A connected, locally finite graph $\Gamma $ is a Cayley–Abels graph for a totally disconnected, locally compact group G if G acts vertex-transitively on $\Gamma $ with compact, open vertex stabilizers. Define the minimal degree of G as the minimal degree of a Cayley–Abels graph of G. We relate the minimal degree in various ways to the modular function, the scale function and the structure of compact open subgroups. As an application, we prove that if $T_{d}$ denotes the d-regular tree, then the minimal degree of $\mathrm{Aut}(T_{d})$ is d for all $d\geq 2$ .

In this paper, we initiate the study of fixed point properties of amenable or reversible semitopological semigroups in modular spaces. Takahashi’s fixed point theorem for amenable semigroups of nonexpansive mappings, and T. Mitchell’s fixed point theorem for reversible semigroups of nonexpansive mappings in Banach spaces are extended to the setting of modular spaces. Among other things, we also generalize another classical result due to Mitchell characterizing the left amenability property of the space of left uniformly continuous functions on semitopological semigroups by introducing the notion of a semi-modular space as a generalization of the concept of a locally convex space.

Let $G$ be a locally compact group and $K$ a closed subgroup of $G$. Let $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FE},$$\unicode[STIX]{x1D70B}$ be representations of $K$ and $G$ respectively. Moore’s version of the Frobenius reciprocity theorem was established under the strong conditions that the underlying homogeneous space $G/K$ possesses a right-invariant measure and the representation space $H(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FE})$ of the representation $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FE}$ of $K$ is a Hilbert space. Here, the theorem is proved in a more general setting assuming only the existence of a quasi-invariant measure on $G/K$ and that the representation spaces $\mathfrak{B}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FE})$ and $\mathfrak{B}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D70B})$ are Banach spaces with $\mathfrak{B}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D70B})$ being reflexive. This result was originally established by Kleppner but the version of the proof given here is simpler and more transparent.

The century-old extremal problem, solved by Carathéodory and Fejér, concerns a non-negative trigonometric polynomial $T(t) = a_0 + \sum\nolimits_{k = 1}^n {a_k} \cos (2\pi kt) + b_k\sin (2\pi kt){\ge}0$, normalized by a0=1, where the quantity to be maximized is the coefficient a1 of cos (2π t). Carathéodory and Fejér found that for any given degree n, the maximum is 2 cos(π/n+2). In the complex exponential form, the coefficient sequence (ck) ⊂ ℂ will be supported in [−n, n] and normalized by c0=1. Reformulating, non-negativity of T translates to positive definiteness of the sequence (ck), and the extremal problem becomes a maximization problem for the value at 1 of a normalized positive definite function c: ℤ → ℂ, supported in [−n, n]. Boas and Kac, Arestov, Berdysheva and Berens, Kolountzakis and Révész and, recently, Krenedits and Révész investigated the problem in increasing generality, reaching analogous results for all locally compact abelian groups. We prove an extension to all the known results in not necessarily commutative locally compact groups.

We relate a one-parametric generating function for the squares of Legendre polynomials to an arithmetic hypergeometric series whose parametrisation by a level 7 modular function was recently given by Cooper. By using this modular parametrisation we resolve a subfamily of identities involving $1/ \pi $ which was experimentally observed by Sun.