279 research outputs found
Entropic N-bound and Maximal Mass Conjecture Violations in Four Dimensional Taub-Bolt(NUT)-dS Spacetimes
We show that the class of four-dimensional Taub-Bolt(NUT) spacetimes with
positive cosmological constant for some values of NUT charges are stable and
have entropies that are greater than that of de Sitter spacetime, in violation
of the entropic N-bound conjecture. We also show that the maximal mass
conjecture, which states "any asymptotically dS spacetime with mass greater
than dS has a cosmological singularity", can be violated as well. Our
calculation of conserved mass and entropy is based on an extension of the path
integral formulation to asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes.Comment: 37 pages, 22 figures, 3 tables, few typos corrected, version to
appear in Nucl. Phys.
The Globular Cluster System of M60 (NGC 4649). II. Kinematics of the Globular Cluster System
We present a kinematic analysis of the globular cluster (GC) system in the
giant elliptical galaxy (gE) M60 in the Virgo cluster. Using the photometric
and spectroscopic database of 121 GCs (83 blue GCs and 38 red GCs), we have
investigated the kinematics of the GC system. We have found that the M60 GC
system shows a significant overall rotation. The rotation amplitude of the blue
GCs is slightly smaller than or similar to that of the red GCs, and their
angles of rotation axes are similar. The velocity dispersions about the mean
velocity and about the best fit rotation curve for the red GCs are marginally
larger than those for the blue GCs. Comparison of observed stellar and GC
velocity dispersion profiles with those calculated from the stellar mass
profile shows that the mass-to-light ratio should be increased as the
galactocentric distance increases, indicating the existence of an extended dark
matter halo. The entire sample of GCs in M60 is found to have a tangentially
biased velocity ellipsoid unlike the GC systems in other gEs. Two subsamples
appear to have different velocity ellipsoids. The blue GC system has a modest
tangentially biased velocity ellipsoid, while the red GC system has a modest
radially biased or an isotropic velocity ellipsoid. From the comparison of the
kinematic properties of the M60 GC system to those of other gEs (M87, M49, NGC
1399, NGC 5128, and NGC 4636), it is found that the velocity dispersion of the
blue GC system is similar to or larger than that of the red GC system except
for M60, and the rotation of the GC system is not negligible. The entire sample
of each GC system shows an isotropic velocity ellipsoid except for M60, while
the subsamples show diverse velocity ellipsoids. We discuss the implication of
these results for the formation models of the GC system in gEs.Comment: 48 pages, 16 figures. To appear in Ap
Greybody factor for D3-branes in B field
We calculate the effect of noncommutative spacetime on the greybody factor on
the supergravity side. For this purpose we introduce a system of D3-branes with
a constant NS -field along their world volume directions ().
Considering the propagation of minimally coupled scalar with non-zero momentum
along(), we derive an exact form of the greybody factor in field.
It turns out that . This means that the
presence of -field (the noncommutativity) suppresses the potential barrier
surrounding the black hole. As a result, it comes out the increase of greybody
factor.Comment: some discussions and references are added, 10 pages, no figure,
ReVTe
A Review of the N-bound and the Maximal Mass Conjectures Using NUT-Charged dS Spacetimes
The proposed dS/CFT correspondence remains an intriguing paradigm in the
context of string theory. Recently it has motivated two interesting
conjectures: the entropic N-bound and the maximal mass conjecture. The former
states that there is an upper bound to the entropy in asymptotically de Sitter
spacetimes, given by the entropy of pure de Sitter space. The latter states
that any asymptotically de Sitter spacetime cannot have a mass larger than the
pure de Sitter case without inducing a cosmological singularity. Here we review
the status of these conjectures and demonstrate their limitation. We first
describe a generalization of gravitational thermodynamics to asymptotically de
Sitter spacetimes, and show how to compute conserved quantities and
gravitational entropy using this formalism. From this we proceed to a
discussion of the N-bound and maximal mass conjectures. We then illustrate that
these conjectures are not satisfied for certain asymptotically de Sitter
spacetimes with NUT charge. We close with a presentation of explicit examples
in various spacetime dimensionalities.Comment: 49 pages, 17 figures, a few typos corrected, addendum added with
regard to some references that were later brought to our attentio
Small anisotropy of the lower critical field and -wave two-gap feature in single crystal LiFeAs
The in- and out-of-plane lower critical fields and magnetic penetration
depths for LiFeAs were examined. The anisotropy ratio is
smaller than the expected theoretical value, and increased slightly with
increasing temperature from 0.6 to . This small degree of anisotropy
was numerically confirmed by considering electron correlation effect. The
temperature dependence of the penetration depths followed a power
law() below 0.3, with 3.5 for both and
. Based on theoretical studies of iron-based superconductors, these
results suggest that the superconductivity of LiFeAs can be represented by an
extended -wave due to weak impurity scattering effect. And the
magnitudes of the two gaps were also evaluted by fitting the superfluid density
for both the in- and out-of-plane to the two-gap model. The estimated values
for the two gaps are consistent with the results of angle resolved
photoemission spectroscopy and specific heat experiments.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
Testing Holographic Principle from Logarithmic and Higher Order Corrections to Black Hole Entropy
The holographic principle is tested by examining the logarithmic and higher
order corrections to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of black holes. For the BTZ
black hole, I find some disagreement in the principle for a holography screen
at spatial infinity beyond the leading order, but a holography with the screen
at the horizon does not, with an appropriate choice of a period parameter,
which has been undetermined at the leading order, in Carlip's horizon-CFT
approach for black hole entropy in any dimension. Its higher dimensional
generalization is considered to see a universality of the parameter choice. The
horizon holography from Carlip's is compared with several other realizations of
a horizon holography, including induced Wess-Zumino-Witten model approaches and
quantum geometry approach, but none of the these agrees with Carlip's, after
clarifications of some confusions. Some challenging open questions are listed
finally.Comment: To appear in JHEP. The corrections in Sec.2 with those that follow
are more clearly explained. Careful distingtion between the implications of
my results to AdS/CFT and to the holograhic principl
Quantum Liouville theory and BTZ black hole entropy
In this paper I give an explicit conformal field theory description of
(2+1)-dimensional BTZ black hole entropy. In the boundary Liouville field
theory I investigate the reducible Verma modules in the elliptic sector, which
correspond to certain irreducible representations of the quantum algebra
U_q(sl_2) \odot U_{\hat{q}}(sl_2). I show that there are states that decouple
from these reducible Verma modules in a similar fashion to the decoupling of
null states in minimal models. Because ofthe nonstandard form of the Ward
identity for the two-point correlation functions in quantum Liouville field
theory, these decoupling states have positive-definite norms. The explicit
counting from these states gives the desired Bekenstein-Hawking entropy in the
semi-classical limit when q is a root of unity of odd order.Comment: LaTeX, 33 pages, 4 eps figure
Thermodynamics of higher dimensional topological charged AdS black branes in dilaton gravity
In this paper, we study topological AdS black branes of -dimensional
Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory and investigate their properties. We use the
area law, surface gravity and Gauss law interpretations to find entropy,
temperature and electrical charge, respectively. We also employ the modified
Brown and York subtraction method to calculate the quasilocal mass of the
solutions. We obtain a Smarr-type formula for the mass as a function of the
entropy and the charge, compute the temperature and the electric potential
through the Smarr-type formula and show that these thermodynamic quantities
coincide with their values which are calculated through using the geometry.
Finally, we perform a stability analysis in the canonical ensemble and
investigate the effects of the dilaton field and the size of black brane on the
thermal stability of the solutions. We find that large black branes are stable
but for small black brane, depending on the value of dilaton field and type of
horizon, we encounter with some unstable phases.Comment: 21 pages, 21 figures, references updated, minor editing, accepted in
EPJC (DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1483-3
Noncritical Einstein-Weyl Gravity and the AdS/CFT Correspondence
We explore four-dimensional Einstein-Weyl gravity and supergravity on anti-de
Sitter spacetime. For a specific range of the coupling with appropriate
boundary conditions, we show the effective equivalence of the theory with
Einstein gravity and AdS supergravity at the quadratic Lagrangian level.
Furthermore we show that these equivalences can be promoted to the full
nonlinear level. We also show that the similar behavior holds for the
generalized Gibbons-Hawking terms. From this we find that the correlation
functions in the dual conformal field theory of Einstein-Weyl gravity and
supergravity can be readily read off from corresponding ones from Einstein
gravity and AdS supergravity. We also give comments on some issues in critical
gravity and supergravity as well as conformal gravity and supergravity.Comment: 20 pages, 1 figure: v2, references and footnote added, typos
correcte
Belle II Technical Design Report
The Belle detector at the KEKB electron-positron collider has collected
almost 1 billion Y(4S) events in its decade of operation. Super-KEKB, an
upgrade of KEKB is under construction, to increase the luminosity by two orders
of magnitude during a three-year shutdown, with an ultimate goal of 8E35 /cm^2
/s luminosity. To exploit the increased luminosity, an upgrade of the Belle
detector has been proposed. A new international collaboration Belle-II, is
being formed. The Technical Design Report presents physics motivation, basic
methods of the accelerator upgrade, as well as key improvements of the
detector.Comment: Edited by: Z. Dole\v{z}al and S. Un
- âŠ