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A rather general class of such functions will be called bundling functions. There are subclasses with additional properties, too. For precise definitions and constructions, see Chapter 8. 

The first step of the constructions will follow the basic construction idea explained above exactly (see Chapter 9). The second step has two parts There are extensions to predefined message spaces and extensions to large message bounds (see Chapter 10). 

If the desired message space M consists of short messages only, one has to define embeddings of M into the sequence of message-block spaces given by the first step of the construction. 

This is not proven to be the only possible construction. The only known related theorem is the lower bound in Section 11.3, which says that the number of secret random bits a signer needs grows linearly with the number of messages she can sign. It is therefore quite natural to use schemes where each signature depends on its own random bits, so that it can be computed quickly, and one can see this as an operation from a one-time signature scheme. However, a rather impractical scheme exists which is not of this type, see Remark 10.24. 

One basic idea for these constructions is tree authentication. If one starts with the type sketched in Section 2.4, the same addition is needed as with message hashing The hash functions used must be collision-intractable, and their collisions count as proofs of forgery. 

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Conservation laws at a microscopic level of molecular interactions play an important role. In particular, energy as a conserved variable plays a central role in statistical mechanics. Another important concept for equilibrium systems is the law of detailed balance. Molecular motion can be viewed as a sequence of collisions, each of which is akin to a reaction. Most often it is the momentum, energy and angrilar momentum of each of the constituents that is changed during a collision if the molecular structure is altered, one has a chemical reaction. The law of detailed balance implies that, in equilibrium, the number of each reaction in the forward direction is the same as that in the reverse direction i.e. each microscopic reaction is in equilibrium. This is a consequence of the time reversal syimnetry of mechanics. 

Figure A3.1.2. A collision cylinder for particles with velocity v striking a small region of area A on the surface of a contamer within a small time interval 5f Here is a unit nomial to the surface at the small region, and pomts into the gas.

The main point of this argument is to show that if particles with velocities v and v collide in the right geometric configuration with impact parameter b, such a collision will result in one of the particles having the velocity of interest, v, after the collision. These kinds of collisions which produce particles with velocity v. 

Apparent non-RRKM dynamics has also been observed in time-resolved femtosecond (fs) experiments in a collision-free enviromnent [117], An experimental study of acetone illustrates this work. Acetone is dissociated to the CH and CH CO (acetyl) radicals by a fs laser pulse. The latter which dissociates by the channel... 

Experimental access to the probabilities P(E ,E) for energy transfer in large molecules usually involves teclmiques providing just the first moment of this distribution, i.e. the average energy (AE) transferred in a collision. Such methods include UV absorption, infrared fluorescence and related spectroscopic teclmiques [11. 28. 71. 72, 73 and 74]. More advanced teclmiques, such as kinetically controlled selective ionization (KCSI [74]) have also provided infonnation on higher moments of P(E ,E), such as ((AE) ). 

Figure Bl.7.7. Summary of the other collision based experiments possible with magnetic sector instruments (a) collision-mduced dissociation ionization (CIDI) records the CID mass spectrum of the neutral fragments accompanying imimolecular dissociation (b) charge stripping (CS) of the incident ion beam can be observed (c) charge reversal (CR) requires the ESA polarity to be opposite that of the magnet (d) neutiiralization-reionization (NR) probes the stability of transient neutrals fonned when ions are neutralized by collisions in the first collision cell. Neutrals surviving to be collisionally reionized in the second cell are recorded as recovery ions in the NR mass spectrum.

For accurate ion trajectory calculation in the solid, it is necessary to evaluate the exact positions of the intersections of the asymptotes (A A2) of the incoming trajectory and that of the outgoing trajectories of both the scattered and recoiled particles in a collision. The evaluation of these values requires time integrals and the following transfonnation equations ... 

The second excitation mechanism, impact scattering, involves a short range interaction between the electron and the molecule (put simply, a collision) which scatters the electrons over a wide range of angles. The usefiil feature of impact scattering is that all vibrations may be excited and not only the dipole active ones. As in Raman spectroscopy, the electron may also take an amount of energy hv away from excited molecules and leave the surface with an energy equal to Eq + hv. 

A comer-stone of a large portion of quantum molecular dynamics is the use of a single electronic surface. Since electrons are much lighter than nuclei, they typically adjust their wavefiinction to follow the nuclei [26]. Specifically, if a collision is started in which the electrons are in their ground state, they typically remain in the ground state. An exception is non-adiabatic processes, which are discussed later in this section. 

Figure C3.3.1 A collision between a milk tmck and a bread tmck showing the well ordered tmck contents at the top, the scattering event in the middle and the post crash scrambling of the tmck contents at the bottom.

The natural processes of intersystem crossing and internal conversion will quickly (e.g. 50 ns) carry the molecule from this excited electronic surface to the ground electronic surface without a collision,... 

For heavy molecules with very small rotational state spacing, this limit on AJ puts severe upper limits on the amount of energy that can be taken up in the rotations of a heavy molecule during a collision. Despite these limitations, P(E, E ) distributions have been obtained by inverting data of the type described here for values of AE in the range -1500 cm > AE > -8000 cnD for the two donor molecules pyrazine and hexafluorobenzene with carbon dioxide as a bath acceptor molecule [15,16]. Figure C3.3.11 shows these experimentally derived... 

Figure 2-65. This fingerprint was received by hashing, whereas only one part of all the substructures is specified in the illustration. The asterisk indicates the address of a collision in the bit string, generated by the algorithm.

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