The paper presents the existence result for positive solutions of the differential equation $(g(x))''=f(t,x,(g(x))')$ satisfying the nonlocal boundary conditions $x(0)=x(T)$, $\min\{ x(t): t \in J\}=0$. Here the positive function $f$ satisfies local Carathéodory conditions on $[0,T] \times (0,\infty) \times (\R {\setminus} \{0\})$ and $f$ may be singular at the value 0 of both its phase variables. Existence results are proved by Leray-Schauder degree theory and Vitali's convergence theorem.

For a commutative ring $R$ with an ideal $I$, generated by a finite regular sequence, we construct differential graded algebras which provide $R$-free resolutions of $I^s$ and of $R/I^s$ for $s \geq 1$ and which generalise the Koszul resolution. We derive these from a certain multiplicative double complex ${\mathbf K}$. By means of a Cartan–Eilenberg spectral sequence we express ${\rm Tor}_*^R(R/I, R/I^s)$ and ${\rm Tor}_*^R(R/I, I^s)$ in terms of exact sequences and find that they are free as $R/I$-modules. Except for $R/I$, their product structure turns out to be trivial; instead, we consider an exterior product ${\rm Tor}_*^R(R/I, I^s)\,{\otimes_R}\,{\rm Tor}_*^R(R/I, I^t)\,{\to}\,{\rm Tor}_*^R(R/I, I^{s+t})$. This paper is based on ideas by Andrew Baker; it is written in view of applications to algebraic topology.

Let $X$ be a smooth complex projective curve, $S^{b}X$ the b-symmetric product of $X$. Assume that $X$ has an automorphism h. Our aim is to compute the characteristic classes of the fixed point set of h in $S^{b}X$.

We present a classification of the nilpotent primitive subgroups of $\mathrm{GL}(n,q)$, up to conjugacy in $\mathrm{GL}(n,q)$. Groups in the classification are specified explicitly by generating sets of matrices, where each generating set has size at most 2. Additionally we give an algorithm designed to provide electronic access to the classification for any $n$ and $q$.

Let $G$ be a finite group; there exists a uniquely determined Dirichlet polynomial $P_G(s)$ such that if $t \in \mathbb N$, then $P_G(t)$ gives the probability of generating $G$ with $t$ randomly chosen elements. We show that if $P_G(s)=P_{\text{Alt}(n)}(s)$, then $G/\text{Frat}\, G\cong \text{Alt}(n).$

Let $\{x_i\}_{i=1}^{\infty}$ be an arbitrary strictly increasing infinite sequence of positive integers. For an integer $n\ge 1$, let $S_n=\{x_1,\ldots,x_n\}$. Let $\varepsilon$ be a real number and $q\ge 1$ a given integer. Let \smash{$\lambda _n^{(1)}\le \cdots\le \lambda _n^{(n)}$} be the eigenvalues of the power GCD matrix $((x_i, x_j)^{\varepsilon})$ having the power $(x_i,x_j)^{\varepsilon}$ of the greatest common divisor of $x_i$ and $x_j$ as its $i,j$-entry. We give a nontrivial lower bound depending on $x_1$ and $n$ for \smash{$\lambda _n^{(1)}$} if $\varepsilon>0$. Especially for $\varepsilon>1$, this lower bound is given by using the Riemann zeta function. Let $x\ge 1$ be an integer. For a sequence \smash{$\{x_i\}_{i=1}^{\infty }$} satisfying that $(x_i, x_j)=x$ for any $i\ne j$ and \smash{$\sum_{i=1}^{\infty }{1\over {x_i}}=\infty$}, we show that if $0<\varepsilon\le 1$, then \smash{${\rm lim}_{n\rightarrow \infty }\lambda _n^{(1)}=x_1^{\varepsilon}-x^{\varepsilon }$}. Let $a\ge 0, b\ge 1$ and $e\ge 0$ be any given integers. For the arithmetic progression \smash{$\{x_{i-e+1}=a+bi\}_{i=e}^{\infty}$}, we show that if $0<\varepsilon\le 1$, then \smash{${\rm lim}_{n\rightarrow \infty }\lambda _n^{(q)}=0$}. Finally, we show that for any sequence \smash{$\{x_i\}_{i=1}^{\infty}$} and any \smash{$\varepsilon>0$, $\lambda_n^{(n-q+1)}$} approaches infinity when $n$ goes to infinity.

We characterise the ternary rings of operators possessing a completely isometric representation whose range consists of normalisers or semi-normalisers between the ranges of some $^{*}$-representations of two fixed C$^{*}$-algebras. We give some corollaries of these results.

We characterize and classify the “regular classes of heaps” introduced by the author using ideas of Fan and of Stembridge. The irreducible objects fall into five infinite families with one exceptional case.

Let $m, n\in\Bbb N$, $V$ be a $2m$-dimensional complex vector space. The irreducible representations of the Brauer's centralizer algebra $B_n(-2m)$ appearing in $V^{\otimes{n}}$ are in 1–1 correspondence to the set of pairs $(\,f,\lamda)$, where $f\in\Z$ with $0\leq f\leq [n/2]$, $and$ $\lam\vdash n-2f$ satisfying $\lam_1\leq m$. In this paper, we first show that each of these representations has a basis consists of eigenvectors for the subalgebra of $B_n(-2m)$ generated by all the Jucys-Murphy operators, and we determine the corresponding eigenvalues. Then we identify these representations with the irreducible representations constructed from a cellular basis of $B_n(-2m)$. Finally, an explicit description of the action of each generator of $B_n(-2m)$ on such a basis is also given, which generalizes earlier work of [15] for Brauer's centralizer algebra $B_n(m)$.

In this paper, we prove some Hardy-type inequalities for the degenerate operators, $L_{p,\alpha}u\,{=}\,{\rm div}_L(|\nabla_Lu|^{p-2}\nabla_Lu)$, where $\nabla_Lu\,{=}\,(\frac{\partial u}{\partial z_1},\ldots,\frac{\partial u}{\partial z_n},|z|^\alpha \frac{\partial u}{\partial t_1},\ldots,|z|^\alpha\frac{\partial u}{\partial t_m})$. These inequalities are established for the whole space, the pseudo-ball and the external domain of the pseudo-ball. We also give a generalization of a result in [8]. Finally, a sharp inequality for $L_{\alpha}\,{=}\,L_{2,\alpha}$ is obtained.

Several properties of some quadratic elements of a unitial Banach algebra are studied. Deddens subspaces are also introduced and discussed.

Face 2-colourable triangulations of complete tripartite graphs $K_{n,n,n}$ correspond to biembeddings of Latin squares. Up to isomorphism, we give all such embeddings for $n=3,4,5$ and 6, and we summarize the corresponding results for $n=7$. Closely related to these are Hamiltonian decompositions of complete bipartite directed graphs $K^*_{n,n}$, and we also give computational results for these in the cases $n=3,4,5$ and 6.