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We show that Norbury's McShane identity for nonorientable cusped hyperbolic surfaces N generalizes to quasifuchsian representations of pi_1(N) as well as pseudo-Anosov mapping Klein bottles with singular fibers given by N.
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We discuss logical links among uniformity conjectures concerning K3 surfaces and abelian varieties of bounded dimension defined over number fields of bounded degree. The conjectures concern the endomorphism algebra of an abelian variety,…
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