In this paper we study a perturbed sublinear elliptic problem in $\mathbb{R}^N$. In particular, using variational methods, we establish a result that ensures the existence of at least three weak solutions.

A hereditarily indecomposable asymptotic $\ell_2$ Banach space is constructed. The existence of such a space answers a question of B. Maurey and verifies a conjecture of W. T. Gowers.

We study the duality problem for order weakly compact operators by giving sufficient and necessary conditions under which the order weak compactness of an operator implies the order weak compactness of its adjoint and conversely.

A Banach space E is said to have Property (w) if every operator from E into E' is weakly compact. This property was introduced by E. and P. Saab in [9]. They observe that for Banach lattices, Property (w) is equivalent to Property (V*), which in turn is equivalent to the Banach lattice having a weakly sequentially complete dual. Thus the following question was raised in [9].

Does every Banach space with Property (w) have a weakly sequentially complete dual, or even Property (V*)?

In this paper, we give two examples, both of which answer the question in the negative. Both examples are James type spaces considered in [1]. They both possess properties stronger than Property (w). The first example has the property that every operator from the space into the dual is compact. In the second example, both the space and its dual have Property (w). In the last section we establish some partial results concerning the problem (also raised in [9]) of whether (w) passes from a Banach space E to C(K, E).

An elementary derivation of the asymptotic formula for the number of cube-full numbers up to x is given. This derivation is used, together with an estimation of a three dimensional exponential sum, to establish the asymptotic formula for the number of cube-full numbers in the short interval x < n < x⅔+θ where 140/1123 < θ < 1/3.

The paper presents the existence result for positive solutions of the differential equation $(g(x))''=f(t,x,(g(x))')$ satisfying the nonlocal boundary conditions $x(0)=x(T)$, $\min\{ x(t): t \in J\}=0$. Here the positive function $f$ satisfies local Carathéodory conditions on $[0,T] \times (0,\infty) \times (\R {\setminus} \{0\})$ and $f$ may be singular at the value 0 of both its phase variables. Existence results are proved by Leray-Schauder degree theory and Vitali's convergence theorem.

A finite group G can be represented as a group of automorphisms of a compact Riemann surface, that is, G acts on a Riemann surface. The symmetric genus σ(G) is the minimum genus of any Riemann surface on which G acts (possibly reversing orientation).

Let A = (aij) be an n × n complex matrix. The permanent of this matrix is

where the sum is taken over all permutations p of the set {1, …, n}.

In a recent paper [1] E. H. Lieb proved an interesting theorem (see below) which he applied to verify some conjectures of M. Marcus and M. Newman. The purpose of this note is to give a simple proof of Lieb's theorem.

We construct an algebraic almost closed 1-form with zero scheme not expressible (even locally) as the critical locus of a holomorphic function on a non-singular variety. The result answers a question of Behrend–Fantechi. We correct here an error in our paper (D. Maulik, R Pandharipande and R. P. Thomas, Curves on K3 surfaces and modular forms, J. Topol.3 (2010) 937–996. arXiv:1001.2719v3), where an incorrect construction with the same claimed properties was proposed.

A one-relator product Gof groups A and Bis defined to be the quotient of their free product A * B by the normal closure, «W»A*B, of a single element W, which is assumed to be cyclically reduced and of length at least 2. For convenience, the group Gwill be denoted by (A * B)/W.

In the nineteenth century, Hurwitz [8] and Wiman [14] obtained bounds for the order of the automorphism group and the order of each automorphism of an orientable and unbordered compact Klein surface (i. e., a compact Riemann surface) of topological genus g s 2. The corresponding results of bordered surfaces are due to May, [11], [12]. These may be considered as particular cases of the general problem of finding the minimum topological genus of a surface for which a given finite group G is a group of automorphisms. This problem was solved for cyclic and abelian G by Harvey [7] and Maclachlan [10], respectively, in the case of Riemann surfaces and by Bujalance [2], Hall [6] and Gromadzki [5] in the case of non-orientable and unbordered Klein surfaces. In dealing with bordered Klein surfaces, the algebraic genus—i. e., the topological genus of the canonical double covering, (see Alling-Greenleaf [1])—was minimized by Bujalance- Etayo-Gamboa-Martens [3] in the case where G is cyclic and by McCullough [13] in the abelian case.

In this paper, we prove that a strongly convex and Kähler-Finsler metric is a complex Berwald metric with zero holomorphic sectional curvature if and only if it is a complex locally Minkowski metric.

Let S be a cancellative semigroup. This paper is motivated by the problem of finding a description of semigroup rings K[S] over a field K that are semiprime or prime. Results of this type are well-known in the case of a group ring K[G], cf. [8]. The description, as well as the proofs, involve the FC-centre of G defined as the subset of all elements with finitely many conjugates in G. In [4], [5] Krempa extended the FC-centre techniques to the case of an arbitrary cancellative semigroup S. He defined a subsemigroup Δ(S) of S which coincides with the FC-centre in the case of groups, and can be used to describe the centre and to study special elements of K[S]. His results were strengthened by the author in [7], where Δ(S) was also applied in the context of prime and semiprime algebras K[S]. However, Δ(S) itself is not sufficient to characterize semigroup rings of this type. We note that in [2], [3] Dauns developed a similar idea for a study of the centre of semigroup rings and certain of their generalizations.

Let G be a finite group and σ = {σi| i ∈ I} some partition of the set of all primes $\Bbb{P}$ . Then G is said to be: σ-primary if G is a σi-group for some i; σ-nilpotent if G = G1× … × Gt for some σ-primary groups G1, … , Gt; σ-soluble if every chief factor of G is σ-primary. We use $G^{{\mathfrak{N}}_{\sigma}}$ to denote the σ-nilpotent residual of G, that is, the intersection of all normal subgroups N of G with σ-nilpotent quotient G/N. If G is σ-soluble, then the σ-nilpotent length (denoted by lσ (G)) of G is the length of the shortest normal chain of G with σ-nilpotent factors. Let Nσ (G) be the intersection of the normalizers of the σ-nilpotent residuals of all subgroups of G, that is,

$${N_\sigma }(G) = \bigcap\limits_{H \le G} {{N_G}} ({H^{{_\sigma }}}).$$

Then the subgroup Nσ (G) is called the σ-nilpotent norm of G. We study the relationship of the σ-nilpotent length with the σ-nilpotent norm of G. In particular, we prove that the σ-nilpotent length of a σ-soluble group G is at most r (r > 1) if and only if lσ (G/ Nσ (G)) ≤ r.

Extending results and methods of Thomson and Trent, we prove the existence of non trivial quasi-invariant subspaces for subnormal families of unbounded operators having sufficiently rich domains. In some special cases, proper invariant subspaces are obtained.

Number fields such as described in the title play a rôle in the study of Artin L-functions and automorphic forms for the groups SL2 over rings of integers in quadratic extensions of ℚ. They are also of some interest on their own. We have not found many examples in the literature. Lang [4] mentions an unramified A5-extension of a real quadratic number field which is due to E. Artin.

Inthis note, we present a thorough investigation of convolution operators that are naturally associated to vector measures. We characterize those convolution operators that are weakly compact and compact on Ll(G) and C(G) as well as those that are p summing, (1 ≤ p ≤ ∞) and nuclear on C(G).

Let K be a compact Hausdorff topological space and E be a Banach space not containing l1. Recently N. J. Kalton, E. Saab and P. Saab ([5]) obtained the results that under the above assumptions the usual space C(K, E) has the Dieudonné property; i.e. each weakly completely continuous operator on C(K, E) is weakly compact. They use topological results concerning multivalued mappings in their proof. In this short note we furnish a new and simpler proof of that result without using topological results but only well known theorems of Bourgain ([2]) and Talagrand ([8]) on weak compactness of sets of Bochner integrable functions; i.e. results in vector measure theory. At the end of the paper we present some applications of the result to Banach spaces of compact operators.

Throughout this note, let be a probability space with an increasing sequence of sub σ-fields of whose union generates . Let be a sequence of random variables adapted to (see [3], p. 65) and henceforth be referred to as a game. As in [1], the game will be said to become fairer with time if, for every ε > ε,

as n, m → ∞ with n ≧ m

We give some extensions of classical results of Kellogg and Warschawski to a class of quasiconformal (q.c.) mappings. Among the other results we prove that a q.c. mapping f, between two planar domains with smooth C1,α boundaries, together with its inverse mapping f−1, is C1,α up to the boundary if and only if the Beltrami coefficient μf is uniformly α Hölder continuous (0 < α < 1).