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Mark McConnell

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arXiv2009

Cohomology of Congruence Subgroups of SL_4(Z). III

In two previous papers [AGM1, AGM2] we computed cohomology groups H^5(Γ_0 (N); \C) for a range of levels N, where Γ_0 (N) is the congruence subgroup of SL_4 (\Z) consisting of all matrices with bottom row congruent to (0,0,0,*) mod N. In this note we update this earlier work by carrying it out for prime levels up to N = 211. This requires new methods in sparse matrix reduction, which are the main focus of the paper. Our computations involve matrices with up to 20 million non-zero entries. We also make two conjectures concerning the contributions to H^5(Γ_0 (N); \C) for N prime coming from Eisenstein series and Siegel modular forms.

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arXiv2007

Cohomology of Congruence Subgroups of SL(4,\Z) II

In a previous paper [3] we computed cohomology groups H^5 (Gamma_0 (N), \C), where Gamma_0 (N) is a certain congruence subgroup of SL (4, \Z), for a range of levels N. In this note we update this earlier work by extending the range of levels and describe cuspidal cohomology classes and additional boundary phenomena found since the publication of [3]. The cuspidal cohomology classes in this paper are the first cuspforms for GL(4) concretely constructed in terms of Betti cohomology.

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arXiv2006

The Advanced Compton Telescope Mission

The Advanced Compton Telescope (ACT), the next major step in gamma-ray astronomy, will probe the fires where chemical elements are formed by enabling high-resolution spectroscopy of nuclear emission from supernova explosions. During the past two years, our collaboration has been undertaking a NASA mission concept study for ACT. This study was designed to (1) transform the key scientific objectives into specific instrument requirements, (2) to identify the most promising technologies to meet those requirements, and (3) to design a viable mission concept for this instrument. We present the results of this study, including scientific goals and expected performance, mission design, and technology recommendations.

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arXiv2000

Cohomology of congruence subgroups of SL(4,Z)

Let $N>1$ be an integer, and let $Γ= Γ_0 (N) \subset \SL_4 (\Z)$ be the subgroup of matrices with bottom row congruent to $(0,0,0,*)\mod N$. We compute $H^5 (Γ; \C) $ for a range of $N$, and compute the action of some Hecke operators on many of these groups. We relate the classes we find to classes coming from the boundary of the Borel-Serre compactification, to Eisenstein series, and to classical holomorphic modular forms of weights 2 and 4.

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arXiv1998

Hecke operators and Q-groups associated to self-adjoint homogeneous cones

Let G be a reductive algebraic group associated to a self-adjoint homogeneous cone defined over Q, and let G' be an appropriate neat arithmetic subgroup of G. We present two algorithms to compute the action of the Hecke operators on the integral cohomology of G'. This simultaneously generalizes the modular algorithm of Ash-Rudolph to a larger class of groups, and provides techniques to compute the Hecke-module structure of previously inaccessible cohomology groups.

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