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Shintani cocycles and vanishing order of -adic Hecke -series at
Let be a Hecke character of finite order of a totally real number
field . By using Hill's Shintani cocyle we provide a cohomological
construction of the -adic -series associated to .
This is used to show that has a trivial zero at of order
at least equal to the number of places of above where the local
component of is trivial
On special zeros of -adic -functions of Hilbert modular forms
Let be a modular elliptic curve over a totally real number field . We
prove the weak exceptional zero conjecture which links a (higher) derivative of
the -adic -function attached to to certain -adic periods attached
to the corresponding Hilbert modular form at the places above where has
split multiplicative reduction. Under some mild restrictions on and the
conductor of we deduce the exceptional zero conjecture in the strong form
(i.e.\ where the automorphic -adic periods are replaced by the
\cL-invariants of defined in terms of Tate periods) from a special case
proved earlier by Mok. Crucial for our method is a new construction of the
-adic -function of in terms of local data
Solution of a uniqueness problem in the discrete tomography of algebraic Delone sets
We consider algebraic Delone sets in the Euclidean plane and
address the problem of distinguishing convex subsets of by X-rays
in prescribed -directions, i.e., directions parallel to nonzero
interpoint vectors of . Here, an X-ray in direction of a finite
set gives the number of points in the set on each line parallel to . It is
shown that for any algebraic Delone set there are four prescribed
-directions such that any two convex subsets of can be
distinguished by the corresponding X-rays. We further prove the existence of a
natural number such that any two convex subsets of
can be distinguished by their X-rays in any set of
prescribed -directions. In particular, this
extends a well-known result of Gardner and Gritzmann on the corresponding
problem for planar lattices to nonperiodic cases that are relevant in
quasicrystallography.Comment: 21 pages, 1 figur
Improvements and Future Challenges for the Research Infrastructure in the Field of “Preschool Education”
Given the importance of the early stage of a child`s life and taking into account that there various initiatives underway to improve preschool programs in German, it is remarkable that there are only a few microdatasets covering the field of preschool education in Germany - even less if the focus is on nationally representative datasets. The majority of these at least provide information on attendance of preschool programs. In principle there are two main groups of data: data that comprise part of the official statistics and survey data. However, there are hardly any data which allow a linkage between preschool program information and child outcome data. Furthermore, better data for children up to three years are needed, as well as data for children from migrant families. In particular, there is a need for good panel data allowing to match individual data and institutional information Given the developments in the German data infrastructure, the potentials for preschool education research will certainly improve. Nevertheless there remain a number of gaps. Among the mentioned recommendations the paper recommend improvements in fields, such as better data on the quality of preschool programs, better data on the family context and the costs of preschool education and finally the paper addresses the need for detailed intervention studies (on a representative (generalizable) level, which help to learn more about the most effective and efficient parameters of preschool programs.preschool education, day care, child outcomes
Geodetic measurements at sea floor spreading centers
A network of 8 or more precision transponder units mounted on the sea floor and interrogated periodically from an instrument package towed near bottom through the area to provide the necessary spatial averaging could provide a practical system for observing the pattern of buildup of strain at intermediate and fast spreading centers
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