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Research / Science / Development
As in other societal realms also in research, science, and development governments and parliaments increasingly have to legitimize their actions and want to base their future activities on informed decisions. Consequently, performance measures, benchmarking, comparative analysis, “foresight studies” are increasingly asked for. Ranking, ratings and evaluations are introduced throughout the system supposedly providing on the one hand the requested transparency and at the same time acting as stimuli to improve the performance. However, to date central questions relating to the underlying methodologies and indicators used are unanswered. These questions concern the availability and appropriateness of the data, indicator construction and methodologies on the one hand, tackle issues as how to deal with effects due to disciplinary, sectoral, regional or national differences, and concern the intended and unintended effects of the instruments used. In the contribution these issues are described and discussed in more detail. In Germany so far infrastructural deficiencies e.g. the fragmentation of research groups addressing those issues prevent adequately addressing the open research questions. Behind this background the two most important tasks identified are them the development of a decentralized data collection system enabling standard definitions and the development of a competitive research infrastructure.Science Indicators, R&D, Research Funding, Governance
Beta-elements and divided congruences
The f-invariant is an injective homomorphism from the 2-line of the
Adams-Novikov spectral sequence to a group which is closely related to divided
congruences of elliptic modular forms. We compute the f-invariant for two
infinite families of beta-elements and explain the relation of the arithmetic
of divided congruences with the Kervaire invariant one problem.Comment: minor changes; final version, to appear in Amer. J. Mat
Schubert calculus for algebraic cobordism
We establish a Schubert calculus for Bott-Samelson resolutions in the
algebraic cobordism ring of a complete flag variety G/B.Comment: 27 pages, Appendix added, slightly abridged version to appear in
Crell
On non-commutative twisting in etale and motivic cohomology
In this paper we use ideas of the non-abelian Iwasawa main conjecture to
prove a result about the first Galois cohomology of continuous Galois modules
V_p(j) for large Tate-twist j and V_p a Q_p vector space. We show that under a
technical hypothesis that H^1(K, V_p(j)) is generated by twists of
norm-compatible units in an infinite tower of number fields with elements in
V_p(j-1). This confirms a consequence of the non-abelian Iwasawa main
conjecture. Using the "Bloch-Kato-conjecture" a similar result is proven for
motivic cohomology with finite coefficients.Comment: 22 page
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