Modular Form Representation for Periods of Hyperelliptic Integrals

To every hyperelliptic curve one can assign the periods of the integrals over the holomorphic and the meromorphic differentials. By comparing two representations of the so-called projective connection it is possible to reexpress the latter periods by the first. This leads to expressions including only the curve's parameters $\lambda_j$ and modular forms. By a change of basis of the meromorphic differentials one can further simplify this expression. We discuss the advantages of these explicitly given bases, which we call Baker and Klein basis, respectively

Nonsplitting in Kirchberg's ideal-related KK-theory

A universal coefficient theorem in the setting of Kirchberg's ideal-related KK-theory was obtained in the fundamental case of a C*-algebra with one specified ideal by Bonkat and proved there to split, unnaturally, under certain conditions. Employing certain K-theoretical information derivable from the given operator algebras in a way introduced here, we shall demonstrate that Bonkat's UCT does not split in general. Related methods lead to information on the complexity of the K-theory which must be used to classify *-isomorphisms for purely infinite C*-algebras with one non-trivial ideal.Comment: 14 pages, minor typos fixed, 5 figures adde

Classifying C∗C^*-algebras with both finite and infinite subquotients

We give a classification result for a certain class of $C^{*}$-algebras $\mathfrak{A}$ over a finite topological space $X$ in which there exists an open set $U$ of $X$ such that $U$ separates the finite and infinite subquotients of $\mathfrak{A}$. We will apply our results to $C^{*}$-algebras arising from graphs.Comment: Version III: No changes to the text. We only report that Lemma 4.5 is not correct as stated. See arXiv:1505.05951 for the corrected version of Lemma 4.5. As noted in arXiv:1505.05951, the main results of this paper are true verbatim. Version II: Improved some results in Section 3 and loosened the assumptions in Definition 4.

On the entropy of LEGO

We propose the further study of the rate of growth of the number of contiguous buildings which may be made from n LEGO blocks of the same size and color. Specializing to blocks of dimension 2x4 we give upper and lower bounds, and speculate on the true value.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures. Revised version: Minor corrections, page

On some new invariants for strong shift equivalence for shifts of finite type

We introduce a new computable invariant for strong shift equivalence of shifts of finite type. The invariant is based on an invariant introduced by Trow, Boyle, and Marcus, but has the advantage of being readily computable. We summarize briefly a large-scale numerical experiment aimed at deciding strong shift equivalence for shifts of finite type given by irreducible $2\times 2$-matrices with entry sum less than 25, and give examples illustrating to power of the new invariant, i.e., examples where the new invariant can disprove strong shift equivalence whereas the other invariants that we use can not.Comment: Revised versio