-semigroups generated by second order differential operators with general Wentzell boundary conditions

Let us consider the operator where is positive and continuous in and is equipped with the so-called generalized Wentzell boundary condition which is of the form at each boundary point, where This class of boundary conditions strictly includes Dirichlet, Neumann and Robin conditions.

Under suitable assumptions on , we prove that generates a positive -semigroup on and, hence, many previous (linear or nonlinear) results are extended substantially.

     

Existence and uniqueness theorems for singular anisotropic quasilinear elliptic boundary value problems

On bounded domains we consider the anisotropic problems in with 1$"> and on and in with and on . Moreover, we generalize these boundary value problems to space-dimensions 2$">. Under geometric conditions on and monotonicity assumption on we prove existence and uniqueness of positive solutions.     

Normalizers of the congruence subgroups of the Hecke group II

Let . Let be an ideal of and let be the maximal ideal of such that . Then . In particular, if is square free, then is self-normalized in .

     

A classification of prime segments in simple artinian rings

Let be a simple artinian ring. A valuation ring of is a Bézout order of so that is simple artinian, a Goldie prime is a prime ideal of so that is Goldie, and a prime segment of is a pair of neighbouring Goldie primes of A prime segment is archimedean if is equal to it is simple if and it is exceptional if In this last case, is a prime ideal of so that is not Goldie. Using the group of divisorial ideals, these results are applied to classify rank one valuation rings according to the structure of their ideal lattices. The exceptional case splits further into infinitely many cases depending on the minimal so that is not divisorial for

     

A refinement of the toral rank conjecture for 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras

It is known that the total (co)-homoloy of a 2-step nilpotent Lie algebra is at least , where is the center of . We improve this result by showing that a better lower bound is , where and is a complement of in . Furthermore, we provide evidence that this is the best possible bound of the form .

     

Push-forward of degeneracy classes and ampleness

Let be a projective variety and vector bundles on . Suppose is a surjective map onto another variety . Let be any vector bundle map and the 'th degeneracy locus of . We show that the dimension of is at least equal to

under the hypothesis that is an ample vector bundle on .

     

The Dedekind-Mertens lemma and the contents of polynomials

Let be a commutative ring, let be an indeterminate, and let . There has been much recent work concerned with determining the Dedekind-Mertens number =min , especially on determining when = . In this note we introduce a universal Dedekind-Mertens number , which takes into account the fact that deg() + for any ring containing as a subring, and show that behaves more predictably than .

     

Operators with bounded conjugation orbits

For a bounded invertible operator on a complex Banach space let be the set of operators in for which Suppose that and is in A bound is given on in terms of the spectral radius of the commutator. Replacing the condition in by the weaker condition as for every 0$">, an extension of the Deddens-Stampfli-Williams results on the commutant of is given.

     

Open subgroups of

Let be a locally compact group and let denote the -algebra generated by left translation operators on . Let and be the spaces of almost periodic and weakly almost periodic functionals on the Fourier algebra , respectively. It is shown that if contains an open abelian subgroup, then (1) if and only if is norm dense in ; (2) is a -algebra if is norm dense in , where denotes the set of elements in with compact support. In particular, for any amenable locally compact group which contains an open abelian subgroup, has the dual Bohr approximation property and is a -algebra.

     

Composition operators on Dirichlet-type spaces

The Dirichlet-type space ) is the Banach space of functions analytic in the unit disc with derivatives belonging to the Bergman space . Let be an analytic self-map of the disc and define for . The operator is bounded (respectively, compact) if and only if a related measure is Carleson (respectively, compact Carleson). If is bounded (or compact) on , then the same behavior holds on ) and on the weighted Dirichlet space . Compactness on implies that is compact on the Hardy spaces and the angular derivative exists nowhere on the unit circle. Conditions are given which, together with the angular derivative condition, imply compactness on the space . Inner functions which induce bounded composition operators on are discussed briefly.

     

Abstract blowing down

Assume that is a surface over an algebraically closed field . Let be obtained from by blowing up a smooth point and let be the exceptional curve. Let be the category of coherent sheaves on . In this note we show how to recover from , if we know the object .

     

Collapsibility of and some related CW complexes

Let denote the order complex of the partition lattice. The natural -action on the set induces an -action on . We show that the regular CW complex is collapsible. Even more, we show that is collapsible, where is a suitable type selection of the partition lattice. This allows us to generalize and reprove in a conceptual way several previous results regarding the multiplicity of the trivial character in the -representation on .

     

Asymptotic behaviour of Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity

Let be a polynomial ring over a field. For a graded -module generated in degree at most , the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of each of (i) its symmetric power, (ii) its torsion-free symmetric power and (iii) the integral closure of its torsion-free symmetric power is bounded above by a linear function in with leading coefficient at most . For a graded ideal of , the regularity of is given by a linear function of for all sufficiently large . The leading coefficient of this function is identified.

     

Oscillating global continua of positive solutions of semilinear elliptic problems

Let be a bounded domain in , , with boundary , and consider the semilinear elliptic boundary value problem

where is a uniformly elliptic operator on , , is strictly positive in , and the function is continuously differentiable, with , . A well known result of Rabinowitz shows that an unbounded continuum of positive solutions of this problem bifurcates from the principal eigenvalue of the linear problem. We show that under certain oscillation conditions on the nonlinearity , this continuum oscillates about , in a certain sense, as it approaches infinity. Hence, in particular, the equation has infinitely many positive solutions for each in an open interval containing .

     

A counterexample for approximable functions

Let be the unit disk. We show that for some relatively closed set there is a function that can be uniformly approximated on by functions of , but such that cannot be written as , with and uniformly continuous on . This answers a question of Stray.

     

Integral representation of linear functionals on spaces of unbounded functions

Let be a vector lattice of real functions on a set with , and let be a linear positive functional on . Conditions are given which imply the representation , , for some bounded charge . As an application, for any bounded charge on a field , the dual of is shown to be isometrically isomorphic to a suitable space of bounded charges on . In addition, it is proved that, under one more assumption on , is the integral with respect to a -additive bounded charge.

     

On Burgess's theorem and related problems

Let be a graph. We determine all graphs which are -like. We also prove that if are graphs, then in order that each -like continuum be -indecomposable for some it is necessary and sufficient that if is a graph, then is not -like for some integer with . This generalizes a well known theorem of Burgess.

     

On a conjecture about MRA Riesz wavelet bases

Let be a compactly supported refinable function in such that the shifts of are stable and for a -periodic trigonometric polynomial . A wavelet function can be derived from by . If is an orthogonal refinable function, then it is well known that generates an orthonormal wavelet basis in . Recently, it has been shown in the literature that if is a -spline or pseudo-spline refinable function, then always generates a Riesz wavelet basis in . It was an open problem whether can always generate a Riesz wavelet basis in for any compactly supported refinable function in with stable shifts. In this paper, we settle this problem by proving that for a family of arbitrarily smooth refinable functions with stable shifts, the derived wavelet function does not generate a Riesz wavelet basis in . Our proof is based on some necessary and sufficient conditions on the -periodic functions and in such that the wavelet function , defined by , generates a Riesz wavelet basis in .