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On T-duality in dilatonic gravity
Under the assumption of axial symmetry we introduce a map from dilatonic
gravity to a string-like action. This map allows one to introduce, in a rather
simple way, the equivalent of string theory T-duality in dilatonic gravity.
Here we choose the duality group to be an group and, for a particular
rotation, we recover a symmetry of dilatonic gravity discussed previously in
the literature.Comment: 10 pages, phyzz
Fermi-LAT searches for gamma-ray pulsars
The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite is the first gamma-ray
instrument to discover pulsars directly via their gamma-ray emission. Roughly
one third of the 117 gamma-ray pulsars detected by the LAT in its first three
years were discovered in blind searches of gamma-ray data and most of these are
undetectable with current radio telescopes. I review some of the key LAT
results and highlight the specific challenges faced in gamma-ray (compared to
radio) searches, most of which stem from the long, sparse data sets and the
broad, energy-dependent point-spread function (PSF) of the LAT. I discuss some
ongoing LAT searches for gamma-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and gamma-ray
pulsars around the Galactic Center. Finally, I outline the prospects for future
gamma-ray pulsar discoveries as the LAT enters its extended mission phase,
including advantages of a possible modification of the LAT observing profile.Comment: Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 291, IAU XXVIII General Assembly,
Beijing, China, August 2012: "Neutron Stars and Pulsars: Challenges and
Opportunities after 80 years", Editor: Joeri van Leeuwen. To be published by
Cambridge University Press. 6 page
Latest results on gamma-ray pulsars with Fermi
The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has been scanning the gamma-ray sky
since 2008. The number of pulsars detected by the LAT now exceeds 200, making
them by far the largest class of Galactic gamma-ray emitters. I discuss some of
the latest pulsar discoveries made by the LAT, in particular those made since
the release of the Pass 8 data.Comment: 5 pages, to appear in Il Nuovo Cimento
A remark on approximation with polynomials and greedy bases
We investigate properties of the -th error of approximation by polynomials
with constant coefficients and with modulus-constant
coefficients introduced by Bern\'a and Blasco
(2016) to study greedy bases in Banach spaces. We characterize when
and are
equivalent to in terms of the democracy and superdemocracy functions,
and provide sufficient conditions ensuring that , extending previous very particular
results
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