Certain Cyclically Presented Groups with the Same Polynomial

We consider three infinite families of cyclic presentations of groups, depending on a finite set of integers and having the same polynomial. Then we prove that the corresponding groups with the same parameters are isomorphic, and that the groups are almost all infinite. Finally, we completely compute the maximal Abelian quotients of such groups, and show that their HNN extensions are high-dimensional knot groups. Our results contain as particular cases the main theorems obtained in two nice articles: Johnson et al. (1999 Johnson , D. L. , Kim , A. C. , O'Brien , E. A. ( 1999 ). Certain cyclically presented groups are isomorphic . Comm. Algebra 27 ( 7 ): 3531 – 3536 . [CSA] [Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) and Havas et al. (2001 Havas , G. , Holt , D. F. , Newman , M. F. ( 2001 ). Certain cyclically presented groups are infinite . Comm. Algebra 29 ( 11 ): 5175 – 5178 . [CSA] [CROSSREF] [Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]).     

Remarks on the Global Solutions of 3-D Navier-Stokes System with One Slow Variable

By applying Wiegner's method in [16 Wiegner , M. ( 1987 ). Decay results for weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations on ? ⁿ . J. London Math. Soc. 35 : 303 – 313 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]], we first prove the large time decay estimate for the global solutions of a 2.5 dimensional Navier-Stokes system, which is a sort of singular perturbed 2-D Navier-Stokes system in three space dimension. As an application of this decay estimate, we give a simplified proof for the global wellposedness result in [6 Chemin , J.-Y. , Gallagher , I. ( 2010 ). Large, global solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations, slowly varying in one direction . Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 362 : 2859 – 2873 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] for 3-D Navier-Stokes system with one slow variable. Let us also mention that compared with the assumptions for the initial data in [6 Chemin , J.-Y. , Gallagher , I. ( 2010 ). Large, global solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations, slowly varying in one direction . Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 362 : 2859 – 2873 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]], here the assumptions in Theorem 1.3 are weaker.     

Double Ore Extensions Versus Iterated Ore Extensions

Motivated by the construction of new examples of Artin–Schelter regular algebras of global dimension four, Zhang and Zhang [6 Zhang , J. J. , Zhang , J. ( 2008 ). Double Ore extensions . J. Pure Appl. Algebra 212 ( 12 ): 2668 – 2690 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] introduced an algebra extension A _P [y ₁, y ₂; σ, δ, τ] of A, which they called a double Ore extension. This construction seems to be similar to that of a two-step iterated Ore extension over A. The aim of this article is to describe those double Ore extensions which can be presented as iterated Ore extensions of the form A[y ₁; σ₁, δ₁][y ₂; σ₂, δ₂]. We also give partial answers to some questions posed in Zhang and Zhang [6 Zhang , J. J. , Zhang , J. ( 2008 ). Double Ore extensions . J. Pure Appl. Algebra 212 ( 12 ): 2668 – 2690 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]].     

Continuous Cohomology of Permutation Groups on Profinite Modules

ABSTRACT

Model theorists have made use of low-dimensional continuous cohomology of infinite permutation groups on profinite modules, see Ahlbrandt and Ziegler (1991 Ahlbrandt , G. , Ziegler , M. ( 1991 ). What's so special about (?/4?)^ω? Archive for Math. Logic 31 : 115 – 132 . [CSA] [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), Evans (1997b Evans , D. M. ( 1997b ). Computation of first cohomology groups of finite covers . J. Algebra 193 : 214 – 238 . [CSA] [CROSSREF] [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), Evans et al. (1997 Evans , D. M. , Ivanov , A. A. , Macpherson , H. D. ( 1997 ). Finite covers . In: Evans , D. M. , ed. Model Theory of Groups and Automorphism Groups . London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes 244 . Cambridge : Cambridge Univ Press , pp. 1 – 72 .[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), and Hodges and Pillay (1994 Hodges , W. , Pillay , A. ( 1994 ). Cohomology of structures and some problems of Ahlbrandt and Ziegler . J. London Math. Soc. 50 ( 2 ): 1 – 16 . [CSA] [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), for example. We expand the module category in order to widen the cohomological toolkit. For an important class of groups we use these tools to establish criteria for finiteness of cohomology.     

A Bound on the Order of Non-Abelian Tensor Square of a Prime-Power Group

Supertropical matrix theory was investigated in [6 Izhakian , Z. , Rowen , L. ( 2011 ). Supertropical matrix algebra III: powers of matrices and their supertropical eigenvalues . Journal of Algebra 341 ( 1 ): 125 – 149 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]], whose terminology we follow. In this work we investigate eigenvalues, characteristic polynomials and coefficients of characteristic polynomials of supertropical matrices and their powers, and obtain the analog to the basic property of matrices that any power of an eigenvalue of a matrix is an eigenvalue of the corresponding power of the matrix.     

Procedurally Rational Volunteers

The mixed-strategy equilibrium applied to the volunteer's dilemma (Diekmann, 1985 Diekmann , A. ( 1985 ). Volunteer's dilemma . Journal of Conflict Resolution , 29 , 605 – 610 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) predicts that the probability that at least 1 bystander volunteers decreases, if the number of bystander increases. I argue that this prediction lacks empirical support and demonstrate that an alternative solution concept from the literature on bounded rationality, the procedurally rational equilibrium (Osborne &; Rubinstein, 1998 Osborne , M. J. &; Rubinstein , A. ( 1998 ). Games with procedurally rational players . American Economic Review , 88 , 834 – 847 .[Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), yields alternative predictions. I supply some empirical evidence that the alternative solution concept fares better in explaining observed behavior in the volunteer's dilemma.     

Central Extensions and Derivations of the Lie Algebras of Skew Derivations for the Quantum Torus

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In this article, we study the central extensions and derivations of the Lie algebra of skew derivations for the quantum torus. The results of the article generalize those obtained in Jiang and Meng (1998a Jiang , C. , Meng , D. ( 1998a ). The derivation algebra of the associative algebra C _q [X, Y, X ^?1, Y ^?1] . Comm. Algebra 26 : 1723 – 1736 . [CSA] [Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] b Jiang , C. , Meng , D. ( 1998b ). The automorphism group of the derivation algebra of the Virasoro-like algebra . Adv. Math. (China) 27 : 175 – 183 . [CSA]  [Google Scholar]) and Kirkman et al. (1994 Kirkman , E. , Procesi , C. , Small , L. ( 1994 ). A q-analog for the Virasoro algebra . Comm. Algebra 22 : 3755 – 3774 . [CSA] [Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]).     

Classification of Pointed Fusion Categories of dimension 8 up to weak Morita equivalence

In this paper we give a complete classification of pointed fusion categories over ? of global dimension 8. We first classify the equivalence classes of pointed fusion categories of dimension 8, and then we proceed to determine which of these equivalence classes have equivalent categories of modules following the procedure presented in [9 Naidu, D. (2007). Categorical Morita equivalence for group-theoretical categories. Commun. Algebra 35(11):3544–3565.[Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 11 Uribe, B. (2017). On the classification of pointed fusion categories up to weak Morita equivalence. Pac. J. Math. 290(2):437–466.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]]. The results of this paper permit to recover the classification of twisted quantum doubles of groups of order 8 up to gauge equivalence of braided quasi-Hopf algebras that was previously done in [6 Mason, C., Ng, S.-H (2001). Group cohomology and gauge equivalence of some twisted quantum doubles. Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 353(9):3465–3509.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] and [5 Goff, C., Mason, G., Ng, S.-H (2007). On the gauge equivalence of twisted quantum doubles of elementary abelian and extra-special 2-groups. J. Algebra 312(2):849–875.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]].     

Some cases of a conjecture on L-functions of twisted Carlitz modules

We prove two polynomial identies which are particular cases of a conjecture arising in the theory of L-functions of twisted Carlitz modules. This conjecture is stated in [6 Grishkov, A., Logachev, D. (2016). Resultantal varieties related to zeroes of L-functions of Carlitz modules. Finite Fields Appl. 38:116–176. Available at: arxiv.org/pdf/1205.2900.pdf.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], p. 153, 9.3, 9.4] and [8 Logachev, D., Zobnin, A. (2017). L-functions of Carlitz Modules, Resultantal Varieties and Rooted Binary Trees, arXiv:1607.06147v3 [math.AG]. [Google Scholar], p. 5, 0.2.4].     

A note on some structure theorems of modules in category 0

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Using the local subgroup strategy of An and O'Brien (1997 An , J. , O'Brien , E. A. ( 1997 ). A local strategy to decide the Alperin and Dade conjectures . J. Alg. 189 : 34 – 57 . [CROSSREF] [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), An and O'Brien (1999 An , J. , O'Brien , E. A. ( 1999 ). The Alperin and Dade conjectures for the Fischer simple group Fi₂₃ . Internat. J. Alg. Comput. 9 : 621 – 670 . [CROSSREF] [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), we classify the radical subgroups and chains of the Fischer simple group Fi ₂₂ and verify the Alperin weight conjecture and the Uno reductive conjecture for this group; the latter is a refinement of the Dade reductive and Isaacs–Navarro conjectures.

     

Supercharacter Theory Constructions Corresponding to Schur Ring Products

Diaconis and Isaacs have defined the supercharacter theories of a finite group to be certain approximations to the ordinary character theory of the group [7 Diaconis , P. , Isaacs , I. M. ( 2008 ). Supercharacters and superclasses for algebra groups . Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 360 : 2359 – 2392 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]]. We make explicit the connection between supercharacter theories and Schur rings, and we provide supercharacter theory constructions which correspond to Schur ring products of Leung and Man [12 Leung , K. H. , Man , S. H. ( 1996 ). On Schur rings over cyclic groups, II . J. Algebra 183 : 273 – 285 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]], Hirasaka and Muzychuk [10 Hirasaka , M. , Muzychuk , M. ( 2001 ). An elementary abelian group of rank 4 is a CI-group . J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 94 : 339 – 362 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]], and Tamaschke [20 Tamaschke , O. ( 1970 ). On Schur-rings which define a proper character theory on finite groups . Math. Z. 117 : 340 – 360 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]].     

Note on Conic Bundles over Henselian Discrete Valued Fields with Real Closed Residue Field

ABSTRACT

Let ? be a complete set of Sylow subgroups of a finite group G, that is, ? contains exactly one and only one Sylow p-subgroup of G for each prime p. A subgroup H of a finite group G is said to be ?-permutable if H permutes with every member of ?. The purpose of this article is to study the influence of ?-permutability of all maximal subgroups of the Sylow subgroups of the generalized Fitting subgroup of some normal subgroup of a finite group G on the structure of G. Our results improve and extend the main results of Asaad (1998 Asaad , M. ( 1998 ). On maximal subgroups of Sylow subgroups of finite groups . Comm. Algebra 26 ( 11 ): 3647 – 3652 . [CSA] [Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), Asaad and Heliel (2003 Asaad , M. , Heliel , A. A. ( 2003 ). On permutable subgroups of finite groups . Arch. Math. 80 : 113 – 118 . [CROSSREF] [CSA] [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), Asaad et al. (1991 Asaad , M. , Ramadan , M. , Shaalan , A. ( 1991 ). Influence of π-quasinormality on maximal subgroups of Sylow subgroups of Fitting subgroup of a finite group . Arch. Math. 56 : 521 – 527 . [CROSSREF] [CSA] [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), Li et al. (2003 Li , Y. , Wang , Y. , Wei , H. ( 2003 ). The influence of π-quasinormality of maximal subgroups of Sylow subgroups of a finite group . Arch. Math. 81 ( 3 ): 245 – 252 . [CROSSREF] [CSA] [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), Ramadan (1992 Ramadan , M. ( 1992 ). Influence of normality on maximal subgroups of Sylow subgroups of a finite group . Acta Math. Hungar. 59 ( 1–2 ): 107 – 110 . [CSA] [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), and Srinivasan (1980 Srinivasan , S. ( 1980 ). Two sufficient conditions for supersolvability of finite groups . Israel J. Math. 35 : 210 – 214 . [CSA] [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]).     

Derived Representation Type of Schur Superalgebras

In this note we extend the results of Bekkert and Futorny in [2 Bekkert , V. , Futorny , V. ( 2003 ). Derived categories of Schur algebras . Comm. Alg. 31 : 1799 – 1822 .[Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] and Hemmer, Kujawa and Nakano in [10 Hemmer , D. J. , Kujawa , J. , Nakano , D. K. ( 2006 ). Representation types of Schur superalgebras . J. Group Theory 9 : 283 – 306 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] and determine the derived representation type of Schur superalgebras.     

Precovering and Preenveloping Ideals

In [8 Salce , L. ( 1979 ). Cotorsion theories for abelian groups . Symposia Mathematica 23 : 11 – 23 . [Google Scholar]] L. Salce introduced the notion of a cotorsion pair (?, 𝒞) in the category of abelian groups. But his definitions and basic results carry over to more general abelian categories and have proven to be useful in a variety of settings. A significant result of cotorsion theory proven by Eklof and Trlifaj is that if a pair (?, 𝒞) of classes of R-modules is cogenerated by a set, then it is complete [1 Eklof , P. C. , Trlifaj , J. ( 2001 ). How to make Ext vanish . Bull. London Math. Soc. 33 : 31 – 41 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]]. Recently Fu, Herzog, Guil, and Torrecillas developed the ideal approximation theory [6 Herzog , I. ( 2014 ). Phantom morphisms and Salce's Lemma . Contemp. Math. 607 : 57 – 83 .[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]], [4 Fu X. H. , Guil Asensio , P. A. , Herzog , I. , Torrecillas , B. ( 2013 ). Ideal Approximation Theory . Adv. in Math. 244 : 750 – 790 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]]. In this article we look at a result motivated by the Eklof and Trlifaj argument for an ideal ? when it is generated by a set of homomorphisms.     

Feedback Stabilization for a Reaction-Diffusion System with Nonlocal Reaction Term

We consider a two-component reaction-diffusion system with a nonlocal reaction term. A necessary condition and a sufficient condition for the internal stabilizability to zero of one of the two components of the solution while preserving the nonnegativity of both components have been established in [6 S. Ani?a , W.-E. Fitzgibbon , and M. Langlais ( 2009 ). Global existence and internal stabilization for a class of predator-prey systems posed on non coincident spatial domains . Discrete Cont. Dynam. Syst. B 11 : 805 – 822 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]]. In case of stabilizability, a feedback stabilizing control of harvesting type has been indicated. The rate of stabilization (for the indicated feedback control) is given by the principal eigenvalue of a certain non-selfadjoint operator. A large principal eigenvalue leads to a fast stabilization. The first main goal of this article is to approximate this principal eigenvalue. This is done in two steps. First, we investigate the large-time behavior of the solution to a logistic population dynamics with migration, and next we derive as a consequence a method to approximate the principal eigenvalue. The other main goal is to derive a conceptual iterative algorithm to improve the position of the support of the control in order to get a faster stabilization. Our results apply to prey-predator systems.     

A new family of set-theoretic solutions of the Yang–Baxter equation

A new family of non-degenerate involutive set-theoretic solutions of the Yang–Baxter equation is constructed. Two subfamilies, consisting of irretractable square-free solutions, are new counterexamples to Gateva-Ivanova’s Strong Conjecture [7 Gateva-Ivanova, T. (2004). A combinatorial approach to the set-theoretic solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation. J. Math. Phys. 45(10):3828–3858.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]]. They are in addition to those obtained by Vendramin [15 Vendramin, L. (2016). Extensions of set-theoretic solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation and a conjecture of Gateva-Ivanova. J. Pure Appl. Algebra 220:2064–2076.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] and [1 Bachiller, D., Cedó, F., Jespers, E., Okniński, J. (2017). A family of irretractable square-free solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation. Forum Math. (to appear). [Google Scholar]].     

SOME CENTRALITY RESULTS NEW AND OLD

We prove a number of results on betweenness and closeness centrality and centralization. In particular, we prove the much used normalization expression for closeness centrality first given by Freeman (1979) Freeman, L. C. 1979. Centrality in social networks conceptual clarification. Social Networks, 1: 215–239. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], correcting an error in the justification given in his paper. We explore the relationship between betweenness and the cutting number and use these results to prove and correct some centrality and centralization formulae first proposed by Borgatti and Everett (1997) Borgatti, S. P. and Everett, M. G. 1997. Network analysis of 2-mode data. Social Networks, 19: 243–269. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar].     

Semilocal Convergence of Steffensen-Type Algorithms for Solving Nonlinear Equations

In this article, we provide a semilocal analysis for the Steffensen-type method (STTM) for solving nonlinear equations in a Banach space setting using recurrence relations. Numerical examples to validate our main results are also provided in this study to show that STTM is faster than other methods ([7 I. K. Argyros , J. Ezquerro , J. M. Gutiérrez , M. Hernández , and S. Hilout ( 2011 ). On the semilocal convergence of efficient Chebyshev-Secant-type methods . J. Comput. Appl. Math. 235 : 3195 – 3206 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 13 J. A. Ezquerro and M. A. Hernández ( 2009 ). An optimization of Chebyshev's method . J. Complexity 25 : 343 – 361 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]]) using similar convergence conditions.     

Strongly J-Clean Matrices Over Local Rings

An element of a ring is called strongly J-clean provided that it can be written as the sum of an idempotent and an element in its Jacobson radical that commute. We investigate, in this article, a single strongly J-clean 2 × 2 matrix over a noncommutative local ring. The criteria on strong J-cleanness of 2 × 2 matrices in terms of a quadratic equation are given. These extend the corresponding results in [8 Li , B. ( 2009 ). Strongly clean matrix rings over noncommutative local rings . Bull. Korean Math. Soc. 46 : 71 – 78 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], Theorems 2.7 and 3.2], [9 Li , Y. ( 2007 ). Strongly clean matrix rings over local rings . J. Algebra 312 : 397 – 404 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], Theorem 2.6], and [11 Yang , X. , Zhou , Y. ( 2008 ). Strongly cleanness of the 2 × 2 matrix ring over a general local ring . J. Algebra 320 : 2280 – 2290 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], Theorem 7].     

Virtually Biautomatic Groups

We introduce virtually biautomatic groups (groups with finite index biautomatic subgroups) and generalize results of Gersten and Short [3 Gersten , S. , Short , H. ( 1991 ). Rational subgroups of biautomatic groups . Annals of Mathematics 134 : 125 – 128 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] and Mosher [5 Mosher , L. ( 1997 ). Central quotients of biautomatic groups . Comment. Math. Helv. 72 ( 1 ): 16 – 29 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] on centralizers, normalizers, and quotients to virtually biautomatic groups.