The range of a ring homomorphism from a commutative -algebra

We prove that if a commutative semi-simple Banach algebra is the range of a ring homomorphism from a commutative -algebra, then is -equivalent, i.e. there are a commutative -algebra and a bicontinuous algebra isomorphism between and . In particular, it is shown that the group algebras , and the disc algebra are not ring homomorphic images of -algebras.

     

Compact operators and the geometric structure of -algebras

Given a -algebra and an element , we give necessary and sufficient geometric conditions equivalent to the existence of a representation of so that is a compact or a finite-rank operator. The implications of these criteria on the geometric structure of -algebras are also discussed.

     

On Voiculescu's double commutant theorem

For a separable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space , we consider the full algebra of bounded linear transformations and the unique non-trivial norm-closed two-sided ideal of compact operators . We also consider the quotient -algebra with quotient map

For any -subalgebra of , the relative commutant is given by for all in . It was shown by D. Voiculescu that, for any separable unital -subalgebra of ,

In this note, we exhibit a non-separable unital -subalgebra of for which (VDCT) fails.

     

On contravariant finiteness of subcategories of modules of projective dimension

Let be an artin algebra. This paper presents a sufficient condition for the subcategory of to be contravariantly finite in , where is the subcategory of consisting of --modules of projective dimension less than or equal to . As an application of this condition it is shown that is contravariantly finite in for each when is stably equivalent to a hereditary algebra.

     

On the perturbation theory of -accretive operators in Banach spaces

Let be a real Banach space. Let be -accretive with compact. Let be such that is condensing for some Let and assume that there exists a bounded open set and such that is bounded and

for all Then A basic homotopy result of the degree theory for with condensing and possibly unbounded, is used to improve and/or extend recent results by Hirano and Kalinde.

     

Approximation from locally finite-dimensional shift-invariant spaces

After exploring some topological properties of locally finite-dimensional shift-invariant subspaces of , we show that if provides approximation order , then it provides the corresponding simultaneous approximation order. In the case is generated by a compactly supported function in , it is proved that provides approximation order in the -norm with if and only if the generator is a derivative of a compactly supported function that satisfies the Strang-Fix conditions.

     

Hereditarily aspherical compacta

The notion of (strongly) hereditarily aspherical compacta introduced by Daverman (1991) is modified. The main results are: Theorem. If is a hereditarily aspherical compactum, then ANR. In particular, is strongly hereditarily aspherical.

Theorem. Suppose is a cell-like map of compacta and is shape aspherical for each closed subset of . Then

1.

Y is hereditarily shape aspherical,

2.

is a hereditary shape equivalence,

3.

.

Theorem. Suppose is a group containing integers. Then the following conditions are equivalent:

1.

and ,

2.

.

Theorem. Suppose is a group containing integers. If and , then is hereditarily shape aspherical.

Theorem. Let be a two-dimensional, locally connected and semilocally simply connected compactum. Then, for any compactum

     

Beals-Cordes-type characterizations of pseudodifferential operators

We show that, if is the representation of on given by (2.11), and is a bounded operator on , then belongs to if and only if

is a function on with values in the Banach space .

     

On -algebras associated with locally compact groups

Let be a locally compact group, and let denote the same group with the discrete topology. There are various associated to and We are concerned with the question of when these are isomorphic. This is intimately related to amenability. The results can be reformulated in terms of Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes algebras and of weak containment properties of unitary representations.

     

Cohomological detection and regular elements in group cohomology

Suppose that is a compact Lie group or a discrete group of finite virtual cohomological dimension and that is a field of characteristic . Suppose that is a set of elementary abelian -subgroups such that the cohomology is detected on the centralizers of the elements of . Assume also that is closed under conjugation and that is in whenever some subgroup of is in . Then there exists a regular element in the cohomology ring such that the restriction of to an elementary abelian -subgroup is not nilpotent if and only if is in . The converse of the result is a theorem of Lannes, Schwartz and the second author. The results have several implications for the depth and associated primes of the cohomology rings.

     

Stability of -algebras associated to graphs

We characterize stability of graph -algebras by giving five conditions equivalent to their stability. We also show that if is a graph with no sources, then is stable if and only if each vertex in can be reached by an infinite number of vertices. We use this characterization to realize the stabilization of a graph -algebra. Specifically, if is a graph and is the graph formed by adding a head to each vertex of , then is the stabilization of ; that is, .

     

On the suspension order of

It is shown that the suspension order of the -fold cartesian product of real projective -space is less than or equal to the suspension order of the -fold symmetric product of and greater than or equal to , where and satisfy and . In particular has suspension order , and for fixed the suspension orders of the spaces are unbounded while their stable suspension orders are constant and equal to .

     

Invariant subspaces of the harmonic Dirichlet space with large co-dimension

In this paper, we comment on the complexity of the invariant subspaces (under the bilateral Dirichlet shift ) of the harmonic Dirichlet space . Using the sampling theory of Seip and some work on invariant subspaces of Bergman spaces, we will give examples of invariant subspaces with , . We will also generalize this to the Dirichlet classes , , as well as the Besov classes , , .

     

Infinite dimensional universal subspaces generated by Blaschke products

Let be the Banach algebra of all bounded analytic functions in the unit disk . A function is said to be universal with respect to the sequence of noneuclidian translates, if the set is locally uniformly dense in the set of all holomorphic functions bounded by . We show that for any sequence of points in tending to the boundary there exists a closed subspace of , topologically generated by Blaschke products, and linear isometric to , such that all of its elements are universal with respect to noneuclidian translates. The proof is based on certain interpolation problems in the corona of . Results on cyclicity of composition operators in are deduced.

     

Generalized rational identities of subnormal subgroups of skew fields

Let be a skew field with infinite center such that , and let be a non-central subnormal subgroup of the multiplicative group of . Then there are no non-trivial generalized rational identities of . This generalizes a theorem proved by Makar-Limanov.

     

A theorem of Briançon-Skoda type for regular local rings containing a field

Let be a regular local ring containing a field. We give a refinement of the Briançon-Skoda theorem showing that if is a minimal reduction of where is -primary, then where and is the largest ideal such that . The proof uses tight closure in characteristic and reduction to characteristic for rings containing the rationals.

     

-analyticity

Let be a finite-dimensional commutative algebra over and let , and be the ring of -differentiable functions of class , the ring of real analytic mappings with values in and the ring of -analytic functions, respectively, defined on an open subset of . We prove two basic results concerning -differentiability and -analyticity: ) , ) if and only if is defined over .

     

On the global dimension of quasi--hereditary algebras with triangular decomposition

Let be a quasi--hereditary algebra with triangular decomposition such that all Verma modules are semisimple over . Then we show: . Applying this formula to the more special class of twisted double incidence algebras of finite partially ordered sets, we get a proof of a conjecture of Deng and Xi. Another application is to the so-called dual extensions of algebras.

     

Approximation of fixed points of strongly pseudocontractive maps without Lipschitz assumption

In the present paper, the following result is shown: Let be a real Banach space with a uniformly convex dual , and let be a nonempty closed convex and bounded subset of . Assume that is a continuous strong pseudocontraction. Let and be two real sequences satisfying (i) for all ; (ii) ; and (iii) as Then the Ishikawa iterative sequence generated by

converges strongly to the unique fixed point of .