Laguerre geometry of surfaces with plane lines of curvature

We study surfaces with plane lines of curvature in the framework of Laguerre geometry and provide explicit representation formulae for these surfaces in terms of a potential function. As an application, we explicitly integrate allL- minimal surfaces with plane curvature lines. Partially supported by MURST 40.     

119Sn mössbauer,IR, 1H NMR spectroscopic and thermal decomposition studies on organotin(IV) adducts with glycylglycine

The complexes R₂SnCl₂·(H₂glygly), (H₂glygly = glycylglycine) (R = Me, Buⁿ, Octⁿ, Ph) and RSnCl₃·(H₂glygly)     

Rosigenin,an unusual metabolite from mycosphaerella rosigena1

A new metabolite, 3,6-dimethyl-4,10-dihydroxy-2-oxaspiro[4.5]dec-7-en-1,9-dione (1a), was isolated from a strain of Mycosphaerella rosigena grown on potato-agar medium. The structure was determined on the basis of chemical and spectroscopic evidence and confirmed by X-ray analysis.     

Enantio- and stereoselective syntheses of the dihydroxyoctadienoic acid framents of the roridins and trichoverrins

Syntheses of protected versions of the dihydroxyoctadienoic acid fragments corresponding to roridin A and trichoverrin B are described.     

Full counting statistics with spin-sensitive detectors reveals spin singlets

We study the full counting statistics of electric current to several drain terminals with spin-dependent entrance conductances. We show that the statistics of charge transfers can be interpreted in terms of single electrons and spin-singlet pairs coming from the source. If the source contains transport channels of high transparency, a significant fraction of electrons comes in spin-singlet pairs.     

Graded Cluster Expansion for Lattice Systems

In this paper we develop a general theory which provides a unified treatment of two apparently different problems. The weak Gibbs property of measures arising from the application of Renormalization Group maps and the mixing properties of disordered lattice systems in the Griffiths’ phase. We suppose that the system satisfies a mixing condition in a subset of the lattice whose complement is sparse enough namely, large regions are widely separated. We then show how it is possible to construct a convergent multi-scale cluster expansion.The authors acknowledge the support of Cofinanziamento MIUR.     

Space-time decay of Navier–Stokes flows invariant under rotations

We show that the solutions to the non-stationary Navier–Stokes equations in (d=2,3) which are left invariant under the action of discrete subgroups of the orthogonal group O(d) decay much faster as than in generic case and we compute, for each subgroup, the precise decay rates in space-time of the velocity field.     

Sliding-induced decoupling and charge transfer between the coexisting Q1 and Q2 charge density waves in NbSe3

Using high-resolution x-ray scattering in the presence of an applied current, we report evidence for a dynamical decoupling between the two NbSe3 charge-density waves (CDWs), Q1 (T(C1)=145 K) and Q2 (T(C2)=59 K), coexisting below T(C2). Simultaneous and oppositely directed shifts of the relevant CDW superlattice spots develop above a threshold current which we identify as the depinning threshold I(C1) for the more strongly pinned upper CDW Q1 (I(C1) approximately 10I(C2)). In contrast with shifts induced by current conversion processes, the present effect is not current polarized and is not limited to the current-contact regions. We propose a model which explains this instability through a sliding-induced charge transfer between the two electronic reservoirs corresponding to the Q1 and Q2 CDWs.     

Physical limits to communication

The limits posed by physics to the quantity of information that can be transmitted with a certain amount of power are investigated. The same ultimate limits are found for transmission of information encoded using matter and massless fields.