The giant spiral

Cocycles ofZ ^m actions on compact metric spaces provide a means for constructingR ^m actions or flows, called suspension flows. It is known that allR ^m flows with a free dense orbit have an almost one-to-one extension which is a suspension flow. Whenm=1, examples of cocycles are easy to construct; there is a one-to-one correspondence between cocycles and real valued continuous functions. However, whenm>1 the construction of examples of cocycles becomes more problematic. The only existing class of examples, the close to linear cocycles, have strong linearity properties and are well understood. In fact, when theZ ^m action is uniquely ergodic, all cocycles are close to linear. We will show that in general this need not be the case. We present a method, suggested to us by Hillel Furstenberg, for constructing examples of cocycles whenm>1 and use this method to construct a non close to linear cocycle on a minimalZ ² action.     

The Local Index Formula for SU q (2)

We discuss the local index formula of Connes–Moscovici for the isospectral noncommutative geometry that we have recently constructed on quantum SU(2). We work out the cosphere bundle and the dimension spectrum as well as the local cyclic cocycles yielding the index formula. (Received: January 2005)     

Smooth cocycles for an irrational rotation

Explicit examples of smooth cocycles not cohomologous to constants are constructed. Necessary and sufficient conditions on the irrational numberθ are given for the existence of such cocycles. It is shown that, depending onθ, the set ofC ^r cocycles whose skew-product is ergodic is either residual or empty.     

Direct sums of balanced functions,perfect nonlinear functions,and orthogonal cocycles

Determining if a direct sum of functions inherits nonlinearity properties from its direct summands is a subtle problem. Here, we correct a statement by Nyberg on inheritance of balance and we use a connection between balanced derivatives and orthogonal cocycles to generalize Nyberg's result to orthogonal cocycles. We obtain a new search criterion for PN functions and orthogonal cocycles mapping to non‐cyclic abelian groups and use it to find all the orthogonal cocycles over Z ₂^t, 2 ≤ t ≤ 4. We conjecture that any orthogonal cocycle over Z ₂^t, t ≥ 2, must be multiplicative. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Combin Designs 16: 173–181, 2008     

Equivalence classes of central semiregular relative difference sets

A semiregular relative difference set (RDS) in a finite group E which avoids a central subgroup C is equivalent to a cocycle which satisfies an additional condition, called orthogonality. However the basic equivalence relation, cohomology, on cocycles, does not preserve orthogonality, leading to the perception that orthogonality is essentially a combinatorial property. We show this perception is false by discovering a natural atomic structure within cohomology classes, which discriminates between orthogonal and non‐orthogonal cocycles. This atomic structure is determined by an action we term the shift action of the group G = E/C on cocycles, which defines a stronger equivalence relation on cocycles than cohomology. We prove that for each triple (C, E, G), the set of equivalence classes of semiregular RDS in E relative to C is in one to one correspondence with the set of shift‐orbits of the (Aut(C) × Aut(G))‐orbits of orthogonal cocycles. This determines a new algorithm for detecting and classifying central semiregular RDS. We demonstrate it, and propose a 7‐parameter classification scheme for equivalence classes of central semiregular relative difference sets. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Combin Designs 8: 330–346, 2000     

Stable one-dimensional quasi-periodic cocycles on unitary group

In this paper, we study the stable one-dimensional quasi-periodic C ^∞ cocycles on U(N). We prove that any such cocycle on a generic irrational rotation is a limit point of reducible cocycles. The proof is based on Krikorian’s renormalization scheme and a local result of him.     

Integrable cocycles and global deformations of Lie algebra of type G2 in characteristic 2

All classes of integrable cocycles in H²(L,L) are obtained for Lie algebra of type G₂ over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 2. It is proved that there exist only two orbits of classes of integrable cocycles with respect to automorphism group. The global deformation is shown to exist for any nontrivial class of integrable cocycles. These deformations are isomorphic to one of the two algebras of Cartan type, one of which being S(3:1,ω) while the other H(4:1,ω).     

Recurrence of matrix cocycles

This paper considers measurable cocycles with values in the subgroup of SL(2, ℂ) of diagonal and skew-diagonal matrices over an ergodic transformation preserving the probability measure. We prove the recurrence of such cocycles under certain conditions as well as the equivalence of two definitions of the recurrence.     

Minimal isometric dilations of operator cocycles

We obtain existence, uniqueness results for minimal isometric dilations of contractive cocycles of semigroups of unital *-endomorphisms ofB(H. This generalizes the result of Sz. Nagy on minimal isometric dilations of semigroups of contractive operators on a Hilbert space. In a similar fashion we explore results analogus to Sarason's characterization that subspaces to which compressions of semigroups are again semigroups are semi-invariant subspaces, in the context of cocycles and quantum dynamical semigroups.This research is supported by the Indian National Science Academy under Young Scientist Project.     

Calculating the first nontrivial 1-cocycle in the space of long knots

For spaces of knots in ℝ³, the Vassiliev theory defines the so-called cocycles of finite order. The zero-dimensional cocycles are finite-order invariants. The first nontrivial cocycle of positive dimension in the space of long knots is one-dimensional and is of order 3. We apply the combinatorial formula given by Vassiliev in his paper     

Uniform Convergence of Schr?dinger Cocycles over Simple Toeplitz Subshift

For locally constant cocycles defined on an aperiodic subshift, Damanik and Lenz (Duke Math J 133(1): 95–123, 2006) proved that if the subshift satisfies a certain condition (B), then the cocycle is uniform. In this paper, we study simple Toeplitz subshifts. We give a criterion that simple Toeplitz subshifts satisfy condition (B), and also give some sufficient conditions that they do not satisfy condition (B). However, we can still prove the uniformity of Schr?dinger cocycles over any simple Toeplitz subshift. As a consequence, the related Schr?dinger operators have Cantor spectrum of Lebesgue measure 0. We also exhibit a fine structure for the spectrum, and this helps us to prove purely singular continuous spectrum for a large class of simple Toeplitz potentials.     

Cosimplicial DGLAs in Deformation Theory

We identify ?ech cocycles in nonabelian (formal) group cohomology with Maurer–Cartan elements in a suitable L _∞-algebra. Applications to deformation theory are described.     

Cycle and cocycle coverings of graphs

In this article, we show that for any simple, bridgeless graph G on n vertices, there is a family ?? of at most n?1 cycles which cover the edges of G at least twice. A similar, dual result is also proven for cocycles namely: for any loopless graph G on n vertices and ε edges having cogirth g^*?3 and k(G) components, there is a family of at most ε?n+k(G) cocycles which cover the edges of G at least twice. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 65: 270–284, 2010     

Twisted product of cocycles and factorization of semi‐regular relative difference sets

In this article, we introduce what we call twisted Kronecker products of cocycles of finite groups and show that the twisted Kronecker product of two cocycles is a Hadamard cocycle if and only if the two cocycles themselves are Hadamard cocycles. This enables us to generalize some known results concerning products and factorizations of central semi‐regular relative difference sets. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Combin Designs 16: 431–441, 2008     

Quantum stochastic convolution cocycles III

Every Markov-regular quantum Lévy process on a multiplier C ^*-bialgebra is shown to be equivalent to one governed by a quantum stochastic differential equation, and the generating functionals of norm-continuous convolution semigroups on a multiplier C ^*-bialgebra are then completely characterised. These results are achieved by extending the theory of quantum Lévy processes on a compact quantum group, and more generally quantum stochastic convolution cocycles on a C ^*-bialgebra, to locally compact quantum groups and multiplier C ^*-bialgebras. Strict extension results obtained by Kustermans, together with automatic strictness properties developed here, are exploited to obtain existence and uniqueness for coalgebraic quantum stochastic differential equations in this setting. Then, working in the universal enveloping von Neumann bialgebra, we characterise the stochastic generators of Markov-regular, *-homomorphic (respectively completely positive and contractive), quantum stochastic convolution cocycles.     

Divisible designs and semi-regular relative difference sets from additive Hadamard cocycles

Additive Hadamard cocycles are a natural generalization of presemifields. In this paper, we study divisible designs and semi-regular relative difference sets obtained from additive Hadamard cocycles. We show that the designs obtained from additive Hadamard cocycles are flag transitive. We introduce a new product construction of Hadamard cocycles. We also study additive Hadamard cocycles whose divisible designs admit a polarity in which all points are absolute. Our main results include generalizations of a theorem of Albert and a theorem of Hiramine from presemifields to additive Hadamard cocycles. At the end, we generalize Maiorana-McFarland?s construction of bent functions to additive Hadamard cocycles.     

A New Construction of Central Relative (p a , p a , p a , 1)-Difference Sets

Semiregular relative difference sets (RDS) in a finite group E which avoid a central subgroup C are equivalent to orthogonal cocycles. For example, every abelian semiregular RDS must arise from a symmetric orthogonal cocycle, and vice versa. Here, we introduce a new construction for central (p ^a , p ^a , p ^a , 1)-RDS which derives from a novel type of orthogonal cocycle, an LP cocycle, defined in terms of a linearised permutation (LP) polynomial and multiplication in a finite presemifield. The construction yields many new non-abelian (p ^a , p ^a , p ^a , 1)-RDS. We show that the subset of the LP cocycles defined by the identity LP polynomial and multiplication in a commutative semifield determines the known abelian (p ^a , p ^a , p ^a , 1)-RDS, and give a second new construction using presemifields.We use this cohomological approach to identify equivalence classes of central (p ^a , p ^a , p ^a , 1)-RDS with elementary abelian C and E/C. We show that for p = 2, a 3 and p = 3, a 2, every central (p ^a , p ^a , p ^a , 1)-RDS is equivalent to one arising from an LP cocycle, and list them all by equivalence class. For p = 2, a = 4, we list the 32 distinct equivalence classes which arise from field multiplication. We prove that, for any p, there are at least a equivalence classes of central (p ^a , p ^a , p ^a , 1)-RDS, of which one is abelian and a – 1 are non-abelian.     

On circle-valued cocycles of an ergodic measure-preserving transformation

Analytic necessary and sufficient conditions are given for a circle-valued functionf to generate a cocycle which is a multiple of a coboundary. These conditions are then used to derive some other new criteria for cocycles to be coboundaries. This research was supported in part by an NSF grant DMS8600753.     

Cohomology of permutative cellular automata

We examineU(d) valued cocycles for a ?²⁺ action generated by a mixing, permutative cellular automaton and show that the set of Hölder continuous cocycles (for a given Hölder order) which are cohomologous to constant cocycles is both open and closed in the appropriate topology. A continuous dimension function with values in {0, 1,…,d} is defined on cocycles; a cocycle is cohomologous to a constant precisely when the value isd. Whend=1 (the abelian case) the first (essential) cohomology group is countable. IfU(1)? circle is replaced by a finite subgroup, this cohomology group is finite.