It is well-known that the classical vanishing results of the cohomology theory of Lie algebras depend on the characteristic of the underlying base field. The theorems of Cartan and Zassenhaus, for instance, entail that non-modular simple Lie algebras do not admit non-trivial central extensions. In contrast, early results by Block [3] prove that this conclusion loses its validity if the underlying base field has positive characteristic.

Central extensions of a given Lie algebra L, or equivalently its second cohomology group H(L, F), can be conveniently described by means of derivations φ:L → L*.

Let H(U) be the linear space of holomorphic functions defined on the unit disk U endowed with the topology of normal (locally uniform) convergence. For a subset E ⊂ H(U) we denote by Ē the closure of E with respect to the above topology. The topological dual space of H(U) is denoted by H′(U).

Let D, 0 ∊ D, be a simply connected domain in C. The unique univalent conformal mapping ϕ from U onto D, normalized by ϕ(0) = 0 and ϕ′(0) > 0 will be called “the Riemann Mapping onto D”. Let S be the set of all normalized univalent functions

The purpose of this paper is to continue the investigation into the relationships amongst Massey products, lower central series of free groups and the free differential calculus (see [4], [9], [12]). In particular we set forth the notion of a universal Massey product ≪α1, …, αk≫, where the αi are one dimensional cohomology classes. This product is defined with zero indeterminacy, natural and multilinear in its variables.

In order to state the results we need some notation. Throughout F will denote the free group on fixed generators x1, …, xn and

will denote the lower central series of F. If I = (i1, …, ik) is a sequence such that 1 ≦ i1, …, ik ≦ n then ∂1 is the iterated Fox derivative and , where is the augmentation. By convention we set ∂1 = identity if I is empty.

If d is a positive square free integer we let Od be the ring of integers in and we let Γd = PSL2(Od), the group of linear fractional transformations

and entries from Od {if d = 1, ad – bc = ±1}. The Γd are called collectively the Bianchi groups and have been studied extensively both as abstract groups and in automorphic function theory {see references}. Of particular interest has been Γ1 – the Picard group. Group theoretically Γ1, is very similar to the classical modular group M = PSL2(Z) both in its total structure [4, 6], and in the structure of its congruence subgroups [8]. Where Γ1 and M differ greatly is in their action on the complex place C. M is Fuchsian and therefore acts discontinuously in the upper half-plane and every subgroup has the same property.

Two complex hermitian n × n matrices A and B are congruent if S*AS = B for some invertible n × n matrix S (with complex entries). The matrix S is called a congruence matrix. Given congruent hermitian matrices A and B, a congruence matrix is, of course, not unique. For instance, if A = B then one can take S = αI with |α| = 1, as well as any other matrix satisfying S*AS = A. However, here the choice S = I seems naturally to be best possible in the sense that when applied to an n-dimensional column vector it produces no distortion or movement of the vector at all. We shall measure the distortion (or movement) of the vector x ∊ Cn under an n × n invertible matrix A in terms of ║x − Ax║, where the norm is euclidean. Then the distortion produced by A is ║I − A║, with the induced operator norm.

In a paper with the above title H. Heilbronn [4] proved that, given any real θ, there exist infinitely many positive integers n such that the distance ║θn2║ from θn2 to its nearest integral neighbour satisfies the bound

He actually proved a somewhat stronger statement which shows that the integers n occur with some regularity and he suggested that perhaps the exponent may be replaced by . This theorem has attracted considerable attention and spawned a number of generalizations (see [1], [7] and the references therein), yet no essential improvement has been given for the original problem (but see [6], [8]).

Let KO and KU respectively denote the real and complex periodic K-theory spectra [1, Part III]. Let KSC denote the spectrum representing self-conjugate K-theory [2, G]. Thus we have a fibring

1.1

where T is induced by complex conjugation on the unitary group.

The following result is due to R. Wood [1, p. 206] and, I believe, to D. W. Anderson.

1.2. PROPOSITION. Let generate the stable one-stem. Then there are weak equivalences of spectra

a

and

b

Nous nous intéressons à l'existence, l'unicité et la multiplicité de solutions de l'équation différentielle forcée:

1.1

vérifiant les conditions périodiques

1.2

où e ∊ L1(0, 2π), c ∊ R, c arbitraire, g:[0, 2π] × R → R satisfait les conditions de Carathéodory i.e.,g(·, x) est measurable pour tout x ∊ R, g(t, ·) est continu pour presque tout t ∊ [0, 2π].

Le problème (1.1)-(1.2) a été étudié par plusieurs auteurs. Nous mentionerons les travaux [22], [18], [21], [20], [19], [7], [29], [25] et la bibliographie contenue dans ces articles.

Let v(n) denote the number of distinct prime factors of a natural number n. A classical theorem of Hardy and Ramanujan states that the normal order of v(n) is log log n. That is, given any , the number of natural numbers not exceeding x which fail to satisfy the inequality

1

is o(x) as x → ∞. A very simple proof of this was subsequently given by Turán. He showed that

2

Let M be a von Neumann algebra and let {αt}t∊R be a σ-weakly continuous flow on M; i.e., suppose that {αt}t∊R is a one-parameter group of *-automorphisms of M such that for each ρ in the predual, M∗, of M and for each x ∊ M, the function of t, ρ(αt(x)), is continuous on R. In recent years, considerable attention has been focused on the subspace of M, H∞(α), which is defined to be

where H∞(R) is the classical Hardy space consisting of the boundary values of functions bounded analytic in the upper half-plane. In Theorem 3.15 of [8] it is proved that in fact H∞(α) is a σ-weakly closed subalgebra of M containing the identity operator such that

is σ-weakly dense in M, and such that

Of late there has been considerable interest in the study of analogs of the Frattini subgroup of a finite group and the investigation of their properties, particularly their influence on the structure of the group, see [2-11], [14-16] and [18]. Gaschütz [11] and more recently Bechtell [2] and Rose [18] have considered extensively the intersection of the family of all non-normal, maximal subgroups of a finite group. Deskins [8] has discussed the intersection of the family of all maximal subgroups of a finite group whose indices are not divisible by a given prime. Bhatia [7] considered the intersection of the class of all maximal subgroups of a given group whose indices are composites. In this paper we investigate the intersection of another class of maximal subgroups and its relationship with the structure of the group. The subgroup we consider here contains the Frattini subgroup and also the two subgroups introduced in [8] and [7].

In this paper we consider the one dimensional Dirac system

1.1

where αk(x) < 0, λ is a complex spectral parameter, and the remaining coefficients are suitably smooth and real valued. We regard (1.1) as regular at x = a but singular at x = b; in Section 4 we extend our result to problems having two singular endpoints.

Equation (1.1) arises from the three dimensional Dirac equation with spherically symmetric potential, following a separation of variables. For the choices p(x) = k/x, αk(x) = 1,p2(x) = (z/x) + c, p1(x) = (z/x) – c, and appropriate values of the constants, (1.1) is the radial wave equation in relativistic quantum mechanics for a particle in a field of potential V = z/x [17]. Such an equation was studied by Kalf [11] in the context of limit point-limit circle criteria, which is one of the matters we consider here.

The theory of operator algebras in Banach spaces generated by Boolean algebras of projections is by now well known. It is systematically exposed in the penetrating studies of W. Bade, [1], [2] and [6, Chapter XVII]. Many of these results, a priori independent on normability of the underlying space, have recently been extended to the setting of locally convex spaces; see [3], [4], [5], [11] and [15], for example.

However, one of Bade's fundamental results, stating that the closed algebra generated by a complete Boolean algebra in the uniform operator topology is the same as the closed algebra that it generates in the weak operator topology, has remained remarkably resistant in attempts to extend it to locally convex spaces. Recently however, a class of Boolean algebras in non-normable spaces, called boundedly σ-complete Boolean algebras, was exhibited in which the analogue of Bade's result is valid, [14; Theorem 5.3].

For surgery on codimension 1 submanifolds with non-trivial normal bundle the theory of Wall [13, Section 12C] has obstruction groups LN∗(π′ → π), with π a group and π′ a subgroup of index 2, such that there is defined an exact sequence involving the ordinary L-groups of rings with involution

with the superscript w signifying a different involution on Z[π]. Geometry was used in [13] to identify

with (α, u) an antistructure on Z[π′] in the sense of Wall [14]. The main result of this paper is a purely algebraic version of this identification, for any twisted quadratic extension of a ring with antistructure.

Relatively little is known about simple, Type III, right self-injective rings Q. This is despite their common occurrence, for example as Qmax(R) for any prime, nonsingular, countable-dimensional algebra R without uniform right ideals. (In particular Q can be constructed with a given field as its centre.) As with their directly finite, SP(1), right self-injective counterparts, division rings, there are few obvious invariants apart from the centre.

One reason perhaps why little interest has been shown in their structure is that the usual construction of such Q, namely as a suitable Qmax(R), is not concrete enough; in general R sits far too loosely inside Q and not enough information transfers to Q from R. Thus, for example, taking R to be a non-right-Ore domain and Q = Qmax(R) tells us little about Q (although it has been conjectured that all Q arise this way).

The main question we wish to address in this paper is to what extent does the Ricci curvature of a spacetime determine the metric of that spacetime. Although it is relatively easy to see that the full Riemann curvature uniquely determines the metric for a generic choice of curvature tensors (see [4], [10], [11], [14] and [15], and the references contained therein), very little has been discovered about whether, if ever, Ric (or the stress energy tensor in Einstein's equations for that matter) determines g. Most exact solution techniques for Einstein's equations look only for solutions that have the same symmetries as Ric. It is not true in general that g must inherit the symmetries of Ric. It is not even clear that there is a Ric such that every g with this Ricci tensor is known.

Let denote the group of all homeomorphisms of a σ-compact manifold which preserve a σ-finite, nonatomic, locally positive and locally finite measure μ. In two recent papers [4, 5] the possible ergodicity of a homeomorphism h in was shown to be related to the homeomorphism h* induced by h on the ends of M. An end of a manifold is, roughly speaking, a distinct way of going to infinity. Those papers demonstrated in particular that always contains an ergodic homeomorphism, paralleling the similar result of Oxtoby and Ulam [11] for compact manifolds with finite measures. Unfortunately the techniques used in [4] and [5] rely on the fact that a skyscraper construction with an ergodic base transformation is ergodic, a result which cannot be extended to finer properties than ergodicity.

One motivation for studying representation theory for the unitary group of a unital C*-algebra arises from Theoretical Physics. (In the latter connection, Segal [9] and Arveson [1] have developed a representation theory for G. Their approach is in a different direction from ours.) Another motivation for studying the representation theory of G arises out of the desire to unify the theories of amenable von Neumann algebras and amenable locally compact groups.

A serious problem for such a representation theory is the absence of Haar measure on G in general.

In [7], the author introduced the class RepdG of contractive unitary representations of G, the strong metric condition involved compensating for the lack of Haar measure.

In recent years, there has been a rapid growth of the K-theory of C*-algebras. From a certain point of view, C*-algebras can be treated as “non-commutative topological spaces”, while finitely generated projective modules over them can be thought of as “non-commutative vector bundles”. The K-theory of C*-algebras [30] then generalizes the classical K-theory of topological spaces [1]. In particular, the K0-group of a unital C*-algebra A is the group “generated” by (or more precisely, the Grothendieck group of) the commutative semigroup of stable isomorphism classes of finitely generated projective modules over A with direct summation as the binary operation. The semigroup gives an order structure on K0(A) and is usually called the positive cone in K0(A).

Around 1980, the work of Pimsner and Voiculescu [18] and of A. Connes [4] provided effective ways to compute the K-groups of C*-algebras. Then the classification of finitely generated projective modules over certain unital C*-algebras up to stable isomorphism could be done by computing their K0-groups as ordered groups. Later on, inspired by A. Connes's development of non-commutative differential geometry on finitely generated projective modules [2], the deeper question of classifying such modules up to isomorphism and hence the so-called cancellation question were raised (cf. [21] ).

Throughout the whole paper G will be a locally compact abelian group with Haar measure m and dual group Ĝ. The difference of two sets A and B will be denoted by A ∼ B, i.e.,

For a function f on G and s ∊ G, the functions f′ and fs will be defined by