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Evolution of linear cosmological perturbations and its observational implications in Galileon-type modified gravity
A scalar-tensor theory of gravity can be made not only to account for the
current cosmic acceleration, but also to satisfy solar-system and laboratory
constraints, by introducing a non-linear derivative interaction for the scalar
field. Such an additional scalar degree of freedom is called "Galileon". The
basic idea is inspired by the DGP braneworld, but one can construct a
ghost-free model that admits a self-accelerating solution. We perform a fully
relativistic analysis of linear perturbations in Galileon cosmology. Although
the Galileon model can mimic the background evolution of standard CDM
cosmology, the behavior of perturbation is quite different. It is shown that
there exists a super-horizon growing mode in the metric and Galileon
perturbations at early times, suggesting that the background is unstable. A
fine-tuning of the initial condition for the Galileon fluctuation is thus
required in order to promote a desirable evolution of perturbations at early
times. Assuming the safe initial condition, we then compute the late-time
evolution of perturbations and discuss observational implications in Galileon
cosmology. In particular, we find anticorrelations in the cross-correlation of
the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect and large scale structure, similar to the
normal branch of the DGP model.Comment: 15 pages, 11 figures; v2: References added, typos correcte
Casimir effect for lattice fermions
We propose a definition of the Casimir energy for free lattice fermions. From
this definition, we study the Casimir effects for the massless or massive naive
fermion, Wilson fermion, and (M\"obius) domain-wall fermion in
dimensional spacetime with the spatial periodic or antiperiodic boundary
condition. For the naive fermion, we find an oscillatory behavior of the
Casimir energy, which is caused by the difference between odd and even lattice
sizes. For the Wilson fermion, in the small lattice size of , the
Casimir energy agrees very well with that of the continuum theory, which
suggests that we can control the discretization artifacts for the Casimir
effect measured in lattice simulations. We also investigate the dependence on
the parameters tunable in M\"obius domain-wall fermions. Our findings will be
observed both in condensed matter systems and in lattice simulations with a
small size.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures; published versio
Worm-like carbon shell chains produced from wood
Large-scale utilization of wood which command absolute majority in biomass for functional carbon precursors contributes to reduce greenhouse effect. Wood char generally has a limit on material usage because of its non-graphitic structure^1^, so we developed a new functional wood char by iron-, or nickel-catalyzed carbonization, which has a graphite-like structure with mesopores good for electroconductivity and liquid phase adsorption capacity for macro molecules^2-5^. However the fine structure of the wood char is still not clear. Here we report more than 70 wt % of iron-catalyzed wood char is filled with chained carbon shells formed by 3~20 defective stacking layers of carbon hexagonal planes, which look like nanometer-sized worms swarm. We name them "carbon shell chains". The discussion of the formation mechanism reveals that the wood cell wall plays an important role for their efficient production. They are stable at 1800 ºC under vacuum, but in air, burn under 600 ºC, and are perfectly conversed into hydrogen and carbon monoxide in a short time by steam at 900 ºC. The control of their decomposition will bring out a new talent in the wood char as a big source of supply for nano-graphite or nano-graphene, for which nanometer size and edge effects have recently attracted considerable attention^6^. In addition, a simple and easy preparation of carbon shell chains implies that they may be naturally produced on or in the earth rich in iron, and might be misinterpreted as nano-worms, though most of them may decompose into organic gases
Enumeration of Extractive Oracle Summaries
To analyze the limitations and the future directions of the extractive
summarization paradigm, this paper proposes an Integer Linear Programming (ILP)
formulation to obtain extractive oracle summaries in terms of ROUGE-N. We also
propose an algorithm that enumerates all of the oracle summaries for a set of
reference summaries to exploit F-measures that evaluate which system summaries
contain how many sentences that are extracted as an oracle summary. Our
experimental results obtained from Document Understanding Conference (DUC)
corpora demonstrated the following: (1) room still exists to improve the
performance of extractive summarization; (2) the F-measures derived from the
enumerated oracle summaries have significantly stronger correlations with human
judgment than those derived from single oracle summaries.Comment: 12 page
Aquaporin-4 Functionality and Virchow-Robin Space Water Dynamics: Physiological Model for Neurovascular Coupling and Glymphatic Flow.
The unique properties of brain capillary endothelium, critical in maintaining the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and restricting water permeability across the BBB, have important consequences on fluid hydrodynamics inside the BBB hereto inadequately recognized. Recent studies indicate that the mechanisms underlying brain water dynamics are distinct from systemic tissue water dynamics. Hydrostatic pressure created by the systolic force of the heart, essential for interstitial circulation and lymphatic flow in systemic circulation, is effectively impeded from propagating into the interstitial fluid inside the BBB by the tightly sealed endothelium of brain capillaries. Instead, fluid dynamics inside the BBB is realized by aquaporin-4 (AQP-4), the water channel that connects astrocyte cytoplasm and extracellular (interstitial) fluid. Brain interstitial fluid dynamics, and therefore AQP-4, are now recognized as essential for two unique functions, namely, neurovascular coupling and glymphatic flow, the brain equivalent of systemic lymphatics
A "Gauged" Peccei-Quinn Symmetry
The Peccei-Quinn (PQ) solution to the strong problem requires an
anomalous global symmetry, the PQ symmetry. The origin of such a
convenient global symmetry is quite puzzling from the theoretical point of view
in many aspects. In this paper, we propose a simple prescription which provides
an origin of the PQ symmetry. There, the global PQ symmetry is virtually
embedded in a gauged PQ symmetry. Due to its simplicity, this mechanism
can be implemented in many conventional models with the PQ symmetry.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure
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