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The Running Gravitational Couplings
We compute the running of the cosmological constant and Newton's constant
taking into account the effect of quantum fields with any spin between 0 and 2.
We find that Newton's constant does not vary appreciably but the cosmological
constant can change by many orders of magnitude when one goes from cosmological
scales to typical elementary particle scales. In the extreme infrared, zero
modes drive the cosmological constant to zero.Comment: 19 pages, TeX file, revised and expanded, some misprints correcte
Assessing drivers' preferences for hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) in Spain
With the aim of analyzing preferences for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), two stated preference methods (a
contingent valuation exercise and a discrete choice experiment (DCE)) were used in a survey conducted in a
representative sample of Spanish drivers. Overall, our findings show robustness between the willingness to pay
(WTP) estimates elicited via a latent class model (LCM) and those from a payment card questionPostprint (published version
Black Hole Entropy as Causal Links
We model a black hole spacetime as a causal set and count, with a certain
definition, the number of causal links crossing the horizon in proximity to a
spacelike or null hypersurface . We find that this number is
proportional to the horizon's area on , thus supporting the
interpretation of the links as the ``horizon atoms'' that account for its
entropy. The cases studied include not only equilibrium black holes but ones
far from equilibrium.Comment: Latex, 20 pages, 4 postscript figures, to appear in a special issue
of {\it Foundations of Physics} in honor of Jacob Bekenstein, ``Thirty years
of black hole physics'', edited by L. Horwit
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