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Stability radii of positive linear Volterra–Stieltjes equations
AbstractWe study stability radii of linear Volterra–Stieltjes equations under multi-perturbations and affine perturbations. A lower and upper bound for the complex stability radius with respect to multi-perturbations are given. Furthermore, in some special cases concerning the structure matrices, the complex stability radius can precisely be computed via the associated transfer functions. Then, the class of positive linear Volterra–Stieltjes equations is studied in detail. It is shown that for this class, complex, real and positive stability radius under multi-perturbations or multi-affine perturbations coincide and can be computed by simple formulae expressed in terms of the system matrices. As direct consequences of the obtained results, we get some results on robust stability of positive linear integro-differential equations and of positive linear functional differential equations. To the best of our knowledge, most of the results of this paper are new
Unified Dark Matter Scalar Field Models
In this work we analyze and review cosmological models in which the dynamics
of a single scalar field accounts for a unified description of the Dark Matter
and Dark Energy sectors, dubbed Unified Dark Matter (UDM) models. In this
framework, we consider the general Lagrangian of k-essence, which allows to
find solutions around which the scalar field describes the desired mixture of
Dark Matter and Dark Energy. We also discuss static and spherically symmetric
solutions of Einstein's equations for a scalar field with non-canonical kinetic
term, in connection with galactic halo rotation curves.Comment: 57 pages, 6 figures, LaTeX file. Typos corrected; Added References;
Revised according to reviewer's suggestions; Invited Review for the special
issue "Focus Issue on Dark Matter" for Advances in Astronom
Geometric origin of mechanical properties of granular materials
Some remarkable generic properties, related to isostaticity and potential
energy minimization, of equilibrium configurations of assemblies of rigid,
frictionless grains are studied. Isostaticity -the uniqueness of the forces,
once the list of contacts is known- is established in a quite general context,
and the important distinction between isostatic problems under given external
loads and isostatic (rigid) structures is presented. Complete rigidity is only
guaranteed, on stability grounds, in the case of spherical cohesionless grains.
Otherwise, the network of contacts might deform elastically in response to load
increments, even though grains are rigid. This sets an uuper bound on the
contact coordination number. The approximation of small displacements (ASD)
allows to draw analogies with other model systems studied in statistical
mechanics, such as minimum paths on a lattice. It also entails the uniqueness
of the equilibrium state (the list of contacts itself is geometrically
determined) for cohesionless grains, and thus the absence of plastic
dissipation. Plasticity and hysteresis are due to the lack of such uniqueness
and may stem, apart from intergranular friction, from small, but finite,
rearrangements, in which the system jumps between two distinct potential energy
minima, or from bounded tensile contact forces. The response to load increments
is discussed. On the basis of past numerical studies, we argue that, if the ASD
is valid, the macroscopic displacement field is the solution to an elliptic
boundary value problem (akin to the Stokes problem).Comment: RevTex, 40 pages, 26 figures. Close to published paper. Misprints and
minor errors correcte
A new gravitational wave generation algorithm for particle perturbations of the Kerr spacetime
We present a new approach to solve the 2+1 Teukolsky equation for
gravitational perturbations of a Kerr black hole. Our approach relies on a new
horizon penetrating, hyperboloidal foliation of Kerr spacetime and spatial
compactification. In particular, we present a framework for waveform generation
from point-particle perturbations. Extensive tests of a time domain
implementation in the code {\it Teukode} are presented. The code can
efficiently deliver waveforms at future null infinity. As a first application
of the method, we compute the gravitational waveforms from inspiraling and
coalescing black-hole binaries in the large-mass-ratio limit. The smaller mass
black hole is modeled as a point particle whose dynamics is driven by an
effective-one-body-resummed analytical radiation reaction force. We compare the
analytical angular momentum loss to the gravitational wave angular momentum
flux. We find that higher-order post-Newtonian corrections are needed to
improve the consistency for rapidly spinning binaries. Close to merger, the
subdominant multipolar amplitudes (notably the ones) are enhanced for
retrograde orbits with respect to prograde ones. We argue that this effect
mirrors nonnegligible deviations from circularity of the dynamics during the
late-plunge and merger phase. We compute the gravitational wave energy flux
flowing into the black hole during the inspiral using a time-domain formalism
proposed by Poisson. Finally, a self-consistent, iterative method to compute
the gravitational wave fluxes at leading-order in the mass of the particle is
presented. For a specific case study with =0.9, a simulation that uses
the consistent flux differs from one that uses the analytical flux by
gravitational wave cycles over a total of about cycles. In this case the
horizon absorption accounts for about gravitational wave cycles
Jammed frictionless discs: connecting local and global response
By calculating the linear response of packings of soft frictionless discs to
quasistatic external perturbations, we investigate the critical scaling
behavior of their elastic properties and non-affine deformations as a function
of the distance to jamming. Averaged over an ensemble of similar packings,
these systems are well described by elasticity, while in single packings we
determine a diverging length scale up to which the response of the
system is dominated by the local packing disorder. This length scale, which we
observe directly, diverges as , where is the difference
between contact number and its isostatic value, and appears to scale
identically to the length scale which had been introduced earlier in the
interpretation of the spectrum of vibrational modes. It governs the crossover
from isostatic behavior at the small scale to continuum behavior at the large
scale; indeed we identify this length scale with the coarse graining length
needed to obtain a smooth stress field. We characterize the non-affine
displacements of the particles using the \emph{displacement angle
distribution}, a local measure for the amount of relative sliding, and analyze
the connection between local relative displacements and the elastic moduli.Comment: 19 pages, 15 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
A mean field description of jamming in non-cohesive frictionless particulate systems
A theory for kinetic arrest in isotropic systems of repulsive,
radially-interacting particles is presented that predicts exponents for the
scaling of various macroscopic quantities near the rigidity transition that are
in agreement with simulations, including the non-trivial shear exponent. Both
statics and dynamics are treated in a simplified, one-particle level
description, and coupled via the assumption that kinetic arrest occurs on the
boundary between mechanically stable and unstable regions of the static
parameter diagram. This suggests the arrested states observed in simulations
are at (or near) an elastic buckling transition. Some additional numerical
evidence to confirm the scaling of microscopic quantities is also provided.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figs; additional clarification of different elastic moduli
exponents, plus typo fix. To appear in PR
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