The physical role of gravitational and gauge degrees of freedom in general relativity — I: Dynamical synchronization and generalized inertial effects

This is the first of a couple of papers in which the peculiar capabilities of the Hamiltonian approach to general relativity are exploited to get both new results concerning specific technical issues, and new insights about old foundational problems of the theory. The first paper includes: (1) a critical analysis of the various concepts of symmetry related to the Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian viewpoint on the one hand, and to the Hamiltonian viewpoint, on the other. This analysis leads, in particular, to a re-interpretation of active diffeomorphisms as passive and metric-dependent dynamical symmetries of Einstein's equations, a re-interpretation which enables to disclose the (not widely known)) connection of a subgroup of them to Hamiltonian gauge transformations on-shell; (2) a re-visitation of the canonical reduction of the ADM formulation of general relativity, with particular emphasis on the geometro-dynamical effects of the gauge-fixing procedure, which amounts to the definition of a global non-inertial, space-time laboratory. This analysis discloses the peculiar dynamical nature that the traditional definition of distant simultaneity and clock-synchronization assume in general relativity, as well as the gauge relatedness of the “conventions” which generalize the classical Einstein's convention. (3) a clarification of the physical role of Dirac and gauge variables, as their being related to tidal-like and generalized inertial effects, respectively. This clarification is mainly due to the fact that, unlike the standard formulations of the equivalence principle, the Hamiltonian formalism allows to define a generalized notion of “force” in general relativity in a natural way.     

Hopf Modules and Noncommutative Differential Geometry

We define a new algebra of noncommutative differential forms for any Hopf algebra with an invertible antipode. We prove that there is a one-to-one correspondence between anti-Yetter–Drinfeld modules, which serve as coefficients for the Hopf cyclic (co)homology, and modules which admit a flat connection with respect to our differential calculus. Thus, we show that these coefficient modules can be regarded as “flat bundles” in the sense of Connes’ noncommutative differential geometry.     

探索惯性系

针对牛顿力学框架的两大疑难,结合朗格惯性系的定义,从理论上分析了星球参考系与质心参考系,并指出了在什么条件下它们可以充当惯性系.     

螺旋扁管管外蒸汽冷凝双侧强化传热试验研究

为促进螺旋扁管在冷凝换热装置上的应用,对螺旋椭圆管管外蒸汽冷凝工况下的传热特性进行了试验研究。研究结果表明,螺旋椭圆管在强化管内无相变对流传热的同时也可以强化管外冷凝传热。相同工况下,同圆管相比,所用螺旋椭圆扁管的总传热系数高11%-16%,管内传热系数高约18%,管外冷凝传热系数高约9%。并从二次流减薄传热边界层及冷凝表面利于排除冷凝液的角度,分析了螺旋椭圆扁管的双侧强化传热机理。