Let G be a discrete group which admits an amenable action on a compact space and γ ∈ Aut(G) be an automorphism. We define a notion of entropy for γ and denote the invariant by ha(γ). This notion is dual to classical topological entropy in the sense that if G is abelian then ha(γ) = hTop(γ̂) where hTop(γ̂) denotes the topological entropy of the induced automorphism γ̂ of the (compact, abelian) dual...

A lattice identity is given such that it holds but its dual fails in the normal subgroup lattices of metaabelian groups. Thus the congruence variety of metaabelian groups is not self-dual; this is the first example for a modular congruence variety which is not self-dual. For a ring R with unit element let L(R) denote the class of lattices embeddable in submodule lattices of R-modules. Then HL(R...

Mansfield showed how to induce representations of crossed products of C∗algebras by coactions from crossed products by quotient groups and proved an imprimitivity theorem characterising these induced representations. We give an alternative construction of his bimodule in the case of dual coactions, based on the symmetric imprimitivity theorem of the third author; this provides a more workable w...

In this paper we develop a theory of translation groups for dimensional dual hyperovals and APN functions. It will be seen that both theories can be treated, to a large degree, simultaneously. For small ambient spaces it will be shown that the translation groups are normal in the automorphism group of the respective geometric object. For large ambient spaces there may be more than one translati...

Node grouping is a common way of adding structure and information to networks that aids their interpretation. However, certain networks benefit from the grouping of links instead of nodes. Link communities, for example, are a form of link groups that describe high-quality overlapping node communities. There is a conceptual gap between node groups and link groups that poses an interesting visual...

The simple (or semisimple) classical Lie groups (algebras) may be transformed by contractions to the nonsemisimple ones of the different structure. We named the set of such groups (algebras) as Cayley-Klein (CK) groups (algebras). In our approach [2] the contractions of the groups (algebras) are described with the help of dual valued parameters, i.e. the nonsemisimple CK groups are regarded as ...

We present the first fully secure Identity-Based Encryption scheme (IBE) from the standard assumptions where the security loss depends only on the security parameter and is independent of the number of secret key queries. This partially answers an open problem posed by Waters (Eurocrypt 2005). Our construction combines the Waters’ dual system encryption methodology (Crypto 2009) with the Naor-R...

The existence and construction of self-dual codes in a permutation module of a finite group for the semisimple case are described from two aspects, one is from the point of view of the composition factors which are self-dual modules, the other one is from the point of view of the Galois group of the coefficient field.