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Measurement of the LCG2 and glite file catalogue's performance
When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) begins operation at CERN in 2007 it will produce data in volumes never before seen. Physicists around the world will manage, distribute and analyse petabytes of this data using the middleware provided by the LHC Computing Grid. One of the critical factors in the smooth running of this system is the performance of the file catalogues which allow users to access their files with a logical filename without knowing their physical location. This paper presents a detailed study comparing the performance and respective merits and shortcomings of two of the main catalogues: the LCG File Catalogue and the gLite FiReMan catalogue
An exterior for the G\"{o}del spacetime
We match the vacuum, stationary, cylindrically symmetric solution of
Einstein's field equations with , in a form recently given by Santos,
as an exterior to an infinite cylinder of dust cut out of a G\"{o}del universe.
There are three cases, depending on the radius of the cylinder. Closed timelike
curves are present in the exteriors of some of the solutions. There is a
considerable similarity between the spacetimes investigated here and those of
van Stockum referring to an infinite cylinder of rotating dust matched to
vacuum, with .Comment: 11 pages, LaTeX 2.09, no figures. Submitted to Classical and Quantum
Gravit
WMAP Constraints on a Quintessence Model
We use the results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) for
the locations of peaks and troughs of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)
power spectrum, together with constraints from large-scale structure, to study
a quintessence model in which the pure exponential potential is modified by a
polynomial factor. Our analysis, in the cosmological
parameters space shows that this quintessence model is favoured compared to
CDM for and relatively high values of early
quintessence; for , quintessence and CDM give similar results,
except for high values of early quintessence, in which case CDM is
favoured.Comment: 3 pages. Talk presented by N. M. C. Santos at the Tenth Marcel
Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Rio de Janeiro, July 200
Cosmographic constraints on a class of Palatini f(R) gravity
Modified gravity, known as gravity, has presently been applied to
Cosmology as a realistic alternative to dark energy. For this kind of gravity
the expansion of the Universe may accelerate while containing only baryonic and
cold dark matter. The aim of the present investigation is to place cosmographic
constraints on the class of theories of the form within
the Palatini approach. Although extensively discussed in recent literature and
confronted with several observational data sets, cosmological tests are indeed
inconclusive about the true signal of in this class of theories. This is
particularly important to define which kind of corrections (infra-red or
high-energy) to general relativity this class of theory indeed represent. We
shed some light on this question by examining the evolution of the deceleration
parameter for these theories. We find that for a large range of
, models based on gravity in the Palatini
approach can only have positive values for , placing thus a broad
restriction on this class of gravity.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, Latex, Submitte
Forecasting isocurvature models with CMB lensing information: axion and curvaton scenarios
Some inflationary models predict the existence of isocurvature primordial
fluctuations, in addition to the well known adiabatic perturbation. Such mixed
models are not yet ruled out by available data sets. In this paper we explore
the possibility of obtaining better constraints on the isocurva- ture
contribution from future astronomical data. We consider the axion and curvaton
inflationary scenarios, and use Planck satellite experimental specifications
together with SDSS galaxy survey to forecast for the best parameter error
estimation by means of the Fisher information matrix formal- ism. In
particular, we consider how CMB lensing information can improve this forecast.
We found substantial improvements for all the considered cosmological
parameters. In the case of isocurvature amplitude this improvement is strongly
model dependent, varying between less than 1% and above 20% around its fiducial
value. Furthermore, CMB lensing enables the degeneracy break between the
isocurvature amplitude and correlation phase in one of the models. In this
sense, CMB lensing information will be crucial in the analysis of future data.Comment: Accepted for publication in PR
Third and fourth degree collisional moments for inelastic Maxwell models
The third and fourth degree collisional moments for -dimensional inelastic
Maxwell models are exactly evaluated in terms of the velocity moments, with
explicit expressions for the associated eigenvalues and cross coefficients as
functions of the coefficient of normal restitution. The results are applied to
the analysis of the time evolution of the moments (scaled with the thermal
speed) in the free cooling problem. It is observed that the characteristic
relaxation time toward the homogeneous cooling state decreases as the
anisotropy of the corresponding moment increases. In particular, in contrast to
what happens in the one-dimensional case, all the anisotropic moments of degree
equal to or less than four vanish in the homogeneous cooling state for .Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures; v2: addition of two new reference
On the 2:1 Orbital Resonance in the HD 82943 Planetary System
We present an analysis of the HD 82943 planetary system based on a radial
velocity data set that combines new measurements obtained with the Keck
telescope and the CORALIE measurements published in graphical form. We examine
simultaneously the goodness of fit and the dynamical properties of the best-fit
double-Keplerian model as a function of the poorly constrained eccentricity and
argument of periapse of the outer planet's orbit. The fit with the minimum
chi_{nu}^2 is dynamically unstable if the orbits are assumed to be coplanar.
However, the minimum is relatively shallow, and there is a wide range of fits
outside the minimum with reasonable chi_{nu}^2. For an assumed coplanar
inclination i = 30 deg. (sin i = 0.5), only good fits with both of the lowest
order, eccentricity-type mean-motion resonance variables at the 2:1
commensurability, theta_1 and theta_2, librating about 0 deg. are stable. For
sin i = 1, there are also some good fits with only theta_1 (involving the inner
planet's periapse longitude) librating that are stable for at least 10^8 years.
The libration semiamplitudes are about 6 deg. for theta_1 and 10 deg. for
theta_2 for the stable good fit with the smallest libration amplitudes of both
theta_1 and theta_2. We do not find any good fits that are non-resonant and
stable. Thus the two planets in the HD 82943 system are almost certainly in 2:1
mean-motion resonance, with at least theta_1 librating, and the observations
may even be consistent with small-amplitude librations of both theta_1 and
theta_2.Comment: 24 pages, including 10 figures; accepted for publication in Ap
Bulk-Edge correspondence of entanglement spectrum in 2D spin ground states
General local spin ground states, described by a Valence Bond Solid (VBS)
on a two dimensional lattice are studied. The norm of these ground states is
mapped to a classical O(3) model on the same lattice. Using this
quantum-to-classical mapping we obtain the partial density matrix
associated with a subsystem of the original ground state. We show that
the entanglement spectrum of in a translation invariant lattice
is given by the spectrum of a quantum spin chain at the boundary of region ,
with local Heisenberg type interactions between spin 1/2 particles.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, one section and references adde
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