16 research outputs found
Mass function and particle creation in Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime
We construct a mass or energy function for the non-Nariai class
Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole spacetime in the region between the black
hole and the cosmological event horizons. The mass function is local, positive
definite, continuous and increases monotonically with the radial distance from
the black hole event horizon. We derive the Smarr formula using this mass
function, and demonstrate that the mass function reproduces the two-temperature
Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole thermodynamics, along with a term
corresponding to the negative pressure due to positive cosmological constant.
We further give a field theoretic derivation of the particle creation by both
the horizons and discuss its connection with the mass function.Comment: v3, 16pp; added references and discussions, typo corrected; accepted
in Eur. Phys. J.
Cosmic strings with positive
We discuss cosmic Nielsen-Olesen strings in space-times endowed with a
positive cosmological constant. For the cylindrically symmetric, static free
cosmic string, we discuss the contribution of the cosmological constant to the
angle deficit, and to the motion of the null/timelike geodesics. For a
non-gravitating cosmic string in a Schwarzschild-de Sitter space-time, we
discuss how a thin string can pierce the two horizons. We also present a metric
which describes the exterior of a self gravitating thin string present in the
Schwarzschild-de Sitter space-time.Comment: 3 pages; based on a talk given in the 12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting,
Paris by S. Bhattacharya; MG12 proceedings styl
No hair theorems for positive \Lambda
We extend all known black hole no-hair theorems to space-times endowed with a
positive cosmological constant Specifically, we prove that static
spherical black holes with cannot support scalar fields in convex
potentials and Proca-massive vector fields in the region between black hole and
cosmic horizons. We also demonstrate the existence of at least one type of
quantum hair, and of exactly one charged solution for the Abelian Higgs model.
Our method of proof can be applied to investigate other types of quantum or
topological hair on black holes in the presence of a positive Comment: 8pp. v2: added references; comment regarding phantom field, comment
that spherical symmetry is not crucial for most of the proof; version
published in PRL(name changed in journal
Lightweight Modules for Efficient Deep Learning based Image Restoration
Low level image restoration is an integral component of modern artificial
intelligence (AI) driven camera pipelines. Most of these frameworks are based
on deep neural networks which present a massive computational overhead on
resource constrained platform like a mobile phone. In this paper, we propose
several lightweight low-level modules which can be used to create a
computationally low cost variant of a given baseline model. Recent works for
efficient neural networks design have mainly focused on classification.
However, low-level image processing falls under the image-to-image' translation
genre which requires some additional computational modules not present in
classification. This paper seeks to bridge this gap by designing generic
efficient modules which can replace essential components used in contemporary
deep learning based image restoration networks. We also present and analyse our
results highlighting the drawbacks of applying depthwise separable
convolutional kernel (a popular method for efficient classification network)
for sub-pixel convolution based upsampling (a popular upsampling strategy for
low-level vision applications). This shows that concepts from domain of
classification cannot always be seamlessly integrated into image-to-image
translation tasks. We extensively validate our findings on three popular tasks
of image inpainting, denoising and super-resolution. Our results show that
proposed networks consistently output visually similar reconstructions compared
to full capacity baselines with significant reduction of parameters, memory
footprint and execution speeds on contemporary mobile devices.Comment: Accepted at: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video
Technology (Early Access Print) | |Codes Available at:
https://github.com/avisekiit/TCSVT-LightWeight-CNNs | Supplementary Document
at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BQhkh33Sen-d0qOrjq5h8ahw2VCUIVLg/view?usp=sharin
Optimum VM Placement for NFV Infrastructures
This paper shows how to use a Linux-based operating system as a real-time processing platform for low-latency and predictable packet processing in cloudified radio-access network (cRAN) scenarios. This use-case exhibits challenging end-to-end processing latencies, in the order of milliseconds for the most time-critical layers of the stack. A significant portion of the variability and instability in the observed end-to-end performance in this domain is due to the power saving capabilities of modern CPUs, often in contrast with the low-latency and high-performance requirements of this type of applications. We discuss how to properly configure the system for this scenario, and evaluate the proposed configuration on a synthetic application designed to mimic the behavior and computational requirements of typical software components implementing baseband processing in production environments
Effect of a positive cosmological constant on cosmic strings
We study cosmic Nielsen-Olesen strings in space-times with a positive
cosmological constant. For the free cosmic string in a cylindrically symmetric
space-time, we calculate the contribution of the cosmological constant to the
angle deficit, and to the bending of null geodesics. For a cosmic string in a
Schwarzschild-de Sitter space-time, we use Kruskal patches around the inner and
outer horizons to show that a thin string can pierce them.Comment: v3:15pp. References and some explanations added; version accepted for
publication in Phys. Rev.
Near Real-Time Anomaly Detection in NFV Infrastructures
This paper presents a scalable cloud-based archi-tecture for near real-time anomaly detection in the Vodafone NFV infrastructure, spanning across multiple data centers in 11 European countries. Our solution aims at processing in real-time system-level data coming from the monitoring subsystem of the infrastructure, raising alerts to operators as soon as the incoming data presents anomalous patterns. A number of different anomaly detection techniques have been implemented for the proposed architecture, and results from their comparative evaluation are reported, based on real monitoring data coming from one of the monitored data centers, where a number of interesting anomalies have been manually identified. Part of this labelled data-set is also released under an open data license, for possible reuse by other researchers