Vibrational spectra and normal vibrations of acetanilide and N-deuterated acetanilide

The Raman and infra-red spectra of acetanilide and N-methylacetamide and of their N-deuterated compounds have been recorded. The vibrational frequencies of acetanilide have been assigned and the nature of the Amide I, II and III bands in acetanilide and N-methylacetamide has been investigated by the study of the changes in the frequencies of these bands in the spectra of their deuterated compounds. Acetanilide and deuterated acetanilide molecules have been subjected to normal co-ordinate treatment and the mixing up of the skeletal frequencies arising out of the in-plane vibrations has been determined. These results indicate that as in secondary amides, the amide II and amide III bands in acetanilide are due to the combined contribution ofδ (NH) andν (C-N) vibrations, but the contribution ofν (C-N) to the amide II band is less in acetanilide and deuterated acetanilide than in cases of N-methylacetamide and deuterated N-methylacetamide.     

Mapping integers and hensel codes onto Farey fractions

The order-N Farey fractions, whereN is the largest integer satisfyingN≦√((p?1)/2), can be mapped onto a proper subset of the integers {0, 1,...,p?1} in a one-to-one and onto fashion. However, no completely satisfactory algorithm for affecting the inverse mapping (the mapping of the integers back onto the order-N Farey fractions) appears in the literature. A new algorithm for the inverse mapping problem is described which is based on the Euclidean Algorithm. This algorithm solves the inverse mapping problem for both integers and the Hensel codes of Krishnamurthy et al.     

2-Arc-transitive cyclic covers of $$K_{n,n}$$

In this paper, a complete classification is achieved of all the regular covers of the complete bipartite graphs \(K_{n,n}\) with cyclic covering transformation group, whose fibre-preserving automorphism group acts 2-arc-transitively. All these covers consist of one threefold covers of \(K_{6,6}\), one twofold cover of \(K_{12, 12}\) and one infinite family X(r, p) of p-fold covers of \(K_{p^r,p^r}\) with p a prime and r an integer such that \(p^r\ge 3\). This infinite family X(r, p) can be derived by a very simple and nice voltage assignment f as follows: \(X(r, p)=K_{p^r, p^r}\times _f \mathbb {Z}_p\), where \(K_{p^r, p^r}\) is a complete bipartite graph with the bipartition \(V=\{ \alpha \bigm |\alpha \in V(r,p)\}\cup \{ \alpha '\bigm |\alpha \in V(r,p)\}\) for the r-dimensional vector space V(r, p) over the field of order p and \(f_{\alpha ,\beta '}=\sum _{i=1}^ra_ib_i,\,\, \mathrm{for\,\,all}\,\,\alpha =(a_i)_r, \beta =(b_i)_r\in V(r,p)\).     

Degenerate Boundary Conditions for a Third-Order Differential Equation

We consider the spectral problem y'''(x) = λy(x) with general two-point boundary conditions that do not contain the spectral parameter λ. We prove that the boundary conditions in this problem are degenerate if and only if their 3 × 6 coefficient matrix can be reduced by a linear row transformation to a matrix consisting of two diagonal 3 × 3 matrices one of which is the identity matrix and the diagonal entries of the other are all cubic roots of some number. Further, the characteristic determinant of the problem is identically zero if and only if that number is ?1. We also show that the problem in question cannot have finite spectrum.     

Infinitesimal CR automorphisms of rigid hypersurfaces in C2

In this paper, we describe the space of infinitesimal CR automorphisms of a rigid, real analytic, real hypersurface in C². We use these results to obtain a geometric characterization of the homogeneous hypersurfaces. Here, a hypersurface is called homogeneous if it is equivalent to one given by an equation of the formIm(w) =p wherep is a homogeneous polynomial inz and \(\bar z\) . This gives an answer in dimension 2 to a problem posed by Linda Rothschild. We give another answer, in terms of a normal form for the defining function, in our paper “A normal form for rigid hypersurfaces in C².”     

Algorithms with high order convergence speed for blind source extraction

A rigorous convergence analysis for the fixed point ICA algorithm of Hyvärinen and Oja is provided and a generalization of it involving cumulants of an arbitrary order is presented. We consider a specific optimization problem OP(p), p>3, integer, arising from a Blind Source Extraction problem (BSE) and prove that every local maximum of OP(p) is a solution of (BSE) in sense that it extracts one source signal from a linear mixture of unknown statistically independent signals. An algorithm for solving OP(p) is constructed, which has a rate of convergence p?1.     

Representation of ap-harmonic function near a critical point in the plane

A representation theorem is given for ap-harmonic function φ(1<p<∞) in the plane, near a zeroz _o of grad φ. The proof uses “stream functions” and the hodograph transformation. The stream function of ap-harmonic function isp′-harmonic, where \(\frac{1}{p} + \frac{1}{{p'}} = 1\) . In principle, all properties of φ nearz _o can be found from the representation. Some consequences are derived here, e.g. the optimal Hölder continuity of grad φ.     

Singer-Thorpe bases for special Einstein curvature tensors in dimension 4

Let (M, g) be a 4-dimensional Einstein Riemannian manifold. At each point p of M, the tangent space admits a so-called Singer-Thorpe basis (ST basis) with respect to the curvature tensor R at p. In this basis, up to standard symmetries and antisymmetries, just 5 components of the curvature tensor R are nonzero. For the space of constant curvature, the group O(4) acts as a transformation group between ST bases at T _p M and for the so-called 2-stein curvature tensors, the group Sp(1) ? SO(4) acts as a transformation group between ST bases. In the present work, the complete list of Lie subgroups of SO(4) which act as transformation groups between ST bases for certain classes of Einstein curvature tensors is presented. Special representations of groups SO(2), T ², Sp(1) or U(2) are obtained and the classes of curvature tensors whose transformation group into new ST bases is one of the mentioned groups are determined.     

Asymptotic expansions,L-values and a new quantum modular form

In 2010, Zagier introduced the notion of a quantum modular form. One of his first examples was the “strange” function F(q) of Kontsevich. Here we produce a new example of a quantum modular form by making use of some of Ramanujan’s mock theta functions. Using these functions and their transformation behaviour, we also compute asymptotic expansions similar to expansions of F(q).     

On solvability of f(p(x)) = q(f(x)) for given real functions p,q

We investigate the solvability of functional equations f(p(x)) =  q(f(x)) for given functions p and q which are partially or completely defined on the set of all real numbers. For these investigations, we use methods for constructions of homomorphisms of mono-unary algebras. We can present a simple characterisation of solvability of the above equation in the case that p, q are strictly increasing and continuous functions. It gives, on the one hand, a practical use for a class of functional equations. On the other hand, it is a contribution to questions on topological conjugacy of monotonous real functions.     

A necessary and sufficient condition for the global asymptotic stability of damped half-linear oscillators

We are concerned with the global asymptotic stability of the equilibrium of the half-linear differential equation with a damped term $$\left(\phi_p(x')\right)' + h(t)\phi_p(x') + (p-1)\phi_p(x) = 0. $$ A necessary and sufficient growth condition on h(t) is obtained by using the generalized Prüfer transformation and the generalized Riccati transformation. Equivalent planar systems to the above-mentioned equation are also considered in the proof of our main result.     

On second order functional differential equations and inequalities with deviating arguments

A necessary and sufficient condition is established in order that (i) the retarded differential equation $$y''(t) = p_0 y(t) + f(y(t - \tau _1 ),...,y(t - \tau _N ))$$ has no bounded nonoscillatory solution and (ii) the advanced differential equation $$y''(t) = p_0 y(t) + f(y(t + \tau _1 ),...,y(t + \tau _N ))$$ has no unbounded nonoscillatory solution, wherep ₀≥0 and τ _j > 0,1 ?i ?N, are constants. Differential inequalities related to (^*) and (^**) are also studied. Finally, an oscillation criterion is given for a class of differential equations containing both retarded and advanced arguments.     

Reflexivity and the Grothendieck property for positive tensor products of Banach lattices-I

Let X be a Banach lattice and p, p′ be real numbers such that 1 < p, p′<∞ and 1/p + 1/p′ = 1. Then \({\ell_p\hat{\otimes}_FX}\) (respectively, \({\ell_p\tilde{\otimes}_{i}X}\)), the Fremlin projective (respectively, the Wittstock injective) tensor product of ? _p and X, has reflexivity or the Grothendieck property if and only if X has the same property and each positive linear operator from ? _p (respectively, from ? _p′) to X* (respectively, to X**) is compact.     

Extension of a theorem of Cauchy and Jacobi

Let q and p be prime with q = a² + b² ≡ 1 (mod 4), a ≡ 1 (mod 4), and p = qf + 1. In the nineteenth century Cauchy (Mém. Inst. France17 (1840), 249–768) and Jacobi (J. für Math.30 (1846), 166–182) generalized the work of earlier authors, who had determined certain binomial coefficients (mod p) (see H. J. S. Smith, “Report on the Theory of Numbers,” Chelsea, 1964), by determining two products of factorials given by Π_kkf! (mod p = qf + 1) where k runs through the quadratic residues and the quadratic non-residues (mod q), respectively. These determinations are given in terms of parameters in representations of p^h or of 4p^h by binary quadratic forms. A remarkable feature of these results is the fact that the exponent h coincides with the class number of the related quadratic field. In this paper C. R. Mathews' (Invent. Math.54 (1979), 23–52) recent explicit evaluation of the quartic Gauss sum is used to determine four products of factorials (mod p = qf + 1, q ≡ 5 (mod 8) > 5), given by Π_kkf! where k runs through the quartic residues (mod q) and the three cosets which may be formed with respect to this subgroup. These determinations appear to be considerably more difficult. They are given in terms of parameters in representations of 16p^h by quaternary quadratic forms. Stickelberger's theorem is required to determine the exponent h which is shown to be closely related to the class number of the imaginary quartic field Q(i√2q + 2a√q), q = a² + b² ≡ 5 (mod 8), a odd.     

Direct and inverse asymptotic scattering problems for Dirac-Krein systems

The asymptotic scattering matrix s _ε(λ) for a Dirac-Krein system with signature matrix J = diag{ I _p ,-I _p }, integrable potential, and the boundary condition u ₁(0, λ) = u ₂(0, λ)ε(λ) with a coefficient ε(λ) that belongs to the Schur class of holomorphic contractive p × p matrix-valued functions in the open upper half-plane is defined. The inverse asymptotic scattering problem for a given s _ε is analyzed by Krein’s method. Earlier studies by Krein and others focused on the case in which ε = I _p (or a constant unitary matrix).     

Partial estimation of covariance matrices

A classical approach to accurately estimating the covariance matrix Σ of a p-variate normal distribution is to draw a sample of size n > p and form a sample covariance matrix. However, many modern applications operate with much smaller sample sizes, thus calling for estimation guarantees in the regime ${n \ll p}$ . We show that a sample of size n = O(m log⁶ p) is sufficient to accurately estimate in operator norm an arbitrary symmetric part of Σ consisting of m ≤ n nonzero entries per row. This follows from a general result on estimating Hadamard products M · Σ, where M is an arbitrary symmetric matrix.     

Light leaves and Lusztig's conjecture

We define a map F with domain a certain subset of the set of light leaves (certain morphisms between Soergel bimodules introduced by the author in an earlier paper) and range the set of prime numbers. Using results of Soergel we prove the following property of F  : if the image p=F(l)$p=F(l)$ of some light leaf l under F is bigger than the Coxeter number of the corresponding Weyl group, then there is a counterexample to Lusztig's conjecture in characteristic p. We also introduce the “double leaves basis” which is an improvement of the light leaves basis that has already found interesting applications. In particular it forms a cellular basis of Soergel bimodules that allows us to produce an algorithm to find “the bad primes” for Lusztig's conjecture.     

The coexistence of quasi-periodic and blow-up solutions in a superlinear Duffing equation

In this paper, we construct a continuous positive periodic function p(t) such that the corresponding superlinear Duffing equation x′′+ a(x)~(x2n+1)+p(t)x~(2m+1)= 0, n + 2≤2 m+12n+1 possesses a solution which escapes to infinity in some finite time, and also has infinitely many subharmonic and quasi-periodic solutions, where the coefficient a(x) is an arbitrary positive smooth periodic function defined in the whole real axis.