Differences of vector-valued functions on topological groups

Let be a locally compact group equipped with right Haar measure. The right differences of functions on are defined by for . Let and suppose for some and all . We prove that is a right uniformly continuous function of . If is abelian and the Beurling spectrum does not contain the unit of the dual group , then we show . These results have analogues for functions , where is a separable or reflexive Banach space. Finally, we apply our methods to vector-valued right uniformly continuous differences and to absolutely continuous elements of left Banach -modules.

     

Bounds for the operator norms of some Nörlund matrices

Suppose is a non-increasing sequence of non-negative numbers with , , , and is the lower triangular matrix defined by , , and , . We show that the operator norm of as a linear operator on is no greater than , for ; this generalizes, yet again, Hardy's inequality for sequences, and simplifies and improves, in this special case, more generally applicable results of D. Borwein, Cass, and Kratz. When the tend to a positive limit, the operator norm of on is exactly . We also give some cases when the operator norm of on is less than .

     

A theorem of Briançon-Skoda type for regular local rings containing a field

Let be a regular local ring containing a field. We give a refinement of the Briançon-Skoda theorem showing that if is a minimal reduction of where is -primary, then where and is the largest ideal such that . The proof uses tight closure in characteristic and reduction to characteristic for rings containing the rationals.

     

On the pluricanonical map of threefolds of general type

Let be a smooth minimal threefold of general type and let be an integer . Assume that the image of the pluricanonical map of is a curve. Then a simple computation shows that is necessarily or . When with a numerical condition or when , we obtain two inequalities and , where is the irregularity of and is the Euler characteristic of .

     

The local cohomology modules of Matlis reflexive modules are almost cofinite

We show that if and are Matlis reflexive modules over a complete Gorenstein local domain and is an ideal of such that the dimension of is one, then the modules are Matlis reflexive for all and if . It follows that the Bass numbers of are finite. If is not a domain, then the same results hold for .

     

On the set of topologically invariant means on an algebra of convolution operators on

Let be a locally compact group, the Banach algebra defined by Herz; thus is the Fourier algebra of . Let the dual, a closed ideal, with zero set , and . We consider the set of topologically invariant means on at , where is ``thin.' We show that in certain cases card and does not have the WRNP, i.e. is far from being weakly compact in . This implies the non-Arens regularity of the algebra .

     

On contravariant finiteness of subcategories of modules of projective dimension

Let be an artin algebra. This paper presents a sufficient condition for the subcategory of to be contravariantly finite in , where is the subcategory of consisting of --modules of projective dimension less than or equal to . As an application of this condition it is shown that is contravariantly finite in for each when is stably equivalent to a hereditary algebra.

     

Asymptotic behaviour of certain sets of prime ideals

Let be ideals of the commutative ring , let be a Noetherian -module and let be a submodule of ; also let be an Artinian -module and let be a submodule of . It is shown that, whenever is a sequence of -tuples of non-negative integers which is non-decreasing in the sense that for all and all , then Ass is independent of for all large , and also Att is independent of for all large . These results are proved without any regularity conditions on the ideals , and so (a special case of) the first answers in the affirmative a question raised by S. McAdam.

     

Tate cohomology lowers chromatic Bousfield classes

Let be a finite group. We use recent results of J. P. C. Greenlees and H. Sadofsky to show that the Tate homology of local spectra with respect to produces local spectra. We also show that the Bousfield class of the Tate homology of (for finite) is the same as that of . To be precise, recall that Tate homology is a functor from -spectra to -spectra. To produce a functor from spectra to spectra, we look at a spectrum as a naive -spectrum on which acts trivially, apply Tate homology, and take -fixed points. This composite is the functor we shall actually study, and we'll prove that when is finite. When , the symmetric group on letters, this is related to a conjecture of Hopkins and Mahowald (usually framed in terms of Mahowald's functor ).

     

-analyticity

Let be a finite-dimensional commutative algebra over and let , and be the ring of -differentiable functions of class , the ring of real analytic mappings with values in and the ring of -analytic functions, respectively, defined on an open subset of . We prove two basic results concerning -differentiability and -analyticity: ) , ) if and only if is defined over .

     

Chains of strongly non-reflexive dual groups of integer-valued continuous functions

Answering a question of Eklof-Mekler (Almost free modules, set-theoretic methods, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1990), we prove: (1) If there exists a non-reflecting stationary set of consisting of ordinals of cofinality for each , then there exist abelian groups such that and for each . (2) There exist abelian groups such that for each and for each . The groups are the groups of -valued continuous functions on a topological space and their dual groups.

     

Characterization of the Fourier series of a distribution having a value at a point

Let be a periodic distribution of period . Let be its Fourier series. We show that the distributional point value exists and equals if and only if the partial sums converge to in the Cesàro sense as for each .

     

Properties that characterize Gaussian periods and cyclotomic numbers

Let be a prime number, a -th primitive root of 1 and the periods of degree of . Write with . Several characterizations of the numbers and (or, equivalently, of the cyclotomic numbers of order ) are given in terms of systems of equations they satisfy and a condition on the linear independence, over , of the or on the irreducibility, over , of the characteristic polynomial of the matrix .

     

Critical points of real entire functions and a conjecture of Pólya

Let be a nonconstant real entire function of genus and assume that all the zeros of are distributed in some infinite strip , . It is shown that (1) if has nonreal zeros in the region , and has nonreal zeros in the same region, and if the points and are located outside the Jensen disks of , then has exactly critical zeros in the closed interval , (2) if is at most of order , , and minimal type, then for each positive constant there is a positive integer such that for all has only real zeros in the region , and (3) if is of order less than , then has just as many critical points as couples of nonreal zeros.

     

Stability of semigroups commuting with a compact operator

It is proved that if are bounded -semigroups on Banach spaces and , resp., and , are bounded operators with dense ranges such that intertwines with and commutes with , then is strongly stable provided ---the generator of ---does not have eigenvalue on . An analogous result holds for power-bounded operators.

     

On nonlinear -widths

For characterization of best nonlinear approximation, DeVore,
Howard, and Micchelli have recently suggested the nonlinear -width of a subset in a normed linear space . We proved by a topological method that for and the well-known Aleksandrov -width in a Banach space the following inequalities hold: . Let be the unit ball of Besov space , of multivariate periodic functions. Then for approximation in , with some restriction on and , we established the asymptotic degree of these -widths: .

     

On -algebras associated with locally compact groups

Let be a locally compact group, and let denote the same group with the discrete topology. There are various associated to and We are concerned with the question of when these are isomorphic. This is intimately related to amenability. The results can be reformulated in terms of Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes algebras and of weak containment properties of unitary representations.

     

Cohomological detection and regular elements in group cohomology

Suppose that is a compact Lie group or a discrete group of finite virtual cohomological dimension and that is a field of characteristic . Suppose that is a set of elementary abelian -subgroups such that the cohomology is detected on the centralizers of the elements of . Assume also that is closed under conjugation and that is in whenever some subgroup of is in . Then there exists a regular element in the cohomology ring such that the restriction of to an elementary abelian -subgroup is not nilpotent if and only if is in . The converse of the result is a theorem of Lannes, Schwartz and the second author. The results have several implications for the depth and associated primes of the cohomology rings.

     

Orientation-preserving self-homeomorphisms of the surface of genus two have points of period at most two

We show that for any orientation-preserving self-homeomorphism of the double torus there exists a point of such that . This answers a question raised by Jakob Nielsen in 1942.

     

Singular integrals with exponential weights

We study the operators

where is the Hardy-Littlewood maximal function, the Hilbert transform or Carleson operator.

Under suitable conditions on the weight of exponential type, we prove boundedness of from spaces, defined on with respect to the measure to with the same density measure. These operators, that arise in questions of harmonic analysis on noncompact symmetric spaces, are bounded from to if and only if .