Sharp results for the cofficient estimates, distortion theorems, radius of convexity, arc-length and area of the image curve are obtained for the class R(A, B) of regular functions whose derivative is subordinate to (1+AZ)/(1+Bz), -1 ≤ B ≤ A ≤ 1, in the unit disc E = {z:|z| < 1}. We also establish a convolution theorem for this class.

Let X1, X2, …, Xn be identically distributed independent random variables belonging to the domain of attraction of the normal law, have zero means and Pr{Xr ≠ 0} > 0. Suppose a0, a1, …, an are non-zero real numbers and max and εn is such that as n → ∞, εn. If Nn be the number of real roots of the equation then for n > n0, Nn > εn log n outside an exceptional set of measure at most provided limn→∞ (kn/tn) is finite.

We examine the concepts of nowhere simplicity in a wide class of abstract dependence systems. Initially we examine how many of the existing results valid for L(ω), the lattice of r.e. sets, have analogues valid for more general lattices. For example, we show that any r. e. subspace of V∞ can be decomposed into a pair of nowhere simple subspaces.

A regular double p-algebra L satisfying (i) ∩(xn(+*); n < ω) for every 1 ≠ x ∈ L and (ii) L is not subdirectly irreducible, is constructed. The construction is purely topological and the desired result is obtained via the known Priestly duality. The notion of an auxiliary regular double p-algebra is introduced and the algebras having this property are characterized.

This is the first of three papers (the others by the first author alone) which determine all varieties of nilpotent groups of class (at most) four. The initial step is to reduce the problem to two cases: varieties whose free groups have no elements of order 2, and varieties whose free groups have no nontrivial elements of odd order. The varieties of the first kind form a distributive lattice with respect to order by inclusion (which is not a sublattice in the lattice of all group varieties). We give an embedding of this lattice in the direct product of six copies of the lattice which consist of 0 (as largest element) and the odd positive integers ordered by divisibility. The six integer parameters so associated with a variety directly match a (finite) defining set of laws for the variety. We also show that the varieties of the second kind do form a sublattice in the lattice of all varieties. That (nondistributive) sublattice will be treated, in a similarly conclusive manner, in the subsequent papers of this series.

The first paper (written jointly with L. G. Kovács) of this three-part series reduced the problem of determining all varieties of the title to the study of the varieties of nilpotent groups of class (at most) four whose free groups have no nontrivial elements of odd order. The present paper deals with these under the additional assumption that the variety contains all nilpotent groups of class three. We label each such variety by a vector of eleven parameters, each parameter a nonnegative integer or ∞, subject to numerous but simple conditions. Each vector satisfying these conditions is in fact used, and matches directly a (finite) defining set of laws for the variety it labels. Moreover, one can readily recognize from the parameters whether one variety is contained in another. The third paper will complete the determination of all varieties of nilpotent groups of class four.

In this paper we complete the investigation of those varieties of nilpotent groups of class (at most) four whose free groups have no nontrivial elements of odd order. Each such variety is labelled by a vector of sixteen parameters, each parameter a nonnegative integer or ∞, subject to numerous but simple conditions. Each vector satisfying these conditions is in fact used and directly yields a defining set of laws for the variety it labels. Moreover, one can easily recognise from the parameters whether one variety is contained in another. In view of the reduction carried out in the first paper of this series (written jointly with L. G. Kovács) this completes the determination of all varieties of nilpotent groups of class four.

Let G denote any locally compact abelian group with the dual group Γ. We construct a new kind of subalgebra L1(G) ⊗ΓS of L1(G) from given Banach ideal S of L1(G). We show that L1(G) ⊗гS is the larger amoung all strongly character invariant homogeneous Banach algebras in S. when S contains a strongly character invariant Segal algebra on G, it is show that L1(G) ⊗гS is also the largest among all strongly character invariant Segal algebras in S. We give applications to characterizations of two kinds of subalgebras of L1(G)-strongly character invariant Segal algebras on G and Banach ideal in L1(G) which contain a strongly character invariant Segal algebra on G.

The main goal of this paper is to describe radical classes closed under essential extensions. It turns out that such classes are precisely the homomorphically closed semisimple classes, and hence a radical class is essentially closed if and only if it is subdirectly closed. Moreover, a class is closed under homomorphic images, direct sums and essential extensions if and only if it is an essentially closed radical class. Also radical classes are investigated which are closed under Dorroh essentially extensions only, such a radical class R consists of idempotent rings provided that R does not contain the ring of integers, meanwhile all the other radicals satisfy this requirement. A description of (hereditary and) Dorroh essentially closed radicals is given in Theorem 4.