Let R be a commutative integral domain with quotient field K and let P be a nonzero strongly prime ideal of R. We give several characterizations of such ideals. It is shown that (P : P) is a valuation domain with the unique maximal ideal P. We also study when P^{&minus1} is a ring. In fact, it is proved that P^{&minus1} = (P : P) if and only if P is not invertible. Furthermore, if P is invertib...

Abstract We prove that the maximal number of conics in a smooth sextic $K3$ -surface $X\subset \mathbb {P}^4$ is 285, whereas real 261. In both extremal configurations, all are irreducible.

A natural generalization of Cohen's set of forcing conditions (the t w ~ valued functions with domain a finite subset of w) is the set of twovalued functions with domain an element of an ideal J on ~. The I~roblem treated in this paper is to determine when such forcing yields a generic real of minimal degree of constructibility. A :;imple decomposition argument shows that the non-maximality of ...

Munn [9] has shown that for a semigroup S satisfying the minimal condition on principal ideals, there is a natural one-to-one correspondence between irreducible representations of S and irreducible representations vanishing at zero of its 0-simple (or simple) principal factors; for the case of S finite, see Ponizovskii [11]. On the other hand, Clifford, [3] and [4], has obtained all representat...

Work of Clifford, Munn and Ponizovskĭı parameterized the irreducible representations of a finite semigroup in terms of the irreducible representations of its maximal subgroups. Explicit constructions of the irreducible representations were later obtained independently by Rhodes and Zalcstein and by Lallement and Petrich. All of these approaches make use of Rees’s theorem characterizing 0-simple...

We define a code in a sofic shift as a set of blocks of symbols of the shift such that any block of the shift has at most one decomposition in code words. It is maximal if it is not strictly included in another one. Such a code is complete in the sofic shift if any block of the shift occurs within some concatenation of code words. We prove that a maximal code in an irreducible sofic shift is co...

Let $R$ be a commutative ring with identity. Let $G(R)$ denote the maximal graph associated to $R$, i.e., $G(R)$ is a graph with vertices as the elements of $R$, where two distinct vertices $a$ and $b$ are adjacent if and only if there is a maximal ideal of $R$ containing both. Let $Gamma(R)$ denote the restriction of $G(R)$ to non-unit elements of $R$. In this paper we study the various graphi...

We give a new representation theoretic interpretation of the ring of quasisymmetric functions. This is obtained by showing that the super analogue of the Gessel’s fundamental quasi-symmetric function can be realized as the character of an irreducible crystal for the Lie superalgebra gln|n associated to its non-standard Borel subalgebra with a maximal number of odd isotropic simple roots. We als...

An interesting result proved by Halmos in Hal (Michigan Mathematical Journal, 15, 215–223 (1968) is that the set of irreducible operators dense $${\mathcal {B}}({\mathcal {H}})$$ sense Hilbert-Schmidt approximation. In a von Neumann algebra {M}}$$ with separable predual, an operator $$a\in {\mathcal said to be if $$W^*(a)$$ subfactor , i.e., $$W^*(a)'\cap {M}}={{\mathbb {C}}} \cdot I$$ . Let $$...