The notion of nuclear object in an autonomous category is studied. It is shown that the full subcategory determined by the nuclear objects is also autonomous.

We prove an (n + l)-linear inequality which generalizes the classical bilinear inequality of Young concerning the LP norm of the convolution of two functions.

Let R be a ring which possesses a unit element, a Lie ideal U ⊄ Z, and a derivation d such that d(U) ≠ 0 and d(u) is 0 or invertible, for all u ∈ U. We prove that R must be either a division ring D or D2, the 2 X 2 matrices over a division ring unless d is not inner, R is not semiprime, and either 2R or 3R is 0. We also examine for which division rings D, D2 can possess such a derivation and study when this derivation must be inner.

Let V be a variety of rings and let A ∊ V. The ring A is injective in V if every triangle

with C ∊ V, m a monomorphism and f a homomorphism has a commutative completion as indicated. A ring which is injective in some variety (equivalently, injective in the variety it generates) is called injective. When only triangles with f surjective are considered we obtain the notion of weak injectivity. Directly indecomposable injective and weakly injective rings are classified.

A uniform space X is said to be uniformly locally connected if given any entourage U there exists an entourage V ⊂ U such that V[x] is connected for each x ∈ X. It is said to have property S if given any entourage U, X can be written as a finite union of connected sets each of which is U-small.

Based on these two uniform connection properties, another proof is given of the following well known result in the theory of locally connected spaces: The Stone-Čech compactification βX is locally connected if and only if X is locally connected and pseudocompact.

Let f be a function in H∞. We show that if f is inner or if the commutant of the analytic Toeplitz operator Tf is equal to that of Tb for some finite Blaschke product b, then any analytic Toeplitz operator quasisimilar to Tf is unitarily equivalent to Tf.

The paper gives a good approximation of a Ck function on Rn and its derivatives by the restriction of an entire function on Cn and its derivatives respectively.

We present a general method based on the van Kampen theorem for computing the fundamental group of the total space in certain Steenrod bundles. The method is applied to mapping spaces and Grassmann bundles.

A function theoretic proof of Axler's zero multiplier theorem of Bergman spaces is given.

A semiderivation of a ring R is an additive mapping f:R → R together with a function g:R → R such that f(xy) = f(x)g(y) + xf(y) = f(x)y + g(x)f(y) and f(g(x) ) = g(f(x)) for all x, y ∊ R. Motivating examples are derivations and mappings of the form x → x — g(x), g a ring endomorphism. A semiderivation f of R is centralizing on an ideal U if [f(u), u] is central for all u ∊ U. For R prime of char. ≠2, U a nonzero ideal of R, and 0 ≠ f a semiderivation of R we prove: (1) if f is centralizing on U then either R is commutative or f is essentially one of the motivating examples, (2) if [f(U), f(U) ] is central then R is commutative.

For a field F, char(F) ≠ 2, let WF denote the Witt ring of quadratic forms of F and let denote the multiplicative group of 1-dimensional forms It follows from a construction of D. K. Harrison that if E, F are fields (both of characteristic ≠ 2) and ρ.WE → WF is a ring isomorphism, then there exists a ring isomorphism which “preserves dimension” in the sense that In this paper, the relationship between ρ and is clarified.

The Bishop-Phelps theorem guarantees the existence of support points and support functionals for a nonempty closed convex subset of a Banach space; equivalently, it guarantees the existence of subdifferentials and points of subdifferentiability of a proper lower semicontinuous convex function on a Banach space. In this note we show that most of these results cannot be extended to pairs of convex sets or functions, even in Hilbert space. For instance, two proper lower semicontinuous convex functions need not have a common point of subdifferentiability nor need they have a subdifferential in common. Negative answers are also obtained to certain questions concerning density of support points for the closed sum of two convex subsets of Hilbert space.