About “black holes” and dark matter

It is shown that the complete system of classical gravitational equations for an isolated centrally symmetric body yields that: (1) in terms of Galilean coordinates all metric coefficients of the Riemannian space induced by the body cannot be equal to zero or infinity anywhere; (2) they, together with the first-order derivatives, should be continuous everywhere. The equations do not contain solutions corresponding to “black holes,” but admit solutions corresponding to objects for which the surface radius (in terms of standard coordinates) is equal to the double mass of matter under this surface. These objects can make the main contribution to the dark matter of the Universe and explain observed effects, such as gravitational microlensing and other effects. Under certain conditions they can become powerful X-ray sources.     

Allowance for shear distortion and rotatory inertia of ship hulls

The response of a ship to waves and to propeller excitation (as well as its distortion in still water) may be analysed in modal form by using a linear theory. For symmetric responses the approach has been discussed in terms of a “hull girder” treated as a simple beam. The same is true of uncoupled bending in antisymmetric motion. Simple beam theory has also been adapted for use in “coupled bending and twisting” responses of hulls with large deck openings. The theory has not, hitherto, embodied an allowance for the effects of shear distortion or rotatory inertia. It is shown in this paper how those effects may be allowed for in the analysis of symmetric response, that they do not alter the form of the more rudimentary analysis and that the response lends itself to a convenient matrix formulation.     

Superalgebras,symplectic bosons and the Sugawara construction

New representations of affine Lie algebras are constructed using symplectic bosons of the sort that occur naturally in the BRST treatment of fermionic string theories. These representations are shown to have analogous properties to the current algebra representations in terms of free fermion fields, though they do not act in a positive space. In particular, the condition for the Sugawara construction of the Virasoro algebra to equal the free one is the existence of a superalgebra with a quadratic Casimir operator, paralleling the symmetric space theorem for fermionic field constructions. Both results are seen to be particular cases of a more general super-symmetric space theorem, which arises from considering an affinisation of the superalgebras. These algebras are realised in terms of free fermions and symplectic bosons and lead to a super-Sugawara construction of the Virasoro algebra. The conditions for this to equal a Virasoro algebra obtained from the free fields are provided by the super-symmetric space theorem.     

Oscillations in SIRS model with distributed delays

The ubiquity of oscillations in epidemics presents a long standing challenge for the formulation of epidemic models. Whether they are external and seasonally driven, or arise from the intrinsic dynamics is an open problem. It is known that fixed time delays destabilize the steady state solution of the standard SIRS model, giving rise to stable oscillations for certain parameters values. In this contribution, starting from the classical SIRS model, we make a general treatment of the recovery and loss of immunity terms. We present oscillation diagrams (amplitude and period) in terms of the parameters of the model, showing how oscillations can be destabilized by the shape of the distributions of the two characteristic (infectious and immune) times. The formulation is made in terms of delay equations which are both numerically integrated and linearized. Results from simulations are included showing where they support the linear analysis and explaining why not where they do not. Considerations and comparison with real diseases are presented along.     

Comparison between the dispersion curves calculated in complex frequency and the minima of the reflection coefficients for an embedded layer

Analytical solutions of Lamb functions for symmetric and antisymmetric elastodynamic modes propagating within a solid layer embedded in an infinite medium are presented. Alternative theoretical analyses of such modes are performed, first in terms of the usual approach of harmonic heterogeneous plane waves (real frequency and complex slowness) and then in terms of transient homogeneous plane waves (complex frequency and real slowness). An example structure of a 0.1-mm-thick "alpha case" (an oxygen-rich phase of titanium that is relatively stiff) plate embedded in titanium is used for the study. A large difference between the usual dispersion curves calculated in real frequency and complex slowness and those calculated in complex frequency and real slowness is shown. Thus the choice between a spatial and a temporal parameter to describe the imaginary part of the guided waves is shown to be significant. The minima and the zeros of the longitudinal and shear plane-wave reflection coefficients are calculated and are compared with the dispersion curves. It is found that they do not match with the dispersion curves for complex slowness, but they do agree quite well with the dispersion curves for complex frequency. This implies that the complex frequency approach is better suited for the comparison of the modal properties with near-field reflection measurements.     

Nonlinear Spinor Fields in Bianchi type-III Spacetime

Within the scope of Bianchi type-III spacetime we study the role of spinor field on the evolution of the Universe as well as the influence of gravity on the spinor field. In doing so we have considered a polynomial type of nonlinearity. In this case the spacetime remains locally rotationally symmetric and anisotropic all the time. It is found that depending on the sign of nonlinearity the models allows both accelerated and oscillatory modes of expansion. The non-diagonal components of energy-momentum tensor though impose some restrictions on metric functions and components of spinor field, unlike Bianchi type I, V and V I ₀ cases, they do not lead to vanishing mass and nonlinear terms of the spinor field.     

Naked singularities in spherically symmetric gravitational collapse: A critique

One of the most important questions in the physics of gravitation phenomena is whether gravitational collapse can lead to the formation of singularities which are not hidden by an event horizon. The Cosmic Censorship Conjecture (CCC) represents the hope that such a drastic event cannot happen in realistic physical situations. However, in the recent past several counter examples to the CCC were demonstrated by several researchers in situations of spherically symmetric gravitational collapse. The disturbing aspect about these counter examples is that they are strong naked singularities—they can crush matter to zero volume and can have a disastrous influence on causal physics. We examine these counter examples for their physical content by working through the dynamical collapse of inhomogeneous dust and argue that these are not physically acceptable counter examples. Our main result is that the singularities when naked are weak and when strong, strongly censored. The strong naked singularities in the counter examples do not arise from dynamical collapse; they result from the intrinsically singular nature of the initial density distributions chosen. The CCC seems to remain robust as far as spherically symmetric collapse is concerned.     

像散厄米-高斯光束的对称化和相关问题的研究

 从比较两种对称化光学系统出发，使用三柱透镜对称化光学系统对像散厄米高斯光束作了详细分析，研究表明：对称化光学系统的作用是将像散光束变换为对称化实宗量光束；并消去xy耦合项。这样，当光束继续在自由空间传输时，能保持其形状不变。然而，有xy耦合项的对称化复光束却不具有这种传输不变性。     

Non-existence of stationary,axially symmetric,asymptotically flat solutions of the Einstein equations for dust

It is shown that the Einstein equations for stationary, axially symmetric distributions of dust do not admit regular, asymptotically flat solutions, provided the mass density is strictly positive everywhere.     

One-soliton solutions from Laplace’s seed

One-soliton solutions of axially symmetric vacuum Einstein field equations are presented in this paper. Two sets of Laplace’s solutions are used as seed and it is shown that the derived solutions reduce to some already known solutions when the constants are properly adjusted. An analysis of the solutions in terms of the Ernst potential is also presented. It is found that the solutions do not reduce to the Euclidean form at spatial infinity. However, in the static limit, Weyl solutions are obtained for half integral ∂-values.     

Stability properties of multiwavelength, incoherent, dissipative spatial solitons

We have investigated the interaction between two dissipative spatial solitons of different frequencies in periodically patterned semiconductor optical amplifiers. The experimental results are in good agreement with the theory. Simulations suggest that multiwavelength interactions do not produce stable bound solitons unless the system's modeling equations are completely symmetric.     

Depolarized light scattering from liquids: Rotations,collisions, and hydrodynamics

VH depolarized light scattering from liquids composed of symmetric top molecules is discussed. The dielectric fluctuations which give rise to the spectrum form an orientational and collisional (or intermolecular) contribution, and cross-correlation between the two can occur. The problem of disentangling the orientational from the collisional effects is shown to be possible, at least within the context of a generalized hydrodynamic model, because of the coupling of rotations and intermolecular interactions to hydrodynamic shear modes. A simple generalized hydrodynamic model is proposed which is successful in describing the observed spctra with an appropriate number of theoretical transport coefficients treated as adjustable parameters. Though this model is quite successful, and though the coefficients can all be described in physically meaningful and mathematically precise molecular terms, it must still be taken as a phenomenological theory until the fitted values of the coefficients can be compared with values calculated from the molecular expressions.     

魔角旋转情形下化学位移各向异性相互作用的反对称分量

核自旋之间的各种各向异性相互作用都能用二阶张量表示,这些张量可分解成各向同性、对称以及反对称分量。本文针对化学位移各向异性相互作用,讨论了反对称分量的NMR性质,指出在MAS情形下,反对称分量对频移和谱宽的贡献仍是二阶小量。反对称分量与对称分量的非久期项对频移和谱宽的影响决定了MAS谱的极限分辨率。文中计算了MAS情形下这两种效应产生的粉末线型。     

Equivalencies, Identities, Symmetric Differences, and Congruencies in Orthomodular Lattices

It is shown that operations of equivalence cannot serve for building algebras which would induce orthomodular lattices as the operations of implication can. Several properties of equivalence operations have been investigated. Distributivity of equivalence terms and several other 3-variable expressions involving equivalence terms have been proved to hold in any orthomodular lattice. Symmetric differences have been shown to reduce to complements of equivalence terms. Some congruence relations related to equivalence operations and symmetric differences have been considered.     

On the non-commutative two level model for metallic glasses

The electronic lifetime is calculated for a metallic glass considering a general interaction between electrons and the two level system. It is shown that in the leading logarithmic approximation logarithmic terms occur only if at least two of the coupling parameters do not commute in the momentum space. The first contribution is proportional to the square of the logarithm which results in an increase of the decay rate as the temperature is lowered.     

Lie Symmetries,Infinite-Dimensional Lie Algebras and Similarity Reductions of Certain (2+1)-Dimensional Nonlinear Evolution Equations

Abstract

The Lie point symmetries associated with a number of (2 + 1)-dimensional generalizations of soliton equations are investigated. These include the Niznik – Novikov – Veselov equation and the breaking soliton equation, which are symmetric and asymmetric generalizations respectively of the KDV equation, the (2+1)-dimensional generalization of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation by Fokas as well as the (2+1)-dimensional generalized sine-Gordon equation of Konopelchenko and Rogers. We show that in all these cases the Lie symmetry algebra is infinite-dimensional; however, in the case of the breaking soliton equation they do not possess a centerless Virasorotype subalgebra as in the case of other typical integrable (2+1)-dimensional evolution equations. We work out the similarity variables and special similarity reductions and investigate them.     

Multi-species simple exclusion processes

A motility mechanism based on a simple exclusion process, where the movement of discrete agents on a lattice is either unbiased (symmetric) or biased (asymmetric) is considered. Estimates of diffusivities from tracking data do not describe the population-level response of the system. This mismatch between the individual-level and population-level behaviour can be resolved by averaging the individual-level mechanism in terms of an expected site occupancy. New insight into simple exclusion processes is obtained by representing the system as a series of interacting subpopulations. This formalism leads to a system of nonlinear advection-diffusion equations which can be interpreted in terms of the agent fluxes. These interactions have consequences for both agent-based modelling and continuum modelling in cell biology, such as tracking subpopulations of cells within a total cell population.     

Spherically symmetric, self-similar spacetimes

In this paper, we show that self-similarity with respect to the existence of a (purely radial) homothetic Killing vector field for spherically symmetric spacetimes implies the separability of the spacetime metric in terms of the co-moving coordinates (and vice versa) and that the metric is, uniquely, the one recently reported in (Class. Quantam Grav. 18: 2147–2162; 2001). This spacetime, in general, has non-vanishing energy flux and shear. An interesting feature of this spacetime, in contrast to other self-similar spherically symmetric spacetimes (not reducible to our form) is that it has an arbitrary radial distribution of matter.     

A Model Problem for Conformal Parameterizations of the Einstein Constraint Equations

We study the conformal and conformal thin sandwich (CTS) methods as candidates for parameterizing the set vacuum initial data for the Cauchy problem of general relativity. To this end we consider a small family of symmetric conformal data. Within this family we obtain an existence result so long as the mean curvature has constant sign. When the mean curvature changes sign we find that solutions either do not exist, or they are not unique. In some cases solutions are shown to be non-unique. Moreover, the theory for mean curvatures with changing sign is shown to be extremely sensitive with respect to the value of a coupling constant in the Einstein constraint equations.