We classify the hulls of different limit-periodic potentials and show that the hull of a limit-periodic potential is a procyclic group. We describe how limit-periodic potentials can be generated from a procyclic group and answer arising questions. As an expository paper, we discuss the connection between limit-periodic potentials and profinite groups as completely as possible and review some recent results on Schrödinger operators obtained in this...

Let $R$ be a prime ring of characteristic different from $2$, $U$ the Utumi quotient ring of $R$, $C=Z\left(U\right)$ the extended centroid of $R$, $L$ a non-central Lie ideal of $R$, $F$ a non-zero generalized derivation of $R$. Suppose that $\left[F\right(u),u]F\left(u\right)=0$ for all $u\in L$, then one of the following holds: (1) there exists $\alpha \in C$ such that $F\left(x\right)=\alpha x$ for all $x\in R$; (2) $R$ satisfies the standard identity $s_4$ and there exist $a\in U$ and $\alpha \in C$ such that $F\left(x\right)=ax+xa+\alpha x$ for all $x\in R$. We also extend the result to the one-sided case. Finally, as an application we obtain some range inclusion results of...

Let T be a spherical 2-expansive m-tuple and let $T^{}$ denote its spherical Cauchy dual. If $T^{}$ is commuting then the inequality $\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{{\sum }_{\left|\beta \right|=k}{(\beta !)}^{-1}{\left(T^{}\right)}^{\beta }\left(T^{}\right){*}^{\beta }\le (k+m-1}{k){\sum }_{\left|\beta \right|=k}{(\beta !)}^{-1}\left(T^{}\right){*}^{\beta }{\left(T^{}\right)}^{\beta }}$ holds for every positive integer k. In case m = 1, this reveals the rather curious fact that all positive integral powers of the Cauchy dual of a 2-expansive (or concave) operator are hyponormal.

The Invariant Subspace Problem for Hilbert spaces is a long-standing question and the use of universal operators in the sense of Rota has been an important tool for studying such important problem. In this survey, we focus on Rota’s universal operators, pointing out their main properties and exhibiting some old and recent examples.

For 1 ≤ q < ∞, let ${}_q\left(\right)$ denote the Banach algebra consisting of the bounded complex-valued functions on the unit circle having uniformly bounded q-variation on the dyadic arcs. We describe a broad class ℐ of UMD spaces such that whenever X ∈ ℐ, the sequence space ℓ²(ℤ,X) admits the classes ${}_q\left(\right)$ as Fourier multipliers, for an appropriate range of values of q > 1 (the range of q depending on X). This multiplier result expands the vector-valued Marcinkiewicz Multiplier Theorem in the direction q >...

We consider an embedding of the group of invertible transformations of [0,1] into the algebra of bounded linear operators on an Orlicz space. We show that if this embedding preserves the group action then the Orlicz space is an $L^p$-space for some 1 ≤ p < ∞.