Holonomy Transformation in the FRW Metric

In this work we investigate loop variables in Friedman-Robertson-Walker spacetime. We analyze the parallel transport of vectors and spinors in several paths in this spacetime in order to classify its global properties. The band holonomy invariance is analysed in this background.Comment: 8 page

A comment on multiple vacua, particle production and the time dependent AdS/CFT correspondence

We give an explicit formulation of the time dependent AdS/CFT correspondence when there are multiple vacua present in Lorentzian signature. By computing sample two point functions we show how different amplitudes are related by cosmological particle production. We illustrate our methods in two example spacetimes: (a) a ``bubble of nothing'' in AdS space, and (b) an asymptotically locally AdS spacetime with a bubble of nothing on the boundary. In both cases the alpha vacua of de Sitter space make an interesting appearance.Comment: 9 page

On exact solutions for quantum particles with spin S= 0, 1/2, 1 and de Sitter event horizon

Exact wave solutions for particles with spin 0, 1/2 and 1 in the static coordinates of the de Sitter space-time model are examined in detail. Firstly, for a scalar particle, two pairs of linearly independent solutions are specified explicitly: running and standing waves. A known algorithm for calculation of the reflection coefficient $R_{\epsilon j}$ on the background of the de Sitter space-time model is analyzed. It is shown that the determination of R_{\epsilon j} requires an additional constrain on quantum numbers \epsilon \rho / \hbar c >> j, where \rho is a curvature radius. When taken into account of this condition, the R_{\epsilon j} vanishes identically. It is claimed that the calculation of the reflection coefficient R_{\epsilon j} is not required at all because there is no barrier in an effective potential curve on the background of the de Sitter space-time. The same conclusion holds for arbitrary particles with higher spins, it is demonstrated explicitly with the help of exact solutions for electromagnetic and Dirac fields.Comment: 30 pages. This paper is an updated and more comprehensive version of the old paper V.M. Red'kov. On Particle penetrating through de Sitter horizon. Minsk (1991) 22 pages Deposited in VINITI 30.09.91, 3842 - B9

Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae)

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Histogram equalization in SVM multimodal person verification

Comunicació presentada a la International Conference on Biometrics (ICB) celebrada a Seoul (Korea) els dies 27 a 29 d'agost de 2007.It has been shown that prosody helps to improve voice spectrum based speaker recognition systems. Therefore, prosodic features can also be used in multimodal person verification in order to achieve better results. In this paper, a multimodal recognition system based on facial and vocal tract spectral features is improved by adding prosodic information. Matcher weighting method and support vector machines have been used as fusion techniques, and histogram equalization has been applied before SVM fusion as a normalization technique. The results show that the performance of a SVM multimodal verification system can be improved by using histogram equalization, especially when the equalization is applied to those scores giving the highest EER values