Quasinormal modes of D-dimensional de Sitter spacetime

We calculate the exact values of the quasinormal frequencies for an electromagnetic field and a gravitational perturbation moving in $D$-dimensional de Sitter spacetime ($D \geq 4$). We also study the quasinormal modes of a real massive scalar field and we compare our results with those of other references.Comment: 26 pages, 1 table. Some changes made according to referee's suggestions. Matches published version in GR

Electromagnetic quasinormal modes of D-dimensional black holes II

By using the sixth order WKB approximation we calculate for an electromagnetic field propagating in D-dimensional Schwarzschild and Schwarzschild de Sitter black holes its quasinormal frequencies for the fundamental mode and first overtones. We study the dependence of these QN frequencies on the value of the cosmological constant and the spacetime dimension. We also compare with the known results for the gravitational perturbations propagating in the same background. Moreover we exactly compute the QN frequencies of the electromagnetic field propagating in D-dimensional massless topological black hole and for charged D-dimensional Nariai spacetime we exactly calculate the QN frequencies of the coupled electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations.Comment: 34 pages, 14 figures, 6 table

Dynamical study of spinodal decomposition in heavy ion collisions

Nuclei undergo a phase transition in nuclear reactions according to a caloric curve determined by the amount of entropy. Here, the generation of entropy is studied in relation to the size of the nuclear system.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, Contributed paper for the 5th Latin American Symposium on High Energy Physics: V-SILAFAE (2004

One-dimensional relativistic dissipative system with constant force and its quantization

For a relativistic particle under a constant force and a linear velocity dissipation force, a constant of motion is found. Problems are shown for getting the Hamiltoninan of this system. Thus, the quantization of this system is carried out through the constant of motion and using the quantization of the velocity variable. The dissipative relativistic quantum bouncer is outlined within this quantization approach.Comment: 11 pages, no figure