We present sufficient conditions on an approximate mapping F: X → Y of approximate inverse systems in order that the limit f: X → Y of F is a universal map in the sense of Holsztyński. A similar theorem holds for a more restrictive concept of a proximately universal map introduced recently by the second author. We get as corollaries some sufficient conditions on an approximate inverse system implying that the its limit has the (proximate) fixed point property. In particular, every chainable compact Hausdorif space has the proximate fixed point property.

In this paper, we study the structure of certain conditional expectation on crossed product C*-algebra. In particular, we prove that the index of a conditional expectation E: B → A is finite if and only if the index of the induced expectation from B ⋊ G onto A ⋊ G is finite where G is a discrete group acting on B.

In this paper we make use of semigroup methods on the space of compactly supported measures to obtain a Bochner representation for α-bounded positive-definite functions on a commutative hypergroup.

Assume that for a measurable funcion f on (0, ∞) there exist a positive auxiliary function a(t) and some γ ∈ R such that . Then f is said to be of generalized regular variation. In order to control the asymptotic behaviour of certain estimators for distributions in extreme value theory we are led to study regular variation of second order, that is, we assume that exists non-trivially with a second auxiliary function a1(t). We study the possible limit functions in this limit relation (defining generalized regular variation of second order) and their domains of attraction. Furthermore we give the corresponding relation for the inverse function of a monotone f with the stated property. Finally, we present an Abel-Tauber theorem relating these functions and their Laplace transforms.

A graph H decomposes into a graph G if one can write H as an edge-disjoint union of graphs isomorphic to G. H decomposes into D, where D is a family of graphs, when H can be written as a union of graphs each isomorphic to some member of D, and every member of D is represented at least once. In this paper it is shown that the d-dimensional cube Qd decomposes into any graph G of size d each of whose blocks is either an even cycle or an edge. Furthennore, Qd decomposes into D, where D is any set of six trees of size d.

It is proved that for every diffeomorphism f on a surface satisfying Axiom A, f is in the C2-interior of the set of all diffeoomorphisms having the shadowing property if and only if f satisfies the strong transversality condition.

We demonstrate the existence, in the 5-dimensional projective space over any field J in which 1 + 1 ≠ 0 and −1 is a square, of a non-degenerate double-twenty of planes (ℋ, K) with the property that there is a group of collineations which acts transitively on ℋ ∪ K while each element of the group either maps ℋ onto itself and K onto itself or else swaps ℋ with K. If there is an involutory automorphism of J which swaps the two square roots of −1, then (ℋ, K) is also self-polar (with respect to a unitary polarity). We describe some of the geometry (in both 5-dimensional and 3-dimensional space) associated with the double-twenty (ℋ, K) and its group.

We give several general implicit function and closed graph theorems for ser-valued functions. Let Z be a normed space, X, Y metric spaces with X complete. Let f: X ⇉ Z, F: X × Y ⇉ Z be multifunctions with z0 ∈ f(x0) ∩ F(x0, y0) such that f is open at (x0, y0) and f ‘approximates’ F in an appropriate sense. Suppose that f−1(z) is closed, F(x, y) is compact for each x, y and z and suppose that F(x0, ·) is lower semi-continuous at y0. Then F(·, y) is of closed graph ‘locally’, is open at x0, and there exists a function x(·) with x(y) → x0 for y → y0 such that z0 ∈ F(x(y), (y)) for all y near y0. A more general form dealing with the non-linear rate situation is also established.

A basic theory for probabilistic convergence spaces based on filter convergence is introduced. As in Florescu's previous theory of probabilistic convergence structures based on nets, one is able to assign a probability that a given filter converges to a given point. Various concepts and theorems pertaining to convergence spaces are extended to the realm of probabilistic convergence spaces, and illustrated by means of examples based on convergence in probability and convergence almost everywhere. Diagonal axioms due to Kowalsky and Fischer are also studied, first for convergence spaces and then in the setting of probabilistic convergence spaces.

The ordinary string class is an obstruction to lift the structure group LSpin(n) of a loop group bundle LQ → LM to the universal central extension of LSpin(n) by the circle. The vanishing problem of the ordinary string class and generalized string classes are considered from the viewpoint of the ring structure of the cohomology H*(M; R).

In this paper a scheme of an ‘economical’ embedding of an arbitrary set of groups without involutions in an infinite group with a proper simple normal subgroup is presented. This scheme is then applied to construction of groups with new properties.