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A modern variation on the rapid scan spectrometer, which is under development, uses a laser-generated plasma as a high intensity broad-band IR source (65). This method has been used to probe the vc—o absorption of W(CO)6. Another technique TRISP (time-resolved IR spectral photography), which involves up-conversion of IR radiation to the visible, has also been used to probe transients (66). This method has the enormous advantage that efficient phototubes and photodiodes can be used as detectors. However, it is a technically challenging procedure with limitations on the frequency range which depend on the optical material used as an up-converter. 

Tetramethoxy tellurium and hexamethoxy tellurium reacted with 2,2-dilithiobiphenyI to give bis[2,2 -biphenyldiyl] tellurium3 1. A trisp -biphenyldiyl] tellurium was not detected. 

Fig. 11.12. Major route for generation of the phosphatidyl inositide signal molecules, inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) and phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5 trisphosphate (Pl-3,4,5-trisP). PI 3-kinase phosphorylates Pl-4,5-bisP and P1-4P at the 3 position. Prime symbols are sometimes used in these names to denote the inositol ring. DAG is also a second messenger.

The signal pathway initiated by the insulin receptor complex involving PI 3-kinase leads to activation of protein kinase B, a serine-threonine kinase that mediates many of the downstream effects of insulin (Fig. 11.14). PI 3- kinase binds and phosphorylates PI-4,5- bis P in the membrane to form PI-3,4,5- trisP. Protein kinase... 

In this section we define a class of spaces, the so-called triangulated spaces, which in this book will simply be called trisps whose open cells are simplices with coherently ordered vertex sets, but which are more general than ordered... 

A trisp is described in a purely combinatorial way by its gluing data. Definition 2.44. The gluing data for a trisp A comprise the following parts ... 

Definition 2.45. A trisp A is the complex that is obtained from the gluing... 

It may be informative to observe that in order to specify a trisp, we just need to list these order-preserving injections for the codimension-1 pairs, i.e., when m = n — 1. We also see that when an n-simplex is attached, each of its proper open subsimplices is attached by a homeomorphism to a simplex that is already in the complex. 

In the structure of trisps, the vertices of each simplex have a prescribed order. In particular, all edges in A are directed. When v and w are vertices of A, and e = v, w) is an edge directed from v to w, we shall often write v —> w) instead of e. 

Remark 2.46. Notice that we have not excluded the possibility that all of the simplex sets Si A) are empty. The trisp for which this happens is called the void trisp. 

Recall furthermore that for the nonvoid abstract simplicial complexes we have also had an empty simplex. It is practical to have it for the trisps as well. Therefore we adopt the convention that we also have the set 5 i(.4). If this set is empty, then also all other sets Si A) are required to be empty otherwise, we require that S i(Z ) = 1. Since by convention [0] = 0, there is a unique order-preserving injection / [0] [n] for each n, and the map Bf Sn A) —> S A) is the unique map that takes everything to one element. 

In a trisp there could be several simplices with the same set of vertices, and furthermore, the boundary of every simplex may have self-identifications. In the combinatorial applications, we shall usually have spaces without such self-identifications. Therefore, it is useful to distinguish this special case by a separate definition. 

Clearly, if the vertices of this book, regular trisps will appear as nerves of acyclic categories. 

However, it is of course not true that an abstract simplicial complex with already chosen orders of vertices in simplices can be realized as a trisp. The simplest example is provided by the hollow triangle in which the directions on edges are chosen so that these go in a circle. 

Essentially all constructions on the abstract simplicial complexes generalize to the trisps. It might be instructive to follow some of this in further detail. 

To start with, the deletion of a vertex, or, more generally of a higherdimensional simplex, is straightforward. When Z is a trisp and a Sm ) is an m-simplex of A, the gluing data of the trisp dl/i(o-) are obtained from the gluing data for A by deleting the element a from Sm A) and deleting all elements of S (Z ), for n > m that map to a under some map Bf. In other words, we delete all simplices that contain [Pg.32]

It is also possible to define joins of trisps. Assume that the triangulated spaces 4i and A2 are given by their gluing data and let us describe the gluing data for the trisp 4i A. The sets indexing simplices of A A2 are given... 

The maps between trisps are defined in the natural way as maps between their sets of simplices that commute with the gluing maps. 

The composition of trisp maps is defined by composing the structure data in the natural way. One can see that the composition is well-defined by concatenating the corresponding commutative diagrams. It is easy to see that the identity map is a trisp map, and that the composition of trisp maps is associative. 

Assume that is a trisp and that F is an automorphism of A, i.e., the trisp map F takes A to itself, and it is a trisp isomorphism. Then Definition 2.48 specifies the following ... 

Since the barycentric subdivision of the generahzed simplicial complex is a geometric realization of an abstract simplicial complex, we can be sure that after taking the barycentric subdivision twice, the trisp will turn into the geometric realization of an abstract simplicial complex. On the other hand, with many trisps, taking the barycentric subdivision once would not suffice for that purpose. 

For example, all the cell spaces, except for the trisps that we have defined up to now are regular CW complexes. Regular trisps are also regular CW complexes. 

We shall now upgrade our discussion from Section 3.1 in two ways first we replace abstract simplicial complexes with arbitrary trisps second we now phrase our invariants algebraically as groups. 

When A is an arbitrary trisp, the simplices in the gluing data come with a standard orientation. Sometimes, however, it can be advantageous to consider some nonstandard orientations. It is therefore useful to have the following notion. 

Homology Groups of Trisps with Integer Coefficients... 

Let A be an arbitrary trisp, with the standard orientation on its simplices. For n > 0, let Cn A) denote the free abelian group generated by the oriented simplices of A of dimension n, that is. 

Definition 3.14. Let A be an arbitrary trisp, and let n > 0. The nth sim-piiciai homology group with integer coefficients of A is defined by... 

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