Since air pollution is a major public health concern, collecting and analyzing air quality indicators data is very important for monitoring pollution. Data on these indicators are generally collected through air quali...
Since air pollution is a major public health concern, collecting and analyzing air quality indicators data is very important for monitoring pollution. Data on these indicators are generally collected through air quality monitoring stations located in specific areas. In this study, 12 monitoring sites belonging to the Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring center air pollution monitoring network are clustered based on their similarity in terms of hourly or monthly concentrations of some air pollutants. The hourly data was collected from these stations between March 2013 and February 2017. The clustering procedure was performed through average linkage and partitioning around medoids algorithms. The preliminary results obtained from the hierarchical algorithm show the presence of two clusters that are well distinguished with meaningful interpretation while the two obtained from the partitional algorithm are not well distinguished.
We study the Skyrmion of the SO(2) gauged O(3) sigma model in 2 + 1 dimensions in the presence of a Skyrme–Chern-Simons (SCS) term, and compare its properties with the corresponding properties of the Skyrmion in the ...
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In this work, we generalize the spontaneous scalarization phenomena in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar models to a higher spin field. The result is an Einstein-Maxwell-vector model wherein a vector field is nonminimally coupl...
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In this work, we generalize the spontaneous scalarization phenomena in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar models to a higher spin field. The result is an Einstein-Maxwell-vector model wherein a vector field is nonminimally coupled to the Maxwell invariant by an exponential coupling function. We show that the latter guarantees the circumvention of an associated no-hair theorem when the vector field has the form of an electric field. Different than its scalar counterpart, the new spontaneously vectorized Reissner-Nordström (RN) black holes are, always, undercharged while being entropically preferable. The solution profile and domain of existence are presented and analyzed.
We consider axially symmetric solutions of the U(1) gauged Skyrme model supplemented with a Callan-Witten (CW) anomaly density term. The main properties of the solutions are studied, several specific features introduc...
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Virial (aka scaling) identities are integral identities that are useful for a variety of purposes in nonlinear field theories, including establishing no-go theorems for solitonic and black hole solutions, as well as f...
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Virial (aka scaling) identities are integral identities that are useful for a variety of purposes in nonlinear field theories, including establishing no-go theorems for solitonic and black hole solutions, as well as for checking the accuracy of numerical solutions. In this paper, we provide a pedagogical rationale for the derivation of such integral identities, starting from the standard variational treatment of particle mechanics. In the framework of one-dimensional (1D) effective actions, the treatment presented here yields a set of useful formulas for computing virial identities in any field theory. Then, we propose that a complete treatment of virial identities in relativistic gravity must take into account the appropriate boundary term. For General Relativity this is the Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term. We test and confirm this proposal with concrete examples. Our analysis here is restricted to spherically symmetric configurations, which yield 1D effective actions (leaving higher-D effective actions and in particular the axially symmetric case to a companion paper). In this case, we show that there is a particular “gauge” choice, i.e. a choice of coordinates and parametrizing metric functions, that simplifies the computation of virial identities in General Relativity, making both the Einstein-Hilbert action and the Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term noncontributing. Under this choice, the virial identity results exclusively from the matter action. For generic “gauge” choices, however, this is not the case.
Belief propagation is a well-studied algorithm for approximating local marginals of multivariate probability distribution over complex networks, while tensor network states are powerful tools for quantum and classical...
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Belief propagation is a well-studied algorithm for approximating local marginals of multivariate probability distribution over complex networks, while tensor network states are powerful tools for quantum and classical many-body problems. Building on a recent connection between the belief propagation algorithm and the problem of tensor network contraction, we propose a block belief propagation algorithm for contracting two-dimensional (2D) tensor networks and approximating the ground state of 2D systems. The advantages of our method are threefold: (1) the same algorithm works for both finite and infinite systems; (2) it allows natural and efficient parallelization; and (3) given its flexibility, it would allow us to deal with different unit cells. As applications, we use our algorithm to study the 2D Heisenberg and transverse Ising models, and show that the accuracy of the method is on par with state-of-the-art results.
We present the first systematic search for exotic compact mergers in Advanced LIGO and Virgo events. We compare the short gravitational-wave signals GW190521, GW190426_190642, GW200220_061928, and the trigger 200114_0...
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We present the first systematic search for exotic compact mergers in Advanced LIGO and Virgo events. We compare the short gravitational-wave signals GW190521, GW190426_190642, GW200220_061928, and the trigger 200114_020818 (or S200114f) to a new catalog of 759 numerical simulations of head-on mergers of horizonless exotic compact objects known as Proca stars, interpreted as self-gravitating lumps of (fuzzy) dark matter sourced by an ultralight (vector) bosonic particle. The Proca star merger hypothesis is strongly rejected with respect to the black hole merger one by GW190426, weakly rejected by GW200220 and weakly favored by GW190521 and S200114f. GW190521 and GW200220 yield highly consistent boson masses of μB=8.69−0.75+0.61×10−13 eV and μB=9.13−1.30+1.18×10−13 eV at the 90% credible level. We conduct a preliminary population study of the compact binaries behind these events. Excluding (including) S200114f as a real event, and ignoring boson-mass consistencies across events, we estimate a fraction of Proca star mergers of ζ=0.27−0.25+0.43(0.39−0.33+0.38). We discuss the impact of boson-mass consistency across events in such estimates. Our results maintain GW190521 as a Proca star merger candidate and pave the way toward population studies considering exotic compact objects.
The use of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) in written tests, supported by the digital scan and automatic correction, has been evaluated using the application of Item Response Theory methodology. A simple detection of ...
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We explore the dynamics of boson stars in the presence of axionic couplings through nonlinear evolutions of Einstein’s field equations. We show that, for large axionic couplings, isolated boson stars become unstable,...
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We explore the dynamics of boson stars in the presence of axionic couplings through nonlinear evolutions of Einstein’s field equations. We show that, for large axionic couplings, isolated boson stars become unstable, and decay via a large burst of electromagnetic radiation, becoming less massive and more dilute. Our full nonlinear results are in good agreement with flat-space estimates for the critical couplings. We then consider head-on collisions of subcritical boson stars and study the electromagnetic and gravitational signal. Boson stars cluster around the critical point via interactions, and we argue that mergers will generically be also sources of electromagnetic radiation, in addition to gravitational waves, which can be used to place constraints on the axionic coupling if such multimessenger signals are detected.
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