68 research outputs found
Melvin universe as a limit of the C-metric
It is demonstrated that the Melvin universe representing the spacetime with a
strong 'homogeneous' electric field can by obtained from the spacetime of two
accelerated charged black holes by a suitable limiting procedure. The behavior
of various invariantly defined geometrical quantities in this limit is also
studied.Comment: 5 pages, no figures [v2: two references added
Stable Magnetic Universes Revisited
A regular class of static, cylindrically symmetric pure magnetic field
metrics is rederived in a different metric ansatz in all dimensions. Radial,
time dependent perturbations show that for dimensions d>3 such spacetimes are
stable at both near r\approx0 and large radius r\rightarrow\infty. In a
different gauge these stability analysis and similar results were known
beforehand. For d=3, however, simultaneous stability requirement at both, near
and far radial distances can not be reconciled for time - dependent
perturbations. Restricted, numerical geodesics for neutral particles reveal a
confinement around the center in the polar plane. Charged, time-like geodesics
for d=4 on the other hand are shown numerically to run toward infinity.Comment: 11 pages, 3figure
Premature browning in cooked ground beef after modifying myoglobin
Some ground beef patties developed an
internal, brown cooked color and looked well-done
at temperatures as low as 131 ĚŠF, whereas
normal patties were re d to pink. The premature
brown color was not relate d to percent fat; patty
compaction; animal source and maturity; pH
(5.5 to 5.8); or concentrations of raw patty
heme and nonhemeiron, myoglobin, and total
pigment. Because oxidation-reduction potential
and total reducing activities were higher (P<.05)
and TBA numbers were lower (P<.05) in
normal than prematurely brown patties, the
brown color is apparently related to greater
patty oxidation
An investigation into the effects of, and interaction between, heel height and shoe upper stiffness on plantar pressure and comfort
High heeled shoes remain popular, nevertheless it is not clear what influence manipulating characteristics of this footwear has on their functioning. It is accepted that shoe features other than heel height can affect plantar pressures. However, few investigations have compared such features, and none have compared the influence of modifying upper material stiffness, whilst systematically increasing heel height. A firm understanding of the interactions of footwear properties is essential to ensure that footwear designers can optimise design for the comfort and health of the wearer. This paper investigates a feature that is known to reduce comfort (heel height) and a feature that is easy to change without affecting aesthetics (material stiffness) to better understand the effects of their interaction on plantar pressure and comfort. Sixteen female participants with experience wearing high heels wore a range of shoes with five effective heel heights (35-75 mm) and two upper materials (with different stiffness). In-shoe plantar pressure was recorded and participants completed a comfort questionnaire. Increasing heel height increased plantar pressure under the metatarsal heads, while reducing pressure in the hallux and heel. Higher heel heights also lead to increased discomfort, particularly in the toes where discomfort increased 154.3% from the 35 to 75 mm heels. Upper stiffness did not affect plantar pressure. However, stiffer uppers significantly increased reported discomfort, most notably on top of the foot (108.6%), the back of the heel (87.7%), the overall width (99%), and the overall comfort (100.7%). Significant interaction effects between heel height and upper material existed for comfort questionnaire data. Manipulating heel height alters plantar pressure and comfort, and choice of upper material is paramount to achieving wearer comfort in heels
New Charged Dilaton Solutions in 2+1 Dimensions and Solutions with Cylindrical Symmetry in 3+1 Dimensions
We report a new family of solutions to Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton gravity in
2+1 dimensions and Einstein-Maxwell gravity with cylindrical symmetry in 3+1
dimensions. A set of static charged solutions in 2+1 dimensions are obtained by
a compactification of charged solutions in 3+1 dimensions with cylindrical
symmetry. These solutions contain naked singularities for certain values of the
parameters considered. New rotating charged solutions in 2+1 dimensions and 3+1
dimensions are generated treating the static charged solutions as seed metrics
and performing transformations.Comment: Latex. No figure
The abelian cosets of the Heisenberg group
In this paper we study the abelian cosets of the H(4) WZW model. They
coincide or are related to several interesting three-dimensional backgrounds
such as the Melvin model, the conical point-particle space-times and the null
orbifold. We perform a detailed CFT analysis of all the models and compute the
coset characters as well as some typical three-point couplings of coset
primaries.Comment: 26 pages; v2: minor typos corrected, also added section 3.3 and 4.3
with a few comments on a third class of geometries that have not been
discussed in v
Wakes in Dilatonic Current-Carrying Cosmic Strings
In this work, we present the gravitational field generated by a cosmic string
carrying a timelike current in the scalar-tensor gravities. The mechanism of
formation and evolution of wakes is fully investigated in this framework. We
show explicitly that the inclusion of electromagnetic properties for the string
induces logarithmic divergences in the accretion problem.Comment: Revised version to be published in the Phys. Rev.
Black strings in asymptotically plane wave geometries
We present a class of black string spacetimes which asymptote to maximally
symmetric plane wave geometries. Our construction will rely on a solution
generating technique, the null Melvin twist, which deforms an asymptotically
flat black string spacetime to an asymptotically plane wave black string
spacetime while preserving the event horizon.Comment: 15 pages; references adde
Stationary Einstein-Maxwell fields in arbitrary dimensions
The Einstein-Maxwell equations in D-dimensions admitting (D-3) commuting
Killing vector fields have been investigated. The existence of the electric,
magnetic and twist potentials have been proved. The system is formulated as the
harmonic map coupled to gravity on three-dimensional base space generalizing
the Ernst system in the four-dimensional stationary Einstein-Maxwell theory.
Some classes of the new exact solutions have been provided, which include the
electro-magnetic generalization of the Myers-Perry solution, which describes
the rotating black hole immersed in a magnetic universe, and the static charged
black ring solution.Comment: 26 page
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