In [2], Ladas and Sficas made two conjectures about the asymptotic behavior of solutions of some neutral differential equations. In this paper we confirm that these conjectures are indeed correct.

Statistics in the 20th century has been enlivened by a passionate, occasionally bitter, and still vibrant debate on the foundations of statistics and in particular on Bayesian vs. frequentist approaches to inference. In 1975 D. V. Lindley predicted a Bayesian 21st century for statistics. This prediction has often been discussed since, but there is still no consensus on the probability of its correctness. Recent developments in the asymptotic theory of statistics are, surprisingly, shedding new light on this debate, and may have the potential to provide a common middle ground.

It is shown that if f is an entire transcendental function, l a straight line in the complex plane, and n ≥ 2, then f has infinitely many repelling periodic points of period n that do not lie on l.

A set of sentences T is called independent if for every . It is countably independent if every countable subset is independent. In flnitary first order logic, Lωω, the two notions coincide because of compactness. This is not the case for infinitary logic.

Among the eight-dimensional stable planes, the compact connected generalized Hughes planes and the geometries induced on the outer points are characterized by the property that these planes admit an effective action of the group SL3 ℂ.

The purpose of this paper is to characterize those matrices A with the property that if x is a sequence with limit point σ, then there exists a subsequence y of x such that lim Ay = σ.

compact Riemannian 4-symmetric space M can be regarded as a fibre bundle over a Riemannian 2-symmetric space with totally geodesic fibres isometric to a 2-symmetric space. Here the result of R. Crittenden for conjugate and cut points in a 2-symmetric space is extended to the focal points of the fibres of M. Also the restriction of the exponential map of M up to the first focal locus in the normal bundle of a fibre is proved to yield a covering map onto its image. It is shown that for the noncompact dual M*, the fibres have no focal points and hence the exponential map of M* restricted to the normal bundle of a fibre is a covering map. The classification of the compact simply connected 4-symmetric spaces G/L with G classical simple provides a large class of examples of these fibrations.

We use the classical Perron envelope method to show a general existence theorem to degenerate complex Monge–Ampére type equations on compact Kähler manifolds.

Let Xl,X2,X3, … be a sequence of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables which belong to the domain of attraction of a stable law of index α≠1. That is,

1

where

and

where L(n) is a function of slow variation; also take S0=0, B0=l.

In §2, we are concerned with the weak convergence of the partial sum process to a stable process and the question of centering for stable laws and drift for stable processes.

The celebrated theorem of Picard asserts that each non-constant entire function assumes every value infinitely often, with at most one exception. The Riemann zeta function has this Picard behaviour in a sequence of discs lying in the critical band and whose diameters tend to zero. According to the Riemann hypothesis, the value zero would be this (unique) exceptional value.

The paper proves that the group of infinite bounded Nielsen transformations is generated by elementary simultaneous Nielsen transformations modulo the subgroup of those transformations which are equivalent to the identical transformation while acting in a free abelian group. This can be formulated somewhat differently: the group of bounded automorphisms of a free abelian group of countably infinite rank is generated by the elementary simultaneous automorphisms. This proves D. Solitar's conjecture for the abelian case.

In this paper we consider how much we can say about an irreducible symmetric space M which admits a hypersurface N with at most two distinct principal curvatures. Then we will obtain that (1) if N is locally symmetric, then M must be a sphere, a real projective space and their noncompact duals (2) if N is Einstein, then M must be rank 1.

We show that for $U$ and $V$ balanced open subsets of $\left( \text{Qno} \right)$ Fréchet spaces $E$ and $F$ that we have the topological identity

$$\text{(}\mathcal{H}(U\times V),{{\tau }_{\omega }})=\left( \mathcal{H}\left( U;\left( \mathcal{H}(V),{{\tau }_{\omega }} \right) \right),{{\tau }_{\omega }} \right).$$

Analogous results for the compact open topology have long been established. We also give an example to show that the $\left( \text{Qno} \right)$ hypothesis on both $E$ and $F$ is necessary.

There is considerable literature concerning the century old result that for arbitrary positive integers a and m,

1.1

where μ(m) is the usual Mobius function. For earlier work on this we refer to L.E. Dickson [4, pp. 84–86] and L. Carlitz [1,2]. Another reference not noted by the above authors is R. Vaidyanathaswamy [6], who noted that the left member of (1.1) represents the number of special fixed points of the m th power of a rational transformation of the n th degree.

Averaging interpolation generalizes polynomials of Lagrange interpolation and also the next-to-interpolatory polynomials. This notion has recently been introduced by Motzkin, Sharma and Straus [3]. Later in [5], Saxena and Sharma have considered the convergence problem of the averaging interpolators on Tchebycheff abscissas. It appears that averaging interpolators have convergence properties similar to those of Lagrange interpolation. It is therefore reasonable to look for an extension of these operators along the lines of Hermite-Fejér interpolation. This can be done in three ways: (i) by taking assigned averages of function-values and by taking the derivatives to be zero, (ii) by taking assigned function-values and by taking the averages of derivatives to be zero, or (iii) by taking averages of function-values and by taking the averages of derivatives to be zero. The object of this note is to take the first approach. The second approach has been the subject of study by M. Botto and A. Sharma [2].

Let x denote a primitive character to a prime-power modulus k = pα. The expected estimate

for the incomplete character sum has been established for r = 1 and 2 by D. A. Burgess and recently, he settled the case r = 3 for all primes p < 3, (cf. [2] for the proof and for references). Here, a short proof of the main inequality (Theorem 2) which leads to this result is presented; the argument being based upon my characterization in [3] of the solution-set of a related congruence.

Fix an irreducible (finite) root system $R$ and a choice of positive roots. For any algebraically closed field $k$ consider the almost simple, simply connected algebraic group ${{G}_{k}}$ over $k$ with root system $k$. One associates with any dominant weight $\lambda $ for $R$ two ${{G}_{k}}$-modules with highest weight $\lambda $, the Weyl module $V{{(\lambda )}_{k}}$ and its simple quotient $V{{(\lambda )}_{k}}$. Let $\lambda $ and $\mu $ be dominant weights with $\mu <\lambda $ such that $\mu $ is maximal with this property. Garibaldi, Guralnick, and Nakano have asked under which condition there exists $k$ such that $L{{(\mu )}_{k}}$ is a composition factor of $V{{(\lambda )}_{k}}$, and they exhibit an example in type ${{E}_{8}}$ where this is not the case. The purpose of this paper is to to show that their example is the only one. It contains two proofs for this fact: one that uses a classiffication of the possible pairs $(\lambda ,\mu )$, and another that relies only on the classiûcation of root systems.

We combine the deep methods of Frey, Ribet, Serre and Wiles with some results of Darmon, Merel and Poonen to solve certain explicit diophantine equations. In particular, we prove that the area of a primitive Pythagorean triangle is never a perfect power, and that each of the equations ${{X}^{4}}\,-\,4{{Y}^{4}}\,=\,{{Z}^{p}},\,{{X}^{4}}\,+\,4{{Y}^{p}}\,=\,{{Z}^{2}}$ has no non-trivial solution. Proofs are short and rest heavily on results whose proofs required Wiles’ deep machinery.

The invariant operator range lattices of a wide class of uniformly closed algebras (including C*-algebras) are stable under weak closures. There is an algebra whose invariant operator range lattice contains properly the corresponding lattice of its norm closure. An operator range transitive algebra is operator range n -transitive for all n. A normal operator is algebraic if and only if each of its invariant operator ranges is the range of some operator commuting with it.