Unexpected heterocyclization of 1,4-naphthoquinone thioglucosides

Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 12, p. 2899, December, 1991.     

Integral manifolds and the reduction principle in stability theory. III

It is shown how, with the help of approximate integral manifolds, to solve the reduction problem in stability theory in the nonsingular critical case. A generalization of the first fundamental Lyapunov-Malkin theorem in critical cases is obtained.Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 43, No. 10, pp. 1324–1329, October, 1991.     

BRST invariance and the conical pendulum

The Hamiltonian formulation of the BRST method for quantizing constrained systems developed recently by Nemeschanskyet al is applied to the well-known problem of the conical pendulum in classical mechanics. The similarity of the system to a gauge theory wherein the two constraints serve as generators of local Abelian gauge transformations is also pointed out. The definition of the physical states of the system as a gauge theory and also as a BRST invariant theory is then discussed in some detail.     

Systematic studies of positron production in heavy-ion collisions near the Coulomb barrier

We present the results obtained from systematic studies of positron creation for a series of heavy-collision systems, with united chargeZ _u =Z ₁ +Z ₂ ranging fromZ _u =164 (Pb + Pb) toZ _u =184 (U+U) at bombarding energies close to the Coulomb barrier, using the Orangeβ-spectrometer at GSI. For each collision system studied, the dominating continuous distributions due to quasiatomic and nuclear positron emission are determined accurately. This is essential in obtaining the characteristics of the still unexplained monoenergetic positron lines which appear in the energy range between 200 keV and 400 keV. Our results are compared with coupled-channels calculations for quasi-atomic positron creation. The latter describe quite well the global features of the measured spectra, but overestimate systematically their absolute values. From the comparison, a common normalization factor of about 0.75 can be established for the calculated spectra. In particular, the dependence onZ _u of the measured emission probabilities was found to follow a power law (∝Z _u ^195±1), in fair agreement with the theoretical prediction.     

Theoretical and experimental investigation of the linear optical response of YBa2Cu4O8 The relevance of LDA calculations

We report results of ellipsometric measurements of the dielectric tensor of YBa₂Cu₄O₈ as well as calculations employing density functional theory in the local density approximation (LDA). For the computation of the one-electron eigenvalues and states the linear-muffin-tin-orbital method (LMTO) was used. Measured and calculated results show good agreement. In particular, the calculation predicts different band structures for YBa₂Cu₃O₇ and YBa₂Cu₄O₈ in the vicinity of the Fermi energy which lead to significant differences in the optical spectra. One such difference is a region of small ε₂ in the near infrared which is a fingerprint of the high (relative to the top of the highest fully occupied band) Fermi energy as compared to the situation in YBa₂Cu₃O₇. Our experimental results confirm the theoretical findings.