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Constraining Horava-Lifshitz gravity from neutrino speed experiments
We constrain Horava-Lifshitz gravity using the results of OPERA and ICARUS
neutrino speed experiments, which show that neutrinos are luminal particles,
examining the fermion propagation in the earth's gravitational field. In
particular, investigating the Dirac equation in the spherical solutions of the
theory, we find that the neutrinos feel an effective metric with respect to
which they might propagate superluminally. Therefore, demanding not to have
superluminal or subluminal motion we constrain the parameters of the theory.
Although the excluded parameter regions are very narrow, we find that the
detailed balance case lies in the excluded region.Comment: 5 pages, no figure, version published at Gen.Rel.Gra
Violent Crime in the United States of America: A Time-Series Analysis Between 1960-2000
This paper empirically assesses the effect of socio-economic and demographic variables on violent crime in the United States. Using national-level time-series data over the period 1960-2000, I estimate an unrestricted vector autoregressive (VAR) model individually for overall violent crime, murder, rape and assault. The results indicate that there is no long-run relationship among the examined variables, but a significant short-run relationship holds. Imprisonment growth, income inequality, alcohol consumption, and racial composition of the male youth population are shown to influence the short-run behaviour of violent crime.Violent Crime; Rationality; Socio-economic and Demographic Determinants; Cointegration Analysis; Dynamic OLS
Gravity's Rainbow: a bridge towards Horava-Lifshitz gravity
We investigate the connection between Gravity's Rainbow and Horava-Lifshitz
gravity, since both theories incorporate a modification in the UltraViolet
regime which improves their quantum behavior at the cost of the Lorentz
invariance loss. In particular, extracting the Wheeler-De Witt equations of the
two theories in the case of Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker and spherically
symmetric geometries, we establish a correspondence that bridges them.Comment: 20 page
String in Horava-Lifshitz Gravity
We generalize recent analysis of the dynamics of point particle in
Horava-Lifshitz background to the case of string probe when we replace the
Hamiltonian constraint of the Polyakov string with the constraint that breaks
Lorentz invariance of target space-time. Then we find corresponding Lagrangian
and argue that the world-sheet theory is invariant under foliation preserving
diffeomorphism. Finally we discuss the Hamiltonian dynamics and show that this
is well defined on condition that the world-sheet lapse function obeys the
projectability condition.Comment: 20 pages, references adde
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