Collapse of Charged Scalar Field in Dilaton Gravity

We elaborated the gravitational collapse of a self-gravitating complex charged scalar field in the context of the low-energy limit of the string theory, the so-called dilaton gravity. We begin with the regular spacetime and follow the evolution through the formation of an apparent horizon and the final central singularity.Comment: 36 pages, 51 figures, to be published in Phys.Rev.D1

Wstęp

Wstęp do Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica nr 60Zadanie pt. „Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki” nr 885/P-DUN/2014 zostało dofinansowane ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności upowszechniającej nauk

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zawiera z bibliografie i streszczenieZadanie pt. „Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki” nr 885/P-DUN/2014 dofinansowane zostało ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności upowszechniającej nauk

The traces of otherness : the mediterranean culture in Walter Pater and Zbigniew Herbert

Why this essay? Both dedicated and indebted to Greek (and Roman) culture, both sensitive to aesthetic values of literature, Walter Pater (1839—1894), an English aesthete, writer and critic of arts of the fin‑de‑siècle and Zbigniew Herbert (1924—1998), one of the greatest Polish poets of the 20th century are somehow similar in their reflections on literature, art, and historical times. Pater owes his fame to an inspiring opus The Renaissance Studies while Herbert’s Mr Cogito is not only the poet’s alter ego but also the spokesman of the poet’s most discrete thoughts and reflections concerning life, mortality, and immortality (“otherness”). Most interestingly, Herbert expressed his political thoughts in the times when freedom in his homeland was much threatened and man’s “open, vulnerable and porous” self (Charles Taylor) had to be “buffered.” Therefore, the reference to ancient culture of Greeks and Romans could serve as the best way of camouflaging one’s true thoughts and expressing what had to remain understated. Pater and Herbert were great thinkers, good philosophers of literature, and eminent writers whose styles of writing in English (of the former) and in Polish (of the latter) can expose best philological qualities in the sense “philology” was once defined by Nietzsche as “the goldsmith’s art and connoisseurship of words.” This is the reason I selected this essay as one in which I wished to show my ultimate dedication and gratitude to both men of letters, my high respect for most eminent philologists of their times who became great “jewelers of words” never afraid of writing freely about what haunted their minds and puzzled their thoughts

Unfulfilled Fate of Chekhov’s Tales’ Characters: “Ionych”, “Literature Teacher”, “Gooseberry”, “About Love”

Предметом исследования является анализ избранных рассказов Антона Чехова, в которых наблюдается сюжетное сходство. Мотив несостоявшейся судьбы кажется сквозным в чеховской прозе 1890-х годов. Протагонисты анализируемых текстов оправдывают точку зрения автора, что равнодушие, будничность, узость кругозора оказывают не менее вредное воздействие на судьбу, чем обычные преступления и подлые поступки. В повествованиях наблюдается эволюция взглядов Чехова на человеческое счастье и подчеркивается воздействие окружающей среды на формирование сознания персонажей относительно невозможности достижения полного удовлетворения без сопротивления узости взглядов и бескрылости идеалов, характерных для мещанства, к которму относятся герои рассматриваемых произведений.The subject of the study is an analysis of Anthon Chekhov’s selected tales which contain a convergence of fiction. The topic of unfulfilled fate seems to be a leading theme in Chekhov’s prose of the 1890s. The characters of the analyzed texts share the author’s opinion that indifference, everyday life, narrowmindness influence the fate not less than regular crimes or wicked deeds. In those narrations anyone should notice the development of Chekhov’s attitude to happiness which underlines the influence of the surrounding/environment on shaping human awareness. He claims that it is impossible to gain satisfaction without opposing to shallow opinions and the devoidness of ideas which are characteristic attributes of a petty bourgeoisie, the best example of whom are the characters’ stories