Small Gauge Transformations and Universal Geometry in Heterotic Theories

The first part of this paper describes in detail the action of small gauge transformations in heterotic supergravity. We show a convenient gauge fixing is 'holomorphic gauge' together with a condition on the holomorphic top form. This gauge fixing, combined with supersymmetry and the Bianchi identity, allows us to determine a set of non-linear PDEs for the terms in the Hodge decomposition. Although solving these in general is highly non-trivial, we give a prescription for their solution perturbatively in α and apply this to the moduli space metric. The second part of this paper relates small gauge transformations to a choice of connection on the moduli space. We show holomorphic gauge is related to a choice of holomorphic structure and Lee form on a 'universal bundle'. Connections on the moduli space have field strengths that appear in the second order deformation theory and we point out it is generically the case that higher order deformations do not commute.

The Feuerbach Theorem and Cyclography in Universal Geometry

We have another look at the Feuerbach theorem with a view to extending it in an oriented way to finite fields using the purely algebraic approach of rational trigonometry and universal geometry. Our approach starts with the tangent lines to three rational points on the unit circle, and all subsequent formulas involve the three parameters that define them. Tangency of incircles is treated in the oriented setting via a simplified form of cyclography. Some interesting features of the finite field case are discussed.

THE ASYMPTOTIC STRUCTURE OF SPACE-TIME

Astronomical observations strongly suggest that our universe is now accelerating and contains a substantial admixture of dark vacuum energy. Using numerical simulations to study this newly consolidated cosmological model (with a constant density of dark energy), we show that astronomical structures freeze out in the near future and that the density profiles of dark matter halos approach the same general form. Every dark matter halo grows asymptotically isolated and thereby becomes the center of its own island universe. Each of these isolated regions of space-time approaches a universal geometry and we calculate the corresponding form of the space-time metric.