The purpose of this essay is to analyse how and why culture and tradition is created and maintained within a minor student society at a Swedish university by looking at its history. The West Coast Nation student society provided the material which was subsequently analysed and three sociological perspectives were applied in order to give the study a theoretical base. In order to investigate the purpose of the society, durkheimian theories on functionalism were applied. Moreover, Bourdieu’s thoughts on social fields were used as well as Elias’ theories on the established and the outsiders. The results indicate that the purpose of a student society of this sort is to provide the students with a culture and a group with which they may identify. From a historical perspective, the West Coast Nation seems to have had an increase in members steadily from the early 90’s on, but at the start of the 21st century, the numbers dwindled, something which had as a result that a process of professionalization was begun. Furthermore, the society displayed strong intentions of establishing and maintaining continuity, which may be a result of the nation having trouble keeping members and board members since students, who form the basis of the society, leave the university after a few years.

In the thesis we study the elliptic curves and its use in cryptography. Elliptic curvesencompasses a vast area of mathematics. Elliptic curves have basics in group theory andnumber theory. The points on elliptic curve forms a group under the operation of addition.We study the structure of this group. We describe Hasse’s theorem to estimate the numberof points on the curve. We also discuss that the elliptic curve group may or may not becyclic over finite fields. Elliptic curves have applications in cryptography, we describe theapplication of elliptic curves for discrete logarithm problem and ElGamal cryptosystem.

In the thesis we study the elliptic curves and its use in cryptography. Elliptic curvesencompasses a vast area of mathematics. Elliptic curves have basics in group theory andnumber theory. The points on elliptic curve forms a group under the operation of addition.We study the structure of this group. We describe Hasse’s theorem to estimate the numberof points on the curve. We also discuss that the elliptic curve group may or may not becyclic over finite fields. Elliptic curves have applications in cryptography, we describe theapplication of elliptic curves for discrete logarithm problem and ElGamal cryptosystem.

Summary Taiwan¡¦s petroleum market has been deregulated in the wake of the passing of the Petroleum Administration Law. The market structure should have been shifted to monopolistic competition from the monopoly and the price backed to the so-called equilibrium one. Observing its historical data, we can find the effect of the price decrease is not obvious. In this article, we try to explore the reasons for that using the interest group theory in the public choice school. Every interest group demanding regulation decides how much political resource they would provide in light of their own cost benefit analysis. On the other hand, the administration department supplying regulation will be influenced by some variables such as ideology, institutional constraint, and political variance. Finally the political equilibrium price, i.e. output of regulation, will be reached through adjusting both sides each other.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Mathematics)--Vanderbilt University, 2003. / Title from PDF title screen. Includes bibliographical references and index.

We present a formal description of `Face Fundamental Transversals' on the faces of the Complexes of polyhedra (meaning threedimensional polytopes). A Complex of a polyhedron is the collection of the vertex points of the polyhedron, line segment edges and polygonal faces of the polyhedron. We will prove that for the faces of any 3-dimensional complex of a polyhedron under face adjacency relations, that a `Face Fundamental Transversal' exists, and it is a union of the connected orbits of faces that are intersected exactly once. While exploring the problem of finding a face fundamental transversal, we have found a partial result for edges that are incident to faces in a face fundamental transversal. Therefore we will present this partial result, as The Edge Transversal Proposition 1. We will also discuss a few conjectures that arose out this proposition. In order to reach our approaches we will first discuss some history of polyhedra, group theory, and incorporate a little crystallography, as this will appeal to various audiences.

This thesis is concerned with the Regular Inverse Galois Problem for p-groups over fields of characteristic unequal to p. Building upon results of Saltman, Dentzer characterized a class of finite groups that are automatically realized over every field, and proceeded to show that every group of order dividing p⁴ belongs to this class. We extend this result to include groups of order p⁵, provided that the base field k contains the p³-th roots of unity. The proof involves reducing to certain Brauer embedding problems defined over the rational function field k(x). Through explicit computation, we describe the cohomological obstructions to these embedding problems. Then by applying results about the Brauer group of a Dedekind domain, we show that they all possess solutions. / text

Let F be a field finitely generated and of transcendence degree 2 over \(\bar{\mathbb{Q}}\). We describe a correspondence between the smooth algebraic surfaces X defined over \(\bar{\mathbb{Q}}\) with field of rational functions F and Florian Pop’s geometric sets of prime divisors on \(Gal(\bar{F}/F)\), which are purely group-theoretical objects. This allows us to give a strong anabelian theorem for these surfaces. As a corollary, for each number field K, we give a method to construct infinitely many profinite groups \(\Gamma\) such that \(Out_{cont} (\Gamma)\) is isomorphic to \(Gal(\bar{K}/K)\), and we find a host of new categories which answer the Question of Ihara/Conjecture of Oda-Matsumura. / Mathematics

Un groupe est dit co-hopfien si tout endomorphisme injectif de ce groupe est un automorphisme. En utilisant la théorie de Bass-Serre, nous montrons sous quelles conditions certains graphes de groupes, ayant leurs groupes d'arêtes finis, ont des groupes fondamentaux co-hopfiens. Nous montrons aussi, en utilisant le scindement JSJ de Bowditch, que tout groupe hyperbolique à un bout est co-hopfien. Ce résultat généralise un résultat de Sela au cas avec torsion. Nous terminons avec un algorithme général décidant, étant donné un groupe hyperbolique, si ce groupe est co-hopfien ou non.

One goal of music theory is to describe the resources of a pitch system. Traditionally, the study of pitch intervals was done using frequency ratios of the powers of small integers. Modern mathematical music theory offers an independent way of understanding the pitch system by considering intervals as transformations. This thesis takes advantage of the historical emergence of algebraic structures in musicology and, in the spirit of transformational theory, treats operations that form mathematical groups. Aspects of Neo-Riemannian theory are explored and developed, in particular the T/I and PLR groups as dual. Pitch class spaces, such as 12, can also be defined as torsors. In addition to surveying the group theoretical tools for music analysis, this thesis provides detailed proofs of many claims that are proposed but seldom supported.