In this paper G will denote a compact metric Abelian group having finite topological dimension, dim G. The discrete dual group of G will be denoted by Γ. The metric on G will be denoted by d(x, y), or |x-y| since translation-invariance is assumed.

In (2) I described a canonical isometric representation of an arbitrary real Banach space X by vector-valued functions (with the uniform norm) on a compact Hausdorif space ω with the following properties: (1) the representing function space is invariant under multiplications by continuous real functions on ω; (2) the norm of each representing function, as a real non-negative function on ω, is upper semicontinuous; and (3) this decomposition of X is maximally fine. I called attention to the class of spaces X for which at every point of ω the component space of this representation is one-dimensional or 0, so that the representing functions are in effect real valued. I propose to call such Banach spaces square, because of the shape of the unit ball in the two-dimensional case. In (2) I stated without proof, erroneously as it turns out, that the class of square spaces coincides with what Lindenstrauss in (4) called G-spaces. The primary purpose of this paper is to show that the class of square spaces is actually properly contained in that of G-spaces. It is known ((2), p. 620, Example 1) that it contains properly the class of continuous function spaces C(ω). Among G-spaces are the M-spaces treated by Kakutani as Banach lattices (3). I shall show further that neither class, square spaces or M-spaces (regarded now purely as Banach spaces), contains the other.

From results of Baker (2) it appeared to be unlikely that, in Hausdorff topological Abelian groups, completeness would be implied by Br- or B-completeness (for definitions, see below). We show here (Corollary 1) that the group of all complex roots of unity, though not complete, is B-complete. Another example, for the suggestion of which we are indebted to Dr J. W. Baker, is used to show (Corollary 2) that B-completeness is not a consequence of Br-completeness. It is proved, however, that B- and Br-complete Hausdorff topological Abelian groups are embedded in their completions in special ways in relation to the closed subgroups of the completions. Also, the completions of B- and Br-complete Hausdorff topological Abelian groups are shown to be, respectively, B- and Br-complete.

In a recent paper (1), I considered the summability method (D, α) defined, for α > 0, by the sequence-to-sequence transformation

We note that, as is easily verified (and as was pointed out in (1)) a necessary and sufficient condition for the convergence of (1), and thus for the applicability of (D, α), is that

should converge. It was proved in (1) that, provided that (2) converges, a sequence summable (C, r) for any r > − 1 is necessarily summable (D, α). We now show that we can strengthen this result by replacing Cesàro by Abel summability. Moreover, we can omit the hypothesis that (2) converges provided that we interpret (1) as an Abel sum.

Let X be a real Banach space which is partially ordered by a closed cone C. Let X* denote the Banach dual space, and let

X is called a simplex space (2) if (X*, C*,‖·‖) is an AL-space. We proved in (3) that X is a simplex space if and only if X is an approximate order-unit-normed space and has the Riesz decomposition property. When the given norm on X is an order-unit norm, some representation theorems are obtained by Effros ((2), theorem 4·8) and Sterrmer ((6), theorem 4·3). In this note, we shall study the representation problem for more general simplex spaces. One of our aims is to prove that X is equivalent to C0(ω) if and only if X has the Urysohn property (for definitions, see below).

We extend the index theory of Fredholm operators in Banach spaces to general operators in normed linear spaces. In so doing we make use of a doubling technique, which we also apply to obtain improved results for the perturbation of semigroups and sesquilinear forms.

The present paper is a sequel to a previous paper (1) in which I proved a conjecture made by R. M. Robinson concerning sums of three roots of unity. For any algebraic integer α, we denote by the maximum absolute value of α and all its algebraic conjugates. We say that α and β are equivalent if α = εβ′, where ε is some root of unity and β′ is some conjugate of β; when this happens we obviously have

Segal(1) in his paper ‘Summability by Dirichlet convolutions’ makes direct use (in the proofs of Theorems 4 and 6) of a result on the Dirichlet product of two series which may be stated as follows:

is (C, k)-summable to the sum α (k≥0) and is (C, l)-summable to the sum β, (l ≥ 0), then the Dirichlet product

is (C, k + l + 1)-summable to the sum αβ.’

Let p ≡ 1 (mod 3) or ≡ 1 (mod 5) be a rational prime and g a primitive root mod p. The non-zero residues g, g2,…,gp−1 (mod p) can then be divided into 3 or 5 classes , , , or , , , , respectively, by letting gν ∈ , , (respectively , , , , ) according as ν ≡ 0, 1, 2, (mod 3) (respectively 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 (mod 5)). Problems regarding the distribution of 1, 2, …, p − 1 amongst the 3 (respectively 5) classes are many. In this paper we consider the following problem in some detail (we shall state it here for the case p ≡ 1 (mod 3)). Let α, β, γ be typical members of , , respectively. Let the number of solutions of the congruences

be

Our principal result deals with a function φ defined on the ‘non-negative half’ X+ of a discrete ordered group X, the dual of a compact Abelian connected group G. Suppose φ vanishes outside a countable set S = {χ1, χ2 …} and has the following property: for every t in a set 0 ⊂ (0, 1) of positive Lebesgue measure, the function on X+ defined to be 0 off S and to be rn(t)φ(χn) for χ = χn, where rn is the nth Rademacher function, is the restriction to X+ of a Fourier–Stieltjes transform. We conclude that φ ∈ ℓ2(X+).

Widder(1) obtained an inversion of the convolution transform

by the method of the Laplace transform, Ln(x) being the Laguerre polynomial. Buschman (2) inverted a similar transform with a generalized Laguerre polynomial as kernel and also solved (3) the singular integral equation

using Mikusinski operators. Srivastava(4, 4a) solved singular integral equations with kernels involving and Whittaker functions Mk,μ(x).

Suppose that p > 1 and let Γ1, Γ2, …, Γp be Jordan arcs going from 0 to ∞ and having no other common point and numbered in anti-clockwise order around the origin. Let Γp+1 = Γ1 and let Dv be the domain bounded by Γv and Γv+1 for v = 1 to p.

The hypergeometric transformation formulae (6) and the one that follows on p. 766 in my paper (1) should be read as

and

respectively, where 2F1[a,b; c; z] denotes Gauss's hypergeometric function, and ((2), p. 211)

with, as usual,

the conditions of convergence for the double series being

In this note it is shown that the modified Bessel function of arbitrary order may be represented as the sum of two products where one product involves Airy's function and the other product involves the first-order derivative of Airy's function.

Let f(z) be regular and univalent in |z| < 1 with a power series expansion

Then it is proved in (2) that

where z1 and z2 are points in |z| < 1.

In this paper, it will be shown how it is possible, using Bernoulli polynomials of the first kind, to derive correction terms for any quadrature approximation in the form of a weighted sum over a finite interval. The terms derived will involve either the difference or the sum of derivatives taken at the ends of the range of integration, and they will be described as being of either Type A or Type B respectively. There will also be some discussion of the uses of such terms.

In 1935 Tartakowski (7) proved that, in general, a cubic form in sufficiently many variables with coefficients in an algebraic number field K has a non-trivial zero in that field; and in the case when K is the rational field 57 variables suffice. Here, ‘in general’ means that the coefficients of the form do not lie in a proper subvariety of the coefficient space. Hence, Tartakowski's result holds for almost all cubic forms. Later, Lewis (5) proved that if K is any algebraic number field such that [K: Q] = n, then there exists a function ψ(n) such that every cubic form over K in m ≥ ψ(n) variables has a non-trivial zero in K. His bound, ψ(n), is extremely large; e.g. when K is the rational field, ψ(1) > 500.

Introduction and summary: In the distribution of the sum of n random variables

for which we suppose , the tail probability will be called an extreme tail probability if the normal approximation

is poor, when is asymptotically normal and n is large. This paper concerns the specialization of (1.1) in which

with a random permutation of nλ ones and n − nλ zeros, that is, in which T is the total for a simple random sample from the population with sampling fraction λ. In this case, we will always write T as Tλ. For brevity, we may write {c1,…, cn} for .

In this paper, using a generalized hypergeometric polynomial defined by

where Δ(m, − n) denotes the set of m-parameters:

and m, n are positive integers, we have established some infinite series, transformations, integrals and expansion formulae for generalized hypergeometric polynomials. The polynomial is in a generalized form which yields many known polynomials with proper choice of parameters. Special cases have also been given.

In paper(1) it has been proved that

where the Jacobi polynomial is denned as ((3), p. 255)