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Opening the Pandora's box of quantum spinor fields
Lounesto's classification of spinors is a comprehensive and exhaustive
algorithm that, based on the bilinears covariants, discloses the possibility of
a large variety of spinors, comprising regular and singular spinors and their
unexpected applications in physics and including the cases of Dirac, Weyl, and
Majorana as very particular spinor fields. In this paper we pose the problem of
an analogous classification in the framework of second quantization. We first
discuss in general the nature of the problem. Then we start the analysis of two
basic bilinear covariants, the scalar and pseudoscalar, in the second quantized
setup, with expressions applicable to the quantum field theory extended to all
types of spinors. One can see that an ampler set of possibilities opens up with
respect to the classical case. A quantum reconstruction algorithm is also
proposed. The Feynman propagator is extended for spinors in all classes.Comment: 18 page
Black string corrections in variable tension braneworld scenarios
Braneworld models with variable tension are investigated, and the corrections
on the black string horizon along the extra dimension are provided. Such
corrections are encrypted in additional terms involving the covariant
derivatives of the variable tension on the brane, providing profound
consequences concerning the black string horizon variation along the extra
dimension, near the brane. The black string horizon behavior is shown to be
drastically modified by the terms corrected by the brane variable tension. In
particular, a model motivated by the phenomenological interesting case
regarding Eotvos branes is investigated. It forthwith provides further physical
features regarding variable tension braneworld scenarios, heretofore concealed
in all previous analysis in the literature. All precedent analysis considered
uniquely the expansion of the metric up to the second order along the extra
dimension, what is able to evince solely the brane variable tension absolute
value. Notwithstanding, the expansion terms aftermath, further accomplished in
this paper from the third order on, elicits the successive covariant
derivatives of the brane variable tension, and their respective coupling with
the extrinsic curvature, the Weyl tensor, and the Riemann and Ricci tensors, as
well as the scalar curvature. Such additional terms are shown to provide sudden
modifications in the black string horizon in a variable tension braneworld
scenarioComment: 12 pages, 5 figures, accepted in PR
VSR symmetries in the DKP algebra: the interplay between Dirac and Elko spinor fields
VSR symmetries are here naturally incorporated in the DKP algebra on the
spin-0 and the spin-1 DKP sectors. We show that the Elko (dark) spinor fields
structure plays an essential role on accomplishing this aim, unravelling hidden
symmetries on the bosonic DKP fields under the action of discrete symmetries.Comment: 17 page
Information entropy of classical versus explosive percolation
We study the Shannon entropy of the cluster size distribution in classical as
well as explosive percolation, in order to estimate the uncertainty in the
sizes of randomly chosen clusters. At the critical point the cluster size
distribution is a power-law, i.e. there are clusters of all sizes, so one
expects the information entropy to attain a maximum. As expected, our results
show that the entropy attains a maximum at this point for classical
percolation. Surprisingly, for explosive percolation the maximum entropy does
not match the critical point. Moreover, we show that it is possible determine
the critical point without using the conventional order parameter, just
analysing the entropy's derivatives.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figure
Dynamical Evolution of an Unstable Gravastar with Zero Mass
Using the conventional gravastar model, that is, an object constituted by two
components where one of them is a massive infinitely thin shell and the other
one is a de Sitter interior spacetime, we physically interpret a solution
characterized by a zero Schwarzschild mass. No stable gravastar is formed and
it collapses without forming an event horizon, originating what we call a
massive non-gravitational object. The most surprise here is that the collapse
occurs with an exterior de Sitter vacuum spacetime. This creates an object
which does not interact gravitationally with an outside test particle and it
may evolve to a point-like topological defect.Comment: 8 pages, 10 figures, to appear in Astrophysics and Space Scienc
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