S. Janson [Poset limits and exchangeable random posets, Combinatorica 31 (2011), 529–563] defined limits of finite posets in parallel to the emerging theory of limits of dense graphs. We prove that each poset limit can be represented as a kernel on the unit interval with the standard order, thus answering an open question of Janson. We provide two proofs: real-analytic and combinatorial. The co...

Let X,Y be locally compact Hausdorff spaces and M,N be Banach algebras. Let θ : C0(X,M) → C0(Y,N ) be a zero-product preserving bounded linear map with dense range. We show that θ is given by a continuous field of algebra homomorphisms from M into N if N is irreducible. As corollaries, such a surjective θ arises from an algebra homomorphism, provided thatM is a W*-algebra and N is a semi-simple...

A category with finite products and finite coproducts is said to be distributive if the canonical map A×B + A×C → A× (B + C) is invertible for all objects A, B, and C. Given a distributive category D , we describe a universal functor D → Dex preserving finite products and finite coproducts, for which Dex is extensive; that is, for all objects A and B the functor Dex/A × Dex/B → Dex/(A + B) is a...

We consider the problem of characterizing, for certain natural number m, the local C-non-integrability near elliptic fixed points of smooth planar measure preserving maps. Our criterion relates this non-integrability with the existence of some Lie Symmetries associated to the maps, together with the study of the finiteness of its periodic points. One of the steps in the proof uses the regularit...

Global aspects of the motion of passive scalars in time-dependent incompressible fluid flows are well described by volume-preserving (Liouvillian) three-dimensional maps. In this paper the possible invariant structures in Liouvillian maps and the two most interesting nearly-integrable cases are investigated. In addition, the fundamental role of invariant lines in organizing the dynamics of this...