We define epsilon factors for irreducible representations of finite general linear groups using Macdonald's correspondence. These satisfy multiplicativity, and are expressible as products Gauss sums. The tensor product related to the Rankin-Selberg gamma factors, by which we prove that can be written exterior square relate Jacquet-Shalika Langlands-Shahidi level zero supercuspidal representatio...

An extended 1-perfect code C folds over its kernel via the Steiner quadruple systems associated with its codewords. The resulting folding, proposed as a graph invariant for C, distinguishes among the 361 nonlinear codes C of kernel dimension κ with 9 ≥ κ ≥ 5 obtained via Solov’eva-Phelps doubling construction. Each of the 361 resulting graphs has most of its nonloop edges expressible in terms o...

It is shown that a stutter-invariant property is expressible in Temporal Logic of Actions if and only if it is expressible in Second-order Temporal Logic. In particular, validity questions can be translated from one logic to the other. The proof is based on equivalence transformations between the formulas of Temporal Logic of Actions and Second-order Temporal Logic. The translation from Second-...

We study whether, in the π-calculus, the match prefix—a conditional operator testing two names for (syntactic) equality—is expressible via the other operators. Previously, Carbone and Maffeis proved that matching is not expressible this way under rather strong requirements (preservation and reflection of observables). Later on, Gorla developed a by now widely-tested set of criteria for encoding...

We give a finite presentation by generators and relations of unitary operators expressible over the {CNOT, T, X} gate set, also known as CNOT-dihedral operators. To this end, we introduce a notion of normal form for CNOT-dihedral circuits and prove that every CNOT-dihedral operator admits a unique normal form. Moreover, we show that in the presence of certain structural rules only finitely many...

A new axiom is proposed, the Ground Axiom, asserting that the universe is not a nontrivial set forcing extension of any inner model. The Ground Axiom is first-order expressible, and any model of zfc has a class forcing extension which satisfies it. The Ground Axiom is independent of many well-known set-theoretic assertions including the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis, the assertion v=hod that...

During the past decade, there has been an extensive investigation of the computational complexity of the consistent answers of Boolean conjunctive queries under primary key constraints. Much of this investigation has focused on self-join-free Boolean conjunctive queries. In this paper, we study the consistent answers of Boolean conjunctive queries involving a single binary relation, i.e., we co...

The paper considers interdependencies between secrets in a multiparty system. Each secret is assumed to be known only to a certain fixed set of parties. These sets can be viewed as edges of a hypergraph whose vertices are the parties of the system. In previous work, the authors investigated properties of interdependencies that are expressible through a multi-argument relation called independenc...