General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Authors and titles for February 2015

[301] arXiv:1502.05397 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Vacuum densities for a brane intersecting the AdS boundary

E. R. Bezerra de Mello, A. A. Saharian, M.R. Setare

Comments: 16 pages, 2 figures In this new version accepted for publication in PRD, a subsection on the bulk-to-boundary propagator has been adeded

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 92, 104005 (2015)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[302] arXiv:1502.05401 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: A Note on Boltzmann Brains

Yasunori Nomura

Comments: 10 pages, 1 figure; discussion in Section 4 modified and expanded

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[303] arXiv:1502.05402 (cross-list from astro-ph.HE) [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamical mass ejection from black hole-neutron star binaries

Koutarou Kyutoku, Kunihito Ioka, Hirotada Okawa, Masaru Shibata, Keisuke Taniguchi

Comments: 37 pages, 22 figures, matched to the published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 92, 044028 (2015)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[304] arXiv:1502.05407 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [pdf, other]

Title: Efficient method for measuring the parameters encoded in a gravitational-wave signal

Carl-Johan Haster, Ilya Mandel, Will M. Farr

Comments: 17 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)

[305] arXiv:1502.05536 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Investigations In Higher Derivative Field Theories

Biswajit Paul

Comments: PhD Thesis; Supervisor: Prof. Rabin Banerjee, Co-Supervisor: Prof. Pradip Mukherjee. Work done at S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India. Degree awarded on 17th Jan, 2015 from the University of Calcutta. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1412.3205 by other authors

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[306] arXiv:1502.05607 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Spin-base invariance of Fermions in arbitrary dimensions

Stefan Lippoldt

Comments: 26 pages

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 91, 104006 (2015)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[307] arXiv:1502.05635 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Holographic p-wave superconductor models with Weyl corrections

Lu Zhang, Qiyuan Pan, Jiliang Jing

Comments: 17 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B

Journal-ref: Phys. Lett. B 743 (2015) 104

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[308] arXiv:1502.05706 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: UV properties of Galileons: Spectral Densities

Luke Keltner, Andrew J. Tolley

Comments: 94 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[309] arXiv:1502.05726 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Driven Holographic CFTs

Mukund Rangamani, Moshe Rozali, Anson Wong

Comments: 42 pages, 39 pdf figures. v2: minor changes. published version

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[310] arXiv:1502.05733 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: The Observational Status of Cosmic Inflation after Planck

Jerome Martin

Comments: 108 pages, 22 figures. Lectures given at the II JPBCosmo school (Brazil)

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[311] arXiv:1502.05740 (cross-list from astro-ph.GA) [pdf, other]

Title: Ultra-Close Encounters of Stars With Massive Black Holes: Tidal Disruption Events With Prompt Hyperaccretion

Christopher Evans, Pablo Laguna, Michael Eracleous

Comments: 5 pages, 1 table, 4 figures. Accepted for publication ApJL

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[312] arXiv:1502.05768 (cross-list from physics.ins-det) [pdf, other]

Title: Thermal noise of gram-scale cantilever flexures

Thanh T-H. Nguyen, Bram J.J. Slagmolen, Conor M. Mow-Lowry, John Miller, Adam Mullavey, Stefan Goßler, Paul A. Altin, Daniel A. Shaddock, David E. McClelland

Comments: 11 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[313] arXiv:1502.05792 (cross-list from astro-ph.HE) [pdf, other]

Title: "Circularization" vs. Accretion -- What Powers Tidal Disruption Events?

Tsvi Piran, Gilad Svirski, Julian Krolik, Roseanne M. Cheng, Hotaka Shiokawa

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[314] arXiv:1502.05897 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Conformal Universe as false vacuum decay

M. Libanov, V. Rubakov

Comments: 21 pages, 1 figure

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 91, 103515 (2015)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[315] arXiv:1502.05932 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Generating Einstein gravity, cosmological constant and Higgs mass from restricted Weyl invariance

Ariel Edery, Yu Nakayama

Comments: 7 pages, no figures

Journal-ref: Mod. Phys. Lett. A30 (2015) 1550152

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[316] arXiv:1502.05949 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Massive ABJM and black hole entropy in the presence of field strength coupling to curvature

Prieslei Goulart, Horatiu Nastase

Comments: 17 pages, no figures; references and clarifications added

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[317] arXiv:1502.06001 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [pdf, other]

Title: Detection and localization of single-source gravitational waves with pulsar timing arrays

Xing-Jiang Zhu, Linqing Wen, George Hobbs, Yilin Zhang, Yan Wang, Dustin R. Madison, Richard N. Manchester, Matthew Kerr, Pablo A. Rosado, Jingbo Wang

Comments: To match the published version, 17 pages, 13 figures

Journal-ref: MNRAS (May 11, 2015) 449 (2): 1650-1663

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[318] arXiv:1502.06090 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Geometrically induced magnetic catalysis and critical dimensions

Antonino Flachi, Kenji Fukushima, Vincenzo Vitagliano

Comments: 5 pages; minor changes

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 181601 (2015)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[319] arXiv:1502.06120 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: New Gravitational Memories

Sabrina Pasterski, Andrew Strominger, Alexander Zhiboedov

Comments: 17 pages

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[320] arXiv:1502.06135 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Preheating with Fractional Powers

Hossein Bazrafshan Moghaddam, Robert Brandenberger (McGill University)

Comments: 12 pages, 1 figure; matches published version (MPLA-D-16-00263; new title compared to original version, extended analysis

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[321] arXiv:1502.06185 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: One-loop partition function of three-dimensional flat gravity

Glenn Barnich, Hernan A. Gonzalez, Alexander Maloney, Blagoje Oblak

Comments: 8 pages. v2: Minor misprints corrected, reference [10] updated. Published in JHEP

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[322] arXiv:1502.06204 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: On the gravitomagnetic clock effect in quantum mechanics

S.B. Faruque, M.M.H. Chayon, Md. Moniruzzaman

Comments: 5 pages

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[323] arXiv:1502.06301 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Non-Minimal Two-Loop Inflation

Tomohiro Inagaki, Ryota Nakanishi, Sergei D. Odintsov

Comments: 11pages, 7figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[324] arXiv:1502.06341 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Planck constraints on inflation in auxiliary vector modified $f(R)$ theories

Mehmet Ozkan, Yi Pang, Shinji Tsujikawa

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 92, 023530 (2015)

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[325] arXiv:1502.06347 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Random geometric phase sequence due to topological effects in our brane world from extra dimensions

Jian Fu

Comments: 8 pages, no figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[326] arXiv:1502.06348 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Avoiding Boltzmann Brain domination in holographic dark energy models

R. Horvat

Comments: 8 pages, bounds rederived, final version to appear in PLB

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[327] arXiv:1502.06375 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Black Hole as a Wormhole Factory

Sung-Won Kim, Mu-In Park

Comments: Added some more words on (1) the transition between the black hole phase and wormhole phase and (2) the notion of a wormhole "factory" in Fig. 5. Updated references, Accepted in PLB

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[328] arXiv:1502.06497 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Scale Factor Self-Dual Cosmological Models

U. Camara dS, A.A. Lima, G.M. Sotkov

Comments: v3, improved and extended version to be published in JHEP; new results added to sect.2; 4 figures; 17pgs

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[329] arXiv:1502.06536 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Remarks on the mixed Ramond -Ramond, open string scattering amplitudes of BPS, non-BPS and brane-anti brane

Ehsan Hatefi

Comments: 37 pages,no figure, Latex file. V2:The logical ideas are clarified , the version is accepted in EPJC

Journal-ref: Eur. Phys. J. C (2015) 75:517

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[330] arXiv:1502.06599 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Can modified gravity models reconcile the tension between CMB anisotropy and lensing maps in Planck-like observations?

Bin Hu, Marco Raveri

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 91, 123515 (2015)

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[331] arXiv:1502.06607 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: On power-counting renormalizability of Ho\v{r}ava gravity with detailed balance

Daniele Vernieri

Comments: v1: 4 pages; v2: references added, published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 91, 124029 (2015)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[332] arXiv:1502.06685 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Higher-spin gravity as a theory on a fixed (anti) de Sitter background

Yasha Neiman

Comments: 17 pages + 3 pages of appendix; v2: generalized to include the full interaction ambiguity, added explicit analysis of the equations' consistency; v3: standardized normalization conventions between papers; v4: expanded the comparison with the standard Vasiliev equations by presenting an intermediate formulation

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[333] arXiv:1502.06692 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Local Operators in the Eternal Black Hole

Kyriakos Papadodimas, Suvrat Raju

Comments: 5 pages

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211601 (2015)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[334] arXiv:1502.06707 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining the redshift evolution of the Cosmic Microwave Background black-body temperature with PLANCK data

I. de Martino, R. Génova-Santos, F. Atrio-Barandela, H. Ebeling, A. Kashlinsky, D. Kocevski, C.J.A.P. Martins

Comments: ApJ, in press. Manuscript matches the accepted version: 10 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables

Journal-ref: ApJ, 808, 128 (2015)

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[335] arXiv:1502.06770 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum Transitions Between Classical Histories: Bouncing Cosmologies

James Hartle, Thomas Hertog

Comments: 37 pages, 5 figures, minor corrections, results not changed

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 92, 063509 (2015)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[336] arXiv:1502.06872 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Astrophysical Probes of the Vainshtein Mechanism: Stars and Galaxies

Kazuya Koyama, Jeremy Sakstein

Comments: Updated to correct mistake in equation (33) that changed figures 1-4

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 91, 124066 (2015)

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[337] arXiv:1502.06968 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Invariant Set Theory and the Symbolism of Quantum Measurement

T.N. Palmer

Comments: I am replacing this paper with a revised version (arXiv:1605.01051) that is sufficiently different to this original one that it is not a simple "replacement"

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[338] arXiv:1502.06972 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Bell's Conspiracy, Schr\"odinger's Black Cat and Global Invariant Sets

T.N. Palmer

Comments: To appear in Special Issue "New Geometric Concepts in the Foundations of Quantum Physics" of Phil Trans Roy Soc A

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[339] arXiv:1502.07062 (cross-list from astro-ph.SR) [pdf, other]

Title: Models of Pulsar Glitches

Brynmor Haskell, Andrew Melatos

Comments: Preprint of an article published in IJMPD 24, issue 3, 2015, 530008, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218271815300086. Copyright World Scientific Publishing Company, this http URL

Journal-ref: IJMPD 24, 530008 (2015)

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[340] arXiv:1502.07301 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic Strings and the Origin of Globular Clusters

Alistair Barton, Robert H. Brandenberger, Ling Lin (McGill University)

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures, figures slightly adjusted, two references added; version to appear in JCAP

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[341] arXiv:1502.07304 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Signs of Analyticity in Single-Field Inflation

Daniel Baumann, Daniel Green, Hayden Lee, Rafael A. Porto

Comments: 20+12 pages, 4 figures. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 023523 (2016)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[342] arXiv:1502.07337 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Starobinsky inflation from new-minimal supergravity

Fotis Farakos

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures, contribution to proceedings DISCRETE 2014, minor corrections

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[343] arXiv:1502.07354 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Asymmetric condensed dark matter

Anthony Aguirre, Alberto Diez-Tejedor

Comments: 30 pages, 1 figure. Some improvements with respect to the previous version. To appear in JCAP

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[344] arXiv:1502.07365 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [pdf, other]

Title: Probing the Spacetime Around Supermassive Black Holes with Ejected Plasma Blobs

Pierre Christian, Abraham Loeb

Comments: 4 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 91, 101301 (2015)

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[345] arXiv:1502.07396 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Background independent exact renormalization group for conformally reduced gravity

Juergen A. Dietz, Tim R. Morris

Comments: 53 pages, broken reference corrected

Journal-ref: JHEP 1504 (2015) 118

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[346] arXiv:1502.07471 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamics of magnetic shells and information loss problem

Bum-Hoon Lee, Wonwoo Lee, Dong-han Yeom

Comments: 16 pages, 9 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 92, 024027 (2015)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[347] arXiv:1502.07487 (cross-list from math.DG) [pdf, other]

Title: A density theorem for asymptotically hyperbolic initial data satisfying the dominant energy condition

Mattias Dahl, Anna Sakovich

Subjects: Differential Geometry (math.DG); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[348] arXiv:1502.07535 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Extra-dimensional generalization of minimum-length deformed QM/QFT and some of its phenomenological consequences

Michael Maziashvili

Comments: 11 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 91, 064040 (2015)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[349] arXiv:1502.07583 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on the dark matter sound speed from galactic scales: the cases of the Modified and Extended Chaplygin Gas

P. P. Avelino, V. M. C. Ferreira

Comments: 4 pages

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D91:083508,2015

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[350] arXiv:1502.07654 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Heisenberg scaling in Gaussian quantum metrology

Nicolai Friis, Michalis Skotiniotis, Ivette Fuentes, Wolfgang Dür

Comments: v2: 8 pages, 1 figure, additional examples and extended appendices w.r.t. v1

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 92, 022106 (2015)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)