BRANS–DICKE AND RELATED EUCLIDEAN WORMHOLES

1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 961-971 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. H. COULE

In a recent paper1 Euclidean wormhole solution has been obtained with a vacuum Brans–Dicke theory with parameter ω=0. These wormholes suffer from unphysical values of the gravitational constant. One can relate the various known wormholes by means of conformal transformations; although one should not transform them directly to the Einstein frame as the gravitational constant there is "forced" physical: so removing the wormholes. However, by arguing for the existence of a fundamental minimum length scale such wormholes can now be considered as representative of quantum gravitational phenomena. One can also obtain wormholes as solutions of the quantum mechanical Wheeler–De Witt equation; now in Brans–Dicke for any ω>-3/2.

2017 ◽  
Vol 145 (5) ◽  
pp. 1659-1678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Battalio ◽  
Jamie Dyer

Abstract The minimum length scale to investigate quasigeostrophic (QG) vertical motion within a mesoscale operational model is determined using simulations of 28 baroclinic systems from the North American Mesoscale Forecast System (NAM) model. Two upscaling methods are tested to find the optimal QG characteristic length. The box method takes an average of each field before performing finite-differencing calculations. The cross method samples the data at increasing distances between finite-difference calculations. The traditional QG omega equation is evaluated with each upscaling technique and found to be reliable between 800 and 200 hPa. The minimum QG length scale is found to be L = 140 km considering correlations of QG omega back to operational model values, which are for both methods on an “extended” QG omega. The box method performs marginally better than the cross method due to a larger reduction of QG forcing in higher-order wavenumbers, but at the appropriate length scale, both methods have indistinguishable correlations.


1999 ◽  
Vol 566 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. P. Goetz

Chemical-Mechanical Planarization with structured abrasive uses a subpad to manage the pressure variations due to loading over a range of length scales. The effect of subpad construction on pressure responses related to those scales is illustrated.A minimum length scale for the effect of the subpad is established via contact mechanics. Differences between one- and two-layer subpads are shown. Uniform compression, point loading, and edge exclusion are considered briefly. A model of the subpad as a plate on an elastic foundation is applied to the problem of die doming. The roles of process pressure, die size, and subpad construction are illustrated. Planarization at the intra-die, die, and wafer scales are related to the subpad construction.


2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (17) ◽  
pp. 3565-3574 ◽  
Author(s):  
SAYAN K. CHAKRABARTI ◽  
KUMAR S. GUPTA

We obtain an analytic expression for the highly damped asymptotic quasinormal mode frequencies of the (d ≥ 5)-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole modified by the Gauss–Bonnet term, which appears in string derived models of gravity. The analytic expression is obtained under the string inspired assumption that there exists a minimum length scale in the system and in the limit when the coupling in front of the Gauss–Bonnet term in the action is small. Although there are several similarities of this geometry with that of the Schwarzschild black hole, the asymptotic quasinormal mode frequencies are quite different. In particular, the real part of the asymptotic quasinormal frequencies for this class of single horizon black holes is not proportional to log (3).


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