We give the residue class, modulo a certain power of p, for the dimension of a primitive interior G-algebra in terms of the dimension of the source algebra. To illustrate, we improve a theorem of Brauer on the dimension of a block algebra.

Let G be a group and let H be a subgroup of G. The automizer AutG(H) of H in G is defined as the group of automorphisms of H induced by conjugation of elements of NG(H). Thus AutG(H)≅NG(H)/CG(H), and we obviously have $$\tfrm{In(}H\tfrm{)≤Aut}_{G}\tfrm{(}H\tfrm{)≤Aut(}H\tfrm{).}$$ We call AutG(H) large if AutG(H)=Aut(H) and small if AutG(H)=In(H).

We present an algorithm for computing the Green function of the weighted biharmonic operator Δ|P′|−2Δ on the unit disc (with Dirichlet boundary conditions) for rational functions P. As an application, we show that if P is a Blaschke product with two zeros α1, α2 the Green function is positive if and only if |(α1−α2)/(1−{\bar α}1α2)|≤{2 \over 7}{\sqrt 10}, and also obtain an explicit formula for the Green function of the operator Δ|G|−2Δ, where G is the canonical zero-divisor of a finite zero set on the Bergman space.

We prove that the conditions R·R=0 and R·S=0 are equivalent for hypersurfaces of a 5-dimensional semi-Riemannian space form N5(c). This solves a problem by P.J. Ryan in the case of hypersurfaces of dimension 4 in semi-Riemannian space forms.

Let A={a1,…,an,a1−1,…,an−1} and iteration of A denoted by A[starf ] to be the set of words in A (including the empty word). Let S⊆A[starf ]; then the growth function of the set S is the function Γ(l)=number of words in S of length l. For m≤n let $\vec {a}$=(ai1,…,aim), where ik∈{1,…,n} are different; then the relative growth function with respect to $\vec {a}$ is the function Γ$\vec {a}$(l,l1,…,lm)=number of words in S of length l+l1+…+lm having (for each k) lk total occurrences of aik and aik−1.

The notion of quadratic congruences was introduced in the recently published paper [A. Balog, H. Darmon and K. Ono, Congruences for Fourier coefficients of half-integral weight modular forms and special values of L-functions, in Analytic Number Theory, Vol. 1, Progr. Math.138 (Birkhäuser, Boston, 1996), 105–128.]. In this note we present different, somewhat more conceptual proofs of several results from that paper. Our method allows us to refine the notion and to generalize the results quoted. Here we deal only with the quadratic congruences for Cohen–Eisenstein series. Similar phenomena exist for cusp forms of half-integral weight as well; however, as one would expect, in the case of Eisenstein series the argument is much simpler. In particular, we do not make use of techniques other than p-adic Mazur measure, whereas the consideration of cusp forms of half-integral weight involves a much more sophisticated construction. Moreover, in the case of Cohen–Eisenstein series we are able to obtain a full and exhaustive result. For these reasons we present the argument here.

Let S be an (ideal) extension of a completely 0-simple semigroup S0 by a completely 0-simple semigroup S1. Congruences on S can be uniquely represented in terms of congruences on S0 and S1. In this representation, for a congruence ρ on S, we express ρK,ρT,ρK and ρT, where these denote the least (greatest) congruences with the same kernel (trace) as ρ. Let κ be the least completely 0-simple congruence on S. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions, in terms of the kernel of κ, in order that the relation K be a congruence, and also that [Cscr](S)/K be a modular lattice, where [Cscr](S) denotes the congruence lattice of S.

An example of a non-topologizable algebra was given in [2]. In [4] Żelazko gave a simple proof of the fact that, if X is an infinite-dimensional vector space, then the algebra of all finite-rank linear operators on X is not topologizableas a topological algebra. In the following we use a similar idea to prove that, if E is a Fréchet space which is not normable, then each subalgebra A of the algebra of all bounded linear operators on E such that A contains the ideal of continuous, finite-rank operators, is non-topologizable as a topological algebra. This is a shorter proof and more general version of the result of [1].

Let πc(x) be the number of the integers n≤x such that [nc] is prime. We shall prove that $$π_{c}\tfrm{(}x\tfrm{)&2_Gt;}{x\over \log x}$$ for 1<c<45/38. This improves the former range 1<c<13/11.

A subgroup M of an infinite group G is said to be nearly maximal if it is a maximal element of the set of all subgroups of G having infinite index; i.e. if the index |G:M| is infinite but every subgroup of G properly containing M has finite index in G. The near Frattini subgroup ψ(G) of an infinite group G can now be defined as the intersection of all nearly maximal subgroups ofG, with the stipulation that ψ(G)=G if G has no nearly maximal subgroups. These concepts have been introduced by Riles [5]. It was later proved by Lennox and Robinson [4] that a finitely generated soluble-by-finite group G is infinite-by-nilpotent if and only if all its nearly maximal subgroups are normal. It follows that in the class of finitely generated soluble-by-finite groups the property of being finite-by-nilpotent is inherited from the near Frattini factor group G/ψ(G) to the group G itself. In the study of ordinary Frattini properties of infinite groups, some analogies exist between the behaviour of finitely generated soluble groups and soluble minimax residually finite groups (see for instance [6] and [7]). This fact could suggest that a result corresponding to that of Lennox and Robinson also holds for soluble residually finite minimax groups. Unfortunately in this case the property of being finite-by-nilpotent cannot be detected from the behaviour of nearly maximal subgroups, this phenomenon depending on the fact that infinite soluble residually finite minimax groups may be poor of such subgroups.

Using the Hilbert Uniqueness Method, we study the problem of exact controllability in Neumann boundary conditions for problems of transmission of the wave equation. We prove that this system is exactly controllable for all initial states in L2(Ω)×(H1(Ω))′.

For any permutation σ on N = {1,2,…,n}: (i) Green’s relations are characterized in the centralizer C(σ) of σ (relative to the semigroup PTn of partial transformations on N); and (ii) a criterion is given for C(σ) to be a regular semigroup (inverse semigroup, union of groups).