A Riemannian manifold (M, g) is said to be conformally flat if every point has a neighborhood conformai to an open set in Euclidean space. Over the past thirty years, many papers have appeared attacking, with varying degrees of success, the problem of classifying the conformally flat spaces which occur as hypersurfaces in Euclidean space. Most of these start from the following pointwise result of Schouten.

It has been shown by Diederichsen [2] that for integral representations of a finite group, the irreducible constituents in any complete reduction are not necessarily unique up to order and unimodular equivalence. In this same article, it is shown that for certain finite groups, such as the cyclic group of order 4, there are infinitely many classes of indecomposable representations under unimodular equivalence.

X is a set and End X is a semigroup, under composition, of functions, which map X into X. We characterize those elements of End X which are regular and then we completely determine Green's relations for these elements. The conditions we place on End X are sufficiently mild to permit such semigroups as S(X), the semigroup of all continuous self maps of a topological space X and L(V), the semigroup of all linear transformations on a vector space V, to be regarded as special cases.

We show that certain ${{C}^{*}}$-algebras which have been studied by, among others, Arzumanian, Vershik, Deaconu, and Renault, in connection with a measure-preserving transformation of a measure space or a covering map of a compact space, are special cases of the endomorphism crossed product construction recently introduced by the first named author. As a consequence these algebras are given presentations in terms of generators and relations. These results come as a consequence of a general theorem on faithfulness of representations which are covariant with respect to certain circle actions. For the case of topologically free covering maps we prove a stronger result on faithfulness of representations which needs no covariance. We also give a necessary and sufficient condition for simplicity.

In this paper we study the supersingular locus of the reduction modulo $p$ of the Shimura variety for $\text{GU}\left( 1,\,s \right)$ in the case of an inert prime $p$. Using Dieudonné theory we define a stratification of the corresponding moduli space of $p$-divisible groups. We describe the incidence relation of this stratification in terms of the Bruhat–Tits building of a unitary group.

In the case of $\text{GU}\left( 1,\,2 \right)$, we show that the supersingular locus is equidimensional of dimension 1 and is of complete intersection. We give an explicit description of the irreducible components and their intersection behaviour.

1. Introduction. A well-known inequality of Hardy-Littlewood reads as follows (4): if p > 1 and f > 0, then

,

where is defined as the supremum of the numbers

the constant depends on p only. The statement obtained by putting p = 1 is false; its substitute reads:

the constants depend on p but not on f.

Combinatorial configurations may generally be phrased in terms of arrangements of objects into sets subject to certain conditions. In view of this, the question arises as to whether given a set S and its power-set Us (the class of all subsets of S), it might be possible to structure Us in a combinatorially significant manner. This paper proposes and investigates one such structuring achieved by defining a distance function over US.

Given A, B in Us, define their distance by

where N(E) denotes the number of elements in E, + ∞ being an admissible value.

Associated with any integral domain R there is a partially ordered group A, called the group of divisibility of R. When R is a valuation ring, A is merely the value group; and in this case, ideal-theoretic properties of R are easily derived from corresponding properties of A, and conversely. Even in the general case, though, it has proved useful on occasion to phrase a ring-theoretic problem in terms of the ordered group A, first solve the problem there, and then pull back the solution if possible to R. Lorenzen (15) originally applied this technique to solve a problem of Krull, and Nakayama (16) used it to produce a counterexample to another question of Krull. More recently, Heinzer (7;8) has used the method to construct other interesting examples of rings.

A map θ: M —> N where M and N are rings is said to preserve commutativity in both directions if the elements a,b ∊ M commute if and only if θ(a) and θ(b) commute. In this paper we show that if M and N are von Neumann algebras with no central summands of type I1 or I2 and θ is a bijective additive map which preserves commutativity in both directions then θ(x) = cφ(x) +f(x) where c is an invertible element in ZN, the center of N, φ M —> N is a Jordan isomorphism of M onto N, and f is an additive map of M into ZN.

We consider two independent Dawson-Watanabe super-Brownian motions, Y1 and Y2. These processes are diffusions taking values in the space of finite measures on ℝd. We show that if d ≤ 5 then with positive probability there exist times t such that the closed supports of intersect; whereas if d > 5 then no such intersections occur. For the case d ≤ 5, we construct a continuous, non-decreasing measure–valued process L(Y1, Y2), the collision local time, such that the measure defined by , is concentrated on the set of times and places at which intersections occur. We give a Tanaka-like semimartingale decomposition of L(Y1, Y2). We also extend these results to a certain class of coupled measurevalued processes. This extension will be important in a forthcoming paper where we use the tools developed here to construct coupled pairs of measure-valued diffusions with point interactions. In the course of our proofs we obtain smoothness results for the random measures that are uniform in t. These theorems use a nonstandard description of Yi and are of independent interest.

In this note the problem of determining the propagation of a plane shock moving through a polytropic gas into an undisturbed body of the gas, leaving a non-isentropic disturbance behind it, is reduced to the solution of the problem of Cauchy for a Monge-Ampére partial differential equation of special type. The application of this result to specific examples is being studied with a view to later publication.

In this paper we classify indecomposable modules for the Lie algebra of vector fields on a torus that admit a compatible action of the algebra of functions. An important family of such modules is given by spaces of jets of tensor fields.

Interest in the Singer groups has arisen in various places. The name itself results from the connection Singer [7] made between these groups and perfect difference sets, and this is closely associated with the geometric property that a Singer group is regular on the points of a projective space. Some information about these groups appears in Huppert's book [3, p. 187]. Singer groups are frequently useful in constructing examples and counterexamples. Our aim in this paper is to make a systematic study of the Singer subgroups of the linear groups, with a particular view to analyzing the examples they provide of Frobenius regular groups. Frobenius regular groups are a class of permutation groups generalizing the Zassenhaus groups, and Keller [5] has shown recently that they provide a new characterization of A6 and M11.

For 1 ≦ p < ∞, μ real, let Lμ, p denote the collection of functions f, Lebesgue measurable on (0, ∞ ), and such that ‖ f ‖μP < ∞ , where

(1.1)

Also, if X and Y are Banach spaces, denote by [X, Y] the collection of bounded linear operators from X to Y; [X, X] denote by [X].

A finite sequence of open sets L1 L2, … , Ln is called a linear chain if each Li intersects only the L's adjacent to it in the sequence. The finite sequence is a circular chain if we also insist that the first and last links intersect each other. The 1-skeleton of the covering is an arc for a linear chain and a simple closed curve for a linear chain.

A compact metric continuum X is called snake-like if for each ∈ > 0, X can be covered by a linear chain of mesh less than ∈. Likewise, X is called circle-like if for each ∈ > 0, X can be irreducibly covered with a circular chain of mesh less than ∈. This definition is more restrictive than that given in (3, p. 210) for there a pseudo-arc is not circle-like but here it is. The present usage is in keeping with definitions of Burgess.

In this paper we derive a functional equation whose solution would give the sum of the chromatic polynomial P(M, λ) over certain classes of rooted planar maps M called “ triangulations” and “near-triangulations”. For an integral colour-number λ this sum is the number of λ-coloured rooted maps of the kind considered, but the sum can also be discussed for non-integral λ.

Soit n un entier ≥ 1. On notera Mn l'ensemble des matrices carrées d'ordre n à éléments réels, et Gn le groupe des x = (εJk) ∈ Mn tels que εJk = 0 pour 1 ≤ j ≤ k ≤ n, εJk; = 1 pour 1 εJkj εJkn. Le groupe Gn est un groupe de Lie nilpotent simplement connexe, dont l'algèbre de Lie s'identifie à l'ensemble Qn des x = (εJk) ∈ Mn tels que εJk = 0 pour 1 ≤ j ≤ k ≤ n. Nous allons déterminer:

1. (1°) le centre de l'algèbre enveloppante de gn;

2. (2°) la série “principale” de représentations unitaires irréductibles de Gn; (la recherche de toutes les représentations unitaires irréductibles de Gn ne semble pas facile) ;

3. (3°) la formule de Plancherel pour Gn ;

4. (4°) les caractères globaux (au sens de (5)) des représentations de la série principale.

A generalized sequential machine (abbreviated gsm) is a 6-tuple (K, ∑, Δ, δ, λ, p1), where K, ∑, Δ are finite non-empty sets (of “states,” “inputs,” and “outputs” respectively), δ (the “next state” function) is a mapping of K X ∑ into K, λ (the “output” function) is a mapping of K X ∑ into Δ*, and p1 (the “start“ state) is a distinguished element of K.

Let

be a sequence of real terms with which we associate the generating power series

We consider the following definition due to Schoenberg [7, p. 362]:

This paper is motivated by work in two fields, the theory of strict topologies and topological measure theory. In [1], R. C. Buck began the study of the strict topology for the algebra C*(S) of continuous, bounded real-valued functions on a locally compact Hausdorff space S and showed that the topological vector space C*(S) with the strict topology has many of the same topological vector space properties as C0(S), the sup norm algebra of continuous realvalued functions vanishing at infinity. Buck showed that as a class, the algebras C*(S) for S locally compact and C*(X), for X compact, were very much alike. Many papers on the strict topology for C*(S), where S is locally compact, followed Buck's; e.g., see [2; 3].