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in generalized supergravity
We showed in previous work that for homogeneous Yang-Baxter (YB) deformations
of AdSS, the open string metric and coupling, and as a result the
closed string density , remain undeformed. In this work,
in addition to extending these results to the deformation associated with the
modified CYBE, or -deformation, we identify the Page forms as the open
string counterpart for RR fields and demonstrate case by case that the non-zero
Page forms remain invariant under YB deformations. We give a physical meaning
to the Killing vector of generalized supergravity and show for all YB
deformations: 1) appears as a current for center of mass motion on the
worldvolume of a D-branes probing the background, 2) is equal to the
divergence of the noncommutativity parameter, 3) exhibits "holographic"
behavior, where the radial component of vanishes at the AdS boundary, and
4) in pure spinor formalism is related to a certain state in the BRST
cohomology.Comment: 11 pages, 2 column; v2 references updated; v3 to appear in EPJ
The Efroimsky formalism adapted to high-frequency perturbations
The Efroimsky perturbation scheme for consistent treatment of gravitational
waves and their influence on the background is summarized and compared with
classical Isaacson's high-frequency approach. We demonstrate that the Efroimsky
method in its present form is not compatible with the Isaacson limit of
high-frequency gravitational waves, and we propose its natural generalization
to resolve this drawback.Comment: 7 pages, to appear in Class. Quantum Gra
Perturbed Spherically Symmetric Dust Solution of the Field Equations in Observational Coordinates with Cosmological Data Functions
Using the framework for solving the spherically symmetric field equations in
observational coordinates given in Araujo and Stoeger (1999), their formulation
and solution in the perturbed FLRW sperically symmetric case with observational
data representing galaxy redshifts, number counts and observer area distances,
both as functions of redshift on our past light cone, are presented. The
importance of the central conditions, those which must hold on our world line
C, is emphasized. In detailing the solution for these perturbations, we discuss
the gauge problem and its resolution in this context, as well as how errors and
gaps in the data are propagated together with the genuine perturbations. This
will provide guidance for solving, and interpreting the solutions of the more
complicated general perturbation problem with observational data on our past
light cone.Comment: Latex 23 pages, no figures, submitted to Astrophysical Journa
Observational Constraints on Visser's Cosmological Model
Theories of gravity for which gravitons can be treated as massive particles
have presently been studied as realistic modifications of General Relativity,
and can be tested with cosmological observations. In this work, we study the
ability of a recently proposed theory with massive gravitons, the so-called
Visser theory, to explain the measurements of luminosity distance from the
Union2 compilation, the most recent Type-Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) dataset,
adopting the current ratio of the total density of non-relativistic matter to
the critical density () as a free parameter. We also combine the SNe
Ia data with constraints from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) and CMB
measurements. We find that, for the allowed interval of values for ,
a model based on Visser's theory can produce an accelerated expansion period
without any dark energy component, but the combined analysis (SNe Ia + BAO +
CMB) shows that the model is disfavored when compared with CDM model.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
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