Let G be a locally compact abelian group and N a non-zero convolution kernel on G satisfying the domination principle. We define the cone of N-excessive measures E(N) to be the set of positive measures ξ for which N satisfies the relative domination principle with respect to ξ. For ξ ∈ E(N) and Ω ⊆ G open the reduced measure of ξ over Ω is defined as

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Soit f = (f 0, f 1, …, f n ) (n ≧ 1) un système transcendant dans le plan |z| < ∞; c’est-à-dire, les fonctions f0, f 1, … , fn sont entières sans zéros communs à toutes et

In the classification problems of manifolds, the connected sums of sphere bundles over spheres appear frequently. In fact, the manifolds with certain tangential and homotopy properties come to such connected sums (cf. Tamura [15], [16], Ishimoto [6], [8], [9]). Motivated by those, in this paper and the subsequent paper, we classify connected sums of sphere bundles over spheres up to homotopy equivalence by extending the results of I. M. James and J. H. C. Whitehead [10], [11], which correspond to the case that the connected sums of the above happen to be single sums. We also use Wall [17] in the case when the fibres and the base spaces of bundles are same dimensional.

We shall present in this paper some ergodic properties of the stepping stone model. The model has been proposed by M. Kimura [2], to describe the evolution of a genetical population with mating and geographical structures. It has been investigated and developed by M. Kimura and G. H. Weiss [3], G. H. Weiss and M. Kimura [6], W. Fleming and C.-H. Su [1], S. Sawyer [5], and others.

Let X be a locally compact Hausdorff space with countable basis. We denote by

M(X) the topological vector space of all real Radon measures in X with the vague topology,

MK(X) the topological vector space of all real Radon measures in X whose supports are compact with the usual inductive limit topology.

Let k be a field and A a noetherian k-algebra. In this note, we shall study the universal finite module of differentials of A over k, which is denoted by Dk (A). When the characteristic of k is zero, detailed results have been obtained by Scheja and Storch [8]. So we shall treat the positive characteristic case. In § 1, we shall study differential modules of a local ring over subfields. We obtain a criterion of regularity (Theorem (1.14)). In § 2, we shall study the formal fibres and regular locus of A with Dk (A). Our main result is Theorem (2.1) which shows that, if Dk(A) exists, then A is a universally catenary G-ring under a certain assumption. In the local case, this is a generalization of Matsumura’s theorem ([5] Theorem 15), where regularity of A is assumed.

Let A be a Noetherian local ring with maximal ideal m. In 1973 J. Barshay [1] showed that, if A is a Cohen-Macaulay ring, then so is the Rees algebra R(q) = ⊕n≧0qn for every parameter ideal q of A (cf. p. 93, Corollary). Recently the author and Y. Shimoda [5] have proved that the Rees algebra R(q) is a Cohen-Macaulay ring for every parameter ideal q of A if and only if

(#) A is a Buchsbaum ring and for i ≠ 1, dim A.

The foundations for this paper were developed in [5], “Seminormal rings and weakly normal varieties”, where the historical framework and fundamental properties of weakly normal varieties were presented in detail. Here we devote our attention to the study of the multicross singularity and the role of local cohomology in the theory of weakly normal varieties.

Let H 1, H 2, …, H N+2 be hyperplanes in PN (C) located in general position and v 1 v 2, … νN+2 divisors on C n. We consider the set ℱ(H i, ν i) of all non-degenerate meromorphic maps of Cn into PN(C) such that the pull-backs ν(f, Hi ) of the divisors (Hi ) on PN(C) by f are equal to νi for any i = 1, 2, …, N + 2. In the previous paper [6], the author showed that =:= ℱ(H i, ν i) cannot contain more than N+ 1 algebraically independent maps. Relating to this, the following theorem will be proved.

Let (=,F) be a filtered, noetherian ring. A sequence x = x 1 …, xn in B is called super regular if the sequence of initial forms

ξ = L(x 1, …, ξn = L(xn )

is a regular sequence in grF (B).

Let M be a compact connected C∞ manifold with a smooth Riemannian foliation ℱ. That is, (M, ℱ) admits a bundle-like metric in the sense of [7]. In [4] it is shown that if all leaves of ℱ are closed without holonomy, then the space of leaves M/ℱ of the foliation is a manifold and the natural projection M → M/ℱ is a locally trivial fibre space. In the present work we show that for certain of the Riemannian homogeneous foliations, holonomy is the only obstruction to the foliation being a fibration.

In [1], Demazure showed a new way of constructing normal graded rings using the concept of “rational coefficient Weil divisors” of normal projective varieties and he showed, among other things, the following

THEOREM ([1], 3.5). If R = ⊕n ≥ 0Rn is a normal graded ring of finite type over a field k and if T is a homogeneous element of degree 1 in the quotient field of R, then there exists unique divisor D ∈ Div (X, Q) (X = Proj (R)), such that for every n ≧ 0.(See (1.1) for the definition of

Nevanlinna’s lemma on logarithmic derivatives played an essential role in the proof of the second main theorem for meromorphic functions on the complex plane C (cf., e.g., [17]). In [19, Lemma 2.3] it was generalized for entire holomorphic curves f: C → M in a compact complex manifold M (Lemma 2.3 in [19] is still valid for non-Kähler M). Here we call, in general, a holomorphic mapping from a domain of C or a Riemann surface into M a holomorphic curve in M, and sometimes use it in the sense of its image if no confusion occurs. Applying the above generalized lemma on logarithmic derivatives to holomorphic curves f: C → V in a complex projective algebraic smooth variety V and making use of Ochiai [22, Theorem A], we had an inequality of the second main theorem type for f and divisors on V (see [19, Main Theorem] and [20]). Other generalizations of Nevanlinna’s lemma on logarithmic derivatives were obtained by Nevanlinna [16], Griffiths-King [10, § 9] and Vitter [23].