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Four-dimensional Riemannian spacetimes with two commuting spacelike Killing vectors are studied in Einstein's theory of gravity, and found that no outer apparent horizons exist, provided that the dominant energy condition holds.
In their article [arXiv:1705.03394], 'That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi's paradox', Sandberg et al. try to explain the Fermi paradox (we see no aliens) by claiming that Landauer's…
The Riemann Zeta function $\zeta(s)$ never vanishes in the region : $$ \Re s \ge 1- \frac1{5.70176 \log |\Im s|} \quad \quad (|\Im s| \ge 2). $$
This paper studies the semiclassical approximation of simple supergravity in Riemannian four-manifolds with boundary, within the framework of $\zeta$-function regularization. The massless nature of gravitinos, jointly with the presence of a…
If life on Earth had to achieve n 'hard steps' to reach humanity's level, then the chance of this event rose as time to the n-th power. Integrating this over habitable star formation and planet lifetime distributions predicts >99% of…
We construct a Hamiltonian H whose discrete spectrum contains, in a certain limit, the Riemann zeros. H is derived from the action of a massless Dirac fermion living in a domain of Rindler spacetime, in 1+1 dimensions, that has a boundary…
We postulate the existence of a self-adjoint operator associated to a system with countably infinite number of degrees of freedom whose spectrum is the sequence of the nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function. We assume that it…
A remarkable result of McShane states that for a punctured torus with a complete finite volume hyperbolic metric we have \[ \sum_{\gamma} \frac{1}{e^{\ell(\gamma)}+1}={1/2} \] where $\gamma$ varies over the homotopy classes of essential…
In general relativity (GR) no observer is physically privileged. As a strict consequence, it can be shown that the physical generation of gravitational waves (GW's) is quite impossible.
As per general relativity (GR), there cannot be any superluminal propagation of energy. And thus, the sound speed in a continuous medium, $c_s=\sqrt{dp/d\rho}$, must be subluminal. However, if one would conceive of a {\em homogeneous}…
The Riemann zeta function $\zeta(s):= \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} 1/n^s$ can be interpreted as the energy per point of the lattice $\mathbb{Z}$, interacting pairwisely via the Riesz potential $1/r^s$. Given a parameter $\Delta\in (0,1]$, this…
The search for life beyond our Solar system has been a long and difficult endeavour. The majority of current efforts are focused on the potential detection of biosignatures. However, their detection and interpretation are extremely…
The evolution of a quantum system subjected to infinitely many measurements in a finite time interval is confined in a proper subspace of the Hilbert space. This phenomenon is called "quantum Zeno effect": a particle under intensive…
We present a derivation of the numerical phenomenon that differences between the Riemann zeta function's nontrivial zeros tend to avoid being equal to the imaginary parts of the zeros themselves, a property called statistical "repulsion"…
A proof of the Riemann hypothesis is proposed by relying on the properties of the Mellin transform. The function $\mathfrak{G}_{\eta}\left(t\right)$ is defined on the set $\bar{\mathbb{R}}_+$ of the non-negative real numbers, in term of a…
For a wide class of spherically symmetric naked singularities there is a sphere within which gravity is effectively repulsive. In such spacetimes accreting matter cannot reach the singularity and will instead form a levitating atmosphere,…
A strategy for proving Riemann hypothesis is suggested. The vanishing of the Rieman Zeta reduces to an orthogonality condition for the eigenfunctions of a non-Hermitian operator $D^+$ having the zeros of Riemann Zeta as its eigenvalues. The…
We give a new proof that the Riemann zeta function is nonzero in the half-plane $\{s\in{\mathbb C}:\sigma>1\}$. A novel feature of this proof is that it makes no use of the Euler product for $\zeta(s)$.
A massive naked singularity would be cloaked by accreted matter, and thus may appear to a distant observer as an opaque \mbox{(quasi-)}spherical surface of a fluid, not unlike that of a star or planet. We present here analytical solutions…
We prove that the Riemann zeta-function $\zeta(\sigma + it)$ has no zeros in the region $\sigma \geq 1 - 1/(55.241(\log|t|)^{2/3} (\log\log |t|)^{1/3})$ for $|t|\geq 3$. In addition, we improve the constant in the classical zero-free…