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alg-geom/9210001
Arrangements of Hyperplanes and Vector Bundles on $P^n$
Any arrangement of hyperplanes in general position in $P^n$ can be regarded as a divisor with normal crossing. We study the bundles of logarithmic 1-forms corresponding to such divisors` from the point of view of classification of vector bundles on $P^n$. It turns out that all such bundles are stable. The study of jump...
1992-10-06
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
I.Dolgachev and M.Kapranov
alg-geom/9209001
On the $(-1)$-curve conjecture of Friedman and Morgan
Main difference with previous version: we prove that every differentiably embedded sphere with self intersection $-1$ in a simply connected algebraic surface with $p_g >0$ is homologous to a $(-1)$-curve if $|K_{\min}|$ contains a smooth irreducible curve of genus at least 2 and $p_g$ is even or $K_{\min}^2 \not\equiv ...
1992-09-12
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Rogier Brussee
alg-geom/9208004
Torsion Sections of Semistable Elliptic Surfaces
Let S be a torsion section of an elliptic surface with only I_n fibers. This article addresses the question: which components of singular fibers can S pass through? We give necessary criteria for the "component numbers", and show an equidistribution result for torsion sections of prime order.
1992-08-21
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Rick Miranda
alg-geom/9208003
Weierstrass weight of Gorenstein singularities with one or two branches
Let $X$ denote an integral, projective Gorenstein curve over an algebraically closed field $k$. In the case when $k$ is of characteristic zero, C. Widland and the second author have defined Weierstrass points of a line bundle on $X$. In the first section, this definition is extended to linear systems in arbitrary chara...
1992-08-20
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
A. Garcia and R.F. Lax
alg-geom/9208002
Abelian varieties over Q and modular forms
This paper gives a conjectural characterization of those elliptic curves over the field of complex numbers which "should" be covered by standard modular curves. The elliptic curves in question all have algebraic j-invariant, so they can be viewed as curves over Q-bar, the field of algebraic numbers. The condition that ...
1992-08-06
2015-06-30
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Kenneth A. Ribet
alg-geom/9208001
Open String Diagrams I: Topological Type
An arbitrary Feynman graph for string field theory interactions is analysed and the homeomorphism type of the corresponding world sheet surface is completely determined even in the non-orientable cases. Algorithms are found to mechanically compute the topological characteristics of the resulting surface from the struct...
1992-08-03
2009-10-22
[ "alg-geom", "hep-th", "math.AG" ]
Subhashis Nag and Parameswaran Sankaran (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences C.I.T.Campus Madras)
alg-geom/9207001
Completions of mapping class groups and the cycle $C - C^-$
In this paper we study the proalgebraic completion of mapping class relative to their maps to the symplectic group. The main result is that the natural map from the unipotent (a.k.a. Malcev) completion of the Torelli group to the prounipotent radical of the Sp_g completion of the mapping class group is a non trivial ce...
1992-07-23
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Richard Hain (Duke Univeristy)
alg-geom/9206009
The complex separation and extensions of Rokhlin congruence for curves on surfaces
The subject of this paper is the problem of arrangement of real algebraic curves on real algebraic surfaces. In this paper we extend Rokhlin, Kharlamov-Gudkov-Krakhnov and Kharlamov-Marin congruences for curves on surfaces and give some applications of this extension. For some pairs consisting of a surface and a curv...
1992-06-24
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
G.Mikhalkin
alg-geom/9206008
The fibers of the Prym map
In this work we use the bigonal, trigonal and tetragonal constructions to describe the fibers of the Prym map P : R_{g} ---->A_{g-1} inthe cases when it is dominant, i.e. for g < 7. The most interesting cases are g = 5, where the fiber is a double cover of the Fano surface of lines on a cubic threefold, and g=6, where ...
1992-06-17
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Ron Donagi
alg-geom/9206007
Rang de courbes elliptiques d'invariant donne
We prove that there exist infinitely many elliptic curves over \Q with given modular invariant, and rank >=2. Furthermore, there exist infinitely many elliptic curves over $\Q$ with invariant equal at 0 (resp. 1728) and rank >=6 (resp. >=4).
1992-06-16
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Jean-Francois Mestre
alg-geom/9206006
Corps quadratiques dont le 5-rang du groupe des classes est >=3
We prove the existence of infinitely many real and imaginary fields whose 5-rank of the class group is >=3.
1992-06-16
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Jean-Francois Mestre
alg-geom/9206005
Two Two-dimensional Terminations
Varieties with log terminal and log canonical singularities are considered in the Minimal Model Program, see \cite{...} for introduction. In \cite{shokurov:hyp} it was conjectured that many of the interesting sets, associated with these varieties have something in common: they satisfy the ascending chain condition, whi...
1992-06-12
2015-06-30
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Valery Alexeev
alg-geom/9206004
Extremal Rays and Null Geodesics on a Complex Conformal Manifold
This is a revised version of the paper submitted before.
1992-06-11
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Yun-Gang Ye
alg-geom/9206003
Affine like Surfaces
We classify smooth surfaces whose higher cohomologies of i-forms for all i vanish. We show that if such a surface is not affine, then it has essentially two possibilities.
1992-06-04
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
N. Mohan Kumar
alg-geom/9206002
String Branchings on Complex Tori and Algebraic Representations of Generalized Krichever-Novikov Algebras
The propagation differential for bosonic strings on a complex torus with three symmetric punctures is investigated. We study deformation aspects between two point and three point differentials as well as the behaviour of the corresponding Krichever-Novikov algebras. The structure constants are calculated and from this ...
1992-06-03
2009-10-22
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Andreas Ruffing, Thomas Deck, Martin Schlichenmaier
alg-geom/9206001
Linear orbits of smooth plane curves
The group PGL(3) of linear transformations of the projective plane acts naturally on the projective space parametrizing curves of a given degree. In this note we begin the study of the orbits of smooth curves under this action: we construct a resolution of the closure of the orbit of a given curve, and we use it to com...
1992-06-02
2012-04-10
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Paolo Aluffi, Carel Faber
alg-geom/9205007
On the Tangent Space to the Universal Teichmuller Space
We find a remarkably simple relationship between the following two models of the tangent space to the Universal Teichm\"uller Space: (1) The real-analytic model consisting of Zygmund class vector fields on the unit circle; (2) The complex-analytic model comprising 1-parameter families of schlicht functions on the exter...
1992-05-22
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Subhashis Nag
alg-geom/9205006
Upper Bounds for the Betti Numbers of a given Hilbert Function
From a Macaulay's paper it follows that a lex-segment ideal has the greatest number of generators (the 0-th Betti number $\b_0$) among all the homogeneous ideals with the same Hilbert function. In this paper we prove that this fact extends to every Betti number, in the sense that all the Betti numbers of a minimal free...
1992-05-19
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Anna Maria Bigatti
alg-geom/9205005
Linear orbits of d-tuples of points in P^1
The group PGL(2) of linear transformations of the projective line acts naturally on the d-dimensional projective space P^d parametrizing configurations (`d-tuples') of points on the line. In this note we are concerned with the orbits of this action of PGL(2) on P^d. The closure of each orbit is a projective subvariety ...
1992-05-12
2012-04-10
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Paolo Aluffi, Carel Faber
alg-geom/9205004
Notes on Kodaira energies of polarized varieties
The Kodaira energy of a polarized manifold (M,L) is defined by \kappa\epsilon(M,L)=-Inf{t\in Q|\kappa(K+tL)\ge 0}. Here we propose a couple of conjectures and announce several partial results. 3-dimensional cases are mainly considered. A hard copy is available on request to the author.
1992-05-08
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Takao Fujita
alg-geom/9205003
Chern classes and degenerations of hypersurfaces and their lines
We study limiting lines on degenerations of generic hypersurfaces in $P^n$.
1992-05-07
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Xian Wu
alg-geom/9205002
Cohomology, Symmetry, and Perfection
One of the aims of this paper is to better explain the philosophy behind the computations in [E.Bifet, C.De Concini,C.Procesi Cohomology of Regular Embeddings ] and to place them in a wider conceptual setting. Another aim of the paper is to outline in the last section an ``equivariant'' approach to some key results in ...
1992-05-04
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Emili Bifet
alg-geom/9205001
Report on the Torsion of the Differential Module of an algebraic Curve
There is a conjecture, that the torsionfreeness of the module of differentials in a point of an algebraic or algebroid curve should imply that the curve is non singular at that point. A report on the main results is given.
1992-05-03
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AC", "math.AG" ]
Robert W. Berger
alg-geom/9204001
Weierstrass Gap Sequence at Total Inflection Points of Nodal Plane Curves
Let $\Gamma$ be a plane curve of degree $d$ with $\delta$ ordinary nodes and no other singularities. If $P$ is a smooth point on $\Gamma$ then the Weierstrass gap sequence at $P$ is considered as that at the corresponding point on the normalization of $\Gamma$. A smooth point $P\in\Gamma$ is called a total inflection p...
1992-04-02
2015-06-30
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Marc Coppens and Takao Kato
alg-geom/9203005
Homotopy groups of the complements to singular hypersurfaces,II
The homotopy group $\pi_{n-k} ({\bf C}^{n+1}-V)$ where $V$ is a hypersurface with a singular locus of dimension $k$ and good behavior at infinity is described using generic pencils. This is analogous to the van Kampen procedure for finding a fundamental group of a plane curve. In addition we use a certain representatio...
1992-03-24
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
A.Libgober
alg-geom/9203002
Prym Varieties and Integrable Systems
A new relation between Prym varieties of arbitrary morphisms of algebraic curves and integrable systems is discovered. The action of maximal commutative subalgebras of the formal loop algebra of GL(n) defined on certain infinite-dimensional Grassmannians is studied. It is proved that every finite-dimensional orbit of t...
1992-03-20
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Yingchen Li and Motohico Mulase
alg-geom/9203004
On the Abel-Jacobi Map for Divisors of Higher Rank on a Curve
The aim of this paper is to present an algebro-geometric approach to the study of the geometry of the moduli space of stable bundles on a smooth projective curve defined over an algebraically closed field $k$, of arbitrary characteristic. This establishes a bridge between the arithmetic approach of Harder, Narasimhan e...
1992-03-19
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Emili Bifet, Franco Ghione and Maurizio Letizia
alg-geom/9203003
Computing the Cohomological Brauer Group of a Toric Variety
The purpose of this article is to show how one might compute the \'etale cohomology groups $H^p_{\acute{e}t}(X,G_m)$ in degrees $p=0$, $1$ and $2$ of a toric variety $X$ with coefficients in the sheaf of units. The method is to reduce the computation down to the problem of diagonalizing a matrix with integral coefficie...
1992-03-18
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Timothy J. Ford
alg-geom/9203001
Exceptional linear systems on curves on Enriques surfaces
The main purpose in this paper is to study the gonality, the Clifford index and the Clifford dimension on linearly equivalent smooth curves on Enriques surfaces. The method is similar to techniques of M.Green $\&$ R.Lazarsfeld and G.Pareschi.
1992-03-05
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Severinas Zube
alg-geom/9202028
Complex Divisors on Algebraic Curves and Some Applications to String Theory
These are notes of a talk to the International Conference on Algebra in honor of A. I. Mal'tsev, Novosibirsk, USSR, 1989 (to appear in Contemporary Mathematics). The concept of a divisor with complex coefficients on an algebraic curve is introduced. We consider families of complex divisors, or, equivalently, families o...
1992-02-27
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "hep-th", "math.AG" ]
A. A. Voronov
alg-geom/9202027
Cohomological and Cycle-theoretic connectivity
One of the themes in algebraic geometry is the study of the relation between the ``topology'' of a smooth projective variety and a (``general'') hyperplane section. Recent results of Nori produce cohomological evidence for a conjecture that a general hypersurface of sufficently large degree should have no ``interesting...
1992-02-26
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Kapil H. Paranjape
alg-geom/9202026
Picard-Fuchs equations and mirror maps for hypersurfaces
We describe a strategy for computing Yukawa couplings and the mirror map, based on the Picard-Fuchs equation. (Our strategy is a variant of the method used by Candelas, de la Ossa, Green, and Parkes in the case of quintic hypersurfaces.) We then explain a technique of Griffiths which can be used to compute the Picard-F...
1992-02-26
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
David R. Morrison
alg-geom/9202024
Sur la cohomologie de certains espaces de modules de fibr\'es vectoriels
Let M be a moduli space of stable vector bundles on a curve with rank and degree fixed and coprime. We give a simple proof that the rational cohomology of M is generated by the Kunneth components of the Chern classes of the universal bundle. The proof applies also to some moduli spaces of vector bundles over higher-dim...
1992-02-21
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
A. Beauville
alg-geom/9202025
The Singularities of the parameter surface of a minimal elliptic threefold
Let f : X -> S be any elliptic fibration. If X has dimension 3 and is not uniruled, then X has a minimal model (with terminal singularities) [Mori]. In earlier work we have shown that there exists a birationally equivalent elliptic fibration p: Y -> T such that Y is minimal and a multiple of K_Y can be expressed as the...
1992-02-21
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
A. Grassi
alg-geom/9202021
Grobner bases and extension of scalars
This paper studies the behavior of Grobner bases with respect to extensions of scalars. We prove that an extension of scalars commutes with taking Grobner bases iff the extension is flat. We consider what information can be deduced about fibers of a family, from the Grobner basis of the defining ideal of the family its...
1992-02-20
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Dave Bayer, Andre Galligo, Mike Stillman
alg-geom/9202022
Classical Polylogarithms
This paper is an introduction to classical polylogarithms and is an expanded version of a talk given by the author at the Motives conference. Topics covered include, monodromy; the polylogarithm local systems; Bloch's constructions of regulators using the dilogarithm; polylog locals systems as variations of mixed Hodge...
1992-02-20
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Richard Hain
alg-geom/9202020
Disproving Hibi's Conjecture with CoCoA or Projective Curves with bad Hilbert Functions
In this paper we show how to combine different techniques from Commutative Algebra and a systematic use of a Computer Algebra System (in our case mainly CoCoA) in order to explicitly construct Cohen-Macaulay domains, which are standard $k$-algebras and whose Hilbert function is ``bad". In particular we disprove a well-...
1992-02-20
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
G. Niesi, L. Robbiano
alg-geom/9202023
Regulators and characteristic classes of flat bundles
This is a substantial revision of the older version of this paper. The main result of the old version (the equality, up to a factor of 2 of the Beilinson and Borel regulators) is now a conjecture. The main results give equality of Beilinson chern classes and Cheeger-Simons-Chern classes in various situations such as fo...
1992-02-20
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Johan Dupont, Richard Hain and Steven Zucker
alg-geom/9202018
Arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay Curves cut out by Quadrics
Addressing a question of M. Stillman, it had been shown by Ein, Eisenbud, and the author that in a projective space of dimension at most 5, every arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay curve which is cut out by quadrics scheme- theoretically also has its homogeneous ideal generated by quadrics. In this note it is shown that thi...
1992-02-19
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Sheldon Katz
alg-geom/9202019
The cohomological Brauer group of a toric variety
Toric varieties are a special class of rational varieties defined by equations of the form {\it monomial = monomial}. For a good brief survey of the history and role of toric varieties see [10]. Any toric variety $X$ contains a cover by affine open sets described in terms of arrangements (called fans) of convex bodies ...
1992-02-19
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Frank DeMeyer, Tim Ford, and Rick Miranda
alg-geom/9202016
Congruences for real algebraic curves on an ellipsoid
The problem of arrangement of a real algebraic curve on a real algebraic surface is related to the 16th Hilbert problem. We prove in this paper new restrictions on arrangement of nonsingular real algebraic curves on an ellipsoid. These restrictions are analogues of Gudkov-Rokhlin, Gudkov-Krakhnov-Kharlamov, Kharlamov-M...
1992-02-18
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
G.Mikhalkin
alg-geom/9202017
Extensions of Rokhlin congruence for curves on surfaces
The subject of this paper is the problem of arrangement of a real nonsingular algebraic curve on a real non-singular algebraic surface. This paper contains new restrictions on this arrangement extending Rokhlin and Kharlamov-Gudkov-Krakhnov congruences for curves on surfaces.
1992-02-18
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
G.Mikhalkin
alg-geom/9202015
Note on curves in a Jacobian
For a curve C, viewed as a cycle in its Jacobian, we study its image n_*C under multiplication by n on JC. We prove that the subgroup generated by these cycles, in the Chow group modulo algebraic equivalence, has rank at most d-1, where d is the gonality of C. We also discuss some general facts on the action of n_* on ...
1992-02-17
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Elisabetta Colombo and Bert van Geemen
alg-geom/9202014
Degenerations of generalized KNN algebras on tori
Degenerations of Lie algebras of meromorphic vector fields on elliptic curves (i.e. complex tori) which are holomorphic outside a certain set of points (markings) are studied. By an algebraic geometric degeneration process certain subalgebras of Lie algebras of meromorphic vector fields on P^1 the Riemann sphere are ob...
1992-02-17
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Martin Schlichenmaier
alg-geom/9202013
Deformations of Semi-Euler Characteristics
(Generalizes theorem of Atiyah and Mumford.)
1992-02-14
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
George R. Kempf
alg-geom/9202012
Cohomology of coherent sheaves on a proper scheme
(Makes a Gamma-acylic coherent resolution of a coherent sheaf on a projection scheme.)
1992-02-14
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
George R. Kempf
alg-geom/9202011
The Geometry and Arithmetic of Elliptic Surfaces
We survey some aspects of the theory of elliptic surfaces and give some results aimed at determining the Picard number of such a surface. For the surfaces considered, this will be equivalent to determining the Mordell-Weil rank of an elliptic curve defined over a function field in one variable. An interesting conjectur...
1992-02-14
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Peter F. Stiller
alg-geom/9202010
Another Relation Between Approaches to the Schottky Problem
The recent extensive work on different approaches to the Schottky problem has produced marked progress on several fronts. At the same time, it has become apparent that there exist very close connections between the various characterizations of Jacobian varieties described in Mumford's classic lectures {\it Curves and T...
1992-02-13
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
John B. Little
alg-geom/9202009
On a Grauert-Riemenschneider vanishing theorem for Frobenius split varieties in characteristic p
This paper is about sheaf cohomology for varieties (schemes) in characteristic $p>0$. We assume the presence of a Frobenius splitting. (See V.B. Mehta and A. Ramanathan, Frobenius splitting and cohomology vanishing for Schubert varieties, Annals of Math. 122 (1985), 27--40). The main result is that a non-zero higher di...
1992-02-13
2009-10-22
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
V. B. Mehta and Wilberd van der Kallen
alg-geom/9202007
The algebraic de Rham theorem for toric varieties
On an arbitrary toric variety, we introduce the logarithmic double complex, which is essentially the same as the algebraic de Rham complex in the nonsingular case, but which behaves much better in the singular case. Over the field of complex numbers, we prove the toric analog of the algebraic de Rham theorem which Grot...
1992-02-12
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Tadao Oda
alg-geom/9202008
On irregular links at infinity of algebraic plane curves
We give two proofs of a conjecture of the first author (Inv. Math. 98, 1989) that a reduced algebraic plane curve is regular at infinity if and only if its link at infinity is a regular toral link. This conjecture has also been proved by Ha H.~V. using Lojasiewicz numbers at infinity. Our first proof uses the polar inv...
1992-02-12
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Walter D. Neumann and Le Van Thanh
alg-geom/9202005
On the difference between real and complex arrangements
Let $B$ be an arrangement of linear complex hyperplanes in $C^d$. Then a classical result by Orlik \& Solomon asserts that the cohomology algebra of the complement can be constructed from the combinatorial data that are given by the intersection lattice. If $B'$ is, more generally, a $2$-arrangement in $R^{2d}$ (an a...
1992-02-11
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
G\"unter M. Ziegler
alg-geom/9202006
Twistors, Kaehler Manifolds, and Bimeromorphic Geometry II
Using examples of compact complex 3-manifolds which arise as twistor spaces, we show that the class of compact complex manifolds bimeromorphic to K\"ahler manifolds is not stable under small deformations of complex structure.
1992-02-11
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Claude LeBrun and Yat-Sun Poon
alg-geom/9202004
Mirror symmetry and rational curves on quintic threefolds: a guide for mathematicians
We give a mathematical account of a recent string theory calculation which predicts the number of rational curves on the generic quintic threefold. Our account involves the interpretation of Yukawa couplings in terms of variations of Hodge structure, a new $q$-expansion principle for functions on the moduli space of Ca...
1992-02-10
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
David R. Morrison
alg-geom/9202003
Complex Contact Threefolds and Their Contact Curves
A complex contact threefold is a threefold with a two-dimensional non-integrable holomorphic distribution. A contact curve on a contact threefold is an integrable curve of the distribution. This work was inspired by two papers of Bryant, in which he used complex contact geometry to study superminimal surfaces in four-s...
1992-02-07
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Yun-Gang Ye
alg-geom/9202001
Rational Curves on Calabi-Yau Threefolds
The point is to compare the mathematical meaning of the ``number of rational curves on a Calabi-Yau threefold'' to the meaning ascribed to the same notion by string theorists.
1992-02-05
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Sheldon Katz
alg-geom/9202002
Gorenstein Threefold Singularities with Small Resolutions via Invariant Theory for Weyl Groups
We classify simple flops on smooth threefolds, or equivalently, Gorenstein threefold singularities with irreducible small resolution. There are only six families of such singularities, distinguished by Koll{\'a}r's {\em length} invariant. The method is to apply invariant theory to Pinkham's construction of small resolu...
1992-02-05
2008-02-03
[ "alg-geom", "math.AG" ]
Sheldon Katz and David R. Morrison
astro-ph/9212006
Two Populations and Models of Gamma Ray Bursts
Gamma-ray burst statistics are best explained by a source population at cosmological distances, while spectroscopy and intensity histories of some individual bursts imply an origin on Galactic neutron stars. To resolve this inconsistency I suggest the presence of two populations, one at cosmological distances and the o...
1992-12-31
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph" ]
J. I. Katz
astro-ph/9212005
The Escape of Gravitational Radiation from the Field of Massive Bodies
We consider a compact source of gravitational waves of frequency $\omega$, in or near a massive spherically symmetric distribution of matter or a black hole. Recent calculations have led to apparently contradictory results for the influence of the massive body on the propagation of the waves. We show here that the resu...
1992-12-23
2010-11-30
[ "astro-ph", "gr-qc" ]
Richard H. Price, Jorge Pullin and Prasun Kundu
astro-ph/9212004
Recent advances in extended inflationary cosmology
Extended inflation is a promising new approach to implementing the inflationary universe scenario. This paper reviews recent advances including a new, more robust mechanism for ending extended inflation, a new prediction for the density fluctuation spectrum generated by extended inflation, and the discovery that extend...
1992-12-16
2010-04-06
[ "astro-ph" ]
Paul J. Steinhardt
astro-ph/9212003
Gravity's rainbow
Could COBE DMR be detecting the imprint from a spectrum of gravitational waves generated during inflation? The conventional inflationary prediction had been that the cosmic microwave anisotropy is dominated by energy density fluctuations generated during inflation and that the gravitational waves contribute negligibly....
1992-12-16
2009-09-15
[ "astro-ph" ]
George F. Smoot and Paul J. Steinhardt
astro-ph/9212002
Structure in a Loitering Universe
We study the formation of structure for a universe that undergoes a recent loitering phase. We compare the nonlinear mass distribution to that in a standard, matter dominated cosmology. The statistical aspects of the clustered matter are found to be robust to changes in the expansion law, an exception being that the pe...
1992-12-10
2009-10-22
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph" ]
Hume A. Feldman and August E. Evrard
astro-ph/9212001
A rotating black hole in the Galactic Center
Recent observations of Sgr A* give strong constraints for possible models of the physical nature of Sgr A* and suggest the presence of a massive black~hole with M<2 10^6 M_sun surrounded by an accretion disk which we estimate to radiate at a luminosity of <7 10^5 L_sun. We therefore calculate the appearance of a standa...
1992-12-07
2011-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Heino Falcke, Peter L. Biermann, Wolfgang J. Duschl and Peter G. Mezger
astro-ph/9211014
On the General Properties of Matter
By means of a general classification of the different kinds of matter of nature form a chain from the world of the subatomic particles to the large bodies of the universe, the galaxies. Then, it proposes a new baryonic force for the universe that is the fifth force which has been proposed in the literature. It explains...
1992-11-30
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Mario Everaldo de Souza (Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Aracaju, Brazil)
astro-ph/9211013
Particle Astrophysics after COBE: Blois92 Summary Talk
The IV Rencontres de Blois, on Particle Astrophysics, held at the Ch\^ateau de Blois, June 15-20, 1992, was a meeting well-timed for a reconsideration of the issues in particle astrophysics in the light of the COBE discovery of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations. This is a summary of what I thought were...
1992-11-20
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph" ]
Joel R. Primack
astro-ph/9211010
Gamma-Ray Bursts and Neutron Star Mergers - Possibly the Strongest Explosions in the Universe
$\gamma$-ray bursts have baffled theorists ever since their accidental discovery at the sixties. We suggest that these bursts originate in merger of neutron star binaries, taking place at cosmological distances. These mergers release $\approx 10^{54}ergs$, in what are possibly the strongest explosions in the Universe. ...
1992-11-17
2009-10-22
[ "astro-ph" ]
Tsvi Piran
astro-ph/9211011
A Possible Solution to the Horizon Problem: The Mad Era for Massless Scalar Theories of Gravity
Extensions of Einstein gravity which allow the gravitational constant $G$ to change with time as the universe evolves may provide a resolution to the horizon problem without invoking a period of vacuum domination and without the subsequent entropy violation. In a cosmology for which the gravitational constant is not in...
1992-11-17
2009-10-22
[ "astro-ph", "gr-qc", "hep-ph" ]
Janna J Levin and Katherine Freese
astro-ph/9211012
On the rotation of polarization by a gravitational lens
It is proved that the field of a gravitational lens induces no rotation in the polarization vector of electromagnetic radiation, in agreement with the previous literature, but with a different approach. The result is generalized to the case of less conventional gravitational lenses (static cosmic strings and gravitatio...
1992-11-17
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Valerio Faraoni
astro-ph/9211009
Fireballs in the Galactic Halo and $\gamma$-Ray Bursts
If gamma ray burst sources are in the galactic halo they inevitably involve a creation of an opaque pair plasma fireball, just like in cosmological sources. We find that the typical physical conditions in a galactic halo fireball are: optical depth $\ap 10^8$, thermal energy $\ap 100 KeV$, maximal relativstic expansion...
1992-11-13
2009-10-22
[ "astro-ph" ]
Tsvi Piran and Amotz Shemi
astro-ph/9211008
The Mad Era: A Possible New Resolution to the Horizon, Flatness, and Monopole Problems
A cosmology with a dynamical Planck mass $m_{pl}$ is shown to solve the horizon and monopole problems (and possibly flatness) if there is an early MAD (modified aging) era where the universe becomes older than in the standard model as a result of a large $m_{pl}$: the causality condition is $m_{pl}(T_c)/ m_{pl}(T_o) \g...
1992-11-10
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph", "gr-qc", "hep-ph" ]
Katherine Freese and Janna J Levin
astro-ph/9211007
Generalized Einstein Theory on Solar and Galactic Scales
We study a generalized Einstein theory with the following two criteria:{\it i}) on the solar scale, it must be consistent with the classical tests of general relativity, {\it ii}) on the galactic scale, the gravitational potential is a sum of Newtonian and Yukawa potentials so that it may explain the flat rotation curv...
1992-11-09
2010-11-01
[ "astro-ph", "gr-qc" ]
Masakatsu Kenmoku, Yuko Okamoto and Kazuyasu Shigemoto
astro-ph/9211006
The ($\log R_e$, $\mu_e$) Plane of Hot Stellar Systems
Two families of hot stellar systems, named {\it `ordinary'\/} and {\it 'bright'\/}, are identified in the ($\log R_e, \mu_e$) plane built with a luminosity--limited sample of ellipticals and bulges of S0s and spirals of the Virgo and Fornax clusters. This finding, based on {\it ad hoc\/} new observations, is confirmed ...
1992-11-09
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Massimo Capaccioli, Nicola Caon and Mauro D'Onofrio
astro-ph/9211005
Centri`fugal' Force around a Black Hole
Besides having some very interesting perturbatively unstable orbits, it seems that for a Schwarzschild black hole, below $r=3M$, the force always increases inward with increasing angular momentum. Here this previously known result is derived with greater simplicity, and a similar analysis is performed for black holes w...
1992-11-08
2008-02-03
[ "astro-ph" ]
A.Y.Shiekh
astro-ph/9211004
Gravitational Radiation from Colliding Vacuum Bubbles: Envelope Approximation to Many-Bubble Collisions
We introduce an approximation to calculate the gravitational radiation produced by the collision of true-vacuum bubbles that is simple enough to allow the simulation of a phase transition by the collision of hundreds of bubbles. This ``envelope approximation'' neglects the complicated ``overlap'' regions of colliding b...
1992-11-07
2008-11-26
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph" ]
Arthur Kosowsky and Michael S. Turner
astro-ph/9211003
Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies: The Multiphase Model
We present a multiphase model for the evolution of elliptical galaxies. Diffuse gas, molecular clouds, stars and remnants are taken into account. Cloud--cloud collisions and stimulated processes are the main causes of star formation. The occurrence of winds driven by Supernovae is considered, and the evolution of the s...
1992-11-07
2009-10-22
[ "astro-ph" ]
Federico Ferrini, Bianca Maria Poggianti
astro-ph/9211002
Detection of brown dwarfs by the micro-lensing of unresolved stars
The presence of brown dwarfs in the dark galactic halo could be detected through their gravitational lensing effect and experiments under way monitor about one million stars to observe a few lensing events per year. We show that if the photon flux from a galaxy is measured with a good precision, it is not necessary to ...
1992-11-04
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Paul Baillon, Alain Bouquet, Yannick Giraud-H\'eraud and Jean Kaplan
astro-ph/9211001
A Burst of Speculation
Self-consistent models of gamma-ray burst source regions at 100 Kpc distance are possible if the radiating plasma is confined to very thin sheets, and I estimate parameters. Energy sources might be elastic (by starquakes) or magnetic (by reconnection), but mechanisms remain obscure. I discuss a very speculative model i...
1992-11-03
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph" ]
J. I. Katz
astro-ph/9210007
Effect of Neutrino Heating on Primordial Nucleosynthesis
We have modified the standard code for primordial nucleosynthesis to include the effect of the slight heating of neutrinos by $e^\pm$ annihilations. There is a small, systematic change in the $^4$He yield, $\Delta Y \simeq +1.5\times 10^{-4}$, which is insensitive to the value of the baryon-to-photon ratio $\eta$ for $...
1992-10-31
2009-10-22
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph" ]
B. Fields, S. Dodelson, M.S. Turner (U. Chicago/Fermilab)
astro-ph/9210006
On the Origin of the Galactic Magnetic Field
The galactic magnetic field is commonly supposed to be due to a dynamo acting on some large scale seed field. A major difficulty with this idea is that estimates of reasonable seed field strengths tend to be quite low, on the order of $\sim10^{-20}$ gauss. Here we examine the contribution due to the flux entrained in w...
1992-10-30
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Ethan T. Vishniac
astro-ph/9210004
Dynamics of the Young Binary LMC Cluster NGC 1850
In this paper we have examined the age and internal dynamics of the young binary LMC cluster NGC 1850 using BV CCD images and echelle spectra of 52 supergiants. Isochrone fits to a BV color-magnitude diagram revealed that the primary cluster has an age of $\tau = 90 \pm 30$ Myr while the secondary member has $\tau = 6 ...
1992-10-20
2009-10-22
[ "astro-ph" ]
P. Fischer, D. L. Welch, and M. Mateo
astro-ph/9210005
Evidence for a Very Broad Line Region in PG 1138+222
We present a high S/N spectrum for the quasar PG 1138+222. We detect a very broad HeII$\lambda$4686 emission line component with twice the FWHM of the conventional broad line region (BLR) as evidenced by the Balmer lines. The profile shape and centroid redshift also distinguish this HeII component from the BLR features...
1992-10-20
2009-10-22
[ "astro-ph" ]
Paolo Marziani and Jack W. Sulentic
astro-ph/9210003
Cosmic Rays, Gamma Rays and Neutrinos from Point Sources
The suggestion has been made that the energy spectrum from point sources such as AGN (Active Galactic Nuclei) and GBHC (Galactic Black Hole Candidates) is universal, irrespective of the nature of the emitted particles. A comparison of the energy spectrum for cosmic rays at the source and $\gamma$-rays from quasars obta...
1992-10-19
2009-10-22
[ "astro-ph" ]
Yukio Tomozawa
astro-ph/9210002
Coordinated UV-optical observations of quasars: the evolution of the Lyman absorption
The average flux decrement shortward the Ly$_{\alpha}$ emission, due to the well-known ``forest'' of absorptions, has been measured in the spectra of 8 quasars. Quasi-simultaneous optical and IUE observations of the two low redshift quasars PKS 0637--75 (z=0.654) and MC 1104+16 (z=0.632) have been carried out, obtainin...
1992-10-14
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
S. Cristiani, E. Giallongo, L. M. Buson, C. Gouiffes, F. La Franca
astro-ph/9210001
The Edge of the Galactic Disc
As part of a stellar population sampling program, a series of photometric probes at various field sizes and depths have been obtained in a low extinction window in the galactic anticentre direction. Such data set strong constraints on the radial structure of the disc. At the forefront of this "drilling" program, very d...
1992-10-02
2009-10-22
[ "astro-ph" ]
Annie C. Robin, Michel Creze, Vijay Mohan
astro-ph/9209006
Inflation at the Electroweak Scale
We present a simple model for slow-rollover inflation where the vacuum energy that drives inflation is of the order of $G_F^{-2}$; unlike most models, the conversion of vacuum energy to radiation (``reheating'') is moderately efficient. The scalar field responsible for inflation is a standard-model singlet, develops a ...
1992-09-30
2009-10-22
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph" ]
L. Knox and M.S. Turner (U. of Chicago/Fermilab)
astro-ph/9209005
Neutrino Flavor Conversion in a Supernova Core
If $\nu_\mu$ or $\nu_\tau$ mix with $\nu_e$, neutrino oscillations and collisions in a supernova (SN) core allow these flavors effectively to participate in $\beta$ equilibrium and thus to obtain a large chemical potential. If a sterile species mixes with $\nu_e$, these effects lead to an anomalous loss of energy and l...
1992-09-24
2009-10-22
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph" ]
G. Raffelt and G. Sigl
astro-ph/9209004
On the Tail Problem in Cosmology
The tail problem for the propagation of a scalar field is considered in a cosmological background, taking a Robertson-Walker spacetime as a specific example. The explicit radial dependence of the general solution of the Klein-Gordon equation with nonminimal coupling is derived, and the inapplicability of the standard c...
1992-09-23
2009-10-22
[ "astro-ph" ]
Valerio Faraoni and Sebastiano Sonego
astro-ph/9209003
The Spectral Index in the CDM Cosmogony
In a recent paper, we suggested that the density fluctuation spectra arising from power-law (or extended) inflation, which are tilted with respect to the Harrison--Zel'dovich spectrum, may provide an explanation for the excess large scale clustering seen in galaxy surveys such as the APM survey. In the light of the new...
1992-09-13
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph", "gr-qc", "hep-ph" ]
David H Lyth and Andrew A Liddle
astro-ph/9209002
Extended Hot Gas Halos Around Starburst Galaxies
Reanalysis of Einstein IPC data and new observations from the GINGA LAC indicate the presence of extended X-ray emission (10-50 kpc) around the starburst galaxy M82. Here we model this emission by calculating numerical hydrodynamic simulations of the starburst event to much later times and larger scales than previous...
1992-09-12
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Kohji Tomisaka and Joel N. Bregman
astro-ph/9209001
The Radial Structure of the Galactic Disc
Three colour photometry on CCD frames in the Special Area SpA23 provides a deep probe of the galactic disc in a low absorption window towards the anticenter. Magnitudes to better than 10% at V = 25 and B-V colour down to V = 23 have been obtained. These new data, used in combination with lower magnitude photographic da...
1992-09-04
2011-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Annie C. Robin, Michel Creze, Vijay Mohan
astro-ph/9208006
Binary Black Holes in Stationary Orbits
We show that under certain astrophysical conditions a binary system consisting of two compact objects can be stabilized against indefinite shrinking of orbits due to the emission of gravitational radiation. In this case, the lighter binary companion settles down to a stable orbit when the loss of the angular momentum d...
1992-08-27
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph", "gr-qc" ]
Sandip K. Chakrabarti (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, INDIA)
astro-ph/9208007
COBE, Gravitational Waves, Inflation and Extended Inflation
We analyse the implications for inflationary models of the cosmic microwave background (cmb) anisotropy measured by COBE. Vacuum fluctuations during inflation generate an adiabatic density perturbation, and also gravitational waves. The ratio of these two contributions to the cmb anisotropy is given for an arbitrary sl...
1992-08-27
2009-10-22
[ "astro-ph", "gr-qc", "hep-ph" ]
David H Lyth and Andrew R Liddle
astro-ph/9208005
The Last Three Minutes: Issues in Gravitational Wave Measurements of Coalescing Compact Binaries
Gravitational-wave interferometers are expected to monitor the last three minutes of inspiral and final coalescence of neutron star and black hole binaries at distances approaching cosmological, where the event rate may be many per year. Because the binary's accumulated orbital phase can be measured to a fractional acc...
1992-08-25
2009-07-09
[ "astro-ph", "gr-qc" ]
Curt Cutler, Theocharis A. Apostolatos, Lars Bildsten, Lee Samuel Finn, Eanna E. Flanagan, Daniel Kennefick, Dragoljubov M. Markovic, Amos Ori, Eric Poisson, Gerald Jay Sussman, and Kip S. Thorne
astro-ph/9208004
Constraints on radiative decay of the 17-keV neutrino from COBE Measurements
It is shown that, for a nontrivial radiative decay channel of the 17-keV neutrino, the photons would distort the microwave background radiation through ionization of the universe. The constraint on the branching ratio of such decays from COBE measurements is found to be more stringent than that from other consideration...
1992-08-12
2009-10-22
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph" ]
Biman B. Nath
astro-ph/9208003
The Probability for Formation of Collapsing Textures and Texture Knots
Global textures are interesting because they are promising candidates for seeds in the structure formation of the universe. The important configurations are those who will be able to collapse. The type of configurations that I will consider are half knots and true knots. I define a half knot as one that covers more tha...
1992-08-07
2011-07-19
[ "astro-ph", "hep-th" ]
Stefan {\AA}minneborg (Stockholm University)
astro-ph/9208002
Dependence of Density Perturbations on the Coupling Constant in a Simple Model of Inflation
In the standard inflationary scenario with inflaton potential $V(\Phi)=M^4-{1\over4}\lambda\Phi^4$, the resulting density perturbations $\delta\rho/\rho$ are proportional to $\lambda^{1/2}$. Upper bounds on $\delta\rho/\rho$ require $\lambda < 10^{-13}$. Ratra has shown that an alternative treatment of reheating result...
1992-08-04
2009-10-22
[ "astro-ph" ]
Toby Falk, Raghavan Rangarajan, and Mark Srednicki
astro-ph/9208001
The Angular Dependence of the Three-Point Correlation Function of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation as Predicted by Inflationary Cosmologies
Inflationary models predict a definite, model independent, angular dependence for the three-point correlation function of $\Delta T/T$ at large angles (greater than $\sim 1^\circ$) which we calculate. The overall amplitude is model dependent and generically unobservably small, but may be large in some specific models. ...
1992-08-04
2009-10-22
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph" ]
Toby Falk, Raghavan Rangarajan, and Mark Srednicki
astro-ph/9207001
Cosmic Microwave Background Probes Models of Inflation
Inflation creates both scalar (density) and tensor (gravity wave) metric perturbations. We find that the tensor mode contribution to the CMB anisotropy on large-angular scales can only exceed that of the scalar mode in models where the spectrum of perturbations deviates significantly from scale invariance (e.g., extend...
1992-07-13
2009-09-15
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph" ]
R.L. Davis, H.M. Hodges, G.F. Smoot, P.J. Steinhardt, M.S. Turner
astro-ph/9207002
Graceful Exit in Extended Inflation and Implications for Density Perturbations
Two qualitatively different modes of ending superluminal expansion are possible in extended inflation. One mode, different from the one envoked in most extended models to date, easily avoids making big bubbles that distort the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR). In this mode, the spectrum of density fluctuati...
1992-07-13
2009-09-15
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph" ]
R. Crittenden and Paul J. Steinhardt
astro-ph/9206005
Entropy of a Classical Stochastic Field and Cosmological Perturbation
We propose a general definition of nonequilibrium entropy of a classical stochastic field. As an example of particular interest in cosmology we apply this definition to compute the entropy of density perturbations in an inflationary Universe. On the scales of structures in the Universe, the entropy of density perturbat...
1992-06-24
2009-10-22
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph" ]
R. Brandenberger (Brown), V. Mukhanov (ETH Zuerich) and T. Prokopec (Brown)