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Numerical investigation of black hole interiors
Gravitational perturbations which are present in any realistic stellar
collapse to a black hole, die off in the exterior of the hole, but experience
an infinite blueshift in the interior. This is believed to lead to a slowly
contracting lightlike scalar curvature singularity, characterized by a
divergence of the hole's (quasi-local) mass function along the inner horizon.
The region near the inner horizon is described to great accuracy by a plane
wave spacetime. While Einstein's equations for this metric are still too
complicated to be solved in closed form it is relatively simple to integrate
them numerically.
We find for generic regular initial data the predicted mass inflation type
null singularity, rather than a spacelike singularity. It thus seems that mass
inflation indeed represents a generic self-consistent picture of the black hole
interior.Comment: 6 pages LaTeX, 3 eps figure
Cauchy horizon singularity without mass inflation
A perturbed Reissner-Nordstr\"om-de Sitter solution is used to emphasize the
nature of the singularity along the Cauchy horizon of a charged spherically
symmetric black hole. For these solutions, conditions may prevail under which
the mass function is bounded and yet the curvature scalar
diverges.Comment: typeset in RevTex, 13 page
The late-time singularity inside non-spherical black holes
It was long believed that the singularity inside a realistic, rotating black
hole must be spacelike. However, studies of the internal geometry of black
holes indicate a more complicated structure is typical. While it seems likely
that an observer falling into a black hole with the collapsing star encounters
a crushing spacelike singularity, an observer falling in at late times
generally reaches a null singularity which is vastly different in character to
the standard Belinsky, Khalatnikov and Lifschitz (BKL) spacelike singularity.
In the spirit of the classic work of BKL we present an asymptotic analysis of
the null singularity inside a realistic black hole. Motivated by current
understanding of spherical models, we argue that the Einstein equations reduce
to a simple form in the neighborhood of the null singularity. The main results
arising from this approach are demonstrated using an almost plane symmetric
model. The analysis shows that the null singularity results from the blueshift
of the late-time gravitational wave tail; the amplitude of these gravitational
waves is taken to decay as an inverse power of advanced time as suggested by
perturbation theory. The divergence of the Weyl curvature at the null
singularity is dominated by the propagating modes of the gravitational field.
The null singularity is weak in the sense that tidal distortion remains bounded
along timelike geodesics crossing the Cauchy horizon. These results are in
agreement with previous analyses of black hole interiors. We briefly discuss
some outstanding problems which must be resolved before the picture of the
generic black hole interior is complete.Comment: 16 pages, RevTeX, 3 figures included using psfi
Quasi-normal modes of Schwarzschild-de Sitter black holes
The low-laying frequencies of characteristic quasi-normal modes (QNM) of
Schwarzschild-de Sitter (SdS) black holes have been calculated for fields of
different spin using the 6th-order WKB approximation and the approximation by
the P\"{o}shl-Teller potential. The well-known asymptotic formula for large
is generalized here on a case of the Schwarzchild-de Sitter black hole. In the
limit of the near extreme term the results given by both methods are
in a very good agreement, and in this limit fields of different spin decay with
the same rate.Comment: 9 pages, 1 ancillary Mathematica(R) noteboo
Neutrino induced transitions between the ground states of the A=12 triad
Neutrino induced reactions on C, an ingredient of liquid
scintillators, have been studied in several experiments. We show that for
currently available neutrino energies, 300 MeV, calculated
exclusive cross sections CN for both muon
and electron neutrinos are essentially model independent, provided the
calculations simultaneously describe the rates of several other reactions
involving the same states or their isobar analogs. The calculations agree well
with the measured cross sections, which can be therefore used to check the
normalization of the incident neutrino spectrum and the efficiency of the
detector.Comment: 9 pages REVTEX, 2 postscript figures, text and figures available at
http://www.krl.caltech.edu/preprints/MAP.htm
Gravitational collapse in 2+1 dimensional AdS spacetime
We present results of numerical simulations of the formation of black holes
from the gravitational collapse of a massless, minimally-coupled scalar field
in 2+1 dimensional, axially-symmetric, anti de-Sitter (AdS) spacetime. The
geometry exterior to the event horizon approaches the BTZ solution, showing no
evidence of scalar `hair'. To study the interior structure we implement a
variant of black-hole excision, which we call singularity excision. We find
that interior to the event horizon a strong, spacelike curvature singularity
develops. We study the critical behavior at the threshold of black hole
formation, and find a continuously self-similar solution and corresponding
mass-scaling exponent of approximately 1.2. The critical solution is universal
to within a phase that is related to the angle deficit of the spacetime.Comment: 31 pages, 20 figures, LaTeX. Replaced with version to be published in
Phys. Rev.
Square root singularity in the viscosity of neutral colloidal suspensions at large frequencies
The asymptotic frequency , dependence of the dynamic viscosity of
neutral hard sphere colloidal suspensions is shown to be of the form , where has been determined as a
function of the volume fraction , for all concentrations in the fluid
range, is the solvent viscosity and the P\'{e}clet time. For
a soft potential it is shown that, to leading order steepness, the asymptotic
behavior is the same as that for the hard sphere potential and a condition for
the cross-over behavior to is given. Our result for the hard
sphere potential generalizes a result of Cichocki and Felderhof obtained at low
concentrations and agrees well with the experiments of van der Werff et al, if
the usual Stokes-Einstein diffusion coefficient in the Smoluchowski
operator is consistently replaced by the short-time self diffusion coefficient
for non-dilute colloidal suspensions.Comment: 18 pages LaTeX, 1 postscript figur
Non-linear instability of Kerr-type Cauchy horizons
Using the general solution to the Einstein equations on intersecting null
surfaces developed by Hayward, we investigate the non-linear instability of the
Cauchy horizon inside a realistic black hole. Making a minimal assumption about
the free gravitational data allows us to solve the field equations along a null
surface crossing the Cauchy Horizon. As in the spherical case, the results
indicate that a diverging influx of gravitational energy, in concert with an
outflux across the CH, is responsible for the singularity. The spacetime is
asymptotically Petrov type N, the same algebraic type as a gravitational shock
wave. Implications for the continuation of spacetime through the singularity
are briefly discussed.Comment: 11 pages RevTeX, two postscript figures included using epsf.st
Self-organized Emergence of Navigability on Small-World Networks
This paper mainly investigates why small-world networks are navigable and how
to navigate small-world networks. We find that the navigability can naturally
emerge from self-organization in the absence of prior knowledge about
underlying reference frames of networks. Through a process of information
exchange and accumulation on networks, a hidden metric space for navigation on
networks is constructed. Navigation based on distances between vertices in the
hidden metric space can efficiently deliver messages on small-world networks,
in which long range connections play an important role. Numerical simulations
further suggest that high cluster coefficient and low diameter are both
necessary for navigability. These interesting results provide profound insights
into scalable routing on the Internet due to its distributed and localized
requirements.Comment: 3 figure
Algorithmic Complexity for Short Binary Strings Applied to Psychology: A Primer
Since human randomness production has been studied and widely used to assess
executive functions (especially inhibition), many measures have been suggested
to assess the degree to which a sequence is random-like. However, each of them
focuses on one feature of randomness, leading authors to have to use multiple
measures. Here we describe and advocate for the use of the accepted universal
measure for randomness based on algorithmic complexity, by means of a novel
previously presented technique using the the definition of algorithmic
probability. A re-analysis of the classical Radio Zenith data in the light of
the proposed measure and methodology is provided as a study case of an
application.Comment: To appear in Behavior Research Method
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