162 research outputs found
On the Impact of Helium Content on the RR Lyrae Distance Scale
Indexación: Scopus.We constructed new sets of He-enhanced (Y = 0.30, Y = 0.40) nonlinear, time-dependent convective hydrodynamical models of RR Lyrae (RRL) stars covering a broad range in metal abundances (Z = 0.0001-0.02). The increase in He content from the canonical value (Y = 0.245) to Y = 0.30-0.40 causes a simultaneous increase in stellar luminosity and in pulsation period. To investigate the dependence of the RRL distance scale on the He abundance, we computed new optical (RI) and near-infrared (JHK) Period-luminosity-metallicity-helium relations. Interestingly enough, the increase in He content causes a minimal change in the coefficients of both period and metallicity terms, since canonical and He-enhanced models obey similar PLZ relations. On the contrary, the classical B-And V-band mean magnitude metallicity relations and the R-band PLZ relation display a significant dependence on the He content. The He-enhanced models are, at fixed metal content, 0.2-0.5 mag brighter than canonical ones. This variation is only marginally affected by evolutionary effects. The quoted distance diagnostics once calibrated with trigonometric parallaxes (Gaia) will provide the opportunity to estimate the He content of field and cluster RRLs. Moreover, the use of either spectroscopic or photometric metal abundances will pave the way to new empirical constraints on the universality of the helium-To-metal enrichment ratio in old (t10 Gyr) stellar tracers. © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aada1
Normal ordering and boundary conditions for fermionic string coordinates
We build up normal ordered products for fermionic open string coordinates
consistent with boundary conditions. The results are obtained considering the
presence of antisymmetric tensor fields. We find a discontinuity of the normal
ordered products at string endpoints even in the absence of the background. We
discuss how the energy momentum tensor also changes at the world-sheet boundary
in such a way that the central charge keeps the standard value at string end
points.Comment: In this revised version we clarify the issue of consistency between
supersymmetry and boundary conditions and stress the fact that we are
considering flat space. we also add two more reference
Dung beetle diversity and functions suggest no major impacts of cattle grazing in the Brazilian Pantanal wetlands
1. Dung beetles perform relevant ecological functions in pastures, such as dung removal and parasite control. Livestock farming is the main economic activity in the Brazilian Pantanal. However, the impact of cattle grazing on the Pantanal's native dung beetle community, and functions performed by them, is still unknown. 2. This study evaluated the effects of cattle activity on dung beetle community attributes (richness, abundance, biomass, composition, and functional group) as well as their ecological functions (dung removal and soil bioturbation) in the Pantanal. In January/February 2016, dung beetles were sampled and their ecological functions measured in 16 sites of native grasslands in Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, 10 areas regularly grazed by cattle and six control ungrazed areas (> 20 years of abandonment). 3. In all, 1169 individuals from 30 species of dung beetles were collected. Although abundance, species richness, and biomass did not differ between grasslands with and without cattle activity, species composition and functional groups differed among systems. Large roller beetles were absent from non-cattle grasslands, and the abundance, richness, and biomass of medium roller beetles was higher in those systems. 4. Despite causing changes in species/functional group composition, the results of this study show that a density compensation of functional groups in cattle-grazed natural grasslands seems to have conserved the ecological functions (dung removal and soil bioturbation), with no significant differences between systems. 5. Therefore, these results provide evidence that cattle breeding in natural grasslands of the Brazilian Pantanal can integrate livestock production with the conservation of the dung beetle community and its ecological functions. © 2019 The Royal Entomological Societ
Fermionic anticommutators for open superstrings in the presence of antisymmetric tensor field
We build up the anticommutator algebra for the fermionic coordinates of open
superstrings attached to branes with antisymmetric tensor fields. We use both
Dirac quantization and the symplectic Faddeev Jackiw approach. In the
symplectic case we find a way of generating the boundary conditions as zero
modes of the symplectic matrix by taking a discretized form of the action and
adding terms that vanish in the continuous limit. This way boundary conditions
can be handled as constraints.Comment: Revision: passage from discrete to continuous clarified, comment on
previous results using Dirac quantization included, typos corrected. Version
to appear in Phys. Lett.
Canonical Transformations and Gauge Fixing in the Triplectic Quantization
We show that the generators of canonical transformations in the triplectic
manifold must satisfy constraints that have no parallel in the usual field
antifield quantization. A general form for these transformations is presented.
Then we consider gauge fixing by means of canonical transformations in this
Sp(2) covariant scheme, finding a relation between generators and gauge fixing
functions. The existence of a wide class of solutions to this relation nicely
reflects the large freedom of the gauge fixing process in the triplectic
quantization. Some solutions for the generators are discussed. Our results are
then illustrated by the example of Yang Mills theory.Comment: A new section about the cohomological approach to the extended BRST
quantization has been included. Some new references were added too. Final
version to appear in Nucl. Phys.B. 12 pages, LATE
A superspace formulation of the BV action
We show that the BV (Batalin Vilkovisky) action, formulated with an extended
BRST symmetry (including the shift symmetry), is also invariant under an
extended anti-BRST transformation (where the antifields are the parameters of
the transformation), when the gauge fixing Lagrangian is both BRST and
anti-BRST invariant. We show that for a general gauge fixing Lagrangian, the BV
action can be written in a manifestly extended BRST invariant manner in a
superspace with one Grassmann coordinate whereas it can be expressed in a
manifestly extended BRST and anti-BRST invariant manner in a superspace with
two Grassmann coordinates when the gauge fixing Lagrangian is invariant under
both BRST and anti-BRST transformations.Comment: 20 page
Bulk versus boundary quantum states
An explicit holographic correspondence between bulk and boundary
quantum states is found in the form of a one to one mapping between scalar
field creation/annihilation operators. The mapping requires the introduction of
arbitrary energy scales and exhibits an ultraviolet-infrared duality: a small
regulating mass in the boundary theory corresponds to a large momentum cutoff
in the bulk. In the massless (conformal) limit of the boundary theory the
mapping covers the whole field spectrum of both theories. The mapping strongly
depends on the discretization of the field spectrum of compactified space
in Poincare coordinates.Comment: Minor changes in the text. Typos correction. References added.
Version to appear in Phys. Lett.
QCD/String holographic mapping and high energy scattering amplitudes
We find a one to one mapping between low energy string dilaton states in AdS
bulk and high energy glueball states on the corresponding boundary. This
holographic mapping leads to a relation between bulk and boundary scattering
amplitudes. From this relation and the dilaton action we find the appropriate
momentum scaling for high energy QCD amplitudes at fixed angles.Comment: Minor changes in text. Version accepted for publication in PL
Successional trajectory of dung beetle communities in a tropical grassy ecosystem after livestock grazing removal
Grazing by large herbivorous mammals is still a structuring force in tropical grassy ecosystems, and cattle grazing is one of the main economic activities carried out in these ecosystems in modern times. Therefore, understanding the impacts of cattle grazing removal on biodiversity may be a key step for conservation of this ecosystem. Here, we studied the successional trajectory of dung beetle communities in a tropical grassy ecosystem after cattle removal. For this, we assessed the patterns of dung beetle taxonomic and functional diversity of 14 natural grasslands with distinct cattle grazing removal ages (from 3 months to 22 years) along a chronosequence, applying the space-for-time substitution method. Our results show a strong decrease in dung beetle abundance (93 times) and species richness (6 times) in the first ten years of cattle removal. However, after ten years there is an increase in dung beetle abundance (73 times) and species richness (5 times). Taxonomic composition was also influenced by cattle removal time demonstrating the importance of cattle in the structuring of dung beetle communities in natural grasslands. In contrast, functional composition and diversity were not affected by cattle grazing removal, indicating these metrics are less sensitive to cattle absence than taxonomic diversity and composition. Our results provide evidence that cattle grazing removal, at least in the short term (10 years), may be an inefficient management tool for restoration and conservation of tropical grassy ecosystems. However, we highlight the need to investigate the reintroduction of cattle grazing after different removal times to provide complimentary information to livestock management able to integrate human use and conservation of tropical grassy ecosystems
Holographic model for dilepton production in p-p collisions
We propose a holographic model for dilepton production in proton-proton
collisions based on the exchange of vector mesons. The holographic hard wall
model is used to describe the dynamics and interactions of vector mesons and
baryons. We estimate the parameters lambda, mu, nu that characterize the
angular distribution of the produced dileptons in a region of q_T^2 << Q^2,
where perturbative QCD presents an effective strong coupling due to large
logarithm corrections.Comment: Revision: V4 In this version we modified the dimension of the
fermionic operator to match the canonical dimension of a baryonic operator.
This modification affected slightly our results with respect to v3. 25 pages,
3 Latex figures + 6 eps figures, 5 tables. To appear in Nucl. Phys.
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