2 papers
astro-ph1999
Is Amino-Acid Homochirality Due To Asymmetric Photolysis In Space?
C. Cerf, A. Jorissen
Amino acids occurring in proteins are, with rare exceptions, exclusively of the L-configuration. Among the many scenarios put forward to explain the origin of this chiral homogenei…
q-alg1996
Nullification Writhe and Chirality of Alternating Links
Corinne Cerf
In this paper, we show how to split the writhe of reduced projections of oriented alternating links into two parts, called nullification writhe, or wx, and remaining writhe, or wy,…