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The Dirac point electron in zero-gravity Kerr--Newman spacetime
Dirac's wave equation for a point electron in the topologically nontrivial
maximal analytically extended electromagnetic Kerr--Newman spacetime is studied
in a zero-gravity limit; here, "zero-gravity" means , where is
Newton's constant of universal gravitation. The following results are obtained:
the formal Dirac Hamiltonian on the static spacelike slices is essentially
self-adjoint; the spectrum of the self-adjoint extension is symmetric about
zero, featuring a continuum with a gap about zero that, under two smallness
conditions, contains a point spectrum. Some of our results extend to a
generalization of the zero- Kerr--Newman spacetime with different
electric-monopole-to-magnetic-dipole-moment ratio.Comment: 49 pages, 17 figures; referee's comments implemented; the endnotes in
the published version appear as footnotes in this preprin
A Note on Tsallis Holographic Dark Energy
We explore the effects of considering various infrared (IR) cutoffs,
including the particle horizon, Ricci horizon and Granda-Oliveros (GO) cutoffs,
on the properties of Tsallis holographic dark energy (THDE) model, proposed
inspired by Tsallis generalized entropy formalism \cite{THDE}. Interestingly
enough, we find that for the particle horizon as IR cutoff, the obtained THDE
model can describe the accelerated universe. This is in contrast to the usual
HDE model which cannot lead to an accelerated universe, if one consider the
particle horizon as IR cutoff. We also investigate the cosmological
consequences of THDE under the assumption of a mutual interaction between the
dark sectors of the Universe. It is shown that the evolution history of the
Universe can be described by these IR cutoffs and thus the current cosmic
acceleration can also been realized. The sound instability of THDE models for
each cutoff are also explored, separately.Comment: 12 pages, 31 figure
The Variability of Polarized Radiation from Sgr A*
Sgr A* is variable at radio and submillimeter wavelengths on hourly time
scales showing time delays between the peaks of flare emission as well as
linearly polarized emission at millimeter and sub-mm wavelengths. To determine
the polarization characteristics of this variable source at radio frequencies,
we present VLA observations of Sgr A* and report the detection of polarized
emission at a level of 0.77\pm0.01% and 0.2\pm0.01% at 43 and 22 GHz,
respectively. The change in the time averaged polarization angle between 22 and
43 GHz corresponds to a RM of -2.5\pm0.6 x10^3 rad m{-2} with no phase wrapping
(or \sim 5x10^4 rad m^2 with 2\pi phase wrap). We also note a rise and fall
time scale of 1.5 -- 2 hours in the total polarized intensity. The light curves
of the degree of linearly polarized emission suggests a a correlation with the
variability of the total intensity at 43 GHz. The available polarization data
at radio and sub-mm wavelengths suggest that the rotation measure decreases
with decreasing frequency. This frequency dependence, and observed changes in
polarization angle during flare events, may be caused by the reduction in
rotation measure associated with the expansion of synchrotron-emitting blobs.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures, ApJL (in press
Comparison of Soil Classification Methods Using CPT Results
A series of cone penetration test were conducted in the southeast of Tehran to assess the liquefaction potential in this area. At the same time, after sounding of each cone penetration test, soil samples were also taken from different depths of boreholes to visually verify the soil classification. Seventy four samples from twenty boreholes were taken and their soil characteristics were obtained. To classify the soil layers, using recorded data, two various soil behaviour classification charts proposed by Robertson and Wride (1988), and Marr (1981) were examined which for some cases different results were obtained. In this paper validity of these procedures are investigated and discussed in details. These soil classification methods in some cases give a good results but there is a different between those charts and observed soil classification, particularly when the soil contain fines and therefore some modification must be applied
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