{"title":"Decidability problem for exponential equations in finitely presented groups","authors":"O. Bogopolski, A. Ivanov","doi":"10.4153/S0008439522000698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4153/S0008439522000698","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We study the following decision problem: given an exponential equation \u0000$a_1g_1^{x_1}a_2g_2^{x_2}dots a_ng_n^{x_n}=1$\u0000 over a recursively presented group G, decide if it has a solution with all \u0000$x_i$\u0000 in \u0000$mathbb {Z}$\u0000 . We construct a finitely presented group G where this problem is decidable for equations with one variable and is undecidable for equations with two variables. We also study functions estimating possible solutions of such an equation through the lengths of its coefficients with respect to a given generating set of G. Another result concerns Turing degrees of some natural fragments of the above problem.","PeriodicalId":55280,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Mathematical Bulletin-Bulletin Canadien De Mathematiques","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44524963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Norms on complex matrices induced by random vectors","authors":"Ángel Chávez, S. Garcia, Jackson Hurley","doi":"10.4153/S0008439522000741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4153/S0008439522000741","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We introduce a family of norms on the \u0000$n times n$\u0000 complex matrices. These norms arise from a probabilistic framework, and their construction and validation involve probability theory, partition combinatorics, and trace polynomials in noncommuting variables. As a consequence, we obtain a generalization of Hunter’s positivity theorem for the complete homogeneous symmetric polynomials.","PeriodicalId":55280,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Mathematical Bulletin-Bulletin Canadien De Mathematiques","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49456108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Słociński–Wold decompositions for row isometries","authors":"Adam H. Fuller","doi":"10.4153/S0008439522000686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4153/S0008439522000686","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Słociński gave sufficient conditions for commuting isometries to have a nice Wold-like decomposition. In this note, we provide analogous results for row isometries satisfying certain commutation relations. Other than known results for doubly commuting row isometries, we provide sufficient conditions for a Wold decomposition based on the Lebesgue decomposition of the row isometries.","PeriodicalId":55280,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Mathematical Bulletin-Bulletin Canadien De Mathematiques","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41475756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A multiplicative Kowalski–Słodkowski theorem for \u0000$C^star $\u0000 -algebras","authors":"C. Touré, R. Brits, Geethika Sebastian","doi":"10.4153/S0008439522000662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4153/S0008439522000662","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We present here a multiplicative version of the classical Kowalski–Słodkowski theorem, which identifies the characters among the collection of all functionals on a complex and unital Banach algebra A. In particular, we show that, if A is a \u0000$C^star $\u0000 -algebra, and if \u0000$phi :Ato mathbb C $\u0000 is a continuous function satisfying \u0000$ phi (x)phi (y) in sigma (xy) $\u0000 for all \u0000$x,yin A$\u0000 (where \u0000$sigma $\u0000 denotes the spectrum), then either \u0000$phi $\u0000 is a character of A or \u0000$-phi $\u0000 is a character of A.","PeriodicalId":55280,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Mathematical Bulletin-Bulletin Canadien De Mathematiques","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42053749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}