Surface enhanced Raman scattering from mildly roughened surfaces: variation of signal with metal grain size

The intensity of surface enhanced Raman scattering from benzoic acid derivatives on mildly roughened, thermally evaporated Ag films shows a remarkably strong dependence on metal grain size. Large grained (slowly deposited) films give a superior response, by up to a factor of 10, to small grained (quickly deposited) films, with films of intermediate grain size yielding intermediate results. The optical field amplification underlying the enhancement mechanism is due to the excitation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs). Since surface roughness characteristics, as determined by STM, remain relatively constant as a function of deposition rate, it is argued that the contrast in Raman scattering is due to differences in elastic grain boundary scattering of SPPs (leading to different degrees of internal SPP damping), rather than differences in the interaction of SPPs with surface inhomogeneities.     

The unitary irreducible representations of the quantum heisenberg algebra

The goal of this work is to describe the irreducible representations of the quantum Heisenberg algebra and the unitary irreducible representation of one of its real forms. The solution of this problem is obtained through the investigation of theleft spectrum of the quantum Heisenberg algebra using the result about spectra of generic algebras of skew differential operators (cf. [R]).     

Toric cubes

A toric cube is a subset of the standard cube defined by binomial inequalities. These basic semialgebraic sets are precisely the images of standard cubes under monomial maps. We study toric cubes from the perspective of topological combinatorics. Explicit decompositions as CW-complexes are constructed. Their open cells are interiors of toric cubes and their boundaries are subcomplexes. The motivating example of a toric cube is the edge-product space in phylogenetics, and our work generalizes results known for that space.     

Optimal prediction for linear regression with infinitely many parameters

The problem of optimal prediction in the stochastic linear regression model with infinitely many parameters is considered. We suggest a prediction method that outperforms asymptotically the ordinary least squares predictor. Moreover, if the random errors are Gaussian, the method is asymptotically minimax over ellipsoids in ?₂. The method is based on a regularized least squares estimator with weights of the Pinsker filter. We also consider the case of dynamic linear regression, which is important in the context of transfer function modeling.     

N. Charton,A. Feldermann,A. Theis,M. H. Stenzel,T. P. Davis,C. Barner‐Kowollik,Initiator efficiency of 2,2′‐azobis(isobutyronitrile) in bulk dodecyl acrylate free‐radical polymerizations over a wide conversion and molecular weight range (2004) 42(20) 5170–5179

The original article to which this Erratum refers was published in J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem (2004) 42(20) 5170–5179. No abstract.     

Zum isoperimetrischen Problem für die nichteuklidischen Geometrien

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Frames and the Feichtinger conjecture

We show that the conjectured generalization of the Bourgain-Tzafriri restricted-invertibility theorem is equivalent to the conjecture of Feichtinger, stating that every bounded frame can be written as a finite union of Riesz basic sequences. We prove that any bounded frame can at least be written as a finite union of linearly independent sequences. We further show that the two conjectures are implied by the paving conjecture. Finally, we show that Weyl-Heisenberg frames over rational lattices are finite unions of Riesz basic sequences.

     

Basic systems of orthogonal functions for space-time multivectors

Space-time multivectors in Clifford algebra (space-time algebra) and their application to nonlinear electrodynamics are considered. Functional product and infinitesimal operators for translation and rotation groups are introduced, where unit pseudoscalar or hyperimaginary unit is used instead of imaginary unit. Basic systems of orthogonal functions (plane waves, cylindrical, and spherical) for space-time multivectors are built by using the introduced infinitesimal operators. Appropriate orthogonal decompositions for electromagnetic field are presented. These decompositions are applied to nonlinear electrodynamics. Appropriate first order equation systems for cylindrical and spherical radial functions are obtained. Plane waves, cylindrical, and spherical solutions to the linear electrodynamics are represented by using the introduced orthogonal functions. A decomposition of a plane wave in terms of the introduced spherical harmonics is obtained.