We consider two families of D1-D5-P states and find their gravity duals. In each case the geometries are found to ‘cap off’ smoothly near r = 0; thus there are no horizons or closed timelike curves. These constructions support the general conjecture that the interior of black holes is nontrivial all the way up to the horizon.

1699-258X/$ see front matter © 2010 Elsevier España, S.L. All rights reserved. We present the case of a 50 year old woman who was diagnosed with undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD), based on severe Raynaud’s phenomenon with ischemic ulcers, extensive calcinosis, sclerodactilia, polyarthritis, glomerulonephritis, polyserositis, chronic hypertransaminasemia and had undergone the bil...

The wetland Argialbolls pedon was chosen to investigate the effects of pedogenic processes and anthropogenic activities on the vertical distribution of As concentrations. Two wetland Argialboll cores (90 cm long) were collected from the Sanjiang Plain in northeastern China and analyzed for pH, soil organic matter (SOM), Fe, Mn, and As. The results indicate that SOM accumulated in the upper hori...

Buried horizons and lenses in riparian soil profiles harbor large amounts of carbon relative to the surrounding soil horizons. Because these buried soil horizons, as well as deep surface horizons, frequently lie beneath the water table, their impact on nitrogen transport across the terrestrial–aquatic interface depends upon their frequency and spatial distribution, and upon the lability of asso...

We consider the possibility that tunneling in a degenerate double-well potential in de Sitter spacetime leads to coherent oscillations of quantum probability to find the system in a given well. We concentrate on the case when the mass scale of the potential is much larger than the Hubble parameter and present a procedure for analytical continuation of the “time”-dependent instantons, which allo...