On the commutant of operators of multiplication by univalent functions

Let be a certain Banach space consisting of continuous functions defined on the open unit disk. Let be a univalent function defined on , and assume that denotes the operator of multiplication by . We characterize the structure of the operator such that . We show that for some function in . We also characterize the commutant of under certain conditions.

     

Sufficient conditions for a linear functional to be multiplicative

A commutative Banach algebra is said to have the property if the following holds: Let be a closed subspace of finite codimension such that, for every , the Gelfand transform has at least distinct zeros in , the maximal ideal space of . Then there exists a subset of of cardinality such that vanishes on , the set of common zeros of . In this paper we show that if is compact and nowhere dense, then , the uniform closure of the space of rational functions with poles off , has the property for all . We also investigate the property for the algebra of real continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space.

     

Iterative approximation of fixed points of Lipschitz pseudocontractive maps

Let be a -uniformly smooth Banach space possessing a weakly sequentially continuous duality map (e.g., ). Let be a Lipschitzian pseudocontractive selfmapping of a nonempty closed convex and bounded subset of and let be arbitrary. Then the iteration sequence defined by , converges strongly to a fixed point of , provided that and have certain properties. If is a Hilbert space, then converges strongly to the unique fixed point of closest to .

     

Low-dimensional unitary representations of

We characterize all simple unitarizable representations of the braid group on complex vector spaces of dimension . In particular, we prove that if and denote the two generating twists of , then a simple representation (for ) is unitarizable if and only if the eigenvalues of are distinct, satisfy and 0$"> for , where the are functions of the eigenvalues, explicitly described in this paper.

     

Conditional weak compactness in vector-valued function spaces

Let be an ideal of over a -finite measure space and let be the Köthe dual of with . Let be a real Banach space, and the topological dual of . Let be a subspace of the space of equivalence classes of strongly measurable functions and consisting of all those for which the scalar function belongs to . For a subset of for which the set is -bounded the following statement is equivalent to conditional -compactness: the set is conditionally -compact and is a conditionally weakly compact subset of for each , with . Applications to Orlicz-Bochner spaces are given.

     

A numerical condition for a deformation of a Gorenstein surface singularity to admit a simultaneous log-canonical model

Let be a deformation of a normal Gorenstein surface singularity over the complex number field . We assume that is a neighborhood of the origin of . Then we prove that admits a simultaneous log-canonical model if and only if an invariant of each fiber is constant.

     

Invariant subspaces for bounded operators with large localizable spectrum

Suppose is a complex Hilbert space and is a bounded operator. For each closed set let denote the corresponding spectral manifold. Let denote the set of all points with the property that for any open neighborhood of In this paper we show that if is dominating in some bounded open set, then has a nontrivial invariant subspace. As a corollary, every Hilbert space operator which is a quasiaffine transform of a subdecomposable operator with large spectrum has a nontrivial invariant subspace.

     

Compact operators whose real and imaginary parts are positive

Let be a compact operator on a Hilbert space such that the operators and are positive. Let be the singular values of and the eigenvalues of , all enumerated in decreasing order. We show that the sequence is majorised by . An important consequence is that, when is less than or equal to , and when this inequality is reversed.

     

Isomorphic -subspaces in Orlicz-Lorentz sequence spaces

Given a decreasing weight and an Orlicz function satisfying the -condition at zero, we show that the Orlicz-Lorentz sequence space contains an -isomorphic copy of , if and only if the Orlicz sequence space does, that is, if , where and are the Matuszewska-Orlicz lower and upper indices of , respectively. If does not satisfy the -condition, then a similar result holds true for order continuous subspaces and of and , respectively.

     

Local derivations of reflexive algebras II

Let be a reflexive algebra in Banach space such that both and in Lat . Then every local derivation of into itself is a derivation.

     

Finite groups and the fixed points of coprime automorphisms

Let be a prime, and let be a finite -group acted on by an elementary abelian -group . The following results are proved:

1. If and is nilpotent of class at most for any , then the group is nilpotent of -bounded class.

2. If and is nilpotent of class at most for any , then the derived group is nilpotent of -bounded class.

     

Minimal sufficiency of order statistics in convex models

Let be a convex and dominated statistical model on the measurable space , with minimal sufficient, and let . Then , the -algebra of all permutation invariant sets belonging to the -fold product -algebra , is shown to be minimal sufficient for the corresponding model for independent observations, .

The main technical tool provided and used is a functional analogue of a theorem of Grzegorek (1982) concerning generators of .

     

An inequality for the norm of a polynomial factor

Let be a monic polynomial of degree , with complex coefficients, and let be its monic factor. We prove an asymptotically sharp inequality of the form , where denotes the sup norm on a compact set in the plane. The best constant in this inequality is found by potential theoretic methods. We also consider applications of the general result to the cases of a disk and a segment.

     

Global co-stationarity of the ground model from a new countable length sequence

Suppose are models of ZFC with the same ordinals, and that for all regular cardinals in , satisfies . If contains a sequence for some ordinal , then for all cardinals in with regular in and , is stationary in . That is, a new -sequence achieves global co-stationarity of the ground model.

     

Uniqueness and asymptotic behaviour for solutions of semilinear problems with boundary blow-up

In this paper we prove uniqueness of positive solutions to logistic singular problems , , 1$">, 0$"> in , where the main feature is the fact that . More importantly, we provide exact asymptotic estimates describing, in the form of a two-term expansion, the blow-up rate for the solutions near . This expansion involves both the distance function and the mean curvature of .

     

Normality and exceptional values of derivatives

We show that a family of functions meromorphic in some domain is normal, if for all the derivative omits the value and if the values that can take at the zeros of satisfy certain restrictions. As an application we obtain a new proof of a theorem of Langley which classifies the functions meromorphic in the plane such that and have no zeros.

     

On the number of conjugacy class sizes and character degrees in finite -groups

In this note we prove that for any two integers 1$"> there exist finite -groups of class such that and .

     

The depth of an ideal with a given Hilbert function

Let denote the polynomial ring in variables over a field with each . Let be a homogeneous ideal of with and the Hilbert function of the quotient algebra . Given a numerical function satisfying for some homogeneous ideal of , we write for the set of those integers such that there exists a homogeneous ideal of with and with . It will be proved that one has either for some or .