Black hole solution and strong gravitational lensing in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity

A new theory of gravity called Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld (EiBI) gravity was recently proposed by Ba\~{n}ados and Ferreira. This theory leads to some exciting new features, such as free of cosmological singularities. In this paper, we first obtain a charged EiBI black hole solution with a nonvanishing cosmological constant when the electromagnetic field is included in. Then based on it, we study the strong gravitational lensing by the asymptotic flat charged EiBI black hole. The strong deflection limit coefficients and observables are shown to closely depend on the additional coupling parameter $\kappa$ in the EiBI gravity. It is found that, compared with the corresponding charged black hole in general relativity, the positive coupling parameter $\kappa$ will shrink the black hole horizon and photon sphere. Moreover, the coupling parameter will decrease the angular position and relative magnitudes of the relativistic images, while increase the angular separation, which may shine new light on testing such gravity theory in near future by the astronomical instruments.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. Two issues on the deflection angle and photon sphere were corrected and clarifie

The Justice of Balance: Understanding Intellectual Property from Chinese Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

PhDIn today's world, intellectual property is widely viewed as a threat to the public interest in using knowledge. As many scholars have argued, a theoretical reason accounting for this phenomenon is that traditional understanding of intellectual property emphasizes strong property rights rather than the public interest. As historical studies have shown, this understanding is fundamentally influenced by the practice of printing monopoly of sixteenth-seventeenth century England, which gave overwhelming attention to appropriation. This thesis tries to join the above debates by examining the intellectual property history of pre-modern China. Based on the historical inquiry, it further makes several theoretical suggestions to the ongoing development of intellectual property theories. This thesis argues that intellectual property practice as a tool of stimulating creativity emerged in China when the commercialization of knowledge products made the intellectual property protection a must. A more important finding is that, in a relatively non-monopolistic atmosphere, tremendous efforts were made to effectively disseminate knowledge to enhance the public interest; there existed no obvious conflict between stimulating knowledge creativity and promoting knowledge use. This thesis then suggests that knowledge creativity and knowledge use are inherently inter-nutritional and inter-conflicting. To promote their reciprocity, it is crucial to keep balance between maximizing knowledge use and stimulating robust knowledge creativity. This thesis further proposes a system containing `the right of accessing knowledge' and `the right of deserving reward', in which intellectual property is only a mean to the end and coexists with various alternative models. This thesis provides a firm theoretical support to the public interest but does not necessarily devalue the importance of knowledge creativity and intellectual property. In many fields, well-designed intellectual property laws must continue to prevail

Non-coherent Massive SIMO Systems in ISI Channels: Constellation Design and Performance Analysis

A massive single-input multiple-output (SIMO) system with a single transmit antenna and a large number of receive antennas in intersymbol interference (ISI) channels is considered. Contrast to existing energy detection (ED)-based non-coherent receiver where conventional pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) is employed, we propose a constellation design which minimizes the symbol-error rate (SER) with the knowledge of channel statistics. To make a comparison, we derive the SERs of the ED-based receiver with both the proposed constellation and PAM, namely $P_{e\_opt}$ and $P_{e\_pam}$. Specifically, asymptotic behaviors of the SER in regimes of a large number of receive antennas and high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) are investigated. Analytical results demonstrate that the logarithms of both $P_{e\_opt}$ and $P_{e\_pam}$ decrease approximately linearly with the number of receive antennas, while $P_{e\_opt}$ degrades faster. It is also shown that the proposed design is of less cost, because compared with PAM, less antennas are required to achieve the same error rate

Entropy/Area spectra of the charged black hole from quasinormal modes

With the new physical interpretation of quasinormal modes proposed by Maggiore, the quantum area spectra of black holes have been investigated recently. Adopting the modified Hod's treatment, results show that the area spectra for black holes are equally spaced and the spacings are in a unified form, $\triangle A=8\pi \hbar$, in Einstein gravity. On the other hand, following Kunstatter's method, the studies show that the area spectrum for a nonrotating black hole with no charge is equidistant. And for a rotating (or charged) black hole, it is also equidistant and independent of the angular momentum $J$ (or charge $q$) when the black hole is far from the extremal case. In this paper, we mainly deal with the area spectrum of the stringy charged Garfinkle-Horowitz-Strominger black hole, originating from effective action that emerges in the low-energy string theory. We find that both methods give the same results-that the area spectrum is equally spaced and does not depend on the charge $q$. Our study may provide new insights into understanding the area spectrum and entropy spectrum for stringy black holes.Comment: 13 pages, no figure

Locality-Sensitive Bucketing Functions for the Edit Distance

Many bioinformatics applications involve bucketing a set of sequences where each sequence is allowed to be assigned into multiple buckets. To achieve both high sensitivity and precision, bucketing methods are desired to assign similar sequences into the same bucket while assigning dissimilar sequences into distinct buckets. Existing k-mer-based bucketing methods have been efficient in processing sequencing data with low error rate, but encounter much reduced sensitivity on data with high error rate. Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) schemes are able to mitigate this issue through tolerating the edits in similar sequences, but state-of-the-art methods still have large gaps. Here we generalize the LSH function by allowing it to hash one sequence into multiple buckets. Formally, a bucketing function, which maps a sequence (of fixed length) into a subset of buckets, is defined to be (d?, d?)-sensitive if any two sequences within an edit distance of d? are mapped into at least one shared bucket, and any two sequences with distance at least d? are mapped into disjoint subsets of buckets. We construct locality-sensitive bucketing (LSB) functions with a variety of values of (d?,d?) and analyze their efficiency with respect to the total number of buckets needed as well as the number of buckets that a specific sequence is mapped to. We also prove lower bounds of these two parameters in different settings and show that some of our constructed LSB functions are optimal. These results provide theoretical foundations for their practical use in analyzing sequences with high error rate while also providing insights for the hardness of designing ungapped LSH functions

Born-Infeld Black Holes in 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity

A novel four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity was formulated by D. Glavan and C. Lin [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 081301 (2020)], which is intended to bypass the Lovelock's theorem and to yield a non-trivial contribution to the four-dimensional gravitational dynamics. However, the validity and consistency of this theory has been called into question recently. We study a static and spherically symmetric black hole charged by a Born-Infeld electric field in the novel four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. It is found that the black hole solution still suffers the singularity problem, since particles incident from infinity can reach the singularity. It is also demonstrated that the Born-Infeld charged black hole may be superior to the Maxwell charged black hole to be a charged extension of the Schwarzschild-AdS-like black hole in this new gravitational theory. Some basic thermodynamics of the black hole solution is also analyzed. Besides, we regain the black hole solution in the regularized four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity proposed by H. L\"u and Y. Pang [arXiv:2003.11552].Comment: 13 pages and 18 figures, published versio

General monogamy and polygamy relations of arbitrary quantum correlations for multipartite systems

Monogamy and polygamy of quantum correlations are the fundamental properties of quantum systems. We study the monogamy and polygamy relations satisfied by any quantum correlations in multipartite quantum systems. General monogamy relations are presented for the $\alpha$th $(0\leq\alpha \leq\gamma$, $\gamma\geq2)$ power of quantum correlation, and general polygamy relations are given for the $\beta$th $(\beta\geq \delta$, $0\leq\delta\leq1)$ power of quantum correlation. We show that these newly derived monogamy and polygamy inequalities are tighter than the existing ones. By applying these results to specific quantum correlations such as concurrence and the square of convex-roof extended negativity of assistance (SCRENoA), the corresponding new classes of monogamy and polygamy relations are obtained, which include the existing ones as special cases. Detailed examples are given to illustrate the advantages of our results.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2002.0445