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Braneworlds scenarios in a gravity model with higher order spatial three-curvature terms
In this work we study a Horava-like five-dimensional model in the context of
braneworld theory. To begin with, the equations of motion of such model are
obtained and, within the realm of warped geometry, we show that the model is
consistent if and only if takes its relativistic value 1.
Furthermore, since the first derivative of the warp factor is discontinuous
over the branes, we show that the elimination of problematic terms involving
the square of the warp factor second order derivatives are eliminated by
imposing detailed balance condition in the bulk. Afterwards, the Israel's
junction conditions are computed, allowing the attainment of an effective
Lagrangian in the visible brane. In particular, for a (4+1)-dimensional
Horava-like model defined in the bulk without cosmological constant, we show
that the resultant effective Lagrangian in the brane corresponds to a
(3+1)-dimensional Horava-like model with an emergent positive cosmological
constant but without detailed balance condition. Now, restoration of detailed
balance condition, at this time imposed over the brane, plays an interesting
role by fitting accordingly the sign of the arbitrary constant that
labels the extra terms in the model, insuring a positive brane tension and a
real energy for the graviton within its dispersion relation. To end up with,
the brane consistency equations are obtained and, as a result, we show that the
detailed balance condition again plays an essential role in eliminating bad
behaving terms and that the model admits positive brane tensions in the
compactification scheme if, and only if, is negative, what is in
accordance with the previous result obtained for the visible brane.Comment: 23 pages, 1 figure, title modifie
On the duality of three-dimensional superfield theories
Within the superfield approach, we consider the duality between the
supersymmetric Maxwell-Chern-Simons and self-dual theories in three spacetime
dimensions. Using a gauge embedding method, we construct the dual theory to the
self-dual model interacting with a matter superfield, which turns out to be not
the Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory coupled to matter, but a more complicated
model, with a ``restricted'' gauge invariance. We stress the difficulties in
dualizing the self-dual field coupled to matter into a theory with complete
gauge invariance. After that, we show that the duality, achieved between these
two models at the tree level, also holds up to the lowest order quantum
corrections.Comment: 18 pages,2 figures, revtex4, v2: corrected reference
Reducing time in sedentary activity of people 75 and above: a case study in Portugal
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On the one-loop effective potential in the higher-derivative four-dimensional chiral superfield theory with a nonconventional kinetic term
We explicitly calculate the one-loop effective potential for a
higher-derivative four-dimensional chiral superfield theory with a
nonconventional kinetic term. We consider the cases of minimal and nonminimal
general Lagrangians. In particular, we find that in the minimal case the
divergent part of the one-loop effective potential vanishes by reason of the
chirality.Comment: 9 page
Adaptive spatial combining for passive time-reversed communications
Passive time reversal has aroused considerable interest in underwater communications as a computationally inexpensive means of mitigating the intersymbol interference introduced by the
channel using a receiver array. In this paper the basic technique is extended by adaptively weighting sensor contributions to partially compensate for degraded focusing due to mismatch between the assumed and actual medium impulse responses. Two algorithms are proposed, one of which restores constructive interference between sensors, and the other one minimizes the output residual as in widely used equalization schemes. These are compared with plain time reversal and variants that
employ postequalization and channel tracking. They are shown to improve the residual error and temporal stability of basic time reversal with very little added complexity. Results are presented for data collected in a passive time-reversal experiment that was conducted during the MREA’04 sea trial. In that experiment a single acoustic projector generated a 2/4-PSK phase-shift keyed stream at 200/400 baud, modulated at 3.6 kHz, and received at a range of about 2 km on a sparse vertical array with eight hydrophones. The data were found to exhibit significant Doppler scaling, and a
resampling-based preprocessing method is also proposed here to compensate for that scaling
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