Minkowski planes admitting automorphism groups of small type

We prove that a Minkowski plane with an automorphism group of type 5¹ is of order 5 and, if it is of type 4 or 7 it is of order 3 or 5. Received 5 January 1999.     

Isomorphism classes and automorphism groups of algebras of Weyl type

In one of our recent papers, the associative and the Lie algebras of Weyl typeA[D]=A⊗F[D] were defined and studied, whereA is a commutative associative algebra with an identity element over a field F of any characteristic, and F[D] is the polynomial algebra of a commutative derivation subalgebraD ofA. In the present paper, a class of the above associative and Lie algebrasA[D] with F being a field of characteristic 0,D consisting of locally finite but not locally nilpotent derivations ofA, are studied. The isomorphism classes and automorphism groups of these associative and Lie algebras are determined     

Geometries of type Cn and F4 with flag-transitive automorphism groups

Let be a finite thick geometry of type C_n (n 4) or F₄. We prove that is a building iff Aut() is flag-transitive.     

On the approximability of automorphism groups of lattices by automorphism groups of totally ordered sets

Criteria for the approximability of some classes of automorphism groups of lattices by automorphism groups of totally ordered sets are obtained.     

Interpolation of operators of weak type

Изучаются линейные (а также квазиаддитивные) операторы, действующие из банаховой пары пространств в пару квазинормированных пространств Марцинкевича. Для таких операторов в терминах К-функционала Петре охарактеризованы все обладающие интерполяционным свойством пары банаховых пространств. Найдены эффективно проверяемые условия того, что промежуточные пространства обладают и интерполяционным свойством относительно операторов слабого типа.     

On abelian automorphism group of a surface of general type

Summary LetS be a minimal surface of general type over,K the canonical divisor ofS. LetG be an abelian automorphism group ofS. IfK ²140, then the order ofG is at most 52K ²+32. Examples are also provided with an abelian automorphism group of order 12K ²+96.The automorphism groups for a complex algebraic curve of genusg2 have been thoroughly studied by many authors, including many recent ones. In particular, various bounds have been established for the order of such groups: for example, the order of the total automorphism group is 84(g–1) [Hu], that of an abelian subgroup is 4g+4 [N], while the order of any automorphism is 4g+2 ([W], see also [Ha]).It is an intriguing problem to generalise these bounds to higher dimensions. For example, for surfaces of general type, it is well known that the automorphism groups are finite, and the bound of the orders of these groups depends only on the Chern numbers of the surface [A].In the attempts to such generalisations, the order of abelian subgroups has a special importance. Due to Jordan's theorem on group representations (and its followers), a bound on the order of abelian subgroups induces a bound on that of the whole automorphism group, although bounds thus obtained are generally far from satisfactory. In [H-S], it is shown that for surfaces of general type, the order of such an abelian subgroup is bounded by the square of the Chern numbers times a constant.The purpose of this article is to give a further analysis to the abelian case for surfaces of general type, in proving that the order is bounded linearly by the Chern numbers of the surface, in good analogy with the case of curves. More precisely, our main result is the following.Oblatum 11-IX-1989 & 29-I-1990     

On the dimensions of automorphism groups of 8-dimensional ternary fields I

Let be an eight-dimensional, connected, locally compact ternary field and let denote a connected closed subgroup of its automorphism group which is taken with the compact-open topology. It is proved that is either isomorphic to the compact exceptional Lie group G₂, or the (covering) dimension of is at most 11. This bound can be decreased to 10, if the ternary fixed fieldF of is connected.     

Structure of birational automorphism groups,I: non-uniruled varieties

Supported in part by the Educational Project for Japanese Mathematical Scientists     

Interpolation on the hypersphere with Thiele type rational interpolants

In order to interpolate 2n?+?1 points on the unit hypersphere $ \mathcal{S}^{d-1}$ with a vector-valued rational function, we use the Generalised Inverse Rational Interpolants (GIRI) of Graves?CMorris. The construction process of these Thiele type rational interpolants is based on the Samelson??s inverse for vectors. We show that in general any GIRI of 2n?+?1 points of $ \mathcal{S}^{d-1}$ lies on $ \mathcal{S}^{d-1}$ . We also show that the stereographic projection induces a one-to-one correspondence between the set of vector-valued rational functions lying on $ \mathcal{S}^{d-1}$ and the set of Generalised Inverse Rational Fractions in the equator plane.