In this work we study the behaviour of compact, smooth, orientable, spacelike hypersurfaces without boundary, which are immersed in cosmological spacetimes and move under the inverse mean curvature flow. We prove longtime existence and regularity of a solution to the corresponding nonlinear parabolic system of partial differential equations.

In this paper, from several commutative self-adjoint operators on a Hilbert space, we define a class of spaces of fundamental functions and generalized functions, which are characterized completely by selfadjoint operators. Specially, using the common eigenvectors of these self-adjoint operators, we give the general form of expansion in series of generalized functions

As a sequel to the previous two papers of the second author, we investigate the structure of medial idempotent groupoids by Pn-sequences. To complete the series of research, this paper has theree purposes. First, we summarize some results in the previous papers so that this paper can cover the materials presented there. Secondly, using earlier results, we prove a few theorems which show the importance of the medial law in controlling the growth of Pn-sequences of groupoids. Finally, we state some problems and conjectures raised during the series of research.

In this paper, we improve the Rosenbloom's fixed-point theorem and prove a related normality criterion. We also consider the corresponding unicity theorem for transcendental entire functions.

It is known that the only topological invariants P for which anti(P) = anti2 (P), anti( ) denoting Bankston's total negation operator, are those which are determined purely by the cardinality of the underlying point-set. We examine equations of the form antin (P) = antin (not P), reaching similar conclusions for n ≤ 2 but weaker ones for n > 3. A corresponding investigation for total negation within a constraint is initiated.

It is shown that a sequence of completely positive linear maps on a W*-algebra that converges pointwise in norm to the identity converges uniformly.

A lower bound for the minimal length of the polynomial recurrence of a binomial sum is obtained.

In this paper we prove a number of results on Cauchy transforms of generalized type given by Borel measures supported on the class of analytic functions mapping the unit disc into the unit disk. We also give a BMOA characterization using these families.

Let be the classical system of the Walsh functions, the multiplicative semigroup of the functions represented by series of functions Wk(t)with non-negative coefficients which sum equals 1. We study the arithmetic of . The analogues of the well-known [ related to the arithmetic of the convolution semigroup of probability measures on the real line are valid in . The classes of idempotent elements, of infinitely divisible elements, of elements without indecomposable factors, and of elements without indecomposable and non-degenerate idempotent factors are completely described. We study also the class of indecomposable elements. Our method is based on the following fact: is isomorphic to the semigroup of probability measures on the groups of characters of the Cantor-Walsh group.

It is conjectured that a hyperbolic knot complement does not contain a closed embedded totally geodesic surface. In this paper, we show that there are no such surfaces in the complements of hyperbolic 3-bridge knots and double torus knots. Some topological criteria for a closed essential surface failing to be totally geodesic are given. Roughly speaking, sufficiently ‘complicated’ surfaces cannot be totally geodesic.

Let V be a finite dimensional Hermitian vector space and K be a compact Lie subgroup of U(V) for which th representation of K on C[V] is multiplicity free. One obtains a canonical basis {pα} for the space C [VR]k of K-invariant polynomials on VR and also a basis {q's. The polynomial pα's yields the homogeneous component of highest degree in qα. The coefficient that express the qα's in terms of the pβ's are the generalized binomial coeffficients of Yan. The main result in this paper shows tht these numbers are rational.

Global weak continuity of M-functionals in a neighbourhood of the parametric distribution is established. This has implications for robustness of M-estimators vis a vis definitions put forward by Hampel. For instance the Tukey bisquare location estimator is robust on neighbourhoods of the parametric model, but the median is not.