In the general theory of locally convex spaces, the idea of inductive limit is pervasive, with quotient spaces and the less obvious notion of direct sum being among the instances. Bornological spaces provide another important example. As is well known (cf. [7]), a Hausdorff locally convex space E is bornological if, and only if, E is an inductive limit of normed vector spaces. Going even further in this direction, a complete Hausdorff bornological space is an inductive limit of Banach spaces.

In this paper we characterize those locally convex lattices which can be represented as dense sublatices containing 1 in a space C(X) and whose topologies can be recognized as topologies of uniform convergence on selections of compact subsets of X. Here C(X) is the lattice of continuous real-valued functions on a completely regular space X. The class of such locally convex lattices includes the classical order unit spaces investigated by Kakutani [3], arbitrary products of order unit spaces, for example ∏ L∞ and the order partition spaces studied in [1].

A Banach space operator has property (δ) if and only if it is the quotient of a decomposable operator, equivalently, if and only if its adjoint has Bishop's property (β). Within this class of operators, it is shown that quasisimilarity preserves essential spectra.

Let H be a complex Hilbert space. For any operator (bounded linear transformation) T on H, we denote the spectrum of T by σ(T). Let T = (T1, …, Tn) be an n-tuple of commuting operators on H. Let Sp(T) be the Taylor joint spectrum of T. We refer the reader to [8] for the definition of Sp(T). A point v = (v1, …, vn) of ℂn is in the joint approximate point spectrum σπ(T) of T if there exists a sequence {xk} of unit vectors in H such that

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A point v = (v1, …, vn) of ℂn is in the joint approximate compression spectrum σs(T) of T if there exists a sequence {xk} of unit vectors in H such that

A point v=(v1, …, vn) of ℂn is in the joint point spectrum σp(T) of T if there exists a non-zero vector x in H such that (Ti-vi)x = 0 for all i, 1 ≤ j ≤ n.

In a recent paper [6], this author has extended the method of the kernel function [1] to the boundary value problems of the generalized axially symmetric potentials

This method can also be applied to a more general class of singular differential equations, namely

or, equivalently,

We shall derive in the sequel explicit formulas for the Dirichlet problems of (1.1) in the first quadrant of the x-y plane in terms of sufficiently smooth boundary data, and obtain an error-bound for their approximate solutions. We shall also indicate how the Neumann problem can be solved.

Let H be a separable, infinite dimensional complex Hilbert space, and let B(H) denote the algebra of all bounded linear operators on H. Let K(H) denote the ideal of compact operators on H. For any compact operator A let |A|=(A*A)1,2 and S1(A), s2(A),… be the eigenvalues of |A| in decreasing order and repeatedaccording to multiplicity. If, for some 1<p<∞, si(A)p <∞, we say that A is in the Schatten p-class Cp and ∥A∥p=1/p is the p-norm of A. Hence, C1 is the trace class, C2 is the Hilbert–Schmidt class, and C∞ is the ideal of compact operators K(H).

The present note deals with bounded endomorphisms of free p-algebras (pseudocomplemented lattices). The idea of bounded homomorphisms was introduced by R. McKenzie in [8]. T. Katriňák [5] subsequently studied the properties of bounded homomorphisms for the varieties of p-algebras. This concept is also an efficient tool for the characterization of, so-called, splitting as well as projective algebras in the varieties of all lattices or p-algebras. For details the reader is referred to [2], [5], [6], [7] and other references therein. Let us emphasize that the main results that are contained in the above mentioned references strongly depend on the boundedness of each endomorphism of any finitely generated free algebra in a given variety.

An arbitrary point of the Euclidean space Rn+1, where n > 1, is denoted by (X, y), where X ∈ Rn and y ∈ R, and we denote the Euclidean norm on Rn by ∥·∥. If h is harmonic on the half-space Ω = {(X, y): y > 0}, then we define extended real-valued functions m and M as follows:

and

In teaching the elements of transform theory to students of physics and engineering it is very useful to have available, as early as possible, the inversion theorem for the Hankel transform

The difficulty is that a valid proof for general values of v (cf. [1], p. 456) is complicated and involves a greater familiarity with the processes of analysis and the properties of Bessel functions than is possessed by most science students.

Suppose throughout that λ > 0, κ > - l. γ is real and that

The series is said to be

(i) summable (C, k) to s if

(ii) strongly summable (C, k + 1) with index λ, or summable |C, k + 1|λ, to s if

(iii) absolutely summable (C, k) with indices γ, λ, or summable |C, k + 1|λ, if

Throughout this note all rings considered will be commutative and noetherian and will have non-zero identity elements. A will always denote such a ring and the category of all A-modules and all A-homomorphisms will be denoted by .

In an important recent paper [4], G. A. Elliott has given a necessary and sufficient condition for every derivation on a separable C*-algebra with identity to be inner. Indeed, Elliott's condition has since been shown, by Akemann and Pedersen, to be equivalent to the C*-algebra being a finite direct sum of C*-algebras which are either homogeneous of finite degree or simple [8, Corollary 3.10].

The formula

where αp+1 = 1/2(m + n), αp+2 = 1/2(m-n), R(m±n)>0 and x is real and positive, was given by MacRobert (Phil. Mag., Ser. 7, XXXI, p. 258). From it the formula (6) below will be deduced.

We give a complete description of the Brown–McCoy radical of a semigroup ring R[S], where R is an arbitrary associative ring and S is a commutative cancellative semigroup; in particular we obtain the answer to a question of E. Puczyłowski stated in [11]

Throughout this note all rings R are associative with unity 1; all semigroups S are commutative and cancellative with unity. Note that the condition that R and S have a unity can be dropped (cf. [8]). The quotient group of S is denoted by Q(S). We say that S is torsion free (resp. has torsion free rank n) if Q(S) is torsion free (resp. has torsion free rank n). The Brown–McCoy radical (i.e. the upper radical determined by the class of all simple rings with unity) of a ring R is denoted by u(R). We refer to [2] for further detail on radicals and in particular on the Brown–McCoy radical.

First we state some well-known results and a preliminary lemma. Let R and T be rings with the same unity such that R ⊂ T. Then T is said to be a normalizing extension of R if T = Rx1+…+Rxn for certain elements x1, …, xn of T and Rxi = xiR for all i such that 1 ∨i∨n. If all xi are central in T, then we say that T is a central normalizing extension of R.

We make the convention that if a is an element of a semigroup Q then by writing a–1 it is implicit that a lies in a subgroup of Q and has inverse a–1 in this subgroup; equivalently, a ℋ a2 and a–1 is the inverse of a in Ha.

A subsemigroup S of a semigroup Q is a left order in Q and Q is a semigroup of left quotients of S if every element of Q can be written as a–1b where a, b ∈ S and, in addition, every element of S satisfying a weak cancellation condition which we call square-cancellable lies in a subgroup of Q. The notions of right order and semigroup of right quotients are defined dually; if S is both a left order and a right order in Q then S is an order in Q and Q is a semigroup of quotients of S.

The notation in this paper will be standard and it may be found in [3], for example. In particular, the notation A ⊂′ B stands for the statement “A is an essential submodule of B”. As is customary, we say that a ring R is a Goldie ring when R is both left and right Goldie. Similarly, a ring is noetherian if and only if it is both right and left noetherian, etc.

The α-regular classes of any finite group G are important since they are those classes on which the projective characters of G with factor set α take non-zero value, and thus a knowledge of the α-regular classes gives the number of irreducible projective representations of G with factor set α (see [4]). Here we look at the particular case of the generalized symmetric group Cm wr Sl. The analogous problem of constructing the irreducible projective representations of Cm wr Sl has been dealt with in [6] by generalizing Clifford's theory of inducing from normal subgroups, but unfortunately, it is not in general possible to determine the irreducible projective characters (and hence the α-regular classes) by this method.

If A and B are torsion-free groups, and W is a cyclically reduced word of even length in A*B, it is generally conjectured that a Freiheitssatz holds, namely that each of A and B are embedded via the natural map into the one-relator product group G = (A*B)/N(W), where N denotes normal closure. If W has length 2, then G is a free product of A and B with infinite cyclic amalgamation, and the result is obvious. The purpose of this note is to prove the Freiheitssatz in some special cases.

Many authors have proved results deducing an asymptotic expansion of

for large from the behaviour of f(t), when f(t) is regular in an appropriate part of the complex t-plane. For example, if, for some k > 0 and some Am, αm

for all large such that R(t) > C, then, as ⃗ ∞ in a suitable sector in the z-plane, we have

where Z is an appropriate value of z1/z.