In this paper a Hamiltonian analogue of the well-known meandering transition from rotating waves to modulated rotating and modulated travelling waves in systems with the Euclidean symmetry of the plane is presented. In non-Hamiltonian systems, for example in spiral wave dynamics, this transition is a Hopf bifurcation in a corotating frame, as external parameters are varied, and modulated travel...

We retrieve reflected plane waves by applying seismic interferometry to the recorded ground motion from a cluster of earthquakes. We employ upgoing/downgoing P/S wavefield decomposition, time windows, time reversal, and multi-dimensional deconvolution (MDD) to improve the quality of the extraction of reflected waves with seismic interferometry. Because MDD interferometry requires the separation...

Background: The theory of microstretch elastic bodies was first developed by Eringen (1971, 1990, 1999, 2004). This theory was developed by extending the theory of micropolar elastcity. Each material point in this theory has three deformable directors. Methods: The governing equations of a transversely isotropic microstretch material are specialized in x-z plane. Plane wave solutions of these g...

By using the hybrid formalism, superstrings in four-dimensional NS-NS plane waves are studied in a manifest supersymmetric manner. This description of the superstring is obtained by a field redefinition of the RNS worldsheet fields and defined as a topological N = 4 string theory. The Hilbert space consists of two types of representations describing short and long strings. We study the physical...

In this experiment you will become familiar with diffraction patterns created when a beam of light scatters from objects placed in its path. Such experiments were important historically as they were crucial in establishing the wave nature of light in face of competing theories that described light in terms of geometrical rays of discrete objects. Only a wave theory can give a quantitative expla...

We study the worldvolume supersymmetries of M2 branes in the maximally supersymmetric plane wave background of M theory. For certain embeddings the standard probe analysis indicates that the worldvolume theory has less than 16 supersymmetries. We show that at the quadratic level the worldvolume theory admits additional linearly realized supersymmetries, and that the spectra of the branes are or...

Collision of plane waves in dilaton gravity theories and low energy limit of string theory is considered. The formulation of the problem and some exact solutions are presented PACS: 04.20.Jb , 04.40.Nr , 04.30.Nk , 11.27.+d

We study orientifolds of type IIB string theory in the plane-wave background supported by null RR 3-form flux F (3). We describe how to extract the RR tadpoles in the Green-Schwarz formalism in a general setting. Two models with orientifold groups {1,Ω} and {1,Ω I4}, which are T-dual to each other, are considered. Consistency of these backgrounds requires 32 D9 branes for the first model and 32...

It is shown that a surface wave will be generated by a horizontal.slot situated above a corrugated or dielectric-coated guiding surface. A physical interpretation of the analysis is suggested which explains the mechanism of launching in terms of a resonance phenomenon allied to that which arises when a piston attenuator is terminated by a reactance equal and opposite to its own (reactive) chara...