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Weyl geometry approach to describe planetary systems
In the present work we show that planetary mean distances can be calculated
through considering the Weyl geometry. We interpret the Weyl gauge field as a
vector field associated with the hypercharge of the particles and apply the
gauge concept of the Weyl geometry. The results obtained are shown to agree
with the observed orbits of all the planets and of the asteroid belt in the
solar system, with some empty states.Comment: 7 pages, no figure
Nonexistence theorems for traversable wormholes
Gauss-Bonnet formula is used to derive a new and simple theorem of
nonexistence of vacuum static nonsingular lorentzian wormholes. We also derive
simple proofs for the nonexistence of lorentzian wormhole solutions for some
classes of static matter such as, for instance, real scalar fields with a
generic potential obeying and massless fermions fields
Geometrical features of (4+d) gravity
We obtain the vacuum spherical symmetric solutions for the gravitational
sector of a (4+d)-dimensional Kaluza-Klein theory. In the various regions of
parameter space, the solutions can describe either naked singularities or
black-holes or wormholes. We also derive, by performing a conformal rescaling,
the corresponding picture in the four-dimensional space-time.Comment: 10 pages, LateX2e, to appear in Phys.Rev.
"Spin-Disentangled" Exact Diagonalization of Repulsive Hubbard Systems: Superconducting Pair Propagation
By a novel exact diagonalization technique we show that bound pairs propagate
between repulsive Hubbard clusters in a superconducting fashion. The size of
the matrices that must be handled depends on the number of fermion
configurations {\em per spin}, which is of the order of the square root of the
overall size of the Hilbert space. We use CuO units connected by weak O-O
links to model interplanar coupling and c-axis superconductivity in Cuprates.
The numerical evidence on CuO and CuO prompts a new
analytic scheme describing the propagation of bound pairs and also the
superconducting flux quantization in a 3-d geometry.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Exact solutions of charged wormhole
In this paper, the backreaction to the traversable Lorentzian wormhole
spacetime by the scalar field or electric charge is considered to find the
exact solutions. The charges play the role of the additional matter to the
static wormhole which is already constructed by the exotic matter. The
stability conditions for the wormhole with scalar field and electric charge are
found from the positiveness and flareness for the wormhole shape function.Comment: 9 pages, Revtex, no figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D(2001
Possible wormholes in a brane world
The condition R=0, where R is the four-dimensional scalar curvature, is used
for obtaining a large class (with an arbitrary function of r) of static,
spherically symmetric Lorentzian wormhole metrics. The wormholes are globally
regular and traversable, can have throats of arbitrary size and can be both
symmetric and asymmetric. These metrics may be treated as possible wormhole
solutions in a brane world since they satisfy the vacuum Einstein equations on
the brane where effective stress-energy is induced by interaction with the bulk
gravitational field. Some particular examples are discussed.Comment: 7 pages, revtex4. Submitted to Phys. Rev.
Semiclassical and Quantum Field Theoretic Bounds for Traversable Lorentzian Stringy Wormholes
A lower bound on the size of a Lorentzian wormhole can be obtained by
semiclassically introducing the Planck cut-off on the magnitude of tidal forces
(Horowitz-Ross constraint). Also, an upper bound is provided by the quantum
field theoretic constraint in the form of the Ford-Roman Quantum Inequality for
massless minimally coupled scalar fields. To date, however, exact static
solutions belonging to this scalar field theory have not been worked out to
verify these bounds. To fill this gap, we examine the wormhole features of two
examples from the Einstein frame description of the vacuum low energy string
theory in four dimensions which is the same as the minimally coupled scalar
field theory. Analyses in this paper support the conclusion of Ford and Roman
that wormholes in this theory can have sizes that are indeed only a few order
of magnitudes larger than the Planck scale. It is shown that the two types of
bounds are also compatible. In the process, we point out a "wormhole" analog of
naked black holes.Comment: 15 page
Dyonic Wormholes in 5D Kaluza-Klein Theory
New spherically symmetric dyonic solutions, describing a wormhole-like class
of spacetime configurations in five-dimensional Kaluza-Klein theory, are given
in an explicit form. For this type of solution the electric and magnetic fields
cause a significantly different global structure. For the electric dominated
case, the solution is everywhere regular but, when the magnetic strength
overcomes the electric contribution, the mouths of the wormhole become singular
points. When the electric and magnetic charge parameters are identical, the
throats ``degenerate'' and the solution reduces to the trivial embedding of the
four-dimensional massless Reissner-Nordstr{\"o}m black hole solution. In
addition, their counterparts in eleven-dimensional supergravity are constructed
by a non-trivial uplifting.Comment: Revised version to appear in Class. Quant. Gra
The Age-Redshift Relation for Standard Cosmology
We present compact, analytic expressions for the age-redshift relation
for standard Friedmann-Lema\^ \itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW)
cosmology. The new expressions are given in terms of incomplete Legendre
elliptic integrals and evaluate much faster than by direct numerical
integration.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figure
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