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Quadratic deformation of Minkowski space
We present a deformation of the Minkowski space as embedded into the
conformal space (in the formalism of twistors) based in the quantum versions of
the corresponding kinematic groups. We compute explicitly the star product,
whose Poisson bracket is quadratic. We show that the star product although
defined on the polynomials can be extended differentiably. Finally we compute
the Eucliden and Minkowskian real forms of the deformation.Comment: Presented at XVII European Workshop on String Theory 2011. Padova
(Italy) September 05-09; Fortschr. Phys. 1-7 (2012
Dark matter from dark energy-baryonic matter couplings
We present a scenario in which a scalar field dark energy is coupled to the
trace of the energy momentum tensor of the baryonic matter fields. In the
slow-roll regime, this interaction could give rise to the cosmological features
of dark matter. We work out the cosmological background solutions and fit the
parameters of the model using the Union 2 supernovae data set. Then, we develop
the cosmological perturbations up to linear order, and we find that the
perturbed variables have an acceptable behavior, in particular the density
contrast of baryonic matter grows similar to that in the CDM model for
a suitable choice of the strength parameter of the coupling.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, in this version small typos are corrected and it
matches the published version in Phys. Rev. D15, January 201
Empirical distributions of galactic spin parameters from the SDSS
Using simple dimensional arguments for both spiral and elliptical galaxies,
we present formulas to derive an estimate of the halo spin parameter
for any real galaxy, in terms of common observational parameters. This allows a
rough estimate of , which we apply to a large volume limited sample of
galaxies taken from the SDSS data base. The large numbers involved (11,597)
allow the derivation of reliable distributions, as signal adds up
significantly in spite of the errors in the inferences for particular galaxies.
We find that if the observed distribution of is modeled with a
log-normal function, as often done for this distribution in dark matter halos
that appear in cosmological simulations, we obtain parameters and , interestingly consistent with
values derived from simulations. For spirals, we find a good correlation
between empirical values of and visually assigned Hubble types,
highlighting the potential of this physical parameter as an objective
classification tool.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, expanded final version, MNRAS (in press
Enhanced conformational space sampling improves the prediction of chemical shifts in proteins.
A biased-potential molecular dynamics simulation method, accelerated molecular dynamics (AMD), was combined with the chemical shift prediction algorithm SHIFTX to calculate (1)H(N), (15)N, (13)Calpha, (13)Cbeta, and (13)C' chemical shifts of the ankyrin repeat protein IkappaBalpha (residues 67-206), the primary inhibitor of nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-kappaB). Free-energy-weighted molecular ensembles were generated over a range of acceleration levels, affording systematic enhancement of the conformational space sampling of the protein. We have found that the predicted chemical shifts, particularly for the (15)N, (13)Calpha, and (13)Cbeta nuclei, improve substantially with enhanced conformational space sampling up to an optimal acceleration level. Significant improvement in the predicted chemical shift data coincides with those regions of the protein that exhibit backbone dynamics on longer time scales. Interestingly, the optimal acceleration level for reproduction of the chemical shift data has previously been shown to best reproduce the experimental residual dipolar coupling (RDC) data for this system, as both chemical shift data and RDCs report on an ensemble and time average in the millisecond range
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