Periodic decomposition of integer valued functions

We study those functions that can be written as a finite sum of periodic integer valued functions. On ℤ we give three different characterizations of these functions. For this we prove that the existence of a real valued periodic decomposition of a ℤ → ℤ function implies the existence of an integer valued periodic decomposition with the same periods. This result depends on the representation of the greatest common divisor of certain polynomials with integer coefficients as a linear combination of the given polynomials where the coefficients also belong to ℤ[x]. We give an example of an ℤ → {0, 1} function that has a bounded real valued periodic decomposition but does not have a bounded integer valued periodic decomposition with the same periods. It follows that the class of bounded ℤ → ℤ functions has the decomposition property as opposed to the class of bounded ℝ → ℤ functions. If the periods are pairwise commensurable or not prescribed, then we get more general results. Supported by OTKA grants T 43623 and K 61908.     

Effective strategy for the systematic synthesis of hydrazine derivatives

A new and efficient strategy for the systematic synthesis of hydrazine derivatives is reported. It allows the synthesis of up to tetrasubstituted hydrazine derivatives with minimal number of steps using only one protecting group or without any of them at all. Simple and readily available starting materials such as hydrazine hydrate or phenylhydrazine can be used. A variety of substrates were used to investigate scope and limitations of this strategy, additionally one full synthetic sequence was performed.     

Comparative study of polyaromatic and polyheteroaromatic fluorescent photocleavable protecting groups

Fluorescent conjugates of N-benzyloxycarbonyl protected γ-aminobutyric acid were prepared by coupling to its C-terminus several polyheteroaromatic, based on the oxobenzopyran skeleton (trivially known as coumarin) and polyaromatic labels, such as naphthalene and pyrene. Photophysical properties were evaluated, as well as their behaviour towards photocleavage by irradiation in MeOH/HEPES buffer solution (80:20), in a photochemical reactor at different wavelengths (254, 300, 350 and 419 nm), followed by HPLC/UV monitoring.     

Influence of the nature of membrane ionogenic groups on water dissociation and electrolyte ion transport: A rotating membrane disk study

Polarization properties of electromembrane systems (EMS) consisting of a heterogeneous membrane, either the MK-41 phosphonic acid membrane or the MK-40 sulfonic acid membrane, and dilute sodium chloride solutions are investigated with the rotating membrane disk method. For the MK-41/0.01 M NaCl and MK-41/0.001 M NaCl EMS, effective ion transport numbers and partial current-voltage curves (CVC) are measured for sodium and hydrogen ions, and limiting-current densities and the diffusion-layer thickness are calculated as functions of the rotation rate of the membrane disk. With the theory of the overlimiting state of EMS, internal parameters of the systems under investigation—the diffusion-layer thickness, the space-charge distribution, and electric-field strengths in the diffusion layer and in the membrane—are calculated from experimentally obtained CVC and the dependence of effective transport numbers on current density. The catalytic influence of ionogenic groups on the dissociation rate of water is analyzed quantitatively. Partial CVC for H⁺ ions are calculated for the space-charge region in MK-40 and MK-41 membranes. Analogous CVC for bipolar membranes containing sulfonic acid and phosphonic acid groups are compared. The dissociation mechanism of water is the same in all EMS and is independent of the membrane type and the nature of the functional groups.     

Almost positive curvature on the Gromoll-Meyer sphere

Gromoll and Meyer have represented a certain exotic 7-sphere as a biquotient of the Lie group . We show for a 2-parameter family of left invariant metrics on that the induced metric on has strictly positive sectional curvature at all points outside four subvarieties of codimension which we describe explicitly.

     

The heat kernel on H-type groups

In this paper we present an explicit calculation of the heat kernel for the sub-Laplacian on an H-type group by using irreducible unitary representations of and the heat kernel for the associated Hermite operator.

     

Nonpositive sectional curvature for -complexes

We give a criterion for the nonpositive sectional curvature of -complexes. As a consequence, we show that certain -complexes have locally indicable, coherent and even locally quasiconvex fundamental groups.

     

Cohomology of affine Artin groups and applications

The result of this paper is the determination of the cohomology of Artin groups of type and with non-trivial local coefficients. The main result

is an explicit computation of the cohomology of the Artin group of type with coefficients over the module Here the first standard generators of the group act by -multiplication, while the last one acts by -multiplication. The proof uses some technical results from previous papers plus computations over a suitable spectral sequence. The remaining cases follow from an application of Shapiro's lemma, by considering some well-known inclusions: we obtain the rational cohomology of the Artin group of affine type as well as the cohomology of the classical braid group with coefficients in the -dimensional representation presented in Tong, Yang, and Ma (1996). The topological counterpart is the explicit construction of finite CW-complexes endowed with a free action of the Artin groups, which are known to be spaces in some cases (including finite type groups). Particularly simple formulas for the Euler-characteristic of these orbit spaces are derived.

     

Harnack-Thom theorem for higher cycle groups and Picard varieties

We generalize the Harnack-Thom theorem to relate the ranks of the Lawson homology groups with -coefficients of a real quasiprojective variety with the ranks of its reduced real Lawson homology groups. In the case of zero-cycle group, we recover the classical Harnack-Thom theorem and generalize the classical version to include real quasiprojective varieties. We use Weil's construction of Picard varieties to construct reduced real Picard groups, and Milnor's construction of universal bundles to construct some weak models of classifying spaces of some cycle groups. These weak models are used to produce long exact sequences of homotopy groups which are the main tool in computing the homotopy groups of some cycle groups of divisors. We obtain some congruences involving the Picard number of a nonsingular real projective variety and the rank of its reduced real Lawson homology groups of divisors.

     

Large orbits in coprime actions of solvable groups

Let be a solvable group of automorphisms of a finite group . If and are coprime, then there exists an orbit of on of size at least . It is also proved that in a -solvable group, the largest normal -subgroup is the intersection of at most three Hall -subgroups.