Let (X, τ) be a Tychonov space and the collection of all families of pseudometrics on X generating the topology τ on X. Let f:X→X and c>0. Then f is said to be a topological c-homothety if there exists some B in such that d(f(x), f(y))=cd(x, y) for all d ∈ B and all x, y in X (see [4]). We say that f can be linearized in L as a c-homothety if there exists a linear topological space L, and a topological embedding i:X→L such that i(f(x))=ci(x) for all x in X (see [4]).f is said to be squeezing if for some a in X.

It is well known that disconjugacy theorems for self-adjoint differential equations are very closely related to the study of the positivity of certain associated quadratic functionals. In this paper, this relationship is closely examined for quadratic functionals of nth order associated with selfadjoint differential equations of order 2n. The motivation of this work comes from a recent paper of W. Leighton [8] on quadratic functionals of second order. It is shown that the method used by W. Leighton extends in a straightforward manner to the study of quadratic functionals of nth order, provided one makes use of an identity due to G. Cimmino [1]. Several authors have considered related problems. In particular we wish to mention the recent papers of G. Ladas [6], W. Simons [13], D. B. Hinton [5]. The book by C. A. Swanson [14] also contains many other related results. As a consequence of our results we can obtain several known and some new criteria for oscillation of 2nth order self-adjoint differential equations.

Quasigroups and groupoids with one or other of the Reidemeister or Thomsen closure conditions, the relationship among them with emphasis on their relationship to associativity viz groups, Abelian groups, have been investigated in [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [12], and others. In [10] R- and T-groupoids, (that is, groupoids possessing one of the first two closure conditions mentioned above) which are generalizations of groups and Abelian groups were investigated. In this paper, we show that groupoids with the given identities may be described in terms of R- and T-groupoids. These results and others are used to give another proof of theorems given in [1], [7], and [5] describing the variety of all groups and Abelian groups defined by single laws.

Let G be a real Lie group, A a closed subgroup of G and B an analytic subgroup of G. Assume that B normalizes A and that AB is closed in G. Then our main result (Theorem 1) asserts that .

This result generalizes Lemma 2 in the paper [4], G. Hochschild has pointed out to me that the proof of that lemma given in [4] is not complete but that it can be easily completed.

In this paper we determine necessary and sufficient conditions for the square of a vertex-unicyclic graph to be Hamiltonian. The conditions are simple and easily checked. Further, we show that the square of a vertex-unicyclic graph is Hamiltonian if and only if it is vertex-pancyclic.

Let f be a function denned in the unit disk D(|z| < 1). For each point eiθ on the unit circle C(|z| = 1) and each subset S of D, we denote by Cs(f, eiθ) the cluster set of f at eiθ relative to s, i.e.

where N(eiθ, j) = {z∈D:|z-eiθ| <1/j}.

Let R be a ring such that, for each element a of R, there exists a positive integer n(a) > 1, depending on a, such that an(a)=a. Jacobson proved that such a ring R is necessarily commutative and the purpose of this paper is to give a proof of Jacobson’s Theorem that does not involve the use of the axiom of choice.

We take this opportunity to point out that all rings are assumed to be associative and that nothing beyond elementary ring theory is assumed in the proof to follow. Such ring theory can be found, for example, in [1].

In this note, we discuss a representation of the class of polynomials with real coefficients having all zeros in a given disk of the complex plane C, in terms of convex combinations of certain extremal polynomials of this class. The result stated in the theorem is known [1] for polynomials having n real zeros in the interval [a.b.]. In the following z will be a complex number and D[(a + b)/2, (b-a)/2] the closed disk of the complex plane centered at the real point (a + b)/2 and having radius (b-a)/2.

In [2] we introduced a concept of a Macaulay module over a right noetherian ring by saying that all associated primes of the module have the same codimension. That is to say that a module M over a right noetherian ring R is Macaulay if K dim R/P = K dim R/Q for all P, Q ∈ Ass M. Our main aim here is to extend Nagata’s useful result [6], that Macaulay rings are stable under polynomial adjunction, to a noncommutative setting. Specifically, we prove where x is a commuting indeterminate, that the polynomial module M[x] = M⊗RR[x] is a Macaulay R[x]-module if and only if M is a Macaulay R-module. But actually, we prove a more general result. We show that when M is any module over a right noetherian ring, the associated primes of M[x] are precisely the extensions of the associated primes of M.

C. Feffermann and E. M. Stein [2] have shown that the continuity property of the Hardy-Littlewood maximal functions between Lp-spaces, 1 < p < ∞, extends to ℓr-valued functions on ℝn. Specifically, if f = (f1, f2,…) is a sequence of functions defined on Rn, let for l<∞, |f(x)|r be given by

In this note we compute the derived functors of “torsion submodule” using a certain duality result for semi-exact functors on an abelian category of finite global dimension.

This expository paper surveys work on invariant subspaces and related topics which has been done in the past few years. We recommend, naturally, that the reader consult [52] for work done prior to 1973 and [54] for a discussion of some of the consequences of Lomonosov’s Lemma; (Lomonosov’s paper has now also appeared in English ([36])).

Let F be a field, G a subgroup of Sm, the symmetric group of degree m, and χ a linear character on G, i.e., a homomorphism of G into the multiplicative group of F. Let V1,...,Vm be vector spaces over F such that Vi = Vσ(i) for i=1,…,m and for all σ∈G. If W is a vector space over F, then a m-multilinear function is said to be symmetric with respect to G and χ if

for any σ ∊ G and for arbitrary xi ∊ Vi.

Let H(U) be the linear space of holomorphic functions on U = {z:|z|<1} endowed with the topology of compact convergence, and denote by H′(U) its topological dual space. Let be a compact subset of H(U) and ƒ∈F. We say ƒ is a support point of if there exists an L∈H'(U), non-constant on , such that On the other hand, ƒ is an extreme point of if ƒ is not a proper convex combination of two other points of .

The use of decreasing rearrangement formulas, and particularly that of the weak N inequality, is illustrated by deriving from Eτ |f-f(τ -)|≤Eτu (where ft is some stochastic process and τ arbitrary stopping time) the estimate ||f||≤Const||u|| in the class of structureless norms with finite dual Hardy bound.

The basic estimate is

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].

This note confirms that the existence proof for absolutely free algebras originated by Dedekind in [2] and completely developed for instance in [4] can still be carried out in a topos containing an infinite object i.e. an object N for which N ≃ N+1 if the type of the algebras considered is finite, pointed and internally projective i.e. is a finite sequence of objects, (Ij)i≤j≤k for which the functors ( )Ij preserve epimorphisms and each of which has a global section.

In this paper, the cyclotomic polynomial is generalized and several of its properties based on the Môbius inversion are derived. It is deduced that a polynomial whose roots are the roots of a cyclotomic polynomial multiplied by those of another cyclotomic polynomial is the product of cyclotomic polynomials. Character sums and finite Fourier series are employed for the latter result.

We consider the following three functional equations

1

2

3

where f:R3→R.

Considering their geometric meaning, equations (1) and (2) are known as ‘Cube’ and ‘Octahedron’ functional equations, respectively. Under the assumption of continuity, Haruki [2] has proved that (1) and (2) are equivalent. Etigson [3], has proved the equivalence of (1) and (2) under no regularity assumption. We will give here another proof. Also, under the assumption of continuity, Haruki has solved the ‘Cube’ functional equation. He gave the solution as a certain polynomial of fifth degree in x, y, z individually whose terms are the partial derivatives of a given polynomial.

In the latter part of the 1950’s some interesting papers appeared (e.g. [2] and [10]) which examined the relationships occurring between the purely algebraic and homological aspects of the theory of finitely generated modules over Noetherian rings. Many of these relationships remain valid if one considers the much wider class of rings determined by the following definition.

Definition. A commutative ring R is called pseudo-Noetherian if it satisfies the following two conditions.