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Universe, Volume 4, Issue 2

2018 February - 23 articles

Cover Story: Due to the dozens of inflationary models, we do not know much about the inflationary era of the universe. We should therefore aim to have only a few acceptable models. The main article in this issue tries to eliminate as many models as possible by showing that their predictions are in conflict with cosmological observations, particularly the CMB-observations performed by the Planck team. Thirty-three model classes have been reviewed, about half of which have been falsified by the present observations. The review also gives a systematic presentation of the different slow roll parameters, the N-formalism and the optical parameters of the inflationary models. It is found that the warm inflation models—more complete than the cold models since they take into consideration the transition of dark energy into radiation—are favored by the observations. View this paper
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Articles (23)

  • Conference Report
  • Open Access
3,189 Views
7 Pages

Cracking Strange Stars by Torsional Oscillations

  • Francesco Tonelli and
  • Massimo Mannarelli

17 February 2018

Strange stars are one of the possible compact stellar objects formed in the core collapse of supernovae. These hypothetical stars are made by deconfined quark matter and are selfbound. In our study, we focus on the torsional oscillations of a non bar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,065 Views
11 Pages

16 February 2018

In this paper, we present a method to probe the vacuum decay hypothesis by searching for deviations of the uncoupled dark matter density evolution formula. The method consists of expanding the dark matter density in a Taylor series and then comparing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,795 Views
9 Pages

Precessing Black Hole Binaries and Their Gravitational Radiation

  • László Á. Gergely,
  • Zoltán Keresztes and
  • Márton Tápai

16 February 2018

The first and second observational runs of Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) have marked the first direct detections of gravitational waves, either from black hole binaries or, in one case, from coalescing neutron st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,161 Views
20 Pages

Conformally Coupled General Relativity

  • Andrej Arbuzov and
  • Boris Latosh

14 February 2018

The gravity model developed in the series of papers (Arbuzov et al. 2009; 2010), (Pervushin et al. 2012) is revisited. The model is based on the Ogievetsky theorem, which specifies the structure of the general coordinate transformation group. The the...

  • Conference Report
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,130 Views
6 Pages

Strangeness Production in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at SIS Energies

  • Vinzent Steinberg,
  • Dmytro Oliinychenko,
  • Jan Staudenmaier and
  • Hannah Petersen

13 February 2018

Simulating Many Accelerated Strongly-interacting Hadrons (SMASH) is a new hadronic transport approach designed to describe the non-equilibrium evolution of heavy-ion collisions. The production of strange particles in such systems is enhanced compared...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,724 Views
21 Pages

Effects of Scattering of Radiation on Wormholes

  • Alexander Kirillov and
  • Elena Savelova

12 February 2018

Significant progress in the development of observational techniques gives us the hope to directly observe cosmological wormholes. We have collected basic effects produced by the scattering of radiation on wormholes, which can be used in observations....

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,867 Views
14 Pages

12 February 2018

The Lense-Thirring effect from spinning neutron stars in double neutron star binaries contributes to the periastron advance of the orbit. This extra term involves the moment of inertia of the neutron stars. The moment of inertia, on the other hand, d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,179 Views
11 Pages

11 February 2018

We consider diverse deformed Bose gas models (DBGMs) focusing on distributions and correlations of any order, and also on deformed thermodynamics. For so-called μ -deformed Bose gas model ( μ -DBGM), main thermodynamic aspects are treated: t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,495 Views
8 Pages

9 February 2018

Investigation of femtoscopic correlation functions in relativistic heavy ion reactions is an important tool to access the space-time structure of particle production in the strongly interacting Quark Gluon Plasma (sQGP). The shape of the source, and...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,957 Views
10 Pages

9 February 2018

An extension of the relativistic density functional approach to the equation of state for strongly interacting matter is suggested that generalizes a recently developed modified excluded-volume mechanism to the case of temperature- and density-depend...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,752 Views
26 Pages

8 February 2018

This review focuses on the demonstration of an interrelation between various in-medium effects, which are manifested in the phenomena occurring in neutron stars and heavy-ion collisions. More specifically, the equation of state of a baryon-rich cold...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,506 Views
6 Pages

On Cooling of Neutron Stars with a Stiff Equation of State Including Hyperons

  • Hovik Grigorian,
  • Evgeni E. Kolomeitsev,
  • Konstantin A. Maslov and
  • Dmitry N. Voskresensky

8 February 2018

Exploiting a stiff equation of state of the relativistic mean-field model MKVORH ϕ with σ -scaled hadron effective masses and couplings, including hyperons, we demonstrate that the existing neutron-star cooling data can be appropriately des...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,672 Views
9 Pages

Vector-Interaction-Enhanced Bag Model

  • Mateusz Cierniak,
  • Thomas Klähn,
  • Tobias Fischer and
  • Niels-Uwe F. Bastian

8 February 2018

A commonly applied quark matter model in astrophysics is the thermodynamic bag model (tdBAG). The original MIT bag model approximates the effect of quark confinement, but does not explicitly account for the breaking of chiral symmetry, an important p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,584 Views
23 Pages

6 February 2018

In this review, we focus our attention on scalar-tensor gravity models and their empirical verification in terms of black hole and wormhole physics. We focus on black holes, embedded in an expanding universe, describing both cosmological and astrophy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,743 Views
10 Pages

On the High-Energy Neutrino Emission from Active Galactic Nuclei

  • Emma Kun,
  • Peter L. Biermann,
  • Silke Britzen and
  • László Á. Gergely

1 February 2018

We review observational aspects of the active galactic nuclei and their jets in connection with the detection of high-energy neutrinos by the Antarctic IceCube Neutrino Observatory. We propose that a reoriented jet generated by the spin-flipping supe...

  • Conference Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,706 Views
5 Pages

Geometry of Bigravity

  • Vladimir Soloviev

31 January 2018

The non-Euclidean geometry created by Bolyai, Lobachevsky and Gauss has led to a new physical theory—general relativity. In due turn, a correct mathematical treatment of the cosmological problem in general relativity has led Friedmann to a discovery...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,240 Views
12 Pages

31 January 2018

Space out of a topological defect of the Abrikosov–Nielsen–Olesen (ANO) vortex type is locally flat but non-Euclidean. If a spinor field is quantized in such a space, then a variety of quantum effects are induced in the vacuum. On the basis of the co...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,639 Views
163 Pages

29 January 2018

I give a review of predictions of values of spectral parameters for a large number of inflationary models. The present review includes detailed deductions and information about the approximations that have been made, written in a style that is suitab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,296 Views
26 Pages

Higher Spin Extension of Fefferman-Graham Construction

  • Xavier Bekaert,
  • Maxim Grigoriev and
  • Evgeny Skvortsov

29 January 2018

Fefferman-Graham ambient construction can be formulated as sp ( 2 ) -algebra relations on three Hamiltonian constraint functions on ambient space. This formulation admits a simple extension that leads to higher-spin fields, both conformal gaug...

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Universe - ISSN 2218-1997