Synthesis and spectroscopic properties of nickel complexes of benzo-, 1,2-naphtho-, or 2,3-naphthoannulated β-oxatetraazachlorins

The first β-oxatetraazachlorin derivatives have been synthesized starting from phthalonitrile derivatives and 5,5-dimethyl-1,3-oxazolidine-2,4-dione instead of the previously employed tetramethylsuccinonitrile. Absorption and magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectral properties are similar to those obtained for the corresponding tetramethyl-substituted TAC derivatives, confirming the presence of the low-symmetry aromatic structures.     

An Index Integral and Convolution Operator Related to the Kontorovich-Lebedev and Mehler-Fock Transforms

We deal with an index integral involving the product of the modified Bessel functions and associated Legendre functions. It was discovered by Ferrell (Nucl Instrum Methods Phys Res B 96:483?C485, 1995) while comparing solutions of the Laplace equation in different coordinate systems in his study of the so-called surface plasmons in various condensed matter samples. This integral is quite interesting from the pure mathematical point of view and it is absent in famous reference books for series and integrals. We give a rigorous proof of this formula and discuss its particular cases. We also construct a convolution operator associated with this integral, which is related to the classical Kontorovich-Lebedev and Mehler-Fock transforms. Mapping properties and the norm estimates in weighted L _p -spaces, 1 ?? p ?? 2 are investigated. An application to a class of convolution integral equations is considered. Necessary and sufficient conditions are found for the solvability of these equations in L ₂.     

Accuracy of single measurements

Single measurements are widely used in industry, trade and science, yet the problem of the estimation of the accuracy of this type of measurements is neither addressed nor even recognized in traditional Metrology. In particular, the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement is devoted to multiple measurements only and does not mention single measurements. This paper studies the problem of estimating the inaccuracy of single measurements and describes solutions to this problem. The proposed methods are based on metrological characteristics of measuring instruments rated in accordance with Recommendation R34 of International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML). These characteristics are usually given in manufacturer certificates or provided by calibration laboratories. This paper treats single measurements as the basic type of measurement and multiple measurements as sets of successive single measurements. Presented at the 3rd International Conference on Metrology, November 2006, Tel Aviv, Israel. Papers published in this section do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Editors, the Editorial Board and the Publisher.     

Spectroscopic evidence for hydrogen diffusion through a several-nanometers-thick titanium carbonitride layer on silicon

Multiple internal reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, together with other analytical techniques, was used to follow the diffusion of atomic hydrogen through a 10-nm-thick titanium carbonitride layer deposited onto a Si(100)-2x1 surface from tetrakis(dimethylamino)titanium as a chemical vapor deposition precursor. The recombinative desorption of hydrogen from the TiCN/Si interface was shown to coincide with the temperature range where most Ti-based diffusion barriers break down.     

The structure of optimal consumption streams in general incomplete markets

We prove that for any incomplete market and any concave utility function the marginal propensities to consume and to save are always positive. Furthermore, we introduce a class of incomplete markets that includes almost all well known examples of market incompleteness in finance and macroeconomics. Two concrete examples are idiosyncratic income shocks and general, diffusion driven incompleteness. For all markets in our class we explicitly solve the associated utility maximization problem by a recursive construction and derive many important properties. For example, precautionary savings and the diminishing marginal propensity to consume. Effectively, the class is characterized by these two economic properties. We also prove that the growth rate of consumption is always larger when markets are incomplete and that precautionary savings are monotone increasing in the size of idiosyncratic risk. Our construction can be implemented computationally by an efficient, robust numerical scheme. We thank two anonymous referees for useful comments and remarks.     

Theory of valuations on manifolds, III. Multiplicative structure in the general case

This is the third part of a series of articles where the theory of valuations on manifolds is constructed. In the second part of this series the notion of a smooth valuation on a manifold was introduced. The goal of this article is to put a canonical multiplicative structure on the space of smooth valuations on general manifolds, thus extending some of the affine constructions from the first author's 2004 paper and, from the first part of this series.

     

Individual ergodic theorems in noncommutative Orlicz spaces

For a noncommutative Orlicz space associated with a semifinite von Neumann algebra, a faithful normal semifinite trace and an Orlicz function satisfying \((\delta _2,\Delta _2)\)-condition, an individual ergodic theorem is proved.     

A fourier-type transform on translation-invariant valuations on convex sets

Let V be a finite-dimensional real vector space. Let V al ^sm (V) be the space of translation-invariant smooth valuations on convex compact subsets of V. Let Dens(V) be the space of Lebesgue measures on V. The goal of the article is to construct and study an isomorphism $$ \mathbb{F}_V :Val^{sm} (V)\tilde \to Val^{sm} (V^* ) \otimes Dens(V) $$ such that $ \mathbb{F}_V $ commutes with the natural action of the full linear group on both spaces, sends the product on the source (introduced in [5]) to the convolution on the target (introduced in [16]), and satisfies a Planchereltype formula. As an application, a version of the hard Lefschetz theorem for valuations is proved.     

Some inequalities for algebraic polynomials with the Laguerre weight

There is a series of publications which have considered inequalities of Markov–Bernstein–Nikolskii type for algebraic polynomials with the Jacobi weight (see [N.K. Bari, A generalization of the Bernstein and Markov inequalities, Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR Math. Ser. 18 (2) (1954) 159–176; B.D. Bojanov, An extension of the Markov inequality, J. Approx. Theory 35 (1982) 181–190; P. Borwein, T. Erdélyi, Polynomials and Polynomial Inequalities, Springer, New York, 1995; I.K. Daugavet, S.Z. Rafalson, Some inequalities of Markov–Nikolskii type for algebraic polynomials, Vestnik Leningrad. Univ. Mat. Mekh. Astronom. 1 (1972) 15–25; A. Guessab, G.V. Milovanovic, Weighted L²-analogues of Bernstein's inequality and classical orthogonal polynomials, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 182 (1994) 244–249; I.I. Ibragimov, Some inequalities for algebraic polynomials, in: V.I. Smirnov (Ed.), Fizmatgiz, 1961, Research on Modern Problems of Constructive Functions Theory; G.K. Lebed, Inequalities for polynomials and their derivatives, Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 117 (4) (1957) 570–572; G.I. Natanson, To one theorem of Lozinski, Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 117 (1) (1957) 32–35; M.K. Potapov, Some inequalities for polynomials and their derivatives, Vestnik Moskov. Univ. Ser. Mat. Mekh. 2 (1960); E. Schmidt, Über die nebst ihren Ableitungen orthogonalen Polynomsysteme und das zugehörige Extremum, Math. Ann. 119 (1944) 165–209; P. Turán, Remark on a theorem of Erhard Schmidt, Mathematica 2 (25) (1960) 373–378]). In this paper we find an inequality of the same type for algebraic polynomials on (0,∞) with the Laguerre weight function e^-xx^α (α>-1).