The first part of this paper, which will be referred to by I, appeared in Volume 30 of this journal. The present paper will use the same bibliography as I.

Theorem 1 in I shows that the knowledge of all continuous linear functionals in o[A]p is essential in determining convergence and summability factors for strong summability. So far, Theorem 7 in I was for a general A the only tool in deciding whether a given sequence ∈ generates such a functional. We mentioned in a remark following Theorem 7 the difficulties in verifying the conditions of this theorem (two parameters are involved). In the present paper, we study continuous linear functionals in o[A]1 in more detail, and we obtain in a corollary to Theorem 22 a condition which appears to be a more satisfactory answer to the question, whether a given sequence ∈ generates a continuous linear functional in o[A]1.

In this note we provide alternative and unified proofs for two theorems on the homotopy groups of spaces of (continuous) maps into Eilenberg-MacLane spaces. The first theorem is due to Thorn, and independently Federer, and deals with spaces of maps into Eilenberg- MacLane spaces of type (π, n) for n ≧ 1 with π abelian. The second theorem is due to Gottlieb and deals with spaces of maps into Eilenberg- MacLane spaces of type (π, 1) with π nonabelian. As a main tool we shall use the homotopy sequences for certain fibrations of spaces of maps.

2. Basic notation and some preliminary remarks. For any pair of connected CW-complexes X and Y with base points, we denote by M(X, Y), respectively F(X, Y), the space of free maps, respectively based maps, of X into Y.

A commutative Banach algebra is called symmetric if, regarded as a function algebra on its maximal ideal space, it is closed under complex conjugation. Varopoulos, [5], proved the asymmetry of the tensor algebra , where T is the unit circle. It is the object of this paper to prove the asymmetry of the Schur multipliers of the space , where m is the Lebesgue measure. In the second part of the paper we study the Hankel multipliers of the space and give an application to it.

1. The asymmetry of. Let C(T) denote the space of continuous functions on T and A(T) be the space of those functions in C(T) that have absolutely convergent Fourier series. Consider the mapping F: C(T) → C(T × T) defined by F(f)(x, y) = f (x + y).

We denote by d = (d 12, …, d 1n , d 23, …, d n-1,n ) a vector of distances between n points. Such a vector d is called a metric if it satisfies the triangle inequalities

(1)

The set of all metrics on n points forms a convex polyhedral cone, the extremal properties of which are discussed in [4]. We will be concerned with a sub-cone that is spanned by metrics of the form

(2)

where t ≧ 0, V is a proper subset of {1, 2, …, n}; and the symbol ⊥ is used for “exclusive or”: i ⊥ j ∈ V means i ∈ V, j ∉ V or i ∉ V,j∉ V.

Let {pn(z)}; be a sequence of functions analytic in a region D. A problem in analysis which has received much attention is the following: describe the sets Z ⊂ D for which

(1)

implies hn is 0 for all n, (To make the problem interesting, only those situations are studied where finite subsets of the pn (z) are linearly independent in D.) Another way of phrasing this is: Characterize the uniqueness sets of pn (z), a uniqueness set Z being a set in D such that the restriction of {pn (z)}; to Z is linearly independent. If Z is not a uniqueness set then for some {hn}; not all 0, we have

(2)

This formula is called a non-trivial representation of 0 (on Z).

All groups herein are assumed to be abelian. It was not until the 1940's that it was known that a subgroup of an infinite direct sum of finite cyclic groups is again a direct sum of cyclics. This result rests on a general criterion due to Kulikov [7] for a primary abelian group to be a direct sum of cyclic groups. If G is p-primary, Kulikov's criterion presupposes that G has no elements (other than zero) having infinite p-height. For such a group G, the criterion is simply that G be the union of an ascending sequence of subgroups Hn where the heights of the elements of Hn computed in G are bounded by some positive integer λ(n). The theory of abelian groups has now developed to the point that totally projective groups currently play much the same role, at least in the theory of torsion groups, that direct sums of cyclic groups and countable groups played in combination prior to the discovery of totally projective groups and their structure beginning with a paper by R. Nunke [11] in 1967.

Suppose is a C*-algebra and H is a Hilbert space. Let denote the set of completely positive maps from into the set B(H) of (bounded linear) operators on H. This paper studies the vector space spanned by , i.e., the linear maps that are finite linear combinations of completely positive maps. From another viewpoint, a map ϕ is in precisely when it has a decomposition ϕ = (ϕ1 – ϕ2) + i(ϕ3 – ϕ4) with ϕ1, ϕ2, ϕ3, ϕ4 in CP ; this decomposition is analogous to the Hahn decomposition for measures [8, 111.4.10] (see also Theorem 20). The analogous class of maps with “completely positive” replaced by “positive” was studied by R. I. Loebl [11] and S.-K. Tsui [17], and when is commutative, this latter class coincides withi , since every positive linear map on a commutative C*-algebra is completely positive [16].

This paper is concerned with a question which occurs in [6, p. 346] and uses the notation of that article. Thus K ⊃ K 0 are p-adic fields (p ≠ 2) with residue fields k ⊃ k 0 and having respective rings of integers R ⊃ R 0, G 0 = G 0(K/K 0) is the group of inertial automorphisms of K over K 0,I(K/K 0) is the R module of integral derivations on K over K 0 and Ī(K/K 0) is the k space of derivations on k induced by I(K/K 0). The question here dealt with is the following. Given fields k ⊃ k 0 of characteristic p(≠0, 2) with k/k 0 finitely generated, which subspaces of the k space, Der(k/k 0), of derivations on k over k 0 have the form Ī(K/K 0) for some pair of p-adic fields K ⊃ K 0 having k ⊃ k 0 as residue fields. We note the following connection between Ī(K/K 0) and G 0(K/K 0).

Recall that the absolute ∈(X) of a regular space X is the unique (up to a homeomorphism) extremally disconnected space whose image is X under a perfect irreducible map. X and Y are co-absolute whenever ∈(X) and ∈(Y) are homeomorphic. Completely regular spaces X and Y are weakly co-absolute whenever βX and βY are co-absolute. For a survey of this area we suggest [6] and [8].

In this paper we prove

THEOREM 1. Suppose, for i ∈ {0, 1};, X(i) is a compact connected linearly ordered space. Then X(0) and X(l) are co-absolute if, and only if, X(0) and X(l) have homeomorphic dense sets.

Making use of Theorem 1 and a result from [7] we give Theorem 2, a cardinal generalization of

COROLLARY 1. Suppose for each i ∈ {0, 1};, X(i) is a Čech-complete space with a Gδ-diagonal.

Negative definite functions (all definitions are given in § 1 below) on a locally compact, σ-compact group G have been used in several different contexts recently [2, 5, 7, 11]. In this paper we show how such functions relate to other properties such a group may have. Here are six properties which G might have. They are grouped into three pairs with one property of each pair involving negative definite functions. We show that the paired properties are equivalent and, where possible, give counter-examples to other equivalences. We assume throughout that G is not compact.

(1A) G does not have property T.

(IB) There is a continuous, negative definite function on G which is unbounded.

(2A) G has the (weak and/or strong) dual R-L property.

(2B) For every closed, non-compact set Q ⊂ G there is a continuous, negative definite function on G which is unbounded on Q.

In 1958 Gleason [6] proved the following :

THEOREM. In the category of compact Hausdorff spaces and continuous maps, the projective elements are precisely the extremally disconnected spaces.

The projective elements in many topological categories with perfect continuous functions as morphisms have been found since that time. For example: In the following categories the projective elements are precisely the extremally disconnected spaces:

• (i) The category of Tychonov spaces and perfect continuous functions. [4] [11].

• (ii) The category of regular spaces and perfect continuous functions. [4] [12].

• (iii) The category of Hausdorff spaces and perfect continuous functions. [10] [1].

• (iv) In the category of Hausdorff spaces and continuous k-maps the projective members are precisely the extremally disconnected k-spaces. [14].

In 1963 Iliadis [7] constructed for every Hausdorff space X the so called Iliadis absolute E[X], which is a maximal pre-image of X under irreducible θ-continuous maps.

If x 0,x 1, … x n are homogeneous coordinates in [n], projective space of n dimensions, the prime (to use the standard name for a hyperplane)

osculates, as θ varies, the rational normal curve C whose parametric form is [2, p. 347]

Take a set of n + 2 points on C for which θ = ηjζ where ζ is any complex number and

so that the η j , for 0 ≦ j < n + 2, are the (n + 2)th roots of unity. The n + 2 primes osculating C at these points bound an (n + 2)-hedron H which varies with η, and H is polar for all the quadrics

(1.1)

in the sense that the polar of any vertex, common to n of its n + 2 bounding primes, contains the opposite [n + 2] common to the residual pair.

A semigroup which is a union of groups is said to be completely regular. If in addition the idempotents form a subsemigroup, the semigroup is said to be orthodox and is called an orthogroup. A completely regular semigroup S is provided in a natural way with a unary operation of inverse by letting a -l for a ∈ S be the group inverse of a in the maximal subgroup of S to which a belongs. This unary operation satisfies the identities

(1)

(2)

(3)

In fact a completely regular semigroup can be defined as a unary semigroup (a semigroup with an added unary operation) satisfying these identities. An orthogroup can be characterized as a completely regular semigroup satisfying the additional identity

(4)

If G is a polycyclic group and k an absolute field then every irreducible kG-module is finite dimensional [10], while if k is nonabsolute every irreducible module is finite dimensional if and only if G is abelian-by-finite [3]. However something more can be said about the infinite dimensional irreducible modules. For example P. Hall showed that if G is a finitely generated nilpotent group and V an irreducible kG-module, then the image of kZ in EndkG V is algebraic over k [3]. Here Z = Z(G) denotes the centre of G. It follows that the restriction Vz of V to Z is generated by finite dimensional kZ-modules. In this paper we prove a generalization of this result to polycyclic group algebras.

We introduce some terminology.

The problem of linearizing products of orthogonal polynomials, in general, and of ultraspherical and Jacobi polynomials, in particular, has been studied by several authors in recent years [1, 2, 9, 10, 13-16]. Standard defining relation [7, 18] for the Jacobi polynomials is given in terms of an ordinary hypergeometric function:

with Re α > –1, Re β > –1, –1 ≦ x ≦ 1. However, for linearization problems the polynomials Rn (α,β)(x), normalized to unity at x = 1, are more convenient to use:

(1.1)

Roughly speaking, the linearization problem consists of finding the coefficients g(k, m, n; α,β) in the expansion

(1.2)

In the first part of the paper, given a continuous map f from a Hausdorff topological space X onto a Hausdorff topological space Y, we consider the reciprocal map f * from Y into the collection of closed subsets of X, which maps y ∈ Y to . is endowed with the pseudotopological structure of convergence of closed sets. We will use the filter description of this convergence, as defined by Choquet and Gähler [2], [5], which is equivalent to the “topological convergence” of sets as introduced by Frolík and Mrówka [4], [10]. These notions in fact generalize the convergence of sequences of sets defined by Hausdorff [6]. We show that the continuity of f* is equivalent to the openness of f. On f*(Y), the set of fibers of f, we consider the pseudotopological structure induced by the closed convergence on .

Lorsque est un composé de deux corps quadratiques réels, nous pouvons calculer explicitement un système fondamental d'unités de L 4 (cf. [3], [2] et [5]), en considérant les unités fondamentales η2, δ 2 et ∈2 des trois sous-corps quadratiques L 2, F 2 et K 2 de L 4.

Suppose throughout that {kn } is a sequence of positive integers, that

that k 0 = 1 if l 0 = 1, and that {un (r)}; (r = 0, 1, …, kn – 1, n = 0, 1, …) is a sequence of real numbers. We shall be concerned with the problem of establishing necessary and sufficient conditions for there to be a function a satisfying

(1)

and certain additional conditions. The case l 0 = 0, kn = 1 for n = 0, 1, … of the problem is the version of the classical moment problem considered originally by Hausdorff [5], [6], [7]; the above formulation will emerge as a natural generalization thereof.

The problem of linearizing the product of two Jacobi polynomials, Pm (α, β)(x)Pn (α, β)(x), and to establish the conditions for the non-negativity of the coefficients has been of considerable interest for many years. Explicit non-negative representations were sought and found by many authors [7, 8, 13, 14], but only in the special case α = β, although Hylleraas [14] succeeded in finding a formula in another case α = β + 1. Gasper [9, 10] found the necessary and sufficient conditions for the non-negativity of the linearization coefficients by exploiting a recurrence relation obtained by Hylleraas for the above-mentioned product. Koornwinder [16] approached the same problem from a different point of view and managed to find a non-negative integral expression to these coefficients when . However, an exact formula in a hypergeometric series form for general α, β has been very elusive so far, in spite of the fact that all computation of special cases seemed to indicate that such a formula should exist.

Affine and projective Hjelmslev planes are generalizations of ordinary affine and projective planes where two points (lines) may be joined by (may intersect in) more than one line (point). The elements involved in multiple joinings or intersections are neighbours, and the neighbour relations on points respectively lines are equivalence relations whose quotient spaces define an ordinary affine or projective plane called the canonical image of the Hjelmslev plane. An affine or projective Hjelmslev plane is a topological plane (briefly a TH-plane and specifically a TAH-plane respectively a TPH-plane) if its point and line sets are topological spaces so that the joining of non-neighbouring points, the intersection of non-neighbouring lines and (in the affine case) parallelism are continuous maps, and the neighbour relations are closed.

In this paper we continue our investigation of such planes initiated by the author in [38] and [39].