Is the Causality Principle Violated for Gravitational Waves?

We verify the causality principle for the relativistic theory of gravity in the linear approximation. We show that the contribution of weak gravitational waves is considerably less than the contributions of the static part of the solution and the cosmological background. Therefore, the presence of weak gravitational waves does not violate the causality principle for the relativistic theory of gravity.     

Exact solutions of the spherically symmetric gravitational field equations

The Einstein gravitational equations in the spherically symmetric case and for the dust model (i.e., p = 0) have been studied by several authors. However, the solutions obtained by them are not completed yet, and the corresponding metric is written in implicit forms which is inconvenient for physical problems. In the present paper we make the following improvements: (1) We obtain all spherical solutions for the dust model with explicit expressions which consist of three classes and an exceptional case; (2) All these solutions contain singularities which are analyzed together with their physical properties. __________ Translated from Journal of Fudan University (Natural Science), 1974, 1: 92–98 An erratum to this article is available at .     

Massive dust ball pulsating under the action of its gravitational field

We show that if we regard the gravitational field as a physical field evolving in the Minkowski space, then a massive dust ball whose mass exceeds three solar masses, in contrast to the conclusions of general relativity, does not collapse under its own gravitation but pulsates in time in the absence of dissipation. __________ Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 155, No. 2, pp. 244–251, May, 2008.     

The Gravitational Field of an Electrically Charged Mass Point and the Causality Principle in the RTG

We find the effective Riemannian space–time corresponding to the gravitational field generated by a charged mass point in the framework of the relativistic theory of gravity. The causality principle plays an important role in solving this problem. The analytic form and the domain of definition, i.e., the gravitational radius, of the obtained solution differ from the corresponding results in Einstein's general relativity theory.     

Analytic perturbation solutions to the Venusian orbiter due to the nonspherical gravitational potential

The analytic perturbation solutions to the motions of a planetary orbiter given in this paper are effective for 0e1, where e is the orbital eccentricity of the orbiter. In the solution, it is assumed that the rotation of the central body is slow, and its astronomical background is clear. Examples for such planets in the solar system are Venus and Mercury. The perturbation solution is tested numerically on two Venusian orbiters with eccentric orbits, PVO and Magellan, and found to be effective.     

Resonant response of a strong electromagnetic wave beam to a gravitational wave in a static magnetic field

Concrete forms of resonant response (ER) for a strong electromagnetic (EM) wave beam (photon flux) propagating in a static magnetic field to a standing gravitational wave (gravitons) are given, and the corresponding perturbation solutions and resonant conditions are obtained. It is found that perturbed EM fields (PEMFs) contain three new components with frequencies Io,* w,l and ωP_g respectively. In the case of ω_e⋙ω_g, the PEMFs are manifested as the EM wave beams with frequency ω_e and a standing EM wave with ω_g. The former and the background EM wave beam (BE-MWB) have the same propagating direction, while in the case of ω_g⋙ω_e, all PEMFs are expressed as the standing EM waves with frequency ω_g. The resonant response occurs in two cases of ω_e = 1/2 ω_g andω_e, = ω_g only. Then not only the first order perturbed energy fluxes (PEFs) propagating in the same and opposite directions of the BEMWB can be generated, but also radial and tangential PEFs which are perpendicular to the above directions can be produced. This effect might provide a new way for the EM detection of the gravitational waves (GWs). Moreover, the possible schemes of displaying perturbed effects induced by the standing GW withh = 10^-33 - 10^-35 and λ_g = 0.1 m at the level of the single photon avalanche and in a typicla laboratory dimension are reviewed.     

Gravitational radiation and the evolution of gravitational collapse in cylindrical symmetry

Using the Sparling form and a geometric construction adapted to spacetimes with a 2-dimensional isometry group, we analyse a quasi-local measure of gravitational energy. We then study the gravitational radiation through spacetime junctions in cylindrically symmetric models of gravitational collapse to singularities. The models result from the matching of collapsing dust fluids interiors with gravitational wave exteriors, given by the Einstein–Rosen type solutions. For a given choice of a frame adapted to the symmetry of the matching hypersurface, we are able to compute the total gravitational energy radiated during the collapse and state whether the gravitational radiation is incoming or outgoing, in each case. This also enables us to distinguish whether a gravitational collapse is being enhanced by the gravitational radiation.     

The role of multiple solution tasks in developing knowledge and creativity in geometry

This paper describes changes in students’ geometrical knowledge and their creativity associated with implementation of Multiple Solution Tasks (MSTs) in school geometry courses. Three hundred and three students from 14 geometry classes participated in the study, of whom 229 students from 11 classes learned in an experimental environment that employed MSTs while the rest learned without any special intervention in the course of one school year. This longitudinal study compares the development of knowledge and creativity between the experimental and control groups as reflected in students’ written tests. Geometry knowledge was measured by the correctness and connectedness of the solutions presented. The criteria for creativity were: fluency, flexibility, and originality. The findings show that students’ connectedness as well as their fluency and flexibility benefited from implementation of MSTs. The study supports the idea that originality is a more internal characteristic than fluency and flexibility, and therefore more related with creativity and less dynamic. Nevertheless, the MSTs approach provides greater opportunity for potentially creative students to present their creative products than conventional learning environment. Cluster analysis of the experimental group identified three clusters that correspond to three levels of student performance, according to the five measured criteria in pre- and post-tests, and showed that, with the exception of originality, performance in all three clusters generally improved on the various criteria.     

Application of seasonal SVR with chaotic gravitational search algorithm in electricity forecasting

Hybridization chaotic mapping functions with optimization algorithms into a support vector regression model has been shown its efficient potential to avoid converging prematurely. It is deserved to explore more possibility by hybridizing with other optimization algorithms. Electricity demand sometimes demonstrates a seasonal tendency due to complicate economic activities or climate cyclic nature. This investigation presents a SVR-based electricity forecasting model which applied a novel hybrid algorithm, namely chaotic gravitational search algorithm (CGSA), to improve the forecasting performance. The proposed CGSA employs the chaotic local search by logistic chaotic mapping function in the iteration of the original GSA to search and refine the current best solution. In addition, seasonal mechanism is also applied to deal with seasonal electricity tendency. A numerical example from an existed reference is used to illustrate the forecasting performance of the proposed SSVRCGSA model. The forecasting results indicate that the proposed model yields more accurate forecasting results than ARIMA and TF-ε-SVR-SA models.     

The gravitational field of a laser beam and the Generalized Uncertainty Principle

Light carries energy and therefore is source of a gravitational field. In the paper it is proven, in particular, that a laser beam is source of non-linear gravitational waves corresponding, from a quantum point of view, to spin-1 massless particles. This fact suggests both a possible solution to the old problem on the lack of gravitational attraction between two laser beams moving parallel and a new derivation of the Generalized Uncertainty Principle.     

Resolvent formulas of general type and its application to point interactions

Kiselev and Simon ([13]) considered rank one singular perturbations of general type and formulate such perturbation in terms of a resolvent formula. In an attempt to generalize it beyond the rank one case, it is found that this expression in its generality describes resolvents of a rather wide class of closed operators (or all selfadjoint operators). Bounded operators from the domain of unperturbed operator with the graph norm to its dual space will serve as a parameter. As an application point interactions in one-dimension will be discussed systematically, recapturing selfadjoint boundary conditions associated to the problem. Received June 21, 2001; accepted September 4, 2001.     

Dynamics of a point in the axisymmetric gravitational potential of a massive fixed ring and center

Theoretical and Mathematical Physics - We consider the problem of three-dimensional motion of a passively gravitating point in the potential created by a homogeneous thin fixed ring and a massive...     

Geodesic equations for a charged particle in the unified theory of gravitational and electromagnetic interactions

A new model of gravitational and electromagnetic interactions is constructed as a version of the classical Kaluza-Klein theory based on a five-dimensional manifold as the physical space-time. The velocity space of moving particles in the model remains four-dimensional as in the standard relativity theory. The spaces of particle velocities constitute a four-dimensional distribution over a smooth five-dimensional manifold. This distribution depends only on the electromagnetic field and is independent of the metric tensor field. We prove that the equations for the geodesics whose velocity vectors always belong to this distribution are the same as the charged particle equations of motion in the general relativity theory. The gauge transformations are interpreted in geometric terms as a particular form of coordinate transformations on the five-dimensional manifold. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 119, No. 3, pp. 517–528, June, 1999.     

Correlating temporal communication patterns of the Eclipse open source community with performance and creativity

This paper studies the temporal communication patterns of online communities of developers and users of the open source Eclipse Java development environment. It measures the productivity of each community and seeks to identify correlations that exist between group communication characteristics and productivity attributes. The study uses the TeCFlow (Temporal Communication Flow) visualizer to create movie maps of the knowledge flow by analyzing the publicly accessible Eclipse developer mailing lists as an approximation of the social networks of developers and users. Thirty-three different Eclipse communities discussing development and use of components of Eclipse such as the Java Development Tools, the different platform components, the C/C++ Development Tools and the AspectJ extension have been analyzed over a period of six months. The temporal evolution of social network variables such as betweenness centrality, density, contribution index, and degree have been computed and plotted. Productivity of each development group is measured in terms of two indices, namely performance and creativity. Performance of a group is defined as the ratio of new bugs submitted compared with bugs fixed within the same period of time. Creativity is calculated as a function of new features proposed and implemented. Preliminary results indicate that there is a correlation between attributes of social networks such as density and betweenness centrality and group productivity measures in an open source development community. We also find a positive correlation between changes over time in betweenness centrality and creativity, and a negative correlation between changes in betweenness centrality and performance.This paper was tied for Best Paper, NAACSOS (North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science) Annual Conference 2005, June 26–28, Notre Dame. Yared H. Kidane obtained a B.Sc. from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia in Statistics and a M.Sc. in Information Technology specializing in engineering and management of information systems with honors from Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden in June 2005. Yared completed his master’s thesis as an exchange student at MIT. He is currently working for Verizon Wireless as an analyst in the reporting and analysis section. Peter A. Gloor is a research fellow both at the MIT Center for Coordination Science and the Center for Digital Strategies at Tuck at Dartmouth and chief scientist at iQuest Analytics. Previously, he was a partner with Deloitte and PwC. He obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Zurich in 1989, and was a Post-Doc at the MIT Lab for Computer Science.     

A generalization of the Lefschetz fixed point theorem and detection of chaos

We consider the problem of existence of fixed points of a continuous map in (possibly) noninvariant subsets. A pair of subsets of induces a map given by if and elsewhere. The following generalization of the Lefschetz fixed point theorem is proved: If is metrizable, and are compact ANRs, and is continuous, then has a fixed point in provided the Lefschetz number of is nonzero. Actually, we prove an extension of that theorem to the case of a composition of maps. We apply it to a result on the existence of an invariant set of a homeomorphism such that the dynamics restricted to that set is chaotic.

     

The relative motion of the core and mantle of a planet in the gravitational field of a point mass

A model of a planet, consisting of two solid bodies – a core and a mantle – between which there is a spherical layer of a viscous incompressible liquid, is considered. The gravitational interaction between the core and the mantle is taken into account. The problem is investigated in a limited formulation, when the mass centre of the planet moves in a fixed elliptical orbit in the gravitational field of a point mass, while the mutual displacements of the core and the mantle are to be determined. The mutual displacements of the core and the mantle of the planet, and also the velocity field of the viscous liquid in the spherical layer, are obtained using multiparameter perturbation theory, where the Reynolds number, the orbit eccentricity and the ratio of the radius of the planet to the distance to its attracting centre are taken as small parameters. In addition, an approximate theory of gyroscopes is used to analyse the equations of motion. The results obtained are illustrated by the example of the motion of the Earth-Moon system.     

Similarity solution for a spherical shock wave in a non‐ideal gas under the influence of gravitational field and monochromatic radiation with increasing energy

The propagation of a spherical shock wave in a non‐ideal gas with or without gravitational effects is investigated under the action of monochromatic radiation. Similarity solutions are obtained for adiabatic flow between the shock and the piston. The numerical solutions are obtained using the Runge‐Kutta method of the fourth order. The density of the gas is assumed to be constant. The total energy of the shock wave is non‐constant and varies with time. The effects of change in values of non‐idealness parameter, gravitational parameter, shock Mach number, radiation parameter, and adiabatic exponent of the gas on shock strength and flow variables are worked out in detail. It is investigated that the presence of gravitational field increases the compressibility of the medium, due to which it is compressed and, therefore, the distance between the inner contact surface and the shock surface is reduced. A comparison is also made between the solutions in the cases of the gravitating and the non‐gravitating media. It is manifested that the gravitational parameter and the radiation parameter have in general opposite behaviour on the flow variables and the shock strength.     

在连续的时间系统中不存在Shilnikov型混沌

在n维的、时间连续的光滑系统中,得到了不存在同宿轨道和异宿轨道的条件.基于此结论并用一个基本实例,推断出如下结论:在多项式常微分方程系统中,有着以不存在同宿轨道和异宿轨道为特征的第4类混沌.