An endomorphism of the free monoid A∗ is invertible if it is injective and extends to an automorphism of the free group generated by A. A simple example: the endomorphism that leaves all generators A invariant except one, say a, which is mapped to ba for some other generator b. We give a monoid presentation for the submonoid generated by all such endomorphisms when a and b are taken arbitrarily...

We initiate the systematic study of endomorphism algebras of permutation modules and show they are obtainable by a descent from a certain generic Hecke algebra, infinite-dimensional in general, coming from the universal enveloping algebra of gl n (or sln). The endomorphism algebras and the generic algebras are cellular (in the latter case, of profinite type in the sense of R.M. Green). We give ...

In this paper, within the constructive algebraic analysis approach to linear systems, we study classical linear systems of partial differential (PD) equations in two or three independent variables with constant coefficients appearing in mathematical physics and engineering sciences such as the Stokes and Oseen equations studied in hydrodynamics. We first provide a precise algebraic description ...

This paper introduces a new real-time concept of reconfigurable P-timed Petri nets. Our goal is to provide a formal model to build and modify a net on the fly. In the first part of the article, the original P-timed extensions are summarized. Then we define an endomorphism that alters the original Petri net in real time; for instance one can change the number of tokens or the net structure. The ...

Introduction 1 1. Invariant Subspaces 3 2. Eigenvectors, Eigenvalues and Eigenspaces 11 3. Cyclic Spaces 14 4. Prime and Primary Vectors 15 5. The Cyclic Decomposition Theorem 20 6. Rational and Jordan Canonical Forms 22 7. Similarity 23 8. The Cayley-Hamilton Polynomial (Or: Up With Determinants?) 24 9. Extending The Ground Field 25 9.1. Some Invariances Under Base Extension 25 9.2. Semisimpli...

For discrete groups G, we introduce equivariant Nielsen invariants. They are equivariant analogs of the Nielsen number and give lower bounds for the number of fixed point orbits in the G-homotopy class of an equivariant endomorphism f : X → X. Under mild hypotheses, these lower bounds are sharp. We use the equivariant Nielsen invariants to show that a G-equivariant endomorphism f is G-homotopic...

Let V be a vector space over some field k, and let α : V V be a linear map (an ‘endomorphism of V ’). Given any polynomial p with coefficients in k, there is an endomorphism p(α) of V , and we say that p is an annihilating polynomial for α if p(α) = 0. Our first major goal is to see that for any α, the annihilating polynomials can easily be classified: they’re precisely the multiples of a certa...