ENERGY SPECTRA OF SECONDARY STRUCTURES

Response Spectra of Structures under Subway Induced Vibrations

Passing underground trains induce vibrations transmitted to the ground surface and the nearby structures. Ordinarily, these vibrations do not result in structural damage but can harm nonstructural elements and disturb the occupants. These effects are more pronounced when evaluating buildings like hospitals, laboratories, museums, etc., and their assessment is an important design need. To respon...

Neutral Networks of Minimum Free Energy RNA Secondary Structures

Kan spectra , group spectra and twisting structures

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Spin Structures and Spectra

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of pin ± and spin structures on Riemannian manifolds with holonomy group Z k 2. For any n ≥ 4 (resp. n ≥ 6) we give examples of pairs of compact manifolds (resp. compact orientable manifolds) M1, M2, non homeomorphic to each other, that are Laplace isospectral on functions and on p-forms for any p and such that M1 admits a pin ± (res...

Spectra of structures and relations

We consider embeddings of structures which preserve spectra: if g : M → S with S computable, then M should have the same spectrum (as a structure) that g(M) has (as a relation on S). We show that the computable dense linear order L is universal for all countable linear orders under this notion of embedding, and we establish a similar result for the computable random graph G. Such structures are...