Angular derivatives at boundary fixed points for self-maps of the disk

Let be a one-to-one analytic function of the unit disk into itself, with . The origin is an attracting fixed point for , if is not a rotation. In addition, there can be fixed points on where has a finite angular derivative. These boundary fixed points must be repelling (abbreviated b.r.f.p.). The Koenigs function of is a one-to-one analytic function defined on such that , where . If is the first iterate of that does have b.r.f.p., we compute the Hardy number of , , in terms of the smallest angular derivative of at its b.r.f.p.. In the case when no iterate of has b.r.f.p., then , and vice versa. This has applications to composition operators, since is a formal eigenfunction of the operator . When acts on , by a result of C. Cowen and B. MacCluer, the spectrum of is determined by and the essential spectral radius of , . Also, by a result of P. Bourdon and J. Shapiro, and our earlier work, can be computed in terms of . Hence, our result implies that the spectrum of is determined by the derivative of at the fixed point and the angular derivatives at b.r.f.p. of or some iterate of .

     

On weighted weak type inequalities for modified Hardy operators

We characterize the pairs of weights for which the modified Hardy operator applies into weak- where is a monotone function and .

     

A uniqueness theorem for harmonic functions

The main result of this note is the following theorem: Theorem 1. Let be a half ball in and . Assume that is in and harmonic in , and that for every positive integer there exists a constant such that

Then .

First we prove it for , and then we show by induction that it holds for all .

     

The property and the reals

The property may be generalized by using filters on in a very natural way. We analyze the necessary requirements for a space to have property for a filter . We construct special filters for which has the property, in particular a P-point and a Q-point.

     

On the suspension order of

It is shown that the suspension order of the -fold cartesian product of real projective -space is less than or equal to the suspension order of the -fold symmetric product of and greater than or equal to , where and satisfy and . In particular has suspension order , and for fixed the suspension orders of the spaces are unbounded while their stable suspension orders are constant and equal to .

     

On asymmetry of topological centers of the second duals of Banach algebras

Let be a Banach algebra with a bounded approximate identity and let and be the left and right topological centers of . It is shown that i) is not sufficient for ; ii) the inclusion is not sufficient for ; iii) is not sufficient for to be weakly sequentially complete. These results answer three questions of Anthony To-Ming Lau and Ali Ülger.

     

Optimal estimation of shell thickness in Cutland's construction of Wiener measure

In Cutland's construction of Wiener measure, he used the product of Gaussian measures on , where is an infinite integer. It is mentioned by Cutland and Ng that for the product measure ,

where and with any positive infinite number. We prove here that may be replaced by with any positive infinite number. This is the optimal estimation for the shell thickness. It is also proved that . And for the *Lebesgue measure , is finite and not infinitesimal iff with finite, while for the *Lebesgue area of the sphere , should be .

     

Zero divisors and

Let be a discrete group, the group ring of over and the Lebesgue space of with respect to Haar measure. It is known that if is torsion free elementary amenable, and , then . We will give a sufficient condition for this to be true when , and in the case we will give sufficient conditions for this to be false when .

     

On uniqueness of invariant means

The following results on uniqueness of invariant means are shown:

(i) Let be a connected almost simple algebraic group defined over . Assume that , the group of the real points in , is not compact. Let be a prime, and let be the compact -adic Lie group of the -points in . Then the normalized Haar measure on is the unique invariant mean on .

(ii) Let be a semisimple Lie group with finite centre and without compact factors, and let be a lattice in . Then integration against the -invariant probability measure on the homogeneous space is the unique -invariant mean on .

     

Renormalized oscillation theory for Dirac operators

Oscillation theory for one-dimensional Dirac operators with separated boundary conditions is investigated. Our main theorem reads: If and if solve the Dirac equation , (in the weak sense) and respectively satisfy the boundary condition on the left/right, then the dimension of the spectral projection equals the number of zeros of the Wronskian of and . As an application we establish finiteness of the number of eigenvalues in essential spectral gaps of perturbed periodic Dirac operators.

     

Lacunary convergence of series in

For a finite measure , let denote the space of -measurable functions equipped with the topology of convergence in measure. We prove that a series in is subseries (or unconditionally) convergent provided each of its lacunary subseries converges.

     

Enveloping algebras of lie color algebras: primeness versus graded-primeness

Let be a finite abelian group and let be a, possibly restricted, -graded Lie color algebra. Then the enveloping algebra is also -graded, and we consider the question of whether being graded-prime implies that it is prime. The first section of this paper is devoted to the special case of Lie superalgebras over a field of characteristic . Specifically, we show that if and if has a unique minimal graded-prime ideal, then this ideal is necessarily prime. As will be apparent, the latter result follows quickly from the existence of an anti-automorphism of whose square is the automorphism of the enveloping algebra associated with its -grading. The second section, which is independent of the first, studies more general Lie color algebras and shows that if is graded-prime and if most homogeneous components of are infinite dimensional over , then is prime. Here we use -methods to study the grading on the extended centroid of . In particular, if is generated by the infinite support of , then we prove that is homogeneous.

     

Degrees of high-dimensional subvarieties of determinantal varieties

Let , where is a prime, and . In , let be the variety defined by . We show that any subvariety of of codimension less than must have degree a multiple of . We also show that the bounds on the codimension in our results are strict by exhibiting subvarieties of the appropriate codimension whose degrees are prime to .

     

A counterexample to a question of R. Haydon, E. Odell and H. Rosenthal

We give an example of a compact metric space , an open dense subset of , and a sequence in which is pointwise convergent to a non-continuous function on , such that for every there exists with for all , yet is equivalent to the unit vector basis of the James quasi-reflexive space of order 1. Thus does not embed isomorphically in the closed linear span of . This answers in the negative a question asked by H. Haydon, E. Odell and H. Rosenthal.

     

Subaveraging estimate for

Let be a smooth real hypersurface of and a compact submanifold of . We generalize a result of A. Boggess and R. Dwilewicz giving, under some geometric conditions on and , an estimate of the submeanvalue on of any function on a neighbourhood of , by the norm of on a neighbourhood of in .

     

Paraexponentials, Muckenhoupt weights, and resolvents of paraproducts

We analyze the stability of Muckenhoupt's and classes of weights under a nonlinear operation, the -operation. We prove that the dyadic doubling reverse Hölder classes are not preserved under the -operation, but the dyadic doubling classes are preserved for . We give an application to the structure of resolvent sets of dyadic paraproduct operators.

     

Average curvature of convex curves in

A well-known result states that, if a curve in has geodesic curvature less than or equal to one at every point, then is embedded. The converse is obviously not true, but the embeddedness of a curve does give information about the curvature. We prove that, if is a convex embedded curve in , then the average curvature (curvature per unit length) of , denoted , satisfies . This bound on the average curvature is tight as for a horocycle.

     

Automorphic-differential identities and actions of pointed coalgebras on rings

In this paper, we prove the following two results which generalize the theorem concerning automorphic-differential endomorphisms asserted by J. Bergen. Let be a ring, its left Martindale quotient ring and a right ideal of having no nonzero left annihilator. (1) Let be a pointed coalgebra which measures such that the group-like elements of act as automorphisms of . If is prime and for , then . Furthermore, if the action of extends to and if such that , then . (2) Let be an endomorphism of given as a sum of composition maps of left multiplications, right multiplications, automorphisms and skew-derivations. If is semiprime and , then .

     

Some results on finite Drinfeld modules

Let be a global function field, a degree one prime divisor of and let be the Dedekind domain of functions in regular outside . Let be the Hilbert class field of , the integral closure of in . Let be a rank one normalized Drinfeld -module and let be a prime ideal in . We explicitly determine the finite -module structure of . In particular, if , is an odd prime number and is the Carlitz -module, then the finite -module is always cyclic.