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Universe, Volume 6, Issue 11

2020 November - 32 articles

Cover Story: Important but not so well-known historical issues around the crucial discovery of the universe expansion and, at the other extreme, present attempts at determining the cosmic expansion rate are discussed, all in accordance with General Relativity, of which a brief pedagogical introduction is here provided, too. Another crucial question is: What drives the acceleration of the universe’s expansion? This is called dark energy, but what is it actually? It could be the result of a sort of Casimir effect at the cosmological level, a theroy which has yet not been discarded. Some technical problems in tackling this issue are the regularization and renormalization procedures involved. Beautiful, albeit non-trivial mathematics, which use the zeta function of operators associated with physical quantities, are key in this respect. A very brief discussion of those items is also given. View this paper.
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Articles (32)

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,607 Views
12 Pages

23 November 2020

The impact of the equation of state (EoS) crust-core matching procedure on neutron star (NS) properties is analyzed within a meta-modeling approach. Using a Taylor expansion to parametrize the core equation of state (EoS) and the SLy4 crust EoS, we c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,908 Views
25 Pages

X-ray Properties of 3C 111: Separation of Primary Nuclear Emission and Jet Continuum

  • Elena Fedorova,
  • B.I. Hnatyk,
  • V.I. Zhdanov and
  • A. Del Popolo

21 November 2020

3C111 is BLRG with signatures of both FSRQ and Sy1 in X-ray spectrum. The significant X-ray observational dataset was collected for it by INTEGRAL, XMM-Newton, SWIFT, Suzaku and others. The overall X-ray spectrum of 3C 111 shows signs of a peculiarit...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,975 Views
9 Pages

20 November 2020

The solution to the problem of symmetric collision of two relativistic shock waves is given and limiting cases are investigated: Newtonian mechanics and ultrarelativistic mechanics. The results are correlated with the presence of known superclusters...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,946 Views
22 Pages

The Line-of-Sight Analysis of Spatial Distribution of Galaxies in the COSMOS2015 Catalogue

  • Maxim Nikonov,
  • Mikhail Chekal,
  • Stanislav Shirokov,
  • Andrey Baryshev and
  • Vladimir Gorokhov

20 November 2020

New observations of high-redshift objects are crucial for the improvement of the standard ΛCDM cosmological model and our understanding of the Universe. One of the main directions of modern observational cosmology is the analysis of the large-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,038 Views
24 Pages

String-Inspired Running Vacuum—The “Vacuumon”—And the Swampland Criteria

  • Nick E. Mavromatos,
  • Joan Solà Peracaula and
  • Spyros Basilakos

20 November 2020

We elaborate further on the compatibility of the “vacuumon potential” that characterises the inflationary phase of the running vacuum model (RVM) with the swampland criteria. The work is motivated by the fact that, as demonstrated recentl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,572 Views
26 Pages

20 November 2020

We formulate a statistical wave-mechanical approach to describe dissipation and instabilities in two-dimensional turbulent flows of magnetized plasmas and atmospheric fluids, such as drift and Rossby waves. This is made possible by the existence of H...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,610 Views
16 Pages

20 November 2020

One of the key ingredients needed to extract quantitative information on neutrino absolute mass scale from the possible measurement of the neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay half-lives is the nuclear matrix element (NME) characterizin...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,418 Views
12 Pages

19 November 2020

We derive the reconstruction formulae for the inflation model with the non-minimal derivative coupling term. If reconstructing the potential from the tensor-to-scalar ratio r, we could obtain the potential without using the high friction limit. As an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,517 Views
92 Pages

18 November 2020

Modern multimessenger astronomy delivers unique opportunity for performing crucial observations that allow for testing the physics of the gravitational interaction. These tests include detection of gravitational waves by advanced LIGO-Virgo antennas,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,201 Views
18 Pages

17 November 2020

Extremal cosmological black holes are analysed in the framework of the most general second order scalar-tensor theory, the so-called Horndeski gravity. Such extremal black holes are a particular case of Schwarzschild-De Sitter black holes that arises...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,965 Views
11 Pages

17 November 2020

Selection rules that follow from parity and four-momentum conservation are listed for head-on light-by-light scattering in a strong magnetic field taking into account nontrivial dispersion laws of different photon eigen-modes. The wave-length shifts...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,137 Views
21 Pages

14 November 2020

A recent study of a sample of wide binary star systems from the Hipparcos and Gaia catalogues has found clear evidence of a gravitational anomaly of the same kind as that appearing in galaxies and galactic clusters. Instead of a relative orbital velo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,268 Views
17 Pages

Discerning the Nature of Neutrinos: Decoherence and Geometric Phases

  • Antonio Capolupo,
  • Salvatore Marco Giampaolo,
  • Gaetano Lambiase and
  • Aniello Quaranta

13 November 2020

We present new approaches to distinguish between Dirac and Majorana neutrinos. The first is based on the analysis of the geometric phases associated to neutrinos in matter, the second on the effects of decoherence on neutrino oscillations. In the for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,974 Views
20 Pages

13 November 2020

Due to the large neutron–neutron scattering length, dilute neutron matter resembles the unitary Fermi gas, which lies half-way in the crossover from the BCS phase of weakly coupled Cooper pairs to the Bose–Einstein condensate of dimers. W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,126 Views
17 Pages

11 November 2020

We investigated the role of a pairing correlation in the chemical composition of the inner crust of a neutron star with the extended Thomas–Fermi method, using the Strutinsky integral correction. We compare our results with the fully self-consi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,707 Views
30 Pages

Radiation Problems Accompanying Carrier Production by an Electric Field in the Graphene

  • Sergei P. Gavrilov,
  • Dmitry M. Gitman,
  • Vadim V. Dmitriev,
  • Anatolii D. Panferov and
  • Stanislav A. Smolyansky

6 November 2020

A number of physical processes that occur in a flat one-dimensional graphene structure under the action of strong time-dependent electric fields are considered. It is assumed that the Dirac model can be applied to the graphene as a subsystem of the g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,402 Views
15 Pages

Saturation of Energy Levels of the Hydrogen Atom in Strong Magnetic Field

  • Tiago C. Adorno,
  • Dmitry M. Gitman and
  • Anatoly E. Shabad

5 November 2020

We demonstrate that the finiteness of the limiting values of the lower energy levels of a hydrogen atom under an unrestricted growth of the magnetic field, into which this atom is embedded, is achieved already when the vacuum polarization (VP) is cal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,614 Views
18 Pages

4 November 2020

In this work, we study the relativistic quantum motion of an electron in the presence of external magnetic fields in the spinning cosmic string spacetime. The approach takes into account the terms that explicitly depend on the particle spin in the Di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,549 Views
14 Pages

31 October 2020

We discuss thermodynamic properties of open confining strings introduced via static sources in the vacuum of Yang-Mills theory. We derive new sum rules for the chromoelectric and chromomagnetic condensates and use them to show that the presence of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,020 Views
11 Pages

30 October 2020

We investigated the relations between the monthly average values of the critical frequency (f0F2) and the physical properties of the coronal mass ejections (CMEs), then we examined the seasonal variation of f0F2 values as an impact of the several CME...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,955 Views
18 Pages

Quantum Analysis of BTZ Black Hole Formation Due to the Collapse of a Dust Shell

  • Alexander A. Andrianov,
  • Artem Starodubtsev and
  • Yasser Elmahalawy

30 October 2020

We perform Hamiltonian reduction of a model in which 2 + 1 dimensional gravity with negative cosmological constant is coupled to a cylindrically symmetric dust shell. The resulting action contains only a finite number of degrees of freedom. The phase...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,011 Views
23 Pages

29 October 2020

We investigate the ability of the exponential power-law inflation to be a phenomenologically correct model of the early universe. We study General Relativity (GR) scalar cosmology equations in Ivanov–Salopek–Bond (or Hamilton–Jacobi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,993 Views
16 Pages

27 October 2020

The relation of randomness and classical algorithmic computational complexity is a vast and deep subject by itself. However, already, 1-randomness sequences call for quantum mechanics in their realization. Thus, we propose to approach black hole&rsqu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
3,943 Views
30 Pages

New Physics of Strong Interaction and Dark Universe

  • Vitaly Beylin,
  • Maxim Khlopov,
  • Vladimir Kuksa and
  • Nikolay Volchanskiy

26 October 2020

The history of dark universe physics can be traced from processes in the very early universe to the modern dominance of dark matter and energy. Here, we review the possible nontrivial role of strong interactions in cosmological effects of new physics...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,811 Views
40 Pages

26 October 2020

We review recent works on the possibility for eternal existence of thin-shell wormholes on Einstein and Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet gravity. We introduce thin-shell wormholes that are categorized into a class of traversable wormhole solutions....

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,533 Views
21 Pages

24 October 2020

We present a qualitative analysis of chiral cosmological model (CCM) dynamics with two scalar fields in the spatially flat Friedman–Robertson–Walker Universe. The asymptotic behavior of chiral models is investigated based on the character...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,968 Views
14 Pages

23 October 2020

We consider the model of minimally interacting electromagnetic, gravitational and massive scalar fields free of any additional nonlinearities. In the dimensionless form, the Lagranginan contains only one parameter γ=(mG/e)2 which corresponds to...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,444 Views
22 Pages

22 October 2020

After the first clear evidence of the recession—at very high speeds—of the spiral nebulae was announced by V.M. Slipher in 1914, as a result of his work started in 1912, it still took several decades to properly understand the phenomenon...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,847 Views
11 Pages

Resonant Effect for Breit–Wheeler Process in the Field of an X-ray Pulsar

  • Vitalii D. Serov,
  • Sergei P. Roshchupkin and
  • Victor V. Dubov

22 October 2020

The resonant process of the creation of an ultrarelativistic electron–positron pair by two hard gamma quanta in the field of an X-ray pulsar (the Breit–Wheeler process modified by an external field) was theoretically studied. Under resona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,822 Views
20 Pages

Is OJ 287 a Single Supermassive Black Hole?

  • Marina S. Butuzova and
  • Alexander B. Pushkarev

22 October 2020

Light curves for more than century optical photometric observations of the blazar OJ 287 reveals strong flares with a quasi-period of about 12 years. For a long time, this period has been interpreted by processes in a binary black hole system. We pro...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,079 Views
10 Pages

Is the Axionic Dark Matter an Equilibrium System?

  • Alexander B. Balakin and
  • Amir F. Shakirzyanov

22 October 2020

We consider an axionic dark matter model with a modified periodic potential for the pseudoscalar field in the framework of the axionic extension of the Einstein-aether theory. The modified potential is assumed to be equipped by the guiding function,...

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Universe - ISSN 2218-1997