Duality and local group cohomology

Let be a group, let be a field, and let be a local system - an upwardly directed collection of subgroups whose union is . In this paper we give a short, elementary proof of the following result: If either is a --bimodule, or else is finite dimensional over its center, then . From this we deduce as easy corollaries some recent results of Meierfrankenfeld and Wehrfritz on the cohomology of a finitary module.

     

Continuity of K-theory: An example in equal characteristics

If is a perfect field of characteristic , we show that the Quillen K-groups are uniquely -divisible for . In fact, the Milnor K-groups are uniquely -divisible for all . This implies that is -connected after profinite completion for a complete discrete valuation ring with perfect residue field.

     

A counterexample to a question of R. Haydon, E. Odell and H. Rosenthal

We give an example of a compact metric space , an open dense subset of , and a sequence in which is pointwise convergent to a non-continuous function on , such that for every there exists with for all , yet is equivalent to the unit vector basis of the James quasi-reflexive space of order 1. Thus does not embed isomorphically in the closed linear span of . This answers in the negative a question asked by H. Haydon, E. Odell and H. Rosenthal.

     

Ditkin's condition for certain Beurling algebras

Let be a locally compact abelian group. A function is said to be a weight if it is locally bounded, Borel measurable and submultiplicative. We call a weight on semi-bounded if there exist a constant and a subsemigroup with such that

for all Using functional analytic methods, we show that all Beurling algebras whose defining weight is semi-bounded satisfy Ditkin's condition.

     

Improving the metric in an open manifold with nonnegative curvature

The soul theorem states that any open Riemannian manifold with nonnegative sectional curvature contains a totally geodesic compact submanifold such that is diffeomorphic to the normal bundle of . In this paper we show how to modify into a new metric so that:

1. has nonnegative sectional curvature and soul .
2. The normal exponential map of is a diffeomorphism.
3. splits as a product outside of a compact set.

As a corollary we obtain that any such is diffeomorphic to the interior of a convex set in a compact manifold with nonnegative sectional curvature.

     

Differential forms on quotients by reductive group actions

Let be a smooth affine algebraic variety where a reductive algebraic group acts with a smooth quotient space . We show that the algebraic differential forms on which are pull-backs of forms on are exactly the -invariant horizontal differential forms on .

     

A note on Greenberg's conjecture and the abc conjecture

For any totally real number field and any prime number , Greenberg's conjecture for asserts that the Iwasawa invariants and are both zero. For a fixed real abelian field , we prove that the conjecture is ``affirmative' for infinitely many (which split in if we assume the abc conjecture for .

     

A Borsuk theorem for antipodal links and a spectral characterization of linklessly embeddable graphs

For any undirected graph , let be the graph parameter introduced by Colin de Verdière. In this paper we show that if and only if is linklessly embeddable (in ). This forms a spectral characterization of linklessly embeddable graphs, and was conjectured by Robertson, Seymour, and Thomas. A key ingredient is a Borsuk-type theorem on the existence of a pair of antipodal linked -spheres in certain mappings . This result might be of interest in its own right. We also derive that for each linklessly embeddable graph , where is the graph parameter introduced by van der Holst, Laurent, and Schrijver. (It is the largest dimension of any subspace of such that for each nonzero , the positive support of induces a nonempty connected subgraph of .)

     

Fusion in the character table

Suppose that is a Sylow -subgroup of a finite -solvable group . If , then the number of -conjugates of in can be read off from the character table of .

     

Subaveraging estimate for

Let be a smooth real hypersurface of and a compact submanifold of . We generalize a result of A. Boggess and R. Dwilewicz giving, under some geometric conditions on and , an estimate of the submeanvalue on of any function on a neighbourhood of , by the norm of on a neighbourhood of in .

     

Centralizers in residually finite torsion groups

Let be a residually finite torsion group. We show that, if has a finite 2-subgroup whose centralizer is finite, then is locally finite. We also show that, if has no -torsion, and is a finite 2-group acting on in such a way that the centralizer is soluble, or of finite exponent, then is locally finite.

     

The point spectrum of Frobenius-Perron and Koopman operators

We present some results on the point spectrum of the Frobenius-Perron operator and the Koopman operator associated with a nonsingular transformation on a -finite measure space .

     

Automorphic-differential identities and actions of pointed coalgebras on rings

In this paper, we prove the following two results which generalize the theorem concerning automorphic-differential endomorphisms asserted by J. Bergen. Let be a ring, its left Martindale quotient ring and a right ideal of having no nonzero left annihilator. (1) Let be a pointed coalgebra which measures such that the group-like elements of act as automorphisms of . If is prime and for , then . Furthermore, if the action of extends to and if such that , then . (2) Let be an endomorphism of given as a sum of composition maps of left multiplications, right multiplications, automorphisms and skew-derivations. If is semiprime and , then .

     

Products of similar matrices

Let and be matrices of determinant over a field , with or . We show that if is not a scalar matrix, then is a product of matrices similar to . Analogously, we conjecture that if and are elements of a semisimple algebraic group over a field of characteristic zero, and if there is no normal subgroup of containing but not , then is a product of conjugates of . The conjecture is verified for orthogonal groups and symplectic groups, and for all semisimple groups over local fields. Thus, in a connected, semisimple Lie group with finite center, the only conjugation-invariant subsemigroups are the normal subgroups.

     

On an Isomorphism Problem for Endomorphism Near-Rings

Suppose and are endomorphism near-rings generated by
groups of automorphisms containing the inner automorphisms of two respective finite perfect groups and . In this note we show that if and are isomorphic, then and are isomorphic.

     

Some results on finite Drinfeld modules

Let be a global function field, a degree one prime divisor of and let be the Dedekind domain of functions in regular outside . Let be the Hilbert class field of , the integral closure of in . Let be a rank one normalized Drinfeld -module and let be a prime ideal in . We explicitly determine the finite -module structure of . In particular, if , is an odd prime number and is the Carlitz -module, then the finite -module is always cyclic.

     

On the Deleted Product Criterion For Embeddability in

For a space let . Let act on and on by exchanging factors and antipodes respectively. We present a new short proof of the following theorem by Weber: For an -polyhedron and , if there exists an equivariant map , then is embeddable in . We also prove this theorem for a peanian continuum and . We prove that the theorem is not true for the 3-adic solenoid and .

     

On the growth of polynomials

Let be a polynomial of degree having only real zeros and none in . We look for a sharp upper bound for at an arbitrary point of the complex plane in terms of the supremum norm on .

     

An estimate on the distortion of the logarithmic capacity

Let be a Fuchsian group. We show that the existence of a set on with no -equivalent points and positive logarithmic capacity does not imply that is of convergence type.