A knot in a solid torus defines map on the set of (smooth or topological) concordance classes knots S 3 S^3 ...

–a notion of amenability for topological semigroups is introduced. a topological semigroup s iscalled johnson amenable if for every banach s -bimodule e , every bounded crossed homomorphism froms to e* is principal. in this paper it is shown that a discrete semigroup s is johnson amenable if and only if1(s) is an amenable banach algebra. also, we show that if a topological semigroup s is johns...

We study homomorphisms between randomly directed paths and give estimates on the probability of the existence of such homomorphism. We show that a random path is a core with positive probability. We apply our results in the investigation of homomorphism dualities, the most natural situation when a homomorphism (or Constraint Satisfaction) problem is in coNP.

Partee (1986) claimed without proof that the function BE is the only homomorphism that makes the Partee triangle commute. This paper shows that this claim is incorrect unless “homomorphism” is understood as “complete homomorphism.” It also shows that BE and A are the inverses of each other on certain natural assumptions.

We answer two open questions posed by Cameron and Nesetril concerning homomorphismhomogeneous graphs. In particular we show, by giving a characterization of these graphs, that extendability to monomorphism or to homomorphism leads to the same class of graphs when defining homomorphism-homogeneity. Further we show that there are homomorphism-homogeneous graphs that do not contain the Rado graph ...

Let G and G' be multiplicative systems. A half-homomorphism of G into G' will mean a mapping a—>a' of G into C such that for all a, bEG, (ab)'=a'V or b'a'. An anti-homomorphism is a mapping such that always (ab)' = b'a'. The terms half-isomorphism, etc., are defined similarly. It will be shown that any half-homomorphism of a group G into a group G' is either a homomorphism or an anti-homomorphi...