Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Contents of Volume 77, Number 6
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Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 77, Number 6 (1971): PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971)

Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 77, Number 6 (1971): PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971)

Finite simple groups of low 2-rank and the families $G_2 \left ( q \right ), D_4^2 \left ( q \right ), q$ odd: Daniel Gorenstein and Koichiro Harada PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 829-862

Ergodic theory and the geodesic flow on surfaces of constant negative curvature: Eberhard Hopf PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 863-877

Some new results in the Kolmogorov-Sinai theory of entropy and ergodic theory: Donald S. Ornstein PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 878-890

The functional-differential equation $y’\left ( x \right ) = ay\left ( {\lambda x} \right ) + by\left ( x \right )$: Tosio Kate and J. B. McLeod PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 891-937

Causally oriented manifolds and groups: Irving Segal PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 958-959

Orders in semilocal rings: Carl Faith PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 960-962

Fourier transforms of the beurling classes $\mathfrak {D}_\omega , \varepsilon ’_\omega$: C. A. Berenstein and M. A. Dostal PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 963-967

Bessel potentials. Inclusion relations among classes of exceptional sets: David R. Adams and Norman G. Meyers PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 968-970

Pfister forms and $K$-theory of fields: Richard Elman and T. Y. Lam PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 971-974

Convenient categories of topological algebras: Eduardo J. Dubuc and Horacio Porta PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 975-979

An extension of Khintchine’s estimate for large deviations to a class of Markov chains converging to a singular diffusion: H. Brezis, W. Rosenkrantz and B. Singer PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 980-982

Primitive subalgebras of exceptional Lie algebras: Martin Golubitsky and Bruce Rothschild PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 983-986

Invariants for semifree $S^1$-actions: Katsuo Kawakubo PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 987-991

Automorphisms of a free associative algebra of rank 2: Anastasia Czerniakiewicz PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 992-994

On the existence of specified cycles in complementary graphs: Gary Chartrand and Seymour Schuster PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 995-998

On the existence of a control measure for strongly bounded vector measures: James K. Brooks PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 999-1001

Condition $\left ( {\text {C}} \right )$ and geodesics on Sobolev manifolds: Halldór I. Elíasson PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1002-1005

Localization and completion in homotopy theory: A. K. Bousfield and D. M. Kan PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1006-1010

Abstract wave equations with finite velocity of propagation: Stephen Berman PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1011-1013

An exact sequence involving the Chern character: Albert T. Lundell PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1014-1017

An existence theorem for ordinary differential equations in Banach spaces: Shui-Nee Chow and J.D. Schuur PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1018-1020

Weighted approximation of continuous functions: João B. Prolla PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1021-1024

${\text {PL}}$ characteristic classes and cobordism: G. Brumfiel, I. Madsen and R. J. Milgram PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1025-1030

Kreiss’ mixed problems with nonzero initial data: Jeffrey Rauch PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1031-1033

The interpolatory background of the Euler-MacLaurin quadrature formula: I. J. Schoenberg and A. Sharma PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1034-1038

On equidistant cubic spline interpolation: I. J. Schoenberg PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1039-1044

Curvature and complex analysis: R. E. Greene and H. Wu PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1045-1049

On conjugate powers in eighth-groups: Seymour Lipschutz PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1050-1051

The square of every nonseparable graph is Hamiltonian: Herbert Fleischner PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1052-1054

Some orders of infinite lattice type: Klaus W. Roggenkamp PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1055-1056

The cardinality of first countable spaces: Prabir Roy PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1057-1059

Homotopy types of some ${\text {PL}}$ complexes: Tadatoshi Akiba PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1060-1062

Representation theory for division algebras over local fields (tamely ramified case): Roger Howe PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1063-1066

Existence of polynomial identities in $A \otimes _F B$: Amitai Regev PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1067-1069

A structure theorem for complete noncompact hypersurfaces of nonnegative curvature: H. Wu PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1070-1071

$BSJ$ does not map correctly into $BSF$ ${\text {MOD}}$ 2: Robert Clough and James Stasheff PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1072-1074

Lefschetz formula and Morse inequalities: Everett Pitcher PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1075-1078

Minimality in families of solutions of $\Delta u = Pu$ on Riemannian manifolds: Kwang-nan Chow PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1079-1081

Dissipative periodic processes: J. E. Billotti and J. P. Lasalle PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1082-1088

A note on Mackey’s imprimitivity theorem: Peter R. Mueller-Roemer PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1089-1090

Extension of positive holomorphic line bundles: Bernard Shiffman PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1091-1093

Some fundamental theorems in cohomology theory of topological transformation groups: Wu-yi Hsiang PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1094-1098

On $\Gamma$-structures: M. G. Barratt PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1099

Variational problems within the class of solutions of a partial differential equation: Robert Delver PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1100-1105

Deformations of normal vector fields and the generalized Minkowski problem: Herman Gluck PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1106-1110

On Haefliger’s classifying space. I: John N. Mather PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1111-1115

On extensions of fundamental groups of surfaces and related groups: Heiner Zieschang PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1116-1119

Errata, Volume 77: PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1120

Addendum to finite dimensional $H$-spaces: Morton Curtis PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1120

Erratum, Volume 76: PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1120

Bylaws of the American Mathematical Society: PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1121-1129

Endowment fund and prize funds: PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1130-1135

Officers and lecturers of the Society: PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1136-1137

Index to volume 77: PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 1138-1146

Book Reviews
Book reviews do not contain an abstract. You may download each review in this issue using the links below.

Equations in Linear Spaces, by D. Przeworska-Rolewicz and S. Rolewicz.
Theory of Generalized Spectral Operators, by Ion Colojoara and Ciprian Foiaş.
Analyse harmonique des operateurs de l'espace de Hilbert, by Bela Sz.-Nagy and Ciprian Foiaş.
Introduction to the Theory of Linear Nonselfadjoint Operators, by I. C. Goh′berg and M. G. Kreĭn.: Reviewer: Ronald Douglas; Review information PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 938-943

Introduction to analytic number theory, by K. Chandrasekharan.
Arithmetic functions, by K. Chandrasekharan.
Multiplicative number theory, by Harold Davenport.
Sequences, by H. Halberstam and K. F. Roth.: Reviewer: H. M. Stark; Review information PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), 943-957