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On right conjugacy closed loops of twice prime order
The right conjugacy closed loops of order 2p, where p is an odd prime, are
classified up to isomorphism.Comment: Clarified definitions, added some remarks and a tabl
Infinite Simple Bol Loops
If the left multiplication group of a loop is simple, then the loop is
simple. We use this observation to give examples of infinite simple Bol loops.Comment: 4 pages, AMS-LaTeX, to appear in Comment. Math. Univ. Carolinae for a
special issue: the Proceedings of Loops03. Version 3: more minor changes
suggested by the refere
Sigma Model as a Conformal Field Theory
We discuss the sigma model on the supergroup manifold. We
demonstrate that this theory is exactly conformal. The chiral algebra of this
model is given by some extension of the Virasoro algebra, similar to the
algebra of Zamolodchikov. We also show that all group invariant correlation
functions are coupling constant independent and can be computed in the free
theory. The non invariant correlation functions are highly nontrivial and
coupling dependent. At the end we compare two and three-point correlation
functions of the sigma model with the correlation functions in the
boundary theory of and find a qualitative agreement.Comment: 34 pages, 5 figure
Zero Lyapunov exponents of the Hodge bundle
By the results of G. Forni and of R. Trevi\~no, the Lyapunov spectrum of the
Hodge bundle over the Teichm\"uller geodesic flow on the strata of Abelian and
of quadratic differentials does not contain zeroes even though for certain
invariant submanifolds zero exponents are present in the Lyapunov spectrum. In
all previously known examples, the zero exponents correspond to those
PSL(2,R)-invariant subbundles of the real Hodge bundle for which the monodromy
of the Gauss-Manin connection acts by isometries of the Hodge metric. We
present an example of an arithmetic Teichm\"uller curve, for which the real
Hodge bundle does not contain any PSL(2,R)-invariant, continuous subbundles,
and nevertheless its spectrum of Lyapunov exponents contains zeroes. We
describe the mechanism of this phenomenon; it covers the previously known
situation as a particular case. Conjecturally, this is the only way zero
exponents can appear in the Lyapunov spectrum of the Hodge bundle for any
PSL(2,R)-invariant probability measure.Comment: 47 pages, 10 figures. Final version (based on the referee's report).
A slightly shorter version of this article will appear in Commentarii
Mathematici Helvetici. A pdf file containing a copy of the Mathematica
routine "FMZ3-Zariski-numerics_det1.nb" is available at this link here:
http://w3.impa.br/~cmateus/files/FMZ3-Zariski-numerics_det1.pd
Square-tiled cyclic covers
A cyclic cover of the complex projective line branched at four appropriate
points has a natural structure of a square-tiled surface. We describe the
combinatorics of such a square-tiled surface, the geometry of the corresponding
Teichm\"uller curve, and compute the Lyapunov exponents of the determinant
bundle over the Teichm\"uller curve with respect to the geodesic flow. This
paper includes a new example (announced by G. Forni and C. Matheus in
\cite{Forni:Matheus}) of a Teichm\"uller curve of a square-tiled cyclic cover
in a stratum of Abelian differentials in genus four with a maximally degenerate
Kontsevich--Zorich spectrum (the only known example found previously by Forni
in genus three also corresponds to a square-tiled cyclic cover
\cite{ForniSurvey}).
We present several new examples of Teichm\"uller curves in strata of
holomorphic and meromorphic quadratic differentials with maximally degenerate
Kontsevich--Zorich spectrum. Presumably, these examples cover all possible
Teichm\"uller curves with maximally degenerate spectrum. We prove that this is
indeed the case within the class of square-tiled cyclic covers.Comment: 34 pages, 6 figures. Final version incorporating referees comments.
In particular, a gap in the previous version was corrected. This file uses
the journal's class file (jmd.cls), so that it is very similar to published
versio
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