We study sets on which measurable real-valued functions on a measurable space with negligibles are determined by their range.

Let VN(G) be the von Neumann algebra of a locally compact group G. We denote by μ the initial ordinal with |μ| equal to the smallest cardinality of an open basis at the unit of G and X = ﹛α ; α < μ﹜.We show that if G is nondiscrete then there exist an isometric *-isomorphism of l∞(X) into VN(G) and a positive linear mapping π of VN(G) onto l∞(X) such that π o = idl∞(X) and and π have certain additional properties. Let UCB((Ĝ)) be the C*–algebra generated by operators in VN(G) with compact support and F(Ĝ) the space of all T∈ VN(G) such that all topologically invariant means on VN(G) attain the same value at T. The construction of the mapping π leads to the conclusion that the quotient space UCB((Ĝ))/F((Ĝ)) ∪UCB((Ĝ)) has l∞(X) as a continuous linear image if G is nondiscrete. When G is further assumed to be non-metrizable, it is shown that UCB((Ĝ))/F((Ĝ)) ∪UCB((Ĝ)) contains a linear isomorphic copy of l∞(X). Similar results are also obtained for other quotient spaces.

In this paper we introduce the concepts of hyperbolic and elliptic areas and prove uncountably many new geometric isoperimetric inequalities on the surfaces of constant curvature.

In this paper we consider the following problem: Given a unital C*- algebra A and a collection of elements S in the identity component of the invertible group of A, denoted inv0(A), characterize the group of finite products of elements of S. The particular C*-algebras studied in this paper are either unital purely infinite simple or of the form (A ⊗ K)+, where A is any C*-algebra and K is the compact operators on an infinite dimensional separable Hilbert space. The types of elements used in the factorizations are unipotents (1+ nilpotent), positive invertibles and symmetries (s2 = 1). First we determine the groups of finite products for each collection of elements in (A ⊗ K)+. Then we give upper bounds on the number of factors needed in these cases. The main result, which uses results for (A ⊗ K)+, is that for A unital purely infinite and simple, inv0(A) is generated by each of these collections of elements.

Let g be a semisimple Lie algebra. Quantum analogs of the enveloping algebra of the fixed Lie subalgebra are introduced for involutions corresponding to the negative of a diagram automorphism. These subalgebras of the quantized enveloping algebra specialize to their classical counterparts. They are used to form an Iwasawa type decompostition and begin a study of quantum Harish-Chandra modules.

We give the irreducible decomposition of the tensor product of an analytic continuation of the holomorphic discrete series of SU(2, 2) with its conjugate.

We prove that if X is a complex strictly monotone sequence space with 1-unconditional basis, Y ⊆ X has no bands isometric to ℓ22 and Y is the range of norm-one projection from X, then Y is a closed linear span a family of mutually disjoint vectors in X.

We completely characterize 1-complemented subspaces and norm-one projections in complex spaces ℓp(ℓq) for 1 ≤ p,q > ∞.

Finally we give a full description of the subspaces that are spanned by a family of disjointly supported vectors and which are 1-complemented in (real or complex) Orlicz or Lorentz sequence spaces. In particular if an Orlicz or Lorentz space X is not isomorphic to ℓp for some 1 ≤ p,q > ∞ then the only subspaces of X which are 1-complemented and disjointly supported are the closed linear spans of block bases with constant coefficients.

Let G be a finite group. To a set of subgroups of order two we associate a mod 2 Hecke algebra and construct a homomorphism, ψ, from its units to the class-group of Z[G]. We show that this homomorphism takes values in the subgroup, D(Z[G]). Alternative constructions of Chinburg invariants arising fromthe Galois module structure of higher-dimensional algebraic K-groups of rings of algebraic integers often differ by elements in the image of ψ. As an application we show that two such constructions coincide.

Pieri’s formula describes the intersection product of a Schubert cycle by a special Schubert cycle on a Grassmannian. We present a new geometric proof, exhibiting an explicit chain of rational equivalences from a suitable sum of distinct Schubert cycles to the intersection of a Schubert cycle with a special Schubert cycle. The geometry of these rational equivalences indicates a link to a combinatorial proof of Pieri’s formula using Schensted insertion.

In this paper, we solve the -Neumann problem on (0, q) forms, 0 ≤ q ≤ n, in the strictly pseudoconvex non-isotropic Siegel domain: where aj > 0 for j = 1,2, . . . , n. The metric we use is invariant under the action of the Heisenberg group on the domain. The fundamental solution of the related differential equation is derived via the Laguerre calculus. We obtain an explicit formula for the kernel of the Neumann operator. We also construct the solution of the corresponding heat equation and the fundamental solution of the Laplacian operator on the Heisenberg group.

In the first paper with the same title the authors were able to determine all partially oriented flag manifolds that are stably parallelizable or parallelizable, apart from four infinite families that were undecided. Here, using more delicate techniques (mainly K-theory),we settle these previously undecided families and show that none of the manifolds in them is stably parallelizable, apart from one 30-dimensional manifold which still remains undecided.