Contents of Volume 130, Number 5

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A generalization of the non-triviality theorem of Serre

Stephan Klaus.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1249-1256
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MathSciNet review: 1879944

Counting generic genus–$0$ curves on Hirzebruch surfaces

Holger Spielberg.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1257-1264
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MathSciNet review: 1879945

Evaluations of initial ideals and Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity

Ngô Viêt Trung.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1265-1274
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MathSciNet review: 1879946

On the class number of certain imaginary quadratic fields

J. H. E. Cohn.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1275-1277
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Commutator inequalities associated with the polar decomposition

Fuad Kittaneh.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1279-1283
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MathSciNet review: 1879948

Flat covers and cotorsion envelopes of sheaves

Edgar Enochs and Luis Oyonarte.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1285-1292
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MathSciNet review: 1879949

A new statistic for the $3x+1$ problem

David Gluck and Brian D. Taylor.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1293-1301
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MathSciNet review: 1879950

Generic, almost primitive and test elements of free Lie algebras

Alexander A. Mikhalev, Ualbai Umirbaev and Jie-Tai Yu.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1303-1310
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MathSciNet review: 1879951

Triangular derivations related to problems on affine $n$-space

Arno van den Essen and Peter van Rossum.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1311-1322
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MathSciNet review: 1879952

Simple algebras of Weyl type, II

Kaiming Zhao.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1323-1332
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MathSciNet review: 1879953

Relative Brauer groups and $m$-torsion

Eli Aljadeff and Jack Sonn.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1333-1337
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MathSciNet review: 1879954

Hölder estimates of solutions to a degenerate diffusion equation

Yunguang Lu.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1339-1343
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MathSciNet review: 1879955

Periodic solutions in periodic state-dependent delay equations and population models

Yongkun Li and Yang Kuang.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1345-1353
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MathSciNet review: 1879956

Approximation with interpolatory constraints

H. N. Mhaskar, F. J. Narcowich, N. Sivakumar and J. D. Ward.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1355-1364
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MathSciNet review: 1879957

Fredholmness and invertibility of Toeplitz operators with matrix almost periodic symbols

Leiba Rodman, Ilya M. Spitkovsky and Hugo J. Woerdeman.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1365-1370
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MathSciNet review: 1879958

On the failure of the factorization condition for non-degenerate Fourier integral operators

Michael Ruzhansky.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1371-1376
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MathSciNet review: 1879959

Critical points of the area functional of a complex closed curve on the manifold of Kähler metrics

Abel Castorena.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1377-1381
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MathSciNet review: 1879960

Local boundary dilatation of quasiconformal maps in the disk

Guizhen Cui and Yi Qi.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1383-1389
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MathSciNet review: 1879961

On semiprojectivity of $C^{*}$-algebras of directed graphs

Wojciech Szymanski.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1391-1399
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MathSciNet review: 1879962

The extension of positive definite operator-valued functions defined on a symmetric interval of an ordered group

Mihály Bakonyi.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1401-1406
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MathSciNet review: 1879963

Semigroups of mappings with rigid Lipschitz constant

Enrique Llorens-Fuster.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1407-1412
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MathSciNet review: 1879964

Existence of multiwavelets in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$

Carlos A. Cabrelli and María Luisa Gordillo.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1413-1424
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MathSciNet review: 1879965

Ultrastability of ideals of homogeneous polynomials and multilinear mappings on Banach spaces

Klaus Floret and Stephan Hunfeld.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1425-1435
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MathSciNet review: 1879966

A uniqueness result concerning Schur ideals

James P. Solazzo.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1437-1445
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MathSciNet review: 1879967

The range of operators on von Neumann algebras

Teresa Bermúdez and N. J. Kalton.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1447-1455
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MathSciNet review: 1879968

Parallel tangent hyperplanes

Sol Schwartzman.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1457-1458
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MathSciNet review: 1879969

Minimal Lagrangian submanifolds with constant sectional curvature in indefinite complex space forms

Luc Vrancken.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1459-1466
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MathSciNet review: 1879970

An isoperimetric comparison theorem for Schwarzschild space and other manifolds

Hubert Bray and Frank Morgan.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1467-1472
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MathSciNet review: 1879971

Proof of the prime power conjecture for projective planes of order $n$ with abelian collineation groups of order $n^{2}$

Aart Blokhuis, Dieter Jungnickel and Bernhard Schmidt.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1473-1476
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MathSciNet review: 1879972

Directive trees and games on posets

Tetsuya Ishiu and Yasuo Yoshinobu.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1477-1485
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MathSciNet review: 1879973

A combinatorial property of cardinals

Péter Komjáth and Miklós Laczkovich.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1487-1491
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MathSciNet review: 1879974

Central limit theorem for Banach space valued fuzzy random variables

Frank N. Proske and Madan L. Puri.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1493-1501
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MathSciNet review: 1879975

On an adjoint functor to the Thom functor

Yuli B. Rudyak.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1503-1506
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MathSciNet review: 1879976

Normal characteristic numbers

R. E. Stong.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1507-1513
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MathSciNet review: 1879977

The fundamental groups of one-dimensional wild spaces and the Hawaiian earring

Katsuya Eda.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1515-1522
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MathSciNet review: 1879978

Immersions of surfaces in almost–complex 4–manifolds

Christian Bohr.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1523-1532
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MathSciNet review: 1879979

L$^{p}$ estimates on functions of Markov operators

Michel Marias.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1533-1537
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MathSciNet review: 1879980

On a theorem of Jaworowski on locally equivariant contractible spaces

Sergei M. Ageev and Dusan Repovs.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1539-1550
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MathSciNet review: 1879981

New examples of non–slice, algebraically slice knots

Charles Livingston.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1551-1555
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MathSciNet review: 1879982

From $K(n+1)_{*}(X)$ to $K(n)_{*}(X)$

Norihiko Minami.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1557-1562
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MathSciNet review: 1879983