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Gauss-Bonnet type identity in Weyl-Cartan space
The Gauss-Bonnet type identity is derived in a Weyl-Cartan space on the basis
of the variational method.Comment: 5 page
Plane torsion waves in quadratic gravitational theories
The definition of the Riemann-Cartan space of the plane wave type is given.
The condition under which the torsion plane waves exist is found. It is
expressed in the form of the restriction imposed on the coupling constants of
the 10-parametric quadratic gravitational Lagrangian. In the mathematical
appendix the formula for commutator of the variation operator and Hodge
operator is proved. This formula is applied for the variational procedure when
the gravitational field equations are obtained in terms of the exterior
differential forms.Comment: 3 May 1998. - 11
A note on spin chain/string duality
Recently a significant progress in matching the anomalous dimensions of
certain class of operators in N=4 SYM theory and rotating strings was made. The
correspondence was established mainly using Bethe ansatz technique applied to
the spin s Heisenberg model. In a recent paper Kruczenski (hep-th/0311203)
suggested to solve the Heisenberg model by using of sigme model approach. In
this paper we generalize the solutions obtained by Kruczenski and comment on
the dual string theory. It turns out that our solutions are related to the so
called Neumann-Rosochatius integrable system. We comment on the spin chain
solutions and on the string/gauge theory correspondence.Comment: v.2 One reference added, typos corrected, 21 page
Action and Hamiltonian for eternal black holes
We present the Hamiltonian, quasilocal energy, and angular momentum for a
spacetime region spatially bounded by two timelike surfaces. The results are
applied to the particular case of a spacetime representing an eternal black
hole. It is shown that in the case when the boundaries are located in two
different wedges of the Kruskal diagram, the Hamiltonian is of the form , where and are the Hamiltonian functions for the right
and left wedges respectively. The application of the obtained results to the
thermofield dynamics description of quantum effects in black holes is briefly
discussed.Comment: 24 pages, Revtex, 5 figures (available upon request
Symmetries of supergravity black holes
We investigate Killing tensors for various black hole solutions of
supergravity theories. Rotating black holes of an ungauged theory, toroidally
compactified heterotic supergravity, with NUT parameters and two U(1) gauge
fields are constructed. If both charges are set equal, then the solutions
simplify, and then there are concise expressions for rank-2 conformal
Killing-Stackel tensors. These are induced by rank-2 Killing-Stackel tensors of
a conformally related metric that possesses a separability structure. We
directly verify the separation of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation on this
conformally related metric, and of the null Hamilton-Jacobi and massless
Klein-Gordon equations on the "physical" metric. Similar results are found for
more general solutions; we mainly focus on those with certain charge
combinations equal in gauged supergravity, but also consider some other
solutions.Comment: 36 pages; v2: minor changes; v3: slightly shorte
Physics of the interior of a spherical, charged black hole with a scalar field
We analyse the physics of nonlinear gravitational processes inside a
spherical charged black hole perturbed by a self-gravitating massless scalar
field. For this purpose we created an appropriate numerical code. Throughout
the paper, in addition to investigation of the properties of the mathematical
singularities where some curvature scalars are equal to infinity, we analyse
the properties of the physical singularities where the Kretschmann curvature
scalar is equal to the planckian value. Using a homogeneous approximation we
analyse the properties of the spacetime near a spacelike singularity in
spacetimes influenced by different matter contents namely a scalar field,
pressureless dust and matter with ultrarelativistic isotropic pressure. We also
carry out full nonlinear analyses of the scalar field and geometry of spacetime
inside black holes by means of an appropriate numerical code with adaptive mesh
refinement capabilities. We use this code to investigate the nonlinear effects
of gravitational focusing, mass inflation, matter squeeze, and these effects
dependence on the initial boundary conditions. It is demonstrated that the
position of the physical singularity inside a black hole is quite different
from the positions of the mathematical singularities. In the case of the
existence of a strong outgoing flux of the scalar field inside a black hole it
is possible to have the existence of two null singularities and one central
singularity simultaneously
Remark on Pauli-Villars Lagrangian on the Lattice
It is interesting to superimpose the Pauli-Villars regularization on the
lattice regularization. We illustrate how this scheme works by evaluating the
axial anomaly in a simple lattice fermion model, the Pauli-Villars Lagrangian
with a gauge non-invariant Wilson term. The gauge non-invariance of the axial
anomaly, caused by the Wilson term, is remedied by a compensation among
Pauli-Villars regulators in the continuum limit. A subtlety in Frolov-Slavnov's
scheme for an odd number of chiral fermions in an anomaly free complex gauge
representation, which requires an infinite number of regulators, is briefly
mentioned.Comment: 14 pages, Phyzzx. The final version to appear in Phys. Rev.
Semiclassical effects in black hole interiors
First-order semiclassical perturbations to the Schwarzschild black hole
geometry are studied within the black hole interior. The source of the
perturbations is taken to be the vacuum stress-energy of quantized scalar,
spinor, and vector fields, evaluated using analytic approximations developed by
Page and others (for massless fields) and the DeWitt-Schwinger approximation
(for massive fields). Viewing the interior as an anisotropic collapsing
cosmology, we find that minimally or conformally coupled scalar fields, and
spinor fields, decrease the anisotropy as the singularity is approached, while
vector fields increase the anisotropy. In addition, we find that massless
fields of all spins, and massive vector fields, strengthen the singularity,
while massive scalar and spinor fields tend to slow the growth of curvature.Comment: 29 pages, ReVTeX; 4 ps figure
Proof of the Generalized Second Law for Quasistationary Semiclassical Black Holes
A simple direct explicit proof of the generalized second law of black hole
thermodynamics is given for a quasistationary semiclassical black hole.Comment: 12 pages, LaTeX, report Alberta-Thy-10-93 (revision of paper in
response to Phys. Rev. Lett. referees' comments, which suffered a series of
long delays
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