Small covers of the dodecahedron and the -cell

Let be the right-angled hyperbolic dodecahedron or -cell, and let be the group generated by reflections across codimension-one faces of . We prove that if is a torsion free subgroup of minimal index, then the corresponding hyperbolic manifold is determined up to homeomorphism by modulo symmetries of .

     

-inner automorphisms of finite groups

We refer to an automorphism of a group as -inner if given any subset of with cardinality less than , there exists an inner automorphism of agreeing with on . Hence is 2-inner if it sends every element of to a conjugate. New examples are given of outer -inner automorphisms of finite groups for all natural numbers .

     

On the Bieberbach conjecture and holomorphic dynamics

In this note we prove that when is a polynomial of degree with connected Julia set and when belongs to the filled-in Julia set , then . We also show that equality is achieved if and only if is a segment of which one extremity is . In that case, is conjugate to a Tchebycheff polynomial or its opposite. The main tool in our proof is the Bieberbach conjecture proved by de Branges in 1984.

     

Discrete spectra of -algebras and complemented submodules in Hilbert -modules

Let be a -algebra and let be a full (right) Hilbert -module. It is shown that if the spectrum of is discrete, then every closed --submodule of is complemented in , and conversely that if is a -space and if every closed --submodule of is complemented in , then is discrete.

     

Modular group algebras of -separable -groups

Under the assumptions of MA and CH, it is proved that if is a field of prime characteristic and is an -separable abelian -group of cardinality , then an isomorphism of the group algebras and implies an isomorphism of and .

     

On stable equivalences of Morita type for finite dimensional algebras

In this paper, we assume that algebras are finite dimensional algebras with 1 over a fixed field and modules over an algebra are finitely generated left unitary modules. Let and be two algebras (where is a splitting field for and ) with no semisimple summands. If two bimodules and induce a stable equivalence of Morita type between and , and if maps any simple -module to a simple -module, then is a Morita equivalence. This conclusion generalizes Linckelmann's result for selfinjective algebras. Our proof here is based on the construction of almost split sequences.

     

On the projective-injective modules over cellular algebras

We show that the projective module over a cellular algebra is injective if and only if the socle of coincides with the top of , and this is also equivalent to the condition that the th socle layer of is isomorphic to the th radical layer of for each positive integer . This eases the process of determining the Loewy series of the projective-injective modules over cellular algebras.

     

Cyclicity conditions for division algebras of prime degree

Let be a division algebra of prime degree . A set of criteria is given for cyclicity of in terms of subgroups of the multiplicative group of . It is essentially shown that is cyclic if and only if contains a nonabelian metabelian subgroup.

     

Hardy spaces of spaces of homogeneous type

Let be a space of homogeneous type, and be the generator of a semigroup with Gaussian kernel bounds on . We define the Hardy spaces of for a range of , by means of area integral function associated with the Poisson semigroup of , which is proved to coincide with the usual atomic Hardy spaces on spaces of homogeneous type.

     

Number of Sylow subgroups in -solvable groups

If is a finite group and is a prime number, let be the number of Sylow -subgroups of . If is a subgroup of a -solvable group , we prove that divides .

     

Poincaré duality in P.A. Smith theory

Let , or more generally be a finite -group, where is an odd prime. If acts on a space whose cohomology ring fulfills Poincaré duality (with appropriate coefficients ), we prove a mod congruence between the total Betti number of and a number which depends only on the -module structure of . This improves the well known mod congruences that hold for actions on general spaces.

     

The class equation and counting in factorizable monoids

For orders and conjugacy in finite group theory, Lagrange's Theorem and the class equation have universal application. Here, the class equation (extended to monoids via standard group action by conjugation) is applied to factorizable submonoids of the symmetric inverse monoid. In particular, if is a monoid induced by a subgroup of the symmetric group , then the center (all elements of that commute with every element of ) is if and only if is transitive. In the case where is both transitive and of order either or (for prime), formulas are provided for the order of as well as the number and sizes of its conjugacy classes.

     

A block theoretic analogue of a theorem of Glauberman and Thompson

If is an odd prime, a finite group and a Sylow--subgroup of , a theorem of Glauberman and Thompson states that is -nilpotent if and only if is -nilpotent, where is the Thompson subgroup of generated by all abelian subgroups of of maximal order. Following a suggestion of G. R. Robinson, we prove a block-theoretic analogue of this theorem.

     

Farrell sets for harmonic functions

Let denote a relatively closed subset of the unit ball of . The purpose of this paper is to characterize those sets which have the following property: any harmonic function on which satisfies on (where 0$">) can be locally uniformly approximated on by a sequence of harmonic polynomials which satisfy the same inequality on . This answers a question posed by Stray, who had earlier solved the corresponding problem for holomorphic functions on the unit disc.

     

Nehari and Carathéodory-Fejér type extension results for operator-valued functions on groups

Let be a compact abelian group having the property that its character group is totally ordered by a semigroup . We prove that every operator-valued function on of the form , such that the Hankel operator is bounded, has an essentially bounded extension with . The proof is based on Arveson's Extension Theorem for completely positive functions on -algebras. Among the corollaries we have a Carathéodory-Fejér type result for analytic operator-valued functions defined on such groups.

     

A characterization of compactly generated metric groups

Recall that a topological group is: (a) -compact if where each is compact, and (b) compactly generated if is algebraically generated by some compact subset of . Compactly generated groups are -compact, but the converse is not true: every countable non-finitely generated discrete group (for example, the group of rational numbers or the free (Abelian) group with a countable infinite set of generators) is a counterexample. We prove that a metric group is compactly generated if and only if is -compact and for every open subgroup of there exists a finite set such that algebraically generates . As a corollary, we obtain that a -compact metric group is compactly generated provided that one of the following conditions holds: (i) has no proper open subgroups, (ii) is dense in some connected group (in particular, if is connected itself), (iii) is totally bounded (= subgroup of a compact group). Our second major result states that a countable metric group is compactly generated if and only if it can be generated by a sequence converging to its identity element (eventually constant sequences are not excluded here). Therefore, a countable metric group can be generated by a (possibly eventually constant) sequence converging to its identity element in each of the cases (i), (ii) and (iii) above. Examples demonstrating that various conditions cannot be omitted or relaxed are constructed. In particular, we exhibit a countable totally bounded group which is not compactly generated.

     

On the best possible character of the norm in some a priori estimates for non-divergence form equations in Carnot groups

Let be a group of Heisenberg type with homogeneous dimension . For every we construct a non-divergence form operator and a non-trivial solution to the Dirichlet problem: in , on . This non-uniqueness result shows the impossibility of controlling the maximum of with an norm of when . Another consequence is the impossiblity of an Alexandrov-Bakelman type estimate such as

where is the dimension of the horizontal layer of the Lie algebra and is the symmetrized horizontal Hessian of .

     

Bernstein-Walsh inequalities and the exponential curve in

It is shown that for the pluripolar set in there is a global Bernstein-Walsh inequality: If is a polynomial of degree on and on , this inequality gives an upper bound for which grows like . The result is used to obtain sharp estimates for .

     

Induced local actions on taut and Stein manifolds

Let act by biholomorphisms on a taut manifold . We show that can be regarded as a -invariant domain in a complex manifold on which the universal complexification of acts. If is also Stein, an analogous result holds for actions of a larger class of real Lie groups containing, e.g., abelian and certain nilpotent ones. In this case the question of Steinness of is discussed.

     

The Hochschild cohomology ring of a selfinjective algebra of finite representation type

This paper describes the Hochschild cohomology ring of a selfinjective algebra of finite representation type over an algebraically closed field , showing that the quotient of the Hochschild cohomology ring by the ideal generated by all homogeneous nilpotent elements is isomorphic to either or , and is thus finitely generated as an algebra. We also consider more generally the property of a finite dimensional algebra being selfinjective, and as a consequence show that if all simple -modules are -periodic, then is selfinjective.