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The Ptolemy and Zbăganu constants of normed spaces
2010
Abstract In every inner product space H the Ptolemy inequality holds: the product of the diagonals of a quadrilateral is less than or equal to the sum of the products of the opposite sides. In other words, ‖ x − y ‖ ‖ z − w ‖ ≤ ‖ x − z ‖ ‖ y − w ‖ + ‖ z − y ‖ ‖ x − w ‖ for any points w , x , y , z in H . It is known that for each normed space ( X , ‖ ⋅ ‖ ) , there exists a constant C such that for any w , x , y , z ∈ X , we have ‖ x − y ‖ ‖ z − w ‖ ≤ C ( ‖ x − z ‖ ‖ y − w ‖ + ‖ z − y ‖ ‖ x − w ‖ ) . The smallest such C is called the Ptolemy constant of X and is denoted by C P ( X ) . We study the relationships between this constant and the geometry of the space X , and hence with metric fix…
On Banaschewski functions in lattices
1991
hold for all x, y ~ X. We call such a function z a Banaschewski function or a B-function on X. A lattice L is a B-lattice or antitonely complemented, if there is a B-function defined on the whole lattice L. For instance, Boolean lattices as well as orthocomplemented lattices are B-lattices. On the other hand, a B-lattice is not necessarily Boolean or orthocomplemented, although a distributive B-lattice is a Boolean lattice. It is shown later that a matroid (geometric) lattice is also a B-lattice. Naturally, our results include the lemma of Banaschewski [ 1, Lemma 4], by which the lattice of the subspaces of a vector space is a B-lattice. It should be emphasized that a B-function is supposed…
Convergence of Markov Chains
2020
We consider a Markov chain X with invariant distribution π and investigate conditions under which the distribution of X n converges to π as n→∞. Essentially it is necessary and sufficient that the state space of the chain cannot be decomposed into subspaces that the chain does not leave, or that are visited by the chain periodically; e.g., only for odd n or only for even n.
Exponential Codimension Growth of PI Algebras: An Exact Estimate
1999
Abstract LetAbe an associative PI-algebra over a fieldFof characteristic zero. By studying the exponential behavior of the sequence of codimensions {cn(A)} ofA, we prove thatInv(A)=limn→∞ c n ( A ) always exists and is an integer. We also give an explicit way for computing such integer: letBbe a finite dimensionalZ2-graded algebra whose Grassmann envelopeG(B) satisfies the same identities ofA; thenInv(A)=Inv(G(B))=dim C(0)+dim C(1)whereC(0)+C(1)is a suitableZ2-graded semisimple subalgebra ofB.
Periodic and Nil Polynomials in Rings
1980
Let R be an associative ring and f(x1,…, xd) a polynomial in noncommuting variables. We say that f is periodic or nil in R if for all r1,…, rd ∈ R we have that f(r1,…, rd) is periodic, respectively nilpotent (recall that a ∈ R is periodic if for some integer ).
Hyperidentities of some generalizations of lattices
1998
In the paper we present bases and hyperbases of hyperidentities of some generalizations of the variety L of all lattices and the variety D of distributive lattices. We describe the form of hyperidentities of some varieties with two binary operations.
Asymptotics for the multiplicities in the cocharacters of some PI-algebras
2003
We consider associative PI-algebras over a field of characteristic zero. We study the asymptotic behavior of the sequence of multiplicities of the cocharacters for some significant classes of algebras. We also give a characterization of finitely generated algebras for which this behavior is linear or quadratic.
On the WGSC Property in Some Classes of Groups
2009
The property of quasi-simple filtration (or qsf) for groups has been introduced in literature more than 10 years ago by S. Brick. This is equivalent, for groups, to the weak geometric simple connectivity (or wgsc). The main interest of these notions is that there is still not known whether all finitely presented groups are wgsc (qsf) or not. The present note deals with the wgsc property for solvable groups and generalized FC-groups. Moreover, a relation between the almost-convexity condition and the Tucker property, which is related to the wgsc property, has been considered for 3-manifold groups.
The exact bounds for the degree of commutativity of a p-group of maximal class, I
2002
Abstract The first major study of p-groups of maximal class was made by Blackburn in 1958. He showed that an important invariant of these groups is the ‘degree of commutativity.’ Recently (1995) Fernandez-Alcober proved a best possible inequality for the degree of commutativity in terms of the order of the group. Recent computations for primes up to 43 show that sharper results can be obtained when an additional invariant is considered. A series of conjectures about this for all primes have been recorded in [A. Vera-Lopez et al., preprint]. In this paper, we prove two of these conjectures.
Three Letters from Sophus Lie to Felix Klein on Mathematics in Paris
2018
Sophus Lie and Felix Klein first met in 1869 as students in Berlin. They soon became daily companions and spent the spring of 1870 together in Paris where they met the French mathematicians Michel Chasles, Gaston Darboux, and Camille Jordan. Jordan had just published his classic Traite des substitutions, and the two foreigners read it avidly. Mathematics has not been the same since, for it has often been said – and not altogether unjustly – that from this moment on they made group theory their common property: Lie taking the continuous groups and Klein those that were discontinuous. It should not be overlooked, on the other hand, that this observation was first made by Klein himself in the …