Branch rings, thinned rings, tree enveloping rings

We develop the theory of “branch algebras”, which are infinite-dimensional associative algebras that are isomorphic, up to taking subrings of finite codimension, to a matrix ring over themselves. The main examples come from groups acting on trees. In particular, for every field % MathType!End!2!1! we contruct a % MathType!End!2!1! which

On the action of Lipschitz functions on vector-valued random sums

Let X be a Banach space and let (ξ_j)_j ≧ 1 be an i.i.d. sequence of symmetric random variables with finite moments of all orders. We prove that the following assertions are equivalent:

Boundaries and generation of convex sets

We introduce a notion which is intermediate between that of taking thew*-closed convex hull of a set and taking the norm closed convex hull of this set. This notion helps to streamline the proof (given in [FLP]) of the famous result of James in the separable case. More importantly, it leads to stronger results in the same direction. For example:

Word maps have large image

An elementw in the free group onr letters defines a mapf _w,G:G^v→G for each groupG. In this note, we show that wheneverw≠1 andG is a semisimple algebraic group,f _w,G is dominant. As an application, we show that for fixedw and Γ _i a sequence of pairwise non-isomorphic finite simple groups,

Cauchy-Rassias Stability of Cauchy-Jensen Additive Mappings in Banach Spaces

Let X, Y be vector spaces. It is shown that if a mapping f ： X → Y satisfies f（（x＋y）/2＋z）＋f（（x-y）/2＋z=f（x）＋2f（z）,（0.1） f（（x＋y）/2＋z）-f（（x-y）/2＋z）f（y）,（0.2） or 2f（（x＋y）/2＋x）=f（x）＋f（y）＋2f（z）（0.3）for all x, y, z ∈ X, then the mapping f ： X →Y is Cauchy additive. Furthermore, we prove the Cauchy-Rassias stability of the functional equations （0.1）, （0.2） and （0.3） in Banach spaces. The results are applied to investigate isomorphisms between unital Banach algebras.     

Lipschitz algebras and peripherally-multiplicative maps

Let X be a compact metric space and let Lip（X） be the Banach algebra of all scalar- valued Lipschitz functions on X, endowed with a natural norm. For each f ∈ Lip（X）, σπ（f） denotes the peripheral spectrum of f. We state that any map Φ from Lip（X） onto Lip（Y） which preserves multiplicatively the peripheral spectrum：
σπ（Φ（f）Φ（g）） = σπ（fg）, A↓f, g ∈ Lip（X）
is a weighted composition operator of the form Φ（f） = τ· （f °φ） for all f ∈ Lip（X）, where τ ： Y → {-1, 1} is a Lipschitz function and φ ： Y→ X is a Lipschitz homeomorphism. As a consequence of this result, any multiplicatively spectrum-preserving surjective map between Lip（X）-algebras is of the form above.     

Strong Dunford-Pettis sets and spaces of operators (Monatsh. Math. 144, 275–284 (2005))

In a recent paper, Ghenciu and Lewis studied strong Dunford-Pettis sets and made the following two assertions:

L’Extension Abelienne D’une Categorie semi-abelienne

We show that if (K,L) is a semi-abelian category, there exists an abelian categoryK ^x with the followings properties:

Embedding graphs with bounded degree in sparse pseudorandom graphs

In this paper, we show the equivalence of somequasi-random properties for sparse graphs, that is, graphsG with edge densityp=|E(G)|/( ₂ ⁿ )=o(1), whereo(1)→0 asn=|V(G)|→∞. Our main result (Theorem 16) is the following embedding result. For a graphJ, writeN _J(x) for the neighborhood of the vertexx inJ, and letδ(J) andΔ(J) be the minimum and the maximum degree inJ. LetH be atriangle-free graph and setd _H=max{δ(J):J⊆H}. Moreover, putD _H=min{2d _H,Δ(H)}. LetC>1 be a fixed constant and supposep=p(n)≫n ⁻¹ D _H. We show that ifG is such that

Upper Embeddability,Girth and the Degree-Sum of Nonadjacent Vertices

Let G be a 2-edge-connected simple graph with girth g, independence number α(G), and if one of the following two conditions holds

Torsion in CH2 of Severi-Brauer varieties and indecomposability of generic algebras

We compute degrees of algebraic cycles on certain Severi-Brauer varieties and apply it to show that:

On the ingham divisor problem

The main result of this paper is the following theorem. Suppose thatτ(n) = ∑ _d|n l and the arithmetical functionF satisfies the following conditions:

Strong Dunford-Pettis sets and spaces of operators (Monatsh. Math. 144, 275–284 (2005))

In a recent paper, Ghenciu and Lewis studied strong Dunford-Pettis sets and made the following two assertions:

On functions with the cauchy difference bounded by a functional. III

We are going to discuss special cases of a conditional functional inequality

Amenability,tubularity, and embeddings into $$\mathcal{R}^{\omega}$$

Suppose M is a tracial von Neumann algebra embeddable into (the ultraproduct of the hyperfinite II₁-factor) and X is an n-tuple of selfadjoint generators for M. Denote by Γ(X; m, k, γ) the microstate space of X of order (m, k ,γ). We say that X is tubular if for any ε >  0 there exist and γ > 0 such that if then there exists a k × k unitary u satisfying for each 1 ≤  i ≤  n. We show that the following conditions are equivalent:

On maximal proper subgroups of field automorphism groups

Let G be the automorphism group of an extension of algebraically closed fields of characteristic zero of transcendence degree n, 1 ≤ n ≤ ∞. In this paper we

On locally solid topological lattice groups

Let (G, τ) be a commutative Hausdorff locally solid lattice group. In this paper we prove the following:

Rational points on the unit sphere

It is known that the unit sphere, centered at the origin in ℝ ⁿ , has a dense set of points with rational coordinates. We give an elementary proof of this fact that includes explicit bounds on the complexity of the coordinates: for every point ν on the unit sphere in ℝ ⁿ , and every ν > 0; there is a point r = (r ₁; r ₂;…;r _n) such that: