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Soliton-like solutions based on geometrically nonlinear Cosserat micropolar elasticity
The Cosserat model generalises an elastic material taking into account the possible microstructure of the elements of the material continuum. In particular, within the Cosserat model the structured material point is rigid and can only experience microrotations, which is also known as micropolar elasticity. We present the geometrically nonlinear theory taking into account all possible interaction terms between the elastic and microelastic structures. This is achieved by considering the irreducible pieces of the deformation gradient and of the dislocation curvature tensor. In addition we also consider the so-called Cosserat coupling term. In this setting we seek soliton type solutions assuming small elastic displacements, however, we allow the material points to experience full rotations which are not assumed to be small. By choosing a particular ansatz we are able to reduce the system of equations to a sine–Gordon type equation which is known to have soliton solutions
Space-time evolution induced by spinor fields with canonical and non-canonical kinetic terms
We study spinor field theories as an origin to induce space-time evolution.
Self-interacting spinor fields with canonical and non-canonical kinetic terms
are considered in a Friedman-Robertson-Walker universe. The deceleration
parameter is calculated by solving the equation of motion and the Friedman
equation, simultaneously. It is shown that the spinor fields can accelerate and
decelerate the universe expansion. To construct realistic models we discuss the
contributions from the dynamical symmetry breaking.Comment: 16 pages, 19 figure
Dark spinor models in gravitation and cosmology
We introduce and carefully define an entire class of field theories based on
non-standard spinors. Their dominant interaction is via the gravitational field
which makes them naturally dark; we refer to them as Dark Spinors. We provide a
critical analysis of previous proposals for dark spinors noting that they
violate Lorentz invariance. As a working assumption we restrict our analysis to
non-standard spinors which preserve Lorentz invariance, whilst being non-local
and explicitly construct such a theory. We construct the complete
energy-momentum tensor and derive its components explicitly by assuming a
specific projection operator. It is natural to next consider dark spinors in a
cosmological setting. We find various interesting solutions where the spinor
field leads to slow roll and fast roll de Sitter solutions. We also analyse
models where the spinor is coupled conformally to gravity, and consider the
perturbations and stability of the spinor.Comment: 43 pages. Several new sections and details added. JHEP in prin
Sharing Fear via Facebook: A Lesson in Political Public Relations
Our study compared the use of fear messages on Facebook by Barack Obama and Mitt
Romney during the 2012 U.S. presidential elections. Results show that written fear messages
embedded in photographs posted on Facebook by both candidates affected the degree to
which those photographs were shared. More specifically, photographs containing written
fear messages were shared more often than photographs not containing written fear messages.
Furthermore, while the challenging candidate, Mitt Romney, used more photographs
containing fear messages, the increase in shares was consistent across candidates.
Implications regarding information distribution within communities, public relations
practitioners specializing in political campaigning and society as a whole are discusse
Phenomenological covariant approach to gravity
We covariantly modify the Einstein-Hilbert action such that the modified
action perturbatively resolves the flat rotational velocity curve of the spiral
galaxies and gives rise to the Tully-Fisher relation, and dynamically generates
the cosmological constant. This modification requires introducing just a single
new universal parameter.Comment: v6: a mistake in deriving the equation of the cosmological constant
corrected, refs adde
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Negative selection, not receptor editing, is a physiological response of autoreactive thymocytes
Antigen receptor editing—a process of secondary rearrangements of antigen receptor genes in autoreactive lymphocytes—is a well-established tolerance mechanism in B cells, whereas its role in T cells remains controversial. Here, we investigated this issue using a novel Tcra knock-in locus, which ensured appropriate timing of TCRα expression and allowed secondary rearrangements. Under these conditions the only response to self-antigen that could be unambiguously identified was negative selection of CD4/CD8 double positive thymocytes. No evidence could be obtained for antigen-induced TCR editing, whereas replacement of the transgenic TCRα chain by ongoing gene rearrangement occurred in some cells irrespective of the presence or absence of self-antigen
Clonal anergy blocks in vivo growth of mature T cells and can be reversed in the absence of antigen.
Inflating wormholes in the braneworld models
The braneworld model, in which our Universe is a three-brane embedded in a
five-dimensional bulk, allows the existence of wormholes, without any violation
of the energy conditions. A fundamental ingredient of traversable wormholes is
the violation of the null energy condition (NEC). However, in the brane world
models, the stress energy tensor confined on the brane, threading the wormhole,
satisfies the NEC. In conventional general relativity, wormholes existing
before inflation can be significantly enlarged by the expanding spacetime. We
investigate the evolution of an inflating wormhole in the brane world scenario,
in which the wormhole is supported by the nonlocal brane world effects. As a
first step in our study we consider the possibility of embedding a
four-dimensional brane world wormhole into a five dimensional bulk. The
conditions for the embedding are obtained by studying the junction conditions
for the wormhole geometry, as well as the full set of the five dimensional bulk
field equations. For the description of the inflation we adopt the chaotic
inflation model. We study the dynamics of the brane world wormholes during the
exponential inflation stage, and in the stage of the oscillating scalar field.
A particular exact solution corresponding to a zero redshift wormhole is also
obtained. The resulting evolution shows that while the physical and geometrical
parameters of a zero redshift wormhole decay naturally, a wormhole satisfying
some very general initial conditions could turn into a black hole, and exist
forever.Comment: 30 pages, no figures, accepted for publication in CQ
Sheared-flow induced confinement transition in a linear magnetized plasma
A magnetized plasma cylinder (12 cm in diameter) is induced by an annular shape obstacle at the Large Plasma Device [W. Gekelman, H. Pfister, Z. Lucky, J. Bamber, D. Leneman, and J. Maggs, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 62, 2875 (1991)]. Sheared azimuthal flow is driven at the edge of the plasma cylinder through edge biasing. Strong fluctuations of density and potential (δn/n~eδφ/kTe~0.5) are observed at the plasma edge, accompanied by a large density gradient (Ln=∣∣∇lnn∣∣−1~2cm) and shearing rate (γ~300kHz). Edge turbulence and cross-field transport are modified by changing the bias voltage (Vbias) on the obstacle and the axial magnetic field (Bz) strength. In cases with low Vbias and large Bz, improved plasma confinement is observed, along with steeper edge density gradients. The radially sheared flow induced by E×B drift dramatically changes the cross-phase between density and potential fluctuations, which causes the wave-induced particle flux to reverse its direction across the shear layer. In cases with higher bias voltage or smaller Bz, large radial transport and rapid depletion of the central plasma density are observed. Two-dimensional cross-correlation measurement shows that a mode with azimuthal mode number m=1 and large radial correlation length dominates the outward transport in these cases. Linear analysis based on a two-fluid Braginskii model suggests that the fluctuations are driven by both density gradient (drift wave like) and flow shear (Kelvin-Helmholtz like) at the plasma edge
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