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Thermal and electrical interaction of tantalum with a low temperature chemically active plasma flow
The paper deals with an experimental study of radiative heat transfer and charge transfer processes from the surface of tantalum plates under conditions of unsteady high-temperature heating and oxidation. It is shown that at plate temperatures of 1800 K, the heat flux may be as high as 400 kW/sq m. Heating is shown to stimulate the emissivity of tantalum and the temperature of the free electrons which surface, through a gas boundary layer, from the plasma onto the metal
Gravitational trapping potential with arbitrary extra dimensions
We extend a recently discovered, non-singular 6 dimensional brane, solution
to D=4+n dimensions. As with the previous 6D solution the present solution
provides a gravitational trapping mechanism for fields of spin 0, 1/2, 1 and 2.
There is an important distinction between 2 extra dimensions and extra
dimensions that makes this more than a trivial extension. In contrast to
gravity in n >2 dimensions, gravity in n=2 dimensions is conformally flat. The
stress-energy tensor required by this solution has reasonable physically
properties, and for n=2 and n=3 can be made to asymptotically go to zero as one
moves away from the brane.Comment: 7 pages revtex. No figures. References added some discussions change
Models of G time variations in diverse dimensions
A review of different cosmological models in diverse dimensions leading to a
relatively small time variation of the effective gravitational constant G is
presented. Among them: 4-dimensional general scalar-tensor model,
multidimensional vacuum model with two curved Einstein spaces, multidimensional
model with multicomponent anisotropic "perfect fluid", S-brane model with
scalar fields and two form field etc. It is shown that there exist different
possible ways of explanation of relatively small time variation of the
effective gravitational constant G compatible with present cosmological data
(e.g. acceleration): 4-dimensional scalar-tensor theories or multidimensional
cosmological models with different matter sources. The experimental bounds on
G-dot may be satisfied ether in some restricted interval or for all allowed
values of the synchronous time variable.Comment: 27 pages, Late
Half-Twisted Correlators from the Coulomb Branch
We compute correlators of chiral operators in half-twisted (0,2)
supersymmetric gauged linear sigma models. Our results give simple algebraic
formulas for a (0,2) generalization of genus zero Gromov-Witten invariants of
compact toric varieties. We derive compact expressions for deformed quantum
cohomology relations and apply our general method to several examples.Comment: 21 pages, LaTex; typos corrected; some discussion adde
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