HOUSTON JOURNAL OF
MATHEMATICS

Archived Edition Vol. 22, No. 1, 1996

Editors: H. Brezis (Paris), S.S. Chern (Berkeley), J. Damon (Chapel Hill), L.C. Evans (Berkeley), R.M. Hardt (Rice), J.A. Johnson (Houston), A. Lelek (Houston), J. Nagata (Osaka), B.H. Neumann (Australian National University), V. Paulsen (Houston), G. Pisier (College Station and Paris), R. Scott (Houston), S.W. Semmes (Rice), K. Uhlenbeck (Austin)
Managing Editor: G. Auchmuty (Houston)

Houston Journal of Mathematics


Contents

Mohammad K. Azarian
A Key Theorem on the Near Frattini Subgroups of Generalized Free Productsof Groups, pp. 1-10.

Elliot Benjamin
Lower Bounds on the 2-Class Number of the 2-Hilbert Class Field of ImaginaryQuadratic Number Fields With Elementary 2-Class Group of Rank 3, pp. 11-37.

Murray Bell, Stephen Watson
Not All Dendroids Have Means, pp. 39-50.

R. Gilmer, W. Heinzer, W. W. Smith
On the Distribution of Prime Ideals Within the Ideal Class Group, pp. 51-59.

A. Harmanci, P. F. Smith, A. Tercan, Y. Tiras
Direct Sums of CS-Modules, pp. 61-71.

Harold Donnelly
Harmonic Maps Between Rank One Symmetric Spaces -- Regularity at the IdealBoundary, pp. 73-87.

Tomas Dominguez Benavides, Genaro Lopez Acedo, Hong-Kun Xu
Qualitative and Quantitative Properites for the Space lp,q, pp. 89-100.

Jesus Garcia-Falset, Brailey Sims, Michael A. Smyth
The Demiclosedness Principle for Mappings of Asymptotically NonexpansiveType, pp. 101-108.

Niels Gronbaek
Morita Equivalence for Self-Induced Banach Algebras, pp. 109-140.

Donggeng Gong
K-Theoretic Torsion Invariants for Finite Von Neumann Algebras, pp. 141-159.

Fabian Flores-Bazan
On Radial Solutions to Non-Convex Variational Problems, pp. 161-181.

J. M. Mazon, J. Toledo
Stabilization of Solutions of the Filtration Equation in Rn, pp. 183-198.

Noriko Mizoguchi, Takashi Suzuki
Semilinear Elliptic Equations on Annuli in Three and Higher Dimensions, pp. 199-215.

Mitsuo Kanemitsu, Ryuki Matsuda
Note on Seminormal Overrings, pp. 217-224.