Interactions between octyl-β-D-glucoside and α-amino acids or small peptides

The interactions between octyl--D-glucoside and glycine in water have been investigated by surface tension, viscosity, and density measurements. The results show that the -amino acid causes an unexpected lowering of the critical micellar concentration of octyl--D-glucoside. Such a finding has been interpreted in temss of dipole-dipole interactions between the hydrophilic site of the surfactant and the peptidic cosluttes. From three to seven amino acid molecules have been estimated to be coordinated with each glucoside unity in the micellar state. The research has been extended to glycine oligopeptides and L-lysine. The latter compound has effects similar to those observed with glycine whereas diglycine and triglycine show weaker effects on the micellization process.     

The distribution of square-full integers

Let , wheref(n) is the characteristic function of square-full integers. A formula is proved that can be used to obtain better upper bound estimate for (x). We get (x)=O(x ^5/33+), which improves the exponent 11/72 obtained by R. Blasubramania and K. Ramachandra.     

An indexed set of density bounds on lattice packings

It has long been known that the admissibility of a lattice with respect to a symmetric convex bodyB is equivalent to being a packing lattice for 1/2B. This fact is the basis of the interplay between the classical theory of the arithmetic minima of positive definite quadratic forms, on the one hand, and the dense lattice packing of spheres inR ⁿ , on the other.We give an indexed set of bounds _L (B) a _j , where 0 j n/2, on the lattice packing density ofB. The casej=0 reduces to the aforementioned long-known fact, andj=1 was proved by Elkies, Odlyzko, and Rush, and was used to obtain record high packing densities for various superballs. The new cases make possible the use of smaller primes in the construction of these dense packings.Supported by National Science Foundation grant DMS-9103233.     

McMullen's conditions and some lower bounds for general convex polytopes

We give a lower bound for the number of vertices of a generald-dimensional polytope with a given numberm ofi-faces for eachi = 0,..., d/2 – 1. The tightness of those bounds is proved using McMullen's conditions. Form greater than a small constant, those lower bounds are attained by simpliciali-neighbourly polytopes.     

Über lineare Unabhängigkeit

It is the aim of the present work to prove, under appropriate conditions, lower estimates for the dimension of w ₁ + ... + w _m over , wherew ₁,...,w _m are given real numbers. In particular, if this dimension ism, i.e. ifw ₁,...,w _m are linearly independent over , we are also interested in a quantitative version of this fact. Our qualitative theorems generalize a result of Nesterenko. Its formulation is quite similar to the axiomatization of methods for algebraic independence, as it became usual during the last decade.

     

Filtering on manifolds

We coasider a partially observable diffusion process (x _t,y_t)t0 whose unobservable componentx _t lives on a submanifold M ofR ⁿ . We present some general conditions under which the conditional law ofx _t, given the observationsy _s ,s [0,t], admits a density w.r.t. a given measure on M. We characterize the analytical properties of this density by using appropriate Sobolev spaces.Research supported by the Hungarian National Foundation of Scientific Research No. 2290.     

Nonlinear transformations of the canonical gauss measure on Hilbert space and absolute continuity

The papers of R. Ramer and S. Kusuoka investigate conditions under which the probability measure induced by a nonlinear transformation on abstract Wiener space(,H,B) is absolutely continuous with respect to the abstract Wiener measure. These conditions reveal the importance of the underlying Hilbert spaceH but involve the spaceB in an essential way. The present paper gives conditions solely based onH and takes as its starting point, a nonlinear transformationT=I+F onH. New sufficient conditions for absolute continuity are given which do not seem easily comparable with those of Kusuoka or Ramer but are more general than those of Buckdahn and Enchev. The Ramer-Itô integral occurring in the expression for the Radon-Nikodym derivative is studied in some detail and, in the general context of white noise theory it is shown to be an anticipative stochastic integral which, under a stronger condition on the weak Gateaux derivative of F is directly related to the Ogawa integral.Research supported by the National Science Foundation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Grant No. F49620 92 J 0154 and the Army Research Office Grant No. DAAL 03 92 G 0008.     

Representation of elements of a sequence by sumsets

In this note the method of [5] and a result from [3] are combined to treat the following classical problem: Given a finite setA and an infinite sequenceS (both inZ), what is the minimal number of elements ofA whose sum lies inS? We obtain an upper bound depending only on the densities ofA andS (but not on their arithmetic nature).     

Prescribed scalar curvature on then-sphere

This paper considers the prescribed scalar curvature problem onS ⁿ forn>-3. We consider the limits of solutions of the regularization obtained by decreasing the critical exponent. We characterize those subcritical solutions which blow up at the least possible energy level, determining the points at which they can concentrate, and their Morse indices. We then show that forn=3 this is the only blow up which can occur for solutions. We use this in combination with the Morse inequalities for the subcritical problem to obtain a general existence theorem for the prescribed scalar curvature problem onS ³.This article was processed by the author using the style filepljourlm from Springer-Verlag.     

Zero cycles on conic fibrations and a conjecture of Bloch

Let X be a smooth projective surface over a number field k. Let (CH₀(X)) denote the Chow group of zero-cyles modulo rational equivalence on X. Let CH₀(X) be the subgroup of CH ₀(X) consisting of classes which vanish when going over to an arbitrary completion of k. Bloch put forward a conjecture asserting that this group is isomorphic to the Tate-Shafarevich group of a certain Galois module atttached to X. In this paper, we disprove this general conjecture. We produce a conic bundle X over an elliptic curve, for which the group (CH₀(X) is not zero, but the Galois-theoretic Tate-Shafarevich group vanishes.