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The coherence properties of the classical waves are discussed in terms of the Cauchy problem for the wave equation, and of a discrete representation by an ensemble of Hamiltonian systems. Wave quanta are related to specific "action fields",…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 M. Grigorescu

We consider the problem of calculating the Green's functions associated to a massive scalar field with modified dispersion relations. We analyze the case when dispersion is modified by higher derivative spatial operators acting on the field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Massimiliano Rinaldi

We consider scalar Born-Infeld type theories with arbitrary potentials V(T) of a scalar field T. We find that for models with runaway potentials V(T) the generic inhomogeneous solutions after a short transient stage can be very well…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Gary Felder , Lev Kofman , Alexei Starobinsky

We study the rolling tachyon condensate in the presence of a gauge field. The generic vacuum admits both a rolling tachyon, \dot{T}, and a uniform electric field, \vec{E}, which together affect the effective metric governing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Gary Gibbons , Koji Hashimoto , Piljin Yi

A gauge field treatment of a current, oscillating at a fixed frequency, of interacting neutral atoms leads to a set of matter-wave duals to Maxwell's equations for the electromagnetic field. In contrast to electromagnetics, the velocity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Dana Z. Anderson , Katarzyna Krzyzanowska

Three major misconceptions concerning quantized tachyon fields: the energy spectrum unbounded from below, the frame-dependent and unstable vacuum state, and the non-covariant commutation rules, are shown to be a result of misrepresenting…

The property and gravitational field of global string of tachyon matter are investigated in a four dimentional approximately cylindrically-symmetric spacetime with a deficit angle. Especially, we give an exact solution of the tachyon field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dao-jun Liu , Xin-zhou Li

In this work a tachyonization of the $\Lambda$CDM model for a spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker space-time is proposed. A tachyon field and a cosmological constant are considered as the sources of the gravitational field. Starting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Luis P. Chimento , Mónica Forte , Gilberto M. Kremer , Marlos O. Ribas

A model of the Universe as a mixture of a scalar (inflaton or rolling tachyon from the string theory) and a matter field (classical particles) is analyzed. The particles are created at the expense of the gravitational energy through an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Gilberto M. Kremer , Daniele S. M. Alves

Quantum field theory of space-like particles is investigated in the framework of absolute causality scheme preserving Lorentz symmetry. It is related to an appropriate choice of the synchronization procedure (definition of time). In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Jakub Rembielinski

New quantum modes of the free scalar field are derived in a special time-evolution picture that may be introduced in moving charts of de Sitter backgrounds. The wave functions of these new modes are solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ion I. Cotaescu , Cosmin Crucean , Adrian Pop

This report provides Green's functions (classical propagators) of gravitational fields appearing in general relativity. The existence of Green's function of the wave equation in curved space with an indefinite metric is ensured owing to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-21 Yoshimasa Kurihara

A quaternionic wavefunction consisting of real and scalar functions is found to satisfy the quaternionic momentum eigenvalue equation. Each of these components are found to satisfy a generalized wave equation of the form…

General Physics · Physics 2011-11-01 Arbab I. Arbab

We study time-dependent solutions of Einstein-Maxwell gravity in four dimensions coupled to tachyon matter--the Dirac-Born-Infeld Lagrangian that provides an effective description of a decaying tachyon on an unstable D-brane in string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Alex Buchel , Peter Langfelder , Johannes Walcher

The symmetries of a scalar field theory in multifractional spacetimes are analyzed. The free theory realizes the Poincar\'e algebra, and the associated symmetries are modifications of ordinary translations and Lorentz transformations. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-05 Gianluca Calcagni , Giuseppe Nardelli

On an unstable D-brane, the rolling of the tachyon away from the maximum of its potential is described by time-dependent solutions in string theory. Subsequent analysis leads to an understanding of physics around the tachyon vacuum in terms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 P. V. Athira , Ashik H , Priyadarshi Paul

We considered Weinberg-like equations in the article [1] in order to construct the Feynman-Dyson propagator for the spin-1 particles. This construction is based on the concept of the Weinberg field as a system of four field functions…

General Physics · Physics 2024-04-03 Valeriy V. Dvoeglazov

Dirac-Born-Infeld type effective actions reproduce many aspects of string theory classical tachyon dynamics of unstable Dp-branes. The inhomogeneous tachyon field rolling from the top of its potential forms topological defects of lower…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Gary N. Felder , Lev Kofman

Field theoretical tools are developed so that one can analyze quantum phenomena such as transition radiation that must have occurred during the Higgs condensate bubble expansion through plasma in the early universe. Integral representations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-18 Takahiro Kubota

We construct the Green functions (or Feynman's propagators) for the Schroedinger equations of the form $i\psi_{t}+{1/4}\psi_{xx}\pm tx^{2}\psi =0$ in terms of Airy functions and solve the Cauchy initial value problem in the coordinate and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-04-22 Nathan Lanfear , Sergei K. Suslov