A remark on a theorem of J. Tits

Let be a rank two Chevalley group and be the corresponding Moufang polygon. J. Tits proved that is the universal completion of the amalgam formed by three subgroups of : the stabilizer of a point of , the stabilizer of a line incident with , and the stabilizer of an apartment passing through and . We prove a slightly stronger result, in which the exact structure of is not required. Our result can be used in conjunction with the ``weak -pair" theorem of Delgado and Stellmacher in order to identify subgroups of finite groups generated by minimal parabolics.

     

A matrix-valued Choquet-Deny theorem

Let be a positive matrix-valued measure on a locally compact abelian group such that is the identity matrix. We give a necessary and sufficient condition on for the absence of a bounded non-constant matrix-valued function on satisfying the convolution equation . This extends Choquet and Deny's theorem for real-valued functions on .

     

Some corollaries of Frobenius' normal -complement theorem

For a prime divisor of the order of a finite group , we present the set of -subgroups generating . In particular, we present the set of primary subgroups of generating the last member of the lower central series of . The proof is based on the Frobenius Normal -Complement Theorem and basic properties of minimal nonnilpotent groups. Let be a group and a group-theoretic property inherited by subgroups and epimorphic images such that all minimal non--subgroups (-subgroups) of are not nilpotent. Then (see the lemma), if is generated by all -subgroups of it follows that is a -group.

     

Pure Picard-Vessiot extensions with generic properties

Given a connected linear algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0, we construct a pure Picard-Vessiot extension for , namely, a Picard-Vessiot extension , with differential Galois group , such that and are purely differentially transcendental over . The differential field is the quotient field of a -stable proper differential subring with the property that if is any differential field with field of constants and is a Picard-Vessiot extension with differential Galois group a connected subgroup of , then there is a differential homomorphism such that is generated over as a differential field by .

     

The number of Hall -subgroups of a -separable group

We observe a simple formula to compute the number of Hall -subgroups of a -separable finite group in terms of only the action of a fixed Hall -subgroup of on a set of normal -sections of . As a consequence, we obtain that divides whenever is a subgroup of a finite -separable group . This generalizes a recent result of Navarro. In addition, our method gives an alternative proof of Navarro's result.

     

On singular critical points of positive operators in Krein spaces

We give an example of a positive operator in a Krein space with the following properties: the nonzero spectrum of consists of isolated simple eigenvalues, the norms of the orthogonal spectral projections in the Krein space onto the eigenspaces of are uniformly bounded and the point is a singular critical point of

     

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 .

     

On an asymptotic behavior of elements of order in irreducible representations of the classical algebraic groups with large enough highest weights

The behavior of the images of a fixed element of order in irreducible representations of a classical algebraic group in characteristic with highest weights large enough with respect to and this element is investigated. More precisely, let be a classical algebraic group of rank over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 2$">. Assume that an element of order is conjugate to that of an algebraic group of the same type and rank naturally embedded into . Next, an integer function on the set of dominant weights of and a constant that depend only upon , and a polynomial of degree one are defined. It is proved that the image of in the irreducible representation of with highest weight contains more than Jordan blocks of size if and are not too small and .

     

Une preuve courte du principe de Selberg pour un groupe -adique

In 1992, Blanc and Brylinski showed the following property for a -adic group , called the ``abstract Selberg principle': the orbital integrals on conjugacy classes of non-compact elements of the Hattori rank of a finitely generated projective smooth representation of vanish. The proof is by explicit computations of ``low' level ( and cyclic and Hochschild cohomologies. Here we intend to show that this property is actually a direct consequence of two facts: Clozel's integration formula (which leads us to assume the defining characteristic to be zero) and the triviality of the action of unramified characters on the of (which is also proven here, using a standard -theoretic argument due to Grothendieck).

     

Invariant projections and convolution operators

We prove the existence of invariant projections from the Banach space of -pseudomeasures onto with for closed neutral subgroup of a locally compact group . As a main application we obtain that every closed neutral subgroup is a set of -synthesis in and in fact locally -Ditkin in . We also obtain an extension theorem concerning the Fourier algebra.

     

Irreducible constituents of faithful induced characters

Let be a finite group, and suppose is a character of obtained by inducing an irreducible character of some subgroup of . If is faithful, we show that some irreducible constituent of has a solvable kernel. This yields an improved version of a theorem of Evdokimov and Ponomarenko.

     

Semigroups and weights for group representations

Let be a finite group. Consider a pair of linear characters of subgroups of with and agreeing on . Naturally associated with is a finite monoid . Semigroup representation theory then yields a representation of . If is irreducible, we say that is a weight for . When the underlying field is the field of complex numbers, we obtain a formula for the character of in terms of and . We go on to construct weights for some familiar group representations.

     

Elementary proof of Brauer's and Nesbitt's theorem on zeros of characters of finite groups

The following has been proven by Brauer and Nesbitt. Let be a finite group, and let be a prime. Assume is an irreducible complex character of such that the order of a -Sylow subgroup of divides the degree of . Then vanishes on all those elements of whose order is divisible by . The two only known proofs of this theorem use profound methods of representation theory, namely the theory of modular representations or Brauer's characterization of generalized characters. The purpose of this paper is to present a more elementary proof.

     

On the proximinality of the unit ball of proximinal subspaces in Banach spaces: A counterexample

A known, and easy to establish, fact in Best Approximation Theory is that, if the unit ball of a subspace of a Banach space is proximinal in , then itself is proximinal in . We are concerned in this article with the reverse implication, as the knowledge of whether the unit ball is proximinal or not is useful in obtaining information about other problems. We show, by constructing a counterexample, that the answer is negative in general.

     

groups and quasi-equivalence

A torsion-free abelian group is if every map from a pure subgroup of into lifts to an endomorphism of The class of groups has been extensively studied, resulting in a number of nice characterizations. We obtain some characterizations for the class of homogeneous groups, those homogeneous groups such that, for pure in every has a lifting to a quasi-endomorphism of An irreducible group is if and only if every pure subgroup of each of its strongly indecomposable quasi-summands is strongly indecomposable. A group is if and only if every endomorphism of is an integral multiple of an automorphism. A group has minimal test for quasi-equivalence ( if whenever and are quasi-isomorphic pure subgroups of then and are equivalent via a quasi-automorphism of For homogeneous groups, we show that in almost all cases the and properties coincide.

     

Lifting wreath product extensions

Let and be finite groups and let be a hilbertian field. We show that if has a generic extension over and satisfies the arithmetic lifting property over , then the wreath product of and also satisfies the arithmetic lifting property over . Moreover, if the orders of and are relatively prime and is abelian, then any extension of by (which is necessarily a semidirect product) has the arithmetic lifting property.

     

Unique ergodicity on compact homogeneous spaces

Extending results of a number of authors, we prove that if is the unipotent radical of an -split solvable epimorphic subgroup of a real algebraic group which is generated by unipotents, then the action of on is uniquely ergodic for every cocompact lattice in . This gives examples of uniquely ergodic and minimal two-dimensional flows on homogeneous spaces of arbitrarily high dimension. Our main tools are the Ratner classification of ergodic invariant measures for the action of a unipotent subgroup on a homogeneous space, and a simple lemma (the `Cone Lemma') about representations of epimorphic subgroups.

     

A new construction of semi-free actions on Menger manifolds

A new construction of semi-free actions on Menger manifolds is presented. As an application we prove a theorem about simultaneous coexistence of countably many semi-free actions of compact metric zero-dimensional groups with the prescribed fixed-point sets: Let be a compact metric zero-dimensional group, represented as the direct product of subgroups , a -manifold and (resp., ) its pseudo-interior (resp., pseudo-boundary). Then, given closed subsets of , there exists a -action on such that (1) and are invariant subsets of ; and (2) each is the fixed point set of any element .

     

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.

     

Mergelyan pairs for harmonic functions

Let be open and be a bounded set which is closed relative to . We characterize those pairs such that, for each harmonic function on which is uniformly continuous on , there is a sequence of harmonic polynomials which converges to uniformly on . As an immediate corollary we obtain a characterization of Mergelyan pairs for harmonic functions.