HOUSTON JOURNAL OF
MATHEMATICS

Archived Edition Vol. 4, No. 3, 1978

Editors: D.G. Bourgin (Houston), B. Jóhnson (Nashville), A. Lelek (Houston), J.S. Mac Nerney (Houston), J.W. Neuberger (Emory), B.H. Neumann (Australian National University), J. Schmidt (Houston)
Managing Editor: G.G. Johnson (Houston)
Associate Managing Editors: J. Hausen (Houston), J.A. Johnson (Houston)

Houston Journal of Mathematics


Contents

D. D. Anderson
Some Finiteness Conditions on a Commutative Ring, pp. 289-299.

J. M. Anderson, L. A. Rubel
Hypernormal Meromorphic Functions, pp. 301-309.

B. C. Burch, Jerome A. Goldstein
Nonlinear Semigroups and a Problem in Heat Conduction, pp. 311-328.

Bang-Yen Chen
Cobordism, A-Genus and Einstein-Kahler Metrics, pp. 329-334.

G. R. Gordh, Jr., Lewis Lum
Radially Convex Mappings and Smoothness in Continua, pp. 335-342.

J. Grispolakis, E. D. Tymchatyn
Semi-Confluent Mappings and Acyclicity, pp. 343-357.

D. H. Hyers
A Note on Frechet's Definition of ``Polynomes Abstraits'', pp. 359-362.

N. J. Kalton, G. V. Wood
Norm-Decreasing Homomorphisms Between Ideals of C(G), pp. 363-378.

William F. Keigher
Quasi-Prime Ideals in Differential Rings, pp. 379-388.

Alan Lambert, Mary Embry-Wardrop
A Class of Nilpotent Semigroups on Hilbert Space, pp. 389-396.

Charles Lanski
Gabriel Dimension and Rings With Involution, pp. 397-415.

Marvin Marcus
An Inequality for Non-Decomposable Elements in the Grassmann Algebra, pp. 417-422.

Raymond C. Roan
Composition Operators on the Space of Functions With Hp-Derivative, pp. 423-438.

Jesse M. Shapiro
On the Rate of Convergence of Distribution Functions of Sums of Reciprocals of Random Variables to the Cauchy Distribution, pp. 439-445.