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Davey, Brian A., La Trobe University, Victoria 3086, Australia
(B.Davey@latrobe.edu.au), Haviar,
Miroslav, Matej Bel University, PdF, 974 01 Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic
(haviar@pdf.umb.sk), and
Niven, Todd, La Trobe University, Victoria 3086, Australia
(T.Niven@latrobe.edu.au).
When is a full duality strong?,
pp. 1-22.
ABSTRACT.
The relationship between full and strong dualities in the theory of natural
dualities is not yet understood. Our aim in this paper is to present partial
solutions to the Full versus Strong Problem, which asks if every full duality is
necessarily strong. We introduce local versions of this problem and prove that
they have affirmative solutions for four well-known classes of algebras: abelian
groups, semilattices, relative Stone Heyting algebras and bounded distributive
lattices. Along the way we provide some useful additions to the general theory.
Li, Shirong, Department of Mathematics, Guangxi University, Nanning,
Guangxi, 530004, P. R. China
(shirong@gxu.edu.cn) and Ballester-Bolinches, A., Departament
d'Àlgebra, Universitat de València, Dr. Moliner, 50, 46100 Burjassot, València,
Spain (Adolfo.Ballester@uv.es)
On a class of finite groups,
pp. 23-31.
ABSTRACT. Let L be the class of
all finite groups G such that every supersolvable subgroup of G is
nilpotent. It is proved in the paper that L is composed
of solvable groups and is the largest saturated Fitting formation such that the
intersection of L and U is
contained in N, where U is the
class of all supersolvable groups and N is the class of
all nilpotent groups. Some properties of L-groups are
also exhibited.
I. N. Cangül, Uludag Üniversitesi, Fen-Edebiyat
Fakültesi, Matematik Bölümü, 16059 Bursa, Turkey (cangul@uludag.edu.tr),
R. Sahin, S. İkikardes and Ö. Koruoğlu, Balıkesir Üniversitesi,
Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, Matematik Bölümü, 10100 Balıkesir, Turkey (rsahin@balikesir.edu.tr),
(skardes@balikesir.edu.tr) and
(ozdenk@balikesir.edu.tr).
Power Subgroups of Some Hecke Groups
II,
pp. 33-42.
ABSTRACT. Let q ³ 3 be an odd integer and let
H(lq) be the Hecke
group associated to q. Let m be a positive integer and Hm(lq)
be the m-th power subgroup of H(lq).
In this paper, authors consider the power subgroups of some Hecke groups. They
determine the abstract group structure and generators of these subgroups and
generalise the results regarding the relations between power subgroups and
commutator subgroup, given for the modular group to Hecke groups.
A. Abdollahi, S. M. Jafarian Amiri and A. Mohammadi Hassanabadi,
Department of Mathematics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan 81746-73441 and
Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran,
IRAN (a.abdollahi@math.ui.ac.ir),
(sm.jafarian@sci.ui.ac.ir),
(aamohaha@yahoo.com)
Groups with specific number of
centralizers, pp. 43-57.
ABSTRACT.
Let G be a group and let cent(G) denote the set of centralizers of single
elements of G. A group G is called n-centralizer if |cent(G)|=n. In this
paper, for a finite group G, we give some interesting relations between
|cent(G)| and the maximum number of the pairwise non-commuting elements in
G. Also we characterize all n-centralizer finite groups for n=7 and 8. Using
these results we prove that there is no finite group G with the property
that |cent(G)|=|cent(G/Z(G))|=8, where Z(G) denotes the centre of G. This
latter result answers positively a conjecture posed by A. R. Ashrafi.
Dobbs, David, University of Tennessee,Knoxville, Tennessee 37996
(dobbs@math.utk.edu) and Shapiro, Jay
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030
(jshapiro@gmu.edu).
Descent of Minimal Overrings of
Integrally Closed Domains to Fixed Rings, pp. 59-82.
ABSTRACT. Let G be a group acting via ring
automorphisms on a commutative unital ring R. If G is finite, then the embedding
RG ® R is universally going-down, with
generalizations to certain classes of locally finite actions by infinite groups.
If R is an integrally closed integral domain with a minimal overring and G is
finite such that the order of G is a unit of R, then RG
has a minimal overring which is the G-fixed ring of the Kaplansky transform of
some radical ideal of R.
David E. Rush, Department of Mathematics, University of California,
Riverside, California 92521
(rush@math.ucr.edu), and James S. Okon, and Laura J. Wallace,
Department of Mathematics, California State University, San Bernardino,
California 92407 (jokon@csusb.edu), (wallace@csusb.edu).
A Mori-Nagata type theorem for
seminormal Mori lattices, pp. 83-102.
ABSTRACT.
It is shown that the complete integral closure of a seminormal Mori lattice is a
Krull lattice. This extends a result of V. Barucci to multiplicative lattices.
New results on rings are obtained by specializing to the case that the lattice
is the set of homogeneous ideals of an M-graded ring where M is an abelian
cancellative torsion-free monoid.
Albrecht, Ulrich, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849
(albreuf@auburn.edu).
Two-Sided Essential Submodules of
Q(R) , pp. 103-123.
ABSTRACT. The focus of this paper are essential
submodules A of the maximal right ring of quotients, Q(R), of a right
non-singular ring R. Since Q(R) is a R-R-bimodule, particular attention is given
to submodules of the right R-module Q(R) which are also submodules of the left
R-module Q(R). In this discussion, properties of R which are inherited by
intermediate rings S contained between R and Q(R) are investigated. The results
obtained are used to discuss homological properties of essential submodules A of
Q(R). In particular, the paper addresses the question when S-closed submodules
of finite direct sums of copies of A are direct summands.
Lu, Chin-Pi, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO 80217-3364 (Sylvia.lu@cudenver.edu).
A Module whose prime Spectrum has the
Surjective Natural Map, pp. 125-143.
ABSTRACT.
Let R be a commutative ring with identity. The purpose of this paper is to
introduce a new class of modules over R called primeful R-modules. Every nonzero
primeful module possesses the non-empty prime spectrum with the surjective
natural map. This class contains the family of finitely generated R-modules
properly. We show that the theory of prime submodules of primeful modules
resembles to that of finitely generated modules.
Arwini, Khadiga, University of Manchester, Manchester M60 1QD, UK
(arwini2001@yahoo.com), Del Riego, L., Universidad Autonoma de San
Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, SLP, 78900 Mexico
(lilia@fciencias.uaslp.mx) and Dodson, C.T.J., University of
Manchester, Manchester M60 1QD, UK
(ctdodson@manchester.ac.uk).
Universal connection and curvature
for statistical manifold geometry, pp. 145-161.
ABSTRACT.
Statistical manifolds are representations of smooth families of probability
density functions (ie subadditive measures of unit weight) that allow
differential geometric methods to be applied to problems in stochastic
processes, mathematical statistics and information theory. It is common to have
to consider a number of linear connections on a given statistical manifold and
so it is important to know the corresponding universal connection and curvature;
then all linear connections and their curvatures are pullbacks. An important
class of statistical manifolds is that arising from the exponential families and
one particular family is that of gamma distributions, which we showed recently
to have important uniqueness properties in stochastic processes. Here we provide
formulae for universal connections and curvatures on exponential families and
give an explicit example for the manifold of gamma distributions.
Fanai, Hamid-Reza, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Sharif
University of Technology, P.O.Box 11365-9415, Tehran, Iran (fanai@sharif.ac.ir).
Invariant Measures under Geodesic
Flow, pp. 163-167.
ABSTRACT.
For a compact Riemannian manifold with negative curvature, the Liouville
measure, the Bowen-Margulis measure and the Harmonic measure are three natural
invariant measures under the geodesic flow. We show that if any two of the above
three measure classes coincide then the space is locally symmetric, provided the
function with respect to which the equilibrium state is the Harmonic measure,
depends only on the foot points.
Stephen Leon Lipscomb, 8809 Robert E. Lee Drive, Spotsylvania, FA
22553
(slipscom@umw.edu).
The Sierpinski-cheese iterated
function system extended to a 3-simplex system, pp. 169-207.
ABSTRACT. The n-web fractal -the attractor of the IFS of
(n+1) contractions by 1/2 toward the vertices of an n-simplex - emerges from a
manifold (n-simplex). The classical example is Sierpinski's gasket (2-web) which
emerges from a 2-simplex. It is therefore natural (inverse of moving from
manifolds to fractals) to seek, for each n greater than 1, an extension of the
n-web system to an n-simplex system. For n = 2, the author recently provided
such a (minimal) extension. Here, we extend the 3-web system to one whose
attractor is the 3-simplex. For n greater than 3, the extension problem remains
open.
Nadler, Sam B., Jr., West Virginia University, P.O. Box 6310,
Morgantown, WV 26506-6310
(nadler@math.wvu.edu), and Pellicer-Covarrubias, Patricia,
Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, Circuito ext s/n, Ciudad
Universitaria 04510, México, D.F.
(paty@ciencias.unam.mx).
Cones That Are ½-Homogeneous,
pp. 229-247.
ABSTRACT.
A space is ½-homogeneous provided that there are exactly two orbits for the
action of the group of homeomorphisms of the space onto itself. Let X be a
nonempty compact metric space such that the cone over X is ½-homogeneous. It is
shown that if X is finite-dimensional, then X is an absolute neighborhood
retract. A general theorem is proved which shows that finite dimensionality is
necessary. It is shown that if X is a 1-dimensional continuum or if X does not
contain certain types of triods in some nonempty open set, then X is an arc or a
simple closed curve (assuming Cone(X) is ½-homogeneous). A number of corollaries
are derived. Some unanswered questions are stated.
Chuan Liu, Department of Mathematics, Ohio University-Zanesville Campus,
Zanesville, OH 43701 (liuc1@ohio.edu).
Notes on closed mappings, pp.
249-259.
ABSTRACT. In this paper, we characterize closed
sigma-compact images of metric spaces as Fr\'echet, weakly quasi-first-countable
spaces with a sigma-locally finite k-network; and discuss the fibers of closed
mappings on some generalized metric spaces and improve some Tanaka's results and
answered a Yun's question. It is also shown that g-metrizable spaces and spaces
with a point-countable base are preserved by closed sequence-covering mappings,
which gives an affirmative answer to a Lin's question.
Felix Capulin Perez, Departamento de Matematicas, Facultad de
Ciencias UNAM, Circuito exterior, C.P 04510, Mexico, D.F.(fcapulin@gmail.com)
and Wlodzimierz J. Charatonik, Departament of
Mathematics and Statistics, University of Missouri-Rolla, M.O. 65-409-002,
U.S.A (wjcharat@umr.edu).
Kehe Zhu, Department of Mathematics, SUNY, Albany, NY 12222
(kzhu@math.albany.edu)
Constantinescu, Tiberiu, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
75083 and El-Sissi, Nermine, Department of Mathematics, Trinity
University, 125 Michigan Avenue NE
Retractions from C(X) onto X
and continua of type N, pp. 261-272.
ABSTRACT.
Let A be a closed subset of X. A retraction is a mapping r from X onto A
such that r restricted to A is the identity in A . A mean is a mapping m
from X× X onto X such that
a) m((x,x))=x for each x in X, b) m((x,y))=m((y,x)) for each x, y in X.
X is a continuum of Type N if there exist in X an arc A=[p,q], two sequences
of arcs An=[pn,p'n] and Bn=[qn,q'n] and points p"n in Bn--{qn,q 'n} and q"n
in An--{pn,p'n} such that: 1. the sequences of arcs {An} and {Bn} converge
to the arc A; 2. the sequences {pn}, {p'n} and {p"n} converge to the point p
3. the sequences {qn}, {q'n} and {q"n} converge to the point q; 4. each arc
in X joining pn and p'n contains q"n; 5. each arc in X joining qn and
q'n contains p"n.
Compact composition operators on
Bergman spaces of the unit ball, pp. 273-283.
ABSTRACT.
Under a mild condition we show that a composition operator on the Bergman space
of the unit ball is compact if and only if the inducing map has no finite
angular derivative at any point on the unit sphere.
Washington, DC 20017
Positive Definite Kernels and Lattice Paths, pp. 285-300.
ABSTRACT. In this paper, we explore the structure of
positive definite kernels on the set of non-negative integers in terms of
operator models. Particularly, we introduce two models, one of a Hessenberg type
and another that we call ‘near tridiagonal.’ These models produce two distinct
parametrizations of the kernels. We also describe the combinatorial nature of
these parametrizations in terms of lattice paths of Dyck and Lukasiewicz types.
Stewart, David E., University of Iowa, IA
52242 (david-e-stewart@uiowa.edu).
Differentiating complementarity
problems and fractional index convolution complementarity problems,
pp. 301-322.
ABSTRACT.
Two functions a and b are said to be complementary if a has values in a closed
convex cone K (such as the non-negative orthant) while b has values in its dual
cone K* (which can also be the non-negative orthant), yet the inner product of
a(t) and b(t) is zero for (almost) all t. In this paper we consider implications
of the form: ``If a and b are complementary functions, then the inner product of
a(t) with the derivative b'(t) is zero for (almost) all t''. This is proved, for
example, where a is in Lp and b' is in Lq, 1/p+1/q=1, where a is continuous and
b has bounded variation, and where a and b' lie in dual Sobolev spaces.
Consequences for more than one derivative are also shown: the inner product of
a'(t) with b'(t) being non-negative and the inner product of a(t) with b''(t)
non-positive for almost all t provided a and b satisfy mild regularity
conditions. These implications can be used to prove conservation of energy in
impact systems as well as existence and regularity results for dynamic
complementarity problems of various kinds. In particular, it is shown that
solutions exist for a convolution complementarity problem where b = k*a + q in
Rn with k(t) ~ k0 t c, 0 < c < 1, for small t and k0 positive definite. Such
problems arise in connection with the impact of a viscoelastic rod.