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Primordial power spectrum of tensor perturbations in Finsler spacetime
We first investigate the gravitational wave in the flat Finsler spacetime. In
the Finslerian universe, we derive the perturbed gravitational field equation
with tensor perturbations. The Finslerian background spacetime breaks
rotational symmetry and induces parity violation. Then we obtain the modified
primordial power spectrum of tensor perturbations. The parity violation feature
requires that the anisotropic effect contributes to angular
correlation coefficients with and with . The numerical
results show that the anisotropic contributions to angular correlation
coefficients depend on , and and angular correlation coefficients
are different.Comment: 15 pages, 12 fugures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1502.0225
An Empirical Analysis of Income Inequality between a Minority and the Majority in Urban China: The Case of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
Based on the urban survey data of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in 2006, this paper studies the impact of ethnic characteristics on the income determination mechanism in the same economic region. Using the decomposition methods of Blinder and Oaxaca, Fields, and Morduch and Sicular, we analyze income gap between employed Hui and Han as well as income inequality within the two ethnic groups. The main conclusions are, first, that there is almost no income gap between Han and Hui in Ningxia. But different ethnic characteristics have effects on the income determination mechanism. Ethnic factors such as religion and social capital have no obvious effect on the income determination.Minority, Majority, Income Inequality
Neutrino superluminality without Cherenkov-like processes in Finslerian special relativity
Recently, Cohen and Glashow [A.G. Cohen, S.L. Glashow, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf
107}, 181803 (2011)] pointed out that the superluminal neutrinos reported by
the OPERA would lose their energy rapidly via the Cherenkov-like process. The
Cherenkov-like process for the superluminal particles would be forbidden if the
principle of special relativity holds in any frame instead violated with a
preferred frame. We have proposed that the Finslerian special relativity could
account for the data of the neutrino superluminality (arXiv:1110.6673[hep-ph]).
The Finslerian special relativity preserves the principle of special relativity
and involves a preferred direction while consists with the causality. In this
paper, we prove that the energy-momentum conservation is preserved and the
energy-momentum is well defined in Finslerian special relativity. The
Cherenkov-like process is forbidden in the Finslerian special relativity. Thus,
the superluminal neutrinos would not lose energy in their distant propagation.Comment: 9 pages, no figure. Version for publication in PL
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