Sufficient conditions for a linear functional to be multiplicative

A commutative Banach algebra is said to have the property if the following holds: Let be a closed subspace of finite codimension such that, for every , the Gelfand transform has at least distinct zeros in , the maximal ideal space of . Then there exists a subset of of cardinality such that vanishes on , the set of common zeros of . In this paper we show that if is compact and nowhere dense, then , the uniform closure of the space of rational functions with poles off , has the property for all . We also investigate the property for the algebra of real continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space.

     

Iterative approximation of fixed points of Lipschitz pseudocontractive maps

Let be a -uniformly smooth Banach space possessing a weakly sequentially continuous duality map (e.g., ). Let be a Lipschitzian pseudocontractive selfmapping of a nonempty closed convex and bounded subset of and let be arbitrary. Then the iteration sequence defined by , converges strongly to a fixed point of , provided that and have certain properties. If is a Hilbert space, then converges strongly to the unique fixed point of closest to .

     

On the commutant of operators of multiplication by univalent functions

Let be a certain Banach space consisting of continuous functions defined on the open unit disk. Let be a univalent function defined on , and assume that denotes the operator of multiplication by . We characterize the structure of the operator such that . We show that for some function in . We also characterize the commutant of under certain conditions.

     

A short proof of ergodicity of Babillot-Ledrappier measures

Let be a compact manifold, and let be a transitive homologically full Anosov flow on . Let be a -cover for , and let be the lift of to . Babillot and Ledrappier exhibited a family of measures on , which are invariant and ergodic with respect to the strong stable foliation of . We provide a new short proof of ergodicity.

     

Invariant subspaces for bounded operators with large localizable spectrum

Suppose is a complex Hilbert space and is a bounded operator. For each closed set let denote the corresponding spectral manifold. Let denote the set of all points with the property that for any open neighborhood of In this paper we show that if is dominating in some bounded open set, then has a nontrivial invariant subspace. As a corollary, every Hilbert space operator which is a quasiaffine transform of a subdecomposable operator with large spectrum has a nontrivial invariant subspace.

     

Wigner's theorem in Hilbert -algebras of compact operators

Let be a Hilbert -module over the -algebra of all compact operators on a Hilbert space. It is proved that any function which preserves the absolute value of the -valued inner product is of the form , where is a phase function and is an -linear isometry. The result generalizes Molnár's extension of Wigner's classical unitary-antiunitary theorem.

     

On birational morphisms between pencils of Del Pezzo surfaces

Let and be two Del Pezzo fibrations of degrees , respectively. Assume that and differ by a flop. Then we prove that and give a short list of values of other basic numerical invariants of and .

     

-adic -basis and regular local ring

We introduce the concept of -adic -basis as an extension of the concept of -basis. Let be a regular local ring of prime characteristic and a ring such that . Then we prove that is a regular local ring if and only if there exists an -adic -basis of and is Noetherian.

     

On -good module categories without short cycles

Let be a quasi-hereditary algebra, and the -good module category consisting of -modules which have a filtration by standard modules. An indecomposable module in is said to be on a short cycle in if there exist an indecomposable module in and a chain of two nonzero noninvertible maps . It is shown that two indecomposable modules in are isomorphic if they are not on short cycles in and have the same composition factors. Moreover, if there is no short cycle in , we show that is finite, that is, there are only finitely many isomorphism classes of indecomposables in . This is an analogue to a result in a complete module category proved by Happel and Liu.

     

On upper bounds of Chalk and Hua for exponential sums

Let be a polynomial of degree with integer coefficients, any prime, any positive integer and the exponential sum . We establish that if is nonconstant when read , then . Let , let be a zero of the congruence of multiplicity and let be the sum with restricted to values congruent to . We obtain for odd, and . If, in addition, , then we obtain the sharp upper bound .

     

On -supplemented maximal and minimal subgroups of Sylow subgroups of finite groups

This paper proves: Let be a saturated formation containing . Suppose that is a group with a normal subgroup such that .

(1) If all maximal subgroups of any Sylow subgroup of are -supple- mented in , then ;

(2) If all minimal subgroups and all cyclic subgroups with order 4 of are -supplemented in , then .

     

Approximating discrete valuation rings by regular local rings

Let be a field of characteristic zero and let be a discrete rank-one valuation domain containing with . Assume that the fraction field of has finite transcendence degree over . For every positive integer , we prove that can be realized as a directed union of regular local -subalgebras of of dimension .

     

Unbounded quasi-integrals

Let be a locally compact Hausdorff space. We define a quasi-measure in , a quasi-integral on , and a quasi-integral on . We show that all quasi-integrals on are bounded, continuity properties of the quasi-integral on , representation of quasi-integrals on in terms of quasi-measures, and unique extension of quasi-integrals on to .

     

On isomorphisms between centers of integral group rings of finite groups

For finite nilpotent groups and , and a -adapted ring (the rational integers, for example), it is shown that any isomorphism between the centers of the group rings and is monomial, i.e., maps class sums in to class sums in up to multiplication with roots of unity. As a consequence, and have identical character tables if and only if the centers of their integral group rings and are isomorphic. In the course of the proof, a new proof of the class sum correspondence is given.

     

On the Berezin-Toeplitz calculus

We consider the problem of composing Berezin-Toeplitz operators on the Hilbert space of Gaussian square-integrable entire functions on complex -space, . For several interesting algebras of functions on , we have for all in the algebra, where is the Berezin-Toeplitz operator associated with and is a ``twisted' associative product on the algebra of functions. On the other hand, there is a function for which is bounded but for any .

     

Helly-type theorems for homothets of planar convex curves

Helly's theorem implies that if is a finite collection of (positive) homothets of a planar convex body , any three having non-empty intersection, then has non-empty intersection. We show that for collections of homothets (including translates) of the boundary , if any four curves in have non-empty intersection, then has non-empty intersection. We prove the following dual version: If any four points of a finite set in the plane can be covered by a translate [homothet] of , then can be covered by a translate [homothet] of . These results are best possible in general.

     

Hypercentral units in integral group rings

In this note, we show that when is a torsion group the second center of the group of units of the integral group ring is generated by its torsion subgroup and by the center of . This extends a result of Arora and Passi (1993) from finite groups to torsion groups, and completes the characterization of hypercentral units in when is a torsion group.

     

Spaces of type and the Hankel convolution

In this paper we introduce new function spaces that are denoted by , -1/2$"> and and that are spaces of type where the Hankel convolution and the Hankel transformation are defined. The spaces will play the same role in the Hankel setting that the spaces play in the theory of Fourier transformation.     

A matrix-valued Choquet-Deny theorem

Let be a positive matrix-valued measure on a locally compact abelian group such that is the identity matrix. We give a necessary and sufficient condition on for the absence of a bounded non-constant matrix-valued function on satisfying the convolution equation . This extends Choquet and Deny's theorem for real-valued functions on .