A cut salad of cocycles

A Salad of Cocycles

We study the centraliser of locally compact group extensions of er-godic probability preserving transformations. New methods establishing ergodicity of group extensions are introduced, and new examples of squashable and non-coalescent group extensions are constructed. Smooth versions of some of the constructions are also given. §0 Introduction Let T be an ergodic probability preserving transfor...

Effect of package film on the quality of fresh-cut salad savoy

Salad savoy (Brassica oleracea L.) is a vegetable crop that is becoming a valued addition to fresh-cut salad mixes. This study was conducted to develop a modified atmosphere packaging system for fresh-cut salad savoy and to evaluate the effect of film oxygen transmission rate (OTR) on package atmospheres, and consequently product quality changes during storage. Two varieties of salad savoy (whi...

A Salad of Block Ciphers

A Theory of Algebraic Cocycles

We introduce the notion of an algebraic cocycle as the algebraic analogue of a map to an Eilenberg-MacLane space. Using these cocycles we develop a “cohomology theory” for complex algebraic varieties. The theory is bigraded, functorial, and admits Gysin maps. It carries a natural cup product and a pairing to L-homology. Chern classes of algebraic bundles are defined in the theory. There is a na...

Fruit Salad

Paul Erdős liked fruit salad. I mixed this one for him from ingredients obtained while working on some of his problems. He was pleased by it and carried it to several places to offer to others as well. It is very sad that I have to add to the manuscript: dedicated to his memory. 1. Nearly bipartite graphs. Szentendre, 1994. Although we are in the shade, the summer afternoon is very hot, the wat...