On outer automorphism groups of coxeter groups

Summary It is shown that the outer automorphism group of a Coxeter groupW of finite rank is finite if the Coxeter graph contains no infinite bonds. A key step in the proof is to show that if the group is irreducible andΠ ₁ andΠ ₂ any two bases of the root system ofW, thenΠ ₂ = ±ωΠ ₁ for some ω εW. The proof of this latter fact employs some properties of the dominance order on the root system introduced by Brink and Howlett. This article was processed by the author using the Springer-Verlag TEX PJour1g macro package 1991.     

Definability of closure operations in the <Emphasis Type="Italic">h</Emphasis>-quasiorder of labeled forests

We prove that natural closure operations on quotient structures of the h-quasiorder of finite and (at most) countable k-labeled forests (k ≥ 3) are definable provided that minimal nonsmallest elements are allowed as parameters. This strengthens our previous result which holds that each element of the h-quasiorder of finite k-labeled forests is definable in the first-order language, and each element of the h-quasiorder of (at most) countable k-labeled forests is definable in the language L _ω1ω; in both cases k ≥ 3 and minimal nonsmallest elements are allowed as parameters. Similar results hold true for two other relevant structures: the h-quasiorder of finite (resp. countable) k-labeled trees and k-labeled trees with a fixed label on the root element.     

Numerical Ranges of <Emphasis Type="Italic">C</Emphasis><Subscript>0</Subscript>(<Emphasis Type="Italic">N</Emphasis>) Contractions

A conjecture of Halmos proved by Choi and Li states that the closure of the numerical range of a contraction on a Hilbert space is the intersection of the closure of the numerical ranges of all its unitary dilations. We show that for C ₀(N) contractions one can restrict the intersection to a smaller family of dilations. This generalizes a finite dimensional result of Gau and Wu.     

Le groupe fondamental de certains espaces d'orbites regulieres de groupes de Weyl affines

The affine Weyl group W _aof an irreducible root system of rank n acts on the complexification h of a real space of dimension n via the usual (affine) action on the imaginary part and the action through the finite Weyl group on the real part. This group acts freely on the complement h of some complex hyperplanes. We prove a presentation of the fundamental group of the quotient hW _a.

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A Jacques Tits pour son soixantième anniversaire     

Using Root Functions for Eigenvalue Problems of Ordinary Differential Operators

We study eigenvalue problems for an ordinary differential operator L acting on L ₂(?)-spaces (Problem 1) and on L ₂(J)-spaces (Problem 2). Here J is a bounded but large interval. Assuming that in Problem 1 the spectral parameter s lies in the set of normal points of L, we show that the structure of eigenspaces for both problems is similar to the structure of finite complex-valued matrices. In the case of a finite matrix, the geometry of eigenspaces is described by the Jordan form. In the case of ordinary differential operators, the corresponding geometry is described by a sequence of root functions. Therefore, the main tool of our studies is root functions for complex-valued analytical matrix functions.     

Generic modules over the quantum groupU t (sl(2)) att a root of unit

LetA be a finite dimensionalk-algebra, an indecomposable (left)A-moduleM is called generic providedM is infinitek-dimensional but finite length as (right) End _A M-module. In this paper we given the explicit structure of generic modules and their endomorphism rings over the finite dimensional quantum groupU _t (sl(2)) att being a root of unit.     

Monodromy of Rational KZ Equations and Some Related Topics

A special class of integrable Fuchsian systems on C ⁿ related to KZ equations is considered. We survey the construction of such systems and the list of the structural properties their monodromy representations. The relation of the Fuchsian systems obtained by the Veselov construction assosiated with a deformation of the A _n–1-type root system and the Gauss–Manin connection of the natural projection C ⁿ C ^n–1 is described. In this case, we prove that the monodromy representation is equivalent to the Burau representation of the Artin braid group. For a deformations of the other root system, we introduce generalized Burau representations. We conjecture that the integrable Fuchsian systems related to essential new finite sets of the vectors described by Veselov and Chalykh are the result of the Klares–Schlesinger isomonodromic deformations (or transformation) of the integrable Fuchsian system related to the Coxeter root systems.     

Subquasivarieties of implicative locally‐finite quasivarieties

A quasivariety is said to be implicative if it is generated by a class of algebras with equationally‐definable implication of equalities. Implicative finitely‐generated quasivarieties appear naturally within logic, for instance, as equivalent quasivarieties of Gentzen‐style calculi for finitely‐valued propositional logics with equality determinant (cf. [17], [18, Subsection 7.5] and Section A). Furthermore, any discriminator quasivariety is implicative. We prove that, for any implicative locally‐finite quasivariety ? and any skeleton S of the class of all finite ?‐simple members of ?, the image of the first component of a natural Galois connection between the dual poset of subquasivarieties of ? and the poset of all sets of finite subsets of S is the closure system of all U_S‐ideals of the poset 〈S, ?〉, where ? is the embeddability relation and U_S is the up‐set on S constituted by all members of S having a one‐element subalgebra, with closure basis determined by the sets of all principal and non‐empty finitely‐generated up‐sets on S. It is also shown that the first component of the Galois connection under consideration is injective if and only if, for each finite sequence

     

Property (RD) for Cocompact Lattices in a Finite Product of Rank One Lie Groups with Some Rank Two Lie Groups

We apply V. Lafforgues techniques to establish property (RD) for cocompact lattices in a finite product of rank one Lie groups with Lie groups whose restricted root system is of type A ₂.     

Bounding Ext for modules for algebraic groups, finite groups and quantum groups

Given a finite root system Φ, we show that there is an integer c=c(Φ) such that , for any reductive algebraic group G with root system Φ and any irreducible rational G-modules L, L^′. There also is such a bound in the case of finite groups of Lie type, depending only on the root system and not on the underlying field. For quantum groups, a similar result holds for Extn, for any integer n?0, using a constant depending only on n and the root system. When L is the trivial module, the same result is proved in the algebraic group case, thus giving similar bounded properties, independent of characteristic, for algebraic and generic cohomology. (A similar result holds for any choice of L=L(λ), even allowing λ to vary, provided the p-adic expansion of lambda is limited to a fixed number of terms.) In particular, because of the interpretation of generic cohomology as a limit for underlying families of finite groups, the same boundedness properties hold asymptotically for finite groups of Lie type. The results both use, and have consequences for, Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials. Appendix A proves a stable version, needed for small prime arguments, of Donkin's tilting module conjecture.     

The root system and the core of an extended affine Lie algebra

Extended affine Lie algebras are higher nullity generalizations of finite dimensional simple Lie algebras and affine Kac Moody Lie algebras. In this paper we completely describe the structure of the core modulo its centre and the root system for extended affine Lie algebras of type B_l (l 3 3) B_l (l\ge 3) , C_l (l 3 2) C_l (l \ge 2), F ₄ and G ₂ .     

Weakly Special Classes of Semiprime Rings

This paper investigates closure properties possessed by certain classes of finite subdirect products of prime rings. If ℳ is a special class of prime rings then the class ℳ_∞ of all finite subdirect products of rings in ℳ is shown to be weakly special. A ring S is said to be a right tight extension [resp. tight extension] of a subring R if every nonzero right ideal [resp. right ideal and left ideal] of S meets R nontrivially. Every hereditary class of semiprime rings closed under tight extensions is weakly special. Each of the following conditions imposed on a semiprime ring yields a hereditary class closed under right tight extensions: ACC on right annihilators; finite right Goldie dimension; right Goldie. The class of all finite subdirect products of uniformly strongly prime rings is shown to be closed under tight extensions, answering a published question. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

On the application of some concepts of ring theory to the study of the influence of systems of subgroups of a group

We study groups in which the family L _non-nn(G) of all not nearly normal subgroups has the Krull dimension. A subgroup H of a group G is called nearly normal if H has finite index in its normal closure. Translated from Ukrains’kyi Matematychnyi Zhurnal, Vol. 60, No. 5, pp. 657–668, May, 2008.     

Finite L 2-gain with nondifferentiable storage functions

We consider affine control systems with the finite L₂-gain property in the case the storage function is nondifferentiable. We generalize some classical results concerning the connection of the finite L₂-gain property with the stability properties of the unforced system, the characterization of finite L₂-gain by means of partial differential inequalities of the Hamilton-Jacobi type and the problem of giving to a system the finite L₂-gain property by means of a feedback law. Moreover, we introduce and study the apparently new notion of exact storage function.     

Cotorsion pairs generated by modules of bounded projective dimension

We apply the theory of cotorsion pairs to study closure properties of classes of modules with finite projective dimension with respect to direct limit operations and to filtrations. We also prove that if the ring is an order in an ℵ₀-noetherian ring Q of little finitistic dimension 0, then the cotorsion pair generated by the modules of projective dimension at most one is of finite type if and only if Q has big finitistic dimension 0. This applies, for example, to semiprime Goldie rings and to Cohen Macaulay noetherian commutative rings.     

Lax operator algebras of type G 2

Lax operator algebras for the root system G ₂, and arbitrary finite genus Riemann surfaces and Tyurin data on them are constructed.     

Algebraic Topological Closure Operators

For any closure operator c there is a T_o-closure operator whose lattice of closed subsets are isomorphic to that of c. A correspondence between algebraic topological (T_o) closure operators on a nonempty set X and pre-orderes (partial orders) on X is established. Equivalent conditions are obtained for a T_o-lattice to be a complete atomic Boolean algebra and for the lattice of closed subsets of an algebraic topological closure operator to be a complete atomic Boolean algebra. Further it is proved that a complete lattice is an algebraic T_o-lattice if and only if it is isomorphic to the lattice of closed subsets of some algebraic topological closure operator on a suitable set.AMS Subject Classification (1991): 06A23, 54D65.