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gr-qc/9404054
Linear stochastic wave-equations for continuously measured quantum systems
While the linearity of the Schr\"odinger equation and the superposition principle are fundamental to quantum mechanics, so are the backaction of measurements and the resulting nonlinearity. It is remarkable, therefore, that the wave-equation of systems in continuous interaction with some reservoir, which may be a measu...
1994-04-26
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc" ]
Peter Goetsch and Robert Graham
gr-qc/9404049
Closed spherically symmetric massless scalar field spacetimes have finite lifetimes
The closed-universe recollapse conjecture is studied for a class of closed spherically symmetric spacetimes which includes those having as a matter source: (1) a massless scalar field; (2) a perfect fluid obeying the equation of state $\rho = P$; and (3) null dust. It is proven that all timelike curves in any such spac...
1994-04-26
2010-11-19
[ "gr-qc" ]
Gregory A. Burnett
gr-qc/9404048
Semiclassical Gravitational Effects in de Sitter Space at Finite Temperature
In the framework of finite temperature conformal scalar field theory on de Sitter space-time the linearized Einstein equations for the renormalized stress tensor are exactly solved. In this theory quantum field fluctuations are concentrated near two spheres of the de Sitter radius, propagating as light wave fronts. Rel...
1994-04-26
2010-04-06
[ "gr-qc" ]
D.V. Fursaev, G. Miele
gr-qc/9404043
Three-dimensional initial data for the collision of two black holes II: Quasi-circular orbits for equal-mass black holes
The construction of initial-data sets representing binary black-hole configurations in quasi-circular orbits is studied in the context of the conformal-imaging formalism. An effective-potential approach for locating quasi-circular orbits is outlined for the general case of two holes of arbitrary size and with arbitrary...
1994-04-25
2009-09-25
[ "gr-qc", "astro-ph" ]
Gregory B. Cook
gr-qc/9404044
Quantum Cosmology and Higher-Order Lagrangian Theories
In this paper the quantum cosmological consequences of introducing a term cubic in the Ricci curvature scalar $R$ into the Einstein--Hilbert action are investigated. It is argued that this term represents a more generic perturbation to the action than the quadratic correction usually considered. A qualitative argument ...
1994-04-25
2010-04-06
[ "gr-qc" ]
Henk van Elst, James E Lidsey & Reza Tavakol
gr-qc/9404052
Vector Fields on a Disk with Mixed Boundary Conditions
We study vector fields on a disk satisfying two types of mixed boundary conditions. These boundary conditions are selected by BRST-invariance in electrodynamics. They also appear in the de Rham complex. The manifest construction of the harmonic expansion is presented. The eigenfunctions of the vector Laplace operator a...
1994-04-25
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc" ]
Dmitri Vassilevich
gr-qc/9404045
Classical and Quantum Properties of Liouville Black Holes
Black hole spacetimes can arise when a Liouville field is coupled to two- dimensional gravity. Exact solutions are obtained both classically and when quantum corrections due to back reaction effects are included. The black hole temperature depends upon the mass and the thermodynamic limit breaks down before evaporation...
1994-04-25
2007-05-23
[ "gr-qc" ]
R.B. Mann
gr-qc/9404046
Traversable Wormholes in (2+1) and (3+1) Dimensions with a Cosmological Constant
Macroscopic traversable wormhole solutions to Einstein's field equations in $(2+1)$ and $(3+1)$ dimensions with a cosmological constant are investigated. Ensuring traversability severely constrains the material used to generate the wormhole's spacetime curvature. Although the presence of a cosmological constant modifie...
1994-04-25
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc" ]
M.S. Delgaty and R.B. Mann
gr-qc/9504037
Soliton Induced Singularities in 2 d Gravity and their Evaporation
Positive energy singularities induced by Sine-Gordon solitons in 1+1 dimensional dilaton gravity with positive and negative cosmological constant are considered. When the cosmological constant is positive, the singularities combine a white hole, a timelike singularity and a black hole joined smoothly near the soliton c...
1994-04-24
2010-11-01
[ "gr-qc" ]
Cenalo Vaz and Louis Witten
gr-qc/9404042
Bases of Wormholes in Quantum Cosmology
We show that if the space of physical states spanned by the wormhole wave functions can be equipped with a Hilbert structure, such a Hilbert space must coincide with that of the Lorentzian gravitational system under consideration. The physical inner product can then be determined by imposing a set of Lorentzian reality...
1994-04-24
2010-04-06
[ "gr-qc" ]
Guillermo A. Mena Marugan
gr-qc/9404041
Cylindrical Black Hole in General Relativity
A black hole solution of Einstein's field equations with cylindrical symmetry is found. Using the Hamiltonian formulation one is able to define mass and angular momentum for the cylindrical black hole through the corresponding and equivalent three dimensional theory. The causal structure is analyzed. Comments: revised ...
1994-04-23
2010-11-01
[ "gr-qc" ]
Jose' P. S. Lemos
gr-qc/9404040
Static Charged Black Holes in $(2+1)$ Dimensional Dilaton Gravity
A one parameter family of static charged black hole solutions in $(2+1)$-dimensional general relativity minimally coupled to a dilaton $\phi\propto ln({r\over\beta})$ with a potential term $e^{b\phi}\Lambda$ is obtained. Their causal strutures are investigated, and thermodynamical temperature and entropy are computed. ...
1994-04-21
2014-11-17
[ "gr-qc" ]
K.C.K. Chan and R.B. Mann
gr-qc/9404038
Stability and Hamiltonian formulation of higher derivative theories
We analyze the presumptions which lead to instabilities in theories of order higher than second. That type of fourth order gravity which leads to an inflationary (quasi de Sitter) period of cosmic evolution by inclusion of one curvature squared term (i.e. the Starobinsky model) is used as an example. The corresponding ...
1994-04-19
2014-11-17
[ "gr-qc" ]
Hans - Juergen Schmidt
gr-qc/9404039
Black Hole Entropy and Induced Gravity
In this short essay we review the arguments showing that black hole entropy is, at least in part, ``entanglement entropy", i.e., missing information contained in correlations between quantum field fluctuations inside and outside the event horizon. Although the entanglement entropy depends upon the matter field content ...
1994-04-19
2007-05-23
[ "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
Ted Jacobson
gr-qc/9404036
Wavefunction of a Black Hole and the Dynamical Origin of Entropy
Recently it was proposed to explain the dynamical origin of the entropy of a black hole by identifying its dynamical degrees of freedom with states of quantum fields propagating in the black-hole's interior. The present paper contains the further development of this approach. The no-boundary proposal (analogous to the ...
1994-04-19
2011-04-18
[ "gr-qc" ]
A.O.Barvinsky, V.P.Frolov, and A.I.Zelnikov
gr-qc/9404037
Why do all the curvature invariants of a gravitational wave vanish ?
We prove the theorem valid for (Pseudo)-Riemannian manifolds $V_n$: "Let $x \in V_n$ be a fixed point of a homothetic motion which is not an isometry then all curvature invariants vanish at $x$." and get the Corollary: "All curvature invariants of the plane wave metric $$ds \sp 2 \quad = \quad 2 \, du \, dv \, + \, a\s...
1994-04-19
2007-05-23
[ "gr-qc" ]
Hans - J\"urgen Schmidt
gr-qc/9404034
Static axisymmetric spacetimes with non-generic world-line SUSY
The conditions for the existence of Killing-Yano tensors, which are closely related to the appearance of non-generic world-line SUSY, are presented for static axisymmetric spacetimes. Imposing the vacuum Einstein equation, the set of solutions admitting Killing-Yano tensors is considered. In particular, it is shown tha...
1994-04-18
2008-11-26
[ "gr-qc" ]
Masayuki Tanimoto
gr-qc/9404035
Universal Approach to Cosmological Singularities in Two Dimensional Dilaton Gravity
We show that in a large class of two dimensional models with conformal matter fields, the semiclassical cosmological solutions have a weak coupling singularity if the classical matter content is below a certain threshold. This threshold and the approach to the singularity are model-independent. When the matter fields a...
1994-04-18
2010-01-06
[ "gr-qc" ]
G.N. Martin and F.D. Mazzitelli
gr-qc/9404033
Conformal Coupling and Invariance in Different Dimensions
Conformal transformations of the following kinds are compared: (1) conformal coordinate transformations, (2) conformal transformations of Lagrangian models for a D-dimensional geometry, given by a Riemannian manifold M with metric g of arbitrary signature, and (3) conformal transformations of (mini-)superspace geometry...
1994-04-17
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
M. Rainer
gr-qc/9404032
Resolution of simple singularities yielding particle symmetries in a space-time
A finite subgroup of the conformal group SL(2,C) can be related to invariant polynomials on a hypersurface in C^3. The latter then carries a simple singularity, which resolves by a finite iteration of basic cycles of deprojections. The homological intersection graph of this cycles is the Dynkin graph of an ADE Lie grou...
1994-04-17
2010-11-01
[ "gr-qc", "alg-geom", "hep-th", "math.AG" ]
M. Rainer
gr-qc/9404031
Optical scalars in spherical spacetimes
Consider a spherically symmetric spacelike slice through a spherically symmetric spacetime. One can derive a universal bound for the optical scalars on any such slice. The only requirement is that the matter sources satisfy the dominant energy condition and that the slice be asymptotically flat and regular at the origi...
1994-04-15
2009-12-30
[ "gr-qc" ]
E. Malec and N. \'O Murchadha (Physics Department, University College, Cork, Ireland and Uniwersytet Jagiello\'nski, Instytut Fizyki, 30-059 Krak\'ow, Poland)
gr-qc/9404029
The Problems of Time and Observables: Some Recent Mathematical Results
We present 2 recent results on the problems of time and observables in canonical gravity. (1) We cannot use parametrized field theory to solve the problem of time because, strictly speaking, general relativity is not a parametrized field theory. (2) We show that there are essentially no local observables for vacuum spa...
1994-04-14
2007-05-23
[ "gr-qc" ]
C. G. Torre
gr-qc/9404028
Decoherence, Correlation, and Unstable Quantum States in Semiclassical Cosmology
It is demonstrated that almost any S-matrix of quantum field theory in curved spaces posses an infinite set of complex poles (or branch cuts). These poles can be transformed into complex eigenvalues, the corresponding eigenvectors being Gamow vectors. All this formalism, which is heuristic in ordinary Hilbert space, be...
1994-04-14
2010-11-01
[ "gr-qc" ]
M. Castagnino and F. Lombardo (Univ. of Buenos Aires)
gr-qc/9404030
Classification of Generalized Symmetries for the Vacuum Einstein Equations
A generalized symmetry of a system of differential equations is an infinitesimal transformation depending locally upon the fields and their derivatives which carries solutions to solutions. We classify all generalized symmetries of the vacuum Einstein equations in four spacetime dimensions. To begin, we analyze symmetr...
1994-04-14
2008-11-26
[ "gr-qc" ]
I. M. Anderson and C. G. Torre
gr-qc/9404027
Gravitational Shock Waves for Schwarzschild and Kerr Black Holes
The metrics of gravitational shock waves for a Schwarzschild black hole in ordinary coordinates and for a Kerr black hole in Boyer-Lindquist coordinates are derived. The Kerr metric is discussed for two cases: the case of a Kerr black hole moving parallel to the rotational axis, and moving perpendicular to the rotation...
1994-04-13
2011-09-09
[ "gr-qc" ]
Koichi HAYASHI and Toshiharu SAMURA
gr-qc/9404026
Source Vacuum Fluctuations of Black Hole Radiance
The emergence of Hawking radiation from vacuum fluctuations is analyzed in conventional field theories and their energy content is defined through the Aharonov weak value concept. These fluctuations travel in flat space-time and carry transplanckian energies sharply localized on cisplanckian distances. We argue that th...
1994-04-13
2010-04-06
[ "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
F. Englert, S. Massar and R. Parentani
gr-qc/9404023
Higher order gravity, gauge invariant variables, and quantum behavior in Weyl-like geometries
This paper presents the detailed, standard treatment of a simple, gauge invariant action for Weyl and Weyl-like Cartan geometries outlined in a previous paper. In addition to the familiar scalar curvature squared and Maxwell terms, the action chosen contains the logarithmic derivative of the scalar curvature combined w...
1994-04-13
2018-07-26
[ "gr-qc" ]
J.E. Rankin
gr-qc/9404024
Gravitation Singularities of the Caustic Type
In view of the well-known correspondence between gravitational fields and space-time distributions on a world manifold X, the criterion of gravitation singularities as singularities of these distributions is suggested. In the germ terms, singularities of a (3+1) distribution look locally like singularities of a foliati...
1994-04-13
2007-05-23
[ "gr-qc" ]
G.Sardanashvily (Department of Theoretical Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)
gr-qc/9404025
Entropy Generation in Quantum Gravity and Black Hole Remnants
The area entropy $A/4$ and the related Hawking temperature in the presence of event horizons are rederived, for de Sitter and black hole topologies, as a consequence of a tunneling of the wave functional associated to the classical coupled matter and gravitational fields. The extension of the wave functional outside th...
1994-04-13
2009-09-25
[ "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
A. Casher and F. Englert
gr-qc/9404022
The Role of the Future in Quantum Theory
Interpretation problems are eliminated from quantum theory by picturing a quantum history as having been sampled from a probability distribution over the set of histories which are permitted by all relevant boundary conditions. In laboratory physics, the final measurement plays a crucial role in defining the set of all...
1994-04-12
2007-05-23
[ "gr-qc" ]
Paul Sommers
gr-qc/9404021
The Decoherence of Phase Space Histories
In choosing a family of histories for a system, it is often convenient to choose a succession of locations in phase space, rather than configuration space, for comparison to classical histories. Although there are no good projections onto phase space, several approximate projections have been used in the past; three of...
1994-04-12
2008-02-03
[ "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
Todd A. Brun (Department of Physics, Caltech)
gr-qc/9404019
The Positivity of Energy for Asymptotically Anti-de Sitter Spacetimes
We use the formulation of asymptotically anti-de Sitter boundary conditions given by Ashtekar and Magnon to obtain a coordinate expression for the general asymptotically AdeS metric in a neighbourhood of infinity. From this, we are able to compute the time delay of null curves propagating near infinity. If the gravitat...
1994-04-11
2010-04-06
[ "gr-qc" ]
E. Woolgar
gr-qc/9404020
Positive Energy for Asymptotically Anti-de Sitter Schwarzschild Spacetimes
Within the general class of Asymptotically Anti-de Sitter spacetimes that are asymptotic to the A-de-S Schwarzschild metric, we give a simple positive mass theorem based on arguments from causal structure. A general result for all asymptotically A-de-S spacetimes will be given elsewhere.
1994-04-11
2007-05-23
[ "gr-qc" ]
E. Woolgar
gr-qc/9404017
Quasiclassical Realms in a Quantum Universe
In this universe, governed fundamentally by quantum mechanical laws, characterized by indeterminism and distributed probabilities, classical deterministic laws are applicable over a wide range of time, place, and scale. We review the origin of these laws in the context of the quantum mechanics of closed systems, most g...
1994-04-11
2008-02-03
[ "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
James B. Hartle
gr-qc/9404018
Fermion Helicity Flip in Weak Gravitational Fields
The helicity flip of a spin-${\textstyle \frac{1}{2}}$ Dirac particle interacting gravitationally with a scalar field is analyzed in the context of linearized quantum gravity. It is shown that massive fermions may have their helicity flipped by gravity, in opposition to massless fermions which preserve their helicity.
1994-04-11
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc", "hep-ph" ]
R. Aldrovandi, G. E. A. Matsas, S. F. Novaes, and D. Spehler
gr-qc/9404016
Generating new magnetic universe solutions from old
In this paper we apply the techniques which have been developed over the last few decades for generating nontrivially new solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations from seed solutions for simple spacetimes. The simple seed spacetime which we choose is the "magnetic universe" to which we apply the Ehlers transformatio...
1994-04-10
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc" ]
David Garfinkle and M.A. Melvin
gr-qc/9404014
Exotic Black Holes
Black hole solutions can be used to shed light on general issues in General Relativity and Quantum Physics. Black--hole hair, entropy and naked singularities are considered here, along with some implications for the inflationary universe scenario.
1994-04-08
2007-05-23
[ "gr-qc" ]
Ian G. Moss
gr-qc/9404015
Stability of the Cauchy horizon in Kerr--de Sitter spacetimes
We begin a program of work aimed at examining the interior of a rotating black hole with a non--zero cosmological constant. The generalisation of Teukolsky's equation for the radial mode functions is presented. It is shown that the energy fluxes of scalar, electromagnetic and gravity waves are regular at the Cauchy hor...
1994-04-08
2010-04-06
[ "gr-qc" ]
Chris M. Chambers and Ian G. Moss
gr-qc/9404013
Equivalent Sets of Histories and Multiple Quasiclassical Realms
We consider notions of physical equivalence of sets of histories in the quantum mechanics of a closed system. We show first how the same set of histories can be relabeled in various ways, including the use of the Heisenberg equations of motion and of passive transformations of field variables. In the the usual approxim...
1994-04-08
2008-02-03
[ "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
Murray Gell-Mann and James B. Hartle (Santa Fe Institute, Los Alamos, and University of New Mexico)
gr-qc/9404012
Complementary Relativity
Special theory of relativity has been formulated in a vacuum momentum-energy representation which is equivalent to Einstein special relativity and predicts just the same results as it. Although in this sense such a formulation would be at least classically useless, its consistent extension to noninertial frames produce...
1994-04-07
2007-05-23
[ "gr-qc" ]
P.F. Gonzalez-Diaz
gr-qc/9404011
The fate of black hole singularities and the parameters of the standard models of particle physics and cosmology
A cosmological scenario which explains the values of the parameters of the standard models of elementary particle physics and cosmology is discussed. In this scenario these parameters are set by a process analogous to natural selection which follows naturally from the assumption that the singularities in black holes ar...
1994-04-07
2007-05-23
[ "gr-qc" ]
Lee Smolin
gr-qc/9404010
Fermions and Topology
The canonical theory of quantum gravity in the loop representation can be extended to incorporate topology change, in the simple case that this refers to the creation or annihilation of "minimalist wormholes" in which two points of the spatial manifold are identified. Furthermore, if the states of the wormholes threade...
1994-04-07
2007-05-23
[ "gr-qc" ]
Lee Smolin
gr-qc/9404007
Reference Fluids as Standards of Space and Time
The idea that spacetime points are to be identified by a fleet of clock--carrying particles can be traced to the earliest days of general relativity. Such a fleet of clocks can be described phenomenologically as a reference fluid. One approach to the problem of time consists in coupling the metric to a reference fluid ...
1994-04-06
2007-05-23
[ "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
David Brown
gr-qc/9404006
Black Hole Thermodynamics in a Box
Simple calculations indicate that the partition function for a black hole is defined only if the temperature is fixed on a finite boundary. Consequences of this result are discussed. (Contribution to the Proceedings of the Lanczos Centenary Conference.)
1994-04-06
2007-05-23
[ "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
David Brown
gr-qc/9404008
Quantization of the Bianchi type-IX model in supergravity with a cosmological constant
Diagonal Bianchi type-IX models are studied in the quantum theory of $ N = 1 $ supergravity with a cosmological constant. It is shown, by imposing the supersymmetry and Lorentz quantum constraints, that there are no physical quantum states in this model. The $ k = + 1 $ Friedmann model in supergravity with cosmological...
1994-04-06
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc" ]
A.D.Y. Cheng, P.D. D'Eath and P.R.L.V. Moniz
gr-qc/9404005
On "asymptotically flat" space-times with $G_{2}$-invariant Cauchy surfaces
In this paper we study space-times which evolve out of Cauchy data $(\Sigma,{}^3g,K)$ invariant under the action of a two-dimensional commutative Lie group. Moreover $(\Sigma,{}^3g,K)$ are assumed to satisfy certain completeness and asymptotic flatness conditions in spacelike directions. We show that asymptotic flatnes...
1994-04-06
2013-12-19
[ "gr-qc" ]
B.Berger, P.T. Chrusciel, V.Moncrief
gr-qc/9404004
Particle-like solutions to topologically massive gravity
The solution of topologically massive gravity with cosmological constant is reduced, for space-times with two commuting Killing vectors, to a special-relativistic dynamical problem. This approach is applied to the construction of a class of exact sourceless, horizonless solutions asymptotic to the BTZ extreme black hol...
1994-04-05
2010-04-06
[ "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
G\'erard Cl\'ement
gr-qc/9404003
Localized Exotic Smoothness
Gompf's end-sum techniques are used to establish the existence of an infinity of non-diffeomorphic manifolds, all having the same trivial ${\bf R^4}$ topology, but for which the exotic differentiable structure is confined to a region which is spatially limited. Thus, the smoothness is standard outside of a region which...
1994-04-04
2010-04-06
[ "gr-qc" ]
Carl H. Brans
gr-qc/9404002
The Patchwork Divergence Theorem
The divergence theorem in its usual form applies only to suitably smooth vector fields. For vector fields which are merely piecewise smooth, as is natural at a boundary between regions with different physical properties, one must patch together the divergence theorem applied separately in each region. We give an elegan...
1994-04-02
2011-07-19
[ "gr-qc", "dg-ga", "math.DG" ]
Tevian Dray and Charles Hellaby
gr-qc/9404001
Failure of Standard Conservation Laws at a Classical Change of Signature
The Divergence Theorem as usually stated cannot be applied across a change of signature unless it is re-expressed to allow for a finite source term on the signature change surface. Consequently all conservation laws must also be `modified', and therefore insistence on conservation of matter across such a surface cannot...
1994-04-02
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc" ]
Charles Hellaby and Tevian Dray
gr-qc/9404009
Performance of Newtonian filters in detecting gravitational waves from coalescing binaries
Coalescing binary systems are one of the most promising sources of gravitational waves. The technique of matched filtering used in the detection of gravitational waves from coalescing binaries relies on the construction of accurate templates. Until recently filters modelled on the quadrupole or the Newtonian approximat...
1994-04-01
2011-09-09
[ "gr-qc" ]
R. Balasubramanian and S. V. Dhurandhar
gr-qc/9403065
Dirac versus Reduced Quantization of the Poincar\'{e} Symmetry in Scalar Electrodynamics
The generators of the Poincar\'{e} symmetry of scalar electrodynamics are quantized in the functional Schr\"{o}dinger representation. We show that the factor ordering which corresponds to (minimal) Dirac quantization preserves the Poincar\'{e} algebra, but (minimal) reduced quantization does not. In the latter, there i...
1994-03-31
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc" ]
R.J. Epp (Physics Department, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada), G. Kunstatter (Physics Department, University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and Winnipeg Institute for Theoretical Physics, Physics Department, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)
gr-qc/9403063
The Birkhoff Theorem in Multidimensional Gravity
The validity conditions for the extended Birkhoff theorem in multidimensional gravity with $n$ internal spaces are formulated, with no restriction on space-time dimensionality and signature. Examples of matter sources and geometries for which the theorem is valid are given. Further generalization of the theorem is disc...
1994-03-31
2016-08-31
[ "gr-qc" ]
K.A.Bronnikov and V.N.Melnikov
gr-qc/9403064
Multidimensional Cosmology with $m$-Component Perfect Fluid
A cosmological model describing the evolution of $n$ Einstein spaces $(n>1)$ with $m$-component perfect-fluid matter is considered. When all spaces are Ricci-flat and for any $\alpha$-th component the pressures in all spaces are proportional to the density: $p_{i}^{(\alpha)} = (1- h_{i}^{(\alpha)}) \rho^{(\alpha)}$, $h...
1994-03-31
2011-04-20
[ "gr-qc" ]
V. D. Ivashchuk and V. N. Melnikov
gr-qc/9403062
Self - Interaction Force for the Particle in the Cone Space - Time
The force acting on the charged particle moving along an arbitrary trajectory near the straight cosmic string is calculated. This interaction leads to the scattering of particles by the cosmic string. The scattering cross section is considered.
1994-03-30
2010-04-06
[ "gr-qc", "astro-ph" ]
N R Khusnutdinov
gr-qc/9403060
Scattering of Fermions off Dilaton Black Holes
We discuss how various properties of dilaton black holes depend on the dilaton coupling constant $a$. In particular we investigate the $a$-dependence of certain mass parameters both outside and in the extremal limit and discuss their relation to thermodynamical quantities. To further illuminate the role of the coupling...
1994-03-30
2010-04-06
[ "gr-qc" ]
Bjorn Jensen and Ulf Linstrom
gr-qc/9403058
Consequences of Propagating Torsion in Connection-Dynamic Theories of Gravity
We discuss the possibility of constraining theories of gravity in which the connection is a fundamental variable by searching for observational consequences of the torsion degrees of freedom. In a wide class of models, the only modes of the torsion tensor which interact with matter are either a massive scalar or a mass...
1994-03-30
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc", "hep-ph" ]
Sean M. Carroll and George B. Field
gr-qc/9403061
Quantum Statistical Field Theory in Gravitation and Cosmology
We describe how the concepts of quantum open systems and the methods of closed-time-path (CTP) effective action and influence functional (IF) can be usefully applied to the analysis of statistical mechanical problems involving quantum fields in gravitation and cosmology. In the first lecture we discuss in general terms...
1994-03-30
2007-05-23
[ "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
B. L. Hu
gr-qc/9403055
Linearly Positive Histories: Probabilities for a Robust Family of Sequences of Quantum Events
Nonnegative probabilities that obey the sum rules may be assigned to a much wider family of sets of histories than decohering histories. The resulting {\it linearly positive histories} avoid the highly restrictive decoherence conditions and yet give the same probabilities when those conditions apply. Thus linearly posi...
1994-03-29
2014-11-17
[ "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
Sheldon Goldstein (Rutgers University) and Don N. Page (University of Alberta)
gr-qc/9403056
On Infrared Effects in de~Sitter Background
We have estimated higher order quantum gravity corrections to de~Sitter spacetime. Our results suggest that, while the classical spacetime metric may be distorted by the graviton self-interactions, the corrections are relatively weaker than previously thought, possibly growing like a power rather than exponentially in ...
1994-03-29
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc", "hep-ph" ]
A. D. Dolgov, M. B. Einhorn, and V. I. Zakharov
gr-qc/9403057
Total Mass-Momentum of Arbitrary Initial-Data Sets in General Relativity
For an asymptotically flat initial-data set in general relativity, the total mass-momentum may be interpreted as a Hermitian quadratic form on the complex, two-dimensional vector space of ``asymptotic spinors''. We obtain a generalization to an arbitrary initial-data set. The mass-momentum is retained as a Hermitian qu...
1994-03-29
2008-11-26
[ "gr-qc" ]
Robert Geroch and Shyan-Ming Perng
gr-qc/9403059
On Possible Measurement of Gravitational Interaction Parameters on Board a Satellite
The recently suggested SEE (Satellite Energy Exchange) method of measuring the gravitational constant $G$, possible equivalence principle violation (measured by the E\"{o}tv\"{o}s parameter $\eta$) and the hypothetic 5th force parameters $\alpha$ and $\lambda$ on board a drag-free Earth's satellite is discussed and fur...
1994-03-29
2008-02-03
[ "gr-qc" ]
A.D.Alexeev, K.A.Bronnikov, N.I.Kolosnitsyn, M.Yu.Konstantinov, V.N.Melnikov and A.G.Radynov
gr-qc/9403053
Post-Newtonian Limits and Gravitational Radiation from the Superstring Effective Action
We consider the gravitational sector of the superstring effective action with axion-matter couplings. The field equations are developed in the post-Newtonian scheme and approximate solutions for a spinning point mass and a cosmic string are presented. Furthermore, assuming vanishing axion mass and vanishing potential f...
1994-03-29
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc" ]
A.A. Kehagias
gr-qc/9403054
A Fluctuation-Dissipation Relation for Semiclassical Cosmology
Using the concept of open systems where the classical geometry is treated as the system and the quantum matter field as the environment, we derive a fluctuation-dissipation theorem for semiclassical cosmology. This theorem which exists under very general conditions for dissipations in the dynamics of the system, and th...
1994-03-29
2008-11-26
[ "gr-qc", "astro-ph" ]
B. L. Hu and Sukanya Sinha
gr-qc/9403051
Orbital Tests of Relativistic Gravity using Artificial Satellites
We reexamine non-Einsteinian effects observable in the orbital motion of low-orbit artificial Earth satellites. The motivations for doing so are twofold: (i) recent theoretical studies suggest that the correct theory of gravity might contain a scalar contribution which has been reduced to a small value by the effect of...
1994-03-28
2011-08-11
[ "gr-qc" ]
Thibault Damour and Gilles Esposito-Farese
gr-qc/9403048
Hawking Radiation from Black Holes Formed During Quantum Tunneling
We study the behaviour of scalar fields on background geometries which undergo quantum tunneling. The two examples considered are a moving mirror in flat space which tunnels through a potential barrier, and a false vacuum bubble which tunnels to form a black hole. WKB approximations to the Schrodinger and Wheeler-DeWit...
1994-03-28
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc" ]
Per Kraus
gr-qc/9403049
Open and Closed Universes, Initial Singularities and Inflation
The existence of initial singularities in expanding universes is proved without assuming the timelike convergence condition. The assumptions made in the proof are ones likely to hold both in open universes and in many closed ones. (It is further argued that at least some of the expanding closed universes that do not ob...
1994-03-28
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc" ]
Arvind Borde
gr-qc/9403050
The Cosmic No-Hair Theorem and the Nonlinear Stability of Homogeneous Newtonian Cosmological Models
The validity of the cosmic no-hair theorem is investigated in the context of Newtonian cosmology with a perfect fluid matter model and a positive cosmological constant. It is shown that if the initial data for an expanding cosmological model of this type is subjected to a small perturbation then the corresponding solut...
1994-03-28
2010-04-06
[ "gr-qc" ]
U. Brauer, A. Rendall, O. Reula
gr-qc/9403052
The Problem of Time and Quantum Black Holes
We discuss the derivation of the so-called semi-classical equations for both mini-superspace and dilaton gravity. We find that there is no systematic derivation of a semi-classical theory in which quantum mechanics is formulated in a space-time that is a solution of Einstein's equation, with the expectation value of th...
1994-03-28
2010-11-01
[ "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
S. P. de Alwis and D. A. MacIntire
gr-qc/9403047
Decoherent Histories and Quantum State Diffusion
We demonstrate a close connection between the decoherent histories (DH) approach to quantum mechanics and the quantum state diffusion (QSD) picture, for open quantum systems described by a master equation of Lindblad form. The (physically unique) set of variables that localize in the QSD picture also define an approxim...
1994-03-26
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc", "cond-mat", "hep-th" ]
L.Diosi, N.Gisin, J.J.Halliwell and I.G.Percival
gr-qc/9403046
Quantum Master Equation of Particle in Gas Environment
The evolution of the reduced density operator $\rho$ of Brownian particle is discussed in single collision approach valid typically in low density gas environments. This is the first succesful derivation of quantum friction caused by {\it local} environmental interactions. We derive a Lindblad master equation for $\rho...
1994-03-23
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc", "cond-mat" ]
Lajos Diosi
gr-qc/9403045
Fermion emission in a two-dimensional black hole space-time
We investigate massless fermion production by a two-dimensional dilatonic black hole. Our analysis is based on the Bogoliubov transformation relating the outgoing fermion field observed outside the black hole horizon to the incoming field present before the black hole creation. It takes full account of the fact that th...
1994-03-22
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
G. Wanders
gr-qc/9403042
Integration on the space of Connections Modulo Gauge Transformations
A summary of the known results on integration theory on the space of connections modulo gauge transformations is presented and its significance to quantum theories of gauge fields and gravity is discussed. The emphasis is on the underlying ideas rather than the technical subtleties.
1994-03-22
2008-02-03
[ "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
Abhay Ashtekar, Donald Marolf, and Jose Mourao
gr-qc/9403044
Fermi Coordinates for Weak Gravitational Fields
A Reference is corrected. (We derive the Fermi coordinate system of an observer in arbitrary motion in an arbitrary weak gravitational field valid to all orders in the geodesic distance from the worldline of the observer. In flat space-time this leads to a generalization of Rindler space for arbitrary acceleration and ...
1994-03-22
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc" ]
Karl-Peter Marzlin
gr-qc/9403041
Global structure of Witten's 2+1 gravity on ${\bf R}\times T^2$
We investigate the space ${\cal M}$ of classical solutions to Witten's formulation of 2+1 gravity on the manifold ${\bf R} \times T^2$. ${\cal M}$ is connected, but neither Hausdorff nor a manifold. However, removing from ${\cal M}$ a set of measure zero yields a connected manifold which is naturally viewed as the cota...
1994-03-21
2007-05-23
[ "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
Jorma Louko and Donald Marolf
gr-qc/9403043
Backreaction in Semiclassical Cosmolgy: The Einstein Langevin Equation
Using the influence functional formalism we show how to derive a generalized Einstein equation in the form of a Langevin equation for the description of the backreaction of quantum fields and their fluctuations on the dynamics of curved spacetimes. We show how a functional expansion on the influence functional gives th...
1994-03-21
2008-11-26
[ "gr-qc" ]
Be-lok Hu and Andrew Matacz
gr-qc/9403040
A Connection Approach to Numerical Relativity
We discuss a general formalism for numerically evolving initial data in general relativity in which the (complex) Ashtekar connection and the Newman-Penrose scalars are taken as the dynamical variables. In the generic case three gauge constraints and twelve reality conditions must be solved. The analysis is applied to ...
1994-03-19
2010-04-06
[ "gr-qc" ]
D.C. Salisbury and L. C. Shepley
gr-qc/9403034
About Loop States in Supergravity
The Wilson loop functionals in terms of Ashtekar's variables were the first (formal) solutions to the quantized hamiltonian constraint of canonical gravity. Here it is shown that the same functionals also solve the supergravity constraints and some evidence is presented that they are artificially generated by multiplyi...
1994-03-18
2010-04-06
[ "gr-qc" ]
Hans-Juergen Matschull
gr-qc/9403038
Overview and Outlook
This report is based on the talk given by the author in the concluding session of the workshop on Canonical Methods in Classical and Quantum General Relativity, held a Bad-Honef, Germany, in September 93. It contains an assessment of the canonical approach in general, an overview of recent developments within the canon...
1994-03-18
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc" ]
Abhay Ashtekar
gr-qc/9403039
Quasilocal energy conditions
The classical value of the Hamiltonian for a system with timelike boundary has been interpreted as a quasilocal energy. This quasilocal energy is not positive definite. However, we derive a `quasilocal dominant energy condition' which is the natural consequence of the local dominant energy condition. We discuss some im...
1994-03-18
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc" ]
Geoff Hayward
gr-qc/9403036
Covariant methods for calculating the low-energy effective action in quantum field theory and quantum gravity
We continue the development of the effective covariant methods for calculating the heat kernel and the one-loop effective action in quantum field theory and quantum gravity. The status of the low-energy approximation in quantum gauge theories and quantum gravity is discussed in detail on the basis of analyzing the loca...
1994-03-18
2007-05-23
[ "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
I. G. Avramidi
gr-qc/9403035
Covariant algebraic calculation of the one-loop effective potential in non-Abelian gauge theory and a new approach to stability problem
We use our recently proposed algebraic approach for calculating the heat kernel associated with the Laplace operator to calculate the one-loop effective action in the non-Abelian gauge theory. We consider the most general case of arbitrary space-time dimension, arbitrary compact simple gauge group and arbitrary matter ...
1994-03-18
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
I. G. Avramidi
gr-qc/9403037
Radiation Field on Superspace
We study the dynamics of multiwormhole configurations within the framework of the Euclidean Polyakov approach to string theory, incorporating a modification to the Hamiltonian which makes it impossible to interpret the Coleman Alpha parameters of the effective interactions as a quantum field on superspace, reducible to...
1994-03-18
2007-05-23
[ "gr-qc" ]
P.F. Gonzalez-Diaz
gr-qc/9403033
Gravitational Waves from Inspiralling Compact Binaries: A Post-Newtonian Approach
Inspiralling binary systems of neutron stars or black holes are promising sources of gravitational radiation detectable by large-scale laser interferometric gravitational observatories, such as the US LIGO and Italian-French VIRGO projects. Accurate theoretical gravitational-waveform templates will be needed to carry o...
1994-03-17
2009-09-25
[ "gr-qc" ]
Clifford M. WILL
gr-qc/9403030
Chaos and Quantum Chaos in Cosmological Models
Spatially homogeneous cosmological models reduce to Hamiltonian systems in a low dimensional Minkowskian space moving on the total energy shell $H=0$. Close to the initial singularity some models (those of Bianchi type VIII and IX) can be reduced further, in a certain approximation, to a non-compact triangular billiard...
1994-03-16
2015-06-25
[ "gr-qc" ]
R. Graham
gr-qc/9403032
Kinetic vs. Thermal-Field-Theory Approach to Cosmological Perturbations
A closed set of equations for the evolution of linear perturbations of homogeneous, isotropic cosmological models can be obtained in various ways. The simplest approach is to assume a macroscopic equation of state, e.g.\ that of a perfect fluid. For a more refined description of the early universe, a microscopic treatm...
1994-03-16
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc", "astro-ph" ]
Anton K. Rebhan and Dominik J. Schwarz
gr-qc/9403029
A Periodic Analog of the Schwarzschild Solution
We construct a new exact solution of Einstein's equations in vacuo in terms of Weyl canonical coordinates. This solution may be interpreted as a black hole in a space-time which is periodic in one direction and which behaves asymptotically like the Kasner solution with Kasner index equal to $4M L^{-1}$, where $L$ is th...
1994-03-16
2009-09-25
[ "gr-qc" ]
D. Korotkin and H. Nicolai (University of Hamburg, Germany)
gr-qc/9403031
Dilaton Production in String Cosmology
We consider the coupled evolution of density, (scalar) metric and dilaton perturbations in the transition from a ``stringy" phase of growing curvature and gravitational coupling to the standard radiation-dominated cosmology. We show that dilaton production, with a spectrum tilted towards large frequencies, emerges as a...
1994-03-16
2016-08-31
[ "gr-qc", "astro-ph", "hep-th" ]
M. Gasperini and G. Veneziano
gr-qc/9403028
Some Properties of Noether Charge and a Proposal for Dynamical Black Hole Entropy
We consider a general, classical theory of gravity with arbitrary matter fields in $n$ dimensions, arising from a diffeomorphism invariant Lagrangian, $\bL$. We first show that $\bL$ always can be written in a ``manifestly covariant" form. We then show that the symplectic potential current $(n-1)$-form, $\th$, and the ...
1994-03-15
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc" ]
Vivek Iyer and Robert M. Wald
gr-qc/9403027
Thermodynamics and Evaporation of the 2+1-D Black Hole
The properties of canonical and microcanonical ensembles of a black hole with thermal radiation and the problem of black hole evaporation in 3-D are studied. In 3-D Einstein-anti-de Sitter gravity we have two relevant mass scales, $m_c=1/G$, and $m_p=(\hbar^2\Lambda/G)^{1/3}$, which are particularly relevant for the ev...
1994-03-13
2016-08-24
[ "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
Benni Reznik
gr-qc/9403026
Some Spinor-Curvature Identities
We describe a class of spinor-curvature identities which exist for Riemannian or Riemann-Cartan geometries. Each identity relates an expression quadratic in the covariant derivative of a spinor field with an expression linear in the curvature plus an exact differential. Certain special cases in 3 and 4 dimensions which...
1994-03-13
2010-04-06
[ "gr-qc" ]
James M. Nester, Roh Suan Tung and Vadim V. Zhytnikov
gr-qc/9403025
Lensing Properties of Lightlike Current Carrying Cosmic Strings
The lensing properties of superconducting cosmic strings endowed with a time dependent pulse of lightlike current are investigated. The metric outside the core of the string belongs to the $pp$--wave class, with a deficit angle. We study the field theoretic bosonic Witten model coupled to gravity, and we show that the ...
1994-03-12
2010-04-06
[ "gr-qc" ]
Jaume Garriga and Patrick Peter
gr-qc/9403024
Large Squeezing Behavior of Cosmological Entropy Generation
We consider the generation of entropy when particle pairs are created at a cosmological level. Making a reduction via the particle number basis, we compute the classical limit for the entropy generation due to the evolution of the matter field fluctuations (squeeze transformation), obtaining that it is linear in the sq...
1994-03-11
2010-04-06
[ "gr-qc" ]
M. Kruczenski, L.E. Oxman and M. Zaldarriaga
gr-qc/9403023
A test of a kind of the equivalence principle by long-baseline neutrino-oscillation experiments
Possible breakdown of the universality of the gravitational couplings to different neutrino flavors can be tested in long-baseline neutrino-oscillation experiments, such as a proposed experiment at SOUDAN 2 or one at the DUMAND project. Such a breakdown could be detected with sensitivity to the order of $10^{-14}$ or $...
1994-03-11
2007-05-23
[ "gr-qc" ]
Osamu Yasuda
gr-qc/9403021
Observing Binary Inspiral with LIGO
Gravitational radiation from a binary neutron star or black hole system leads to orbital decay and the eventual coalescence of the binary's components. During the last several minutes before the binary components coalesce, the radiation will enter the bandwidth of the United States Laser Inteferometer Gravitational-wav...
1994-03-10
2007-05-23
[ "gr-qc", "astro-ph" ]
Lee Samuel Finn
gr-qc/9403022
Geodesic Motion in the 5D Magnetized Schwarzschild-Like Solutions
Geodesics for a 5D magnetized Schwarzschild-like solution are analyzed by reducing the problem to the motion of a test particle in an effective potential. In absence of magnetic field comparison is established with Schwarzschild's geometry. Embedding diagrams are constructed in order to visualize the geometry of the me...
1994-03-10
2010-11-01
[ "gr-qc" ]
Tonatiuh Matos and Nora Breton
gr-qc/9403019
Structure of the Inner Singularity of a Spherical Black Hole
We review the evidence for and against the possibility that the inner singularity of a black hole contains a lightlike segment which is locally mild and characterized by mass inflation.
1994-03-10
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc" ]
A. Bonanno, S. Droz, W. Israel and S.M. Morsink
gr-qc/9403020
Time (a-)symmetry in a recollapsing quantum universe
It is argued that Hawking's `greatest mistake' may not have been a mistake at all. According to the canonical quantum theory of gravity for Friedmann type universes, any time arrows of general nature can only be correlated with that of the expansion. For recollapsing universes this seems to be facilitated in part by qu...
1994-03-10
2007-05-23
[ "gr-qc" ]
H. D. Zeh
gr-qc/9403017
Collapse of Kaluza-Klein Bubbles
Kaluza-Klein theory admits ``bubble" configurations, in which the circumference of the fifth dimension shrinks to zero on some compact surface. A three parameter family of such bubble initial data at a moment of time-symmetry (some including a magnetic field) has been found by Brill and Horowitz, generalizing the (zero...
1994-03-09
2010-01-06
[ "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
Steven Corley and Ted Jacobson
gr-qc/9403018
Is the gravitational action additive?
The gravitational action is not always additive in the usual sense. We provide a general prescription for the change in action that results when different portions of the boundary of a spacetime are topologically identified. We discuss possible implications for the superposition law of quantum gravity. We present a def...
1994-03-09
2009-10-22
[ "gr-qc" ]
Dieter Brill and Geoff Hayward