321 research outputs found
The Generalized Uncertainty Principle in (A)dS Space and the Modification of Hawking Temperature from the Minimal Length
Recently, the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle has been extended to
incorporate the existence of a large (cut-off) length scale in de Sitter or
anti-de Sitter space, and the Hawking temperatures of the Schwarzshild-(anti)
de Sitter black holes have been reproduced by using the extended uncertainty
principle. I generalize the extended uncertainty to the case with an absolute
minimum length and compute its modification to the Hawking temperature. I
obtain a general trend that the generalized uncertainty principle due to the
absolute minimum length ``always'' increases the Hawking temperature, implying
``faster'' decay, which is in conformity with the result in the asymptotically
flat space. I also revisit the ``black hole-string'' phase transition, in the
context of the generalized uncertainty principle.Comment: Accepted in Physics Letters
On the Resolution of the Time-Like Singularities in Reissner-Nordstrom and Negative-Mass Schwarzschild
Certain time-like singularities are shown to be resolved already in classical
General Relativity once one passes from particle probes to scalar waves. The
time evolution can be defined uniquely and some general conditions for that are
formulated. The Reissner-Nordstrom singularity allows for communication through
the singularity and can be termed "beam splitter" since the transmission
probability of a suitably prepared high energy wave packet is 25%. The high
frequency dependence of the cross section is w^{-4/3}. However, smooth
geometries arbitrarily close to the singular one require a finite amount of
negative energy matter. The negative-mass Schwarzschild has a qualitatively
different resolution interpreted to be fully reflecting. These 4d results are
similar to the 2d black hole and are generalized to an arbitrary dimension d>4.Comment: 47 pages, 5 figures. v2: See end of introduction for an important
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No Dynamics in the Extremal Kerr Throat
Motivated by the Kerr/CFT conjecture, we explore solutions of vacuum general
relativity whose asymptotic behavior agrees with that of the extremal Kerr
throat, sometimes called the Near-Horizon Extreme Kerr (NHEK) geometry. We
argue that all such solutions are diffeomorphic to the NHEK geometry itself.
The logic proceeds in two steps. We first argue that certain charges must
vanish at all times for any solution with NHEK asymptotics. We then analyze
these charges in detail for linearized solutions. Though one can choose the
relevant charges to vanish at any initial time, these charges are not
conserved. As a result, requiring the charges to vanish at all times is a much
stronger condition. We argue that all solutions satisfying this condition are
diffeomorphic to the NHEK metric.Comment: 42 pages, 3 figures. v3: minor clarifications and correction
The Ship of Theseus Puzzle
Does the Ship of Theseus present a genuine puzzle about persistence due to conflicting intuitions based on âcontinuity of formâ and âcontinuity of matterâ pulling in opposite directions? Philosophers are divided. Some claim that it presents a genuine puzzle but disagree over whether there is a solution. Others claim that there is no puzzle at all since the case has an obvious solution. To assess these proposals, we conducted a cross-cultural study involving nearly 3,000 people across twenty-two countries, speaking eighteen different languages. Our results speak against the proposal that there is no puzzle at all and against the proposal that there is a puzzle but one that has no solution. Our results suggest that there are two criteriaââcontinuity of formâ and âcontinuity of matterââ that constitute our concept of persistence and these two criteria receive different weightings in settling matters concerning persistence
D-Instantons and asymptotic geometries
The large N limit of D3-branes is expected to correspond to a superconformal
field theory living on the boundary of the anti-de Sitter space appearing in
the near-horizon geometry. Dualizing the D3-brane to a D-instanton, we show
that this limit is equivalent to a type IIB S-duality. In both cases one
effectively reaches the near-horizon geometry. This provides an alternative
approach to an earlier derivation of the same result that makes use of the
properties of a gravitational wave instead of the D-instanton.Comment: 17 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure, minor corrections and refs adde
A Case of Cerebral Gumma Presenting as Brain Tumor in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-Negative Patient
Syphilis, along with the recent increase of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients, has also been on the rise. It has a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations, among which cerebral gumma is, a kind of neurosyphilis, however, it is rare and can be cured by penicillin. Thus, cerebral gumma needs to be differentially diagnosed from other brain masses that may be present in syphilis patients. We have experienced a case where the patient was first suspected of brain tumor, but confirmed by surgery to be cerebral gumma due to neurosyphilis. This is the first such case encountered in Korea, therefore, we report it here in. A 40-year old woman complaining of headaches was found to have a brain mass on her CT scans and MRI. Suspecting a brain Tumor, a resection was performed on the patient, and histological results revealed that the central portion of the mass contained necrotic material and the peripheral region was infiltrated with plasma cells. Warthin-Starry staining of the region revealed spirochetes, and the patient was thus diagnosed as brain gumma. Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was reactive. After an operation, penicillin-G at a daily dose of 24Ă106 U was given for 10 days from post-operative day 10, and thereafter, the mass disappeared
Sigma-model for Generalized Composite p-branes
A multidimensional gravitational model containing several dilatonic scalar
fields and antisymmetric forms is considered. The manifold is chosen in the
form M = M_0 x M_1 x ... x M_n, where M_i are Einstein spaces (i > 0). The
block-diagonal metric is chosen and all fields and scale factors of the metric
are functions on M_0. For the forms composite (electro-magnetic) p-brane ansatz
is adopted. The model is reduced to gravitating self-interacting sigma-model
with certain constraints. In pure electric and magnetic cases the number of
these constraints is m(m - 1)/2 where m is number of 1-dimensional manifolds
among M_i. In the "electro-magnetic" case for dim M_0 = 1, 3 additional m
constraints appear. A family of "Majumdar-Papapetrou type" solutions governed
by a set of harmonic functions is obtained, when all factor-spaces M_k are
Ricci-flat. These solutions are generalized to the case of non-Ricci-flat M_0
when also some additional "internal" Einstein spaces of non-zero curvature are
added to M. As an example exact solutions for D = 11 supergravity and related
12-dimensional theory are presented.Comment: 33 pages, Latex. Some corrections and rearrangements are mad
Symmetries of Higher Dimensional Black Holes
We prove that if a stationary, real analytic, asymptotically flat vacuum
black hole spacetime of dimension contains a non-degenerate horizon
with compact cross sections that are transverse to the stationarity generating
Killing vector field then, for each connected component of the black hole's
horizon, there is a Killing field which is tangent to the generators of the
horizon. For the case of rotating black holes, the stationarity generating
Killing field is not tangent to the horizon generators and therefore the
isometry group of the spacetime is at least two dimensional. Our proof relies
on significant extensions of our earlier work on the symmetries of spacetimes
containing a compact Cauchy horizon, allowing now for non closed generators of
the horizon.Comment: 57 page
The Prevalence of Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Patients with Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus
De Pulchritudine non est Disputandum? A cross-cultural investigation of the alleged intersubjective validity of aesthetic judgment
Since at least Hume and Kant, philosophers working on the nature of aesthetic judgment have generally agreed that common sense does not treat aesthetic judgments in the same way as typical expressions of subjective preferencesârather, it endows them with intersubjective validity, the property of being right or wrong regardless of disagreement. Moreover, this apparent intersubjective validity has been taken to constitute one of the main explananda for philosophical accounts of aesthetic judgment. But is it really the case that most people spontaneously treat aesthetic judgments as having intersubjective validity? In this paper, we report the results of a cross-cultural study with over 2,000 respondents spanning 19 countries. Despite significant geographical variations, these results suggest that most people do not treat their own aesthetic judgments as having intersubjective validity. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings for theories of aesthetic judgment and the purpose of aesthetics in general.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio
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