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Sedimentation in the Gulf of Paria during the Holocene transgression; a subsurface acoustic reflection study
A subsurface acoustic reflection study has been carried out in the Gulf of Paria with an Edo UQN Echo-sounder and a Precision Graphic Recorder of The Alden Electronics and Impulse Recording Equipment Co., Inc. Using a very short ping length for maximum resolution, penetration below the bottom in excess of 0.03 sec (45 m) was commonly obtained in water depths up to 100 m...
Light-cone coordinates based at a geodesic world line
Continuing work initiated in an earlier publication [Phys. Rev. D 69, 084007
(2004)], we construct a system of light-cone coordinates based at a geodesic
world line of an arbitrary curved spacetime. The construction involves (i) an
advanced-time or a retarded-time coordinate that labels past or future light
cones centered on the world line, (ii) a radial coordinate that is an affine
parameter on the null generators of these light cones, and (iii) angular
coordinates that are constant on each generator. The spacetime metric is
calculated in the light-cone coordinates, and it is expressed as an expansion
in powers of the radial coordinate in terms of the irreducible components of
the Riemann tensor evaluated on the world line. The formalism is illustrated in
two simple applications, the first involving a comoving world line of a
spatially-flat cosmology, the other featuring an observer placed on the axis of
symmetry of Melvin's magnetic universe.Comment: 11 pages, 1 figur
Cosmological Perturbations of Quantum-Mechanical Origin and Anisotropy of the Microwave Background
Cosmological perturbations generated quantum-mechanically (as a particular
case, during inflation) possess statistical properties of squeezed quantum
states. The power spectra of the perturbations are modulated and the angular
distribution of the produced temperature fluctuations of the CMBR is quite
specific. An exact formula is derived for the angular correlation function of
the temperature fluctuations caused by squeezed gravitational waves. The
predicted angular pattern can, in principle, be revealed by the COBE-type
observations.Comment: 9 pages, WUGRAV-92-17 Accepted for Publication in Phys. Rev. Letters
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Sum Rules for the Dirac Spectrum of the Schwinger Model
The inverse eigenvalues of the Dirac operator in the Schwinger model satisfy
the same Leutwyler-Smilga sum rules as in the case of QCD with one flavor. In
this paper we give a microscopic derivation of these sum rules in the sector of
arbitrary topological charge. We show that the sum rules can be obtained from
the clustering property of the scalar correlation functions. This argument also
holds for other theories with a mass gap and broken chiral symmetry such as QCD
with one flavor. For QCD with several flavors a modified clustering property is
derived from the low energy chiral Lagrangian. We also obtain sum rules for a
fixed external gauge field and show their relation with the bosonized version
of the Schwinger model. In the sector of topological charge the sum rules
are consistent with a shift of the Dirac spectrum away from zero by
average level spacings. This shift is also required to obtain a nonzero chiral
condensate in the massless limit. Finally, we discuss the Dirac spectrum for a
closely related two-dimensional theory for which the gauge field action is
quadratic in the the gauge fields. This theory of so called random Dirac
fermions has been discussed extensively in the context of the quantum Hall
effect and d-wave super-conductors.Comment: 41 pages, Late
(2,2)-Formalism of General Relativity: An Exact Solution
I discuss the (2,2)-formalism of general relativity based on the
(2,2)-fibration of a generic 4-dimensional spacetime of the Lorentzian
signature. In this formalism general relativity is describable as a Yang-Mills
gauge theory defined on the (1+1)-dimensional base manifold, whose local gauge
symmetry is the group of the diffeomorphisms of the 2-dimensional fibre
manifold. After presenting the Einstein's field equations in this formalism, I
solve them for spherically symmetric case to obtain the Schwarzschild solution.
Then I discuss possible applications of this formalism.Comment: 2 figures included, IOP style file neede
Quantization of Gauge Field Theories on the Front-Form without Gauge Constraints I : The Abelian Case
Recently, we have proposed a new front-form quantization which treated both
the and the coordinates as front-form 'times.' This
quantization was found to preserve parity explicitly. In this paper we extend
this construction to local Abelian gauge fields . We quantize this theory using
a method proposed originally by Faddeev and Jackiw . We emphasize here the
feature that quantizing along both and , gauge theories does not
require extra constraints (also known as 'gauge conditions') to determine the
solution uniquely.Comment: 18 pages, phyzz
Quantum gravitational optics: Effective Raychaudhuri equation
Vacuum polarization in QED in a background gravitational field induces
interactions which {\it effectively} modify the classical picture of light
rays, as the null geodesics of spacetime. These interactions violate the strong
equivalence principle and affect the propagation of light leading to
superluminal photon velocities. Taking into account the QED vacuum
polarization, we study the propagation of a bundle of rays in a background
gravitational field. To do so we consider the perturbative deformation of
Raychaudhuri equation through the influence of vacuum polarization on photon
propagation. We analyze the contribution of the above interactions to the
optical scalars namely, shear, vorticity and expansion using the Newman-Penrose
formalism.Comment: 17 pages, 1 figure, RevTex format, Replaced with the published
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Lightcone reference for total gravitational energy
We give an explicit expression for gravitational energy, written solely in
terms of physical spacetime geometry, which in suitable limits agrees with the
total Arnowitt-Deser-Misner and Trautman-Bondi-Sachs energies for
asymptotically flat spacetimes and with the Abbot-Deser energy for
asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes. Our expression is a boundary value of
the standard gravitational Hamiltonian. Moreover, although it stands alone as
such, we derive the expression by picking the zero-point of energy via a
``lightcone reference.''Comment: latex, 7 pages, no figures. Uses an amstex symbo
1+1+2 Electromagnetic perturbations on non-vacuum LRS class II space-times: Decoupling scalar and 2-vector harmonic amplitudes
We use the covariant and gauge-invariant 1+1+2 formalism of Clarkson and
Barrett \cite{Clarkson2003} to analyze electromagnetic (EM) perturbations on
non-vacuum {\it locally rotationally symmetric} (LRS) class II space-times.
Ultimately, we show how to derive six real decoupled equations governing the
total of six EM scalar and 2-vector harmonic amplitudes. Four of these are new,
and result from expanding the complex EM 2-vector which we defined in
\cite{Burston2007} in terms of EM 2-vector harmonic amplitudes. We are then
able to show that there are four precise combinations of the amplitudes that
decouple, two of these are polar perturbations whereas the remaining two are
axial. The remaining two decoupled equations are the generalized Regge-Wheeler
equations which were developed previously in \cite{Betschart2004}, and these
govern the two EM scalar harmonic amplitudes. However, our analysis generalizes
this by including a full description and classification of energy-momentum
sources, such as charges and currents.Comment: 9 page
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