On the Irreducibility of Commuting Varieties Associated with Involutions of Simple Lie Algebras

Let be a reductive Lie algebra over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero and an arbitrary -grading. We consider the variety , which is called the commuting variety associated with the -grading. Earlier it was proved by the author that is irreducible, if the -grading is of maximal rank. Now we show that is irreducible for and (E₆,F₄). In the case of symmetric pairs of rank one, we show that the number of irreducible components of is equal to that of nonzero non--regular nilpotent G ₀-orbits in . We also discuss a general problem of the irreducibility of commuting varieties.     

Ore Extensions of Hopf Algebras

In this paper, Ore extensions in the class of Hopf algebras are studied. The classification theorem enables one to describe the Hopf--Ore extensions for the group algebras, for the algebras and , and for the quantum ax + b group.     

Some topological properties of ω-covering sets

We prove the following theorems:1. There exists an -covering with the property s ₀.2. Under cov there exists X such that is not an -covering orX \ B is not an -covering].3. Also we characterize the property of being an -covering.     

On Fraenkel’s <Emphasis Type="Italic">N</Emphasis>-Heap Wythoff’s Conjectures

The N-heap Wythoffs game is a two-player impartial game with N piles of tokens of sizes Players take turns removing any number of tokens from a single pile, or removing (a₁,..., a_N) from all piles - a_i tokens from the i-th pile, providing that where is the nim addition. The first player that cannot make a move loses. Denote all the P-positions (i.e., losing positions) by Two conjectures were proposed on the game by Fraenkel [7]. When are fixed, i) there exists an integer N₁ such that when . ii) there exist integers N₂ and _2 such that when , the golden section.In this paper, we provide a sufficient condition for the conjectures to hold, and subsequently prove them for the three-heap Wythoffs game with the first piles having up to 10 tokens.AMS Subject Classification: 91A46, 68R05.     

Interpolation by Rational Functions with Nodes on the Unit Circle

From the Erds–Turán theorem, it is known that if f is a continuous function on and L _n (f, z) denotes the unique Laurent polynomial interpolating f at the (2 n + 1)th roots of unity, then Several years later, Walsh and Sharma produced similar result but taking into consideration a function analytic in and continuous on and making use of algebraic interpolating polynomials in the roots of unity.In this paper, the above results will be generalized in two directions. On the one hand, more general rational functions than polynomials or Laurent polynomials will be used as interpolants and, on the other hand, the interpolation points will be zeros of certain para-orthogonal functions with respect to a given measure on .     

Uniform and universal Glivenko-Cantelli classes

A class of measurable functions on a probability space is called a Glivenko-Cantelli class if the empirical measuresP _n converge to the trueP uniformly over almost surely. is a universal Glivenko-Cantelli class if it is a Glivenko-Cantelli Cantelli class for all lawsP on a measurable space, and a uniform Glivenko-Cantelli class if the convergence is also uniform inP. We give general sufficient conditions for the Glivenko-Cantelli and universal Glivenko-Cantelli properties and examples to show that some stronger conditions are not necessary. The uniform Glivenko-Cantelli property is characterized, under measurability assumptions, by an entropy condition.     

A Question in the Theory of Totally Local Formations of Finite Groups

It is proved that all proper totally local subformations of a non one-generated totally local formation of finite groups are one-generated iff coincides with a formation of all soluble -groups, where ||=2.     

Some remarks on the product of two C α-compact subsets

For a cardinal , we say that a subset B of a space X is C -compact in X if for every continuous function is a compact subset of . If B is a C-compact subset of a space X, then (B, X) denotes the degree of C -compactness of B in X. A space X is called -pseudocompact if X is C -compact into itself. For each cardinal , we give an example of an -pseudocompact space X such that X × X is not pseudocompact: this answers a question posed by T. Retta in Some cardinal generalizations of pseudocompactness Czechoslovak Math. J. 43 (1993), 385–390. The boundedness of the product of two bounded subsets is studied in some particular cases. A version of the classical Glicksberg's Theorem on the pseudocompactness of the product of two spaces is given in the context of boundedness. This theorem is applied to several particular cases.     

Lattices of interpretability types of varieties

Let be the set of all primes, the field of all algebraic numbers, and Z the set of square-free natural numbers. We consider partially ordered sets of interpretability types such as , and , where AD is a variety of -divisible Abelian groups with unique taking of the pth root _p(x) for every p , is a variety of -modules over a normal field , contained in , and G_n is a variety of n-groupoids defined by a cyclic permutation (12 ...n). We prove that , and are distributive lattices, with and where ub and ub_f are lattices (w.r.t. inclusion) of all subsets of the set and of finite subsets of , respectively.Deceased.__________Translated from Algebra i Logika, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 198–210, March–April, 2005.     

On the Harris Recurrence of Iterated Random Lipschitz Functions and Related Convergence Rate Results

A result by Elton⁽⁶⁾ states that an iterated function system

Distribution of Increasing ℓ-sequences in a Random Permutation

This paper examines the distribution of the number, k, of increasing -sequences in a random permutation of . A new solution is determined based on the compositions of n which requires, at most, summands. This solution easily yields existing results for the special case and provides an alternate form for the case . The expected number of increasing -sequences in a random permutation is determined and it is shown that the limiting distribution is degenerate about 0 for 2$$ " align="middle" border="0"> . An alternate algorithm to determine the exact distribution is presented, based on the partitions of n, which is easy to implement and efficient for small n. Applications in non-parametric statistics and graph theory are discussed.     

Fibonacci-Cayley Numbers and Repetition Patterns in Genomic DNA

Let F(k) denote the k-th Fibonacci number in the Fibonacci sequence F(0) := 0, F(1) := 1,..., F(k+1) := F(k-1)+F(k). Motivated by proposals regarding putative mechanisms that may be responsible for producing those often observed long repetitive patterns in genomic DNA, we study in this note the Fibonacci-Cayley index fc_x of positive integers x, i.e., the largest integer for which positive integers a, b with x = aF(k-1)+bF(k) exist and show that holds for the arithmetic mean of the indices of the smallest and the largest Fibonacci numbers occurring in the Zeckendorf decomposition AMS Subject Classification: 11B39, 11A99, 92D20.     

A Discrete Limit Theorem for the Matsumoto Zeta‐Function in the Space of Analytic Functions

In the paper, a discrete distribution of the Matsumoto zetafunction is considered. It is proved that the probability measure , converges weakly as .     

Covariant Hyperelliptic Functions of Genus Two

We report results of investigations concerning the role of representations of in the theory of genus-two hyperelliptic functions. We discuss the role of these representations in the classical theory as well as introduce a family of new, naturally covariant functions.     

Functional Approach of Large Deviations in General Spaces

Let X be a topological space, ( ) a net of Borel probability measures on X, and (t) a net in ]0,[ converging to 0. Let be a set of continuous functions such that for all x X that can be suitably distinguished by some continuous functions from any closed set not containing contains such a distinguishing function. Assuming that exists for all , we give a sufficient condition in order that ( ₎ satisfies a large deviation principle with powers (t₎ and not necessary tight rate function. When X is completely regular (not necessary Hausdorff), this condition is also necessary, and so strictly weaker than exponential tightness; this allows us to strengthen Brycs theorem in various ways. We give the general form of a rate function in terms of . A Prohorov-type theorem with a weaker notion than exponential tightness is obtained, which improves known results.     

λ-Divergence of the Fourier Series of Continuous Functions of Several Variables

In this paper, we consider the behavior of rectangular partial sums of the Fourier series of continuous functions of several variables with respect to the trigonometric system. The Fourier series is called -convergent if the limit of rectangular partial sums over all indices for which for all j and k exists. In the space of arbitrary even dimension 2m we construct an example of a continuous function with an estimate of the modulus of continuity such that its Fourier series is -divergent everywhere for any .     

On Small Values of the Riemann Zeta‐Function on the Critical Line and Gaps Between Zeros

Small values of are investigated, using the value distribution results of A. Selberg. This gives an asymptotic formula for Some related problems involving values of and gaps between ordinates of consecutive zeros of (s) are also discussed.     

Hypersurfaces in ℝn and critical points in their external region

In this paper we study the hypersurfaces given as connected compact regular fibers of a differentiable map , in the cases in which has finitely many nondegenerate critical points in the unbounded component of .     

Convergence Theorems for ℓ<Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Subscript>-Norm Minimizers with Respect to <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>

Let C be a fixed compact convex subset of and let x_p be the unique minimal _p-norm element in C for any . In this paper, we study the convergence of x_p as p or , respectively. We characterize also the limit point as the minimal element of C with respect to the lexical minimax order relation or the lexical minitotal order relation, respectively.Communicated by D. G. LuenbergerThe author thanks Professor H. Komiya for valuable advice and an anonymous referee for kind comments.     

A Weighted Goodness-of-Fit Test for GARCH(1,1) Specification

Suppose that (j) is the lag-j autocorrelation of the squared residuals computed from a realization of length n under the assumption that the observations follow a GARCH(1,1) model. We study the asymptotic distribution of the statistics of the form , where the _j are nonnegative summable weights and the matrix , can be estimated from the data. We show that, under weak assumptions on model errors, the statistic Q _n converges in distribution to , where the N _i are iid standard normal. We discuss choices of the weights _j for which the distribution of Q is tabulated. Our results lead to and provide a rigorous justification for Portmanteau goodness-of-fit tests for GARCH(1,1) specification.