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The projective planes discovered in 1957 by Hughes [3] were originally described by means of a nearfield F satisfying the following conditions:(a) F is finite,(b) the centre and kernel of F coincide,(c) F is of rank 2 over its kernel.(The definitions of these terms will be given in § 2; the terminology used throughout the paper is that of [1].)Rosati [5] showed in 1960 that condition (a) is not necessary, thus constructing the first “infinite Hughes planes”. Condition (b), however, plays an essential part also in Rosati's work.The aim in this paper is to show that condition (b) is superfluous as well. For the finite case, this has been remarked by Ostrom [4] without proof; here we shall show that a “generalized Hughes plane” can be constructed over any nearfield satisfying condition (c) only.

The present paper began as a natural outgrowth of our first paper, where we characterized the module homomorphisms from group algebras into a fairly restrictive class of group algebra modules. We now investigate module homomorphisms from group algebras into a more general class of group algebra modules. Although the two papers are thus related, they can be read quite independently.Section 2 contains our extension, Theorem 2.1, of P. J. Cohen's theorem on factorization in Banach algebras (1). Our extension is to Banach modules over Banach algebras equipped with an approximate identity. We should mention first that J.-K. Wang observed the existence of such a generalization, and secondly, that our proof requires no ideas different from those in Cohen's proof. Nevertheless, we include a proof that condenses the original proof considerably.

This paper applies the constant population approximation to the study of epidemics which involve more than a single type of infective. An example of this would be a situation in which both clinically infected individuals and subclinically infected individuals or carriers are present. We derive equations for the expected numbers of clinically infected individuals and carriers at any time t for the model with zero latent period and infectious periods having negative exponential distributions. From these equations we derive conditions under which a unimodal incidence curve can result, and expressions for the expected total epidemic size. The equations describing the course of an epidemic are analytically intractable except in certain simple cases, [1]. When one examines the reason for the mathematical difficulties that arise, one finds that the principal stumbling block is the assumption of a finite population of susceptibles. It can be argued, however, that in modern societies epidemics very rarely menace an entire population, and that observed epidemic sizes are usually much smaller than the total susceptible population. This is due to a variety of reasons, among which are public health measures and good communication facilities available to a modern society. In consequence it is reasonable to try to bypass some of the mathematical difficulties inherent in the theory of epidemics by assuming a susceptible population whose size does not change through the course of the epidemic. Bailey [2], Morgan [3], and Williams [4] have discussed in some detail the theory of epidemics using the constant population approximation, although such an approximation was used by several authors earlier, [5], [6], [7]. The theory developed so far has dealt mainly with epidemic processes in which there is only a single type of infective and a single type of susceptible. Recently Gart [8] has considered a model for epidemics involving more than one type of susceptible. It is the purpose of this paper to analyze the development in time of epidemics which involve more than a single type of infective individual. This Received in revised form 3 January 1967. 257 This content downloaded from 157.55.39.78 on Mon, 20 Jun 2016 07:20:57 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 258 HUGH M. PETTIGREW AND GEORGE H. WEISS problem, in which there may be several types of infectives, is suggested by diseases in which carriers are important, [9]. In the present paper we derive equations for the expected numbers of carriers and clinically infected individuals at any time t, in the case of a zero latent period and negative exponential distributions of infectious periods. From these equations we will give the conditions under which an epidemic arises from the introduction of a bearer of the disease, i.e., the conditions under which the reporting curve increases initially. These conditions are of some theoretical interest since Bailey has shown that in the infinite population approximation to an epidemic with only one class of susceptibles and one class of infected individuals, no initial increase in the reporting curve can occur. Finally, we derive expressions; for the expected total epidemic size. Let us consider a homogeneously mixing population which, in the present approximation, can be characterized by four parameters, yi(t), y,(t), zi(t), zc(t). These are, respectively, the number of clinically infected individuals, the number of carriers, the cumulative number of removals of infectives, and the cumulative number of removals of carriers, all evaluated at time t. The probability that a single susceptible individual will become clinically infected in (t, t + dt) is assumed to be fli(y, + yc)dt, and the probability that a susceptible will become a carrier is assumed to be Ic(yi + ye)dt, where both l's are assumed to be constant and it is assumed for simplicity that carriers and infectives are equally infectious. The constancy of these p's is the principal assumption of the present theory; in the more detailed stochastic theory discussed by Bailey [1] the f's are proportional to the number of susceptibles as well. In the simplest model, we assume that the latent period is zero, i.e., that newly infected individuals are immediately capable of infecting others, and that the infectious period is a random variable with a negative exponential distribution. The rate parameter appearing in the distribution for clinically infected will be denoted by vi and that appearing in the distribution for carriers will be denoted by v,. In order to describe the stochastic process we introduce a set of probabilities p(r,,r2, r3, r4, t) defined by p(r, t) = Pr{y,(t) = r, yc(t) = r2, z(t) = r3, zc(t) = r4}. By our assumptions the p(r, t) satisfy ap = fl (r1 + r2 1)p(r, 1,r2,r3, r4, t) + fl(r, + r2 -1)p(r1,r2 1,r3, r4, t) (1) + vA(r1 + 1)p(r + 1,r2, r 1,r4)+ vc(r2 + 1)p(r, r2 + 1, r3,r4 1) [(fl + ic + vi)rl + (fl + flPc + ve)r2] p(r, t). This content downloaded from 157.55.39.78 on Mon, 20 Jun 2016 07:20:57 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Epidemics with carriers: the large population approximation 259 The moment generating function (2) M(01, 02, 03 , 0,t) = M(O, t) = E{eo'Y'+2yYc+03zi+042C} therefore satisfies aM M = [f#,(ee I1) + flc(e02 1) + vi(ee, +03 1)] (3) aM + [fl(ee' 1) + flc(e02 1) + vc(e-02+4 1)] The interesting features of the development of the epidemic can be determined by analyzing the properties of the mean values Lpi(t) = E{yi(t)}, pc(t) = E{yc(t)} (4) ow(t) = E{z,(t)}, wc(t) = E{zc(t)}. The equations for these mean values are easily determined by equating coefficients of the O's on both sides of Equation (3). They are Pi = (/01v-i)it?+fliltc (5) Pc = flcpi+ (fc v)Pc

I t is straightforward, but tedious, to write down the integers whose representations in a given base do not have particular digits in certain positions. In the first section of this paper we give a computational scheme that enables us to carry out such operations in a rapid and simple fashion.In the second section of the paper we derive a general identity involving the digits of integers in arbitrary Cantor systems of notation.In the third section we apply this identity and deduce a number of results concerned with the splitting of integers into classes with equal power sums. The computational scheme of the first section leads us to an algorithm for the determination of such splittings.

A ring A has finite norm properly, abbreviated FNP, if each proper homomorphic image of A is finite. In [3], Chew and Lawn described some of the structural properties of FNP rings with identity, which they called residually finite rings. The twofold aim of this paper is to extend the results of [3] to arbitrary rings with FNP and to give characterizations of FNP rings independent of the results of [3].If A is a ring, let A+ denote A regarded as an abelian group. In the first section of this paper, we explore the effects of FNP upon the structure of A+. The following theorem is typical of the results in this section.

This paper is based on part of the thesis of one of the authors (5), submitted at the University of Toronto in 1963. In the first part of the paper a result on induced representations (2, 4, 9) is generalized slightly and a number of corollaries are derived. In the rest of the paper a special case of this result is applied to put the representation theory of the alternating group on a par with that of the symmetric group. A knowledge of the representation theory of Sn (7) on the part of the reader is assumed.

LetRbe the discrete group ring of the groupGover the ringA. In this paper we attempt to find necessary and sufficient conditions onGandAso thatRwill have some standard ring-theoretic property ; among the properties considered are those of being artinian, regular, self-injective, and semi-prime.The contents of this paper form essentially the author's doctoral thesis. The author would like to thank his supervisor Dr. J. Lambek for his generous encouragement and continued interest.

The undertaking of constructing spaces which contain a given space as a subspace is by no means new: the extension of the complex number plane to the complex number sphere by the addition of the one point at infinity, the extension of the real line by adjoining the two infinities ∞ and -∞, and the construction of the space of real numbers from that of the rationals by means of Cauchy sequences or Dedekind cuts are 19th Century examples of this very thing. However, only the advent of general topology made it possible to raise the general question of space extensions. It appears that the first study of problems in this area was carried out by Alexandroff and Urysohn in the early twenties [l]. Another mile stone in the history of the subject was the 1929 paper by Tychonoff in which the product theorem for compact spaces is proved and used to identify the completely regular Hausdorff spaces as precisely those spaces which can be imbedded in a compact Hausdorff space [33]. During the same period, work on certain specific extension problems was done by Freudenthal [17] and Zippin [35]. However, the first large body of systematic theory, used for the investigation of a wide range of extension problems, was presented by Stone [31] in 1937. There, one also finds the remark that "one of the interesting and difficult problems of general topology is the study of all extensions of a given space", and it appears that Stone' s own work must have convinced many others of the truth of this observation, for since that time there has been a steady succession of papers in this field. But apart from that, the study of extension spaces clearly has a very particular attraction for some mathematicians.

After the publication of the important paper by Rota [9] on Möbius functions a large number of papers have appeared in which the ideas are applied or generalized in various directions, the papers by Crapo [3], Smith [10] and Tainiter [11] are some of them. The theory of Möbius functions is now recognized as a valuable tool in combinatorial and arithmetical research.

This paper considers the properties of the representation of a Lie algebra when restricted to an ideal, the subduced* representation of the ideal. This point of view leads to new forms for irreducible representations of Lie algebras, once the concept of matrices of invariance is developed. This concept permits us to show that irreducible representations of a Lie algebra, over an algebraically closed field, can be expressed as a Lie-Kronecker product whose factors are associated with the representation subduced on an ideal. Conversely, if one has such factors, it is shown that they can be put together to give an irreducible representation of the Lie algebra. A valuable guide to this work was supplied by a paper of Clifford (1).

In a recent paper (7) Yood developed the beginnings of a theory of modular annihilator algebras. In this paper we extend his work on these algebras.The definition of modular annihilator algebra is algebraic in nature (see §4) ; in fact the algebra need not be assumed even topological. However, a significant number of important normed algebras are modular annihilator algebras. A list of examples is given in §8.The theory of modular annihilator algebras is related to the theory of certain important topological algebras. In §5 we consider the relationships between dual and annihilator algebras and modular annihilator algebras, and in §7, the relationship between completely continuous normed algebras and modular annihilator algebras.

Let Mm be a closed PL manifold of dimension m. Then a concordance between two PL-homeomorphisms h0, h1:M → M is a PL-homeomorphismH: M × I → M × I such that H|M × 0 = h0 and H|M × 1 = h. Concordance is an equivalence relation and in his paper [2], M. Kato classifies PL-homeomorphisms of Sp × Sq up to concordance. To do this he treats first the problem of classifying those homeomorphisms that induce the identity in homology, and then describes the automorphisms of the cohomology ring that can arise from homeomorphisms of Sp × Sq. In this paper we show that for sufficiently connected PL-manifolds that embed in codimension 1, one can extend Kato's classification of the homeomorphisms that induce the identity in homology.

For a formal definition of “map” the reader is referred to (7, §2). The maps in this paper are rooted by specifying an orientation for one of the edges. This also specifies a root vertex, the negative end of the root, and a root face, the face on the left of the root edge. Counting is, as usual, defined on isomorphism classes.Regular maps of even valence have been enumerated in a recent paper by Tutte. In this paper we determine the average number of trees in such maps, and include similar results for regular tri valent maps, that is, maps with three edges incident on every vertex. In the development for the latter, a formula for the number of trivalent maps with 2t vertices is produced.

In a paper published in 1956, Rund (4) developed the differential geometry of a hypersurface of n— 1 dimensions imbedded in a Finsler space of n dimensions, considered as locally Minkowskian.The purpose of the present paper is to provide an extension of the results of (4) and thus develop a theory for the case of m-dimensional subspaces imbedded in a generalized (Finsler) metric space.We consider an n-dimensional differentiable manifold Xn and we restrict our attention to a suitably chosen co-ordinate neighbourhood of Xn in which a co-ordinate system xi (i= 1, 2, … , n), is defined. A system of equations of the type xi = xi(t) defines a curve C of Xn the tangent vector dxi/dt of which is denoted by xi.

In an important paper (7), long overlooked, J. H. Redfield dealt with several aspects of enumerative combinatorial analysis. In a previous paper (1) I showed the relation between a certain repeated scalar product of a set of permutation characters of a symmetric group and Redfield's composition of his group reduction functions. Here I consider, from a group representational point of view, Redfield's idea of a range-correspondence and its application to enumeration of linear graphs. The details of the application of these ideas to more general enumerations are also given.

The theory of stochastic differential equations in a differentiate manifold has been established by many authors from different view-points, especially by R Lévy [2], F. Perrin [1], A. Kolmogoroff [1] [2] and K. Yosida [1] [2]. It is the purpose of the present paper to discuss it by making use of stochastic integrals.

In [5], Ikeda-Nagao-Nakayama gave a characterization of algebras of cohomological dimension ≦n In a subsequent paper [4] Eilenberg gave an alternative treatment of the same question. The present paper is devoted to the discussion of a number of questions suggested by the results of [4] and [5]. Among others it is shown that the conditions employed in stating the main results in [4] and [5] are equivalent, so that the main results of these two papers are in accord. Further, the cohomological dimension of a residue-algebra is studied in terms of that of the original algebra and the (module-) dimension of the associated ideal. The terminology and notation employed here are that of [3].

Let S denote the integral closure of a complete discrete rank one valuation ring R in a finite Galois extension of the quotient field of R, G the Galois group of the quotient field extension, and f an element of Z2(G,U(S)) where U(S) denotes the multiplicative group of units of S. A crossed product Δ(f, S, G) whose radical is generated as a left ideal by the prime element II of S is an hereditary order according to the Corollary to Thm. 2. 2 of [2], and we call such a crossed product a II-principal hereditary order. In previous papers the author has studied II-principal hereditary orders Δ(f, S, G) for tamely and wildly ramified extensions S of R (see [10] and [11]). The purpose of this paper is to study II-principal hereditary orders Δ(f, S, G) with no restriction on the extension S of R.

1. This paper was motivated by some questions of Barnett and Lewis (1967) concerning extreme winter temperatures. The temperature during the winter can be hopefully regarded as generated by a stationary Gaussian process superimposed on a locally U-shaped trend. One is interested in statistical properties of the minimum of sample paths from such a process, and of their excursions below a given level. Equivalently one can consider paths from a stationary process crossing a curved boundary of the same form. Problems of this type are discussed by Cramer and Leadbetter (1967), extensively in the trend-free case and in less detail when a trend is present, following the method initiated by Rice (1945). While results on moments are easy to obtain, explicit results for the actual probability distributions are not usually available. However, in the important case when the level of values of interest is far below the mean, the asymptotic independence of up-crossing times makes it possible to derive simple approximate distributions. (See Cramer and Leadbetter (1967) page 256, Keilson (1966).) There is a dearth of particular examples of processes and trends for which the distributions of interest are known exactly. Such examples could give useful experience of the form of distribution to be expected in typical cases, and could serve as material on which to test out approximate methods. The object of the present paper is to provide an example of this kind. One process for which exact results are available in the trend-free case is the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, i.e., the stationary Gaussian Markov process X(t) generated by

The definition and some of the properties of what may be called a Perron second integral (P2-integral) were given in a previous paper [4]. This integral starts with a function f(x) defined in an interval (a, c) and goes directly to a second primitive F(x) with the property that the generalized second derivative D2F is equal to f(x) for almost all x in (a, c). In the present paper the definition is changed slightly and further properties are deduced.

This paper arose out of an effort to present a result which simplifies the application of the theory of blocks to what is often called the theory of exceptional characters. In order to obtain the most effective use of this result, it is necessary to reformulate part of this theory. Thus we present a development which explains an application of R. Brauer’s main theorem on generalized decomposition numbers. In particular, we improve a result of D. Gorenstein and the author [8; Proposition 25]. These results are needed in a forthcoming paper and will simplify somewhat the use of this theory in existing papers. We are interested principally in determining the values of certain irreducible characters on trivial intersection subsets. The organization of the theory presented here is influenced by an exposition of M. Suzuki [13] and uses concepts introduced by W. Feit and J. G. Thompson [7]. Also it is hoped that this exposition will serve as an introduction to the theory.

HNN groups have appeared in several papers, e.g., [3; 4; 5; 6; 8]. In this paper we use the results in [6] to obtain a structure theorem for the subgroups of an HNN group and give several applications.We shall use the terminology and notation of [6]. In particular, if K is a group and {φi} is a collection of isomorphisms of subgroups {Li} into K, then we call the group1the HNN group with base K, associated subgroups { Li,φi(Li)} and free part the group generated by t1, t2, …. (We usually denote φi(Li) by Mi or L–i.) The notion of a tree product as defined in [6] will also be needed.

Throughout this paper, Z is the ring of integers, ƒ*(t) (ƒ(t)) is an integer monic (co-monic) polynomial in the indeterminate t (i.e., each coefficient of ƒ* (ƒ) is in Z and its highest (lowest) coefficient is 1 (5, p. 121, Definition) and M* (M) is the multiplicative semigroup of all integer monic (co-monic) polynomials ƒ* (ƒ) having no constant term. In (3, Theorem 2), Herstein proved that if R is a division ring with centre C such that1then R = C. In this paper we seek a generalization of Herstein's result to semi-simple rings. We also study the following condition:(1)*Our results are quite complete for a semi-simple ring R in which there exists a bound for the codegree ofƒ (ƒ*) (i.e., the degree of the lowest monomial of ƒ(ƒ*)) appearing in the left-hand side of (1) ((1)*).

Sanderson (Canad. Math. Bull., 8 (1965), 505–513), considering a nonempty collection Σ of left ideals of a ring R, with unity, defined the concepts of “Σ-injective module” and “Σ-essential extension” for unital left modules. Letting Σ be an idempotent topologizing set (called a σ-set below) Σanderson proved the existence of a “Σ-injective hull” for any unital left module and constructed an Utumi Σ-quotient ring of R as the bicommutant of the Σ-injective hull of RR. In this paper, we extend the concepts of “Σinjective module”, “Σ-essentialextension”, and “Σ-injective hull” to modules over arbitrary rings. An overring Σ of a ring R is a Johnson (Utumi) left Σ-quotient ring of R if RR is Σ-essential (Σ-dense) in RS. The maximal Johnson and Utumi Σ-quotient rings of R are constructed similar to the original method of Johnson, and conditions are given to insure their equality. The maximal Utumi Σquotient ring U of R is shown to be the bicommutant of the Σ-injective hull of RR when R has unity. We also obtain a σ-set UΣ of left ideals of U, generated by Σ, and prove that Uis its own maximal Utumi UΣ-quotient ring. A Σ-singular left ideal ZΣ(R) of R is defined and U is shown to be UΣ-injective when Z Σ(R) = 0. The maximal Utumi Σ-quotient rings of matrix rings and direct products of rings are discussed, and the quotient rings of this paper are compared with these of Gabriel (Bull. Soc. Math. France, 90 (1962), 323–448) and Mewborn (Duke Math. J. 35 (1968), 575–580). Our results reduce to those of Johnson and Utumi when 1 ∊ R and Σ is taken to be the set of all left ideals of R.

Soon after the publication of Tutte's paper [5] on m-cages, H. S. M. Coxeter asked in a letter to the author whether one-regular graphs of degree 3 exist. The purpose of the following paper is to show by an example that the answer is in the affirmative.

Throughout this paper, the symbol P = [Pij] will represent the transition probability matrix of an irreducible, null-recurrent Markov process in discrete time. Explanation of this terminology and basic facts about such chains may be found in (6, ch. 15). It is known (3) that for each such matrix P there is a unique (except for a positive scalar multiple) positive vector Q = {qi} such that QP = Q, or1this vector is often called the "invariant measure" of the Markov chain.The first problem to be considered in this paper is that of determining for which vectors U(0) = {μi(0)} the vectors U(n) converge, or are summable, to the invariant measure Q, where U(n) = U(0)Pn has components2In § 2, this problem is attacked for general P. The main result is a negative one, and shows how to form U(0) for which U(n) will not be (termwise) Abel summable.

The Szegö polynomials are defined on T, the real numbers modulo 1. In this paper and in its sequel we give a generalization of Szegö polynomials in which T is replaced by an arbitrary locally compact abelian group θ on whose dual there has been distinguished a measurable order relation compatible with the group structure. The present paper is devoted to the case where θ is compact and therefore discrete. The general case will be taken up in the sequel mentioned above. It is desirable to proceed in this way because the case θ compact is much simpler and much more like the classical situation than is the general case, in which various measure-theoretic difficulties obtrude. Moreover, as it happens, it is possible to develop the theory in this way with relatively little repetition.

For various classesQof metric spaces, there are several well-known results characterizing the localn-connectivity of a metric space in terms ofn-ANR(Q)'s. Specifically, we have in mind the results of Kuratowski (13, p. 265) and Kodama (10, p. 79). The main purpose of this paper will be to obtain similar results along these lines for non-metric classesQ.In the last part of the paper we specifyQto be the class of totally normal spaces and characterize the localn-connectivity of ann-dimensional separable metric space in terms of ANR(Q)'s.

This paper applies the invariance principle to the problem of testing a distribution on a compact homogeneous space for uniformity. The notion of using a reduction by invariance in such a situation is due to Ajne[1], who considers tests invariant under rotation on a circle. In his paper, he derives the distribution of the maximal invariant and gives the general form of the most powerful invariant test for uniformity on the circle.

The purpose of this paper is to show that most results concerning polyadic algebras can be generalized to transformation algebras. The results of this paper will clearly indicate that a great deal can be done in polyadic algebras without ever mentioning the quantifier structure (for instance, terms and operations can be characterized without the help of the quantifier structure, at least in the case where an equality is present). In § 1, we develop the elementary theory; in § 2, we study the different ways of extending a (locally finite) transformation algebra (of infinite degree) to a polyadic algebra; in § 3, we study equality transformation algebras; finally, in § 4, we show how terms and operations can be defined in equality transformation algebras.

The problem of the field equations and the equations of motion in general relativity theory is now sufficiently clarified. The equations of motion can be deduced from pure field equations by treating matter as singularities, [2; 3], or from field equations with the energy momentum tensor [4]. Recently two papers appeared in which the problem of the coordinate system was considered [5; 8]. The two papers are in general agreement as far as the role of the coordinate system is concerned. Yet there are some differences which require clarification.

In [3], the author proved that a ring R with identity is right noetherian and right injective if and only if R is a direct sum of a finite number of uniform right ideals, which are completely primary in the sense of that paper. In this paper, we shall determine the structure of such rings in the case where the sum of the isomorphic uniform components are twosided ideals. The ring is found to be a direct sum of total matrix rings over local rings.

The aim of this paper is to present a unified treatment of certain theorems in Combinatorial Analysis (particularly in enumerative graph theory), and their relations to various results concerning symmetric functions and the characters of the symmetric groups. In particular, it treats of the simplification that is achieved by working with S-functions in preference to other symmetric functions when dealing with combinatorial problems. In this way it helps to draw closer together the two subjects of Combinatorial Analysis and the theory of Finite Groups. The paper is mainly expository; it contains little that is really new, though it displays several old results in a new setting.

In 1955 Taylor [6] constructed an AP-integral sufficiently strong to integrate Abel summable series with coefficients o(n). He showed that the AP-integral includes the special Denjoy integral and further that, when applied to trigonometric series, the AP-integral is more powerful than the SCP-integral of Burkill [1] and the P2-integral of James [3]. The present paper shows that the AP-integral includes the SCP-integral, and, under natural assumptions, the P2-integral.After completing this manuscript I was advised by Skvorcov that he had shown [5] under more general conditions that the P2-integral is included in the AP-integral. The proof in the present paper seems to have some value in its own right and is considerably shorter.Since the definition of the AP-integral is essentially for a function defined in (0, 2π] and elsewhere by 2π-periodicity, we shall consider SCP-integrable and P2-integrable functions defined similarly.

The classical mean value theorem asserts that if f is a real, bounded, Riemann integrable function defined on a finite real interval a≤t≤b, then , where infa≤t≤bf(t)≤y0supa≤t≤bf(t). The extensions of Choquet [3], Price [15], and of this paper generalize the fact that y0 belongs to the closure of the convex hull of f([a, b]). The version of Choquet ([3, p. 38]) applies to a continuous function on a compact interval with values in a Banach space; that of Price ([15, p. 24]) applies to a bilinear integral of a special type containing the Birkhoff integral [2]. The m-integral of Dinculeanu [6] (specialization of Bartle's *- integral [1]) leaves intact the Lebesgue dominated convergence theorem and is strong enough to support an extended development. The paper is organized as follows: the object of §2 is to express the integral of a bounded m-integrable function as a limit of Riemann sums; §3 gives Price's generalization of "convex hull" [15]; the theorem of the paper is established in §4; §5 gives applications to vector differentiation which, for continuously differentiable functions, contain results of Dieudonné [5] and McLeod [13].

I. Introduction. The purpose of this paper is to discuss functions defined on the continuous sample paths of Gaussian Markov processes which serve as Green’s functions for pairs of generalized Schroedinger equations. The results extend the author’s earlier paper [2] to a forward time version, and consider different boundary conditions.

We consider a countable number of independent random uniform lines in the hyperbolic plane (in the sense of the theory of geometrical probability) which divide the plane into an infinite number of convex polygonal regions. The main purpose of the paper is to compute the mean number of sides, the mean perimeter, the mean area and the second order moments of these quantities of such polygonal regions. For the Euclidean plane the problem has been considered by several authors, mainly Miles [4]-[9] who has taken it as the starting point of a series of papers which are the basis of the so-called stochastic geometry. GEOMETRICAL PROBABILITY; RANDOM LINES; RANDOM POLYGONS; PLANE OF CONSTANT CURVATURE; HYPERBOLIC PLANE; CONVEX DOMAINS; POISSON LINE PROCESS

In two recent papers by V. F. Cowling and C. L. Miracle (1; 2), the regularity of generalized Lototsky transformations, as well as their application to the geometric series, has been investigated. The main interest of the papers centres around (1, Theorems 3.1 and 4.1) and (2, Theorem A). In (1, Theorem 3.1) and in (2, Theorem A), the authors stated and proved a set of sufficient conditions for the regularity of Lototsky-type transformations. In (1, Theorem 4.1), they proved under certain additional conditions that these transformations sum the geometric series ∑zn to (1 — z)–l if Re z < 1.

1.1. This paper is a continuation of the papers of the author [14], [15]. We begin by recapitulating the main definitions. If {n,} is an increasing sequence of positive integers, the value of the characteristic or the counting function ω(n) of {nv} is, for any , the number of n satisfying the inequality . Suppose that A is a linear method of summation corresponding to the transformation

R. E. Johnson (10), Utumi (18), and Findlayand Lambek (7) have defined for each ring R a unique maximal "ring of right quotients" Q. When R is a commutative integral domain (in this paper an integral domain need not be commutative) or an Ore domain, then Q is the usual division ring of quotients of R. Moreover, it is well known that in these special cases, if R is totally ordered, then so is Q.The main purpose of this paper is to study the ring of quotients Q, and in particular its order properties, for certain lattice-ordered rings R.

1. 1. This paper is the second in a series of papers discussing linear groups of prime degree, the first being (8). In this paper we discuss only linear groups of degree 7. Thus, G is a finite group with a faithful irreducible complex representation Xof degree 7 which is unimodular and primitive. The character of Xis x- The notation of (8) is used except here p= 7. Thus Pis a 7-Sylow group of G.In §§ 2 and 3 some general theorems about the 3-Sylow group and 5-Sylow group are given. In § 4 the statement of the results when Ghas a non-abelian 7-Sylow group is given. This corresponds to the case |P| =73 or |P|= 74. The proof is given in §§ 5 and 6. In a subsequent paper the results when Pis abelian will be given.

This paper continues the study, begun in [7], of the spectral theory of non-self-ad joint second order ordinary differential operators on a half-line. The case of a ‘Very small” potential was studied in [4; 5; 6]. The case considered in [7], and in the present paper, is that where the potential is not so small.

In a previous paper (Marshall and Olkin (1966)) the authors have derived a multivariate exponential distribution from points of view designed to indicate the applicability of the distribution. Two of these derivations are based on “shock models” and one is based on the requirement that residual life is independent of age. The practical importance of the univariate exponential distribution is partially due to the fact that it governs waiting times in a Poisson process. In this paper, the distribution of joint waiting times in a bivariate Poisson process is investigated. There are several ways to define “joint waiting time”. Some of these lead to the bivariate exponential distribution previously obtained by the authors, but others lead to a generalization of it. This generalized bivariate exponential distribution is also derived from shock models. The moment generating function and other properties of the distribution are investigated.

This paper is a partial solution of problem 24 in (2) which suggests that the finiteness of the partially ordered semigroups generated by various combinations of operators on classes of universal algebras be investigated. The main result is that the semigroups generated by the following sets of operators (for definitions see §2) are finite: {H, S, P, Ps}, {C, H, S, P, PF} {C, H, S, PU, PF}.This paper is part of the author's Master's thesis written in the Department of Mathematics at McMaster University. The author is indebted to the referee for his helpful suggestions.

Eigenvalue problems of the form Af = λBf, where λ is a complex parameter and A and B are operators on a Hilbert Space, have been considered by a number of authors (e.g., [1; 3; 5; 7; 10]). In this paper, we shall be concerned with the existence and nature of eigenfunction expansions associated with such problems, with no assumptions of self-adjointness. The form of the theorems to be given here is: if the system (A, B) is spectral and complete (definitions below), and F and G are operators satisfying certain “smallness” conditions, then (A + F, B + G) is also spectral and complete. The hypotheses for these theorems are chosen with an eye to applying the results to boundary-value problems on a compact interval. Such applications, together with an examination of circumstances under which the system (Dn, Dm) (D denoting differentiation) is spectral and complete under a broad class of boundary conditions, will be made in a later paper.

As the speaker representing the Mathematical Association of America at this session I propose this morning to call your attention to one of the more important duties of a mathematician, namely, the duty of explaining as clearly as possible mathematical truths and discoveries both to his fellow mathematicians and to students of mathematics in general. The American Mathematical Society is especially devoted to the encouragement of research and the secretary of that society has called to your attention during this meeting the remarkable increase in the number of papers presented annually to the Society during the past five years. This increase has been such as to make the problem of publishing the results of mathematical research in America a very acute and difficult one. At the same time it has become more desirable than ever before that the papers published in our American journals should be as clear and as easily readible as possible. The Mathematical Association of America is especially concerned with the teaching and exposition of mathematical truth and it is pretty generally agreed that it is highly desirable that care should be taken to make this teaching and exposition to students as good as possible. I fear, however, that some of my friends who are particularly interested in research agree to this in a rather condescending manner; their tone implying that, whilst nothing should be done to discourage anyone beginning the study of mathematics, such care is not so necessary nor even so desirable when writing for fellow mathematicians. The underlying idea is that a competent mathematician usually prefers to glance at a paper, see the results arrived at, and then derive these results in his own individual manner. I believe that this opinion is not justified by the facts and in support of this belief I shall mention two instances which have recently come to my attention where mathematicians of great competence failed, through a lack of detail or of clarity in available expositions of known results, to arrive at immediate and important corollaries of these results. I shall be happy if my talk this morning tends to make the editors of our mathematical journals insist more definitely on clearness of exposition when considering papers submitted for publication. One can surmise that the writers of at least some of our papers set down their results with the referee of the paper more in mind than the prospective readers. They neglect, therefore, to state or. emphasize points which they think will be familiar to the referee. Of course this is unfortunate since there is us'ually a one-to-one

We consider in this paper eleven conditions on a commutative ringR. The first of these is thatRcontains an identity. It is well known that each of the other properties is a consequence of the first condition. This paper considers other relations which exist between these properties. A complete diagram of all simple implications which exist between the eleven properties, together with proof of these implications, is given in section 3. Examples illustrating simple implications which do not hold are presented in section 4.

In this paper I use techniques developed by Mirsky and Perfect (5) to generalize the extremely close relationship between transversal theory and the theory of matroids or independence structures. I extend in two directions a fundamental theorem of Rado (8) and use the techniques of Mirsky and Perfect to obtain easy proofs of known and unknown results about systems of representatives with repetition.2. Basic concepts. In this section I review the results used subsequently. Throughout the paper, S will denote a finite set and A will denote the collection of subsets of S, {Ai i ∈ I}, where I is a finite index set. |K| will denote the cardinality of a set K and I use the notation

These notes are to supplement my paper (4), and should be read in conjunction with it. Both are divided into three parts, and in these notes the section numbers have a further digit added; thus §1.41 here supplements §1.4 of (4). References by section numbers are always to (4) or to the present notes, but references to other papers are numbered independently.The principal results of these notes are the following. New sphere packings are given in [2m], m ⩾ 6, and in [24], which are twice as dense as those of §§1.6, 2.3. Others are given in [2m], m ⩾ 5, with the same density as those of §1.6, but in which each sphere touches fewer other spheres than in the earlier packings.

In a previous paper (3) generalizations of M. Riesz's theorem by the method of asymptotic approximation have been given. The present paper is concerned with further generalizations for even and odd functions. In Section 3, we consider a generalization of a theorem due to Zygmund: If (10, p. 254). The results in this paper include generalizations of results by K. K. Chen (2) and T. M. Flett (4, Theorems 1, 2) as important special cases.