KUMAMOTO JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS is the continuation of KUMAMOTO JOURNAL OF SCIENCE (MATHEMATICS) Vol. 1 - Vol. 17.

Susumu TANABE (Editor-in-Chief), Mikio FURUSHIMA, Yuji HAMANA, Yoshishige HARAOKA, Hironobu KIMURA, Osamu KOBAYASHI, Masashi MISAWA, Atsumi WATANABE

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Editor-in-Chief
Kumamoto Journal of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Science
Kumamoto University
Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan
(e-mail: kjm@sci.kumamoto-u.ac.jp)

Volume 1 -- March 1988

• Yoshikazu Takada: Two-Stage Procedures for a Multivariate Normal Distribution
• Toshiaki Adachi: Meromorphic Extension of L-Functions of Anosov Flows and Profinite Graphs

Volume 2 -- March 1989

• Kiyoshi Yoshida: A Remark on Nonnegative Solutions with Compact Support for Degenerate Semilinear Elliptic Equations
• Mitsuhiko Kohno: A Simple Reduction of Single Linear Differential Equations to Birkhoff and Schlesinger's Canonical Systems
• David J. Sprows: A Note on the Presentations of Isotopy Groups of Bounded 2-Manifolds
• N. V. Milev and D. D. Bainov: Stability of Linear Systems of Differential Equations with Variable Structure and Impulse Effect
• D. D. Bainov and S. D. Milusheva: A Projection-Iterative Method for Solving the Periodic Problem for Ordinary Differential Equations with Impulse Effect

Volume 3 -- March 1990

• Yoshishige Haraoka: G-Primitive Extensions for Linear Ordinary Differential Equations
• R. Gérard and D. A. Lutz: Maillet Type Theorems for Algebraic Difference Equations
• Takaaki Hamano and Shigemi Ohkohchi: Reduction of General Single Linear Differential Equations fo Schlesinger's Canonical Systems
• Masahiro Iwano: The Determination of a General Solutions for Gauss Differential Equation Represented by Rational Functions
• Shigemi Ohkohchi: An Extension of Weber's Equation

Volume 4 -- March 1991

• Yukimasa Oka: A Note on Ergodic States on C^*-Dynamics
• Yoshikazu Takada: Specification Error in Sequential Estimation
• B. Klarès: Irregular Singular Point of a Linear Differential Sysmte - Dependence on the Initial Matrices

Volume 5 -- March 1992

• H. Charrière and R. Gérard: The Rings of Formal and Convergent Inverse Factorial Series
• Toshiyuki Koitabashi: On a 2-Parameter Family of Solutions to a Nonlinear 2-System with an Irregular Singularity of Signature (1,1)
• Satoshi Fukatani: On Rational Points of k-Forms of a Homogeneous Space of Type A over an Algebraic Number Field I

Volume 6 -- March 1993

• Kazuo Suzuki: Centers of Twisted Chevalley Groups over Commutative Rings
• Toshiyuki Maebashi: Some Mathematical Problems on the Univication of Forces
• Tomoyuki Yoshida: MacWilliams Identities for Linear Codes with Group Action

Volume 7 -- March 1994

• H. Charrière: Une Généralisation du Théorème de Siegel
• Po-Fang Hsieh and Feipeng Xie: Asymptotic Diagonalization of a Linear Ordinary Differential Systems
• Toshiaki Adachi: Ideal Boudary of a Complete Metric Space
• Hiroto Hyakutake: The Best Component Selection Procedures for a Multivariate Exponential Distribution
• Yukimasa Oka: A Remark on an Abelianness of Invariant States on C^*-Dynamics
• Yoshinobu Kamishima: On the 3-Dimensional Pseudo-Hermitial Space Forms and Other Geometric Structures
• Yasumasa Saisho: A Model of the Random Motion of Mutually Reflecting Molecules in R^d

Volume 8 -- March 1995

• H. Charrière: Opérateurs Linéaires analytiques Transformé de Fourier. Produit de convolution. Applications.
• S. S. Pandey: Norm Preserving Mulipliers on a Weighted Segal Algebra
• Po-Fang Hsieh: Analytic Solutions of a Degenerated System of Two Nonliear Equations at an Irregular Type Singularity
• Mitsuhiko Kohno, Kazuhiro Tsurumaru and Hidenori Haruki: Monodromy Groups for Certain Hypergeometric Systems
• R. C. Agrawal and Anju Mishira: Some Identities for Commutative Quasi-Groups
• Yoshishige Haraoka: Irreducibility of Accessory Parameter Free Systems
• Yoshikazu Takada: Admissibility of Prediction Regions in Two-Dimensional Normal Distribution

Volume 9 -- March 1996

• M. A. Bashir and Aboubakr Bayoumi: Fixed Points of Holomorphic Mappings of a Complex Manifold
• Yukimasa Oka: On the Ergodicity of Compact Abelian Group Extensions of States on C^*-Dynamics
• Hironobu Kimura and Toshiyuki Koitabashi: Normalizer of Maximal Abelian Subgroups of GL(n) and General Hypergeometric Functions
• Akihiro Saeki: On Some Foliations on Ruled Surfaces of Genus One
• Yoshinobu Kamishima: Transformation Groups on Heisenberg Geometry

Volume 10 -- March 1997

• D. D. Bainov, A. B. Dishliev and G. T. Stamov: Almost Periodic Solutions of Hyperbolic Systems of Impulsive Differential Equations
• Hironobu Kimura: On the Homology Group Associated with the General Airy Integral
• Deming Liu and Kazuo Okamoto: Polynomial Hamiltonian Structure for the A₃ System
• Atusi Matumiya: On Some Hamiltonian Structures of Painlevé Systems, III

Volume 11 -- March 1998

• M. K. Aouf, H. M. Hossen and H. M. Srivastava: Certain Subclasses of Prestarline Functions with Negative Coefficients
• Yoshinobu Kamishima: Locally Conformal Kähler Manifolds with a Family of Constant Curvature Tensors
• Masaaki Yoshida: The Real Loci of the Configuration Space of Six Points on the Projective Line and a Picard Modular 3-Fold

Volume 12 -- March 1999

• S. M. Mazhar: A Note on the Localization of |N,p_n|_k Summability of Fourier Series
• Katsunori Iwasaki and Michitake Kita: Twisted Homology of the Configuration Spaces of n-Points with Applications to Hypergeometric Functions
• Shin-ichi Ohwaki and Koh-ichi Matsuda: On a Formula for Correlation Coeffieicnts Between Normally Scattered Functions
• Yoshikazu Takada: Existence of Estimators with Bounded Risks under an Asymmetric Loss Function

Volume 13 -- March 2000

• M. R. Darafsheh and A. R. Ashrafi: (2,p,q)-Generations of the Conway Group Co₁
• Naohiro Kanesaka and Kimio Watanabe: On Plurigenera of Hypersurfaces Purely Elliptic Singularities
• Naoki Shibata: An Example on the Difference of Two Mappin-Space Topologies: the Strong Topology and the Very Strong Topology
• Huafei Sun: On Affine Translation Surfaces of Constant Mean Curvature
• Liu Hui Zhao and Wang Hui: On the Existence of Nonnegative Radial Solutions for Elliptic System
• Yushan Xiao and Yoshikazu Takada: Median Unbiasedness and Pitman's Measure of Closeness in a Prediction Problem
• Takahisa Yokoyama: Analysis of Multivariate Growth Curves with Covariates
• Shin-ichi Ohwaki and Koh-ichi Matsuda: On Formulae for Correlation Coefficients Between Normally Scattered Functions II

Volume 14 -- March 2001

• M. R. Darafsheh, A. R. Ashrafi and G. A. Moghani: (p,q,r)-Generations of the Conway Group Co₁ for Odd p
• Keisuke Shiromoto and Tomoyuki Yoshida: A Singleton Bound for Linear Codes over Z/lZ

Volume 15 -- March 2002

• Masayuki Maenishi: On the Rank of Elliptic Cureves y²=x³-pqx
• Yasuo Kamata: A Note on Klein Curve
• Sayaka Hamada and Jyoichi Kaneko: Classification of Pfaffian Systems of Fuchs Type of a Particular Class

Volume 16 -- March 2003

• Behrooz Khosravi and Bahman Khosravi: A Characterization of ²E₆(q)
• M. R. Darafsheh, A. R. Ashrafi and G. A. Moghani: (p,q,r)-Generations of nX-Complementary Generations of the Sporadic Group Ly
• Li Chen: Parabolic Type Monge-Ampère Equation with Zero Initial Boudary Value
• Naoki Shibata: Infinitesimal Stability of Stalbe Maps on Manifolds with Boundary

Volume 17 -- March 2004

• Yoshishige Haraoka: On confluences of hypergeometric integrals

Volume 18 -- March 2005

• H. Shi and G. Chen: ²D_p+1(2) (5=< p not=2^m-1) can be characterized by its order components
• W. Shuhong: Representation of adjoint of composition operator
• M. Abe: A note on the meromorphic O(X)-convexity
• Y. Ohshima: A note on domains of holomorphy in two dimensional normal Stein spaces
• D. Kim: On a gaugeability for non-local Feynman-Kac functionals
• Y. Oka: Positive definite state extensions in transformation group C^*-algebras
• J. Itoh: Gauss-type curvature and tubes for polyhedral surfaces
• N. Ando: Willmore surfaces in S³ and minimal surfaces in S⁴₁
• H. Kishimura: The Gaussian curvature of a parallel curved surfaces
• A. Watanabe: On perfect isometires for blocks with abelian defect groups and cyclic hyperfocal subgroups
• Y. Ohshima: Lines on Del Pezzo surfaces with Gorenstein singularities
• F. Sugisaki: On topologidal pressure of Cantor minimal systems and a strong orbit equivalence
• S. Ohwaki and S. Inada: On a distribution formula for solutions of linear autonomous systems with fluctuations

Volume 19 -- March 2006

• Vajaitu, N. and Zaharescu, A.: On the distance between orbits under a group of isometires on a metric space
• Filipuk, G.: On the middle convlution and birational symmetries of the sixth Painleve equation
• Hancl, J., Rucki, P. and Sustek, J.: A generalization of Sandor's theorem using iterated logarithms
• Furushima, M.: On the singular Fano threefold V^*₂₂ with a small Gorenstein singularity
• Endo, A.: Relative norms of Gauss sums for characters of 2-power order
• Takada, Y.: Two-stage procedure for estimating a linear function of normal means under an asymmetric loss function
• Hamana, Y.: A remark on the range of three dimensional pinned random walks
• Ando, K. and Kohno, M.: A certain reduction of a single differential equation to a system of differential equations
• Oka, Y.: A remark on the functional calculus in C^*-algebras and positive definite sequences
• Sugisaki, F.: Topological pressure of Cantor minimal systems within a strong orbit equivalence class

Volume 20 -- March 2007

• Kohno, M.: Gauss multiplication formula for extended psi function
• Sasano, Y.: Coupled Painleve IV systems in dimension four
• Darafsheh, M. R. and Mahmiani, A.: A quantitative characterization of the linear group L_p+1(2) where p is a prime number
• Risteski, I. B.: New wide classes of complex vector functional equations

Volume 21 -- March 2008

• Endô, A.: On the Maillet determinant associated with a Dirichlet character
• Ueda, K. and Yoshinaga, M.: Logarithmic vector fields along smooth plane cubic curves
• Shi, H. G. and Chen, G. Y.: D_p+1(3) (p=> 3) can be characterized by its order components
• Zaharescu, A. and Zaki, M.: Factorization in certain rings of arithmetical functions

Volume 22 -- May 2009

• Nakayama, H. and Sekiguchi, J.: Determination of b-functions of polynomials defining Saito free divisors related with simple curve singularities of types E₆, E₇, E₈
• Khosravi, B.: A characterization of the automorphism groups of sporadic groups by the set of orders of maximal Abelian subgroups
• Kimura, H. and Nakamura, Y.: Analogue of Ward correspondence for a degenerated Schlesinger system