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Primordial nucleosynthesis in higher dimensional cosmology
We investigate nucleosynthesis and element formation in the early universe in
the framework of higher dimensional cosmology. For this purpose we utilize a
previous solution of the present author, which may be termed as the generalized
Friedmann-Robertson-Walker model. We find that temperature decays less rapidly
in higher dimensional cosmology, which we believe may have nontrivial
consequences \emph{vis-a-vis} primordial physics
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Utility and productivity enhancing public capital in a growing economy
We examine the impact of fiscal policy on macroeconomic performance and
welfare when public capital provides both productive and utility services to the
private sector. When these services are subject to congestion, a consumption
tax is distortionary, generating a dynamic adjustment that contrasts with that
of an income tax. In correcting for congestion, an income tax-consumption sub-sidy combination is the preferred policy when factor-substitutability in production is limited. On the other hand, an increase in the elasticity of substitution
in production raises the e¢ cacy of a consumption tax as an alternative to the income tax. Not recognizing the relative importance of public capital in utility services might lead the fiscal authority to incorrectly estimate the impact of
public policies on welfare. The design of optimal scal policy demonstrates the possibilities for using both income and consumption-based fiscal instruments as opposed to relying on only the income tax rate
Nature of the glassy magnetic state in CuMnAl shape memory alloy
The magnetic ground state of the ferromagnetic shape memory alloy of nominal
composition CuMnAl was investigated. The sample
shows reentry of a glassy magnetic phase below the martensitic transition
temperature, which is found to have complex character with two distinct
anomalies in the temperature dependent ac susceptibility data. The sample
retains its glassy phase even below the second transition as evident from the
magnetic memory measurements in different protocols. Existence of two
transitions along with their observed nature suggest that the system can be
described by the mean field Heisenberg model of reentrant spin glass as
proposed by Gabay and Toulous. \cite{rsg-GT1} The sample provides a fascinating
example where a Gabay-Toulous type spin glass state is triggered by a first
order magneto-structural transition
The large deviation principle for the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph
What does an Erdos-Renyi graph look like when a rare event happens? This
paper answers this question when p is fixed and n tends to infinity by
establishing a large deviation principle under an appropriate topology. The
formulation and proof of the main result uses the recent development of the
theory of graph limits by Lovasz and coauthors and Szemeredi's regularity lemma
from graph theory. As a basic application of the general principle, we work out
large deviations for the number of triangles in G(n,p). Surprisingly, even this
simple example yields an interesting double phase transition.Comment: 24 pages. To appear in European J. Comb. (special issue on graph
limits
Spherical collapse of a heat conducting fluid in higher dimensions without horizon
We consider a scenario where the interior spacetime,described by a heat
conducting fluid sphere is matched to a Vaidya metric in higher
dimensions.Interestingly we get a class of solutions, where following heat
radiation the boundary surface collapses without the appearance of an event
horizon at any stage and this happens with reasonable properties of matter
field.The non-occurrence of a horizon is due to the fact that the rate of mass
loss exactly counterbalanced by the fall of boundary radius.Evidently this
poses a counter example to the so-called cosmic censorship hypothesis.Two
explicit examples of this class of solutions are also given and it is observed
that the rate of collapse is delayed with the introduction of extra
dimensions.The work extends to higher dimensions our previous investigation in
4D.Comment: 6 page
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