Universal -lattices of minimal rank

Let be the minimal rank of -universal -lattices, by which we mean positive definite -lattices which represent all positive -lattices of rank . It is a well known fact that for . In this paper, we determine and find all -universal lattices of rank for .

     

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.

     

Completely continuous multilinear operators on spaces

Given a -linear operator from a product of spaces into a Banach space , our main result proves the equivalence between being completely continuous, having an -valued separately continuous extension to the product of the biduals and having a regular associated polymeasure. It is well known that, in the linear case, these are also equivalent to being weakly compact, and that, for , being weakly compact implies the conditions above but the converse fails.

     

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 .

     

Sampling sequences for Hardy spaces of the ball

We show that a sequence in the unit ball of is sampling for the Hardy spaces , , if and only if the admissible accumulation set of in the unit sphere has full measure. For the situation is quite different. While this condition is still sufficient, when (in contrast to the one dimensional situation) there exist sampling sequences for whose admissible accumulation set has measure 0. We also consider the sequence obtained by applying to each a random rotation, and give a necessary and sufficient condition on so that, with probability one, is of sampling for , .

     

On subdiagonal algebras for subfactors

We show that if are type factors with finite index (and common identity) and is the trace preserving conditional expectation, then there are no subdiagonal algebras in with respect to unless .

     

P-continuity on classical Banach spaces

Given a Banach space and an integer , the existence of an -homogeneous polynomial which is not uniformly continuous with respect to the polynomial topology on is investigated. We provide a complete characterization for some classical Banach spaces, while for others a surprising unresolved difficulty is encountered for a certain value of (depending on ).

     

Bloch radius, normal families and quasiregular mappings

Bloch's Theorem is extended to -quasiregular maps , where is the standard -dimensional sphere. An example shows that Bloch's constant actually depends on for .

     

On Tate-Shafarevich groups of abelian varieties

Let be a finite Galois extension of number fields with Galois group , let be an abelian variety defined over , and let and denote, respectively, the Tate-Shafarevich groups of over and of over . Assuming that these groups are finite, we derive, under certain restrictions on and , a formula for the order of the subgroup of of -invariant elements. As a corollary, we obtain a simple formula relating the orders of , and when is a quadratic extension and is the twist of by the non-trivial character of .

     

Relative Brauer groups of discrete valued fields

Let be a non-trivial finite Galois extension of a field . In this paper we investigate the role that valuation-theoretic properties of play in determining the non-triviality of the relative Brauer group, , of over . In particular, we show that when is finitely generated of transcendence degree 1 over a -adic field and is a prime dividing , then the following conditions are equivalent: (i) the -primary component, , is non-trivial, (ii) is infinite, and (iii) there exists a valuation of trivial on such that divides the order of the decomposition group of at .

     

A note on -bases of rings

Let be a tower of rings of characteristic . Suppose that is a finitely presented -module. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of -bases of over . Next, let be a polynomial ring where is a perfect field of characteristic , and let be a regular noetherian subring of containing such that . Suppose that is a free -module. Then, applying the above result to a tower of rings, we shall show that a polynomial of minimal degree in is a -basis of over .

     

Iwasawa invariants and class numbers of quadratic fields for the prime

Let be a square-free integer with and . Put and . For the cyclotomic -extension of , we denote by the -th layer of over . We prove that the -Sylow subgroup of the ideal class group of is trivial for all integers if and only if the class number of is not divisible by the prime . This enables us to show that there exist infinitely many real quadratic fields in which splits and whose Iwasawa -invariant vanishes.

     

-sequences

A sequence of positive integers is called a -sequence if every integer has at most representations with all in and . A -sequence is also called a -sequence or Sidon sequence. The main result is the following

Theorem. Let be a -sequence and for an integer . Then there is a -sequence of size , where .

Corollary. Let . The interval then contains a -sequence of size , when .

     

An obstruction to 3-dimensional thickenings

In this paper we give a characterization of those locally finite -dimensional simplicial complexes that have an orientable -manifold thickening. This leads to an obstruction for a fake surface to admit such a thickening. The obstruction is defined in , where is the subgraph consisting of all the -simplexes of order three.

     

The first occurrence for the irreducible modules of general linear groups in the polynomial algebra

Let be a prime number and let be the group of all invertible matrices over the prime field . It is known that every irreducible -module can occur as a submodule of , the polynomial algebra with variables over . Given an irreducible -module , the purpose of this paper is to find out the first value of the degree of which occurs as a submodule of , the subset of consisting of homogeneous polynomials of degree . This generalizes Schwartz-Tri's result to the case of any prime .

     

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.

     

The spectral properties of certain linear operators and their extensions

Let be a Hilbert space with inner-product , and let be a bounded positive operator on which determines an inner-product, . Denote by the completion of with respect to the norm . In this paper, operators having certain relationships with are studied. In particular, if where , then has an extension , and and have essentially the same spectral and Fredholm properties.

     

Curvature restrictions on convex, timelike surfaces in Minkowski 3-space

Suppose that and are Minkowski Gauss curvature and Minkowski mean curvature respectively on a timelike surface that is immersed in Minkowski 3-space . Suppose also that and that is complete as a surface in the underlying Euclidean 3-space . It is shown that neither nor can be bounded away from zero on such a surface .

     

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.

     

Extreme points of the unit ball of the Fourier-Stieltjes algebra

Let be a locally compact group. Among other things, we proved in this paper that for an IN-group , the extreme points of the unit ball of the Fourier-Stieltjes algebra are not in the Fourier algebra if and only if is non-compact, or equivalently, there is no irreducible representation of which is quasi-equivalent to a subrepresentation of the left regular representation of if and only if is non-compact. This result is a non-commutative version of the following well known result: For any locally compact group , the extreme points of the unit ball of the measure algebra are not in the group algebra if and only if is non-discrete. On the other hand, we also showed that if has the RNP, then there are extreme points of the unit ball of that are in . Since it is well known there are non-compact locally compact group for which has the RNP, there exist non-compact locally compact groups where extreme points of the unit ball of can be in . This shows that the condition be an IN-group cannot be entirely removed.