General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Authors and titles for May 2015

[301] arXiv:1505.03901 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological Particle Production at Strong Coupling

Mukund Rangamani, Moshe Rozali, Mark Van Raamsdonk

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures. v2: minor changes. v3: added refs and clarifications. published version

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

[302] arXiv:1505.04022 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Non-thermal Gravitino Production in Tribrid Inflation

Stefan Antusch, Koushik Dutta

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 92, 083503 (2015)

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)

[303] arXiv:1505.04068 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Noncommutative scalar quasinormal modes and quantization of entropy of a BTZ black hole

Kumar S. Gupta, E. Harikumar, Tajron Jurić, Stjepan Meljanac, Andjelo Samsarov

Comments: 11 pages, improved version published in JHEP

Journal-ref: JHEP 1509 (2015) 025

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

[304] arXiv:1505.04088 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational crystal inside the black hole

H. Nikolic

Comments: 7 pages, revised, new references, accepted for publication in Mod. Phys. Lett. A

Journal-ref: Mod. Phys. Lett. A 30 (2015) 1550201

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[305] arXiv:1505.04130 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Emergent Lorentz invariance with chiral fermions

Ivan Kharuk, Sergey Sibiryakov

Comments: 28 pages, 2 figures

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)

[306] arXiv:1505.04273 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: The Temperature/Entropy Connection for Horizons, Massless Particle Scattering, and the Origin of Locality

T. Banks

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

[307] arXiv:1505.04353 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: A model for emergence of space and time

J. Ambjorn, Y. Watabiki

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

[308] arXiv:1505.04400 (cross-list from math-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Kinematical Foundations of Loop Quantum Cosmology

Christian Fleischhack

Comments: 28 pages, LaTeX with Birkhäuser style

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

[309] arXiv:1505.04404 (cross-list from math-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Kinematical Uniqueness of Loop Quantum Gravity

Christian Fleischhack

Comments: 17 pages, LaTeX with Birkhäuser style. Uploaded version as accepted for publication in 2006, only modifications: present address added, journal information added to references if published in the meantime

Journal-ref: Quantum Gravity: Mathematical Models and Experimental Bounds (Edited Volume, Birkh\"auser, Basel, 2007), pp. 203-219

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

[310] arXiv:1505.04443 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Reconstructing the interaction between dark energy and dark matter using Gaussian Processes

Tao Yang, Zong-Kuan Guo, Rong-Gen Cai

Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures. Published in Physical Review D. Small updates to matche the published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 91, 123533 (2015)

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

[311] arXiv:1505.04446 (cross-list from astro-ph.HE) [pdf, other]

Title: Predictions for reverberating spectral line from a newly formed black hole accretion disk: case of tidal disruption flares

Wenda Zhang, Wenfei Yu, Vladimir Karas, Michal Dovciak

Comments: 12 pages, including 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[312] arXiv:1505.04506 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Conic D-branes

Koji Hashimoto, Shunichiro Kinoshita, Keiju Murata

Comments: 31 pages, 5 figures

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

[313] arXiv:1505.04517 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Non-locality in Quantum Field Theory due to General Relativity

Xavier Calmet, Djuna Croon, Christopher Fritz

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

[314] arXiv:1505.04553 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Yang-Baxter deformations of Minkowski spacetime

Takuya Matsumoto, Domenico Orlando, Susanne Reffert, Jun-ichi Sakamoto, Kentaroh Yoshida

Comments: 27 pages, no figure, LaTeX

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)

[315] arXiv:1505.04668 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Primordial Magnetic Field Generated in Natural Infation

Anwar S AlMuhammad (UTSA), Rafael Lopez-Mobilia (UTSA)

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Gen Relativ Gravit (2015) 47:134

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

[316] arXiv:1505.04686 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Vector field instability and the primordial tensor spectrum

Stefan Eccles, Willy Fischler, Dustin Lorshbough, Benjamin A. Stephens

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)

[317] arXiv:1505.04737 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Topology of the ambient boundary and the convergence of causal curves

Ignatios Antoniadis, Spiros Cotsakis

Comments: 8 pages

Journal-ref: Mod. Phys. Lett. A, Vol. 30, No. 30 (2015) 1550161

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

[318] arXiv:1505.04756 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: General relativistic corrections to $N$-body simulations and the Zel'dovich approximation

Christian Fidler, Cornelius Rampf, Thomas Tram, Robert Crittenden, Kazuya Koyama, David Wands

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, revised text and figures, matches published version in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 92, 123517 (2015)

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

[319] arXiv:1505.04793 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Black holes with a single Killing vector field: black resonators

Oscar J.C. Dias, Jorge E. Santos, Benson Way

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures

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

[320] arXiv:1505.04804 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Universality of corner entanglement in conformal field theories

Pablo Bueno, Robert C. Myers, William Witczak-Krempa

Comments: 4+7 pages, 2+0 figures, 1+0 tables; v2: minor modifications to match published version, references added

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 021602 (2015)

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

[321] arXiv:1505.04832 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Electron decay at IceCube

Morgan H. Lynch

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures

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

[322] arXiv:1505.04837 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Graph duality as an instrument of Gauge-String correspondence

Pablo Diaz, Hai Lin, Alvaro Veliz-Osorio

Comments: 34 pages. version published in journal

Journal-ref: Journal of Mathematical Physics 57 (2016) 052302

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

[323] arXiv:1505.04974 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: The Equivalence Principle in a Quantum World

N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr, John F. Donoghue, Basem Kamal El-Menoufi, Barry R. Holstein, Ludovic Planté, Pierre Vanhove

Comments: 5 pages, Honorable Mention in the Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition 2015

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

[324] arXiv:1505.04978 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: How unimodular gravity theories differ from general relativity at quantum level

R. Bufalo, M. Oksanen, A. Tureanu

Comments: 35 pages; v4: included a full treatment of nonlocally linearly dependent generators as Appendix A, Refs. 28 and 29 added, extended the discussion on physical degrees of freedom, boundary terms, and conclusions

Journal-ref: Eur. Phys. J. C 75 (2015) 477

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

[325] arXiv:1505.05011 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Gauging the Carroll Algebra and Ultra-Relativistic Gravity

Jelle Hartong

Comments: 27 pages

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

[326] arXiv:1505.05078 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Nature abhors a horizon

Per Kraus, Samir D. Mathur

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, Essay awarded third prize in the Gravity Research Foundation 2015 essay competition (some typographical errors corrected)

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

[327] arXiv:1505.05087 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: On Effective Spacetime Dimension in the Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz Gravity

G. Alencar, V. B. Bezerra, M. S. Cunha, C. R. Muniz

Comments: references added

Journal-ref: Phys. Lett. B747 (2015) 536-540

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

[328] arXiv:1505.05092 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Dissecting holographic conductivities

Richard A. Davison, Blaise Goutéraux

Comments: v2: minor edits, matches published version. v1: 26 pages, 1 figure

Journal-ref: JHEP 1509 (2015) 090

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

[329] arXiv:1505.05146 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Dipolar Dark Matter with Massive Bigravity

Luc Blanchet, Lavinia Heisenberg

Comments: 27 pages, journal version

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

[330] arXiv:1505.05151 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamical de Sitter phase and nontrivial holonomy in strongly coupled gauge theories in expanding Universe

Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

Comments: matches the published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 92, 043512 (2015)

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)

[331] arXiv:1505.05155 (cross-list from astro-ph.HE) [pdf, other]

Title: The Dense Matter Equation of State from Neutron Star Radius and Mass Measurements

Feryal Ozel, Dimitrios Psaltis, Tolga Guver, Gordon Baym, Craig Heinke, Sebastien Guillot

Comments: ApJ, in press. Revised version includes more expanded analyses and discussions of comparison to previous results

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

[332] arXiv:1505.05204 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Inflationary Magnetogenesis in $R^{2}$-Inflation after Planck 2015

Anwar Saleh AlMuhammad (UTSA)

Comments: 25 pages, 13 figures, Prepared for submission to JCAP

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

[333] arXiv:1505.05315 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Uncovering the effective spacetime: Lessons from the effective field theory rationale

Carlos Barceló, Raúl Carballo-Rubio, Luis J. Garay

Comments: 6 pages. Honorable Mention in the 2015 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation

Journal-ref: Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 24, 1544019 (2015)

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

[334] arXiv:1505.05393 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Asymptotic safety in $O(N)$ scalar models coupled to gravity

Peter Labus, Roberto Percacci, Gian Paolo Vacca

Comments: Latex, 15 pages, 1 figure

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

[335] arXiv:1505.05494 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational Wave Background in the Quasi-Steady State Cosmology

J.V. Narlikar, S.V. Dhurandhar, R.G. Vishwakarma, S.R. Valluri, Sayantan Auddy

Comments: Accepted for publication in the MNRAS

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

[336] arXiv:1505.05503 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Is cosmography a useful tool for testing cosmology?

Vinicius C. Busti, Peter K. S. Dunsby, Alvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz, Diego Saez-Gomez

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures, version published in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 92, 123512 (2015)

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

[337] arXiv:1505.05511 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Decaying dark matter and the tension in $\sigma_8$

Kari Enqvist, Seshadri Nadathur, Toyokazu Sekiguchi, Tomo Takahashi

Comments: 21 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in JCAP

Journal-ref: JCAP09(2015)067

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

[338] arXiv:1505.05517 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: P-V Criticality in Quasitopological Gravity

Robie A. Hennigar, Wilson G. Brenna, Robert B. Mann

Comments: 20 pages, 15 figures, REVTeX 4-1; updated to match published version

Journal-ref: JHEP 1507 (2015) 077

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

[339] arXiv:1505.05529 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Fundamental Cosmology from Precision Spectroscopy: II. Synergies with supernovae

A. C. O. Leite, C. J. A. P. Martins

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D91, 103519 (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)

[340] arXiv:1505.05552 (cross-list from math-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Dirac's point electron in the zero-gravity Kerr--Newman world

Michael K.-H. Kiessling, A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh

Comments: 22 pages, to appear in the refereed proceedings of the conference "Quantum Mathematical Physcis", Regensburg 2014

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

[341] arXiv:1505.05671 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: K-mouflage effects on clusters of galaxies

Philippe Brax, Luca Alberto Rizzo, Patrick Valageas

Comments: 34 pages

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 92, 043519 (2015)

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

[342] arXiv:1505.05773 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Breaking discrete symmetries in the effective field theory of inflation

Dario Cannone, Jinn-Ouk Gong, Gianmassimo Tasinato

Comments: (v1) 21 pages, 3 appendices; (v2) mistakes corrected in the analysis of tensor modes, presentation improved and references added

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)

[343] arXiv:1505.05781 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Mapping the Chevallier-Polarski-Linder parametrization onto Physical Dark Energy Models

Robert J. Scherrer

Comments: 11 pages, 5 figures, typo corrected in Eq. (17), to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 92, 043001 (2015)

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

[344] arXiv:1505.05820 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Canonical charges and asymptotic symmetries in four dimensional conformal gravity

I. Lovrekovic

Comments: 14 pages, Proceedings of the Corfu Summer Institute 2014 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity", 3-21 September 2014, Corfu, Greece

Journal-ref: PoS CORFU2014 (2015) 155

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

[345] arXiv:1505.05865 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Initial conditions for cosmological N-body simulations of the scalar sector of theories of Newtonian, Relativistic and Modified Gravity

Wessel Valkenburg, Bin Hu (Instituut-Lorentz)

Comments: 27 pages, 6 figure, code available at this http URL. Matches version published in JCAP

Journal-ref: JCAP09(2015)054

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

[346] arXiv:1505.05875 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Entropy of an extremal electrically charged thin shell and the extremal black hole

José P. S. Lemos, Gonçalo M. Quinta, Oleg B. Zaslavskii

Comments: 11 pages, minor changes, added references, matches the published version

Journal-ref: Physics Letters B 750, 306 (2015)

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

[347] arXiv:1505.05915 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Semi-dynamical perturbations of unified dark energy

Lucas Lombriser, Andy Taylor

Comments: 26 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: JCAP11(2015)040

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

[348] arXiv:1505.06099 (cross-list from astro-ph.HE) [pdf, other]

Title: Stable, levitating, optically thin atmospheres of Eddington-luminosity neutron stars

M. Wielgus, W. Kluźniak, A. Sądowski, R. Narayan, M. Abramowicz

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: MNRAS 2015 454: 3766-3770

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

[349] arXiv:1505.06154 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Killing(-Yano) Tensors in String Theory

Yuri Chervonyi, Oleg Lunin

Comments: 87 pages. V2: typos are corrected, appendix C and references are added. V3: several typos are fixed

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

[350] arXiv:1505.06173 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Extension of the Poincar\'e group with half-integer spin generators: hypergravity and beyond

Oscar Fuentealba, Javier Matulich, Ricardo Troncoso

Comments: 12 pages, no figures. Matches published version

Journal-ref: JHEP 1509 (2015) 003

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