An ascending HNN extension of a free group inside

We give an example of a subgroup of which is a strictly ascending HNN extension of a non-abelian finitely generated free group . In particular, we exhibit a free group in of rank which is conjugate to a proper subgroup of itself. This answers positively a question of Drutu and Sapir (2005). The main ingredient in our construction is a specific finite volume (non-compact) hyperbolic 3-manifold which is a surface bundle over the circle. In particular, most of comes from the fundamental group of a surface fiber. A key feature of is that there is an element of in with an eigenvalue which is the square root of a rational integer. We also use the Bass-Serre tree of a field with a discrete valuation to show that the group we construct is actually free.

     

A separable non-remainder of

We prove that there is a compact separable continuum that (consistently) is not a remainder of the real line.

     

Gromov hyperbolicity of the and metrics

In this note it is shown that the metric is always Gromov hyperbolic, but that the metric is Gromov hyperbolic if and only if has exactly one boundary point. As a corollary we get a new proof for the fact that the quasihyperbolic metric is Gromov hyperbolic in uniform domains.

     

There is no separable universal -factor

Gromov constructed uncountably many pairwise nonisomorphic discrete groups with Kazhdan's property . We will show that no separable -factor can contain all these groups in its unitary group. In particular, no separable -factor can contain all separable -factors in it. We also show that the full group -algebras of some of these groups fail the lifting property.

     

-summand vectors in Banach spaces

The aim of this paper is to study the set of all -summand vectors of a real Banach space . We provide a characterization of -summand vectors in smooth real Banach spaces and a general decomposition theorem which shows that every real Banach space can be decomposed as an -sum of a Hilbert space and a Banach space without nontrivial -summand vectors. As a consequence, we generalize some results and we obtain intrinsic characterizations of real Hilbert spaces.

     

-actions with

Suppose that is a smooth -action on a closed smooth -dimensional manifold such that all Stiefel-Whitney classes of the tangent bundle to each connected component of the fixed point set vanish in positive dimension. This paper shows that if 2^k\dim F$"> and each -dimensional part possesses the linear independence property, then bounds equivariantly, and in particular, is the best possible upper bound of if is nonbounding.

     

Automatic continuity of -derivations on -algebras

Let be a -algebra acting on a Hilbert space , let be a linear mapping and let be a -derivation. Generalizing the celebrated theorem of Sakai, we prove that if is a continuous -mapping, then is automatically continuous. In addition, we show the converse is true in the sense that if is a continuous --derivation, then there exists a continuous linear mapping such that is a --derivation. The continuity of the so-called - -derivations is also discussed.

     

-bounding and -induction

Working in the base theory of , we show that for all , the bounding principle for -formulas ( ) is equivalent to the induction principle for -formulas ( ). This partially answers a question of J. Paris.

     

Sharply -transitive groups with point stabilizer of exponent or

Using the fact that all groups of exponent are nilpotent, we show that every sharply -transitive permutation group whose point stabilizer has exponent or is finite.

     

A hereditarily subspace of without the Schur property

Let p_1 > p_2 > \cdots > 1$">. We construct an easily determined -symmetric basic sequence in , which spans a hereditarily subspace without the Schur property. An immediate consequence is the existence of hereditarily subspaces of without the Schur property.

     

Local automorphisms and derivations on certain -algebras

It is shown that continuous -local derivations on -algebras are derivations and surjective -local *-automorphisms on prime -algebras or on -algebras such that the identity element is properly infinite are *-automorphisms.

     

-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.

     

Multiplicative bijections of

Let be a compact Hausdorff space which satisfies the first axiom of countability, let and let , be the set of all continuous functions from to If , ,is a bijective multiplicative map, then there exist a homeomorphism and a continuous map such that for all and for all

     

Spectral pictures of and

The spectral pictures of products and of Banach space operators are compared; in particular when one of them is `of index zero'.

     

The Russo-Dye Theorem in a weakly closed -module

Suppose that is admissible. It is shown that the convex hull of unitary elements of a weakly closed -module contains the whole unit ball of if and only if and for any 0$">, 0$">.

     

Lifts of - and -morphisms to -morphisms

Let be the Hochschild complex of cochains on and let be the space of multivector fields on . In this paper we prove that given any -structure (i.e. Gerstenhaber algebra up to homotopy structure) on , and any -morphism (i.e. morphism of a commutative, associative algebra up to homotopy) between and , there exists a -morphism between and that restricts to . We also show that any -morphism (i.e. morphism of a Lie algebra up to homotopy), in particular the one constructed by Kontsevich, can be deformed into a -morphism, using Tamarkin's method for any -structure on . We also show that any two of such -morphisms are homotopic.

     

A remark on least energy solutions in

We study a mountain pass characterization of least energy solutions of the following nonlinear scalar field equation in :

where . Without the assumption of the monotonicity of , we show that the mountain pass value gives the least energy level.

     

Constructive recognition of

Existing black box and other algorithms for explicitly recognising groups of Lie type over have asymptotic running times which are polynomial in , whereas the input size involves only . This has represented a serious obstruction to the efficient recognition of such groups. Recently, Brooksbank and Kantor devised new explicit recognition algorithms for classical groups; these run in time that is polynomial in the size of the input, given an oracle that recognises explicitly.

The present paper, in conjunction with an earlier paper by the first two authors, provides such an oracle. The earlier paper produced an algorithm for explicitly recognising in its natural representation in polynomial time, given a discrete logarithm oracle for . The algorithm presented here takes as input a generating set for a subgroup of that is isomorphic modulo scalars to , where is a finite field of the same characteristic as ; it returns the natural representation of modulo scalars. Since a faithful projective representation of in cross characteristic, or a faithful permutation representation of this group, is necessarily of size that is polynomial in rather than in , elementary algorithms will recognise explicitly in polynomial time in these cases. Given a discrete logarithm oracle for , our algorithm thus provides the required polynomial time oracle for recognising explicitly in the remaining case, namely for representations in the natural characteristic.

This leads to a partial solution of a question posed by Babai and Shalev: if is a matrix group in characteristic , determine in polynomial time whether or not is trivial.

     

Lehmer -tuples

Generalizing a classical problem of Lehmer, in this paper we provide an asymptotic result for the number of Lehmer -tuples.

     

Global properties of the lattice of classes

Let be the lattice of classes of reals. We show there are exactly two possible isomorphism types of end intervals, . Moreover, finiteness is first order definable in .