The spherical functions of triangle buildings can be described in terms of certain two-dimensional orthogonal polynomials on Steiner's hypocycloid which are closely related to Hall-Littlewood polynomials. They lead to a one-parameter family of two-dimensional polynimial hypergroups. In this paper we investigate isotropic random walks on the vertex sets of triangle buildings in terms of their projections to these hypergroups. We present strong laws of large numbers, a central limit theorem, and a local limit theorem; all these results are well-known for homogeneous trees. Proofs are based on moment functions on hypergroups and on explicit expansions of the hypergroup characters in terms of certain two-dimensional Tchebychev polynimials.

Finite graphs of valency 4 and girth 4 admitting ½-transitive group actions, that is, vertex- and edge- but not arc-transitive group actions, are investigated. A graph is said to be ½-transitive if its automorphism group acts ½-transitively. There is a natural orientation of the edge set of a ½-transitive graph induced and preserved by its automorphism group. It is proved that in a finite ½-transitive graph of valency 4 and girth 4 the set of 4-cycles decomposes the edge set in such a way that either every 4-cycle is alternating or every 4-cycle is directed relative to this orientation. In the latter case vertex stabilizers are isomorphic to Z2.

In this paper we present a new proof of the equivalence of the analytic and the geometric characterization of the class of functions convex in the negative or positive direction of the imaginary axis.

A notion of entropy for the non-singular action of finite co-ordinate changes on is introduced. This quantity-average co-ordinate or AC entropy-is calculated for product measures and G-measures. It is shown that the type III classes can be subdivided using AC entropy. An equivalence relation is established for which AC entropy is an invariant.

This paper is a contiunation of the study of the rings for which every principal right ideal (respectively, every right ideal) is a direct summand of a right annihilator initiated by Stanley S. Page and the author in [20, 21].

This paper proposes matrix variate generalization of Kummer-Beta family of distributions which has been studied recently by Ng and Kotz. This distribution is an extension of Beta distribution. Its characteristic function has been derived and it is shown that the distribution is orthogonally invariant. Some results on distribution of random quadratic forms have also been derived.

In this note we examine the relationships between a subnormal shift, the measure its moment sequence generates, and those of a large family of weighted shifts associated with the original shift. We examine the effects on subnormality of adding a new weight or changing a weight. We also obtain formulas for evaluating point mass at the origin for the measure associated with the shift. In addition, we examine the relationship between the measure associated with a subnormal shift and those of a family of shifts substantially different from the original shift.

We characterise the strongly dualisable three-element unary algebras and show that every fully dualisable three-element unary algebra is strongly dualisable. It follows from the characterisation that, for dualisable three-element unary algebras, strong dualisability is equivalent to a weak form of injectivity.

We define equivariant completion of a G-complex and define residually finite G-spaces. We show that the group of G-homotopy classes of G-homotopy self equivalences of a finite, residually finite G-complex, in residually finite. This generalizes some results of Roitberg.

The Hopf bifurcation and homoclinic bifurcation of the quintic Hamiltonian system is analyzed under quintic perturbations by using unfolding theory in this paper. We show that a quintic system can have at least 29 limit cycles.

We describe a generalization of the classical Julia-Wolff-Carathéodory theorem to a large class of bounded convex domains of finite type, including convex circular domains and convex domains with real analytic boundary. The main tools used in the proofs are several explicit estimates on the boundary behaviour of Kobayashi distance and metric, and a new Lindelöf principle.

The first purpose of this paper is to give a tensor product formula of the characteristic invariant and modular invariant for a tensor product action of a discrete group G on AFD factors. The second purpose is to describe a characteristic invariant and modular invariant of the extended action to a crossed product in terms of the original invariants.

Davey and Quackenbush proved a strong duality for each dihedral group Dm with m odd. In this paper we extend this to a strong duality for each finite group with cyclic Sylow subgroups (such groups are known to be metacyclic).

For each positive integer n let N2, n denote the variety of all groups which are nilpotent of class at most 2 and which have exponent dividing n. For positive integers m and n, let N2, mN2, n denote the variety of all groups which have a normal subgroup in N2, m with factor group in N2, n. It is shown that if G ∈N2, mN2, n, where m and n are coprime, then G has a finite basis for its identities.

We study the Schur and (weak) Dunford-Pettis properties in Banach lattices. We show that l1, c0 and l∞ are the only Banach symmetric sequence spaces with the weak Dunford-Pettis property. We also characterize a large class of Banach lattices without the (weak) Dunford-Pettis property. In MusielakOrlicz sequence spaces we give some necessary and sufficient conditions for the Schur property, extending the Yamamuro result. We also present a number of results on the Schur property in weighted Orlicz sequence spaces, and, in particular, we find a complete characterization of this property for weights belonging to class ∧. We also present examples of weighted Orlicz spaces with the Schur property which are not L1-spaces. Finally, as an application of the results in sequence spaces, we provide a description of the weak Dunford-Pettis and the positive Schur properties in Orlicz spaces over an infinite non-atomic measure space.

Suppose that V is a finite dimensional vector space over a finite field of characteristic 2, G is the symplectic group on V and a is a non-zero vector of V. Here we classify irreducible subgroups of G containing a certain subgroup of O2(StabG(a)) all of whose non-trivial elements are 2-transvections.

We construct the Weil representation of the Kantor-Koecher-Tits Lie algebra g associated to a simple real Jordan algebra V. Later we introduce a family of integral operators intertwining the Weil representation with the infinitesimal representations of the degenerate principal series of the conformal group G of the Jordan algebra V. The decomposition of L2(V) in the case of Jordan algebra of real square matrices is given using this construction.

Let and denote respectively the variety of groups of exponent dividing e, the variety of nilpotent groups of class at most c, the class of nilpotent groups and the class of finite groups. It follows from a result due to Kargapolov and Čurkin and independently to Groves that in a variety not containing all metabelian groups, each polycyclic group G belongs to . We show that G is in fact in , where c is an integer depending only on the variety. On the other hand, it is not always possible to find an integer e (depending only on the variety) such that G belongs to but we characterize the varieties in which that is possible. In this case, there exists a function f such that, if G is d-generated, then G ∈ So, when e = 1, we obtain an extension of Zel'manov's result about the restricted Burnside problem (as one might expect, this result is used in our proof). Finally, we show that the class of locally nilpotent groups of a variety forms a variety if and only if for some integers c′, e′.

In this paper we prove that if a Cantor set has ratios of dissection bounded away from zero, then there is a natural number N, such that its N-fold sum is an interval. Moreover, for each element z of this interval, we explicitly construct the N elements of C whose sum yields z. We also extend a result of Mendes and Oliveria showing that when s is irrational is an interval if and only if a /(1−2a) as/(1−2as) ≥ 1.