A criterion for splitting -algebras in tensor products

The goal of the paper is to prove the following theorem: if , are unital -algebras, simple and nuclear, then any -subalgebra of the -tensor product of and , which contains the tensor product of with the scalar multiples of the unit of , splits in the -tensor product of with some -subalgebra of .

     

-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 .

     

Annihilating a subspace of with the sign of a continuous function

Let be a -finite, nonatomic, Baire measure space. Let be a finite dimensional subspace of . There is a bounded, continuous function, , defined on , such that

(1) for all , and (2) almost everywhere.

     

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.

     

Finite generation properties for fuchsian group von Neumann algebras tensor

We prove that the algebra , a free group with finitely many generators, contains a subnormal operator such that the linear span of the set is weakly dense in . This is the analogue for the factor , finite, of a well known fact about the unilateral shift on a Hilbert space : the linear span of all the monomials is weakly dense in .

We also show that for a suitable space of square summable analytic functions, if is the projection from the Hilbert space of all square summable functions onto and is the unbounded operator of multiplication by on , then the (unbounded) operator is nonzero (with nonzero domain).

     

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 .

     

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 .

     

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).

     

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 .

     

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 .

     

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.

     

-identities on associative algebras

Let be an algebra over a field and a finite group of automorphisms and anti-automorphisms of . We prove that if satisfies an essential -polynomial identity of degree , then the -codimensions of are exponentially bounded and satisfies a polynomial identity whose degree is bounded by an explicit function of . As a consequence we show that if is an algebra with involution satisfying a -polynomial identity of degree , then the -codimensions of are exponentially bounded; this gives a new proof of a theorem of Amitsur stating that in this case must satisfy a polynomial identity and we can now give an upper bound on the degree of this identity.

     

An uncertainty principle for convolution operators on discrete groups

Consider a discrete group and a bounded self-adjoint convolution operator on ; let be the spectrum of . The spectral theorem gives a unitary isomorphism between and a direct sum , where , and is a regular Borel measure supported on . Through this isomorphism corresponds to multiplication by the identity function on each summand. We prove that a nonzero function and its transform cannot be simultaneously concentrated on sets , such that and the cardinality of are both small. This can be regarded as an extension to this context of Heisenberg's classical uncertainty principle.

     

The Furuta inequality in Banach -algebras

Let be real numbers with and Furuta (1987) proved that if bounded linear operators on a Hilbert space satisfy , then . This inequality is called the Furuta inequality and has many applications. In this paper, we prove that the Furuta inequality holds in a unital hermitian Banach -algebra with continuous involution.

     

A bound on the reduction number of a primary ideal

Let be a local ring of positive dimension and let be an -primary ideal. We denote the reduction number of by , which is the smallest integer such that for some reduction of In this paper we give an upper bound on in terms of numerical invariants which are related with the Hilbert coefficients of when is Cohen-Macaulay. If , it is known that where denotes the multiplicity of If in Corollary 1.5 we prove where is the first Hilbert coefficient of From this bound several results follow. Theorem 1.3 gives an upper bound on in a more general setting.

     

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.

     

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.

     

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.

     

A generalization of Kelley's theorem for -spaces

We prove that if an open map of compacta and has perfect fibers and is a -space, then there exists a -dimensional compact subset of intersecting each fiber of . This is a stronger version of a well-known theorem of Kelley. Applications of this result and related topics are discussed.