Quantized fields and gravitational particle creation in f(R) expanding universes

The problem of cosmological particle creation for a spatially flat, homogeneous and isotropic Universes is discussed in the context of f(R) theories of gravity. Different from cosmological models based on general relativity theory, it is found that a conformal invariant metric does not forbid the creation of massless particles during the early stages (radiation era) of the Universe.Comment: 14 pages, 2 figure

Generic dynamics of 4-dimensional C2 Hamiltonian systems

We study the dynamical behaviour of Hamiltonian flows defined on 4-dimensional compact symplectic manifolds. We find the existence of a C2-residual set of Hamiltonians for which every regular energy surface is either Anosov or it is in the closure of energy surfaces with zero Lyapunov exponents a.e. This is in the spirit of the Bochi-Mane dichotomy for area-preserving diffeomorphisms on compact surfaces and its continuous-time version for 3-dimensional volume-preserving flows

Weighted Orlicz regularity for fully nonlinear elliptic equations with oblique derivative at the boundary via asymptotic operators

We prove weighted Orlicz-Sobolev regularity for fully nonlinear elliptic equations with oblique boundary condition under asymptotic conditions of the following problem: $F(D^{2}u,Du,u,x)=f(x)$ in the bounded domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^{n}$($n\ge 2$) and $\beta\cdot Du+\gamma u= g$ on $\partial \Omega$, under suitable assumptions on the source term $f$, data $\beta, \gamma$ and $g$. Our approach guarantees such estimates under conditions where the governing operator $F$ does not require a convex (or concave) structure. We also deal with weighted Orlicz-type estimates for the obstacle problem with oblique derivative condition on the boundary. As a final application, the developed methods provide weighted Orlicz-BMO regularity for the Hessian, provided that the source lies in that space and in weighted Orlicz space associated.Comment: 27 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2302.0917

The mean curvature of cylindrically bounded submanifolds

We give an estimate of the mean curvature of a complete submanifold lying inside a closed cylinder $B(r)\times\R^{\ell}$ in a product Riemannian manifold $N^{n-\ell}\times\R^{\ell}$. It follows that a complete hypersurface of given constant mean curvature lying inside a closed circular cylinder in Euclidean space cannot be proper if the circular base is of sufficiently small radius. In particular, any possible counterexample to a conjecture of Calabion complete minimal hypersurfaces cannot be proper. As another application of our method, we derive a result about the stochastic incompleteness of submanifolds with sufficiently small mean curvature.Comment: First version (December 2008). Final version, including new title (February 2009). To appear in Mathematische Annale

Eigenvalue estimates for submanifolds of warped product spaces

We give lower bounds for the fundamental tone of open sets in minimal submanifolds immersed into warped product spaces of type $N^n \times_f Q^q$, where $f \in C^\infty(N)$. We also study the essential spectrum of these minimal submanifolds.Comment: 17 page