Quantitative Properties on the Steady States to A Schr\"odinger-Poisson-Slater System

A relatively complete picture on the steady states of the following Schr$\ddot{o}$dinger-Poisson-Slater (SPS) system \begin{cases} -\Delta Q+Q=VQ-C_{S}Q^{2}, & Q>0\text{ in }\mathbb{R}^{3}\\ Q(x)\to0, & \mbox{as }x\to\infty,\\ -\Delta V=Q^{2}, & \text{in }\mathbb{R}^{3}\\ V(x)\to0 & \mbox{as }x\to\infty. \end{cases} is given in this paper: existence, uniqueness, regularity and asymptotic behavior at infinity, where $C_{S}>0$ is a constant. To the author's knowledge, this is the first uniqueness result on SPS system

Quantum Dilaton Gravity in the Light-cone Gauge

Recently, models of two-dimensional dilaton gravity have been shown to admit classical black-hole solutions that exhibit Hawking radiation at the semi-classical level. These classical and semi-classical analyses have been performed in conformal gauge. We show in this paper that a similar analysis in the light--cone gauge leads to the same results. Moreover, quantization of matter fields in light--cone gauge can be naturally extended to include quantizing the metric field {\it \`a la} KPZ. We argue that this may provide a new framework to address many issues associated to black-hole physics.Comment: 16 pages, Use phyzzx, CERN-TH.6633/9

Supporting Complex Scientific Database Schemas in a Grid Middleware

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