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J. W. Johnson

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Weight Ideals Associated to Regular and Log-Linear Arrays

Certain weight-based orders on the free associative algebra $R = k $ can be specified by $t \times \infty$ arrays whose entries come from the subring of nonnegative elements in a totally ordered field. Such an array $A$ satisfying certain additional conditions produces a partial order on $R$ which is an admissible order on the quotient $R/I_A$, where $I_A$ is a homogeneous binomial ideal called the {\em weight ideal} associated to the array and whose structure is determined entirely by $A$. This article discusses the structure of the weight ideals associated to two distinct sets of arrays whose elements define admissible orders on the associated quotient algebra.

math.RA

Inelastic Neutron Scattering from the Spin Ladder Compound (VO)2P2O7

We present results from an inelastic neutron scattering experiment on the candidate Heisenberg spin ladder vanadyl pyrophosphate, (VO)2P2O7. We find evidence for a spin-wave excitation gap of $E_{gap} = 3.7\pm 0.2$ meV, at a band minimum near $Q=0.8 A^{-1}$. This is consistent with expectations for triplet spin waves in (VO)2P2O7 in the spin-ladder model, and is to our knowledge the first confirmation in nature of a Heisenberg antiferromagnetic spin ladder.

cond-mat