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4. Copper Oxide Layers The common building blocks for most high temperature (high Tc) su perconductors are

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4. Copper Oxide Layers The common building blocks for most high temperature (high Tc) su perconductors are copper oxide layers as shown in the figure below.

Assume the distance between the copper atoms (dark circles) is a. For simplicity assume that in the third dimension these CuO2 layers are simply stacked ( copper above copper, oxygen above oxygen) with spacing c, and there are no other atoms in the crystal structure. In first approximation, the layers have four -fold symmetry; the crystal is tetragonal. 0.0.0.0 0.0. 0.0. (i) tetragonal (ii) orthorhombic (a) Sketch the Bravais lattice and indicate a possible set of primitive lattice vectors. What is the unit cell, and what is the basis? (b) In La2CuO4 one discovers at closer inspection, that the CuO2 lattice is actually not flat; but that the oxygen atoms are moved out of the plane ( up or down) in an alternating fashion (see the figure above where + means up and means down. What is the primitive cell and lattice spacing for this crystal ?

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Let's solve the problem step by step:

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### **Step 1: Calculate the Active Return (Difference Each Month and Mean)**

The **information ratio** is defined as:

$$
\text{Information Ratio} = \frac{\text{Mean (Active Return)}}{\text{Standard Deviation (Active Return)}}
$$

**Active Return = Fund Return - Index Return** (for each period):

| Time | Fund return (%) | Index return (%) | Active return (%) |
|------|----------------|------------------|-------------------|
| 1    | 1.89           | 1.99             | 1.89 - 1.99 = **-0.10** |
| 2    | 2.13           | 2.18             | 2.13 - 2.18 = **-0.05** |
| 3    | -1.03          | -1.30            | -1.03 - (-1.30) = **0.27** |
| 4    | -0.56          | -0.90            | -0.56 - (-0.90) = **0.34** |
| 5    | 1.07           | 1.41             | 1.07 - 1.41 = **-0.34** |
| 6    | -2.75          | -2.27            | -2.75 - (-2.27) = **-0.48** |

Now, calculate the **mean active return**:

$$
\text{Mean Active Return} = \frac{-0.10 + (-0.05) + 0.27 + 0.34 + (-0.34) + (-0.48)}{6}
$$
$$
= \frac{-0.10 - 0.05 + 0.27 + 0.34 - 0.34 - 0.48}{6}
$$
$$
= \frac{-0.10 - 0.05 - 0.34 - 0.48 + 0.27 + 0.34}{6}
$$
$$
= \frac{-0.10 - 0.05 - 0.34 - 0.48}{6} + \frac{0.27 + 0.34}{6}
$$
$$
= \frac{-0.97 + 0.61}{6}
$$
$$
= \frac{-0.36}{6} = -0.06
$$

**Explanation:**  
We calculated the difference each month and found the mean of those differences, which is the average active return.

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### **Step 2: Calculate Standard Deviation of Active Return and Information Ratio**

First, list the active returns:
-0.10, -0.05, 0.27, 0.34, -0.34, -0.48  
Their mean is **-0.06** (from above).

Now, calculate the standard deviation (SD):

$$
SD = \sqrt{\frac{1}{N} \sum_{i=1}^{N} (x_i - \bar{x})^2}
$$

Where $ x_i $ are active returns, $ \bar{x} $ is the mean (-0.06), and $ N = 6 $:

- (-0.10 - (-0.06)) = -0.04 → (-0.04)^2 = 0.0016
- (-0.05 - (-0.06)) = 0.01 → (0.01)^2 = 0.0001
- (0.27 - (-0.06)) = 0.33 → (0.33)^2 = 0.1089
- (0.34 - (-0.06)) = 0.40 → (0.40)^2 = 0.16
- (-0.34 - (-0.06)) = -0.28 → (-0.28)^2 = 0.0784
- (-0.48 - (-0.06)) = -0.42 → (-0.42)^2 = 0.1764

Sum:  
0.0016 + 0.0001 + 0.1089 + 0.16 + 0.0784 + 0.1764 = **0.5254**

Variance:  
0.5254 / 6 = **0.08757**

Standard deviation:  
$\sqrt{0.08757} = 0.296$

Now, **Information Ratio**:  
$$
\text{Information Ratio} = \frac{-0.06}{0.296} = -0.203
$$

**Explanation:**  
We calculated the standard deviation of the active returns and then divided the mean active return by this standard deviation to get the information ratio.

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### **Final Answer:**  
**The information ratio for the fund over this period is approximately $\boxed{-0.20}$ (rounded to two decimal places).**

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