Pulsed neutron single crystal study of the structure of 3-deazauracil

The structures of the substituted nucleic acid base 3-deazauracil, elucidated from pulsed neutron single crystal diffraction, is presented. The improved definition of the hydrogen atom positions and the hydrogen bonding scheme are emphasized in this work.     

Topologies on totally ordered sets

A well-formed ordered space is a totally ordered set equipped with any topology which possesses a subbase consisting entirely of initial and final segments of the set. The well-formed ordered spaces are the structures obtained by repeatedly taking subspaces, quotient spaces and inverse limits, starting from a collection of totally ordered sets with the interval topology, and the paper studies their properties.     

Precise numerical results for limit cycles in the quantum three-body problem

The study of the three-body problem with short-range attractive two-body forces has a rich history going back to the 1930s. Recent applications of effective field theory methods to atomic and nuclear physics have produced a much improved understanding of this problem, and we elucidate some of the issues using renormalization group ideas applied to precise nonperturbative calculations. These calculations provide 11-12 digits of precision for the binding energies in the infinite cutoff limit. The method starts with this limit as an approximation to an effective theory and allows cutoff dependence to be systematically computed as an expansion in powers of inverse cutoffs and logarithms of the cutoff. Renormalization of three-body bound states requires a short range three-body interaction, with a coupling that is governed by a precisely mapped limit cycle of the renormalization group. Additional three-body irrelevant interactions must be determined to control subleading dependence on the cutoff and this control is essential for an effective field theory since the continuum limit is not likely to match physical systems (e.g., few-nucleon bound and scattering states at low energy). Leading order calculations precise to 11-12 digits allow clear identification of subleading corrections, but these corrections have not been computed.     

On 2-designs

Denote by M_v the set of integers b for which there exists a 2-design (linear space) with v points and b lines. M_v is determined as accurately as possible. On one hand, it is shown for v > v₀ that M_v contains the interval [v + p + 1, v + p + q ? 1]. On the other hand for v of the form p² + p + 1 it is shown that the interval [v + 1, v + p ? 1] is disjoint from M_v; and if v > v₀ and p is of the form q² + q, then an additional interval [v + p + 1, v + p + q ? 1] is disjoint from M_v.