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High Temperature Effects on Compactlike Structures
In this work we investigate the transition from kinks to compactons at high
temperatures. We deal with a family of models, described by a real scalar field
with standard kinematics, controlled by a single parameter, real and positive.
The family of models supports kinklike solutions, and the solutions tend to
become compact when the parameter increases to larger and larger values. We
study the one-loop corrections at finite temperature, to see how the thermal
effects add to the effective potential. The results suggest that the symmetry
is restored at very high temperatures.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures; version to apppear in EPJ
Revisiting the confrontation of the energy conditions with supernovae data
In the standard Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) approach to model
the Universe the violation of the so-called energy conditions is related to
some important properties of the Universe as, for example, the current and the
inflationary accelerating expansion phases. The energy conditions are also
necessary in the formulation and proofs of Hawking-Penrose singularity
theorems. In two recent articles we have derived bounds from energy conditions
and made confrontations of these bounds with supernovae data. Here, we extend
these results in following way: first, by using our most recent statistical
procedure for calculating new q(z) estimates from the \emph{gold} and
\emph{combined} type Ia supernovae samples; second, we use these estimates to
obtain a new picture of the energy conditions fulfillment and violation for the
recent past () in the context of the standard cosmology.Comment: 5 pages. To appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D. Talk presented at the 3rd
International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics. V2: typos
correcte
Cosmic voids in modified gravity scenarios
Modified gravity (MG) theories aim to reproduce the observed acceleration of
the Universe by reducing the dark sector while simultaneously recovering
General Relativity (GR) within dense environments. Void studies appear to be a
suitable scenario to search for imprints of alternative gravity models on
cosmological scales. Voids cover an interesting range of density scales where
screening mechanisms fade out, which reaches from a density contrast close to their centers to close to their
boundaries. We present an analysis of the level of distinction between GR and
two modified gravity theories, the Hu-Sawicki and the symmetron theory.
This study relies on the abundance, linear bias, and density profile of voids
detected in n-body cosmological simulations. We define voids as connected
regions made up of the union of spheres with a {\it \textup{mean}} density
given by , but disconnected from any
other voids. We find that the height of void walls is considerably affected by
the gravitational theory, such that it increases for stronger gravity
modifications. Finally, we show that at the level of dark matter n-body
simulations, our constraints allow us to distinguish between GR and MG models
with and . Differences of best-fit values for
MG parameters that are derived independently from multiple void probes may
indicate an incorrect MG model. This serves as an important consistency check.Comment: 15 pages, 12 figure
Disc formation in turbulent cloud cores: Circumventing the magnetic braking catastrophe
We present collapse simulations of strongly magnetised, 100 M_sun, turbulent
cloud cores. Around the protostars formed during the collapse Keplerian discs
with typical sizes of up to 100 AU build up in contrast to previous simulations
neglecting turbulence. Analysing the condensations in which the discs form, we
show that the magnetic flux loss is not sufficient to explain the build-up of
Keplerian discs. The average magnetic field is strongly inclined to the disc
which might reduce the magnetic braking efficiency. However, the main reason
for the reduced magnetic braking efficiency is the highly disordered magnetic
field in the surroundings of the discs. Furthermore, due to the lack of a
coherently rotating structure in the turbulent environment of the disc no
toroidal magnetic field necessary for angular momentum extraction can build up.
Simultaneously the angular momentum inflow remains high due to local shear
flows created by the turbulent motions. We suggest that the "magnetic braking
catastrophe" is an artefact of the idealised non-turbulent initial conditions
and that turbulence provides a natural mechanism to circumvent this problem.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. To appear in the proceedings of 'The Labyrinth of
Star Formation' (18-22 June 2012, Chania, Greece), published by Springe
Complete factorization of equations of motion for generalized scalar field theories
We demonstrate that the complete factorization of equations of motion into
first-order differential equations can be obtained for real and complex scalar
field theories with non-canonical dynamics.Comment: 5 pages; version published in EP
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