A way of utilizing Lax-Phillips type semigroups for the description of time evolution of resonances for scattering problems involving Hamiltonians with a semibounded spectrum was recently introduced by Y. Strauss. In the proposed framework the evolution is decomposed into a background term and an exponentially decaying resonance term evolving according to a semigroup law given by a Lax-Phillips...

Abstract We build on the description of left congruences an inverse semigroup in terms kernel and trace due to Petrich Rankin. The notion for a congruence is developed. Various properties are discussed, particular that full subsemigroup both maps onto $$\cap $$ ? -homomorphisms. It shown determined by its ker...

Munn [9] has shown that for a semigroup S satisfying the minimal condition on principal ideals, there is a natural one-to-one correspondence between irreducible representations of S and irreducible representations vanishing at zero of its 0-simple (or simple) principal factors; for the case of S finite, see Ponizovskii [11]. On the other hand, Clifford, [3] and [4], has obtained all representat...

In this dissertation we classify the metabelian groups arising from a restricted class of invertible synchronous automata over a binary alphabet. We give faithful, self-similar actions of Heisenberg groups and upper triangular matrix groups. We introduce a new class of semigroups given by a restricted class of asynchronous automata. We call these semigroups " expanding automaton semigroups ". W...

We apply theorems of Fischer, Morris and Shapiro on affine semigroup rings to show that if a certain affine semigroup ring defined by a poset is a complete intersection, then the poset is either unicyclic or contains a chain, the removal of which increases the number of connected components of the Hasse diagram. This is the converse of a theorem of Boussicault, Feray, Lascoux and Reiner [2]. We...

A combined procedure for separating Lu, Hf, Sm, Nd, and rare earth elements (REEs) from a single sample digest is presented. The procedure consists of the following five steps: (1) sample dissolution via sodium peroxide sintering; (2) separation of the high field strength elements from the REEs and other matrix elements by a HF-free anion-exchange column procedure; (3) purification of Hf on a c...

We study enumerative and homological properties of the Rees product of the cubical lattice with the chain. We give a bijective proof that the Möbius function of this poset can be expressed as n times the permanent of a matrix. This gives a new bijective proof of Jonsson’s result that the Möbius function of the Rees product of the Boolean algebra with the chain is given by a derangement number. ...

Beasley, L.B. and N.J. Pullman, Linear operators that strongly preserve graphical properties of matrices, Discrete Mathematics 104 (1992) 143-157. An operator on the set Ju of n X n matrices strongly preserves a subset 9 if it maps 9 into 9 and A\% into A\%. The operator semigroup of 9 is the semigroup of linear operators strongly preserving 9. We show that all the n x n matrix-families which a...

Given a finite set of matrices with integer entries, consider the question of determining whether the semigroup they generated 1) is free, 2) contains the identity matrix, 3) contains the null matrix or 4) is a group. Even for matrices of dimension 3, questions 1) and 3) are undecidable. For dimension 2, they are still open as far as we know. Here we prove that problems 2) and 4) are decidable ...