A question in the theory of saturated formations of finite soluble groups

This paper examines the following question. If and are saturated formations then is defined to be the class of all soluble groups whose belong to . In general is a formation, but need not be a saturated formation. Here the smallest saturated formation containing is studied.     

On the Durrmeyer-type operators for bivariate functions

For measurable functions f of two real variables there are considered the Boolean sums of parametric extensions of certain univariate Durmeyer-type operators and . The weighted mixed moduli of continuity of are estimated and the degrees of approximation of f by in some weighted norms are investigated.     

Baer cotorsion Pairs

LetR be a unital associative ring and two classes of leftR-modules. In [St3] the notion of a ( ) pair was introduced. In analogy to classical cotorsion pairs, a pair (V,W) of subclasses is called a ( ) pair if it is maximal with respect to the classes and the condition Ext _R ¹ (V, W)=0 for all . In this paper we study pairs whereR = ℤ and is the class of all torsion-free abelian groups andT is the class of all torsion abelian groups. A complete characterization is obtained assumingV=L. For example, it is shown that every pair is singly cognerated underV=L. The author was supported by a DFG grant.     

What we know about the second adjunction mapping

Let be an algebraic submanifold of complex projective space ℙ ^N . Assume thatn:=dim and let denote the restriction of the hyperplane section bundle to . The meromorphic map associated to fork≥1 ties together the pluricanonical maps of the surface sections of . Known results show that the behavior of is far better than one would expect from experience with the pluricanonical mappings of algebraic surfaces. In this article we discuss the known results on the structure of the mappings and describe the open problems. Conferenza tenuta il 5 giugno 1997     

Eine Verallgemeinerung derCW-Komplexe

In the definition ofCW-complexes, the one-point spaceP, respectively the spaceP∪* with basepoint *, play the roll of the only “building-stone”. Let be a family of compact spaces. Then the definition of a generalizedCW-complex over is obtained from the definition of aCW-complex by replacingP by the spaces of and formation of the mapping cone by a slightly modified construction. LetCW * denote the category of all pointed spaces which have the homotopy type of a generalizedCW-complex over . If , thenCW * is the category of all pointedCW-spaces.CW * is closed under the formation of direct sums and of mapping cones, cylinders and tori, and is formally characterized as the smallest such subcategory of Top * containing the spaces W∪*, . Following the methods of E. H. Brown, it is proved, that any half exact homotopy functor onCW * is representable, and any cohomology theory onCW is naturally equivalent to the cohomology theory of an Ω-spectrum; for example, the singular cohomo logy is representable onCW for any family of compact spaces.      

An example of pointwise non-convergence of iterated conditional expectation operators

Given ∈, we construct a sequence , … of Borel sub-sigma-algebras on the unit interval with the following property. Suppose the identity functionf(x)=x is transformed by successive conditioning on , then , then , Then the lim sup, with respect ton, will exceed (pointwise almost-everywhere) 1−∈ and its lim inf will be less than ∈. The sequence of functions also will fail to converge in the . This contrasts with the long-open conjecture that if all the come from a finite set of sigma-algebras, then the resulting sequence of functions must converge in . J. L. King was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-9112595.     

On residue complexes,dualizing sheaves and local cohomology modules

According to Grothendieck Duality Theory [RD], on each varietyV over a fieldk, there is a canonical complex of -modules, theresidue complex . These complexes satisfy (and are characterized by) functorial properties in the categoryV ofk-varieties. In [Ye] a complex is constructed explicitly (when the fieldk is perfect). The main result of this paper is that the two families of complexes, and , which carry certain additional data (such as trace maps…), are uniquely isomorphic. As a corollary we recover Lipman’s canonical dualizing sheaf of [Li], and we obtain formulas for residues of local cohomology classes of differential forms.     

Exponential generating functions and complexity of Lie varieties

Suppose that % MathType!End!2!1! is a variety of Lie algebras, and letc _n( % MathType!End!2!1!) be the dimension of the linear span of all multilinear words onn distinct letters in the free algebraF( % MathType!End!2!1!,X) of the variety % MathType!End!2!1!. We consider an exponential generating function % MathType!End!2!1!, called the complexity function. The complexity function is an entire function of a complex variable provided the variety of Lie algebras is nontrivial. In this paper we introduce the notion of complexity for Lie varieties in terms of the growth of complexity functions; also we describe what the complexity means for the codimension growth of the variety. Our main goal is to specify the complexity of a product of two Lie varieties in terms of the complexities of multiplicands. The main observation here is thatC( % MathType!End!2!1!),z) behaves like a composition of three functionsC( % MathType!End!2!1!),z), exp(z), andC( % MathType!End!2!1!),z). Partially supported by grant RFFI 96-01-00146; the author is grateful to the University of Bielefeld for hospitality, where he was DAAD-fellow.     

Pseudo algebraically closed fields over rings

We prove that for almost allσ ∈G ℚ the field has the following property: For each absolutely irreducible affine varietyV of dimensionr and each dominating separable rational mapϕ:V→ there exists a point a ∈ such thatϕ(a) ∈ ℤ^r. We then say that is PAC over ℤ. This is a stronger property then being PAC. Indeed we show that beside the fields other fields which are algebraic over ℤ and are known in the literature to be PAC are not PAC over ℤ.     

A new class of contact riemannian manifolds

N. Tanaka ([10]) defined the canonical affine connection on a nondegenerate integrable CR manifold. In the present paper, we introduce a new class of contact Riemannian manifolds satisfying (C) ( for any unit -geodesic ( , where is the generalized Tanaka connection. In particular, when the associated CR structure of a given contact Riemannian manifold is integrable we have a structure theorem and find examples which are neither Sasakian nor locally symmetric but satisfy the condition (C). This work was supported in part by BSRI 98-1425.     

Bounded point evaluations and cyclic polynomials on the spaces $$\hat F$$

LetF be aBK space withAK and denote the set of all formal power series with such that ε F for the sequence of coefficients of . We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a point to be a bounded point evaluation on , and for a polynomial to be cyclic in . As special cases, we obtain the results for the space ℓ _p (β) in [7]. Research of the authors supported under the research project #1232 of the Serbian Ministry of Sciences and Tecnology and, in the case of the second author, also by the DAAD foundation (German Academic Exchange Service), grant 911 103 102 8.     

On the singularities of nilpotent orbits

Let be a nilpotent orbit of the adjoint action of a complex connected semi-simple Lie group on its Lie algebra. We prove that the normalization of the closure of is Gorenstein and has rational singularities.     

A class of multipliers for $$\mathcal{W}^ \bot $$

Let denote the class of ergodic probability preserving transformations which are disjoint from every weakly mixing system. Let be the class of multipliers for , i.e. ergodic transformations whose all ergodic joinings with any element of are also in . Fix an ergodic rotationT, a mildly mixing actionS of a locally compact second countable groupG and an ergodic cocycle ϕ forT with values inG. The main result of the paper is a sufficient (and also necessary by [LeP] whenG is countable Abelian andS is Bernoullian) condition for the skew product build fromT, ϕ andS to be an element of . Moreover, the self-joinings of such extensions ofT are described with an application to study semisimple extensions of rotations. Dedicated to Hillel Furstenberg on the occasion of his retirement The first-named author was supported in part by CRDF, grant UM1-2546-KH-03. The second-named author was supported in part by KBN grant 1P03A 03826.     

The limits in\bar d of multi-step Markov chainsof multi-step Markov chains

The of the class of multi-step Markov chains is shown to consist of all direct products of Bernoulli processes with processes of rational pure point spectrum. The class of processes that are approached in by their canonical multi-step Markov approximations is also studied. It is found to be strictly smaller than the former class, dense in it, and characterized within it by a certain (noninvariant) property of its rotation factors.     

Application des inequations quasi-variationnelles a quelques problemes non lineaires de la physique des plasmas

This paper deals with some problems arising in plasma physics. The typical example is the following: where is the (neither local, nor monotone, nor continuous) operator: . Using a quasi-variational approach, we prove the existence of minimal and maximal solutions for a weak form of this problem, involving a multi-valued operator β. Various generalizations are treated.      

Two theorems about projective sets

In this paper we prove two (rather unrelated) theorems about projective sets. The first one asserts that subsets of ℵ₁ which are in the codes are constructible; thus it extends the familiar theorem of Shoenfield that subsets of ω are constructible. The second is concerned with largest countable sets and establishes their existence under the hypothesis of Projective Determinacy and the assumption that there exist only countably many ordinal definable reals. Y. N. Moschovakis is a Sloan Foundation Fellow. During the preparation of this paper, both authors were partially supported by NSF Grant GP-27964.     

On small zeros of quadratic forms over finite fields (II)

Let be a quadratic form with integer coefficients and letp denote a prime. Cochrane^[1] proved that ifn≥4 then has a solution satisfying , where . The aim of the present paper is to generalize the above result to finite fields.     

On the representation of differentiations by Hamiltonians,operating from an algebra of local observable spin systems

Let and be algebras of local and quasilocal observable spin systems corresponding to the group Zr, be a differentiation invariant with respect to displacements. The question of representation of D in the form of formal Hamiltonian formed by the displacements of an elementx ε is considered. It is shown that such a representation exists if the condition holds, where means an element obtained from the elements [T_kX,a] by some r-multiple process of summation. Translated from Matematicheskii Zametki, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 93–98, January, 1977.     

Rings of regular functions on nilpotent orbits and their covers

Summary LetG be a complex semisimple algebraic group with Lie algebra . Let be a nilpotentG-orbit, its ring of regular functions. We derive a formula for as aG-module and prove some partial results on a cover of . We then relate this formula to various existing multiplicity formulas forK-types in Harish-Chandra bimodules ofG.Supported by National Science Foundation Grant DMS-8505550     

A note on the gl constant ofE \mathop \otimes \limits^ \vee F F

LetX andY be Banach spaces. TFAE (1)X andY do not contain subspaces uniformly isomorphic to (2) The local unconditional structure constant of the space of bounded operatorsL (X*_k,Y _k) tends to infinity for every increasing sequence and of finite-dimensional subspaces ofX andY respectively.