In this paper, we study a generalization of z-ideals in the ring C(X) of continuous real valued functions on a completely regular Hausdorff space X. The notion of a weak ideal and naturally a weak z-ideal and a prime weak ideal are introduced and it turns out that they behave such as z-ideals in C(X).

We present filling as a new type of spatial subdivision problem that is related to covering and packing. Filling addresses the optimal placement of overlapping objects lying entirely inside an arbitrary shape so as to cover the most interior volume. In n-dimensional space, if the objects are polydisperse n-balls, we show that solutions correspond to sets of maximal n-balls and the solution spac...

We establish triviality of some holomorphic Banach vector bundles on the maximal ideal space M(H∞) of the Banach algebra H∞ of bounded holomorphic functions on the unit disk D ⊂ C with pointwise multiplication and supremum norm. We apply the result to the study of the Sz.-Nagy operator corona problem. 1. Formulation of Main Results 1.1. We continue our study started in [Br2] of analytic objects...

This paper finds its motivation in the pursuit of ideals whose local cohomology modules have maximal Hilbert functions. In [8], [9] we proved that the lexicographic (resp. squarefree lexicographic) ideal of a family of graded (resp. squarefree) ideals with assigned Hilbert function provides sharp upper bounds for the local cohomology modules of any of the ideals of the family. Moreover these bo...

The ideals of the ring Zp are {0} and pZp, n ≥ 0. From this it follows that Zp is a discrete valuation ring, a principal ideal domain with exactly one maximal ideal, namely pZp; Zp is the valuation ring of Qp with the valuation vp. For n ≥ 1, Zp/pZp is isomorphic as a ring with Z/pZ. |x|p = p−vp(x), dp(x, y) = |x− y|p. With the topology induced by the metric dp, Qp is a locally compact abelian ...

We present a duality theorem for bounded lattices that improves and strengthens Urquhart's topological representation for lattices. Rather than using maximal, disjoint lter-ideal pairs, as Urquhart does, we use all disjoint lter-ideal pairs. This allows not only for establishing a bijective correspondance between lattices and a certain kind of doubly ordered Stone Spaces (Urquhart), but for a f...

In this paper, closed ideals in Cc(X), the functionally countable subalgebra of C(X), with mc-topology, is studied. We show that ifX CUC-space, then C*c(X) uniform norm-topology a Banach algebra. Closed Cc(X) as modified analogue C(X) m-topology are characterized. For zero-dimensional space X, we proper ideal if and only it an intersection maximal Cc(X). It also shown every mc-topology X P-spac...

It is shown that a commutative Bézout ring R with compact minimal prime spectrum is an elementary divisor ring if and only if so is R/L for each minimal prime ideal L. This result is obtained by using the quotient space pSpec R of the prime spectrum of the ring R modulo the equivalence generated by the inclusion. When every prime ideal contains only one minimal prime, for instance if R is arith...

Let F be a number field with ring of integers OF and D a division F -algebra with a maximal cyclic subfield K. We study rings occurring as quotients of a natural OF -order Λ in D by two-sided ideals. We reduce the problem to studying the ideal structure of Λ/qΛ, where q is a prime ideal in OF , s ≥ 1. We study the case where q remains unramified in K, both when s = 1 and s > 1. This work is mot...