Prof. George Willis

Work Phone	(02) 4921 5666
Fax	(02) 4921 6898
Email	George.Willis@newcastle.edu.au
Office	V131, Mathematics

Highlighted Publications

Year	Citation	Link
2004	Willis George Alver, 'Tidy subgroups for commuting automorphisms of totally disconnected groups: An analogue of simultaneous triangularisation of Matrices', New York Journal of Mathematics, 10 1-35 (2004) [C1]
2001	Willis George Alver, 'Further properties of the scale function on a totally disconnected group', Journal of Algebra, 237 142-164 (2001) [C1]
2004	Baumgartner Udo, Willis George Alver, 'Contraction groups and scales of automorphisms of totally disconnected locally compact groups', Israel Journal of Mathematics, 142 221-248 (2004) [C1]
2001	Willis George Alver, 'Factorization in finite-codimensional ideals of group algebras', Proc. London Math. Soc., 82 676-700 (2001) [C1]

Publications

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Chapters In A Book (1 outputs)

Chapter in A2 Book (B2) (1 outputs)

Year	Citation	Link
2003	Willis George Alver, 'Harmonic Analysis and amenability', Introduction to Banach Algebras, Operators and Harmonic Analysis, CUP, Cambridge, 321 (2003) [B2]

Journal Articles (24 outputs)

Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal (C1) (23 outputs)

Year	Citation	Link
2012	Baumgartner Udo, Moller Rognvaldur G, Willis George Alver, 'Hyperbolic groups have flat-rank at most 1', Israel Journal of Mathematics, 190 365-388 (2012) [C1]
2010	Baumgartner Udo, Schlichting Gunter, Willis George Alver, 'Geometric characterization of flat groups of automorphisms', Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics, 4 1-13 (2010) [C1]
2010	Ghahramani F, Read C J, Willis George Alver, 'Closed ideal structure and cohomological properties of certain radical Banach algebras', Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 100 533-559 (2010) [C1]
2010	Glockner Helge, Willis George Alver, 'Classification of the simple factors appearing in composition series of totally disconnected contraction groups', Journal Fur Die Reine Und Angewandte Mathematik 141-169 (2010) [C1]
2009	Baumgartner Udo, Laca Marcelo, Ramagge Jacqui, Willis George Alver, 'Hecke algebras from groups acting on trees and HNN extensions', Journal of Algebra, 321 3065-3088 (2009) [C1]
2007	Baumgartner Udo, Remy B, Willis George Alver, 'Flat rank of automorphism groups of buildings', Transformation Groups, 12 413-436 (2007) [C1]
2007	Willis George Alver, 'Compact open subgroups in simple totally disconnected groups', Journal of Algebra, 312 405-417 (2007) [C1]
2006	Baumgartner Udo, Ramagge Jacqueline, Willis George Alver, 'A compactly generated group whose Hecke algebras admit no bounds on their representations', Glasgow Mathematical Journal, 48 193-201 (2006) [C1]
2006	Baumgartner Udo, Willis George Alver, 'The direction of an automorphism of a totally disconnected locally compact group', Mathematische Zeitschrift, 252 393-428 (2006) [C1]
2006	Dani S G, Shah N A, Willis George Alver, 'Locally compact groups with dense orbits under Z(d)-actions by automorphisms', Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, 26 1443-1465 (2006) [C1]
2004	Alireza Abdollahi, Ali Rejali, Willis George Alver, 'Group Properties characterised by configurations', Illinois Journal of Mathematics, 48 861-873 (2004) [C1]
2004	Baumgartner Udo, Willis George Alver, 'Contraction groups and scales of automorphisms of totally disconnected locally compact groups', Israel Journal of Mathematics, 142 221-248 (2004) [C1]
2004	Willis George Alver, 'A noncommutative half-angle formula', Bulletin of Australian Mathematical Society, 69 369-382 (2004) [C1]
2004	Willis George Alver, 'Tidy subgroups for commuting automorphisms of totally disconnected groups: An analogue of simultaneous triangularisation of Matrices', New York Journal of Mathematics, 10 1-35 (2004) [C1]
2001	Glockner H, Willis George Alver, '$p$-adic Lie groups', Forum Math, 13 273-292 (2001) [C1]
2001	Kepert A, Willis George Alver, 'Scale functions and tree ends', J. Australian Math. Soc., 70 273-292 (2001) [C1]
2001	Rosenblatt J M, Willis George Alver, 'Weak convergence is not strong convergence for amenable groups', Canadian Math. Bull., 44 231-241 (2001) [C1]
2001	Willis George Alver, 'Factorization in finite-codimensional ideals of group algebras', Proc. London Math. Soc., 82 676-700 (2001) [C1]
2001	Willis George Alver, 'Further properties of the scale function on a totally disconnected group', Journal of Algebra, 237 142-164 (2001) [C1]
2001	Willis George Alver, 'The number of prime factors of the scale function on a compactly generated group is finite', Bulletin London Mathematical Society, 33 168-174 (2001) [C1]
2000	Willis George Alver, 'An extension of a non-commutative Choquet-Deny Theorem', Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 128 111-118 (2000) [C1]
2000	Willis George Alver, Ghahramani F, Runde V, 'Derivations on Group Algebras', Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 80 360-390 (2000) [C1]
2000	Willis George Alver, Loy R J, Read C J, Runde V, 'Amenable and weakly amenable Banach algebras with compact multiplication', Journal of Functional Analysis, 171 78-114 (2000) [C1]
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Non Refereed Article in a Professional Journal (C3) (1 outputs)

Year	Citation	Link
2012	Willis George Alver, 'Probability measures on semigroups: Convolution products, random walks and random matrices [Book Review]', SIAM Review, 54 414-416 (2012) [C3]

Review (2 outputs)

A Substantial Review of an Entire Field of Study (D1) (2 outputs)

Year	Citation	Link
2002	Willis George Alver, 'Banach algebras and the general theory of -algebras: Vol II, -algebras', Bulletin of London Mathematical Society (2002) [D1]
2002	Willis George Alver, 'The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers; Benjamin H. Yandell', Australian Mathematical Society Gazette (2002) [D1]

Conference Publication (3 outputs)

Full Written Paper - Refereed (E1) (3 outputs)

Year	Citation	Link
2007	Glockner Helge, Willis George Alver, 'Directions of automorphisms of lie groups over local fields compared to the directions of lie algebra automorphisms', Topology Proceedings, Castellon, Spain (2007) [E1]
2004	Willis George Alver, 'A canonical form for automorphisms of totally disconnected locally compact groups', Proceedings of a Workshop at the Erwin Schrodinger Institute, Vienna (2004) [E1]
2002	Gloeckner H, Willis George Alver, 'Topologization of Hecke C*-algebras', Proceedings of Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference, Auburn, Alabama, USA (2002) [E1]

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