A Capelli type theorem for multiplicative convolutions of polynomials

We prove a Capelli type theorem on the canonical decomposition for multiplicative convolutions of polynomials. We derive then some irreducibility criteria for convolutions of polynomials in several variables over a given field. The irreducibility conditions are expressed only in terms of the degrees of the polynomials in convolution, the degrees of their coefficients, and the degrees of some suitable divisors of the resulting leading coefficient. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Spectroelectrochemical Study of 9‐Substituted Acridines with Potential Antitumor Activity

The electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical behavior of 9‐substituted with ? CN and ? COOH acridine N‐oxides with potential antitumor activity was investigated. In SER spectra of the investigated compounds, the ring stretching vibration at 1568 cm^?1 for 9‐CN‐substituted compound respectively 1639 cm^?1 for 9‐COOH‐substituted compound was analyzed. Cyclic voltammograms indicates that the reduction potential ?0.766 V for ? CN substituted compound increase towards ?0.745 V for ? COOH substituted compound. The proposed theoretical method in the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy uses a reference redox dielectrode and a multielectrode containing the compound. To account for the change of electrochemical impedance we have considered two theoretical quantities: a pseudocapacitance and a pseudo inductance. Two possible arrangements of them: in series, respective in parallel can be used like criteria of drug classification.     

Irreducibility Results for Compositions of Polynomials with Integer Coefficients

We obtain explicit upper bounds for the number of irreducible factors for a class of polynomials of the form f ○ g, where f,g are polynomials with integer coefficients, in terms of the prime factorization of the leading coefficients of f and g, the degrees of f and g, and the size of coefficients of f. In particular, some irreducibility results are given for this class of compositions of polynomials.     

Irreducibility criteria for compositions of multivariate polynomials

We provide irreducibility criteria for compositions of multivariate polynomials over a field K, of the form \({f(X_{1},\ldots ,X_{r-1},g(X_{1},\ldots ,X_{r}))}\), with \({f,g\in K[X_{1},\ldots ,X_{r}]}\), for the case that \({f}\) as a polynomial in X_r is irreducible over \({K(X_{1},\ldots ,X_{r-1})}\) and has leading coefficient divisible by a power of an irreducible polynomial \({p(X_{1},\ldots ,X_{r-1})}\) of sufficiently large degree with respect to \({X_{r-1}}\).     

Mass transportation and rough curvature bounds for discrete spaces

We introduce and study rough (approximate) lower curvature bounds for discrete spaces and for graphs. This notion agrees with the one introduced in [J. Lott, C. Villani, Ricci curvature for metric-measure spaces via optimal transport, Ann. of Math. 169 (2009), in press] and [K.T. Sturm, On the geometry of metric measure spaces. I, Acta Math. 196 (2006) 65-131], in the sense that the metric measure space which is approximated by a sequence of discrete spaces with rough curvature ?K will have curvature ?K in the sense of [J. Lott, C. Villani, Ricci curvature for metric-measure spaces via optimal transport, Ann. of Math. 169 (2009), in press; K.T. Sturm, On the geometry of metric measure spaces. I, Acta Math. 196 (2006) 65-131]. Moreover, in the converse direction, discretizations of metric measure spaces with curvature ?K will have rough curvature ?K. We apply our results to concrete examples of homogeneous planar graphs.     

Bounds for the Multiplicities of the Irreducible Factors of a Multivariate Polynomial

We provide explicit upper bounds for the multiplicities of the irreducible factors for some classes of polynomials in two variables X, Y over a field K, regarded as polynomials in Y with coefficients in K[X] whose degrees satisfy certain inequalities. We then obtain similar results for polynomials in an arbitrary number of variables over K.     

Schönemann–Eisenstein–Dumas-Type Irreducibility Conditions that Use Arbitrarily Many Prime Numbers

The famous irreducibility criteria of Schönemann–Eisenstein and Dumas rely on information on the divisibility of the coefficients of a polynomial by a single prime number. In this paper, we will use some results and ideas of Dumas to provide several irreducibility criteria of Schönemann–Eisenstein–Dumas-type for polynomials with integer coefficients, criteria that are given by some divisibility conditions for their coefficients with respect to arbitrarily many prime numbers. A special attention will be paid to those irreducibility criteria that require information on the divisibility of the coefficients by two distinct prime numbers.     

A rough curvature-dimension condition for metric measure spaces

We introduce and study a rough (approximate) curvature-dimension condition for metric measure spaces, applicable especially in the framework of discrete spaces and graphs. This condition extends the one introduced by Karl-Theodor Sturm, in his 2006 article On the geometry of metric measure spaces II, to a larger class of (possibly non-geodesic) metric measure spaces. The rough curvature-dimension condition is stable under an appropriate notion of convergence, and stable under discretizations as well. For spaces that satisfy a rough curvature-dimension condition we prove a generalized Brunn-Minkowski inequality and a Bonnet-Myers type theorem.     

Potentiometric investigation of the effect of the pH on the ionic transfer of some amino acids at the interface between two immiscible electrolyte solutions

The effect of the pH on the ionic transfer of glycine and beta-alanine at the interface between two immiscible electrolyte solutions (ITIES) was investigated by a simple potentiometric method. Upon addition of small amounts of solution containing the investigated amino acids, a variation of the potential drop across the interface was recorded, which was found to be pH-dependent. This behavior was explained in terms of a preferential orientation of the amino acid molecules at the ITIES, induced by the different lipoficility of the functional groups. The results enabled the measurement of this voltage variation to be used as the basis for a simple and rapid method for determining the isoelectric point of the investigated compounds. The agreement between the pH(i) values thus estimated and those reported in the literature suggests the possibility of using the method for the interpretation of processes occurring at the level of biological membranes.     

Square-free criteria for polynomials using no derivatives

We provide some square-free criteria for primitive polynomials over unique factorization domains, which do not make use of derivatives or discriminants. Using some ideas of Ostrowski we establish nonvanishing conditions for determinants of matrices with polynomial entries and deduce square-free criteria for polynomials in several variables.