Suppose that H/N is a section of a finite group G, i.e., that H is a subgroup of G and N is a normal subgroup of H. We are interested in the existence of normal subgroups M of G satisfying: Such an M can be called a normal complement to the section H/N in G.

Professor Herbert Melvin Lieberstein died at Royal Newcastle Hospital on 18th August,1973, at the age of 47. As an applied mathematician, Professor Lieberstein was devoted tohis research and teaching in the application of mathematics to other disciplines; his most recent book entitled “Mathematical Physiology”, was published just before his death. Because his interests coincided so closely with the aims and aspirations of theFaculty of Mathematics at Newcastle, his appointment to that Faculty in 1971 was particularly appropriate.He lived less than two years in Australia, but during that time he consolidated his reputation as a most versatile and successful applied mathematician. His work is well known throughout Australia and, indeed, throughout the world, especially to those who work in fields to which mathematics may be profitably applied. However, his versatility and ability were not confined to mathematics, for he also made substantial contributions to a number of community projects; these contributions will be long remembered by those interested in the welfare of the Australian Aborigines, problems of the environment and associated projects.

The first counterexample to the conjecture that all non a belian simple groups have doubly transitive permutation representations was pointed out by Parker in (1954), where he showed that the unitary groups PSU(4,4) had no doubly transitive representations. In this paper we generalize Parker's result to give an infinite class of simple groups having no doubly transitive permutation repreaentations. In this paper we generalize Parker's result to give an infinite class of simple groups having no doubly transitive permutation representations. Specifically, we prove THEOREM 1. The projective symplectic group PSp(4, q) has no doubly transitive permutation representation for q >2.

If C is a class of groups, we denote by RC the class of groups which are residually in C i.e. G ∈ RC if and only if 1 ≠ g ∈ G implies that there exists a normal subgroup N of G such that g ∈ N and G/N ∈ C. A group G is residually a finite p-group if it belongs RFp, where Fp denotes the class of finite p-groups. One also says that the groups in RFp are residually of order equal to a power of the prime p. Given a group G with one defining relator r, one might ask for conditions on the “form” of the relator that would guarantee that G have certain residual properties. In this context, Baumslag (1971) has proved that if all the exponents of the generators appearing in r are positive, then G is residually solvable. In the same paper he also concerned himself with the residual nilpotence of one-relator groups, and found that the situation there was much more complicated. If one goes one step further and asks for conditions that will ensure that for a given prime p the one-relator group be residually a finite p-group, then very little seems to be known. Of course, if one takes r to be one of the generators: then G is freely generated by the remaining generators, and hence is in RFp for all primes p (Mahec (1949), Lazard (1965), 3.1.4). Our main purpose in this paper is to develop methods of generating examples of one-relator groups that are residually of order equal to a given prime p.

This paper shows that every lattice group G can be densely embedded in a unique laterally complete lattice group H (the lateral completion of G). All reasonable structure properties of G are inherited by H and we have the following relationships between the ideal radical L(G), the distributive radical D(G) and the radical R(G) of G and the corresponding radicals of H. .

We consider a regression relation of the from wherein y(t) and x(t) are real (column) vectors of q and p components and e(t) is real and is generated by a stationary generalised vector process of q components with zero mean and covariance function (a q rowed matrix) Γ(t–s) = E{x(s)x(t)′}. (See Hannan (1970; pages 23–26, 91–94) and references therein for definitions of terms used.) We assume e(t) to be independent of x(s) for all s, t. Thus we may regard x(t) as a fixed time function and not stochastic and we shall henceforth do that. We take Γ(t) to be continuous and to correspond to an absolutely continuous spectral function with spectral density which is uniformly bounded and continuous. Then we have We do not exclude the possibility that for theyth diagonal element, fjj, of fwe have

It is of course well known that within the framework of any reasonable set theory whose axioms include that of choice, we can characterize well-orderings in two different ways: (1) a total order for which every nonempty subset has a minimal element; (2) a total order in which there are no infinite descending chains.

Now the theory of well-ordered sets and their ordinals that is expounded in various texts takes as its definition characterization (1) above; in this paper we commence an investigation into the corresponding theory that takes characterization (2) as its starting point. Naturally if we are to obtain any differences at all, we must exclude the axiom of choice from our set theory. Thus we state right at the outset that we are working in Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory without choice.

The purpose of this note is to characterize maximal right ideals of T0(G), the (left) mear-ring of transformations from a group (G, +) into itself which leave zero fixed. Using this characterization, we answer some questions raised by Heatherly (1972).

The full transformation semigroup F(X) is extremely important. As far back as 1952, Malcev (1952) showed that its automorphism group consisted of mappings of the form g-1 · g, g ∈ G(X). The present work is devoted to a generalization of this result.

In this paper the method of conformal transformation is used to consider a class of crack problem in linear isotropic elasticity. The conformal transformation used is the Joukowski transformation so that in general the crack profile is an aerofoil. This is a useful profile to consider since as well as providing information about the general aerofoil crack it includes as special cases the circular arc crack, the straight line crack and, as will be shown, can also be used to obtain similar results to those obtained by Bowie (1956) for the crack originating at the boundary of a circular hole. Thus by varying the parameters in the one elastic solution it is possible to obtain the elastic solution for a number of crack profiles. An examination of the stresses at the crack tip is made since this gives useful information about the direction of crack extension and also gives information necessary for the application of the fracture criterion which is derived in section 6. Some particular crack profiles are considered in detail in section 7.

Let G be a finite P-group. Denote dim H1 (G, Zp) by d(G) and dimH2(G, Zp) by r(G), then d(G) is the minimal number of generators of G and G has a presentation where F is free on x1, …, xd(G) and R is the normal closure in F of R1, …, Rm. We have always that m ≧ r(G) = d(R/[F, R]) and we say that G belongs to a class, Gp, of the finite pgroups if m = r(G). It is well known (see for example Johnson and Wamsley (1970)) that if G and H are finite p-groups then r(G x H) = r(G) + r(H) + d(G)d(H) and hence G, H∈Gp implies Gx H∈Gp, also it is shown in Wamsley (1972) that if G is any finite pgroup then there exists an H∈Gp such that G x H belongs to Gp. Let G1 = G and Gk = Gk-1 x G then we show in this note that if G is any finite p-group, there exists an integer n(G), such that Gk∈Gp for alal k ≧ n(G).

It is shown in Gudder and Schelp (1970) that partial Baer *-semigroups coordinatize orthomodular partially ordered sets (orthomodular posets). This means for P an orthomodular poset there exists a partial Baer *-semigroup whose closed projections are order isomorphic to P preserving ortho-complementation. This coordinatization theorem generalizes Foulis (1960) in which orthomodular lattices are coordinatized by Baer *-semigroups. In particular Foulis (unpublished) shows that any complete atomic Boolean lattice is coordinatized by a Bear *-semigroup of relations. Since Greechie (1968), (1971) shows that a whole class of orthomodular posets can be formed by “pasting” together Boolean lattices, it is natural to consider the following problem. Let y be a family of Baer *-semigroups of relations which coordinatize the family B of complete atomic lattices. Is it possible to construct a partial *-semigroup of relations R which contains each member of Y such that when P is an orthomodular poset obtained by a “Greechie pasting” of members of 38 then 91 coordinatizes R This question is considered in the sequel and answered affirmatively for a certain subclass of “Greechie pasted” orthomodular posets. In addition the construction of 8)t nicely fulfills another objective in that it provides us with “nontrivial” coordinate partial Baer *-semigroups for a whole family of well known orthomodular posets. This is particularly significant since the only other known coordinate partial Baer *-semigroups, for those posets in this family which are not lattices, are the “minimal” ones given in Gudderand and Schelp (1970).

An immune set is found such that the recursive equivalence type of its infinite subsets are universal in a very strong sense.

In this paper we discuss the existence of an are of minimal length joining two arbitrary, yet fixed points in a complete metric space, where the metric is restricted only by the properties (A) and (B) given below. It is shown that under these conditions an arc of least length joining any two fixed points exists, and is unique. In addition, its length is shown to be equal to the metrie distance between the points.

Abstract: An orthogonality relation is an abstract relation on a group having properties similar to the relation on a l-group given by x ⊥ y if ¦x¦ ∧¦y│ = 0. A group G with an orthogonality relation ⊥ is isomorphically represented as a subgroups of the group Γ of continuous global sections of a sheaf of groups. If the stalks of the sheaf are torsion-free and G has and element 1 satisfying 1 ⊥ = (0) then Γ can be ordered so that is is an l-group and x ⊥ y if and only if │x¦ ∧ ¦y¦ = 0 in Γ. An l-group G is complemented if for all x, y ∈ G there is an a ∈ x⊥ ⊕ x⊥⊥ with y ∈ a⊥⊥: equivalent conditions are given for G to be complemented.

A Dedekind-finite set is one not equinumerous with any of its proper subsets; it is well known that the axiom of choice implies that all such sets are finite. In this paper we show that in the absence of the axiom of choice it is possible to construct Dedekind-finite sets which are large, in the sense that they can be mapped onto large ordinals; we extend the result to proper classes. It is also shown that the axiom of choice for countable sets is not implied by the assumption that all Dedekind-finite sets are finite.

Let G be a finitely presented group. A finite presentation P of G is said to have defiency m – n if it defines G with m generators and n relations. The deficiency of G is the maximum of the deficiencies of all the finite presentations P of G. If G is finite the deficiency of G is less than or equal to zero. The only finite two generator groups of deficiency zero that are known are certain metacyclic groups given by Wamsley (1970), a class of nilpotent groups given by Macdonald in (1962) and a class of groups given by Wamsley (1972).

In a series of papers ((1967), (1967a) and (1967b)) Magill has considered the semigroups J(X, Y; θ) (definition below), a natural, but extensive, generalization of the usual transformation semigroup J(X). They have also been studiedin Sullivan (to appear). Under the assumption that θ be onto Magill described their automorphisms and determined when one J(X, Y; θ) is isomorphic to another.

Kock (1970) defined the notion of a commutative monad in a symmetric monoidal closed category V and in Kock (1971) showed that the algebras for such a monad had a canonical structure as a closed category and that the monad had a canonical closed structure. In this paper we are concerned with the relationship between distributive laws and commutivity. In particular, the following question arises: given a distributive law between two monads on V when is the composite monad commutatice? To answer this question we define commutative distributive laws and show that if the composite is commutative then the distributiove law must be commutative. We also show that if Y and J are commutative monads in V with a commutative distributive law between them then the composite is commutative. So we get that if Y and J are commutative then the composite is commutative if and only if the distributive law is commutative. In addition we show that if the monads and the distributive law are commutative then the lifting of the monad Y to the category of J-algebras has a canonical structure as a closed monad (closed relative to the canonical closed category structure on the J algebras).

In the study of locally finite varieties of groups it has often been illuminating to consider when a group A is a factor (i.e. quotient of a subgroup) of a group B. We write A ⋨ B to express this and say that A is involved in B. It follows from elementary isomorphism theorems that the relation ⋨ is a partial order on any set of finite groups. The conjecture that we consider in this paper (and to which we only give the beginning of an answer) is the following: