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Ellipsoidal configurations in the de Sitter spacetime
The cosmological constant modifies certain properties of large
astrophysical rotating configurations with ellipsoidal geometries, provided the
objects are not too compact. Assuming an equilibrium configuration and so using
the tensor virial equation with we explore several equilibrium
properties of homogeneous rotating ellipsoids. One shows that the bifurcation
point, which in the oblate case distinguishes the Maclaurin ellipsoid from the
Jacobi ellipsoid, is sensitive to the cosmological constant. Adding to that,
the cosmological constant allows triaxial configurations of equilibrium
rotating the minor axis as solutions of the virial equations. The significance
of the result lies in the fact that minor axis rotation is indeed found in
nature. Being impossible for the oblate case, it is permissible for prolate
geometries, with zero and positive. For the triaxial case, however,
an equilibrium solution is found only for non-zero positive . Finally,
we solve the tensor virial equation for the angular velocity and display
special effects of the cosmological constant there.Comment: 15 pages, 11 figures, published in Class. Quant. Grav. References
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Landscape science: a Russian geographical tradition
The Russian geographical tradition of landscape science (landshaftovedenie) is analyzed with particular reference to its initiator, Lev Semenovich Berg (1876-1950). The differences between prevailing Russian and Western concepts of landscape in geography are discussed, and their common origins in German geographical thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are delineated. It is argued that the principal differences are accounted for by a number of factors, of which Russia's own distinctive tradition in environmental science deriving from the work of V. V. Dokuchaev (1846-1903), the activities of certain key individuals (such as Berg and C. O. Sauer), and the very different social and political circumstances in different parts of the world appear to be the most significant. At the same time it is noted that neither in Russia nor in the West have geographers succeeded in specifying an agreed and unproblematic understanding of landscape, or more broadly in promoting a common geographical conception of human-environment relationships. In light of such uncertainties, the latter part of the article argues for closer international links between the variant landscape traditions in geography as an important contribution to the quest for sustainability
The effect of thiophene on an aluminum-molybdenum catalyst in cyclohexane dehydrogenation under hydrogen pressure
Influence of steam on the activity of alumina-platinum catalysts with different contents of the metal
Using the Koiter theorem for adaptability problems of non-uniformly heated elastic-plastic bodies
On a scattering length for additive functionals and spectrum of fractional Laplacian with a non‐local perturbation
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