Let ℱ be a smooth foliation of codimension p on a smooth manifold Mm. We can define ℱ by an atlas of coordinate charts (U, (x, y)), called leaf charts, where (x, y): U → Rm−p × Rp are coordinate functions for which the leaves of ℱ are given by y1 constant,…,yp constant, in U. Clearly, on the overlap of two such leaf charts (U, (x, y)) and (U′, (x′, y′)) we have a coordinate transformation of the form

If y′ is always affine in y, i.e.

where and Bi are constants, we shall say that ℱ is a transversally affine foliation. This notion is, in a sense, dual to that of affine foliation, see [2], in which x′ is affine in x and each leaf has an induced flat affine structure.

We study the semilinear differential equation u″ + F(t,u,u′)=0 on a half-line. Under different growth conditions on the function F, equations with globally defined solutions asymptotic to lines are characterized. Both fixed initial data and fixed asymptote are considered.

Let f denote a function, meromorphic in C. The question of when a deficient value of f, in the sense of Nevanlinna, is an asymptotic value has recently received some attention (see e.g. Hayman [6]). We assume acquaintance with the standard notation of the Nevanlinna theory ([[5] Chapter I) which we use without further mention. The following two theorems are known ([1] Theorem 4, and [6] Corollary 2).

The approximation of Banach space valued non-absolutely integrable functions by step functions is studied. It is proved that a Henstock integrable function can be approximated by a sequence of step functions in the Alexiewicz norm, while a Henstock–Kurzweil–Pettis and a Denjoy–Khintchine–Pettis integrable function can be only scalarly approximated in the Alexiewicz norm by a sequence of step functions. In case of Henstock–Kurzweil–Pettis and Denjoy–Khintchine–Pettis integrals the full approximation can be done if and only if the range of the integral is norm relatively compact.

A Hadamard matrix H is an orthogonal square matrix of order m all the entries of which are either + 1 or - 1; i. e.

where H′ denotes the transpose of H and Im is the identity matrix of order m. For such a matrix to exist it is necessary [1] that

It has been conjectured, but not yet proved, that this condition is also sufficient. However, many values of m have been found for which a Hadamard matrix of order m can be constructed. The following is a list of such m (p denotes an odd prime).

The integral equation of the title is

It was studied in [4], though h(x) was written as x-1g(x-1) there, and using a method involving orthogonal Watson transformations, it was shown there that if h ∈ L2(0, ∞), then the equation has a solution f ∈ L2(0, ∞), and that / is given by

In this paper, using the techniques of [3], we shall show that the equation can be solved for ℎ in the space ℒμ, p of [3] for 1 ≤ p < ∘, μ > 0, and that for these spaces, which include L2(0, ∘), f is given by the simpler formula

We shall further show that these results can be extended to the spaces ℒw, μ, p of [3]. This forms the content of our theorem below.

In the following let Ω be the set of irrational numbers in the interval [0,1] and let λ be Lebesgue measure restricted to Ω. For any real number x, let {x} = x - [x] be the fractional part of x. Let N be anatural number and let α e Ω. Then

is known as the discrepancy of the sequence (nα)n>1 modulo 1; here c[x, y) denotes the characteristic function of the interval [x, y).

In this paper, we investigate free actions of some compact groups on cohomology real and complex Milnor manifolds. More precisely, we compute the mod 2 cohomology algebra of the orbit space of an arbitrary free ℤ2 and $\mathbb{S}^1$-action on a compact Hausdorff space with mod 2 cohomology algebra of a real or a complex Milnor manifold. As applications, we deduce some Borsuk–Ulam type results for equivariant maps between spheres and these spaces. For the complex case, we obtain a lower bound on the Schwarz genus, which further establishes the existence of coincidence points for maps to the Euclidean plane.

Considered here is the pullback attractor of the process associated with the first initial boundary value problem for the non-autonomous semilinear degenerate parabolic equation

\begin{linenomath} u_t-\text{div}(\sigma(x)\nabla u)+f(u)=g(x,t) \end{linenomath}

$D_0^2(\Omega,\sigma)$

We present several conjectures which would describe the Nielsen equivalence classes of generating pairs for the groups SL(2,q) and PSL(2,q). The Higman invariant, which is the union of the conjugacy classes of the commutator of a generating pair and its inverse, and the trace of the commutator play key roles. Combining known results with additional work, we clarify the relationships between the conjectures, and obtain various partial results concerning them. Motivated by the work of Macbeath (A. M. Macbeath, Generators of the linear fractional groups, in Number theory (Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., vol. XII, Houston, TX, 1967) (American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1969), 14–32), we use another invariant defined using traces to develop algorithms that enable us to verify the conjectures computationally for all q up to 101, and to prove the conjectures for a highly restricted but possibly infinite set of q.

We introduce and study the type I-, II-, and III-Λ-complete continuity property of Banach spaces, where Λ is a subset of the dual group of a compact metrizable abelian group G.

Let G be a finite additive abelian group, and suppose that A and B are subsets of G. We say that G = A⊕B if every element g ∈ G can be uniquely written in the form g = a + b, where a ∈ A, b ∈ B. The study of such decompositions (usually called factorizations in the literature) was initiated by G. Hájos [3] in connection with his solution to a problem of Minkowski in the geometry of numbers.

A ring $R$ with identity is called strongly clean if every element of $R$ is the sum of an idempotent and a unit that commute. For a commutative local ring $R$, $n=3,4$, and $m, k, s \in {\mathbb N}$ it is proved that ${\mathbb M}_n(R)$ is strongly clean if and only if ${\mathbb M}_n(R[[x]])$ is strongly clean if and only if ${\mathbb M}_n(R[[x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_m]])$ is strongly clean if and only if $ {\mathbb M}_n(\frac{R[x]}{(x^{k})})$ is strongly clean if and only if $ {\mathbb M}_n(\dfrac{R[x_{1}, x_{2}, \ldots , x_{s}]}{(x^{n_1}_{1}, x^{n_{2}}_{2}, \ldots , x^{n_{s}}_{s})}) $ is strongly clean if and only if ${\mathbb M}_n(R \propto R)$ is strongly clean where $ R\propto R=\{\scriptsize(\begin{array}{@{}c@{\quad}c@{}} a& b \\ 0& a \end{array}): a, b \in R \}$ is the trivial extension of $R$. This extends a result of J. Chen, X. Yang and Y. Zhou [$\mathbf{5}$] from $n=2$ to 3 and 4.

A group G is said to be a minimal non-FC group, if G contains an infinite conjugacy class, while every proper subgroup of G merely has finite conjugacy classes. The structure of imperfect minimal non-FC groups is quite well-understood. These groups are in particular locally finite. At the other end of the spectrum, a perfect locally finite minimal non-FC group must be a p-group. And it has been an open question for quite a while now, whether such groups exist or not.

The joint spectrum for a commuting n-tuple in functional analysis has its origin in functional calculus which appeared in J. L. Taylor's epoch-making paper [19] in 1970. Since then, many papers have been published on commuting n-tuples of operators on Hilbert spaces (for example, [3], [4], [5], [8], [9], [10], [21], [22]).

In this paper, we continue the work initiated by Morris [5] and Saeed-ul-Islam [6,7] and determine complete sets of inequivalent irreducible projective representations (which we shall write as i.p.r.) of finite Abelian groups with respect to some additional factor sets.

We consider an Abelian group

which will be referred to as an Abelian group of type (a1, …, am).

Let be the semigroup of all total one-to-one transformations of an infinite set X. For an ƒ ∈ let the defect of ƒ def ƒ, be the cardinality of X – R(ƒ), where R(ƒ) = ƒ(X) is the range of ƒ. Then is a disjoint union of the symmetric group x on X, the semigroup S of all transformations in with finite non-zero defects and the semigroup Ā of all transformations in S with infinite defects, such that S U Ā and Ā are ideals of . The properties of x and Ā have been investigated by a number of authors (for the latter it was done via Baer-Levi semigroups, see [2], [3], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10] and note that Ā decomposes into a union of Baer–Levi semigroups). Our aim here is to study the semigroup S. It is not difficult to see that S is left cancellative (we compose functions ƒ, g in S as ƒg(x) = ƒ(g(x)), for x ∈ X) and idempotent-free. All automorphisms of S are inner [4], that is of the form ƒ → hƒhfh-1 ƒ ∈ S, h ∈ x.

A ring is called clean if every element is the sum of an idempotent and a unit. It is an open question whether the tensor products of two clean algebras over a field is clean. In this note we study the tensor product of clean algebras over a field and we provide some examples to show that the tensor product of two clean algebras over a field need not be clean.

We characterise singularities of focal surfaces of wave fronts in terms of differential geometric properties of the initial wave fronts. Moreover, we study relationships between geometric properties of focal surfaces and geometric invariants of the initial wave fronts.

The purpose of this short note is to make an observation about Dunford–Pettis operators from L1[0, 1] to C0. Recall that an operator T:E→F (where E and F are Banach spaces) is called Dunford–Pettis if T takes weakly convergent sequences of E into norm convergent sequences of F. A Banach space F has the Compact Range Property (CRP) if every operator T:L1]0, 1]→F is Dunford–Pettis. Talagrand shows in his book [2] that C0 does not have the CRP. It is of interest (especially in mathematical economics [3]) to note that every positive operator from L1[0, 1] to C0 is Dunford–Pettis.