Any such neighborhood is called an expansive neighborhood of the identity in X. An automorphism τ of X is said to be expansive if the cyclic group generated by τ acts expansively on X. It is easy to check that when X is compact and ρ is an endomorphism action of a semigroup Γ, these two notions of expansiveness coincide. The notion of expansiveness plays an important role in the study of dynami...

We prove that any stable, additive, combinatorial model category M has a canonical model enrichment over Sp(sAb) (symmetric spectra based on simplicial abelian groups). So to any object X ∈ M one can attach an endomorphism ring object in this category, denoted hEndad(X). Since the homotopy theory of ring objects in Sp(sAb) is equivalent to the homotopy theory of differential graded algebras, on...

Let f be a continuous ring endomorphism of ZpJxK/Zp of degree p. We prove that if f acts on the tangent space at 0 by a uniformizer and commutes with an automorphism of infinite order, then it is necessarily an endomorphism of a formal group over Zp. The proof relies on finding a stable embedding of ZpJxK in Fontaine’s crystalline period ring with the property that f appears in the monoid of en...

Let X be a projective bundle. We prove that X admits an endomorphism of degree > 1 and commuting with the projection to the base, if and only if X trivializes after a finite covering. When X is the projectivization of a vector bundle E of rank 2, we prove that it has an endomorphism of degree > 1 on a general fiber only if E splits after a finite base change. It is clear that, for a complex pro...

Hecke endomorphism algebras are endomorphism algebras over a Hecke algebra associated to a finite Weyl group W of certain q-permutation modules, the “tensor spaces.” Such a space may be defined for any W in terms of a direct sum of certain cyclic modules associated to parabolic subgroups. The associated algebras have important applications to the representations of finite groups of Lie type. In...

For any complete chain I whose distinct elements are separated by cover pairs, and for every family {Mi | i∈ I} of monoids, we construct a family of graphs {Gi | i∈ I} such that Gi is a proper induced subgraph of Gj for all i; j∈ I with i ¡ j, Gi = ⋂ {Gj | j∈ I; i ¡ j} whenever i = inf{ j∈ I | j¿ i} in I , Gi = ⋃ {Gj | j∈ I; j ¡ i} whenever i = sup{ j∈ I | j¡ i} in I , the endomorphism monoid o...

It is well-known that modules with pathological properties can be obtained by constructing modules with \nearly prescribed" endomorphism rings. (See, for example, [5], [2], [3], or [10].) Here we shall investigate that method using a rather weak notion of nearly prescribing the endomorphism ring, namely one that just requires that a certain ring be algebraically closed in the endomorphism ring ...