Bridging ligand planarity as a route to long-lived, near infrared emitting dinuclear ruthenium(II) complexes

The dinuclear ruthenium complex of a large, planar bis-tridentate bridging ligand has been prepared; to the best of our knowledge, this species is the near IR-emitting Ru(II) complex exhibiting the longest-lived emission and highest quantum yield reported so far, due to the dramatic reduction in its radiationless decay rate constant.     

Comments on ultra-high-energy photons and D-foam models

We revisit the constraints that the non-observation of ultra-high-energy photons due to the GZK cutoff can impose on models of Lorentz violation in photon propagation, following recent work by Maccione, Liberati and Sigl (2010) [arXiv:1003.5468] that carries further an earlier analysis by the present authors [J. Ellis et al., Phys. Rev. D 63 (2001) 12402, hep-th/0012216]. We argue that the GZK cutoff constraint is naturally evaded in the D-brane model of space–time foam presented recently by the present authors [J. Ellis et al., Phys. Lett. B 665 (2008) 412, arXiv:0804.3566], in which Lorentz-violating effects on photon propagation are independent of possible effects during interactions. We also note a novel absorption mechanism that could provide a GZK-like cutoff for photons in low-scale string models.     

Second-Order Optimality and Beyond: Characterization and Evaluation Complexity in Convexly Constrained Nonlinear Optimization

High-order optimality conditions for convexly constrained nonlinear optimization problems are analysed. A corresponding (expensive) measure of criticality for arbitrary order is proposed and extended to define high-order \(\epsilon \)-approximate critical points. This new measure is then used within a conceptual trust-region algorithm to show that if derivatives of the objective function up to order \(q \ge 1\) can be evaluated and are Lipschitz continuous, then this algorithm applied to the convexly constrained problem needs at most \(O(\epsilon ^{-(q+1)})\) evaluations of f and its derivatives to compute an \(\epsilon \)-approximate qth-order critical point. This provides the first evaluation complexity result for critical points of arbitrary order in nonlinear optimization. An example is discussed, showing that the obtained evaluation complexity bounds are essentially sharp.     

Reversible maps and composites of involutions in groups of piecewise linear homeomorphisms of the real line

An element of a group is reversible if it is conjugate to its own inverse, and it is strongly reversible if it is conjugate to its inverse by an involution. A group element is strongly reversible if and only if it can be expressed as a composite of two involutions. In this paper the reversible maps, the strongly reversible maps, and those maps that can be expressed as a composite of involutions are determined in certain groups of piecewise linear homeomorphisms of the real line.     

Total synthesis of the marine natural product (-)-clavosolide A

[Structure: see text] The total synthesis of the marine metabolite clavosolide A is reported which confirms the structure and absolute configuration of the natural product as the symmetrical diolide glycosylated by permethylated D-xylose moieties, 2.     

Structure Results for Multiple Tilings in 3D

We study multiple tilings of 3-dimensional Euclidean space by a convex body. In a multiple tiling, a convex body $P$ is translated with a discrete multiset $\Lambda $ in such a way that each point of ${\mathbb {R}}^d$ gets covered exactly $k$ times, except perhaps the translated copies of the boundary of $P$ . It is known that all possible multiple tilers in ${\mathbb {R}}^3$ are zonotopes. In ${\mathbb {R}}^2$ it was known by the work of Kolountzakis (Discrete Comput Geom 23(4):537–553, 2000) that, unless $P$ is a parallelogram, the multiset of translation vectors $\Lambda $ must be a finite union of translated lattices (also known as quasi periodic sets). In that work (Kolountzakis, Discrete Comput Geom 23(4):537–553, 2000) the author asked whether the same quasi-periodic structure on the translation vectors would be true in ${\mathbb {R}}^3$ . Here we prove that this conclusion is indeed true for ${\mathbb {R}}^3$ . Namely, we show that if $P$ is a convex multiple tiler in ${\mathbb {R}}^3$ , with a discrete multiset $\Lambda $ of translation vectors, then $\Lambda $ has to be a finite union of translated lattices, unless $P$ belongs to a special class of zonotopes. This exceptional class consists of two-flat zonotopes $P$ , defined by the Minkowski sum of two 2-dimensional symmetric polygons in ${\mathbb {R}}^3$ , one of which may degenerate into a single line segment. It turns out that rational two-flat zonotopes admit a multiple tiling with an aperiodic (nonquasi-periodic) set of translation vectors $\Lambda $ . We note that it may be quite difficult to offer a visualization of these 3-dimensional non-quasi-periodic tilings, and that we discovered them by using Fourier methods.     

Collective correlations,dynamics, and behavioural inconsistencies of the cryptocurrency market over time

Nonlinear Dynamics - This paper introduces new methods to study behaviours among the 52 largest cryptocurrencies between 01-01-2019 and 30-06-2021. First, we explore evolutionary correlation...     

Divisors in residue classes, constructively

Let be integers satisfying , , , and let . Lenstra showed that the number of integer divisors of equivalent to is upper bounded by . We re-examine this problem, showing how to explicitly construct all such divisors, and incidentally improve this bound to .

     

QSAR modeling using automatically updating correction libraries: application to a human plasma protein binding model

It is assumed that compounds occupying the same region of model space will be subject to similar errors in prediction, and hence, where these errors are known, they can be applied to predictions. Thus, any available measured data can be used to refine predictions of query compounds. This study describes the application of a correction library to a human plasma protein binding model. Compounds that have been measured since the model was built are entered into the library to improve predictions of current compounds. Time-series simulations were conducted to measure the time dependence of the correction library. This study demonstrates significant improvements in predictions where a library is applied, compared with both a static model and an updating model that includes recently measured data.