Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Contents of Volume 79, Number 2
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Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 79, Number 2 (1973): PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973)

Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 79, Number 2 (1973): PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973)

An exposition of the structure of solvmanifolds. Part I: Algebraic theory: Louis Auslander PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 227-261

An exposition of the structure of solvmanifolds. part II: $G$-induced flows: Louis Auslander PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 262-285

Algebras of functions on the unit circle: Donald Sarason PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 286-299

The summer meeting in Hanover: Everett Pitcher and Walter Gottschalk PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 307-326

On a question of Douglas and Fillmore: James A. Deddens and Joseph G. Stampfli PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 327-330

A unified treatment of some basic problems in homotopy theory: Peter I. Booth PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 331-336

Contribution to the theory of Euler’s function $\varphi \left ( x \right )^1$: Emil Grosswald PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 337-341

Fourier series of operators and an extension of the F. and M. Riesz theorem: Karel de Leeuw PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 342-344

Behavior at the boundary of a solution to Plateau’s problem: John E. Brothers PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 345-349

Nonunique continuation for uniformly parabolic and elliptic equations in selfadjoint divergence form with Hölder continuous coefficients: Keith Miller PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 350-354

Functions with a spectral gap: Harold S. Shapiro PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 355-360

Double centralizers of Pedersen’s ideal of a $C^*$-algebra. II: A. J. Lazar and D. C. Taylor PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 361-366

Spectral mapping theorems on a tensor product: Robin Harte PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 367-372

A fundamental solution for a subelliptic operator: G. B. Folland PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 373-376

Fiberings of manifolds and transversality: Norman Levitt PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 377-381

Remarks on a paper of D. Ludwig: V. Guillemin and D. Schaeffer PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 382-385

Weighted approximation for modules of continuous functions: W. H. Summers PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 386-388

Decomposability of homotopy Lens spaces: Kai Wang PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 389-392

Filtration techniques in the study of Lie algebras: Brian T. Smith PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 393-399

Normal forms for systems of semilinear hyperbolic partial differential equations: J. Eisenfeld and P. M. Zaretzki PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 400-402

On the polygonal connectivity of polyhedra and the closure of open connected sets: Nick M. Stavrakas PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 403-406

Dimension sequences for commutative rings: Jimmy T. Arnold and Robert Gilmer PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 407-409

Locally nice codimension one manifolds are locally flat: Robert J. Daverman PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 410-413

Local spectral mapping theorems: Robert G. Bartle and Constantine A. Kariotis PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 414-415

Periodic and homogeneous states on a von Neumann algebra. II: Masamichi Takesaki PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 416-420

Prime ideals in Noetherian ${\text {PI}}$-rings: Lance W. Small PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 421-422

An algebraic, energy conserving formulation of classical molecular and Newtonian $n$-body interaction: Donald Greenspan PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 423-427

A note on almost periodic solutions of linear partial differential equations: George R. Sell PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 428-430

Wave front sets and the viscosity method: Joel A. Smoller and Michael E. Taylor PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 431-436

Euclidean subrings of global fields: Clifford S. Queen PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 437-439

Singular integrals and estimates for the Cauchy-Riemann equations: E. M. Stein PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 440-445

On subspaces of separable norm ideals: J. R. Holub PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 446-448

Formal groups over discrete rings: Robert A. Morris and Bodo Pareigis PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 449-453

On the multiplicity of the spectrum of the space of cusp forms of $GL_n$: J. A. Shalika PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 454-461

Minimum covers for arcs of constant length: George Poole and John Gerriets PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 462-463

Boundary values in chromatic graph theory: Michael O. Albertson and Herbert S. Wilf PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 464

The $L^p$-integrability of the partial derivatives of a quasiconformal mapping: F. W. Gehring PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 465-466

Projective modules for finite Chevalley groups: J. E. Humphreys and D. N. Verma PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 467-468

Appell polynomials whose generating function is meromorphic on its circle of convergence: J. D. Buckholtz PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 469-472

Weakly continuous accretive operators: W. E. Fitzgibbon PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 473-474

Local nondeterminism and local times of Gaussian processes: Simeon M. Berman PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 475-477

Stochastic integrals and parabolic equations in abstract Wiener space: Hui-Hsiung Kuo and M. Ann Piech PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 478-482

Systems of quadratically coupled differential equations which can be reduced to linear systems: Irvin Kay PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 483-487

Extremal plane quasiconformal mappings with given boundary values: Edgar Reich and Kurt Strebel PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 488-490

Bounded harmonic but no Dirichlet-finite harmonic: Young K. Kwon PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 491-492

Primes which are regular for associative $H$-spaces: John R. Underwood PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 493-495

Nonuniformly elliptic equations: Positivity of weak solutions: C. V. Coffman, R. J. Duffin and V. J. Mizel PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 496-499

1972 Election results: Everett Pitcher PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 500

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

Foundations of Probability, by Alfred Rényi.
Probability Theory, by Alfred Rényi.: Reviewer: Alberto R. Galmarino; Review information PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 300-303

A comprehensive introduction to differential geometry,, by Michael Spivak.: Reviewer: Victor Guillemin; Review information PDF; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1973), 303-306