Femtosecond lasers for mass spectrometry: proposed application to catalytic hydrogenation of butadiene

Mass spectra from the interaction of intense, femtosecond laser pulses with 1,3-butadiene, 1-butene, and n-butane have been obtained. The proportion of the fragment ions produced as a function of intensity, pulse length, and wavelength was investigated. Potential mass spectrometry applications, for example in the analysis of catalytic reaction products, are discussed.     

Index sets of computable structures

The index set of a computable structure is the set of indices for computable copies of . We determine complexity of the index sets of various mathematically interesting structures including different finite structures, ℚ-vector spaces, Archimedean real-closed ordered fields, reduced Abelian p-groups of length less than ω², and models of the original Ehrenfeucht theory. The index sets for these structures all turn out to be m-complete Π _n ⁰ , d-Σ _n ⁰ , or Σ _n ⁰ , for various n. In each case the calculation involves finding an optimal sentence (i.e., one of simplest form) that describes the structure. The form of the sentence (computable Π_n, d-Σ_n, or Σ_n) yields a bound on the complexity of the index set. Whenever we show m-completeness of the index set, we know that the sentence is optimal. For some structures, the first sentence that comes to mind is not optimal, and another sentence of simpler form is shown to serve the purpose. For some of the groups, this involves Ramsey’s theory. Supported by the NSF grants DMS-0139626 and DMS-0353748. Supported by the NSF grant DMS-0502499 and by the Columbian Research Fellowship of the George Washington University. Supported by the NSF grant DMS-0353748. __________ Translated from Algebra i Logika, Vol. 45, No. 5, pp. 538–574, September–October, 2006.