In [2], D. Downing and W.A. Kirk obtained a number of fixed point theorems for set-valued maps in matric and Banach spaces. The authors considered maps which are more general than the contractions with nonempty and closed mapping values, and obtain results for maps satisfying certain "inwardness" conditions. A key aspect of their approach is the application of a general fixed point theorem due to Caristi [1]. On the other hand, in [6], the present author obtained a number of equivalent formulations of the well-known result of I. Ekeland [3, 4] on the variational principle for approximate solutions of minimization problems. Some of such formulations include sharpened forms of the Caristi theorem. In this paper, using one of such formulations, we show that Theorems 1-3 and Corollaries 1-5 of [2] are substantially improved by giving geometric estimations of fixed points.ed points.

It is well-known that the most interesting non-integrable almost Hermitian manifold are the nearly Kaehlerian manifolds ([2] and [3]), and that there exists a complex but not a Kaehlerian structure on Riemannian product manifolds of two normal contact manifolds [4]. The purpose of the present paper is to study nearly Kaehlerian product manifolds of two almost contact metric manifolds and investigate the geometrical structures of these manifolds. Unless otherwise stated, we shall always assume that manifolds and quantities are differentiable of class $C^{\infty}$. In Paragraph 1, we give brief discussions of almost contact metric manifolds and their Riemannian product manifolds. In paragraph 2, we investigate the perfect conditions for Riemannian product manifolds of two almost contact metric manifolds to be nearly Kaehlerian and the non-existence of a nearly Kaehlerian product manifold of contact metric manifolds. Paragraph 3 will be devoted to a proof of the following; A conformally flat compact nearly Kaehlerian product manifold of two almost contact metric manifolds is isomatric to a Riemannian product manifold of a complex projective space and a flat Kaehlerian manifold..

Let X be a topological space. We consider a groupoid G over X and the quotient groupoid G/N for any normal subgroupoid N of G. The concept of groupoid (topological groupoid) is a natural generalization of the group(topological group). An useful example of a groupoid over X is the foundamental groupoid .pi.X whose object group at x.mem.X is the fundamental group .pi.(X, x). It is known [5] that if X is locally simply connected, then the topology of X determines a topology on .pi.X so that is becomes a topological groupoid over X, and a covering space of the product space X*X. In this paper the concept of the locally simple connectivity of a topological space X is applied to the groupoid G over X. That concept is defined as a term '1-connected local subgroupoid' of G. Using this concept we topologize the groupoid G so that it becomes a topological groupoid over X. With this topology the connected groupoid G is a covering space of the product space X*X. Further-more, if ob(.overbar.G)=.overbar.X is a covering space of X, then the groupoid .overbar.G is also a covering space of the groupoid G. Since the fundamental groupoid .pi.X of X satisfying a certain condition has an 1-connected local subgroupoid, .pi.X can always be topologized. In this case the topology on .pi.X is the same as that of [5]. In section 4 the results on the groupoid G are generalized to the quotient groupoid G/N. For any topological groupoid G over X and normal subgroupoid N of G, the abstract quotient groupoid G/N can be given the identification topology, but with this topology G/N need not be a topological groupoid over X [4]. However the induced topology (H) on G makes G/N (with the identification topology) a topological groupoid over X. A final section is related to the covering morphism. Let G$_{1}$ and G$_{2}$ be groupoids over the sets X$_{1}$ and X$_{2}$, respectively, and .phi.:G$_{1}$.rarw.G$_{2}$ be a covering spimorphism. If X$_{2}$ is a topological space and G$_{2}$ has an 1-connected local subgroupoid, then we can topologize X$_{1}$ so that ob(.phi.):X$_{1}$.rarw.X$_{2}$ is a covering map and .phi.: G$_{1}$.rarw.G$_{2}$ is a topological covering morphism.

Let X be a Banach space, and let B(X) (resp. CB(X), K(X), CV(X)) denote the family of all nonvoid (resp. closed bounded, compact, convex) subsets of X. The Kuratowski measure of noncompactness is defined by the mapping .alpha.$_{k}$: B(X).rarw. $R_{+}$ with .alpha.$_{k}$(A) = inf {r>0 vertical bar A can be covered by a finite number of sets with diameter less than r}.an r}.

Let D$^{p}$ be the space of distributions of $L^{p}$-growth and S the space of tempered destributions in $R^{n}$: D$^{p}$, 1.leq.P.leq..inf., is the dual of the space $D^{p}$ which we discribe later. We denote by O$_{c}$(S:S') the space of convolution operators in S. In [8] S. Sznajder and Z. Zielezny proved the following necessary conditions for convolution operators in O$_{c}$(S:S) to be solvable in S.

In [1] L. Nirenberg constructed a famous example of a smooth vector field which have only the constant functions as solutions in an open subset of the plane. Explanations of this phenomenon have been proposed in Treves [3] and Sjostrand [2]. The explanation in [3] is related to the following so-called "local constancy principle".ple".uot;.

J. Yeh has recently introduced the concept of conditional Wiener integrals which are meant specifically the conditional expectation E$^{w}$ (Z vertical bar X) of a real or complex valued Wiener integrable functional Z conditioned by the Wiener measurable functional X on the Wiener measure space (A precise definition of the conditional Wiener integral and a brief discussion of the Wiener measure space are given in Section 2). In [3] and [4] he derived some inversion formulae for conditional Wiener integrals and evaluated some conditional Wiener integrals E$^{w}$ (Z vertical bar X) conditioned by X(x)=x(t) for a fixed t>0 and x in Wiener space. Thus E$^{w}$ (Z vertical bar X) is a real or complex valued function on R$^{1}$. In this paper we shall be concerned with the random vector X given by X(x) = (x(s$_{1}$),..,x(s$_{n}$ )) for every x in Wiener space where 0=s$_{0}$ $_{1}$<..$_{n}$ =t. In Section 3 we will evaluate some conditional Wiener integrals E$^{w}$ (Z vertical bar X) which are real or complex valued functions on the n-dimensional Euclidean space R$^{n}$ . Thus we extend Yeh's results [4] for the random variable X given by X(x)=x(t) to the random vector X given by X(x)=(x(s$_{1}$).., x(s$_{n}$ )).

Throughout the paper let A be a semifinite, infinite von Neumann algebra acting on a Hilbert space H, .alpha. an infinite cardinal. The main purpose of our work is to give several characterizations of a class of closed ideals in A, by introducing the notions of relative ranks of elements in A and the relative .alpha.-topology on H. The relative .alphi.-topology is an analogue to the .alpha.-topology that we have defined in ([7], [8]). The present work is regarded as an extension of [7], [8] and motivated by works of M. Breuer ([1], [2]), V. Kaftal ([5], [6]) and M.G. Sonis [9].

In this paper, we find the Fourier series of X(t, .omega.).mem. $L^{2}$$_{s.a.p.}$ and the Parseval relation of X(t, .omega.).mem. $L^{2}$$_{s.a.p.}$. In section 2, we investigate some basic properties of X(t, .omega.).mem. $L^{2}$$_{s.a.p.}$ In section 3, we show that the mean of X(t, .omega.).mem. $L^{2}$$_{s.a.p.}$ exists and in section 4, after showing the existence of Fourier exponents and Fourier coefficients of X(t, .omega.).mem. $L^{2}$$_{s.a.p.}$. we give the Parseval relation of X(t, .omega.).mem. $L^{2}$$_{s.a.p.}$. For convenience we will denote X(t, .omega.) as X(t) in what follows.hat follows.