We study a scalar field theory coupled to gravity on a flat background, below Planck’s energy. Einstein’s theory is treated as an effective field theory. Within the context of Wilson’s renormalization group, we compute gravitational corrections to the beta functions and the anomalous dimension of the scalar field, taking into account threshold effects.

The equations describing the Kaluza-Klein reduction of conformally flat spaces are investigated in arbitrary dimensions. Special classes of solution related to pseudoKähler and para-Kähler structures are constructed and classified according to spacetime dimension, signature and gauge field rank. Remarkably, rank two solutions include gravitational kinks together with their centripetal and centr...

B List has recently studied a geometric flow whose fixed points correspond to static Ricci flat spacetimes. It is now known that this flow is in fact Ricci flow modulo pullback by a certain diffeomorphism. We use this observation to associate to each static Ricci flat spacetime a local Ricci soliton in one higher dimension. As well, solutions of Euclidean-signature Einstein gravity coupled to a...

We review the generalized Witten-Nester spinor stability argument for flat domain wall solutions of gravitational theories. Neither the field theory nor the solution need be supersymmetric. Nor is the space-time dimension restricted. We develop the non-trivial extension required for AdS-sliced domain walls and apply this to show that the recently proposed “Janus” solution of Type IIB supergravi...

Room impulse responses(RIRs) have conventionally been used to derive acoustic parameters to assess acoustics of rooms. One of these parameters is reverberation time which is taken as a crucial measure for perceptual reverberance. Although this measure is not perfect on evaluation reverberance in many situations, especially when the sound decays are not exponential. This study investigates the r...

A parabolic resonance is formed when an integrable two-degrees-of-freedom (d.o.f.) Hamiltonian system possessing a circle of parabolic fixed points is perturbed. It is proved that its occurrence is generic for one parameter families (co-dimension one phenomenon) of near-integrable, two d.o.f. Hamiltonian systems. Numerical experiments indicate that the motion near a parabolic resonance exhibits...

Biconformal gauging of the conformal group gives a scale-invariant volume form, permitting a single form of the action to be invariant in any dimension. We display several 2n-dim scale-invariant polynomial actions and a dual action. We solve the field equations for the most general action linear in the curvatures for a minimal torsion geometry. In any dimension n > 2, the solution is foliated b...

We present two families of exterior differential systems (EDS) for causal embeddings of orthonormal frame bundles over Riemannian spaces of dimension q = 2, 3, 4, 5.... into orthonormal frame bundles over flat spaces of higher dimension. We calculate Cartan characters showing that these EDS are dynamical field theories. The first family includes a nonisometric embedding EDS for classical Einste...

1. Flat, projective, and free modules 1 2. Review of regular local rings 2 3. Cohen-Macauley rings 2 4. The Koszul complex 3 5. The Koszul resolution detects depth 5 6. The detection of depth by use of Ext 6 7. Global dimension 6 8. Minimal resolutions and global dimension 7 9. Serre’s characterization of regular local rings 8 10. The Auslander-Buchsbaum theorem 10 11. Localizations of regular ...

The Positive Mass Conjecture states that any complete asymptotically flat manifold of nonnnegative scalar curvature has nonnegative mass. Moreover, the equality case of the Positive Mass Conjecture states that in the above situation, if the mass is zero, then the Riemannian manifold must be Euclidean space. The Positive Mass Conjecture was proved by R. Schoen and S.-T. Yau for all manifolds of ...