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Grasping rules and semiclassical limit of the geometry in the Ponzano-Regge model
We show how the expectation values of geometrical quantities in 3d quantum
gravity can be explicitly computed using grasping rules. We compute the volume
of a labelled tetrahedron using the triple grasping. We show that the large
spin expansion of this value is dominated by the classical expression, and we
study the next to leading order quantum corrections.Comment: 18 pages, 1 figur
Leading slow roll corrections to the volume of the universe and the entropy bound
We make an extension to recent calculations of the probability density
\rho(V) for the volume of the universe after inflation. Previous results have
been accurate to leading order in the slow roll parameters \epsilon=\dot{H}/H^2
and \eta=\ddot{\phi}/(\dot{\phi} H), and 1/N_c, where H is the Hubble parameter
and N_c is the classical number of e-foldings. Here, we present a modification
which captures effects of order \epsilon N_c, which amounts to letting the
parameters of inflation H and \dot{\phi} depend on the value of the inflaton
\phi. The phase of slow roll eternal inflation can be defined as when the
probability to have an infinite volume is greater than zero. Using this
definition, we study the Laplace transform of \rho(V) numerically to determine
the condition that triggers the transition to eternal inflation. We also study
the average volume analytically and show that it satisfies the universal
volume bound. This bound states that, in any realization of inflation which
ends with a finite volume, an initial volume must grow by less than a factor of
exp(S_{dS}/2), where S_{dS} is the de Sitter (dS) entropy.Comment: 18 pages, 3 figure
Surface Incompressibility from Semiclassical Relativistic Mean Field Calculations
By using the scaling method and the Thomas-Fermi and Extended Thomas-Fermi
approaches to Relativistic Mean Field Theory the surface contribution to the
leptodermous expansion of the finite nuclei incompressibility has been
self-consistently computed. The validity of the simplest expansion, which
contains volume, volume-symmetry, surface and Coulomb terms, is examined by
comparing it with self-consistent results of the finite nuclei
incompressibility for some currently used non-linear sigma-omega parameter
sets. A numerical estimate of higher-order contributions to the leptodermous
expansion, namely the curvature and surface-symmetry terms, is made.Comment: 18 pages, REVTeX, 3 eps figures, changed conten
Computation of volume potentials over bounded domains via approximate approximations
We obtain cubature formulas of volume potentials over bounded domains
combining the basis functions introduced in the theory of approximate
approximations with their integration over the tangential-halfspace. Then the
computation is reduced to the quadrature of one dimensional integrals over the
halfline. We conclude the paper providing numerical tests which show that these
formulas give very accurate approximations and confirm the predicted order of
convergence.Comment: 18 page
Volume 4, Chapter 1-18: Aquatic and Wet Marchantiophyta, Order Lunulariales
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Bimodalities : a survey of experimental data and models
Bimodal distributions of some chosen variables measured in nuclear collisions
were recently proposed as a non ambiguous signature of a first order phase
transition in nuclei. This section presents a compilation of both theoretical
and experimental studies on bimodalities performed so far, in relation with the
liquid-gas phase transition in nuclear matter.Comment: 12 pages, 18 figures, 1 table Appeared in European Physics Journal A
as part of the Topical Volume "Dynamics and Thermodynamics with Nuclear
Degrees of Freedom
Fitting two nucleons inside a box: exponentially suppressed corrections to the Luscher's formula
Scattering observables can be computed in lattice field theory by measuring
the volume dependence of energy levels of two particle states. The dominant
volume dependence, proportional to inverse powers of the volume, is determined
by the phase shifts. This universal relation (\Lu's formula) between energy
levels and phase shifts is distorted by corrections which, in the large volume
limit, are exponentially suppressed. They may be sizable, however, for the
volumes used in practice and they set a limit on how small the lattice can be
in these studies. We estimate these corrections, mostly in the case of two
nucleons. Qualitatively, we find that the exponentially suppressed corrections
are proportional to the {\it square} of the potential (or to terms suppressed
in the chiral expansion) and the effect due to pions going ``around the world''
vanishes. Quantitatively, the size of the lattice should be greater than
in order to keep finite volume corrections to the phase
less than for realistic pion mass.Comment: 18 pages, 5 figures, 6 figure
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