A Banach algebra $A$ is said to be a zero Jordan product determined Banach algebra if, for every Banach space $X$, every bilinear map $\unicode[STIX]{x1D711}:A\times A\rightarrow X$ satisfying $\unicode[STIX]{x1D711}(a,b)=0$ whenever $a$, $b\in A$ are such that $ab+ba=0$, is of the form $\unicode[STIX]{x1D711}(a,b)=\unicode[STIX]{x1D70E}(ab+ba)$ for some continuous linear map $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70E}$. We show that all $C^{\ast }$-algebras and all group algebras $L^{1}(G)$ of amenable locally compact groups have this property and also discuss some applications.

Given a unital inductive limit of C*-algebras for which each C*-algebra of the inductive sequence comes equipped with a Rieffel compact quantum metric, we produce sufficient conditions to build a compact quantum metric on the inductive limit from the quantum metrics on the inductive sequence by utilizing the completeness of the dual Gromov–Hausdorff propinquity of Latrémolière on compact quantum metric spaces. This allows us to place new quantum metrics on all unital approximately finite-dimensional (AF) algebras that extend our previous work with Latrémolière on unital AF algebras with faithful tracial state. As a consequence, we produce a continuous image of the entire Fell topology on the ideal space of any unital AF algebra in the dual Gromov–Hausdorff propinquity topology.

In this paper we consider uncertainty principles for solutions of certain partial differential equations on $H$-type groups. We first prove that, on $H$-type groups, the heat kernel is an average of Gaussians in the central variable, so that it does not satisfy a certain reformulation of Hardy’s uncertainty principle. We then prove the analogue of Hardy’s uncertainty principle for solutions of the Schrödinger equation with potential on $H$-type groups. This extends the free case considered by Ben Saïd et al. [‘Uniqueness of solutions to Schrödinger equations on H-type groups’, J. Aust. Math. Soc. (3)95 (2013), 297–314] and by Ludwig and Müller [‘Uniqueness of solutions to Schrödinger equations on 2-step nilpotent Lie groups’, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.142 (2014), 2101–2118].

We determine, up to multiplicative constants, the number of integers $n\leq x$ that have a divisor in $(y,2y]$ and no prime factor $\leq w$. Our estimate is uniform in $x,y,w$. We apply this to determine the order of the number of distinct integers in the $N\times N$ multiplication table, which are free of prime factors $\leq w$, and the number of distinct fractions of the form $(a_{1}a_{2})/(b_{1}b_{2})$ with $1\leq a_{1}\leq b_{1}\leq N$ and $1\leq a_{2}\leq b_{2}\leq N$.

We consider the fractional critical problem $A_{s}u=K(x)u^{(n+2s)/(n-2s)},u>0$ in $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA},u=0$ on $\unicode[STIX]{x2202}\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA}$, where $A_{s},s\in (0,1)$, is the fractional Laplace operator and $K$ is a given function on a bounded domain $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA}$ of $\mathbb{R}^{n},n\geq 2$. This is based on A. Bahri’s theory of critical points at infinity in Bahri [Critical Points at Infinity in Some Variational Problems, Pitman Research Notes in Mathematics Series, 182 (Longman Scientific & Technical, Harlow, 1989)]. We prove Bahri’s estimates in the fractional setting and we provide existence theorems for the problem when $K$ is close to 1.

Let $r,n>1$ be integers and $q$ be any prime power $q$ such that $r\mid q^{n}-1$. We say that the extension $\mathbb{F}_{q^{n}}/\mathbb{F}_{q}$ possesses the line property for $r$-primitive elements property if, for every $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC},\unicode[STIX]{x1D703}\in \mathbb{F}_{q^{n}}^{\ast }$ such that $\mathbb{F}_{q^{n}}=\mathbb{F}_{q}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D703})$, there exists some $x\in \mathbb{F}_{q}$ such that $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D703}+x)$ has multiplicative order $(q^{n}-1)/r$. We prove that, for sufficiently large prime powers $q$, $\mathbb{F}_{q^{n}}/\mathbb{F}_{q}$ possesses the line property for $r$-primitive elements. We also discuss the (weaker) translate property for extensions.

Let $M$ be a nondoubling parabolic manifold with ends. First, this paper investigates the boundedness of the maximal function associated with the heat semigroup ${\mathcal{M}}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E5}}f(x):=\sup _{t>0}|e^{-t\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E5}}f(x)|$ where $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E5}$ is the Laplace–Beltrami operator acting on $M$. Then, by combining the subordination formula with the previous result, we obtain the weak type $(1,1)$ and $L^{p}$ boundedness of the maximal function ${\mathcal{M}}_{\sqrt{L}}^{k}f(x):=\sup _{t>0}|(t\sqrt{L})^{k}e^{-t\sqrt{L}}f(x)|$ on $L^{p}(M)$ for $1<p\leq \infty$ where $k$ is a nonnegative integer and $L$ is a nonnegative self-adjoint operator satisfying a suitable heat kernel upper bound. An interesting thing about the results is the lack of both doubling condition of $M$ and the smoothness of the operators’ kernels.

If $f:\tilde{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}}\rightarrow \unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}$ is a covering map between connected graphs, and $H$ is the subgroup of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70B}_{1}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4},v)$ used to construct the cover, then it is well known that the group of deck transformations of the cover is isomorphic to $N(H)/H$, where $N(H)$ is the normalizer of $H$ in $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70B}_{1}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4},v)$. We show that an entirely analogous result holds for immersions between connected graphs, where the subgroup $H$ is replaced by the closed inverse submonoid of the inverse monoid $L(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4},v)$ used to construct the immersion. We observe a relationship between group actions on graphs and deck transformations of graph immersions. We also show that a graph immersion $f:\tilde{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}}\rightarrow \unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}$ may be extended to a cover $g:\tilde{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E5}}\rightarrow \unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}$ in such a way that all deck transformations of $f$ are restrictions of deck transformations of $g$.

We classify tame block algebras of Hecke algebras of classical type over an algebraically closed field of characteristic not equal to two.

Given an infinite, compact, monothetic group $G$ we study decompositions and structure of unbounded derivations in a crossed product $\text{C}^{\ast }$-algebra $C(G)\rtimes \mathbb{Z}$ obtained from a translation on $G$ by a generator of a dense cyclic subgroup. We also study derivations in a Toeplitz extension of the crossed product and the question whether unbounded derivations can be lifted from one algebra to the other.

In this paper, we introduce quotients of étale groupoids. Using the notion of quotients, we describe the abelianizations of groupoid C*-algebras. As another application, we obtain a simple proof that effectiveness of an étale groupoid is implied by a Cuntz–Krieger uniqueness theorem for a universal groupoid C*-algebra.

We discuss an alternative approach to Fréchet derivatives on Banach spaces inspired by a characterisation of derivatives due to Carathéodory. The approach allows many questions of differentiability to be reduced to questions of continuity. We demonstrate how that simplifies the theory of differentiation, including the rules of differentiation and the Schwarz lemma on the symmetry of second-order derivatives. We also provide a short proof of the differentiable dependence of fixed points in the Banach fixed point theorem.

We define extensions of the weighted core–EP inverse and weighted core–EP pre-orders of bounded linear operators on Hilbert spaces to elements of a $C^{\ast }$-algebra. Some properties of the weighted core–EP inverse and weighted core–EP pre-orders are generalized and some new ones are proved. Using the weighted element, the weighted core–EP pre-order, the minus partial order and the star partial order of certain elements, new weighted pre-orders are presented on the set of all $wg$-Drazin invertible elements of a $C^{\ast }$-algebra. Applying these results, we introduce and characterize new partial orders which extend the core–EP pre-order to a partial order.

Vertex-primitive self-complementary graphs were proved to be affine or in product action by Guralnick et al. [‘On orbital partitions and exceptionality of primitive permutation groups’, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.356 (2004), 4857–4872]. The product action type is known in some sense. In this paper, we provide a generic construction for the affine case and several families of new self-complementary Cayley graphs are constructed.

We carry Sprindžuk’s classification of the complex numbers to the field $\mathbb{Q}_{p}$ of $p$-adic numbers. We establish several estimates for the $p$-adic distance between $p$-adic roots of integer polynomials, which we apply to show that almost all $p$-adic numbers, with respect to the Haar measure, are $p$-adic $\tilde{S}$-numbers of order 1.

First, we generalize the definition of a locally compact topology given by Paterson and Welch for a sequence of locally compact spaces to the case where the underlying spaces are $T_{1}$ and sober. We then consider a certain semilattice of basic open sets for this topology on the space of all paths on a graph and impose relations motivated by the definitions of graph C*-algebra in order to recover the boundary path space of a graph. This is done using techniques of pointless topology. Finally, we generalize the results to the case of topological graphs.

Li et al. [‘Weak 2-local isometries on uniform algebras and Lipschitz algebras’, Publ. Mat.63 (2019), 241–264] generalized the Kowalski–Słodkowski theorem by establishing the following spherical variant: let A be a unital complex Banach algebra and let $\Delta : A \to \mathbb {C}$ be a mapping satisfying the following properties:

1. (a) $\Delta $ is 1-homogeneous (that is, $\Delta (\lambda x)=\lambda \Delta (x)$ for all $x \in A$ , $\lambda \in \mathbb C$ );

2. (b) $\Delta (x)-\Delta (y) \in \mathbb {T}\sigma (x-y), \quad x,y \in A$ .

$\Delta $

$\lambda _{0} \in \mathbb {T}$

$\lambda _{0}\Delta $

$\Delta (0)=0$

$\Delta $

$\overline {\Delta (\mathbf {1})}\Delta $

We prove that $A_{R}(G)\otimes _{R}A_{R}(H)\cong A_{R}(G\times H)$ if $G$ and $H$ are Hausdorff ample groupoids. As part of the proof, we give a new universal property of Steinberg algebras. We then consider the isomorphism problem for tensor products of Leavitt algebras, and show that no diagonal-preserving isomorphism exists between $L_{2,R}\otimes L_{3,R}$ and $L_{2,R}\otimes L_{2,R}$. In fact, there are no unexpected diagonal-preserving isomorphisms between tensor products of finitely many Leavitt algebras. We give an easy proof that every $\ast$-isomorphism of Steinberg algebras over the integers preserves the diagonal, and it follows that $L_{2,\mathbb{Z}}\otimes L_{3,\mathbb{Z}}\not \cong L_{2,\mathbb{Z}}\otimes L_{2,\mathbb{Z}}$ (as $\ast$-rings).

Let $\mathbb{F}=\mathbb{R}$ or $\mathbb{C}$. For $i=1,2$, let $K_{i}$ be a locally compact (Hausdorff) topological space and let ${\mathcal{H}}_{i}$ be a closed subspace of ${\mathcal{C}}_{0}(K_{i},\mathbb{F})$ such that each point of the Choquet boundary $\operatorname{Ch}_{{\mathcal{H}}_{i}}K_{i}$ of ${\mathcal{H}}_{i}$ is a weak peak point. We show that if there exists an isomorphism $T:{\mathcal{H}}_{1}\rightarrow {\mathcal{H}}_{2}$ with $\left\Vert T\right\Vert \cdot \left\Vert T^{-1}\right\Vert <2$, then $\operatorname{Ch}_{{\mathcal{H}}_{1}}K_{1}$ is homeomorphic to $\operatorname{Ch}_{{\mathcal{H}}_{2}}K_{2}$. We then provide a one-sided version of this result. Finally we prove that under the assumption on weak peak points the Choquet boundaries have the same cardinality provided ${\mathcal{H}}_{1}$ is isomorphic to ${\mathcal{H}}_{2}$.

In order to study integers with few prime factors, the average of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6EC}_{k}=\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}\ast \log ^{k}$ has been a central object of research. One of the more important cases, $k=2$, was considered by Selberg [‘An elementary proof of the prime-number theorem’, Ann. of Math. (2)50 (1949), 305–313]. For $k\geq 2$, it was studied by Bombieri [‘The asymptotic sieve’, Rend. Accad. Naz. XL (5)1(2) (1975/76), 243–269; (1977)] and later by Friedlander and Iwaniec [‘On Bombieri’s asymptotic sieve’, Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci. (4)5(4) (1978), 719–756], as an application of the asymptotic sieve.

Let $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6EC}_{j,k}:=\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}_{j}\ast \log ^{k}$, where $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}_{j}$ denotes the Liouville function for $(j+1)$-free integers, and $0$ otherwise. In this paper we evaluate the average value of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6EC}_{j,k}$ in a residue class $n\equiv a\text{ mod }q$, $(a,q)=1$, uniformly on $q$. When $j\geq 2$, we find that the average value in a residue class differs by a constant factor from the expected value. Moreover, an explicit formula of Weil type for $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6EC}_{k}(n)$ involving the zeros of the Riemann zeta function is derived for an arbitrary compactly supported ${\mathcal{C}}^{2}$ function.