All the Gabriel topologies on a Dubrovin valuation ring are classified in terms of its prime ideals. Furthermore, these Gabriel topologies are cogenerated by two kinds of indecomposable injective modules.

We prove a natural factorization of supersolvable groups and then we give another characterization of them in connection with the Fitting subgroup. Applying these theorems we describe the structure of some subclasses of supersolvable groups.

It is shown that the truncated multidimensional moment problem is more general than the full multidimensional moment problem.

A compact Klein surface X is a compact surface with a dianalytic structure. Such a surface is said to be q-hyperelliptic if it admits an involution \phi , that is an order two automorphism, such that X/ < \phi > has algebraic genus q. A Klein surface of genus 1 and k boundary components is a k-bordered torus.

By means of NEC groups, q-hyperelliptic k-bordered tori are studied and a geometrical description of their associated Teichmüller spaces is given.

Let T be a dominant operator that is a quasi-affine transform of an M-hyponormal operator. In this paper we show that if f is a function analytic on a neighborhood of the spectrum of T, then Weyl's theorem holds for f(T{\hskip1}).

We compute explicitly the isomorphic structure of the normalized unit group of an abelian group ring under some minimal natural restrictions on the group basis and the coefficient ring. This enlarges affirmations due to Chatzidakis-Pappas (J. London Math. Soc., 1991) and Mollov (Publ. Math. Debrecen, 1971).

In 1997, M. Cho, M. Ito and S. Oshiro showed that Weyl's theorem holds for p-hyponormal operators, for any p>0. In this note we give another proof of this result. Also, it is shown that Weyl's theorem holds for M-hyponormal operators. Further, in 1962, Stampfli showed that if T is hyponormal and its Weyl spectrum is {0} then T is compact and normal. We show that this result remains true if the hypothesis of hyponormality is replaced by either (a) p-hyponormality or (b) M-hyponormality.

The extension E of degree n over the Galois field F={\text GF}(q)} is called regular over F, if {\text ord}_r(q) and n have greatest common divisor 1 for all prime divisors r of n which are different from the characteristic p of F (here, \order{r}{q} denotes the multiplicative order of q modulo r). Under the assumption that E is regular over F and that q-1 is divisible by 4 if q is odd and n is even, we prove the existence of a primitive element w \in E which is also completely normal over F (the latter means that w simultaneously generates a normal basis for E over every intermediate field K of E/F). Our result achieves, for the class of extensions under consideration, a common generalization of the theorem of Lenstra and Schoof on the existence of primitive normal bases [12] and the theorem of Blessenohl and Johnsen on the existence of complete normal bases [1].

Let G be a finite group. The symmetric crosscap number \tilde \sigma (G) is the minimum topological genus of any compact non-orientable surface (with empty boundary) on which G acts effectively. We first survey some of the basic facts about the symmetric crosscap number; this includes relationships between this parameter and others. We obtain formulas for the symmetric crosscap number for three families of groups, the dicyclic groups, the abelian groups with most factors in the canonical form isomorphic to Z_(2), and the hamiltonian groups with no odd order part. We also determine \tilde \sigma (G) for each group G with order less than 16. The groups with symmetric crosscap numbers 1 and 2 have been classified. We show here that there are no groups with \tilde\sigma=3; this affirms a conjecture of Tucker.

In this paper, we show that if T=S+N, where S is similar to a hyponormal operator, S and N commute and N is a nilpotent operator of order m (i.e., N^m=0), then T is a subscalar operator of order 2m. As a corollary, we get that such a T has a nontrivial invariant subspace if its spectrum \sigma(T\hskip1) has the property that there exists some non-empty open set U such that \sigma(T\hskip1)\capU is dominating for U.

All local solutions of the two dimensional Einstein-Weyl equations are found, and related to the compact examples obtained in [1].

Let X be a proper geodesic metric space which is \delta-hyperbolic in the sense of Gromov. We study a class of functions on X, called horofunctions, which generalize Busemann functions. To each horofunction is associated a point in the boundary at infinity of X. Horofunctions are used to give a description of the boundary. In the case where X is the Cayley graph of a hyperbolic group \Gamma, we show, following ideas of Gromov sketched in his paper Hyperbolic groups, that the space of cocycles associated to horofunctions which take integral values on the vertices is a one-sided subshift of finite type.

An operator T on a Banach space is called ‘semi B-Fredholm’ if for some n \in {\tf="times-b"N} the range R(T\;\!^n) of T\;\!^n is closed and the induced operator T_n on R(T\;\!^n) semi-Fredholm. Semi B-Fredholm operators are stable under finite rank perturbation, and subject to the spectral mapping theorem; on Hilbert spaces they decompose as sums of nilpotent and semi-Fredholm operators. In addition some recent generalizations of the punctured neighborhood theorem turn out to be consequences of Grabiner's theory of ‘topological uniform descent’.

Every compact well-bounded operator has a representation as a linear combination of disjoint projections reminiscent of the representation of compact self-adjoint operators. In this note we show that the converse of this result holds, thus characterizing compact well-bounded operators. We also apply this result to study compact well-bounded operators on some special classes of Banach spaces such as hereditarily indecomposable spaces and certain spaces constructed by G. Pisier.

We compute the precise bounds, for every positive integer n, for the nilpotency class of nilpotent subgroups of {\text GL}(n,{\tf="P7DC6"Q}) and {\text GL}(n,{\tf="P7DC6"Z}).

In this paper we prove that if M_C=\pmatrix {A&#TAB;C\cr0&#TAB;B} is a 2\times 2 upper triangular operator matrix on the Hilbert space H\bigoplus K and if \sigma (A)\cap \sigma (B)=\emptyset , then \sigma is continuous at A and B if and only if \sigma is continuous at M_C, for every C\in B(K,H{\hskip1}).