# Acknowledgement

## Acknowledgement

We are grateful to V. Bruyndoncx and O. Buisson for sharing with us a wealth of experimental data, and to J. Berger for bringing refs.  and  to our attention.

H.T.J: Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. E-mail: hjadalla@indiana.edu

J.R.: Department of Mathematics, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel. E-mail: koby@math.technion.ac.il. Research supported in part by the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, by the Israel Science Foundation and by the Posnansky Research Fund in high temperature superconductivity.

P.S.: Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. E-mail: sternber@indiana.edu. Research supported in part by the N.S.F. under grant DMS-9322617 and a U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation Grant.