It is shown that a partial unital with more than q √ q+1−√q points in the Desarguesian plane of order q can be extended to a unital.

Let U be the classical unital in PG(2, q2) secant to `∞. By deriving PG(2, q) with respect to a derivation set disjoint from U we obtain a new unital U ′ in the Hall plane of order q2. We show that this unital contains O’Nan configurations and is not isomorphic to the known unitals of the Hall plane, hence it forms a new class of unitals in the Hall plane.

A Buekenhout-Tits unital is defined to be a unital in PG(2, q2) obtained by coning the Tits ovoid using Buekenhout’s parabolic method. The full linear collineation group stabilizing this unital is computed, and related design questions are also addressed. While the answers to the design questions are very similar to those obtained for Buekenhout-Metz unitals, the group theoretic results are qui...

We introduce and launch a study of compression bases in unital groups. The family of all compressions on a compressible group and the family of all direct compressions on a unital group are examples of compression bases. In this article we show that the properties of the compatibility relation in a compressible group generalize to unital groups with compression bases. AMS Classification: Primar...

We study the Lie module structure given by the Gerstenhaber bracket on the Hochschild cohomology groups of a monomial algebra with radical square zero. The description of such Lie module structure will be given in terms of the combinatorics of the quiver. The Lie module structure will be related to the classification of finite dimensional modules over simple Lie algebras when the quiver is give...

A linear mapping T from a subspace E of a Banach algebra into another Banach algebra is called spectrally bounded if there is a constant M ≥ 0 such that r(Tx) ≤ M r(x) for all x ∈ E, where r( · ) denotes the spectral radius. We prove that every spectrally bounded unital operator from a unital purely infinite simple C∗-algebra onto a unital semisimple Banach algebra is a Jordan epimorphism.

We give some new characterizations, of unitaries, isometries, unital operator spaces, unital function spaces, operator systems, C-algebras, and related objects. Several characterizations of these objects are already known; see e.g. [15, Theorem 9.5.16], [1], the discussion on p. 316 of [4], [14], and [13]. One difference between our paper and these cited references, is that our results only use...

Let  be a commutative ring and  be a unitary  module. We define a semi prime sub module of a module and consider various properties of it. Also we define semi-radical of a sub module of a module and give a number of its properties. We define modules which satisfy the semi-radical formula and present the existence of such a module.

A new class of coefficients for the Hopf-cyclic homology of module algebras and coalgebras is introduced. These coefficients, termed stable anti-Yetter-Drinfeld contramodules, are both modules and contramodules of a Hopf algebra that satisfy certain compatibility conditions. 1. Introduction. It has been demonstrated in [8], [9] that the Hopf-cyclic homology developed by Connes and Moscovici [5]...