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Explicit Global Coordinates for Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstroem
We construct coordinate systems that cover all of the Reissner-Nordstroem
solution with m>|q| and m=|q|, respectively. This is possible by means of
elementary analytical functions. The limit of vanishing charge q provides an
alternative to Kruskal which, to our mind, is more explicit and simpler. The
main tool for finding these global charts is the description of highly
symmetrical metrics by two-dimensional actions. Careful gauge fixing yields
global representatives of the two-dimensional theory that can be rewritten
easily as the corresponding four-dimensional line elements.Comment: 12 pages, 3 Postscript figures, sign error in Eq. (37) and below
corrected, references and Note added; to appear in Class. Quantum Gra
Classical and Quantum Integrability of 2D Dilaton Gravities in Euclidean space
Euclidean dilaton gravity in two dimensions is studied exploiting its
representation as a complexified first order gravity model. All local classical
solutions are obtained. A global discussion reveals that for a given model only
a restricted class of topologies is consistent with the metric and the dilaton.
A particular case of string motivated Liouville gravity is studied in detail.
Path integral quantisation in generic Euclidean dilaton gravity is performed
non-perturbatively by analogy to the Minkowskian case.Comment: 27 p., LaTeX, v2: included new refs. and a footnot
Abelian 2-form gauge theory: special features
It is shown that the four -dimensional (4D) free Abelian 2-form
gauge theory provides an example of (i) a class of field theoretical models for
the Hodge theory, and (ii) a possible candidate for the quasi-topological field
theory (q-TFT). Despite many striking similarities with some of the key
topological features of the two -dimensional (2D) free Abelian (and
self-interacting non-Abelian) gauge theories, it turns out that the 4D free
Abelian 2-form gauge theory is {\it not} an exact TFT. To corroborate this
conclusion, some of the key issues are discussed. In particular, it is shown
that the (anti-)BRST and (anti-)co-BRST invariant quantities of the 4D 2-form
Abelian gauge theory obey the recursion relations that are reminiscent of the
exact TFTs but the Lagrangian density of this theory is not found to be able to
be expressed as the sum of (anti-)BRST and (anti-)co-BRST exact quantities as
is the case with the {\it topological} 2D free Abelian (and self-interacting
non-Abelian) gauge theories.Comment: LaTeX, 23 pages, journal ref. give
Generalized 2d dilaton gravity with matter fields
We extend the classical integrability of the CGHS model of 2d dilaton gravity
[1] to a larger class of models, allowing the gravitational part of the action
to depend more generally on the dilaton field and, simultaneously, adding
fermion- and U(1)-gauge-fields to the scalar matter. On the other hand we
provide the complete solution of the most general dilaton-dependent 2d gravity
action coupled to chiral fermions. The latter analysis is generalized to a
chiral fermion multiplet with a non-abelian gauge symmetry as well as to the
(anti-)self-dual sector df = *df (df = -*df) of a scalar field f.Comment: 37 pages, Latex; typos and Eqs. (44,45) corrected; paragraph on p.
26, referring to a work of S. Solodukhin, reformulated; references adde
Long time black hole evaporation with bounded Hawking flux
The long time behavior of an evaporating Schwarzschild black hole is studied
exploiting that it can be described by an effective theory in 2D, a particular
dilaton gravity model.
A crucial technical ingredient is Izawa's result on consistent deformations
of 2D BF theory, while the most relevant physical assumption is boundedness of
the asymptotic matter flux during the whole evaporation process.
An attractor solution, the endpoint of the evaporation process, is found. Its
metric is flat. However, the behavior of the dilaton field is nontrivial: it is
argued that during the final flicker a first order phase transition occurs from
a linear to a constant dilaton vacuum, thereby emitting a shock wave with a
total energy of a fraction of the Planck mass. Another fraction of the Planck
mass may reside in a cold remnant. [Note: More detailed abstract in the paper]Comment: 34 pages, 6 figures, v2: included new references and 2 new footnotes;
v3: mayor revisions (extended intro, included pedagogical example, rearranged
presentation, extended discussion on information paradox, updated
references); v4: updated refs. (+ new ones), added comments, mostly on
dilaton evaporation, rewrote abstract (short for arXiv, long for journal),
moved pedagogic sec. to ap
Chebyshev's bias for composite numbers with restricted prime divisors
Let P(x,d,a) denote the number of primes p<=x with p=a(mod d). Chebyshev's
bias is the phenomenon that `more often' P(x;d,n)>P(x;d,r) than the other way
around, where n is a quadratic non-residue mod d and r is a quadratic residue
mod d. If P(x;d,n)>=P(x;d,r) for every x up to some large number, then one
expects that N(x;d,n)>=N(x;d,r) for every x. Here N(x;d,a) denotes the number
of integers n<=x such that every prime divisor p of n satisfies p=a(mod d).
In this paper we develop some tools to deal with this type of problem and
apply them to show that, for example, N(x;4,3)>=N(x;4,1) for every x. In the
process we express the so called second order Landau-Ramanujan constant as an
infinite series and show that the same type of formula holds true for a much
larger class of constants.
In a sequel to this paper the methods developed here will be used and
somewhat refined to resolve a conjecture from P. Schmutz Schaller to the extent
that the hexagonal lattice is `better' than the square lattice (see p. 201 of
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 35 (1998), 193-214).Comment: 26 page
Virtual black hole phenomenology from 2d dilaton theories
Equipped with the tools of (spherically reduced) dilaton gravity in first
order formulation and with the results for the lowest order S-matrix for s-wave
gravitational scattering (P. Fischer, D. Grumiller, W. Kummer, and D.
Vassilevich, gr-qc/0105034) new properties of the ensuing cross-section are
discussed. We find CPT invariance, despite of the non-local nature of our
effective theory and discover pseudo-self-similarity in its kinematic sector.
After presenting the Carter-Penrose diagram for the corresponding virtual
black hole geometry we encounter distributional contributions to its
Ricci-scalar and a vanishing Einstein-Hilbert action for that configuration.
Finally, a comparison is done between our (Minkowskian) virtual black hole and
Hawking's (Euclidean) virtual black hole bubbles.Comment: 17 pages, 13 figure
Volume 10, Number 9 - June 1930
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