Distinguished representations and poles of twisted tensor -functions

Let be a quadratic extension of -adic fields. If is an admissible representation of that is parabolically induced from discrete series representations, then we prove that the space of -invariant linear functionals on has dimension one, where is the mirabolic subgroup. As a corollary, it is deduced that if is distinguished by , then the twisted tensor -function associated to has a pole at . It follows that if is a discrete series representation, then at most one of the representations and is distinguished, where is an extension of the local class field theory character associated to . This is in agreement with a conjecture of Flicker and Rallis that relates the set of distinguished representations with the image of base change from a suitable unitary group.

     

Uncountable categoricity for gross models

A model is said to be gross if all infinite definable sets in have the same cardinality (as ). We prove that if for some uncountable , has a unique gross model of cardinality , then for any uncountable , has a unique gross model of cardinality .

     

Symmetric word equations in two positive definite letters

For every symmetric (``palindromic") word in two positive definite letters and for each fixed -by- positive definite and , it is shown that the symmetric word equation has an -by- positive definite solution . Moreover, if and are real, there is a real solution . The notion of symmetric word is generalized to allow non-integer exponents, with certain limitations. In some cases, the solution is unique, but, in general, uniqueness is an open question. Applications and methods for finding solutions are also discussed.

     

Pure Picard-Vessiot extensions with generic properties

Given a connected linear algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0, we construct a pure Picard-Vessiot extension for , namely, a Picard-Vessiot extension , with differential Galois group , such that and are purely differentially transcendental over . The differential field is the quotient field of a -stable proper differential subring with the property that if is any differential field with field of constants and is a Picard-Vessiot extension with differential Galois group a connected subgroup of , then there is a differential homomorphism such that is generated over as a differential field by .

     

Simple corona -algebras

Let be a non-unital and -unital simple -algebra. We show that if is simple, then is purely infinite. We also show that is simple if and only if has a continuous scale provided that is not isomorphic to the compact operators.

     

Self-normalizing Sylow subgroups

Using the classification of finite simple groups we prove the following statement: Let 3$"> be a prime, a group of automorphisms of -power order of a finite group , and a -invariant Sylow -subgroup of . If is trivial, then is solvable. An equivalent formulation is that if has a self-normalizing Sylow -subgroup with 3$"> a prime, then is solvable. We also investigate the possibilities when .

     

On -supplemented maximal and minimal subgroups of Sylow subgroups of finite groups

This paper proves: Let be a saturated formation containing . Suppose that is a group with a normal subgroup such that .

(1) If all maximal subgroups of any Sylow subgroup of are -supple- mented in , then ;

(2) If all minimal subgroups and all cyclic subgroups with order 4 of are -supplemented in , then .

     

Coprime packedness and set theoretic complete intersections of ideals in polynomial rings

A ring is said to be coprimely packed if whenever is an ideal of and is a set of maximal ideals of with , then for some . Let be a ring and be the localization of at its set of monic polynomials. We prove that if is a Noetherian normal domain, then the ring is coprimely packed if and only if is a Dedekind domain with torsion ideal class group. Moreover, this is also equivalent to the condition that each proper prime ideal of is a set theoretic complete intersection. A similar result is also proved when is either a Noetherian arithmetical ring or a Bézout domain of dimension one.

     

The number of Hall -subgroups of a -separable group

We observe a simple formula to compute the number of Hall -subgroups of a -separable finite group in terms of only the action of a fixed Hall -subgroup of on a set of normal -sections of . As a consequence, we obtain that divides whenever is a subgroup of a finite -separable group . This generalizes a recent result of Navarro. In addition, our method gives an alternative proof of Navarro's result.

     

A criterion for satellite 1-genus 1-bridge knots

Let be a knot in a closed orientable irreducible 3-manifold . Suppose admits a genus 1 Heegaard splitting and we denote by the splitting torus. We say is a -genus -bridge splitting of if intersects transversely in two points, and divides into two pairs of a solid torus and a boundary parallel arc in it. It is known that a -genus -bridge splitting of a satellite knot admits a satellite diagram disjoint from an essential loop on the splitting torus. If and the slope of the loop is longitudinal in one of the solid tori, then is obtained by twisting a component of a -bridge link along the other component. We give a criterion for determining whether a given -genus -bridge splitting of a knot admits a satellite diagram of a given slope or not. As an application, we show there exist counter examples for a conjecture of Ait Nouh and Yasuhara.

     

-adic -basis and regular local ring

We introduce the concept of -adic -basis as an extension of the concept of -basis. Let be a regular local ring of prime characteristic and a ring such that . Then we prove that is a regular local ring if and only if there exists an -adic -basis of and is Noetherian.

     

Double covering of curves

Let be a smooth projective algebraic curve of genus and an integer with . For all integers we prove the existence of a double covering with a smooth curve of genus and the existence of a degree morphism that does not factor through . By the Castelnuovo-Severi inequality, the result is sharp (except perhaps the bound ).

     

Characterizing Cohen-Macaulay local rings by Frobenius maps

Let be a commutative noetherian local ring of prime characteristic. Denote by the ring regarded as an -algebra through -times composition of the Frobenius map. Suppose that is F-finite, i.e., is a finitely generated -module. We prove that is Cohen-Macaulay if and only if the -modules have finite Cohen-Macaulay dimensions for infinitely many integers .

     

Control of radii of convergence and extension of subanalytic functions

Let : denote a real analytic function on an open subset of , and let denote the points where does not admit a local analytic extension. We show that if is semialgebraic (respectively, globally subanalytic), then is semialgebraic (respectively, subanalytic) and extends to a semialgebraic (respectively, subanalytic) neighbourhood of . (In the general subanalytic case, is not necessarily subanalytic.) Our proof depends on controlling the radii of convergence of power series centred at points in the image of an analytic mapping , in terms of the radii of convergence of at points , where denotes the Taylor expansion of at .

     

Arc-analytic roots of analytic functions are Lipschitz

Let be an arc-analytic function (i.e., analytic on every analytic arc) and assume that for some integer the function is real analytic. We prove that is locally Lipschitz; even if is less than the multiplicity of . We show that the result fails if is only a , arc-analytic function (even blow-analytic), . We also give an example of a non-Lipschitz arc-analytic solution of a polynomial equation , where are real analytic functions.

     

Gorenstein injective modules and local cohomology

In this paper we assume that is a Gorenstein Noetherian ring. We show that if is also a local ring with Krull dimension that is less than or equal to 2, then for any nonzero ideal of , is Gorenstein injective. We establish a relation between Gorenstein injective modules and local cohomology. In fact, we will show that if is a Gorenstein ring, then for any -module its local cohomology modules can be calculated by means of a resolution of by Gorenstein injective modules. Also we prove that if is -Gorenstein, is a Gorenstein injective and is a nonzero ideal of , then is Gorenstein injective.

     

A note on commutativity up to a factor of bounded operators

In this note, we explore commutativity up to a factor for bounded operators and in a complex Hilbert space. Conditions on possible values of the factor are formulated and shown to depend on spectral properties of the operators. Commutativity up to a unitary factor is considered. In some cases, we obtain some properties of the solution space of the operator equation and explore the structures of and that satisfy for some A quantum effect is an operator on a complex Hilbert space that satisfies The sequential product of quantum effects and is defined by We also obtain properties of the sequential product.

     

Notes on the largest irreducible character degree of a finite group

Let be a finite group and the largest irreducible character degree of . In this note, we show the following results: if , then ; if and, in addition, is -solvable with abelian Sylow -subgroup, then .

     

Mansfield's imprimitivity theorem for arbitrary closed subgroups

Let be a nondegenerate coaction of on a -algebra , and let be a closed subgroup of . The dual action is proper and saturated in the sense of Rieffel, and the generalised fixed-point algebra is the crossed product of by the homogeneous space . The resulting Morita equivalence is a version of Mansfield's imprimitivity theorem which requires neither amenability nor normality of .

     

Instability of statistical factor analysis

Factor analysis, a popular method for interpreting multivariate data, models the covariance among variables as being due to a small number (, ) of hidden variables. A factor analysis of can be thought of as an ordered or unordered collection, , of linearly independent lines in . Let be the collection of data sets for which is defined. The ``singularities' of are those data sets, , in the closure, , at which the limit, , does not exist. is unstable near its singularities.

Let be the direct sum of the lines in . determines a -plane bundle, , over a subset, , of . If 1$"> and is rich enough, ordered or, at least if or 3, unordered, must have a singularity at some data set in . The proofs are applications of algebraic topology. Examples are provided.