On the Reality of Minkowski Space

Should physicists deal with the question of the reality of Minkowski space (or any relativistic spacetime)? It is argued that they should since this is a question about the dimensionality of the world at the macroscopic level and it is physics that should answer it.     

Some Properties and Improvements of the Saddlepoint Approximation in Nonlinear Regression

We summarize properties of the saddlepoint approximation of the density of the maximum likelihood estimator in nonlinear regression with normal errors: accuracy, range of validity, equivariance. We give a geometric insight into the accuracy of the saddlepoint density for finite samples. The role of the Riemannian curvature tensor in the whole investigation of the properties is demonstrated. By adding terms containing this tensor we improve the saddlepoint approximation. When this tensor is zero, or when the number of observations is large, we have pivotal, independent, and ² distributed variables, like in a linear model. Consequences for experimental design or for constructions of confidence regions are discussed.     

Compact Hermitian surfaces of constant antiholomorphic sectional curvatures

Compact Hermitian surfaces of constant antiholomorphic sectional curvatures with respect to the Riemannian curvature tensor and with respect to the Hermitian curvature tensor are considered. It is proved: a compact Hermitian surface of constant antiholomorphic Riemannian sectional curvatures is a self-dual Kaehler surface; a compact Hermitian surface of constant antiholomorphic Hermitian sectional curvatures is either a Kaehler surface of constant (non-zero) holomorphic sectional curvatures or a conformally flat Hermitian surface.

     

Some features of scattering problem in a κ‐Deformed minkowski spacetime

The doubly special relativity (DSR) theories are suggested in order to incorporate an observer‐independent length scale in special theory of relativity. The Magueijo‐Smolin proposal of DSR is realizable through a particular form of the noncommutative (NC) spacetime (known as κ‐Minkowski spacetime) in which the Lorentz symmetry is preserved. In this framework, the NC parameter κ provides the origin of natural cutoff energy scale. Using a nonlinear deformed relativistic dispersion relation along with the Lorentz transformations, we investigate some phenomenological facets of two‐body collision problem (without creation of new particles) in a κ‐Minkowski spacetime. By treating an elastic scattering problem, we study effects of the Planck scale energy cutoff on some relativistic kinematical properties of this scattering problem. The results are challenging in the sense that as soon as one turns on the κ‐spacetime extension, the nature of the two‐body collision alters from elastic to inelastic one. It is shown also that a significant kinematical variable involving in heavy ion collisions, the rapidity, is not essentially an additive quantity under a sequence of the nonlinear representation of the Lorentz transformations.

     

Quantization on curved surfaces

After a short review of the existing methods for quantization of curved manifolds, the free particle motions or the so‐called geodesic flows on axisymmetrical prolate and oblate ellipsoids are quantized using the isomorphism established by Neumann of these systems and the harmonic oscillator restricted to the unit sphere. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2002     

Stability of area-preserving variations in space forms

In this article, we deal with compact hypersurfaces without boundary immersed in space forms with . They are critical points for an area-preserving variational problem. We show that they are r-stable if and only if they are totally umbilical hypersurfaces.      

$E^3$中的一类Weingarten曲面

In this paper, we construct a kind of Weingarten surfaces in E3 and study its geometric properties. We first derive an explicit diffierential relationship between the principal curvatures of them. Then we prove an existence theorem of this kind of surfaces with prescribed principal curvatures. At last, we present two examples involving the rotation surfaces as the special case, and present several figures to the second example.     

Analogue transformation acoustics and the compression of spacetime

A recently developed technique known as analogue transformation acoustics has allowed the extension of the transformational paradigm to general spacetime transformations under which the acoustic equations are not form invariant. In this paper, we review the fundamentals of analogue transformation acoustics and show how this technique can be applied to build a device that increases the density of events within a given spacetime region by simultaneously compressing space and time.     

Observers in spacetime and nonlocality

Characteristics of observers in relativity theory are critically examined. For field measurements in Minkowski spacetime, the Bohr‐Rosenfeld principle implies that the connection between actual (i.e., noninertial) and inertial observers must be nonlocal. Nonlocal electrodynamics of non‐uniformly rotating observers is discussed and the consequences of this theory for the phenomenon of spin‐rotation coupling are briefly explored.     

On the Cartan Curvatures of a Null Curve in Minkowski Spacetime

We reconstruct the Cartan frame of a null curve in Minkowski spacetime for an arbitrary parameter, and we characterize pseudo-spherical null curves and Bertrand null curves.Mathematics Subject Classification(2000). 53B30, 53A04.