Many organizations maintain identity information for their customers, vendors, and employees, etc. However, identities being compromised cannot be retrieved effectively. In this paper we first present a case study on identity problems existing in a local police department. The study show that more than half of the sampled suspects have altered identities existing in the police information syste...

Let A be a Banach algebra with a bounded left approximate identity. The Cohen Factorization Theorem is used to prove several results concerning the representation theory of A.

We continue the investigation of notions of approximate amenability that were introduced in work of the second and third authors together with R. J. Loy. It is shown that every boundedly approximately contractible Banach algebra has a bounded approximate identity, and that the Fourier algebra of the free group on two generators is not operator approximately amenable. Further examples are obtain...

Tikhonov regularization is one of the most popular approaches to solving linear discrete ill-posed problems. The choice of regularization matrix may significantly affect the quality of the computed solution. When the regularization matrix is the identity, iterated Tikhonov regularization can yield computed approximate solutions of higher quality than (standard) Tikhonov regularization. This pap...

We consider in dimension four weakly convergent sequences of approximate biharmonic maps to a Riemannian manifold with bi-tension fields bounded in L for p > 4 3 . We prove an energy identity that accounts for the loss of hessian energies by the sum of hessian energies over finitely many nontrivial biharmonic maps on R. As a corollary, we obtain an energy identity for the heat flow of biharmoni...

Let A be a Banach algebra with the second dual A∗∗. If A has a bounded approximate identity (= BAI), then A∗∗ is unital if and only if A∗∗ has a weak∗ bounded approximate identity(= W ∗BAI). If A is Arens regular and A has a BAI, then A∗ factors on both sides. In this paper we introduce new concepts LW ∗W and RW ∗W property and we show that under certain conditions if A has LW ∗W and RW ∗W prop...