AFPP vs FPP

The main theme of this paper is that almost fixed point properties of discrete structures and fixed point properties of (topological) spaces are interdeducible via a suitable category which contains both graphs and spaces as objects. To carry out the program, we have to consider (almost) fixed points of multifunctions, and for this we need a preliminary discussion of power structures for graphs and simplicial complexes. Specific applications developed are: a digital convexity (discrete) version of Kakutani's fixed point theorem for convex-valued multifunctions; and fixed point properties of dendrites in terms of those of finite discrete trees.     

Some Conditions for a C0-Semigroup to Be Asymptotically Finite-Dimensional

We study the class of bounded C ₀-semigroups T=(T _t ) _t0 on a Banach space X satisfying the asymptotic finite dimensionality condition: codim X ₀(T)<, where X ₀(T):={x X:lim_t T _t x=0}. We prove a theorem which provides some necessary and sufficient conditions for asymptotic finite dimensionality.     

Computation of Almost Split Sequences with Applications to Relatively Projective and Prinjective Modules

Let be an Artin algebra, let mod be the category of finitely generated -modules, and let Amod be a contravariantly finite and extension closed subcategory. For an indecomposable and not Ext-projective module CA, we compute the almost split sequence 0ABC0 in A from the almost split sequence 0DTrCEC0 in mod. Since the computation is particularly simple if the minimal right A-approximation of DTrC is indecomposable for all indecomposable and not Ext-projective CA, we manufacture subcategories A with the desired property using orthogonal subcategories. The method of orthogonal subcategories is applied to compute almost split sequences for relatively projective and prinjective modules.     

Almost Connected Orders

One of the standard axioms for semiorders states that no three-point chain is incomparable to a fourth point. We refer to asymmetric relations satisfying this axiom as almost connected orders or ac-orders. It turns out that any relation lying between two weak orders, one of which covers the other for inclusion, is an ac-order (albeit of a special kind). Every ac-order is bracketed in a natural way by two weak orders, one the maximum in the set of weak orders included in the ac-order, and the other minimal, but not necessarily the minimum, in the set of weak orders that include the ac-order. The family of ac-orders on a finite set with at least five elements is not well graded (in the sense of Doignon and Falmagne, 1997). However, such a family is both upgradable and downgradable, as every nonempty ac-order contains a pair whose deletion defines an ac-order on the same set, and for every ac-order which is not a chain, there is a pair whose addition gives an ac-order.     

Toeplitz Operators with Semi-Almost-Periodic Matrix Symbols on Hardy Spaces

We establish a Fredholm criterion and an index formula for Toeplitz operators with semi-almost-periodic matrix symbols on the Hardy spaces H ^p (1<p<). Our main result completes the Fredholm theory of the aforementioned operators and generalizes previous results, which concerned the case p=2 or were based on certain additional assumptions, such as factorizability, for the almost-periodic representatives of the symbol.     

The Dimension Function of Holomorphic Spaces of a Real Submanifold of an Almost Complex Manifold

Let M be a real submanifold of an almost complex manifold and let be the maximal holomorphic subspace, for each x M. We prove that c:M,c(x)=dim H _x is upper-semicontinuous.     

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:

Exchangeable Random Orders and Almost Uniform Distributions

Random orders on invariant under permutations are called exchangeable. The compact and convex set of all random total orders is shown to be a Bauer simplex whose set of extreme points, the socalled totally ordered paintbox processes, is homeomorphically parametrized by almost uniform distributions on the unit interval, i.e. by probability measures w on [0, 1] whose distribution functions are w-almost surely the identity.     

Tight Distance-Regular Graphs

We consider a distance-regular graph with diameter d 3 and eigenvalues k = ₀ > ₁ > ... > _d . We show the intersection numbers a ₁, b ₁ satisfy

Open subgroups of

Let be a locally compact group and let denote the -algebra generated by left translation operators on . Let and be the spaces of almost periodic and weakly almost periodic functionals on the Fourier algebra , respectively. It is shown that if contains an open abelian subgroup, then (1) if and only if is norm dense in ; (2) is a -algebra if is norm dense in , where denotes the set of elements in with compact support. In particular, for any amenable locally compact group which contains an open abelian subgroup, has the dual Bohr approximation property and is a -algebra.