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Scale-invariant alternatives to general relativity. II. Dilaton properties

Georgios Karananas

In the present paper, we revisit gravitational theories which are invariant under TDiffs-transverse (volume-preserving) diffeomorphisms and global scale transformations. It is known that these theories can be rewritten in an equivalent diffeomorphism-invar ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Minkowski space is locally the Noldus limit of Poisson process causets

Jan Cristina

A Poisson process P-lambda on R-d with causal structure inherited from the the usual Minkowski metric on R-d has a normalised discrete causal distance D-lambda (x, y) given by the height of the longest causal chain normalised by lambda(1/d)c(d). We prove t ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Objective and subjective evaluation of light field image compression algorithms

Touradj Ebrahimi, Martin Rerabek, Irene Viola

This paper reports results of subjective and objective quality assessments of responses to a grand challenge on light field image compression. The goal of the challenge was to collect and evaluate new compression algorithms for light field images. In total ...

2016

Kerr coefficients of plasma resonances in Josephson junction chains

We present an experimental and theoretical analysis of the self-and cross-Kerr effect of extended plasma resonances in Josephson junction chains. We calculate the Kerr coefficients by deriving and diagonalizing the Hamiltonian of a linear circuit model for ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

The particle spectrum of parity-violating Poincare gravitational theory

Georgios Karananas

In this paper we investigate the physical spectrum of the gravitational theory based on the Poincare group with terms that are at most quadratic in tetrad and spin connection, allowing for the presence of parity-even as well as parity-odd invariants. We de ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Semiclassical S-matrix for black holes

Sergey Sibiryakov

We propose a semiclassical method to calculate S-matrix elements for two-stage gravitational transitions involving matter collapse into a black hole and evaporation of the latter. The method consistently incorporates back-reaction of the collapsing and emi ...

Springer2015

The Unique Games Conjecture, Integrality Gap for Cut Problems and Embeddability of Negative-Type Metrics into ℓ_1

Nisheeth Vishnoi

In this article, we disprove a conjecture of Goemans and Linial; namely, that every negative type metric embeds into ℓ1 with constant distortion. We show that for an arbitrarily small constant δ > 0, for all large enough n, there is an n-point negative ...

Association for Computing Machinery2015

Blow Up Construction and Stability of Stationary Maps

Sohrab Mirshams Shahshahani

This thesis is a study of wave maps from a curved background to the standard two dimensional sphere S2. The target is always assumed to be embedded in R3 in the standard way. The do- main manifold (the "curved background") will be diffeomorphic to S2 × R, ...

EPFL2012

Three-Dimensional Mapping of Transparent Objects Using Kerr Nonlinearity Measurement

Demetri Psaltis, Alexandre Goy

We report a technique to produce three-dimensional maps of transparent objects using the Kerr coefficient as a contrast agent. The method is based on the spatial modifications of a probe pattern focused into the medium. (C) 2010 Optical Society of America ...

Ieee2012

A proof of Price's Law on Schwarzschild black hole manifolds for all angular momenta

Roland Donninger

Price's Law states that linear perturbations of a Schwarzschild black hole fall off as

t^{-2\ell-3}

for

t \to \infty

provided the initial data decay sufficiently fast at spatial infinity. Moreover, if the perturbations are initially static (i.e., their ...

2011

A proof of Price's Law on Schwarzschild black hole manifolds for all angular momenta

Roland Donninger

Price's Law states that linear perturbations of a Schwarzschild black hole fall off as

t^{-2\ell-3}

for

t \to \infty

provided the initial data decay sufficiently fast at spatial infinity. Moreover, if the perturbations are initially static (i.e., their ...

2011