General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Authors and titles for December 2010

[201] arXiv:1012.0992 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum Structures of a Model-Universe: Questioning the Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

J. Jeknic-Dugic, M. Dugic, A. Francom

Comments: new version as arXiv:1109.6424

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[202] arXiv:1012.1015 (cross-list from math.DG) [pdf, other]

Title: On causal properties of symmetric Lorentzian spaces

Ya. V. Bazaikin

Comments: 9 pages

Subjects: Differential Geometry (math.DG); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[203] arXiv:1012.1050 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Chaplygin gas braneworld inflation according to WMAP7 data

R. Zarrouki, M. Bennai

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D82:123506,2010

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[204] arXiv:1012.1065 (cross-list from math.AP) [pdf, other]

Title: Initial-boundary value problems for second order systems of partial differential equations

Heinz-Otto Kreiss, Omar E. Ortiz, N. Anders Petersson

Comments: 36 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[205] arXiv:1012.1077 (cross-list from math-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Toda Molecule and Tomimatsu-Sato Solution $\sim$ Towards the complete proof of Nakamura's conjecture$\sim$

Takeshi Fukuyama, Kozo Koizumi

Comments: 16 pages, 1 fifure, Typos corrected, reference added

Journal-ref: J.Phys.A44:345201,2011

Subjects: Mathematical Physics (math-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)

[206] arXiv:1012.1079 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: CMB Bispectrum from Primordial Scalar, Vector and Tensor non-Gaussianities

Maresuke Shiraishi, Daisuke Nitta, Shuichiro Yokoyama, Kiyotomo Ichiki, Keitaro Takahashi

Comments: 19 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in PTP

Journal-ref: Prog. Theor. Phys. 125 (2011), 795-813

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[207] arXiv:1012.1140 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: The Casimir spectrum revisited

Carlos A. R. Herdeiro, Marco O. P. Sampaio, Jaime E. Santos

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[208] arXiv:1012.1210 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Induced gauge interactions revisited

Bogusław Broda, Michał Szanecki

Comments: 13 pages

Journal-ref: Chapt. 6 in ''Horizons in World Physics'', vol. 277, ed. A. Reimer, NOVA Sci. Publ., NY 2012, pp. 153-164

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[209] arXiv:1012.1244 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Gravity on a multifractal

Gianluca Calcagni

Comments: 7 pages; v2: reference added. Also appearing in the Proceedings of the 20th workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation in Japan (JGRG20), Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, 21-25 September, 2010

Journal-ref: Phys. Lett. B697:251-253,2011

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[210] arXiv:1012.1326 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological Einstein-Maxwell Instantons and Euclidean Supersymmetry: Beyond Self-Duality

M. Dunajski, J. B. Gutowski, W. A. Sabra, Paul Tod

Comments: 15 pages, latex. Minor alterations to section 4

Journal-ref: JHEP 1103:131,2011

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[211] arXiv:1012.1494 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Heating up the BIon

Gianluca Grignani, Troels Harmark, Andrea Marini, Niels A. Obers, Marta Orselli

Comments: 37 pages, 11 figures. v2: typos fixed, refs. added

Journal-ref: JHEP 1106:058,2011

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[212] arXiv:1012.1548 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Entanglement entropy for odd spheres

J.S.Dowker

Comments: 15 pages

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Spectral Theory (math.SP); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[213] arXiv:1012.1568 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: The path integral for the statistical sum of the microcanonical ensemble in cosmology

A.O.Barvinsky

Comments: LaTex, 22 pages, the discussion of the second zero mode of the dynamical operator is included, references to the path integration method in quantum cosmology are added and typos are corrected

Journal-ref: JCAP 1104:034,2011

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[214] arXiv:1012.1571 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: On the functional determinant of a special operator with a zero mode in cosmology

A.O.Barvinsky, A.Yu.Kamenshchik

Comments: LaTex, 15 pages, a new section is added, containing the discussion of a special case of the operator having the second zero mode, typos are corrected

Journal-ref: JCAP 1104:035,2011

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[215] arXiv:1012.1602 (cross-list from astro-ph.HE) [pdf, other]

Title: Sgr A*: The Optimal Testbed of Strong-Field Gravity

Dimitrios Psaltis, Tim Johannsen (Arizona)

Comments: 11 pages, 11 figures, Invited Talk in Recent Developments in Gravity XIV, June 2010

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[216] arXiv:1012.1622 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: A violation of the spatial quantum inequality

Dan Solomon

Comments: 20 pages

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[217] arXiv:1012.1656 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Are There Echoes From The Pre-Big Bang Universe? A Search for Low Variance Circles in the CMB Sky

Amir Hajian

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 740, Issue 2, article id. 52 (2011)

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[218] arXiv:1012.1662 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on a $f(R)$ gravity dark energy model with early scaling evolution

Chan-Gyung Park, Jai-chan Hwang, Hyerim Noh

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[219] arXiv:1012.1697 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Non-Gaussianities of Single Field Inflation with Non-minimal Coupling

Taotao Qiu, Kwei-Chou Yang

Comments: 19 pages, 6 figures, one more section added, analytical results simplified

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D83:084022,2011

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[220] arXiv:1012.1719 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: On a Probabilistic Interpretation of Relativistic Quantum Mechanics

Natalia Gorobey, Alexander Lukyanenko, Inna Lukyanenko

Comments: 4 pages

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[221] arXiv:1012.1752 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Uncertainty relation and probability: Numerical illustration

Kazuo Fujikawa, Koichiro Umetsu

Comments: 27 pages, 4 figures. To appear in Progress of Theoretical Physics (kyoto)

Journal-ref: Prog. Theor. Phys. 125 (2011), 205-224

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[222] arXiv:1012.1798 (cross-list from math.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Generalization of the Bollob\'as-Riordan polynomial for tensor graphs

Adrian Tanasa

Comments: 22 pages, 20 figures

Journal-ref: J. Math. Phys. 52, 073514 (2011)

Subjects: Combinatorics (math.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[223] arXiv:1012.1812 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Extracting Spacetimes using the AdS/CFT Conjecture: Part II

Samuel Bilson

Journal-ref: JHEP 1102:050,2011

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[224] arXiv:1012.1834 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Lepton Flavour Violation and theta(13) in Minimal Resonant Leptogenesis

Frank F. Deppisch, Apostolos Pilaftsis

Comments: 40 pages, 9 figures, PRD version

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D83:076007,2011

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[225] arXiv:1012.1851 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Two-charge rotating black holes in four-dimensional gauged supergravity

David D. K. Chow

Comments: 15 pages; v2, v3: minor changes

Journal-ref: Class.Quant.Grav.28:175004,2011

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[226] arXiv:1012.1853 (cross-list from astro-ph.HE) [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamics and Gravitational Wave Signature of Collapsar Formation

C. D. Ott (1), C. Reisswig (1), E. Schnetter (2), E. O'Connor (1), U. Sperhake (3), F. Loeffler (2), P. Diener (2), E. Abdikamalov (2), I. Hawke (4), A. Burrows (5) ((1) Caltech, (2) LSU, (3) CSIC-IEEC Barcelona, (4) Southampton, (5) Princeton)

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRL

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett.106:161103,2011

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[227] arXiv:1012.1896 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Statistical sum in the CFT driven cosmology

A.O.Barvinsky, Yu.V.Gusev

Comments: LaTeX, 10 pages, 2 figures, comparison of setting the problem and results with those of hep-th/0010232 is included, numerics is improved, new references are added

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[228] arXiv:1012.1903 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Parent formulation at the Lagrangian level

Maxim Grigoriev

Comments: 26 pages, discussion of the truncation extended, typos corrected, references added

Journal-ref: JHEP 1107:061,2011

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[229] arXiv:1012.1963 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Explosive phenomena in modified gravity

E.V. Arbuzova, A.D. Dolgov

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures, version published in PLB, a few references are added and the expression for the frequency of oscillations is corrected

Journal-ref: Phys. Lett. B 700, 289-293 (2011)

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[230] arXiv:1012.2006 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Primordial Gravitational Waves from Inflation and Preheating

Juan Garcia-Bellido

Comments: To appear in the Proceedings of the Yukawa Institute Symposium, Kyoto, June 2010

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[231] arXiv:1012.2100 (cross-list from math-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: On electromagnetism and generalized energy-momentum tensor of the electromagnetic field in spaces with Finsler geometry

Nicoleta Voicu

Comments: 29 pages

Journal-ref: Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 113, 83-102, 2011

Subjects: Mathematical Physics (math-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Differential Geometry (math.DG)

[232] arXiv:1012.2101 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: The information paradox and the infall problem

Samir D. Mathur

Comments: 28 pages, Latex, 5 figures, reference added

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[233] arXiv:1012.2107 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Infrared Sensitivity of Unstable Vacua

Dmitry Krotov, Alexander M. Polyakov

Comments: 23 pages, references added

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys.B 849 (2011) 410-432

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[234] arXiv:1012.2143 (cross-list from astro-ph.HE) [pdf, other]

Title: Toroidal oscillations of slowly rotating relativistic star in tensor-vector-scalar theory

Hajime Sotani

Comments: accepted for publication in Physical Review D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D82:124061,2010

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[235] arXiv:1012.2150 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [pdf, other]

Title: Long gravitational-wave transients and associated detection strategies for a network of terrestrial interferometers

Eric Thrane, Shivaraj Kandhasamy, Christian D Ott, Warren G Anderson, Nelson L Christensen, Michael W Coughlin, Steven Dorsher, Stefanos Giampanis, Vuk Mandic, Antonis Mytidis, Tanner Prestegard, Peter Raffai, Bernard Whiting

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D83:083004,2011

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[236] arXiv:1012.2190 (cross-list from astro-ph.SR) [pdf, other]

Title: Electromagnetic Fields of Slowly Rotating Compact Magnetized Stars in Braneworld

Viktoriya Morozova, Bobomurat Ahmedov

Comments: 11 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[237] arXiv:1012.2208 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Using Berry's phase to detect the Unruh effect at lower accelerations

E. Martin-Martinez, I. Fuentes, R. B. Mann

Comments: 5 pages (including appendices) 2 figures, revtex 4. I.F. previously published as Fuentes-Guridi and Fuentes-Schuller. Journal reference added

Journal-ref: Physical Review Letters 107, 131301 (2011)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[238] arXiv:1012.2267 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Photon Mass and Very Long Baseline Interferometry

A. Accioly, J. Helayël-Neto, E. Scatena

Comments: Accepted for publication in International Journal of Modern Physics D

Journal-ref: Int.J.Mod.Phys.D19:2393-2403,2010

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[239] arXiv:1012.2272 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Excess Clustering on Large Scales in the MegaZ DR7 Photometric Redshift Survey

Shaun A. Thomas, Filipe B. Abdalla, Ofer Lahav

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett.106:241301,2011

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[240] arXiv:1012.2280 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Non-singular exponential gravity: a simple theory for early- and late-time accelerated expansion

E. Elizalde, S. Nojiri, S.D. Odintsov, L. Sebastiani, S. Zerbini

Comments: 22 pages, 10 figures, version to appear in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D83:086006,2011

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[241] arXiv:1012.2349 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: 4D gravity on a BPS brane in 5D AdS-Minkowski space

R.C. Fonseca, F.A. Brito, L. Losano

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, version to appear in PLB

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett.B697:493-496,2011

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[242] arXiv:1012.2414 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Effective Action and Phase Transitions in Thermal Yang-Mills Theory on Spheres

Ivan G. Avramidi, Samuel Collopy

Comments: 40 pages

Journal-ref: Comm. Math. Phys. 311 (2012) 713-753

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[243] arXiv:1012.2426 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Tunneling of massive particles from noncommutative inspired Schwarzschild black hole

Yan-Gang Miao, Zhao Xue, Shao-Jun Zhang

Comments: 11 pages, no figures; v2: 13 pages, clarifications and references added, version accepted for publication in Gen. Rel. Grav

Journal-ref: Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 44 (2012) 555-566

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[244] arXiv:1012.2511 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Cold Dark Matter Isocurvature Perturbations: Cosmological Constraints and Applications

Hong Li, Jie Liu, Jun-Qing Xia, Yi-Fu Cai

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables, references added

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D83:123517,2011

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[245] arXiv:1012.2568 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Linear space of spinor monomials and realization of the Nambu-Goldstone fermion in the Volkov-Akulov and Komargodski-Seiberg Lagrangians

A. A. Zheltukhin

Comments: 10 pages

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[246] arXiv:1012.2572 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Membrane Paradigm and Holographic Hydrodynamics

Christopher Eling, Yasha Neiman, Yaron Oz

Comments: 4 pages, prepared for the proceedings of ERE2010 (Granada, Spain)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[247] arXiv:1012.2597 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Physics as quantum information processing

Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano

Comments: Work presented at the conference QCMC 2010 held on 19-23 July 2010 at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[248] arXiv:1012.2646 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on scalar-tensor theories of gravity from observations

Seokcheon Lee

Comments: 19 pages, 20 figures, 2 tables, submitted to JCAP

Journal-ref: JCAP 1103:021,2011

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[249] arXiv:1012.2652 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: CMB spectra and bispectra calculations: making the flat-sky approximation rigorous

Francis Bernardeau, Cyril Pitrou, Jean-Philippe Uzan

Comments: 20 pages, 12 figures

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[250] arXiv:1012.2686 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Comment on: Hawking Radiation from Ultrashort Laser Pulse Filaments

Ralf Schützhold, William G. Unruh

Comments: 1 page

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)