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A generalized Robertson-Walker spacetime is the warped product with base an open interval of the real line endowed with the opposite of its metric and base any Riemannian manifold. The family of generalized Robertson-Walker spacetimes…

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Motivated by the study of an important data set for understanding the large-scale structure of the universe, this work considers the estimation of the reduced second moment function, or K-function, of a stationary point process observed…

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An accelerating flat universe with a variable cosmological term is obtained in the Robertson-Walker metric. The variable cosmological term is defined by the correction terms of the metric tensor field. Simple solutions of the scale factor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Takao Fukui

One of the unsolved issues in the quantum gravity comes from the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, which is second order functional derivative equation. In this paper, we introduce a new method to solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. Usually one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-27 Shintaro Sawayama

The cosmological term is assumed to be a function of time such as $\Lambda =Ba^{-2}$ where a(t) means the scale factor of standard cosmology. Analytical solutions for radiation dominated epoch and open universe are found. For closed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlos Pinheiro , F. C. Khanna

This work considers the {\em gravitational} $N$-body problem and introduces global time-renormalization {\em functions} that allow the efficient numerical integration with fixed time-steps. First, a lower bound of the radius of convergence…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-05-22 M. Antoñana , P. Chartier , J. Makazaga , A. Murua

The semiclassical backreaction equations are solved in closed Robertson-Walker spacetimes containing a positive cosmological constant and a conformally coupled massive scalar field. Renormalization of the stress-energy tensor results in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-23 Leda Gao , Paul R. Anderson , Robert S. Link

In recent years it has been shown for hard sphere gas that, by retaining the correlation information, dynamical fluctuation and large deviation of empirical measure around Boltzmann equation could be proved, in addition to the classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Chenjiayue Qi

Computing the distance function to some surface or line is a problem that occurs very frequently. There are several ways of computing a relevant approximation of this function, using for example technique originating from the approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-02 Rémi Abgrall

The problem of calculating real-time correlation functions is formulated in terms of an imaginary-time partial differential equation. The latter is solved analytically for the perturbed harmonic oscillator and compared with the known exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. E. Kornilovitch

The purpose of the present article is to study and characterize sev- eral types of symmetries of generalized Robertson-Walker space-times. Con- formal vector fields, curvature and Ricci collineations are studied. Many im- plications for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-26 H. K. El-Sayied , S. Shenawy , N. Syied

This paper introduces a new numerical method for approximating the Lambert W function in the real domain. The method transforms the function into a simpler form that allows iterative refinement of an initial guess. Two iterative strategies…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Narinder Kumar Wadhawan

Reciprocal space methods for solving Poisson's equation for finite charge distributions are investigated. Improvements to previous proposals are presented, and their performance is compared in the context of a real-space density functional…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Castro , Angel Rubio , M. J. Stott

It is a well known fact that quantum fields on Minkowski spacetime are correlated for each pair of spacetime regions. In Robertson-Walker spacetimes there are spacelike separated regions with disjoint past horizons but the absence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Mathias Trucks

We obtain a new expression of the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric, which is an analogue of a static chart of the de Sitter space-time. The reduced metric contains two functions, $M(T,R)$ and $\Psi(T,R)$, which are interpreted as,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Takakuni Shimizu , Kazuya Watanabe

In the present note, we give the generalization of $\alpha-$Baskakov Durrmeyer operators depending on a real parameter $\rho$ > 0. We present the approximation results in Korovkin and weighted Korovkin spaces. We also prove the order of…

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In this paper, a computational method is developed to find an approximate solution of the stochastic Volterra-Fredholm integral equation using the Walsh function approximation and its operational matrix. Moreover, convergence and error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Prit Pritam Paikaray , Sanghamitra Beuria , Nigam Chandra Parida

The degree by which a function can be differentiated need not be restricted to integer values. Usually most of the field equations of physics are taken to be second order, curiosity asks what happens if this is only approximately the case…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-23 Mark D. Roberts

Geodesics are used in a wide array of applications in cosmology and astrophysics. However, it is not a trivial task to efficiently calculate exact geodesic distances in an arbitrary spacetime. We show that in spatially flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-29 William J. Cunningham , David Rideout , James Halverson , Dmitri Krioukov

In this paper we present a method for constructing the continuous best fractal approximation in the space of bounded functions. We construct the finite-dimensional subspace of the space of bounded functions whose base consists of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-03-31 Yong-Suk Kang , Chol-Hui Yun , Dong-Hyok Kim