The heat kernel of an amenable Lie group satisfies either exp. We give a condition on the Lie algebra which characterizes the two cases.

Let R be a ring and M a right R-module. Let σ[M] be the full subcategory of Mod-R subgenerated by M. An M-natural class 𝒦 is a subclass of σ[M] closed under submodules, direct sums, isomorphic copies, and M-injective hulls. We present some equivalent conditions each of which describes when σ has the property that direct sums of (M-)injective modules in σ are (M-)injective. Specializing to particular M, and/or special subclasses we obtain many new results and known results as corollaries.

Suppose that Gis a locally compact group with modular function Δ and that p, q, r are three numbers in the interval (l,∞) satisfying . If cp,q(G) is the smallest constant c such that for all functions f, g ∈ Cc(G) (here the convolution product is with respect to left Haar measure and is the exponent which is conjugate to p) then Young's inequality asserts that cp,q(G) ≤ 1. This paper contains three results about these constants. Firstly, if G contains a compact open subgroup then cp,q(G) = 1 and, as an extension of an earlier result of J. J. F. Fournier, it is shown that there is a constant cp,q < 1 such that if G does not contain a compact open subgroup then c<(G) ≤ c≤. Secondly, Beckner's calculation of is used to obtain the value of cp,q(G) for all simply-connected solvable Lie groups and all nilpotent Lie groups. And thirdly, it is shown that for a nilpotent Lie group the set is not contained in the union of the spaces Ls(G), .

In this paper, we shall give a method in constructing dihedral Galois covering with prescribed branch locus. As an application, we shall look into dihedral Galois covering of P2, where torsion elements of the Mordell-Weil group of an elliptic surface play key roles in constructing coverings

Let M be a connected linear algebraic monoid with zero and a reductive unit group. We show that there exist reductive groups G1,..., Gt, each with an automorphism, such that the conjugacy classes of M are in a natural bijective correspondence with the twisted conjugacy classes of Gi, i = 1,..., t.

We prove that a commutative preordered semigroup embeds into the space of all equidecomposability types of subsets of some set equipped with a group action (in short, a full type space) if and only if it satisfies the following axioms: (i) (⩝x,y) (x ≤ x + y); (ii) (⩝x,y)((x ≤ y and y ≤ x) ⇒ x = y); (iii) (⩝x,y,u, v)((x + u ≤ y + u and u ≤ v) ⩝ x + v ≤ y ≤ v); (iv) (⩝x, u, V)((x + u = u and u ≤ v) ⇒ x + v = v); (v) (⩝x,y)(mx ≤ my ⇒ x ≤ y) (all m ∊ Ν \ {0}). Furthermore, such a structure can always be embedded into a reduced power of the space Τ of nonempty initial segments of + with rational (possibly infinite) endpoints, equipped with the addition defined by and the ordering defined by . As a corollary, the set of all universal formulas of (+, ≤) satisfied by all full type spaces is decidable.

In recent years there has been a growing interest in problems of factorization for bounded linear operators. We first show that many of these problems properly belong to the category of C*-algebras. With this interpretation, it becomes evident that the problem is fundamental both to the structure of operator algebras and the elements therein. In this paper we consider the direct integral algebra with separable and infinite dimensional. We generalize a theorem of Wu (1988) and characterize those decomposable operators which are products of non-negative decomposable operators. We do this by first showing that various results on operator ranges may be generalized to “measurable fields of operator ranges”.

If μk,n(α,β) denotes the relative extrema of the Jacobi polynomial P(α,β)n(x), ordered so that μk+1,n(α,β) lies to the left of μk,n(α,β), then R. A. Askey has conjectured twenty years ago that for for k = 1,…, n — 1 and n = 1,2,=. In this paper, we give an asymptotic expansion for μk,n(α,β) when k is fixed and n → ∞, which corrects an earlier result of R. Cooper (1950). Furthermore, we show that Askey's conjecture is true at least in the asymptotic sense.

Let S2jf be the 2j-th partial sum of the Vilenkin-Fourier series of f ∊ L1, and set S2-1f = 0. For , we show that the ratio

is contained between two bounds (independent of f) . From this we obtain the Marcinkiewicz multiplier theorem for Vilenkin-Fourier series.

Let L be an orthomodular poset. A positive measure ξ on L is said to be weakly purely finitely additive if the zero measure is the only completely additive measure majorized by ξ. It was shown in [15] that, in an arbitrary orthomodular poset L, every positive measures μ is the sum v + ξ of a positive completely additive measure v and a weakly purely finitely additive measure ξ. We give sufficient conditions for this Yosida-Hewitt-type decomposition to be unique.

A positive measure λ on L is said to be filtering if every non-zero element p in L majorizes a non-zero element q on which λ vanishes. A filtering measure is weakly purely finitely additive. Filtering measures play a mediator role throughout these investigations since some of the aforementioned conditions are given in terms of these.

The results obtained here are then viewed in the context of Boolean lattices and applied to lattices of idempotents of non-associative JBW-algebras.

We study operator algebras with contractive approximate identities and their double centralizer algebras. These operator algebras can be characterized as L∞- Banach algebras with contractive approximate identities. We provide two examples, which show that given a non-unital operator algebra A with a contractive approximate identity, its double centralizer algebra M(A) may admit different operator algebra matrix norms, with which M(A) contains A as an M-ideal. On the other hand, we show that there is a unique operator algebra matrix norm on the unitalization algebra A1 of A such that A1 contains A as an M-ideal.

In this article we examine conditions for the appearance or nonappearance of the two extra-special 2-groups of order 32 as Galois groups over a field F of characteristic not 2. The groups in question are the central products DD of two dihedral groups of order 8, and DQ of a dihedral group with the quaternion group, obtained by identifying the central elements of order 2 in each factor group. It is shown that the realizability of each of these groups as Galois groups over F implies the realizability of other 2-groups (which are not their quotient groups), and in turn that realizability of certain other 2-groups implies the realizability of DD and DQ. We conclude by providing an explicit construction of field extensions with Galois group DD.

The paper is concerned with the comparison of two solutions for a one-dimensional stochastic partial differential equation. Noting that support compactness of solutions propagates with passage of time, we define the SCP property and show that the SCP property and the strong positivity are two contrasting properties of solutions for one-dimensional SPDEs, which are due to degeneracy of the noise-term coefficient

The heat kernel of an amenable Lie group satisfies either pt ~ exp(—ct1/3) or pt ~ t-a as t → ∞. We give a condition on the Lie algebra which characterizes the two cases.