Claire Fontaine: Foreigners Everywhere

Claire Walczak

favourite plants. Linnaeus’s affection for it has been well documented: he used it as a mattress and cover when he slept in woods during his journeys across Sweden. This month also sees the opening of a new exhibition to celebrate Linnaeus at the Natural History Museum, Systema Metropolis, exploring the unseen wildlife in London from a number of sites. Created by the US artist, Mark Dion, it re...

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CLAIRE: a brief overview

For the last 10 years, we have been experimenting with the use of a hybrid objectoriented language, LAURETM1, to solve “advanced” industrial problems (that require some form of reasoning or constraint solving) [Ca91]. This approach was successful in the sense that we were able to solve complex problems in a better way than previous approaches [Ca94]. However, we failed short of our initial goal...

Fontaine Rings and Local Cohomology

1. Introduction In this paper we use Fontaine rings to study properties of local cohomology for rings of mixed characteristic. Fontaine rings, which we deene and discuss in more detail in Section 3, give a method of constructing a ring of positive characteristic from one of mixed characteristic in such a way that,