4,500 research outputs found
Shell-crossing in quasi-one-dimensional flow
Blow-up of solutions for the cosmological fluid equations, often dubbed
shell-crossing or orbit crossing, denotes the breakdown of the single-stream
regime of the cold-dark-matter fluid. At this instant, the velocity becomes
multi-valued and the density singular. Shell-crossing is well understood in one
dimension (1D), but not in higher dimensions. This paper is about
quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) flow that depends on all three coordinates but
differs only slightly from a strictly 1D flow, thereby allowing a perturbative
treatment of shell-crossing using the Euler--Poisson equations written in
Lagrangian coordinates. The signature of shell-crossing is then just the
vanishing of the Jacobian of the Lagrangian map, a regular perturbation
problem. In essence the problem of the first shell-crossing, which is highly
singular in Eulerian coordinates, has been desingularized by switching to
Lagrangian coordinates, and can then be handled by perturbation theory. Here,
all-order recursion relations are obtained for the time-Taylor coefficients of
the displacement field, and it is shown that the Taylor series has an infinite
radius of convergence. This allows the determination of the time and location
of the first shell-crossing, which is generically shown to be taking place
earlier than for the unperturbed 1D flow. The time variable used for these
statements is not the cosmic time but the linear growth time . For simplicity, calculations are restricted to an Einstein--de Sitter
universe in the Newtonian approximation, and tailored initial data are used.
However it is straightforward to relax these limitations, if needed.Comment: 9 pages; received 2017 May 24, and accepted 2017 June 21 at MNRA
Systematic Differential Renormalization to All Orders
We present a systematic implementation of differential renormalization to all
orders in perturbation theory. The method is applied to individual Feynamn
graphs written in coordinate space. After isolating every singularity. which
appears in a bare diagram, we define a subtraction procedure which consists in
replacing the core of the singularity by its renormalized form givenby a
differential formula. The organizationof subtractions in subgraphs relies in
Bogoliubov's formula, fulfilling the requirements of locality, unitarity and
Lorentz invariance. Our method bypasses the use of an intermediate
regularization andautomatically delivers renormalized amplitudes which obey
renormalization group equations.Comment: TEX, 20 pages, UB-ECM-PF 93/4, 1 figureavailable upon reques
Evolution of galaxies due to self-excitation
These lectures will cover methods for studying the evolution of galaxies
since their formation. Because the properties of a galaxy depend on its
history, an understanding of galaxy evolution requires that we understand the
dynamical interplay between all components. The first part will emphasize
n-body simulation methods which minimize sampling noise. These techniques are
based on harmonic expansions and scale linearly with the number of bodies,
similar to Fourier transform solutions used in cosmological simulations.
Although fast, until recently they were only efficiently used for small number
of geometries and background profiles. These same techniques may be used to
study the modes and response of a galaxy to an arbitrary perturbation. In
particular, I will describe the modal spectra of stellar systems and role of
damped modes which are generic to stellar systems in interactions and appear to
play a significant role in determining the common structures that we see. The
general development leads indirectly to guidelines for the number of particles
necessary to adequately represent the gravitational field such that the modal
spectrum is resolvable. I will then apply these same excitation to
understanding the importance of noise to galaxy evolution.Comment: 24 pages, 7 figures, using Sussp.sty (included). Lectures presented
at the NATO Advanced Study Institute, "The Restless Universe: Applications of
Gravitational N-Body Dynamics to Planetary, Stellar and Galactic Systems,"
Blair Atholl, July 200
The Instability of Charged Black Strings and p-Branes
We investigate the evolution of small perturbations around charged black
strings and branes which are solutions of low energy string theory. We give the
details of the analysis for the uncharged case which was summarized in a
previous paper. We extend the analysis to the small charge case and give also
an analysis for the generic case, following the behavior of unstable modes as
the charge is modified. We study specifically a magnetically charged black
6-brane, but show how the instability is generic, and that charge does not in
general stabilise black strings and p-branes.Comment: 41 pages plain TeX, 6 figures appended at end of file,
DAMTP/R-94/7,LA-UR-93-447
On the evaluation of a certain class of Feynman diagrams in x-space: Sunrise-type topologies at any loop order
We review recently developed new powerful techniques to compute a class of
Feynman diagrams at any loop order, known as sunrise-type diagrams. These
sunrise-type topologies have many important applications in many different
fields of physics and we believe it to be timely to discuss their evaluation
from a unified point of view. The method is based on the analysis of the
diagrams directly in configuration space which, in the case of the sunrise-type
diagrams and diagrams related to them, leads to enormous simplifications as
compared to the traditional evaluation of loops in momentum space. We present
explicit formulae for their analytical evaluation for arbitrary mass
configurations and arbitrary dimensions at any loop order. We discuss several
limiting cases of their kinematical regimes which are e.g. relevant for
applications in HQET and NRQCD.Comment: 100 pages, 16 eps-figures include
- …