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We proved in an earlier work that any existence variety of regular algebras is generated by its simple unital Artinian members, while any existence variety of Arguesian sectionally complemented lattices is generated by its simple members of finite length. A characterization of the class of simple unital Artinian members [members of finite length, respectively] of such varieties is given in the present paper.

New results on tight connections among pronormal, abnormal and contranormal subgroups of a group have been established. In particular, new characteristics of pronormal and abnormal subgroups have been obtained.

This article examines the realizability of groups of order 64 as Galois groups over arbitrary fields. Specifically, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the realizability of 134 of the 200 noncyclic groups of order 64 that are not direct products of smaller groups.

A complex square matrix A is called an orthogonal projector if A 2 = A = A*, where A* denotes the conjugate transpose of A. In this paper, we give a comprehensive investigation to matrix expressions consisting of orthogonal projectors and their properties through ranks of matrices. We first collect some well-known rank formulas for orthogonal projectors and their operations, and then establish various new rank formulas for matrix expressions composed by orthogonal projectors. As applications, we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for various equalities for orthogonal projectors and their operations to hold.

We study strictly G-convex renormings and extensions of strictly G-convex norms on Banach spaces. We prove that ℓω(Γ) space cannot be strictly G-convex renormed given Γ is uncountable and G is bounded and separable.

Let A and B be Banach function algebras on compact Hausdorff spaces X and Y and let ‖.‖X and ‖.‖Y denote the supremum norms on X and Y, respectively. We first establish a result concerning a surjective map T between particular subsets of the uniform closures of A and B, preserving multiplicatively the norm, i.e. ‖Tf Tg‖Y = ‖fg‖X, for certain elements f and g in the domain. Then we show that if α ∈ ℂ {0} and T: A → B is a surjective, not necessarily linear, map satisfying ‖fg + α‖X = ‖Tf Tg + α‖Y, f,g ∈ A, then T is injective and there exist a homeomorphism φ: c(B) → c(A) between the Choquet boundaries of B and A, an invertible element η ∈ B with η(Y) ⊆ {1, −1} and a clopen subset K of c(B) such that for each f ∈ A, $$ Tf\left( y \right) = \left\{ \begin{gathered} \eta \left( y \right)f\left( {\phi \left( y \right)} \right) y \in K, \hfill \\ - \frac{\alpha } {{\left| \alpha \right|}}\eta \left( y \right)\overline {f\left( {\phi \left( y \right)} \right)} y \in c\left( B \right)\backslash K \hfill \\ \end{gathered} \right. $$. In particular, if T satisfies the stronger condition R π(fg + α) = R π(Tf Tg + α), where R π(.) denotes the peripheral range of algebra elements, then Tf(y) = T1(y)f(φ(y)), y ∈ c(B), for some homeomorphism φ: c(B) → c(A). At the end of the paper, we consider the case where X and Y are locally compact Hausdorff spaces and show that if A and B are Banach function algebras on X and Y, respectively, then every surjective map T: A → B satisfying ‖Tf Tg‖Y = ‖fg‖, f, g ∈ A, induces a homeomorphism between quotient spaces of particular subsets of X and Y by some equivalence relations.

Korovkin-type approximation theory usually deals with convergence analysis for sequences of positive operators. In this work we present qualitative Korovkin-type convergence results for a class of sequences of non-positive operators, more precisely regular operators with vanishing negative parts under a limiting process. Sequences of that type are called sequences of almost positive linear operators and have not been studied before in the context of Korovkin-type approximation theory. As an example we show that operators related to the multivariate scattered data interpolation technique moving least squares interpolation originally due to Lancaster and Šalkauskas [Surfaces generated by moving least squares methods, Math. Comp., 1981, 37, 141–158] give rise to such sequences. This work also generalizes Korovkin-type results regarding Shepard interpolation [Korovkin-type convergence results for multivariate Shepard formulae, Rev. Anal. Numér. Théor. Approx., 2009, 38, 170–176] due to the author. Moreover, this work establishes connections and differences between the concepts of sequences of almost positive linear operators and sequences of quasi-positive or convexity-monotone linear operators introduced and studied by Campiti in [Convexity-monotone operators in Korovkin theory, Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo (2) Suppl., 1993, 33, 229–238].

Let C 0r [0; t] denote the analogue of the r-dimensional Wiener space, define X t: C r[0; t] → ℝ2r by X t (x) = (x(0); x(t)). In this paper, we introduce a simple formula for the conditional expectations with the conditioning function X t. Using this formula, we evaluate the conditional analytic Feynman integral for the functional $$ \Gamma _t \left( x \right) = exp \left\{ {\int_0^t {\theta \left( {s,x\left( s \right)} \right)d\eta \left( s \right)} } \right\}\varphi \left( {x\left( t \right)} \right) x \in C^r \left[ {0,t} \right] $$, where η is a complex Borel measure on [0, t], and θ(s, ·) and φ are the Fourier-Stieltjes transforms of the complex Borel measures on ℝr. We then introduce an integral transform as an analytic operator-valued Feynman integral over C r [0, t], and evaluate the integral transform for the function Γt via the conditional analytic Feynman integral as a kernel.

We prove that density preserving homeomorphisms form a Π11-complete subset in the Polish space ℍ of all increasing autohomeomorphisms of unit interval.

We present integral versions of some recently proved results which improve the Jensen-Steffensen and related inequalities for superquadratic functions. For superquadratic functions which are not convex we get inequalities analogous to the integral Jensen-Steffensen inequality for convex functions. Therefore, we get refinements of all the results which use only the convexity of these functions. One of the inequalities that we obtain for a superquadratic function φ is $$ \bar y \geqslant \phi \left( {\bar x} \right) + \frac{1} {{\lambda \left( \beta \right) - \lambda \left( \alpha \right)}}\int_\alpha ^\beta {\phi \left( {\left| {f\left( t \right) - \bar x} \right|} \right)d\lambda \left( t \right)} $$, where $$ \bar x = \frac{1} {{\lambda \left( \beta \right) - \lambda \left( \alpha \right)}}\int_\alpha ^\beta {f\left( t \right)d\lambda \left( t \right)} $$ and $$ \bar y = \frac{1} {{\lambda \left( \beta \right) - \lambda \left( \alpha \right)}}\int_\alpha ^\beta {\phi \left( {f\left( t \right)} \right)d\lambda \left( t \right)} $$ which under suitable conditions like those satisfied by functions of power equal or more than 2, is a refinement of the Jensen-Steffensen-Boas inequality. We also prove related results of Mercer’s type.

We give a new upper bound for the smallest eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on a Riemannian flow carrying transversal Killing spinors. We derive an estimate on both Sasakian and 3-dimensional manifolds, and partially classify those satisfying the limiting case. Finally, we compare our estimate with a lower bound in terms of a natural tensor depending on the eigenspinor.

We study positive linear Volterra integro-differential equations in Banach lattices. A characterization of positive equations is given. Furthermore, an explicit spectral criterion for uniformly asymptotic stability of positive equations is presented. Finally, we deal with problems of robust stability of positive systems under structured perturbations. Some explicit stability bounds with respect to these perturbations are given.

A poset Q is called n-normal, if its every prime ideal contains at most n minimal prime ideals. In this paper, using the prime ideal theorem for finite ideal distributive posets, some properties and characterizations of n-normal posets are obtained.