We determine the gravitational response to a diffuse source, in a locally de Sitter background, of a class of theories which modify the Einstein-Hilbert action by adding a term proportional to an inverse power of the Ricci scalar. We find a linearly growing force which is not phenomenologically acceptable. PACS Numbers: 98.80.-k, 04.25.Nx † e-mail: [email protected] ‡ e-mail: [email protected]...

A four-dimensional static black hole solution of Einstein equation conformally coupled to a massive and self interacting scalar field is obtained. A nontrivial scalar solution proposes a weak scalar hair. A dressed black hole shows a trace of scalar charge in the metric signalling the presence of scalar hair. A number of metrics with regular horizons and temperatures are also proposed. PACS num...

We propose a polynomial-time algorithm for optimal scalar quantizer design on discrete-alphabet sources. Special cases of the proposed approach yield optimal design algorithms for fixed-rate and entropy-constrained scalar quantizers, multi-resolution scalar quantizers, multiple description scalar quantizers, and Wyner-Ziv scalar quantizers. The algorithm guarantees globally optimal solutions fo...

We study the static Einstein equation coupled with a scalar field with axial symmetry. The zero curvature equation both for the scalar field and a part of the metric in the scalar-Einstein equation enables one to obtain soliton solutions for both the scalar field and the metric. Of the infinite series of solutions for the metric and the scalar field we focus on the solution composed of 4-solito...