Bijective correspondences are established between the radical classes R (in a variety W of rings) with the property that a ring A is in R exactly when its finitely generated subrings are all in R, and certain filters of ideals in a free W-ring. It follows that such classes are determined by the polynomial identities satisfied by the finite subsets of their members. Analogous considerations are applied to radical classes R which, for a fixed integer n, have the property that a ring is in R if and only if its subrings generated by at most n elements are in R.

A radical class R of rings (not necessarily associtative) is called an n-radical class if it has the property that a ring is in R if and only if every subring generated by ≤n elements is in R. A transfer theorem is proved, relating n-radical classes in two universal varieties which share the same ≤n-generator rings. Partially through the use of this result, we obtain information about extension closed subvarieties of various universal varieties of power-associative rings.

Let N be a direct summand of a module which is a direct sum of modules of torsion-free rank one over a discrete valuation ring. Then there is a torsion module T such that N⊕T is also a direct sum of modules of torsion-free rank one.

A flat spot in a Banach space X is an element x ∈ Sx = {x ∈ X: ‖x‖ = 1} with the property that the infimum m(x) of the lengths of all curves in Sx joining x to −x is 2. Flat spots occur in every non-superreflexive space when suitably renormed. A study is made of the geometric implications of the existence of flat spots. Connections with other notions such as differentiability, decomposition constants and Kadec-Klee norms are explored and some renorming results for non-superreflexive spaces are proved.

In this article, it is shown that the Volterra integral equation of convolution type w − w⊗g = f has a continuous solution w when f, g are continuous functions on Rx and ⊗ denotes a truncated convolution product. A similar result holds when f, g are entire functions of several complex variables. Also simple proofs are given to show when f, g are entire, f⊗g is entire, and, if f⊗g=0, then f = 0 or g = 0. Finally, the set of exponential polynomials and the set of all solutions to linear partial differential equations are considered in relation to this convolution product.

Let R be a commutative ring with identity. R[[x]] denotes the ring of formal power series, in which we consider the composition ○, defined by f(x)○g(x)=f(g(x)). This operation is well defined in the subring R+[[x]] of formal power series of positive order. The algebra= 〈R+[[x]], ○〉 is learly a semigroup, which is not commutative for ∣R∣>1. In this paper we consider all those commutative subsemigroups of , which consist of power series of all positive orders, which are called ‘permutable chains’.

We consider some unconventional partition problems in which the parts of the partition are restricted by divisibility conditions, for example, partitions n = a1+…+ak into positive integers a1, …, ak such that a1 ∣ a2 ∣ … ∣ ak. Some rather weak estimates for the various partition functions are obtained.

In addition to the results of the paper (Bachturin (1974)) we give the precise form of the necessary and sufficient conditions ensuring that all irreducible representations of a Lie algebra were of finite bounded degree.

The structure of a 0-Hecke algebra H of type (W, R) over a field is examined. H has 2n distinct irreducible representations, where n = ∣R∣, all of which are one-dimensional, and correspond in a natural way with subsets of R. H can be written as a direct sum of 2n indecomposable left ideals, in a similar way to Solomon's (1968) decomposition of the underlying Coxeter group W.

The free product of two Hopfian groups (in the category of groups) need not be Hopfian. We prove, by elementary methods, that the free product of two simple Hopfian inverse semigroups is Hopfian. In particular the free product of any two Hopfian groups, in the category of inverse semigroups, is again Hopfian. In fact the same is true in the category of all semigroups.

The set of all nilpotent elements in an IFP near-ring is characterized and necessary and sufficient conditions for the set of all nilpotent elements of an IFP near-ring to form an ideal are obtained.

If a Banach space E admits a Markuschevich basis, then E can be renormed to be locally uniformly rotund. When the coefficient space of the basis is 1-norming, and this norm is very smooth, E is weakly compactly generated.

Let g be a connected reductive linear algebraic group, and let G = gσ be the finite subgroup of fixed points, where σ is the generalized Frobenius endomorphism of g. Let x be a regular semisimple element of G and let w be a corresponding element of the Weyl group W. In this paper we give a formula for the number of right cosets of a parabolic subgroup of G left fixed by x, in terms of the corresponding action of w in W. In case G is untwisted, it turns out thta x fixes exactly as many cosets as does W in the corresponding permutation representation.