A module M is said to be wealdy-injective if and only if for every finitely generated submodule N of the injective hull E(M) of M there exists a submodule X of E(M), isomorphic to M such that N ⊂ X. In this paper we investigate weakly-injective modules over bounded hereditary noetherian prime rings. In particular we show that torsion-free modules over bounded hnp rings are always wealdy-injective, while torsion modules with finite Goldie dimension are weakly-injective only if they are injective.

As an application, we show that weakly-injective modules over bounded Dedekind prime rings have a decomposition as a direct sum of an injective module B, and a module C satisfying that if a simple module S is embeddable in C then the (external) direct sum of all proper submodules of the injective hull of S is also embeddable in C. Indeed, we show that over a bounded hereditary noetherian prime ring every uniform module has periodicity one if and only if every weakly-injective module has such a decomposition.

In the paper we study the asymptotic behaviour of the number of trees with n vertices and diameter k = k(n), where k/√n → ∞ as n → ∞ but k = o(n).

We study polynomials over an integral domain R which, for infinitely many prime ideals P, induce a permutation of R/P. In many cases, every polynomial with this property must be a composition of Dickson polynomials and of linear polynomials with coefficients in the quotient field of R. In order to find out which of these compositions have the required property we investigate some number theoretic aspects of composition of polynomials. The paper includes a rather elementary proof of ‘Schur's Conjecture’ and contains a quantitative version for polynomials of prime degree.

This article studies particular sequences satisfying polynomial recurrences, among those Apéry's sequence which is shown to be the Legendre transform of the sequence. This results in the construction of simultaneous approximations of π 2/8 and ζ(3).

Certain omissions in the recently introduced dual for fractional minimax programming problem ‘minimize max y ∈ Y f(x, y) / h(x, y), subject to g(x) ≤ 0’, are indicated and two modified duals for this problem are presented. Various fractional programming and generalized fractional programming duals are shown to be special cases of this study.

A well-known result of Zygmund states that if f ∈ L (log+L) ½ on the circle group T and E is a Hadamard set of integers, then . In this paper we investigate similar results for the classes on an arbitrary infinite compact abelian group G and Sidon subsets E of the dual Γ. These results are obtained as special cases of more general results concerning a new class of lacunary sets Sαβ, 0 < α ≤ β, where a subset E of Γ is an Sα β set if . We also prove partial results on the distinctness of the Sαβ sets in the index β.

In this paper, two gradient properties of explicit convex functions are given.

D. Przeworska-Rolewicz developed an algebra-based theory around linear, not necessarily continuous, operators D: X → X which admit a right inverse, the elementary example being D = d/dt or, more generally, where ai are constants. We give conditions for the right invertibility of D in the case where ai are functions, or more generally, where D is the Lie or convariant derivative associated with a vector field on a (Banach) manifold M.