The Banach $^{\ast }$-operator algebras, exhibiting the second-order noncommutative differential structure and the noncommutative Lipschitz structure, that are determined by the unbounded derivation and induced by a closed symmetric operator in a Hilbert space, are explored.

The classical Remez inequality [‘Sur une propriété des polynomes de Tchebycheff’, Comm. Inst. Sci. Kharkov13 (1936), 9–95] bounds the maximum of the absolute value of a real polynomial $P$ of degree $d$ on $[-1,1]$ through the maximum of its absolute value on any subset $Z\subset [-1,1]$ of positive Lebesgue measure. Extensions to several variables and to certain sets of Lebesgue measure zero, massive in a much weaker sense, are available (see, for example, Brudnyi and Ganzburg [‘On an extremal problem for polynomials of $n$ variables’, Math. USSR Izv.37 (1973), 344–355], Yomdin [‘Remez-type inequality for discrete sets’, Israel. J. Math.186 (2011), 45–60], Brudnyi [‘On covering numbers of sublevel sets of analytic functions’, J. Approx. Theory162 (2010), 72–93]). Still, given a subset $Z\subset [-1,1]^{n}\subset \mathbb{R}^{n}$, it is not easy to determine whether it is ${\mathcal{P}}_{d}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$-norming (here ${\mathcal{P}}_{d}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$ is the space of real polynomials of degree at most $d$ on $\mathbb{R}^{n}$), that is, satisfies a Remez-type inequality: $\sup _{[-1,1]^{n}}|P|\leq C\sup _{Z}|P|$ for all $P\in {\mathcal{P}}_{d}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$ with $C$ independent of $P$. (Although ${\mathcal{P}}_{d}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$-norming sets are precisely those not contained in any algebraic hypersurface of degree $d$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, there are many apparently unrelated reasons for $Z\subset [-1,1]^{n}$ to have this property.) In the present paper we study norming sets and related Remez-type inequalities in a general setting of finite-dimensional linear spaces $V$ of continuous functions on $[-1,1]^{n}$, remaining in most of the examples in the classical framework. First, we discuss some sufficient conditions for $Z$ to be $V$-norming, partly known, partly new, restricting ourselves to the simplest nontrivial examples. Next, we extend the Turán–Nazarov inequality for exponential polynomials to several variables, and on this basis prove a new fewnomial Remez-type inequality. Finally, we study the family of optimal constants $N_{V}(Z)$ in the Remez-type inequalities for $V$, as the function of the set $Z$, showing that it is Lipschitz in the Hausdorff metric.

In terms of class field theory we give a necessary and sufficient condition for an integer to be representable by the quadratic form $x^{2}+xy+ny^{2}$ ($n\in \mathbb{N}$ arbitrary) under extra conditions $x\equiv 1\;\text{mod}\;m$, $y\equiv 0\;\text{mod}\;m$ on the variables. We also give some examples where their extended ring class numbers are less than or equal to $3$.

We extend to soluble $\text{FC}^{\ast }$-groups, the class of generalised FC-groups introduced in de Giovanni et al. [‘Groups with restricted conjugacy classes’, Serdica Math. J. 28(3) (2002), 241–254], the characterisation of finite soluble T-groups obtained recently in Kaplan [‘On T-groups, supersolvable groups, and maximal subgroups’, Arch. Math. (Basel) 96(1) (2011), 19–25].

In this paper, we investigate strongly regular congruences on $E$-inversive semigroups $S$. We describe the complete lattice homomorphism of strongly regular congruences, which is a generalization of an open problem of Pastijn and Petrich for regular semigroups. An abstract characterization of left and right traces for strongly regular congruences is given. The strongly regular (sr) congruences on $E$-inversive semigroups $S$ are described by means of certain strongly regular congruence triples $({\it\gamma},K,{\it\delta})$ consisting of certain sr-normal equivalences ${\it\gamma}$ and ${\it\delta}$ on $E(S)$ and a certain sr-normal subset $K$ of $S$. Further, we prove that each strongly regular congruence on $E$-inversive semigroups $S$ is uniquely determined by its associated strongly regular congruence triple.

We raise a question of whether the Riesz transform on $\mathbb{T}^{n}$ or $\mathbb{Z}^{n}$ is characterized by the ‘maximal semigroup symmetry’ that the transform satisfies. We prove that this is the case if and only if the dimension is one, two or a multiple of four. This generalizes a theorem of Edwards and Gaudry for the Hilbert transform on $\mathbb{T}$ and $\mathbb{Z}$ in the one-dimensional case, and extends a theorem of Stein for the Riesz transform on $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. Unlike the $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ case, we show that there exist infinitely many linearly independent multiplier operators that enjoy the same maximal semigroup symmetry as the Riesz transforms on $\mathbb{T}^{n}$ and $\mathbb{Z}^{n}$ if the dimension $n$ is greater than or equal to three and is not a multiple of four.

Motivated by a problem of characterising a family of Cayley graphs, we study a class of finite groups $G$ which behave similarly to elementary abelian $p$-groups with $p$ prime, that is, there exists a subgroup $N$ such that all elements of $G\setminus N$ are conjugate or inverse-conjugate under $\mathsf{Aut}(G)$. It is shown that such groups correspond to complete multipartite graphs which are normal edge-transitive Cayley graphs.

Consider the (elliptic) stationary nonlinear reaction–diffusion equation in a sequence of bounded Neumann tubes in a space that is squeezed to a reference curve. It is supposed that the forcing term is square integrable and that the nonlinear one satisfies some growth and dissipative conditions. A norm convergence of the resolvents of the operators associated with the linear terms of such equations is proven, and this fact is used to provide new and simpler proofs of the asymptotic behaviour of the solutions to the full nonlinear equations (previously known in similar singular problems).

In this paper, we prove the existence of nontrivial solutions to the following Schrödinger equation with critical Sobolev exponent:

$$\begin{eqnarray}\left\{\begin{array}{@{}l@{}}-{\rm\Delta}u+V(x)u=K(x)|u|^{2^{\ast }-2}u+f(x,u),\quad x\in \mathbb{R}^{N},\\ u\in H^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{N})\end{array}\right.\end{eqnarray}$$

$V(x_{0})<0$

$x_{0}\in \mathbb{R}^{N}$

$b>0$

${\mathcal{V}}_{b}:=\{x\in \mathbb{R}^{N}:V(x)<b\}$

$K$

$f$

$N\geq 3$

$2^{\ast }=2N/(N-2)$