Infinite homogeneous algebras are anticommutative

A (non-associative) algebra , over a field , is called homogeneous if its automorphism group permutes transitively the one dimensional subspaces of . Suppose is a nontrivial finite dimensional homogeneous algebra over an infinite field. Then we prove that for all in , and so for all .

     

Sharper changes in topologies

Let be a Polish group, a Polish topology on a space , acting continuously on , with -invariant and in the Borel algebra generated by . Then there is a larger Polish topology on so that is open with respect to , still acts continuously on , and has a basis consisting of sets that are of the same Borel rank as relative to .

     

On semisimple Hopf algebras of dimension

We consider the problem of the classification of semisimple Hopf algebras of dimension where are two prime numbers. First we prove that the order of the group of grouplike elements of is not , and that if it is , then . We use it to prove that if and its dual Hopf algebra are of Frobenius type, then is either a group algebra or a dual of a group algebra. Finally, we give a complete classification in dimension , and a partial classification in dimensions and .

     

Reflection and uniqueness theorems for harmonic functions

Suppose that is harmonic on an open half-ball in such that the origin 0 is the centre of the flat part of the boundary . If has non-negative lower limit at each point of and tends to 0 sufficiently rapidly on the normal to at 0, then has a harmonic continuation by reflection across . Under somewhat stronger hypotheses, the conclusion is that . These results strengthen recent theorems of Baouendi and Rothschild. While the flat boundary set can be replaced by a spherical surface, it cannot in general be replaced by a smooth -dimensional manifold.

     

The globally irreducible representations of symmetric groups

Let be an algebraic number field and be the ring of integers of . Let be a finite group and be a finitely generated torsion free -module. We say that is a globally irreducible -module if, for every maximal ideal of , the -module is irreducible, where stands for the residue field .

Answering a question of Pham Huu Tiep, we prove that the symmetric group does not have non-trivial globally irreducible modules. More precisely we establish that if is a globally irreducible -module, then is an -module of rank with the trivial or sign action of .

     

On covering translations and homeotopy groups of contractible open -manifolds

This paper gives a new proof of a result of Geoghegan and Mihalik which states that whenever a contractible open -manifold which is not homeomorphic to is a covering space of an -manifold and either or and is irreducible, then the group of covering translations injects into the homeotopy group of .

     

Schreier theorem on groups which split over free abelian groups

Let be either a free product with amalgamation or an HNN group where is isomorphic to a free abelian group of finite rank. Suppose that both and have no nontrivial, finitely generated, normal subgroups of infinite indices. We show that if contains a finitely generated normal subgroup which is neither contained in nor free, then the index of in is finite. Further, as an application of this result, we show that the fundamental group of a torus sum of -manifolds and , the interiors of which admit hyperbolic structures, have no nontrivial, finitely generated, nonfree, normal subgroup of infinite index if each of and has at least one nontorus boundary.

     

An extension of a non-commutative Choquet-Deny theorem

Let be a discrete group, and let be a normal subgroup of . Then the quotient map induces a group algebra homomorphism . It is shown that the kernel of this map may be decomposed as , where is a closed right ideal with a bounded left approximate identity and is a closed left ideal with a bounded right approximate identity. It follows from this fact that, if is a closed two-sided ideal in , then is closed in . This answers a question of Reiter.

     

Higher order symmetric spaces and the roots of the identity in a Lie group

Let denote the set of all -roots of the identity in a Lie group . We show that is always an embedded submanifold of , having the conjugacy classes of its elements as open submanifolds. These conjugacy classes are examples of -symmetric spaces and we show, more generally, that every -symmetric space of a Lie group is a covering manifold of an embedded submanifold of . We compute also the Hessian of the inclusions of and into , relative to the natural connection on the domain and to the symmetric connection on .

     

Congruences between the coefficients of the Tate curve via formal groups

Let be the Tate curve with canonical differential, . If the characteristic is , then the Hasse invariant, , of the pair should equal one. If , then calculation of leads to a nontrivial separable relation between the coefficients and . If or , Thakur related and via elementary methods and an identity of Ramanujan. Here, we treat uniformly all characteristics via explicit calculation of the formal group law of . Our analysis was motivated by the study of the invariant which is an infinite Witt vector generalizing the Hasse invariant.

     

Automatic surjectivity of ring homomorphisms on -algebras and algebraic differences among some group algebras of compact groups

In this paper we present two automatic surjectivity results concerning ring homomorphisms between -classes of an -algebra which, in some sense, improve the main theorem in a recent paper by the author (Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 169-175) quite significantly. Furthermore, we apply our results to show that for arbitrary infinite compact groups , no quotient ring of is isomorphic to , a statement we conjecture to be true for every pair of group rings corresponding to different exponents .

     

Oscillating global continua of positive solutions of semilinear elliptic problems

Let be a bounded domain in , , with boundary , and consider the semilinear elliptic boundary value problem

where is a uniformly elliptic operator on , , is strictly positive in , and the function is continuously differentiable, with , . A well known result of Rabinowitz shows that an unbounded continuum of positive solutions of this problem bifurcates from the principal eigenvalue of the linear problem. We show that under certain oscillation conditions on the nonlinearity , this continuum oscillates about , in a certain sense, as it approaches infinity. Hence, in particular, the equation has infinitely many positive solutions for each in an open interval containing .

     

Noncontinuity of spectrum for the adjoint of an operator

This paper deals with the connection between continuity of spectrum at an element of the Banach algebra of all bounded linear operators on a Banach space and at the adjoint of . In particular, we show that, if is not reflexive, the spectrum function may be continuous at and discontinuous at .

     

Involutions with

Let be a smooth involution on a closed -dimensional manifold such that all Stiefel-Whitney classes of the tangent bundle to each component of the fixed point set of vanish in positive dimension. In this paper, we estimate the least possible lower bound of dim if does not bound.

     

Inequalities for the gamma function

We prove the following two theorems:

(i) Let be the th power mean of and . The inequality

holds for all if and only if , where denotes Euler's constant. This refines results established by W. Gautschi (1974) and the author (1997).

(ii) The inequalities

are valid for all if and only if and , while holds for all if and only if and . These bounds for improve those given by G. D. Anderson an S.-L. Qiu (1997).

     

Extensions of holomorphic maps through hypersurfaces and relations to the Hartogs extensions in infinite dimension

A generalization of Kwack's theorem to the infinite dimensional case is obtained. We consider a holomorphic map from into , where is a hypersurface in a complex Banach manifold and is a hyperbolic Banach space. Under various assumptions on , and we show that can be extended to a holomorphic map from into . Moreover, it is proved that an increasing union of pseudoconvex domains containing no complex lines has the Hartogs extension property.

     

On the extremality of quasiconformal mappings and quasiconformal deformations

Given a family of quasiconformal deformations such that has a uniform bound , the solution of the Löwner-type differential equation

is an -quasiconformal mapping. An open question is to determine, for each fixed , whether the extremality of is equivalent to that of . The note gives this a negative approach in both directions.

     

Tunnel numbers of small knots do not go down under connected sum

Let and be two knots in and , the tunnel numbers of them. In this paper, we show that if both and are small, then . Moreover we show that for any small knots .

     

No submaximal topology on a countable set is -complementary

Two -topologies and given on the same set , are called transversal if their union generates the discrete topology on . The topologies and are -complementary if they are transversal and their intersection is the cofinite topology on . We establish that for any connected Tychonoff topology there exists a connected Tychonoff transversal one. Another result is that no -complementary topology exists for the maximal topology constructed by van Douwen on the rational numbers. This gives a negative answer to Problem 162 from Open Problems in Topology (1990).

     

Invertible completions of upper triangular operator matrices

In this note we prove that if

is a upper triangular operator matrix acting on the Banach space , then is invertible for some if and only if and satisfy the following conditions:

(i)

is left invertible;

(ii)

is right invertible;

(iii)

.

Furthermore we show that , where is the union of certain of the holes in which happen to be subsets of .