scholarly journals AN INFINITE NUMBER OF CLOSED FLRW UNIVERSES FOR ANY VALUE OF THE SPATIAL CURVATURE

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 77-80
Author(s):  
HELIO V. FAGUNDES
Keyword(s):  
Finite Volume ◽  
Infinite Number ◽  
Negative Curvature ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Positive Curvature ◽  
Cosmological Models ◽  
Infinite Volume ◽  
Spatial Curvature ◽  
Multiply Connected ◽  
Simply Connected

The Friedman-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker cosmological models are based on the assumptions of large-scale homogeneity and isotropy of the distribution of matter and energy. They are usually taken to have spatial sections that are simply connected; they have finite volume in the positive curvature case, and infinite volume in the null and negative curvature ones. I want to call the attention to the existence of an infinite number of models, which are based on these same metrics, but have compact, finite volume, multiply connected spatial sections. Some observational implications are briefly mentioned.

scholarly journals Cosmological solutions in Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet gravity with static curved extra dimensions

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry Chirkov ◽  
Alex Giacomini ◽  
Sergey A. Pavluchenko ◽  
Alexey Toporensky
Keyword(s):  
Extra Dimensions ◽  
Negative Curvature ◽  
Narrow Range ◽  
Positive Curvature ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Subspace ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Spatial Curvature ◽  
Geometric Frustration ◽  
Cosmological Solutions

AbstractIn this paper we perform systematic investigation of all possible solutions with static compact extra dimensions and expanding three-dimensional subspace (“our Universe”). Unlike previous papers, we consider extra-dimensional subspace to be constant-curvature manifold with both signs of spatial curvature. We provide a scheme how to build solutions in all possible number of extra dimensions and perform stability analysis for the solutions found. Our study suggests that the solutions with negative spatial curvature of extra dimensions are always stable while those with positive curvature are stable for a narrow range of the parameters and the width of this range shrinks with growth of the number of extra dimensions. This explains why in the previous papers we detected compactification in the case of negative curvature but the case of positive curvature remained undiscovered. Another interesting feature which distinguish cases with positive and negative curvatures is that the latter do not coexist with maximally-symmetric solutions (leading to “geometric frustration” of a sort) while the former could – this difference is noted and discussed.

scholarly journals NON-PROPERLY EMBEDDED MINIMAL PLANES IN HYPERBOLIC 3-SPACE

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (05) ◽  
pp. 727-739 ◽  
Author(s):  
BARIS COSKUNUZER
Keyword(s):  
Minimal Surfaces ◽  
Negative Curvature ◽  
Positive Curvature ◽  
Finite Topology ◽  
Simply Connected

In this paper, we show that there are non-properly embedded minimal surfaces with finite topology in a simply connected Riemannian 3-manifold with non-positive curvature. We show this result by constructing a non-properly embedded minimal plane in H3. Hence, this gives a counterexample to Calabi–Yau conjecture for embedded minimal surfaces in negative curvature case.

scholarly journals On the three-particle analog of the Lellouch-Lüscher formula

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Müller ◽  
Akaki Rusetsky
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Finite Volume ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Infinite Volume ◽  
Leading Order ◽  
Particle Decay ◽  
Particle Decays

Abstract Using non-relativistic effective field theory, we derive a three-particle analog of the Lellouch-Lüscher formula at the leading order. This formula relates the three-particle decay amplitudes in a finite volume with their infinite-volume counterparts and, hence, can be used to study the three-particle decays on the lattice. The generalization of the approach to higher orders is briefly discussed.

scholarly journals A VISIBILITY-BASED PURSUIT-EVASION PROBLEM

1999 ◽  
Vol 09 (04n05) ◽  
pp. 471-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
LEONIDAS J. GUIBAS ◽  
JEAN-CLAUDE LATOMBE ◽  
STEVEN M. LAVALLE ◽  
DAVID LIN ◽  
RAJEEV MOTWANI
Keyword(s):  
Finite Graph ◽  
Initial Position ◽  
Moving Target ◽  
Multiply Connected ◽  
Pursuit Evasion ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
Evasion Problem ◽  
Free Spaces ◽  
Simply Connected ◽  
Motion Strategy

This paper addresses the problem of planning the motion of one or more pursuers in a polygonal environment to eventually "see" an evader that is unpredictable, has unknown initial position, and is capable of moving arbitrarily fast. This problem was first introduced by Suzuki and Yamashita. Our study of this problem is motivated in part by robotics applications, such as surveillance with a mobile robot equipped with a camera that must find a moving target in a cluttered workspace. A few bounds are introduced, and a complete algorithm is presented for computing a successful motion strategy for a single pursuer. For simply-connected free spaces, it is shown that the minimum number of pursuers required is Θ( lg  n). For multiply-connected free spaces, the bound is [Formula: see text] pursuers for a polygon that has n edges and h holes. A set of problems that are solvable by a single pursuer and require a linear number of recontaminations is shown. The complete algorithm searches a finite graph that is constructed on the basis of critical information changes. It has been implemented and computed examples are shown.

The entrainment interface

1972 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. M. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Velocity Field ◽  
Turbulent Flow ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Positive Curvature ◽  
Lagrangian Description ◽  
Eulerian Description ◽  
Entrainment Process ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
Small Disturbances

A theory is developed to describe the evolution of the entrainment interface in turbulent flow, in which the surface is convoluted by the large-scale eddies of the motion and at the same time advances relative to the fluid as a result of the micro-scale entrainment process. A pseudo-Lagrangian description of the process indicates that the interface is characterized by the appearance of ‘billows’ of negative curvature, over which surface area is, on average, being generated, separated by re-entrant wedges (lines of very large positive curvature) where surface area is consumed. An alternative Eulerian description allows calculation of the development of the interfacial configuration when the velocity field is prescribed. Several examples are considered in which the prescribed velocity field in the z direction is of the general form w = Wf(x – Ut), where the maximum value of the function f is unity. These indicate the importance of leading points on the surface which are such that small disturbances in the vicinity will move away from the point in all directions. The necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of one or more leading points on the surface is that U [les ] V, the speed of advance of an element of the surface relative to the fluid element at the same point. The existence of leading points is accompanied by the appearance of line discontinuities in the surface slope re-entrant wedges, In these circumstances, the overall speed of advance of the convoluted surface is found to be W + (V2 – U2)½, where W is the maximum outwards velocity in the region; this result is independent of the distribution f.When the speed U with which an ‘eddy’ moves relative to the outside fluid is greater than the speed of advance V of an element of the front, the interface develops neither leading points nor discontinuities in slope; the amplitude of the surface convolutions and the overall entrainment speed are both reduced greatly. In a turbulent flow, therefore, the large-scale motions influencing entrainment are primarily those that move slowly relative to the outside fluid (with relative speed less than V). The experimental results of Kovasznay, Kibens & Blackwelder (1970) are reviewed in the light of these conclusions. It appears that in their experiments the entrainment speed V is of the order fifteen times the Kolmogorov velocity, the large constant of proportionality being apparently the result of augmentation by micro-convolutions of the interface associated with small and meso-scale eddies of the turbulence.

Torus actions, maximality, and non-negative curvature

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Escher ◽  
Catherine Searle
Keyword(s):  
Negative Curvature ◽  
Torus Action ◽  
Maximal Symmetry ◽  
Curved Manifolds ◽  
Negatively Curved ◽  
Product Of Spheres ◽  
Rank Conjecture ◽  
Simply Connected ◽  
Symmetry Rank ◽  
Special Case

Abstract Let ℳ 0 n {\mathcal{M}_{0}^{n}} be the class of closed, simply connected, non-negatively curved Riemannian n-manifolds admitting an isometric, effective, isotropy-maximal torus action. We prove that if M ∈ ℳ 0 n {M\in\mathcal{M}_{0}^{n}} , then M is equivariantly diffeomorphic to the free, linear quotient by a torus of a product of spheres of dimensions greater than or equal to 3. As a special case, we then prove the Maximal Symmetry Rank Conjecture for all M ∈ ℳ 0 n {M\in\mathcal{M}_{0}^{n}} . Finally, we show the Maximal Symmetry Rank Conjecture for simply connected, non-negatively curved manifolds holds for dimensions less than or equal to 9 without additional assumptions on the torus action.

Negative Gaussian curvature induces significant suppression of thermal conduction in carbon crystals

Nanoscale ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (37) ◽  
pp. 14208-14214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongwei Zhang ◽  
Jie Chen ◽  
Baowen Li
Keyword(s):  
Gaussian Curvature ◽  
Thermal Conduction ◽  
Negative Curvature ◽  
Positive Curvature ◽  
Significant Suppression ◽  
Carbon Allotropes ◽  
Zero Curvature ◽  
Negative Gaussian Curvature

From the mathematic category of surface Gaussian curvature, carbon allotropes can be classified into three types: zero curvature, positive curvature, and negative curvature.

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