This paper addresses the five major structural issues on the agenda of the 1996 Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) of the Member States of the European Union: the option of replacing the treaty framework by a European constitution; the issue of fundamental rights in the Union; the future of the three-pillar structure; the puzzling question of how to allow for variations in European integration ...

The algebra su 2 is derived from two commuting quon algebras for which the parameter q is a root of unity. This leads to a polar decomposition of the shift operators J + and J − of the group SU 2 (with J + = J † − = HUr where H is Hermitean and Ur unitary). The Wigner-Racah algebra of SU 2 is developed in a new basis arising from the simultanenous diagonalization of the commuting operators J 2 ...

In his work on Wiener-Hopf determinants, A. Böttcher came across what he termed a “mysterious” identity that evaluates a certain sum of a rational function of a primitive root of unity in terms of the Barnes Gfunction, which was later generalized by Basor and Forrester. We give a direct proof of Böttcher’s identity and its many generalizations by using elements of the theory of symmetric functi...

In this paper an epistemological model of learning fields of probabilistic events is formalized. It is used to explain resource allocation governed by pervasive complementarities as the sign of unity of knowledge. Such an episteme is induced epistemologically into interacting, integrating and evolutionary variables representing the problem at hand. The end result is the formalization of a p...

Watermark recovery is often based on cross-correlating images with pseudo-noise sequences, as access to un-watermarked originals is not required. Successful recovery of these watermarks is determined by the (periodic or aperiodic) sequence autoand cross-correlation properties. This paper presents several methods of extending the dimensionality of 1D sequences in order to utilise the advantages ...

One trivial zero phenomenon for p-adic analytic function is considered. We then prove that the first derivative of this function is essentially the Kummer class associated with p. 1. Introduction. In this paper we always fix an odd prime p > 2. For n ≥ 1, fix a p n th primitive root of unity ζ p n such that ζ

In this note, we calculate all the basic invariants of the number field K = Q(3 √ 5, ω), where ω = (−1 + √ −3)/2 is a primitive cube root of unity. Here is the notation for the fields and Galois groups to be used. Let

The quintuple identity has a long history and, as Berndt [5] points out, it is difficult to assign priority to it. It seems that a proof of the identity was first published in H. A. Schwartz’s book in 1893 [19]. Watson gave a proof in 1929 in his work on the RogersRamanujan continued fractions [20]. Since then, various proofs have appeared. To name a few, Carlitz and Subbarao gave a simple proo...

We study block decoupling of linear multivariable systems under unity-feedback configuration. We consider plants which have unstable pole-zero coincidences and give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of the block decoupling controllers. The conditions are particularly simple for plants with only simple unstable pole-zero coincidences. An illustrative example is given.