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Three-generation neutrino oscillations in curved spacetime
Three-generation MSW effect in curved spacetime is studied and a brief
discussion on the gravitational correction to the neutrino self-energy is
given. The modified mixing parameters and corresponding conversion
probabilities of neutrinos after traveling through celestial objects of
constant densities are obtained. The method to distinguish between the normal
hierarchy and inverted hierarchy is discussed in this framework. Due to the
gravitational redshift of energy, in some extreme situations, the resonance
energy of neutrinos might be shifted noticeably and the gravitational effect on
the self-energy of neutrino becomes significant at the vicinities of spacetime
singularities.Comment: 25 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. Some changes are made according to
referee's suggestions. The final version is to be published at Nuclear
Physics
When bigger isn’t better : bailouts and bank behaviour
Lending retail deposits to SMEs and household borrowers may be the traditional role of
commercial banks: but banking in Britain has been transformed by increasing consolidation
and by the lure of high returns available from wholesale Investment activities. With
appropriate changes to the baseline model of commercial banking in Allen and Gale (2007),
we show how market power enables banks to collect „seigniorage‟; and how „tail risk‟
investment allows losses to be shifted onto the taxpayer.
In principle, the high franchise values associated with market power assist regulatory capital
requirements to check risk-taking. But when big banks act strategically, bailout expectations
can undermine these disciplining devices: and the taxpayer ends up „on the hook‟- as in the
recent crisis. That structural change is needed to prevent a repeat seems clear from the
Vickers report, which proposes to protect the taxpayer by a „ring fence‟separating
commercial and investment banking
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