The wandering exponent u for an isotropic polymer is predicted remarkably well by a simple argument due to Flory. By considering oriented polymers living in a oneparameter farniy of background tangent fields, we are able to relate the wandering exponent to the exponent in the background field through an e-expansion. We then choose the background field to have the same correlations as the indivi...

Low-frequency oscillations of the Atlantic Ocean meridional overturning circulation in a coupled climate model M. Schulz, M. Prange, and A. Klocker Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Germany DFG Research Center “Ocean Margins”, University of Bremen, Germany now at: CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Hobart, Australia Received: 15 August 2006 – Accepted: 13 September 2006 – Pub...

The scattering intensity of polydisperse systems of core-shell and layered hard spheres is considered. The Percus-Yevick solution for the partial structure factors is cast in a form suitable for numerical and analytical treatment. Closed-form, analytical expressions are given for an effective hard-sphere model of the scattering intensity of particles with an internal layered structure and a siz...

We introduce and study the universal norm distribution in this paper, which generalizes the concepts of universal ordinary distribution and the universal Euler system. We study the Anderson type resolution of the universal norm distribution and then use this resolution to study the group cohomology of the universal norm distribution.

A heterogeneous distribution of crosslinker in micro-hydrogels (microgels) results in a non-uniform polymer density inside the particles. Identifying the morphology of the hydrogel backbone enables a bottom-up approach towards the structural and rheological properties of microgel systems. On a local level we use a Flory-Rehner inspired model that focuses on highly swollen networks, characterize...