In finite-dimensional simple Lie algebras and affine Kac-Moody algebras, Chevalley involutions are crucial ingredients of the modular theory. Towards establishing theory for extended we investigate existence “Chevalley involutions” tori algebras. We first discuss how to lift a involution from centerless core which is characterized be torus then entire algebra. prove by type-dependent argument t...

we characterize compact composition operators on real banach spaces of complex-valued bounded lipschitz functions on metric spaces, not necessarily compact, with lipschitz involutions and determine their spectra.

Let In(π) denote the number of involutions in the symmetric group Sn which avoid the permutation π. We say that two permutations α, β ∈ Sj may be exchanged if for every k and ordering τ of j + 1, . . . , k, we have In(ατ) = In(βτ) for every n. Here we prove that 12 and 21 may be exchanged and that 123 and 321 may be exchanged. The first of these theorems gives a number of known results for patt...

In this paper we look at polynomials arising from statistics on the classes of involutions, In, and involutions with no fixed points, Jn, in the symmetric group. Our results are motivated by F. Brenti’s conjecture [3] which states that the Eulerian distribution of In is logconcave. Symmetry of the generating functions is shown for the statistics d, maj and the joint distribution (d, maj). We sh...

The question of the existence of an analogue, in the framework of central simple algebras with involution, of the notion of Pfister form is raised. In particular, algebras with orthogonal involution which split as a tensor product of quaternion algebras with involution are studied. It is proven that, up to degree 16, over any extension over which the algebra splits, the involution is adjoint to...

In this paper, we characterize unitary representations of π := π1(S \{s1, . . . , sl}) whose generators u1, . . . , ul (lying in conjugacy classes fixed initially) can be decomposed as products of two Lagrangian involutions uj = σjσj+1 with σl+1 = σ1 . Our main result is that such representations are exactly the elements of the fixed-point set of an anti-symplectic involution defined on the mod...