The non-integer cyclovoltammetric electron-exchange numbers of reversible redox reactions of adsorbates

Allowing for the interfacial potential distribution it can be shown that the apparent faradaic electron number, n_app, of ad-layers of chemically modified electrodes and the surface redox valency, n, relating to the slope of the peak potential/pH response [Huck (2002) J Solid State Electrochem 6:534] are at least identical, having the same thermodynamic origin. n_app is calculated from the cyclovoltammetric (CV) peak areas above the interpolated base line. At for proton-coupled surface redox reactions, the influence of the potential drop of the diffuse double layer disappears because the capacitor of the corresponding equivalent circuit becomes shortened by proton transfer, whereby the otherwise non-integer n_app or n values now approach the integer electron numbers, n, of the Nernst equation.

A Two Dimensional Fermi Liquid. Part 2: Convergence

Using results established in other papers in our series, we prove the existence of the infinite volume, temperature zero, thermodynamic Greens functions of a two dimensional, weakly coupled fermion gas with an asymmetric Fermi curve and short range interactions. This is done by showing that our sequence of renormalization group maps converges.Research supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Forschunginstitut für Mathematik, ETH Zürich.     

Constant time steady gradient NMR diffusometry using the secondary stimulated echo

A pulse sequence producing a second stimulated echo is suggested for the compensation of relaxation and residual dipolar interaction effects in steady gradient spin echo diffusometry. Steady field gradients of considerable strength exist in the fringe field of NMR magnets, for instance. While the absolute echo time of the second stimulated echo is kept constant throughout the experiment, the interval between the first two radiofrequency pulses is augmented leading to a modulation of the amplitude of that second stimulated echo by self-diffusion only. The unique feature of this technique is that it is of a single-scan/single-echo-signal nature. That is, no reference signals neither of the same pulse sequence nor of separate experiments are needed. The new method was tested with poly(ethylene oxide) melts and proved to provide reliable data for (time dependent) self-diffusion coefficients down to the physical limit (D approximately 10(-15)m(2)/s) when flip-flop spin diffusion starts to become effective.     

Axiomatizing the Harsanyi solution,the symmetric egalitarian solution and the consistent solution for NTU-games

The validity of the axiomatization of the Harsanyi solution for NTU-games by Hart (1985) is shown to depend on the regularity conditions imposed on games. Following this observation, we propose two related axiomatic characterizations, one of the symmetric egalitarian solution (Kalai and Samet, 1985) and one of the consistent solution (Maschler and Owen, 1992). The three axiomatic results are studied, evaluated and compared in detail.Revised October 2004We thank an anonymous referee and an associate editor for their helpful comments. Geoffroy de Clippel also thanks Professors Sergiu Hart, Jean-François Mertens and Enrico Minelli. Horst Zank thanks the Dutch Science Foundation NWO and the British Council for support under the UK-Netherlands Partnership Programme in Science (PPS 706). The usual disclaimer applies.     

De Rham cohomology of rigid spaces

We define de Rham cohomology groups for rigid spaces over non-archimedean fields of characteristic zero, based on the notion of dagger space introduced in [12]. We establish some functorial properties and a finiteness result, and discuss the relation to the rigid cohomology as defined by P. Berthelot [2].     

Projective spaces with Cayley-Klein metrics

Projective metrics were first introduced by A. Cayley and F. Klein who constructed analytical models over the field of complex numbers. The aim of this paper is to give for the first time a purely synthetic definition of all projective spaces with Cayley-Klein metrics and to develop the synthetic foundation of projective-metric geometry to a level of generality including metrics over arbitrary fields of characteristic 2.     

On the Continuity of Pathwise Solutions to Langevin Equations in Infinite Dimensions

We fix a rich probability space (,F,P). Let (H,) be a separable Hilbert space and let be the canonical cylindrical Gaussian measure on H. Given any abstract Wiener space (H,B,) over H, and for every Hilbert–Schmidt operator T: HBH which is (|{}|,)-continuous, where |{}| stands for the (Gross-measurable) norm on B, we construct an Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process : (,F,P)×[0,1](B,|{}|) as a pathwise solution of the following infinite-dimensional Langevin equation d _t =db _t +T( _t )dt with the initial data ₀=0, where b is a B-valued Brownian motion based on the abstract Wiener space (H,B,). The richness of the probability space (,F,P) then implies the following consequences: the probability space is independent of the abstract Wiener space (H,B,) (in the sense that (,F,P) does not depend on the choice of the Gross-measurable norm |{}|) and the space C _B consisting of all continuous B-valued functions on [0,1] is identical with the set of all paths of . Finally, we present a way to obtain pathwise continuous solutions :d _t =

Uncorrelatedness and orthogonality for vector-valued processes

For a square integrable vector-valued process on the Loeb product space, it is shown that vector orthogonality is almost equivalent to componentwise scalar orthogonality. Various characterizations of almost sure uncorrelatedness for are presented. The process is also related to multilinear forms on the target Hilbert space. Finally, a general structure result for involving the biorthogonal representation for the conditional expectation of with respect to the usual product -algebra is presented.

     

Asymptotics of the transition probabilities of the simple random walk on self-similar graphs

It is shown explicitly how self-similar graphs can be obtained as `blow-up' constructions of finite cell graphs . This yields a larger family of graphs than the graphs obtained by discretising continuous self-similar fractals.

For a class of symmetrically self-similar graphs we study the simple random walk on a cell graph , starting at a vertex of the boundary of . It is proved that the expected number of returns to before hitting another vertex in the boundary coincides with the resistance scaling factor.

Using techniques from complex rational iteration and singularity analysis for Green functions, we compute the asymptotic behaviour of the -step transition probabilities of the simple random walk on the whole graph. The results of Grabner and Woess for the Sierpinski graph are generalised to the class of symmetrically self-similar graphs, and at the same time the error term of the asymptotic expression is improved. Finally, we present a criterion for the occurrence of oscillating phenomena of the -step transition probabilities.