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Universe, Volume 7, Issue 1

January 2021 - 20 articles

Cover Story: This is basic review of zeta functions and the zeta-regularization method, starting from the notions of harmonic series and of divergent sums. By way of simple examples, it is shown how these powerful methods are used for the regularization of physical quantities, such as quantum vacuum fluctuations in various contexts. Specifically, in Casimir effect setups—with a note on the dynamical Casimir effect—and mainly concerning its application in quantum theories in curved spaces, used in gravity theories and cosmology. A brief introduction to large scale cosmology leads then to the FLRW model, and to the cosmological constant problem. A concise summary of all these interrelated subjects and applications involving zeta functions and the cosmos, and an updated list of the pioneering and more influential works (in terms of citation counts) published on all those matters up to now, are provided. View this paper.
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Articles (20)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,904 Views
15 Pages

19 January 2021

In this work, supervised artificial neural networks (ANN) with rapidity–mass matrix (RMM) inputs are studied using several Monte Carlo event samples for various pp collision processes. The study shows the usability of this approach for general...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,890 Views
17 Pages

Correlations between Earthquake Properties and Characteristics of Possible ULF Geomagnetic Precursor over Multiple Earthquakes

  • Khairul Adib Yusof,
  • Mardina Abdullah,
  • Nurul Shazana Abdul Hamid,
  • Suaidi Ahadi and
  • Akimasa Yoshikawa

19 January 2021

In this study, we improved and adapted existing signal processing methods on vast geomagnetic field data to investigate the correlations between various earthquake properties and characteristics of possible geomagnetic precursors. The data from 10 ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
5,385 Views
68 Pages

The Clustering Dynamics of Primordial Black Holes in N-Body Simulations

  • Manuel Trashorras,
  • Juan García-Bellido and
  • Savvas Nesseris

15 January 2021

We explore the possibility that Dark Matter (DM) may be explained by a nonuniform background of approximately stellar mass clusters of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) by simulating the evolution from recombination to the present with over 5000 realisat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,011 Views
11 Pages

Intra-Day Variability Observations of Two Dozens of Blazars at 4.8 GHz

  • Xiang Liu,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Ning Chang,
  • Jun Liu,
  • Lang Cui,
  • Xiaofeng Yang and
  • Thomas P. Krichbaum

14 January 2021

Two dozens of radio loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been observed with Urumqi 25 m radio telescope in order to search for intra-day variability (IDV). The target sources are blazars (namely flat spectrum radio quasars and BL Lac objects) whic...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,558 Views
11 Pages

12 January 2021

I give a historical survey of the discussions about the existence of closed timelike curves in general relativistic models of the universe, opening the physical possibility of time travel in the past, as first recognized by K. Gödel in his rotat...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,654 Views
35 Pages

12 January 2021

It is well known that Einstein’s equations assume a simple polynomial form in the Hamiltonian framework based on a Yang-Mills phase space. We re-examine the gravitational dynamics in this framework and show that time evolution of the gravitatio...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,610 Views
10 Pages

9 January 2021

The scalar field of space-time film is considered as unified fundamental field. The field model under consideration is the space-time generalization of the model for a two-dimensional thin film. The force and metrical interactions between solitons ar...

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Universe - ISSN 2218-1997