Motivated by the recent work due to Warnaar (2005), two new and elementary proofs are presented for a very useful q-difference equation on eight shifted factorials of infinite order. As the common source of theta function identities, this q-difference equation is systematically explored to review old and establish new identities on Ramanujan's partition functions. Most of the identities obtained can be interpreted in terms of theorems on classical partitions.

We consider the isomorphism problem for partial group rings $R_{\hbox{\scriptsize\it par}}G$ and show that, in the modular case, if $\textit{char}(R)\,{=}\,p$ and $R_{\hbox{\scriptsize\it par}}G_1\,{\cong}\, R_{\hbox{\scriptsize\it par}}G_2$ then the corresponding group rings of the Sylow $p$-subgroups are isomorphic. We use this to prove that finite abelian groups having isomorphic modular partial group algebras are isomorphic. Moreover, in the integral case, we show that the isomorphism of partial group rings of finite groups $G_1$ and $G_2$ implies $\Z G_1\,{\cong}\, \Z G_2$.

The object of this paper is to derive, using a version of the large sieve for function fields due to J. Johnsen [6], explicit lower boundsfor the average number of distinct values taken by a polynomial over a finite field.

Invariant submanifolds of contact (κ, μ)-manifolds are studied. Our main result is that any invariant submanifold of a non-Sasakian contact (κ, μ)-manifold is always totally geodesic and, conversely, every totally geodesic submanifold of a non-Sasakian contact (κ, μ)-manifold, μ ≠ 0, such that the characteristic vector field is tangent to the submanifold is invariant. Some consequences of these results are then discussed.

A-Weyl's theorem and property (ω), as two variations of Weyl's theorem, were introduced by Rakočević. In this paper, we study a-Weyl's theorem and property (ω) for functions of bounded linear operators. A necessary and sufficient condition is given for an operator T to satisfy that f(T) obeys a-Weyl's theorem (property (ω)) for all f ∈ Hol(σ(T)). Also we investigate the small-compact perturbations of operators satisfying a-Weyl's theorem (property (ω)) in the setting of separable Hilbert spaces.

Suppose that $A$ and $B$ are ‘isoloid’ operators acting on a complex Banach space, that is, every isolated point of their spectra is an eigenvalue. In this note it is shown that if Weyl's theorem holds for both $A$ and $B$ then it holds for $A\otimes B$.

An exact solution of triple trigonometrical equations is obtained by using the finiteHilbert transform. The solution of these equations is used to solve a two-dimensional electrostatic problem. The problem of determining the electrostatic potential due to two parallel coplanar strips of equal length, charged to equal and opposite potentials, each parallel to and equidistant from an earthed strip, is considered. Both the charged strips lie along the x-axis and they are equally spaced with respect to the y-axis. Finally the expression for the surface charge density (per unit depth) of the strip is derived

Extending the so called coupled KP hierarchy to negative time flows one obtains coupled Toda-type equations defined on a two-dimensional lattice. These equations allow for reductions to 1+1 dimensional integrable systems that are defined on a finite part of this lattice. A system of coupled Hirota bilinear equations, obtained from such a reduction and defined on only 5 points of the lattice, will be shown to correspond to a coupling of a Tzitzeica equation to two linear equations. The Lax representation of this system is also presented.

§ 1. Introductory. The formula to be proved is

where b>0.

In this paper, we discuss implications of the results obtained in [5]. It was shown there that eigenvectors of the Bethe algebra of the quantum N Gaudin model are in a one-to-one correspondence with Fuchsian differential operators with polynomial kernel. Here, we interpret this fact as a separation of variables in the N Gaudin model. Having a Fuchsian differential operator with polynomial kernel, we construct the corresponding eigenvector of the Bethe algebra. It was shown in [5] that the Bethe algebra has simple spectrum if the evaluation parameters of the Gaudin model are generic. In that case, our Bethe ansatz construction produces an eigenbasis of the Bethe algebra.

The purpose of this paper is to study finiteness conditions on injective hulls of simple modules over Noetherian down-up algebras. We will show that the Noetherian down-up algebras A(α, β, γ) which are fully bounded are precisely those which are module-finite over a central subalgebra. We show that injective hulls of simple A(α, β, γ)-modules are locally Artinian provided the roots of X2 − αX − β are distinct roots of unity or both equal to 1.

In this paper we prove that if M_C=\pmatrix {A&#TAB;C\cr0&#TAB;B} is a 2\times 2 upper triangular operator matrix on the Hilbert space H\bigoplus K and if \sigma (A)\cap \sigma (B)=\emptyset , then \sigma is continuous at A and B if and only if \sigma is continuous at M_C, for every C\in B(K,H{\hskip1}).

We show that there exists a locally compact separable metrizable space $L$ such that $C_{0}(L)$, the Banach space of all continuous complex-valued functions vanishing at infinity with the supremum norm, is almost transitive. Due to a result of Greim and Rajagopalan [3], this implies the existence of a locally compact Hausdorff space $\tilde L$ such that $C_{0}(\tilde L)$ is transitive, disproving a conjecture of Wood [9]. We totally owe our construction to a topological characterization due to Sánches [8].

In this paper we refer to [13] and [16] for the basic terminology and properties of Noetherian rings. For example, an FBNring means a fully bounded Noetherian ring [13, p. 132], and a cliqueof a Noetherian ring Rmeans a connected component of the graph of links of R[13, p. 178]. For a ring Rand a right or left R–module Mwe use pr.dim.(M) and inj.dim.(M) to denote its projective dimension and injective dimension respectively. The right global dimension of Ris denoted by r.gl.dim.(R).

Two coupled bilinear equations are considered, and then two new coupled differential-difference systems are found. Also two special reductions of these two systems are studied. By using Hirota's method, Bäcklund transformation and superposition formulae, soliton solutions to these equations are presented.

We denote the numerical range of the normal operator T by W(T). A characterization is given to the points in W(T) that lie on the boundary. The collection of such boundary points together with the interior of the the convex hull of the spectrum of T will then be the set W(T). Moreover, it is shown that such boundary points reveal a lot of information about the normal operator. For instance, such a boundary point always associates with an invariant (reducing) subspace of the normal operator. It follows that a normal operator acting on a separable Hilbert space cannot have a closed strictly convex set as its numerical range. Similar results are obtained for the Davis-Wielandt shell of a normal operator. One can deduce additional information of the normal operator by studying the boundary of its Davis-Wielandt shell. Further extension of the result to the joint numerical range of commuting operators is discussed.

In [2] I described the deformation of bending a hyperbolic manifold along an embedded totally geodesic hypersurface. As I remarked there, the deformation is particularly interesting in the case of a surface, because a surface contains many embedded totally geodesic hypersurfaces, namely simple closed curves, along which it is possible to bend. Furthermore, for a surface it is possible to extend the definition of bending to the case of a geodesic lamination, by using the fact that the set of simple closed geodesies is dense in the space of geodesic laminations. This direction has been developed by Epstein and Marden in [1].

A mixed quasi-étale quotient is the quotient of the product of a curve of genus at least 2 with itself by the action of a group which exchanges the two factors and acts freely outside a finite subset. A mixed quasi-étale surface is the minimal resolution of its singularities. We produce an algorithm computing all mixed quasi-étale surfaces with given geometric genus, irregularity and self-intersection of the canonical class. We prove that all irregular mixed quasi-étale surfaces of general type are minimal. As an application, we classify all irregular mixed quasi-étale surfaces of general type with genus equal to the irregularity, and all the regular ones with K2 > 0, thus constructing new examples of surfaces of general type with χ = 1. We mention the first example of a minimal surface of general type with pg = q = 1 and Albanese fibre of genus bigger than K2.

In this paper we investigate existence and nonexistence of positive solutions for inhomogeneous semilinear elliptic systems in $R^n$. A criteria of existence and nonexistence of positive solutions is given by the exponents of the rate of nonlinear terms at infinity.

Let G be a group and K be a complete ultrametric valued field. Let AP(G, K) be the algebra of the generalized almost periodic functions of G in K. We have shown in a previous paper that when AP(G, K) has an invariant mean, then any almost periodic linear representation is quasi-reducible. Here, we show that with the same hypothesis, any topologically irreducible almost periodic linear representation is finite dimensional; also, any almost periodic linear representation is the topological sum of irreducible representations. Furthermore, we obtain a Peter-Weyl theorem for the algebra AP(G, K).

We use the technical tools of Hopf algebra theory.