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A theorem of Brian¸con-Skoda type for regular local rings containing a field, 707 Abhyankar, Shreeram S., and Sathaye, Avinash. Uniqueness of plane embeddings of special curves, 1061 Abhyankar, Shreeram S. Again nice equations for nice groups, 2967 . More nice equations for nice groups, 2977 Acedo, Genaro L´opez. See Benavides, Tom´asDom´ınguez Akbari Estahbanati, Gholamreza. On the spectral character of Toeplitz operators on planar re- gions, 2737 Akemann, Charles, and Weaver, Nik. Minimal upper bounds of commuting operators, 3469 Albrecht, U. F., and Goeters, H. P. A note on Fuchs’ Problem 34, 1319 Aldana, J. Ignacio Extremiana, Paricio, L. Javier Hern´andez,and Rodr´ıguez,M. Teresa Rivas. A closed model category for (n 1)-connected spaces, 3545 − Aldroubi, Akram. Oblique projections in atomic spaces, 2051 Allenby, R. B. J. T., and Doniz, David. A free product of finitely generated nilpotent groups amalgamating a cycle that is not subgroup separable, 1003 Alperin, Roger C. Normal subgroups of P SL2(Z[√ 3]), 2935 − Ambrozie, C˘alin-Grigore. The Euler characteristic is stable under compact perturbations, 2041 del Amo, Alejandro Garc´ıa. See Carro, Mar´ıaJ. Anderson, D. D., and Mullins, Bernadette. Finite factorization domains, 389 Angelini, Flavio. An algebraic version of Demailly’s asymptotic Morse inequalities, 3265 Anghel, Nicolae. Generic vanishing for harmonic spinors of twisted Dirac operators, 3555 Anoussis, M., and Katsoulis, E. G. Compact operators and the geometric structure of C∗- algebras, 2115 Anuradha, V., Hai, D. D., and Shivaji, R. Existence results for superlinear semipositone BVP’s, 757 Ara, P., and Pardo, E. Refinement monoids with weak comparability and applications to regular rings and C∗-algebras, 715 Ara, Pere. Strongly π-regular rings have stable range one, 3293 Arhangelskii, A. V. On spread and condensations, 3519 Arias, Alvaro. Completely bounded isomorphisms of operator algebras, 1091 Asensio, Pedro A. Guil. See Pardo, Jos´eL. G´omez Athavale, Ameer. On completely hyperexpansive operators, 3745 Azoff, Edward A., Ding, Lifeng, and Wogen, Warren R. Separating versus strictly separating vectors, 3135 Baggett, Lawrence W., Medina, Herbert A., and Merrill, Kathy D. On functions that are trivial cocycles for a set of irrationals. II, 89 Ballico, E., and Keem, C. On linear series on general k-gonal projective curves, 7 Balogh, Zoltan T. A small Dowker space in ZFC, 2555 Barbanel, Julius B. On the possibilities for partitioning a cake, 3443 Barge, Marcy, Brucks, Karen, and Diamond, Beverly. Self-similarity in inverse limit spaces of the tent family, 3563 Baringhaus, Ludwig. Fibonacci numbers, Lucas numbers and integrals of certain Gaussian pro- cesses, 3875 Barr´ıa,Jos´e. On Hankel operators not in the Toeplitz algebra, 1507 Basit, Bolis, and Pryde, A. J. Differences of vector-valued functions on topological groups, 1969 Bastero, Jes´us,and Ruiz, Francisco J. Elementary reverse H¨oldertype inequalities with applica- tion to operator interpolation theory, 3183 Battaglia, Fiammetta. S1-quotients of quaternion-K¨ahlermanifolds, 2185 Bejancu, Aurel, and Deshmukh, Sharief. Real hypersurfaces of CP n with non-negative Ricci curvature, 269 Bekka, M. B., Kaniuth, E., Lau, A. T., and Schlichting, G. On C∗-algebras associated with locally compact groups, 3151 Bekkar, M. Sur les metriques admettant les plans comme surfaces minimales, 3077 Belegradek, Oleg V. Degrees of unsolvability of first order decision problems for finitely presented groups, 623 Bell, M., Shapiro, L., and Simon, P. Products of ω∗ images, 1593 INDEX TO VOLUME 124 (1996) Belshoff, Richard, Slattery, Susan Palmer, and Wickham, Cameron. The local cohomology mod- ules of Matlis reflexive modules are almost cofinite, 2649 Benavides, Tom´as Dom´ınguez,Acedo, Genaro L´opez, and Xu, Hong-Kun. Random fixed points of set-valued operators, 831 Ben-David, Shai, and Shelah, Saharon. The two-cardinals transfer property and resurrection of supercompactness, 2827 Bercovici, Hari, and Zucchi, Adele. Generalized interpolation in a multiply connected region, 2109 Berend, Daniel, and Bilu, Yuri. Polynomials with roots modulo every integer, 1663 Berger, C. A., and Coburn, L. A. On Voiculescu’s double commutant theorem, 3453 Bernau, S. J., and Wojciechowski, Piotr J. Images of bilinear mappings into R3, 3605 Bhatia, S. S., and Ram, Babu. The extensions of the Ferenc M´oricztheorems, 1821 Bhatt, S. J., and Dedania, H. V. Banach algebras with unique uniform norm, 579 Bilu, Yuri. See Berend, Daniel Bishop, Christopher J. Some characterizations of C( ), 2695 M . A counterexample concerning smooth approximation, 3131 Biswas, Indranil. On the mapping class group action on the cohomology of the representation space of a surface, 1959 de Blasi, F. S., and Myjak, J. On compact connected sets in Banach spaces, 2331 Boas, Harold P. The Lu Qi-Keng conjecture fails generically, 2021 Bobisud, L. E., and O’Regan, Donal. Existence of positive solutions for singular ordinary dif- ferential equations with nonlinear boundary conditions, 2081 Bohman, Tom. A sum packing problem of Erd˝osand the Conway–Guy sequence, 3627 Bojanov, B. D., and Varma, A. K. On a polynomial inequality of Kolmogoroff’s type, 491 Borwein, J. M., and Vanderwerff, J. D. Banach spaces that admit support sets, 751 Borwein, Peter, and Erd´elyi,Tam´as. The Lp version of Newman’s Inequality for lacunary poly- nomials, 101 Bourdon, Paul S. The second iterate of a map with dense orbit, 1577 Bouziad, Ahmed. Every Cech-analyticˇ Baire semitopological group is a topological group, 953 . The class of co-Namioka compact spaces is stable under product, 983 ∗Bowers, Philip L., and Ruane, Kim. Fixed points in boundaries of negatively curved groups, 1311 Brendle, J¨org. The additivity of porosity ideals, 285 . Nicely generated and chaotic ideals, 2533 Brucks, K. M., and Tresser, C. A Farey tree organization of locking regions for simple circle maps, 637 Brucks, Karen. See Barge, Marcy Brumatti, Paulo, Gimenez, Philippe, and Simis, Aron. Combinatorics of a certain ideal in the Segre coordinate ring, 3285 Bruna, Joaquim, Nicolau, Artur, and Øyma, Knut. A note on interpolation in the Hardy spaces of the unit disc, 1197 Bunce, L. J., and Wright, J. D. Maitland. A topological characterization of linearity for quasi- traces, 2377 Burger, Edward B. On Liouville decompositions in local fields, 3305 Burton, T. A. Integral equations, implicit functions, and fixed points, 2383 Buskes, Gerard, and van Rooij, Arnoud. Whales and the universal completion, 423 Cagliari, Francesca. Right adjoint for the smash product functor, 1265 Cahen, Paul-Jean, Houston, Evan G., and Lucas, Thomas G.