Are covering (enveloping) morphisms minimal?

We prove that for certain classes of modules such that direct sums of -covers ( -envelopes) are -covers ( -envelopes), -covering ( -enveloping) homomorphisms are always right (left) minimal. As a particular case we see that over noetherian rings, essential monomorphisms are left minimal. The same type of results are given when direct products of -covers are -covers. Finally we prove that over commutative noetherian rings, any direct product of flat covers of modules of finite length is a flat cover.     

Almost simple groups of Suzuki type acting on polytopes

Let , with an odd power of two. For each almost simple group such that , we prove that is not a C-group and therefore is not the automorphism group of an abstract regular polytope. For , we show that there is always at least one abstract regular polytope such that . Moreover, if is an abstract regular polytope such that , then is a polyhedron.

     

A universal continuum of weight

We prove that every continuum of weight  is a continuous image of the Cech-Stone-remainder  of the real line. It follows that under  the remainder of the half line is universal among the continua of weight  -- universal in the `mapping onto' sense.

We complement this result by showing that 1) under  every continuum of weight less than  is a continuous image of , 2) in the Cohen model the long segment of length  is not a continuous image of , and 3)  implies that is not a continuous image of , whenever  is a -saturated ultrafilter.

We also show that a universal continuum can be gotten from a -saturated ultrafilter on , and that it is consistent that there is no universal continuum of weight  .

     

(APD)-property of -algebras by extensions of -algebras with (APD)

A unital -algebra is said to have the (APD)-property if every nonzero element in has the approximate polar decomposition. Let be a closed ideal of . Suppose that and have (APD). In this paper, we give a necessary and sufficient condition that makes have (APD). Furthermore, we show that if and or is a simple purely infinite -algebra, then has (APD).

     

Non-Moishezon twistor spaces of with non-trivial automorphism group

We show that a twistor space of a self-dual metric on with -isometry is not Moishezon iff there is a -orbit biholomorphic to a smooth elliptic curve, where the -action is the complexification of the -action on the twistor space. It follows that the -isometry has a two-sphere whose isotropy group is . We also prove the existence of such twistor spaces in a strong form to show that a problem of Campana and Kreußler is affirmative even though a twistor space is required to have a non-trivial automorphism group.

     

Specker's theorem for Nöbeling's group

Specker proved that the group of integer-valued sequences is far from free; all its homomorphisms to factor through finite subproducts. Nöbeling proved that the subgroup consisting of the bounded sequences is free and therefore has many homomorphisms to . We prove that all ``reasonable' homomorphisms factor through finite subproducts. Among the reasonable homomorphisms are all those that are Borel with respect to a natural topology on . In the absence of the axiom of choice, it is consistent that all homomorphisms are reasonable and therefore that Specker's theorem applies to as well as to .

     

Enriched Reedy categories

We define the notion of an enriched Reedy category and show that if is a -Reedy category for some symmetric monoidal model category and is a -model category, the category of -functors and -natural transformations from to is again a model category.

     

Radical and cyclotomic extensions of the rational numbers

A radical extension of the rational numbers is a field generated by an element having a power in , and a cyclotomic extension is an extension generated by a root of unity. We show that a radical extension that is almost Galois over is almost cyclotomic. More precisely, we prove that if is radical with Galois closure , then contains a cyclotomic field such that the degree is bounded above by an almost linear function of . In particular, if is Galois, it contains a cyclotomic field such that .

     

Zero product preserving maps of operator-valued functions

Let be locally compact Hausdorff spaces and , be Banach algebras. Let be a zero product preserving bounded linear map with dense range. We show that is given by a continuous field of algebra homomorphisms from into if is irreducible. As corollaries, such a surjective arises from an algebra homomorphism, provided that is a -algebra and is a semi-simple Banach algebra, or both and are -algebras.

     

-actions whose fixed data has a section

Given a collection of real vector bundles over a closed manifold , suppose that, for some is of the form , where is the trivial one-dimensional bundle. In this paper we prove that if is the fixed data of a -action, then the same is true for the Whitney sum obtained from by replacing by . This stability property is well-known for involutions. Together with techniques previously developed, this result is used to describe, up to bordism, all possible -actions fixing the disjoint union of an even projective space and a point.     

Hypercyclicity in omega

A sequence of operators is said to be hypercyclic if there exists a vector , called hypercyclic for , such that is dense. A hypercyclic subspace for is a closed infinite-dimensional subspace of, except for zero, hypercyclic vectors. We prove that if is a sequence of operators on that has a hypercyclic subspace, then there exist (i) a sequence of one variable polynomials such that is hypercyclic for every fixed and (ii) an operator that maps nonzero vectors onto hypercyclic vectors for .

We complement earlier work of several authors.

     

On chaotic -semigroups and infinitely regular hypercyclic vectors

A -semigroup on a Banach space is called hypercyclic if there exists an element such that is dense in . is called chaotic if is hypercyclic and the set of its periodic vectors is dense in as well. We show that a spectral condition introduced by Desch, Schappacher and Webb requiring many eigenvectors of the generator which depend analytically on the eigenvalues not only implies the chaoticity of the semigroup but the chaoticity of every . Furthermore, we show that semigroups whose generators have compact resolvent are never chaotic. In a second part we prove the existence of hypercyclic vectors in for a hypercyclic semigroup , where is its generator.

     

On the triple jump of the set of atoms of a Boolean algebra

We prove the following result concerning the degree spectrum of the atom relation on a computable Boolean algebra. Let be a computable Boolean algebra with infinitely many atoms and be the Turing degree of the atom relation of . If is a c.e. degree such that , then there is a computable copy of where the atom relation has degree . In particular, for every c.e. degree , any computable Boolean algebra with infinitely many atoms has a computable copy where the atom relation has degree .

     

An analysis of the Rayleigh-Ritz method for approximating eigenspaces

This paper concerns the Rayleigh-Ritz method for computing an approximation to an eigenspace of a general matrix from a subspace that contains an approximation to . The method produces a pair that purports to approximate a pair , where is a basis for and . In this paper we consider the convergence of as the sine of the angle between and approaches zero. It is shown that under a natural hypothesis--called the uniform separation condition--the Ritz pairs converge to the eigenpair . When one is concerned with eigenvalues and eigenvectors, one can compute certain refined Ritz vectors whose convergence is guaranteed, even when the uniform separation condition is not satisfied. An attractive feature of the analysis is that it does not assume that has distinct eigenvalues or is diagonalizable.

     

Strongly self-absorbing -algebras

Say that a separable, unital -algebra is strongly self-absorbing if there exists an isomorphism such that and are approximately unitarily equivalent -homomorphisms. We study this class of algebras, which includes the Cuntz algebras , , the UHF algebras of infinite type, the Jiang-Su algebra and tensor products of with UHF algebras of infinite type. Given a strongly self-absorbing -algebra we characterise when a separable -algebra absorbs tensorially (i.e., is -stable), and prove closure properties for the class of separable -stable -algebras. Finally, we compute the possible -groups and prove a number of classification results which suggest that the examples listed above are the only strongly self-absorbing -algebras.

     

Extending into isometries of

In this paper we generalize a result of Hopenwasser and Plastiras (1997) that gives a geometric condition under which into isometries from to have a unique extension to an isometry in . We show that when and are separable reflexive Banach spaces having the metric approximation property with strictly convex and smooth and such that is a Hahn-Banach smooth subspace of , any nice into isometry has a unique extension to an isometry in .

     

On orbital partitions and exceptionality of primitive permutation groups

Let and be transitive permutation groups on a set such that is a normal subgroup of . The overgroup induces a natural action on the set of non-trivial orbitals of on . In the study of Galois groups of exceptional covers of curves, one is led to characterizing the triples where fixes no elements of ; such triples are called exceptional. In the study of homogeneous factorizations of complete graphs, one is led to characterizing quadruples where is a partition of such that is transitive on ; such a quadruple is called a TOD (transitive orbital decomposition). It follows easily that the triple in a TOD is exceptional; conversely if an exceptional triple is such that is cyclic of prime-power order, then there exists a partition of such that is a TOD. This paper characterizes TODs such that is primitive and is cyclic of prime-power order. An application is given to the classification of self-complementary vertex-transitive graphs.

     

The free entropy dimension of hyperfinite von Neumann algebras

Suppose is a hyperfinite von Neumann algebra with a normal, tracial state and is a set of selfadjoint generators for . We calculate , the modified free entropy dimension of . Moreover, we show that depends only on and . Consequently, is independent of the choice of generators for . In the course of the argument we show that if is a set of selfadjoint generators for a von Neumann algebra with a normal, tracial state and has finite-dimensional approximants, then for any hyperfinite von Neumann subalgebra of Combined with a result by Voiculescu, this implies that if has a regular diffuse hyperfinite von Neumann subalgebra, then .

     

Some exact sequences for Toeplitz algebras of spherical isometries

A family of commuting bounded operators on a Hilbert space is said to be a spherical isometry if in the weak operator topology. We show that every commuting family of spherical isometries is jointly subnormal, which means that it has a commuting normal extension on some Hilbert space Suppose now that the normal extension is minimal. Then we show that every bounded operator in the commutant of has a unique norm preserving extension to an operator in the commutant of Moreover, if is the commutator ideal in then is *-isomorphic to We also show that the commutant of the minimal normal extension is completely isometric, via the compression mapping, to the space of Toeplitz-type operators associated to We apply these results to construct exact sequences for Toeplitz algebras on generalized Hardy spaces associated to strictly pseudoconvex domains.

     

Effectively dense Boolean algebras and their applications

A computably enumerable Boolean algebra is effectively dense if for each we can effectively determine an such that implies . We give an interpretation of true arithmetic in the theory of the lattice of computably enumerable ideals of such a Boolean algebra. As an application, we also obtain an interpretation of true arithmetic in all theories of intervals of (the lattice of computably enumerable sets under inclusion) which are not Boolean algebras. We derive a similar result for theories of certain initial intervals of subrecursive degree structures, where is the degree of a set of relatively small complexity, for instance a set in exponential time.