LCM-splitting sets in some ring extensions

Let be a saturated multiplicative set of an integral domain . Call an lcm splitting set if and are principal ideals for every and . We show that if is an -stable overring of (that is, if whenever and is principal, it follows that and if is an lcm splitting set of , then the saturation of in is an lcm splitting set in . Consequently, if is Noetherian and is a (nonzero) prime element, then is also a prime element of the integral closure of . Also, if is Noetherian, is generated by prime elements of and if the integral closure of is a UFD, then so is the integral closure of .

     

-Weyl's theorem for operator matrices

If is a upper triangular matrix on the Hilbert space , then -Weyl's theorem for and need not imply -Weyl's theorem for , even when . In this note we explore how -Weyl's theorem and -Browder's theorem survive for operator matrices on the Hilbert space.

     

Index of B-Fredholm operators and generalization of a Weyl theorem

The aim of this paper is to show that if and are commuting B-Fredholm operators acting on a Banach space , then is a B-Fredholm operator and , where means the index. Moreover if is a B-Fredholm operator and is a finite rank operator, then is a B-Fredholm operator and We also show that if is isolated in the spectrum of , then is a B-Fredholm operator of index if and only if is Drazin invertible. In the case of a normal bounded linear operator acting on a Hilbert space , we obtain a generalization of a classical Weyl theorem.     

The strong radical and finite-dimensional ideals

Let be a semi-prime Banach algebra with strong radical (intersection of its two-sided modular maximal ideals). A minimal left or right ideal of is infinite-dimensional if and only if . Thus all minimal one-sided ideals in are finite-dimensional if is strongly semi-simple.

     

An automatic adjoint theorem and its applications

In this paper, we prove the following automatic adjoint theorem: For any sequence spaces and , if has the signed-weak gliding hump property and is an infinite matrix which transforms into , then the transpose matrix of transforms into , and for any and , . That is, the adjoint operator of automatically exists and is just the transpose matrix of . From the theorem we obtain a class of infinite matrix topological algebras , and prove also a -multiplier convergence theorem of Orlicz-Pettis type. The theorem improves substantially the famous Stiles' Orlicz-Pettis theorem.

     

A question of B. Plotkin about the semigroup of endomorphisms of a free group

Let be a free group of finite rank , let be the semigroup of endomorphisms of , and let be the group of automorphisms of .

Theorem. If is an automorphism of , then there is an such that for all .

     

On one problem of uniqueness of meromorphic functions concerning small functions

In this paper, we show that if two non-constant meromorphic functions and satisfy for , where are five distinct small functions with respect to and , and is a positive integer or with , then . As a special case this also answers the long-standing problem on uniqueness of meromorphic functions concerning small functions.

     

A uniqueness result for harmonic functions

Let , , and suppose is harmonic in and on the closure of . If the gradient of vanishes continuously on a subset of of positive -dimensional Lebesgue measure and satisfies certain regularity conditions, then must be identically constant.

     

Composition of inner mappings on the ball

Suppose that is an inner map and that . We show that the identity

holds with an abstract boundary value . If the natural compatibility condition is satisfied, then . Here, denotes the image of the surface measure on under . In particular, is inner if and are inner and . Furthermore, we characterize the boundedness of composition operators on Hardy spaces in terms of the absolute continuity of .

     

Set-theoretic complete intersections on binomials

Let be an affine toric variety of codimension over a field of any characteristic. We completely characterize the affine toric varieties that are set-theoretic complete intersections on binomials. In particular we prove that in the characteristic zero case, is a set-theoretic complete intersection on binomials if and only if is a complete intersection. Moreover, if are binomials such that , then . While in the positive characteristic case, is a set-theoretic complete intersection on binomials if and only if is completely -glued.

These results improve and complete all known results on these topics.

     

An application of Ramsey's Theorem to the Banach Contraction Principle

One of the most fundamental fixed-point theorems is Banach's Contraction Principle, of which the following conjecture is a generalization.

Generalized Banach Contraction Conjecture (GBCC). Let be a self-map of a complete metric space , and let . Let be a positive integer. Assume that for each pair , . Then has a fixed point.

Unlike Banach's original theorem (the case ), the above hypothesis does not compel to be continuous. In this paper we use Ramsey's Theorem from combinatorics to establish the GBCC for arbitrary in the case when is assumed to be continuous, and also derive a result which enables us to prove the GBCC when without the assumption of continuity; it is known that the case includes instances where is not continuous.

     

On classes of maps which preserve finitisticness

We shall prove the following: Let be a refinable map between paracompact spaces. Then is finitistic if and only if is finitistic. Let be a hereditary shape equivalence between metric spaces. Then if is finitistic, is finitistic.

     

Signed sums of polynomial values

We give a generalization of Bleicher's result on signed sums of th powers. Let be an integral-valued polynomial of degree satisfying the necessary condition that there exists no integer 1$"> dividing the values for all integers . Then, for every positive integer and every integer , there are infinitely many integers and choices of such that

     

A global pinching theorem for surfaces with constant mean curvature in

Let be a compact immersed surface in the unit sphere with constant mean curvature . Denote by the linear map from into , , where is the linear map associated to the second fundamental form and is the identity map. Let denote the square of the length of . We prove that if , then is either totally umbilical or an -torus, where is a constant depending only on the mean curvature .

     

The homogeneous spectrum of a graded commutative ring

Suppose is a torsion-free cancellative commutative monoid for which the group of quotients is finitely generated. We prove that the spectrum of a -graded commutative ring is Noetherian if its homogeneous spectrum is Noetherian, thus answering a question of David Rush. Suppose is a commutative ring having Noetherian spectrum. We determine conditions in order that the monoid ring have Noetherian spectrum. If , we show that has Noetherian spectrum, while for each we establish existence of an example where the homogeneous spectrum of is not Noetherian.

     

Schur orthogonality relations and invariant sesquilinear forms

Important connections between the representation theory of a compact group and are summarized by the Schur orthogonality relations. The first part of this work is to generalize these relations to all finite-dimensional representations of a connected semisimple Lie group The second part establishes a general framework in the case of unitary representations of a separable locally compact group. The key step is to identify the matrix coefficient space with a dense subset of the Hilbert-Schmidt endomorphisms on .

     

Covering maps that are not compositions of covering maps of lesser order

In 1995 J.W. Heath asked which exactly -to-one maps are compositions of exactly -to-one maps with . This paper deals with compositions of covering maps. Exactly -to-one covering maps on locally arcwise connected continua that are not factorable into covering maps of order are constructed for all 's, and characterized in algebraic terms (fundamental groups). They are not proper compositions of exactly -to-one maps, open maps, or locally one-to-one maps.     

On the excess of sets of complex exponentials

For let be complex numbers such that is bounded. For define , where . Then the excesses in the sense of Paley and Wiener satisfy .

     

Strongly representable atom structures of relation algebras

A relation algebra atom structure is said to be strongly representable if all atomic relation algebras with that atom structure are representable. This is equivalent to saying that the complex algebra is a representable relation algebra. We show that the class of all strongly representable relation algebra atom structures is not closed under ultraproducts and is therefore not elementary. This answers a question of Maddux (1982).

Our proof is based on the following construction. From an arbitrary undirected, loop-free graph , we construct a relation algebra atom structure and prove, for infinite , that is strongly representable if and only if the chromatic number of is infinite. A construction of Erdös shows that there are graphs () with infinite chromatic number, with a non-principal ultraproduct whose chromatic number is just two. It follows that is strongly representable (each ) but is not.

     

Linearity of dimension functions for semilinear -spheres

In this paper, we show that the dimension function of every semilinear -sphere is equal to that of a linear -sphere for finite nilpotent groups of order , where , are primes. We also show that there exists a semilinear -sphere whose dimension function is not virtually linear for an arbitrary nonsolvable compact Lie group .