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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

Quantifying electron transfer reactions in biological systems: what interactions play the major role?

Various biological processes involve the conversion of energy into forms that are usable for chemical transformations and are quantum mechanical in nature. Such processes involve light absorption, excited electronic states formation, excitation energy tran ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Completing Lorentz violating massive gravity at high energies

Sergey Sibiryakov, Diego Blas Temino

Theories with massive gravitons are interesting for a variety of physical applications, ranging from cosmological phenomena to holographic modeling of condensed matter systems. To date, they have been formulated as effective field theories with a cutoff pr ...

Springer Verlag2015

General coordinate invariance in quantum many-body systems

Alexander Monin, Solomon G Shamsuddin Osman Endlich

We extend the notion of general coordinate invariance to many-body, not necessarily relativistic, systems. As an application, we investigate nonrelativistic general covariance in Galilei-invariant systems. The peculiar transformation rules for the backgrou ...

Amer Physical Soc2014

A comment on the construction of the maximal globally hyperbolic Cauchy development

Willie Wai Yeung Wong

Under mild assumptions, we remove all traces of the axiom of choice from the construction of the maximal globally hyperbolic Cauchy development in general relativity. The construction relies on the notion of direct union manifolds, which we review. The con ...

American Institute of Physics2013

Vesicle Photonics

Demetri Psaltis, Sylvie Roke, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Andreas Vasdekis

Amphiphiles, under appropriate conditions, can self-assemble into nanoscale thin membrane vessels (vesicles) that encapsulate and hence protect and transportmolecular payloads.Vesicles assemble naturally within cells but can also be artificially synthesize ...

Annual Reviews2013

The quantum mechanics of perfect fluids

Riccardo Rattazzi, Solomon G Shamsuddin Osman Endlich

We consider the canonical quantization of an ordinary fluid. The resulting long-distance effective field theory is derivatively coupled, and therefore strongly coupled in the UV. The system however exhibits a number of peculiarities, associated with the vo ...

2011

Scale-invariant alternatives to general relativity

Diego Blas Temino

We study the general class of gravitational field theories constructed on the basis of scale invariance (and therefore absence of any mass parameters) and invariance under transverse diffeomorphisms, which are the 4-volume conserving coordinate transformat ...

2011

Gravitational radiation in Horava gravity

Hillary Sanctuary, Diego Blas Temino

We study the radiation of gravitational waves by self-gravitating binary systems in the low-energy limit of Horava gravity. We find that the predictions for the energy-loss formula of general relativity are modified already for Newtonian sources: the quadr ...

2011

Implications Of Scale Relativity In Gravitational And Electromagnetic Field Theory

Maria-Alexandra Paun

A non-differentiable mechanical model (an alternative to Nottale's Scale Relativity Theory) considering that the particles movements takes place on Peano fractal curves is built. A Navier-Stokes type equation with an imaginary viscosity coefficient for a c ...

2010