Mumford and Suominen in [8] and Newstead in [11] have considered the moduli problem of classifying the endomorphisms of finite-dimensional vector spaces. Using similar ideas we consider the moduli problem for endomorphisms of indecomposable semistable vector bundles over a compact connected Riemann surface of genus g ≥ 2.

Piochi in [10] gives a description of the least commutative congruence γ of an inverse semigroup in terms of congruence pairs and generalizes to inverse semigroups the notion of solvability. The object of this paper is to give an explicit construction of λ for simple regular ω-semigroups exploiting the work of Baird on congruences on such semigroups. Moreover the connection between the solvability classes of simple regular ω-semigroups and those of their subgroups is studied.

By a representation of the extended Dynkin diagram we shall mean a list of 5 vector spaces P, E1, E2, E3, E4 over an algebraically closed field K, and 4 linear maps a1, a2, a3, a4 as shown.

The spaces need not be of finite dimension.

In their solution of the 4-subspace problem [6], Gelfand and Ponomarev have classified such representations when the spaces are finite dimensional. A representation like (1) can also be viewed as a module over the K-algebra R4 consisting of all 5 × 5 matrices having zeros off the first row and off the main diagonal.

The main aims of this paper are to provide a device for constructing large families of complex-multiplication (CM) fields, and to examine the Galois groups of some related field extensions. We recall that an algebraic number field K (i.e. ) is called a CM-field if it is totally complex but is quadratic over some totally real field (see Section 1). CM fields are important in algebraic geomety, since the ring of endomorphisms of a simple abelian variety defined over an algebraic number field is either ℤ or a ℤ-order in a CM field. Moreover, CM fields figure prominently in classfield theory, since Shimura [15] has shown that “almost all” classfields over CM fields K can be generated by means of division points on abelian varieties admitting ℤ-orders in K as their endomorphism rings. Shimura's work can be regarded as a natural generalization of the classical method (due to Kronecker and H. Weber) of generating classfields of imaginary quadratic fields via division points on CM-elliptic curves.

Given a variety of lattice-ordered algebras, a lattice L is said to be a relative-lattice if every closed interval [a, b] of L may be given the structure of an algebra in (in other words, is the reduct of a member of —not necessarily unique). This paper discusses the characterisation in terms of forbidden substructures of finite relative.stf-lattices. We treat a large class of varieties of distributive-lattice-ordered algebras. For these varieties, the finite algebras can be described dually in terms of finite ordered sets, so that order-theoretic results and techniques prove valuable.

Let N be a homomorphically closed class of associative rings. Put N1 = Nl = N and, for ordinals a ≥ 2, define Nα (Nα) to be the class of all associative rings R such that every non-zero homomorphic image of R contains a non-zero ideal (left ideal) in Nβ for some β<α. In this way we obtain a chain {Nα} ({Nα}), the union of which is equal to the lower radical class IN (lower left strong radical class IsN) determined by N. The chain {Nα} is called Kurosh's chain of N. Suliński, Anderson and Divinsky proved [7] that . Heinicke [3] constructed an example of N for which lN ≠ Nk for k = 1, 2,. … In [1] Beidar solved the main problem in the area showing that for every natural number n ≥ 1 there exists a class N such that IN = Nn+l ≠ Nn. Some results concerning the termination of the chain {Nα} were obtained in [2,4]. In this paper we present some classes N with Nα = Nα for all α Using this and Beidar's example we prove that for every natural number n ≥ 1 there exists an N such that Nα = Nα for all α and Nn ≠ Nn+i = Nn+2. This in particular answers Question 6 of [4].

A module is said to be serial if it has a unique chain of submodules, and a ring is serial if it is a direct sum of serial right ideals and a direct sum of serial left ideals. The serial rings of Krull dimension 0 are the Artinian serial (or generalised uniserial) rings studied by Nakayama and for which there is an extensive theory (see for example [4]). Warfield in [10] extended the theory to the non-Artinian case. In particular he showed that a Noetherian serial ring is a direct sum of Artinian serial rings and prime Noetherian serial rings, and he gave a structure theorem in the prime Noetherian case. A Noetherian non-Artinian serial ring has Krull dimension 1. Serial rings of arbitrary Krull dimension have been studied by Wright ([9], [12], [13], [14]) with special results being proved when the Krull dimension is 1 or 2.

In this paper we construct examples which answer three questions in the general area of noncommutative Noetherian local rings and rings of finite global dimension. The examples are formed in the same basic way, beginning with a commutative polynomial ring A over a field k and a k-derivation δ of A, taking the skew polynomial ring R = A[x;δ] and localizing at a prime ideal of the form IR, where I is a prime ideal of A invariant under δ. The localization is possible by a result of Sigurdsson [13].

Let (X, Σμ) denote a complete a-finite measure space and T: X → X a measurable (T-1A ε Σ each A ε Σ) point transformation from X into itself with the property that the measure μ°T-1 is absolutely continuous with respect to μ. Given any measurable, complex-valued function w(x) on X, and a function f in L2(μ), define WTf(x) via the equation

We make the convention that if a is an element of a semigroup Q then by writing a–1 it is implicit that a lies in a subgroup of Q and has inverse a–1 in this subgroup; equivalently, a ℋ a2 and a–1 is the inverse of a in Ha.

A subsemigroup S of a semigroup Q is a left order in Q and Q is a semigroup of left quotients of S if every element of Q can be written as a–1b where a, b ∈ S and, in addition, every element of S satisfying a weak cancellation condition which we call square-cancellable lies in a subgroup of Q. The notions of right order and semigroup of right quotients are defined dually; if S is both a left order and a right order in Q then S is an order in Q and Q is a semigroup of quotients of S.

The concept of (V*) set was introduced, as a dual companion of that of (V)-set, by Pelczynski in his important paper [14]. In the same paper, the so called properties (V) and (V*) are defined by the coincidence of the (V) or (V*) sets with the weakly relatively compact sets. Many important Banach space properties are (or can be) defined in the same way; that is, by the coincidence of two classes of bounded sets. In this paper, we are concerned with the study of the class of (V*) sets in a Banach space, and its relationship with other related classes. To this general study is devoted Section I. A (as far as we know) new Banach space property (we called it property weak (V*)) is defined, by imposing the coincidence of (V*) sets and weakly conditionally compact sets. In this way, property (V*) is decomposed into the conjunction of the weak (V*) property and the weak sequential completeness. In Section II, we specialize to the study of (V*) sets in Banach lattices. The main result in the section is that every order continuous Banach lattice has property weak (V*), which extends previous results of E. and P. Saab ([16]). Finally, Section III is devoted to the study of (V*) sets in spaces of Bochner integrable functions. We characterize a broad class of (V*) sets in L1(μ, E), obtaining similar results to those of Andrews [1], Bourgain [6] and Diestel [7] for other classes of subsets. Applications to the study of properties (V*) and weak (V*) are obtained. Extension of these results to vector valued Orlicz function spaces are also given.