Violation of Universal Lower Bound for the Shear Viscosity to Entropy Density Ratio in Dark Energy Dominated Accretion

The universal lower bound of the ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density is suggested by the string theory and gauge duality for any matter. We examined the ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density for viscous accretion flow towards a central gravitating object in the presence of dark energy. The ratio appears close to the universal lower bound for certain optically thin, hot accretion flows as they are embedded by strong magnetic field. Dark energy is a kind of exotic matter which has negative pressure. So dark energy creates repulsive force between the accreting particles, which indicates that shear viscosity of the flow becomes very low. Dark energy as accreting fluid has very high entropy density. The ratio should reach near to the lowest value for dark energy accretion. We wish to study what happens to the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio for viscous dark energy accretion flow.Comment: 9 pages, 12 figure

Fate of an Accretion Disc around a Black Hole when both the Viscosity and Dark Energy is Effecting

This paper deals with the viscous accretion flow of modified Chaplygin gas towards a black hole as the central gravitating object. Modified Chaplygin gas is a particular type of dark energy model which mimics of radiation era to phantom era depending on the different values of its parameters. We compare the drak energy accretion with the flow of adiabatic gas. An accretion disc flow around a black hole is an example of a transonic flow. To make the model, we consider three components of Navier Stokes' equation, the equation of continuity and the modified Chaplygin gas's equation of state. As a transonic flow passes through the sonic point, the velocity gradient being apparently singular there, gives rise to two flow branches : one infalling, the accretion and the other outgoing, the wind. We show that the wind curve is stronger and wind speed reaches to that of light at a finite distance from the black hole when dark energy is considered. Besides, if we increase the viscosity, accretion disc is being shortened. This two process acting together deviates much from adiabatic accretion case. It shows a weakening process for the accretion procedure by the works of viscous system influenced angular momentum transport and the repulsive force of the modified Chaplygin gas together.Comment: 12 pages, 18 figure

Bayes Model Selection with Path Sampling: Factor Models and Other Examples

We prove a theorem justifying the regularity conditions which are needed for Path Sampling in Factor Models. We then show that the remaining ingredient, namely, MCMC for calculating the integrand at each point in the path, may be seriously flawed, leading to wrong estimates of Bayes factors. We provide a new method of Path Sampling (with Small Change) that works much better than standard Path Sampling in the sense of estimating the Bayes factor better and choosing the correct model more often. When the more complex factor model is true, PS-SC is substantially more accurate. New MCMC diagnostics is provided for these problems in support of our conclusions and recommendations. Some of our ideas for diagnostics and improvement in computation through small changes should apply to other methods of computation of the Bayes factor for model selection.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-STS403 the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org