The Cuckoo search algorithm is a recent addition to metaheuristic techniques. It simulates the breeding behaviour of certain cuckoo species into a numerical optimization technique. Cuckoo birds lay their eggs in the nests of other host birds so that their chicks when hatched can be nurtured by the host birds. The optimum design algorithm presented for moment resisting steel frames is based on t...

Time dependent orbifolds with spacelike or null singularities have recently been studied as simple models of cosmological singularities. We show that their apparent simplicity is an illusion: the introduction of a single particle causes the spacetime to collapse to a strong curvature singularity (a Big Crunch), even in regions arbitrarily far from the particle.

A large class of $\Lambda < 0$ cosmologies have big-bang / big crunch spacetimes with time-symmetric backgrounds and asymptotically AdS Euclidean continuations suggesting a possible holographic realization. We argue that these models generically time-dependent scalar fields, can lead to realistic at the level homogeneous background geometry, an accelerating phase prior turnaround crunch. first ...

Abstract In this article, the field equations of new general relativity, constructed by Hayashi and Shirafuji, contain three free parameters. These have been applied to Friedmann–Robertson–Walker metric in domain cosmology. application, a family models, involving two parameters characterizing is obtained. Conditions are placed on these order for model be compatible with Big Rip or Crunch models...

We consider a cosmological scenario within the KKLT framework for moduli stabilization in string theory. The universal open string tachyon of decaying non-BPS D-brane configurations is proposed to drive eternal topological inflation. Flux-induced ‘warping’ can provide the small slow-roll parameters needed for successful inflation. Constraints on the parameter space leading to sufficient number ...

The AdS/CFT correspondence allows us to map a dynamical cosmology to a dual quantum field theory living on the boundary of spacetime. Specifically, we study a five-dimensional model cosmology in type IIB supergravity, where the dual theory is an unstable deformation of N = 4 supersymmetric SU(N) gauge theory on IR×S3. A one-loop computation shows that the coupling governing the instability is a...