Transformations of Grassmannians preserving the class of base subsets

Let be a finite-dimensional projective space and be the Grassmannian consisting of all k-dimensional subspaces of . In the paper we show that transformations of sending base subsets to base subsets are induced by collineations of to itself or to the dual projective space . This statement generalizes the main result of the authors paper [19].     

Lie and Jordan Ideals in Reflexive Algebras

A CDCSL algebra is a reflexive operator algebra with completely distributive and commutative subspace lattice. In this paper, we show, for a weakly closed linear subspace of a CDCSL algebra , that is a Lie ideal if and only if for all invertibles A in , and that is a Jordan ideal if and only if it is an associative ideal.     

Algebras Generated by the Bergman and Anti-Bergman Projections and by Multiplications by Piecewise Continuous Functions

The C*-algebra generated by the Bergman and anti-Bergman projections and by the operators of multiplication by piecewise continuous functions on the Lebesgue space L²(Π) over the upper half-plane is studied. Making use of a local principle, limit operators techniques, and the Plamenevsky results on two-dimensional singular integral operators with coefficients admitting homogeneous discontinuities we reduce the study to simpler C*-algebras associated with points and pairs We construct a symbol calculus for unital C*-algebras generated by n orthogonal projections sum of which equals the unit and by m one-dimensional orthogonal projections. Such algebras are models of local algebras at points z ∈∂Π being the discontinuity points of coefficients. A symbol calculus for the C*- algebra and a Fredholm criterion for the operators are obtained. Finally, a C*-algebra isomorphism between the quotient algebra where is the ideal of compact operators, and its analogue for the unit disk is constructed.     

On an Algebra of Toeplitz Operators With Piecewise Continuous Symbols

Let and be a finite collection of smooth curves in D. Given k points consider the family of all bounded and continuous functions on with finite limits at and radial limits at z_k. We study the Toeplitz operator algebra corresponding to M_r and we prove that its Calkin algebra is isomorphic to the algebra of all continuous functions on some compact set. This fact implies that the commutator of two Toeplitz operators with this kind of symbols is compact. We also prove that the semi-commutator of such Toeplitz operators is not compact, in general.     

Coloured Permutations Containing and Avoiding Certain Patterns

Let be the set of all coloured permutations on the symbols 1, 2, . . . , n with colours 1, 2, . . . , r, which is the analogous of the symmetric group when r = 1, and the hyperoctahedral group when r = 2. Let be a subset of d colours; we define to be the set of all coloured permutations . We prove that the number of -avoiding coloured permutations in . We then prove that for any , the number of coloured permutations in which avoid all patterns in except for and contain exactly once equals . Finally, for any , this number equals . These results generalize recent results due to Mansour, Mansour and West, and Simion.AMS Subject Classification: 05A05, 05A15.     

On the structure of level sets of uniform and Lipschitz quotient mappings from $$ \mathbb{R}^n $$ to $$ \mathbb{R} $$

We study two questions posed by Johnson, Lindenstrauss, Preiss, and Schechtman, concerning the structure of level sets of uniform and Lipschitz quotient mappings from . We show that if , is a uniform quotient mapping then for every has a bounded number of components, each component of separates and the upper bound of the number of components depends only on and the moduli of co-uniform and uniform continuity of .Next we prove that all level sets of any co-Lipschitz uniformly continuous mapping from to are locally connected, and we show that for every pair of a constant and a function with , there exists a natural number , so that for every co-Lipschitz uniformly continuous map with a co-Lipschitz constant and a modulus of uniform continuity , there exists a natural number and a finite set with card so that for all has exactly components, has exactly components and each component of is homeomorphic with the real line and separates the plane into exactly 2 components. The number and form of components of for are also described - they have a finite tree structure.     

Set of involutions arising from an egglike inversive plane

To every egglike inversive plane there is associated a family of involutions of the point set of such that circles of are the fixed point sets of the involutions in . Korchmaros and Olanda characterized a family of involutions on a set of size n² + 1to be for an egglike inversive plane of order n by four conditions. In this paper, we give an alternative proof where the Galois space PG(3,n) in which is embedded is built up directly by using concepts and results on finite linear spaces.     

Comparing the regular and the restricted regular semidirect products

We compare the two recently introduced semidirect product operations *_r and *_rr within the lattice of e-varieties of locally inverse semigroups. For each e-variety which contains all rectangular bands and is properly contained in the e-variety of all completely simple semigroups, the inclusions are proved where is the e-variety of all semilattices and the variety of all abelian groups of exponent dividing q where q is any integer greater than one. Some consequences for the class of finite locally inverse semigroups are also obtained.     

The Ideal Structure of Toeplitz Algebras

We investigate the ideal structure of the Toeplitz algebra of a totally ordered abelian group . We show that the primitive ideals of are parametrised by the disjoint union of the duals of the order ideals of , and identify the hull-kernel topology on when the chain of orderideals in is isomorphic to a subset of      

Spectral triangles of Schrödinger operators with complex potentials

Consider the Schrödinger operator with a complex-valued potential v of period Let and be the eigenvalues of L that are close to respectively, with periodic (for n even), antiperiodic (for n odd), and Dirichelet boundary conditions on [0,1], and let be the diameter of the spectral triangle with vertices We prove the following statement: If then v(x) is a Gevrey function, and moreover      

C*-Modular Vector States

Let be a C*-algebra and X a Hilbert C* -module. If is a projection, let be the p-sphere of X. For φ a state of with support p in and consider the modular vector state φ_x of given by The spheres provide fibrations

Coreflections Versus Regular Epimorphisms in Categories of Topological Spaces

Let be an epireflective subcategory of the category Top of topological spaces which is not contained in the category of indiscrete spaces (e.g. Top, the category of Hausdorff spaces, the category of Tychonoff spaces) and be a coreflective subcategory of . In this paper we prove that the coreflector preserves regular epimorphisms if and only if or is contained in the category of discrete spaces.     

Equidistribution of Kronecker sequences along closed horocycles

It is well known that (i) for every irrational number the Kronecker sequence m (m = 1,...,M) is equidistributed modulo one in the limit , and (ii) closed horocycles of length become equidistributed in the unit tangent bundle of a hyperbolic surface of finite area, as . In the present paper both equidistribution problems are studied simultaneously: we prove that for any constant the Kronecker sequence embedded in along a long closed horocycle becomes equidistributed in for almost all , provided that . This equidistribution result holds in fact under explicit diophantine conditions on (e.g. for = 2) provided that , with additional assumptions on the Fourier coefficients of certain automorphic forms. Finally, we show that for , our equidistribution theorem implies a recent result of Rudnick and Sarnak on the uniformity of the pair correlation density of the sequence n² modulo one.     

Remarks on ample vector bundles of curve genus two

Let be an ample vector bundle of rank n – 1 on a smooth complex projective variety X of dimension n≥ 3 such that X is a -bundle over and that for any fiber F of the bundle projection . The pairs with = 2 are classified, where is the curve genus of . This allows us to improve some previous results. Received: 13 June 2006     

The dimension of the kernel in finite and infinite intersections of starshaped sets

Summary. We establish the following Helly-type result for infinite families of starshaped sets in Define the function f on {1, 2} by f(1) = 4, f(2) = 3. Let be a fixed positive number, and let be a uniformly bounded family of compact sets in the plane. For k = 1, 2, if every f(k) (not necessarily distinct) members of intersect in a starshaped set whose kernel contains a k-dimensional neighborhood of radius , then is a starshaped set whose kernel is at least k-dimensional. The number f(k) is best in each case. In addition, we present a few results concerning the dimension of the kernel in an intersection of starshaped sets in Some of these involve finite families of sets, while others involve infinite families and make use of the Hausdorff metric.     

Cancellative residuated lattices

Cancellative residuated lattices are natural generalizations of lattice-ordered groups ( -groups). Although cancellative monoids are defined by quasi-equations, the class of cancellative residuated lattices is a variety. We prove that there are only two commutative subvarieties of that cover the trivial variety, namely the varieties generated by the integers and the negative integers (with zero). We also construct examples showing that in contrast to -groups, the lattice reducts of cancellative residuated lattices need not be distributive. In fact we prove that every lattice can be embedded in the lattice reduct of a cancellative residuated lattice. Moreover, we show that there exists an order-preserving injection of the lattice of all lattice varieties into the subvariety lattice of .We define generalized MV-algebras and generalized BL-algebras and prove that the cancellative integral members of these varieties are precisely the negative cones of -groups, hence the latter form a variety, denoted by . Furthermore we prove that the map that sends a subvariety of -groups to the corresponding class of negative cones is a lattice isomorphism from the lattice of subvarieties of to the lattice of subvarieties of . Finally, we show how to translate equational bases between corresponding subvarieties, and briefly discuss these results in the context of R. McKenzies characterization of categorically equivalent varieties.     

Strongly connective degree sets I: nonabelian solvable quotients

When G is a finite nonabelian group, we associate the common-divisor graph (G) with G by letting nontrivial degrees in cd(G) be the vertices and making distinct vertices adjacent if they have a common nontrivial divisor. A set of vertices for this graph is said to be strongly connective for cd(G) if there is some prime which divides every member of and every vertex outside of is adjacent to some member of When G has a nonabelian solvable quotient, we show that if (G) is connected and has a diameter of at most 2, then indeed cd(G) has a strongly connective subset.Received: 7 July 2004; revised: 5 October 2004     

On intervals and isometries of MV-algebras

Let Int be the lattice of all intervals of an MV-algebra . In the present paper we investigate the relations between direct product decompositions of and (i) the lattice Int , or (ii) 2-periodic isometries on , respectively.