We consider Jacobi matrices whose essential spectrum is a finite union of closed intervals. We focus on Szegő’s theorem, Jost solutions, and Szegő asymptotics for this situation. This announcement describes talks the authors gave at OPSFA 2007.

Dies ist eine Internet-Sonderausgabe des Aufsatzes " Towards An Electronic Analysis of Svan Dialectal Divergences " von Jost Gippert (2000). Sie sollte nicht zitiert werden. Zitate sind der Originalausgabe in Kartveluri memḳvidreoba / Kartvelian Heritage 4, 2000, 134-149 zu entnehmen.

Replies to comments by M. Glassman and D. Karno and R. K. Unger, on the author's original article on ideology. J. T. Jost thanks Glassman and Karno for returning him to his philosophical roots. Glassman and Karno argued in favor of an "instrumental pragmatist" approach to the study of ideology that emphasizes the strategic, purposive, goal-directed nature of political rhetoric and belief. He ag...

Attention! This is a special internet edition of the conference paper " Digitization of Tocharian Manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan Collection. Methods of linking textual and graphic data " by Jost Gippert (paper read on the conference "