₀ is an abelian group where every compact subset is contained in a compact subgroup. Intrinsic definitions of measures, convolution of measures, measure algebra,L ₁-algebra, Fourier transforms of abelian groups are given and their properties are studied.     

Algebraic games—playing with groups and rings

Two players alternate moves in the following impartial combinatorial game: Given a finitely generated abelian group A, a move consists of picking some \(0 \ne a \in A\). The game then continues with the quotient group \(A/\langle a \rangle \). We prove that under the normal play rule, the second player has a winning strategy if and only if A is a square, i.e. \(A \cong B \times B\) for some abelian group B. Under the misère play rule, only minor modifications concerning elementary abelian groups are necessary to describe the winning situations. We also compute the nimbers, i.e. Sprague–Grundy values of 2-generated abelian groups. An analogous game can be played with arbitrary algebraic structures. We study some examples of non-abelian groups and commutative rings such as R[X], where R is a principal ideal domain.     

Virtually abelian Kähler and projective groups

We characterise the virtually abelian groups which are fundamental groups of compact Kähler manifolds and of smooth projective varieties. We show that a virtually abelian group is Kähler if and only if it is projective. In particular, this allows to describe the Kähler condition for such groups in terms of integral symplectic representations.     

Metaplectic operators for finite abelian groups and ?

The Segal-Shale-Weil representation associates to a symplectic transformation of the Heisenberg group an intertwining operator, called metaplectic operator. We develop an explicit construction of metaplectic operators for the Heisenberg group H(G) of a finite abelian group G, an important setting in finite time-frequency analysis. Our approach also yields a simple construction for the multivariate Euclidean case G = ?^d.     

Computing the extended centroid of abelian—group graded rings

We compute the extended centroid of a prime ring graded by an abelian group.     

On ω-categorical,generically stable groups and rings

We prove that every ω-categorical, generically stable group is nilpotent-by-finite and that every ω-categorical, generically stable ring is nilpotent-by-finite.     

Tur��n��s extremal problem on locally compact abelian groups

Let G be a locally compact abelian group (LCA group) and ?? be an open, 0-symmetric set. Let F:= F(??) be the set of all continuous functions f: G ?? ? which are supported in ?? and are positive definite. The Turán constant of ?? is then defined as $$ \mathcal{T}(\Omega ): = \sup \left\{ {\int_\Omega {f:f \in \mathcal{F}} (\Omega ),f(0) = 1} \right\} $$ . Mihalis Kolountzakis and the author has shown that structural properties ?? like spectrality, tiling or packing with a certain set ?? ?? of subsets ?? in finite, compact or Euclidean (i.e., ? ^d ) groups and in ? ^d yield estimates of T (??). However, in these estimates some notion of the size, i.e., density of ?? played a natural role, and thus in groups where we had no grasp of the notion, we could not accomplish such estimates. In the present work a recent generalized notion of asymptotic uniform upper density is invoked, allowing a more general investigation of the Turán constant in relation to the above structural properties. Our main result extends a result of Arestov and Berdysheva, (also obtained independently and along different lines by Kolountzakis and the author), stating that convex tiles of a Euclidean space necessarily have $$ \mathcal{T}_{\mathbb{R}^d } (\Omega )\left| \Omega \right|/2^d $$ . In our extension ? ^d could be replaced by any LCA group, convexity is considerably relaxed to ?? being a difference set, and the condition of tiling is also relaxed to a certain packing type condition and positive asymptotic uniform upper density of the set ??. Also our goal is to give a more complete account of all the related developments and history, because until now an exhaustive overview of the full background of the so-called Turán problem was not delivered.     

On Σ-subsets of naturals over abelian groups

We obtain conditions for the Σ-definability of a subset of the set of naturals in the hereditarily finite admissible set over a model and for the computability of a family of such subsets. We prove that: for each e-ideal I there exists a torsion-free abelian group A such that the family of e-degrees of Σ-subsets of ω in $\mathbb{H}\mathbb{F}(A)$ coincides with I; there exists a completely reducible torsion-free abelian group in the hereditarily finite admissible set over which there exists no universal Σ-function; for each principal e-ideal I there exists a periodic abelian group A such that the family of e-degrees of Σ-subsets of ω in $\mathbb{H}\mathbb{F}(A)$ coincides with I.     

Torsion-free abelian α-irreducible groups of finite rank

If F is a free abelian group of finite rank and α is an endomorphism or an automorphism of its divisible hull, then the α‐ hull is determined, i.e. the minimal torsion-free abelian group with this endomorphism a. Torsion-free abelian groups of finite rank are called α-irreducible if their divisible hull is α-irreducible for an automorphism a. A complete classification is given for α-irreducible groups and this result is applied to groups of rank 2.     

Structure of augmentation quotients of finite homocyclic abelian groups

Let G be a finite abelian group and its Sylow p-subgroup a direct product of copies of a cyclic group of order p~r,i.e.,a finite homocyclic abelian group.LetΔ~n (G) denote the n-th power of the augmentation idealΔ(G) of the integral group ring ZG.The paper gives an explicit structure of the consecutive quotient group Q_n(G)=Δ~n(G)/Δ~(n 1)(G) for any natural number n and as a consequence settles a problem of Karpilovsky for this particular class of finite abelian groups.     

Almost block independence and bernoullicity of ℤ d -actions by automorphisms of compact abelian groups

Summary We prove that a ^d -action by automorphisms of a compact, abelian group is Bernoulli if and only if it has completely positive entropy. The key ingredients of the proof are the extension of certain notions of asymptotic block independence from -actions to ^d -action and their equivalence with Bernoullicity, and a surprisingly close link between one of these asymptotic block independence properties for ^d -actions by automorphisms of compact, abelian groups and the product formula for valuations on global fields.Oblatum 20-X-1994     

A theorem of Piccard’s type in abelian Polish groups

In the paper we prove a theorem of Piccard’s type which generalizes [9, Theorem 2]. More precisely, we show that in an abelian Polish group X the set \(\left\{ {\left( {{x_{1, \ldots ,\;}}{x_N}} \right) \in \;{X^N}\;:\;A\; \cap \;\bigcap\limits_{i = 1}^N {\left( {A + {x_i}} \right)} \;is\;not\;Haar\;meager\;in\;X} \right\}\) is a neighbourhood of 0 for every N ∈ N and every Borel non-Haar meager set A ? X. The paper refers to the paper [3].     

When must pure extensions of countable abelian groups necessarily split?

Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the group of pure extensions of a countable abelian group by a countable abelian group to equal zero.