Let L/K be a finite Galois extension in characteristic ≠ 2, and consider a non-split Galois theoretical embedding problem over L/K with cyclic kernel of order 2. In this paper, we prove that if the Galois group of L/K is the direct product of two subgroups, the obstruction to solving the embedding problem can be expressed as the product of the obstructions to related embedding problems over the corresponding subextensions of L/K and certain quaternion algebra factors in the Brauer group of K. In connection with this, the obstructions to realising non-abelian groups of order 8 and 16 as Galois groups over fields of characteristic ≠ 2 are calculated, and these obstructions are used to consider automatic realisations between groups of order 4, 8 and 16.

An important question in the study of moment problems is to determine when a fixed point in ℝn lies in the moment cone of vectors , with μ a nonnegative measure. In associated optimization problems it is also important to be able to distinguish between the interior and boundary of the moment cone. Recent work of Dachuna-Castelle, Gamboa and Gassiat derived elegant computational characterizations for these problems, and for related questions with an upper bound on μ. Their technique involves a probabilistic interpretation and large deviations theory. In this paper a purely convex analytic approach is used, giving a more direct understanding of the underlying duality, and allowing the relaxation of their assumptions.

Let r(T) denote the spectral radius of the operator T acting on a complex Hilbert space H. Let S be a multiplicative semigroup of operators on H. We say that r is permutable on 𝓢 if r(ABC) = r(BAC), for every A,B,C ∈ 𝓢. We say that r is submultiplicative on 𝓢 if r(AB) ≤ r(A)r(B), for every A, B ∈ 𝓢. It is known that, if r is permutable on 𝓢, then it is submultiplicative. We show that the converse holds in each of the following cases: (i) 𝓢 consists of compact operators (ii) 𝓢 consists of normal operators (iii) 𝓢 is generated by orthogonal projections.

To each field F of characteristic not 2, one can associate a certain Galois group 𝒢F, the so-called W-group of F, which carries essentially the same information as the Witt ring W(F) of F. In this paper we show that direct products of Witt rings correspond to free products of these Galois groups (in the appropriate category), group ring construction of Witt rings corresponds to semidirect products of W-groups, and the basic part of W(F) is related to the center of 𝒢F. In an appendix we provide a complete list of Witt rings and corresponding w-groups for fields F with |Ḟ/Ḟ2| ≤ 16.

Coercive closed forms on L2-spaces are studied whose associated L2-semigroups are positivity preserving. Earlier work by other authors is extended by further developing the potential theory of such forms and completed by proving an analytic characterization of those of these forms which have a probabilistic counterpart, i.e., are associated with (special standard) Markov processes. Examples with finite and infinite dimensional state spaces are discussed.

Let L be a restricted Lie algebra over a field of characteristic p. Denote by u(L) its restricted enveloping algebra and by ωu(L) the augmentation ideal of u(L). We give an explicit description for the dimension subalgebras of L, namely those ideals of L defined by Dn(L) - L∩ωu(L)n for each n ≥ 1. Using this expression we describe the nilpotence index of ωU(L). We also give a precise characterisation of those L for which ωu(L) is a residually nilpotent ideal. In this case we show that the minimal number of elements required to generate an arbitrary ideal of u(L) is finitely bounded if and only if L contains a 1-generated restricted subalgebra of finite codimension. Subsequently we examine certain analogous aspects of the Lie structure of u(L). In particular we characterise L for which u(L) is residually nilpotent when considered as a Lie algebra, and give a formula for the Lie nilpotence index of u(L). This formula is then used to describe the nilpotence class of the group of units of u(L).

We will generalize Ringrose's notion of a simple chain of closed invariant subspaces of a compact operator acting on a Banach space, to that of an elementary chain of invariant subspaces of a subalgebra of compact operators. With this we expand the notion of diagonal coefficients to that of diagonal representations and subsequently generalize Ringrose's theorem equating the spectrum of an operator to the collection of diagonal coefficients. This in turn, in conjunction with some results from the theory of Polynomial Identity algebras, allows us to generalize Murphy's theorem which states that a closed subalgebra of compact operators is simultaneously triangularizable if and only if / rad () is commutative. Let be an algebra of compact operators acting on a Banach space with a norm ‖ · ‖ which dominates the operator norm, and under which 𝒜 is complete. Then has an elementary chain of invariant subspaces of bound n if and only if / rad () satisfies the standard polynomial .

The topic of this paper is the relationship between characters of irreducible supercuspidal representations of the p-adic unramified 3 x 3 unitary group and Fourier transforms of invariant measures on elliptic adjoint orbits in the Lie algebra. We prove that most supercuspidal representations have the property that, on some neighbourhood of zero, the character composed with the exponential map coincides with the formal degree of the representation times the Fourier transform of a measure on one elliptic orbit. For the remainder, a linear combination of the Fourier transforms of measures on two elliptic orbits must be taken. As a consequence of these relations between characters and Fourier transforms, the coefficients in the local character expansions are expressed in terms of values of Shalika germs. By calculating which of the values of the Shalika germs associated to regular nilpotent orbits are nonzero, we determine which irreducible supercuspidal representations have Whittaker models. Finally, the coefficients in the local character expansions of three families of supercuspidal representations are computed.

The purpose of this paper is to address conjectures raised in [2]. We show that one of the conjectures is false and we advance the proof of another by proving it for an infinite set of cases. Furthermore, we give hard evidence as to why the conjecture is true and show what remains to be done to complete the proof. Finally, we prove a conjecture given by S. Louboutin, for Mathematical Reviews, in his discussion of the aforementioned paper.

The distance from an arbitrary rank-one projection to the set of nilpotent operators, in the space of k × k matrices with the usual operator norm, is shown to be sec(π/(k:+2))/2. This gives improved bounds for the distance between the set of all non-zero projections and the set of nilpotents in the space of k × k matrices. Another result of note is that the shortest distance between the set of non-zero projections and the set of nilpotents in the space of k × k matrices is .

Abstract polytopes are discrete geometric structures which generalize the classical notion of a convex polytope. Chiral polytopes are those abstract polytopes which have maximal symmetry by rotation, in contrast to the abstract regular polytopes which have maximal symmetry by reflection. Chirality is a fascinating phenomenon which does not occur in the classical theory. The paper proves the following general extension result for chiral polytopes. If 𝒦 is a chiral polytope with regular facets 𝓕 then among all chiral polytopes with facets 𝒦 there is a universal such polytope 𝓟, whose group is a certain amalgamated product of the groups of 𝒦 and 𝓕. Finite extensions are also discussed.

Let ℳ(N, N) be the space of all N × N real matrices and let 𝒢(N) be the set of all linear subspaces of ℝN. The maps ker and coker from ℳ(N, N) onto 𝒢(N) induce two quotient topologies, the right and left respectively. A quasibundle over a space X is defined as a continuous map from X into 𝒢(N)\ it is a right quasibundle if 𝒢(N) = ℳ(N,N)/ ker and a left quasibundle if 𝒢(N) = ℳ(N,N)/ coker. The following is established. Theorem: Let ξ be a left quasibundle over a closed subset of some Euclidean space. Then the following statements are equivalent: (i) ξ has enough sections pointwise. (ii) Sections zero at infinity over closed subsets may be extended globally, (iii) A vector subbundle over a closed subset extends to a vector subbundle over a neighborhood, (iv) ξ is a fibrewise sum of local vector subbundles. (v) There exist finitely many global sections spanning ξ. (vi) ξ is an image quasibundle. (vii) ξ results from a Swan construction. These results are used to prove a version of the Hirsch-Smale immersion theorem for locally compact subsets of Euclidean space.

From Koornwinder's interpretation of big q-Legendre polynomials as spherical elements on the quantum SU(2) group an addition formula is derived for the big g-Legendre polynomial. The formula involves Al-Salam-Carlitz polynomials, little q-Jacobi polynomials and dual q-Krawtchouk polynomials. For the little q-ultraspherical polynomials a product formula in terms of a big q-Legendre polynomial follows by q-integration. The addition and product formula for the Legendre polynomials are obtained when q tends to 1.

We prove some new results on quasi-regular Dirichlet forms. These include results on perturbations of Dirichlet forms, change of speed measure, and tightness. The tightness implies the existence of an associated right continuous strong Markov process. We also discuss applications to a number of examples including cases with possibly degenerate (sub)-elliptic part, diffusions on loop spaces, and certain Fleming- Viot processes.

We determine the structure of representations induced from discrete series of parabolic subgroups of quasi-split p-adic groups G with G/G° a cyclic group of prime order. We attach to each such representation an R-group which extends the definition of the Knapp-Stein R-group. We show that this R-group has the properties predicted by Arthur. We apply our results to the case of Orthogonal groups.

We give (1) a formula of the first Betti numbers of abelian coverings of links in terms of the Alexander ideals, (2) certain estimates of the orders of the torsion parts of their first homology groups in terms of the Alexander polynomials, and (3) a structure theorem of the first homology groups of -coverings of spatial graphs. As an application, we generalize a result of E. Hironaka on polynomial periodicity of the first Betti numbers in certain towers of abelian coverings of complex surfaces.

Let ℝ+ denote the non-negative half of the real line, and let λ denote Lebesgue measure on the Borel sets of ℝn. A function φ: ℝn → ℝ+ is called a weight function if ʃℝn φ dλ = 1. Let (X, ℱ, μ) be a non-atomic, finite measure space, let ƒ: X → ℝ+, and suppose { Tν}ν∊ℝn is an ergodic, aperiodic ℝn-flow on X. We consider the weighted ergodic averages where is a sequence of weight functions. Sufficient as well as necessary and sufficient conditions for the pointwise, almost-everywhere convergence of are developed for a particular class of weight functions φk. Specifically, let {τk: ℝn → ℝn} be a sequence of measurable, non-singular maps with measurable, non-singular inverses such that the Radon-Nikodym derivatives dλ oτk /dλ and dλ oτk-1 / dλ are L∞ (ℝn), and such that τk and τ-1 map bounded sets to bounded sets. We examine convergence for the sequence where θk is an a.e.-convergent sequence of weight functions which are dominated by a fixed L1(ℝn) function with bounded support.

This article gives a direct proof of Theorem 7.58 of Greiner [4]. This result implies that the classical Mikhlin-Calderón-Zygmund calculus for the principal value convolution operators on ℂ is, in a natural way, the limit of the Laguerre calculus for principal value convolution operators on ℍ1 = ℂ x ℝ.

Let q = p if p is an odd prime, q = 4 if p = 2. Let ζq be any primitive q-th root of unity, and let . We study the family of polynomials where Rn(X) and Sn(X) are the polynomials in the expansion We show that for fixed n, Pn(X; a) is irreducible for all but finitely many a ∈ O, and for p = 3, we show that it is irreducible for all a ∈ O. The roots are all real and are permuted cyclically by a linear fractional transformation defined over the real pn-th cyclotomic field. From the roots we obtain a non-maximal set of independent units for the splitting field. In the last section we briefly treat extensions of our methods to composite p.

Given an almost arbitrary holomorphic map we study the structure of the associated residue integral and its Mellin transform, and the relation between these two objects. More precisely, we relate the limit behaviour of the residue integral to the polar structure of the Mellin transform. We consider also ideals connected to nonisolated singularities.