Note on Morita Equivalence in Ring Extensions

It seems that Morita invariance judges of the importance of classes of ring extensions concerned. Miyashita introduced the notion of Morita equivalence in ring extensions, and he showed that the classes of G-Galois extensions and Frobenius extensions are Morita invariant. After that, Ikehata showed that the classes of separable extensions, Hirata separable extensions, symmetric extensions, and QF-extensions are Morita invariant. In this article, we shall prove that the classes of several extensions are Morita invariant. Further, we will give an example of the class of ring extensions which is not Morita invariant.     

Commitments to threat strategies in Nash bargaining

Nash's two-person bargaining model consists of two stages: threat strategies and utility demands are chosen in the first and second stages respectively. Here players commit to play the threat strategies chosen in the first stage for the case where disagreement occurs in the second stage. Whether a player commits or not to play a threat strategy, however, is voluntary in principle. This leads to some possible extensions of Nash's model so that players' commitment choices are taken into account. In this paper, we consider three extensions. In the two person case, these three extensions give essentially the same result as that given by Nash. This is not the case for more than two players; the result depends upon an extension. In one extension, Nash's result always holds for more than two players. In the other two extensions, however, we give a three person example where not all players choose commitments in equilibrium.     

Diskriminanten und Picard-Invarianten freier quadratischer Erweiterungen

For commutative rings R, in which 2 is not a zero divisor, we give seven-term exact sequences, whose middle terms are the discriminant map or the Picard invariant of free quadratic extensions of R. As an application of our results we determine for all orders in quadratic number fields the group of free quadratic extensions and the group of quadratic extensions with normal basis.     

On allocation of redundant components for systems with dependent components

In this paper we consider the problem of optimal allocation of a redundant component for series, parallel and k-out-of-n systems of more than two components, when all the components are dependent. We show that for this problem is naturally to consider multivariate extensions of the joint bivariates stochastic orders. However, these extensions have not been defined or explicitly studied in the literature, except the joint likelihood ratio order, which was introduced by Shanthikumar and Yao (1991). Therefore we provide first multivariate extensions of the joint stochastic, hazard rate, reversed hazard rate order and next we provide sufficient conditions based on these multivariate extensions to select which component performs the redundancy.     

Rank-preserving extensions of band matrices

Existence and uniqueness problems are studied for extensions of a band matrix R such that the rank of the extension does not exceed the maximum of the ranks of the submatrices in the band of R. Applications are given to positive semidefinite extensions and extensions of lower-triangular matrices to contractions or to unitary matrices.     

Extensions hexaphiques des corps non commutatifs

A new class of extensions of skew fields, the so-called «hexaphic extensions», is studied in this paper. This study follows up «Anneaux polynômiaux à deux variables» [3] and «Anneaux hexaphiques d'une variable» [4]. A sub-class of hexaphic extensions is formed by pseudo-linear extensions. The general quadratic extensions are pseudo-linear [1]. General finite pseudo-linear extensions are now known [2]. In this paper, the hexaphic nature of general cubic extensions is shown and general finite hexaphic extensions are studied.     

Armendariz modules over skew PBW extensions

The aim of this article is to develop the theory of skew Armendariz and quasi-Armendariz modules over skew PBW extensions. We generalize the results of several works in the literature concerning these topics for the context of Ore extensions to another non-commutative rings which can not be expressed as iterated Ore extensions. As a consequence of our treatment, we extend and unify different results about the Armendariz, Baer, p.p., and p.q.-Baer properties for Ore extensions and skew PBW extensions.     

Form sums of nonnegative selfadjoint operators

Summary The sum of two unbounded nonnegative selfadjoint operators is a nonnegative operator which is not necessarily densely defined. In general its selfadjoint extensions exist in the sense of linear relations (multivalued operators). One of its nonnegative selfadjoint extensions is constructed via the form sum associated with A and B. Its relations to the Friedrichs and Krein--von Neumann extensions of A+Bare investigated. For this purpose, the one-to-one correspondence between densely defined closed semibounded forms and semibounded selfadjoint operators is extended to the case of nondensely defined semibounded forms by replacing semibounded selfadjoint operators by semibounded selfadjoint relations. In particular, the inequality between two closed nonnegative forms is shown to be equivalent to a similar inequality between the corresponding nonnegative selfadjoint relations.</o:p>     

On Sums of Units

It is shown that if R is a finitely generated integral domain of zero characteristic, then for every n there exist elements of R which are not sums of at most n units. This applies in particular to rings of integers in finite extensions of the rationals. On the other hand there are many infinite algebraic extensions of the rationals in which every integer is a sum of two units.     

Varieties and radicals of near-rings

It is shown that a variety of associative rings which has attainable identities in the class of all associatives ring has attainable identities in the class of all near—rings. We also give examples of varieties of near-rings which are, contrary to the ring case, closed under extensions but do not have attainable identities and varieties which are closed under extensions but not closed under essential extensions, respectively.     

On Sums of Units

It is shown that if R is a finitely generated integral domain of zero characteristic, then for every n there exist elements of R which are not sums of at most n units. This applies in particular to rings of integers in finite extensions of the rationals. On the other hand there are many infinite algebraic extensions of the rationals in which every integer is a sum of two units.     

Two classes of extensions for generalized Schrödinger operators

Two classes of extensions for generalized Schrödinger operators are considered. One is the Markovian self-adjoint extensions and the other is the extensions in Silverstein's sense. We prove that these classes of extensions are identical. As its application, some properties of drift transformations of Brownian motion are derived.     

关于二重Ore扩张的一点注释（英文）

The aim of this article is to summarize the relationship between double Ore extensions and iterated Ore extensions, and mainly describe the lifting of properties from an algebra A to a(right) double Ore extension B of A which can not be presented as iterated Ore extensions.     

Varieties of Structurally Trivial Semigroups II

Abstract. Melnik [5] determined completely the lattice of all 2-nilpotent extensions of rectangular band varieties; and Koselev [4] determined a distributive sublattice formed by certain varieties of n-nilpotent extensions of left zero bands. In [2] the author described the skeleton of the lattice of all 3-nilpotent extensions of rectangular bands. We generalize these results by proving that a certain family of semigroup varieties which includes all the varieties mentioned above, and referred to here as planar varieties, consisting of certain n-nilpotent extensions of rectangular bands forms a distributive sublattice that looks somewhat like an inverted pyramid. Our proof makes use of a countably infinite family of injective endomorphisms on the lattice of all semigroup varieties that was introduced by the author in [1]. Although we do not determine completely the lattice of all n-nilpotent extensions of rectangular band varieties, our result unifies certain previously known results and provides a framework for further research.     

Canonical extensions of posets

We study a construction that produces a variety of completions of a given poset. The denseness and compactness properties of the completions obtained in this way are investigated. Next we focus our attention on three specific completions of a given poset that can be obtained through this construction—two of which have been called ‘the canonical extension’ of the poset in the literature. We investigate extensions of maps to these three completions. Although the extensions of unary operators need not be operators on the completions, we show that the extensions of unary residuated maps are residuated. We also investigate extensions of n-ary maps. In particular, we have a closer look at order-preserving n-ary maps and binary residuated maps.     

Extensions contained in ideals

We prove a Weyl-von Neumann type absorption theorem for extensions which are not full, and give a condition for constructing infinite repeats contained in an ideal. We also clear up some questions associated with the purely large criterion for full extensions to be absorbing.

     

Geometric characterization of strongly normal extensions

This paper continues previous work in which we developed the Galois theory of strongly normal extensions using differential schemes. In the present paper we derive two main results. First, we show that an extension is strongly normal if and only if a certain differential scheme splits, i.e. is obtained by base extension of a scheme over constants. This gives a geometric characterization to the notion of strongly normal. Second, we show that Picard-Vessiot extensions are characterized by their Galois group being affine. Our proofs are elementary and do not use ``group chunks' or cohomology. We end by recalling some important results about strongly normal extensions with the hope of spurring future research.

     

Convex extensions and envelopes of lower semi-continuous functions

 We define a convex extension of a lower semi-continuous function to be a convex function that is identical to the given function over a pre-specified subset of its domain. Convex extensions are not necessarily constructible or unique. We identify conditions under which a convex extension can be constructed. When multiple convex extensions exist, we characterize the tightest convex extension in a well-defined sense. Using the notion of a generating set, we establish conditions under which the tightest convex extension is the convex envelope. Then, we employ convex extensions to develop a constructive technique for deriving convex envelopes of nonlinear functions. Finally, using the theory of convex extensions we characterize the precise gaps exhibited by various underestimators of $x/y$ over a rectangle and prove that the extensions theory provides convex relaxations that are much tighter than the relaxation provided by the classical outer-linearization of bilinear terms. Received: December 2000 / Accepted: May 2002 Published online: September 5, 2002 RID="*" ID="*" The research was funded in part by a Computational Science and Engineering Fellowship to M.T., and NSF CAREER award (DMI 95-02722) and NSF/Lucent Technologies Industrial Ecology Fellowship (NSF award BES 98-73586) to N.V.S. Key words. convex hulls and envelopes – multilinear functions – disjunctive programming – global optimization     

Analogue of the Hyodo Inequality for the Ramification Depth in Degree <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis><Superscript>2</Superscript> Extensions

Ramification in complete discrete valuation fields is studied. For the case of a perfect residue field, there is a well-developed theory of ramification groups. Hyodo introduced the concept of ramification depth associated with the different of an extension and obtained an inequality that combines the concept of ramification depth in a degree p² cyclotomic extension with the concept of ramification depth in a degree p subextension. The paper gives a detailed consideration of the structure of degree p² extensions that can be obtained by a composite of two degree p extensions. In this case, it is not required that the residue field be perfect. Using the concepts of wild and ferocious extensions and the defect of the main unit, degree p² extensions are classified and more accurate estimates for the ramification depth are obtained. In a number of cases, exact formulas for ramification depth are presented.     

Dorroh extensions of algebras and coalgebras

We study Dorroh extensions of algebras and Dorroh extensions of coalgebras. Their structures are described. Some properties of these extensions are presented. We also introduce the finite duals of algebras and modules which are not necessarily unital. Using these finite duals, we determine the dual relations between the two kinds of extensions.