Abstract We analyze the stress-energy tensor, and the resulting energy conditions, for a scalar field with general curvature coupling, outside a perfectly reflecting sphere with Dirichlet boundary conditions. For conformal coupling we find that the null energy condition is always obeyed, and therefore the averaged null energy condition (ANEC) is also obeyed. Since the ANEC is independent of cur...

Once the action for Einstein’s equations is rewritten as a functional of an SO(3, C) connection and a conformal factor of the metric, it admits a family of “neighbours” having the same number of degrees of freedom and a precisely defined metric tensor. This paper analyzes the relation between the Riemann tensor of that metric and the curvature tensor of the SO(3) connection. The relation is in ...

In the present paper we have studied an N(k)-quasi Einstein manifold satisfying R(ξ, X).P̃ , where P̃ is the pseudo-projective curvature tensor. Among others, it is shown that if quasi-Einstein manifold with constant associated scalars is Ricci symmetric then the generator of the manifold is a Killing vector field. AMS Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 53C25

We present an analytical derivation of a 3D conformal perfectly matched layer (PML's) for mesh termination in general orthogonal curvilinear coordinates. The derivation is based on the analytic continuation to complex space of the normal coordinate to the mesh termination. The resultant elds in the complex space do not obey the Maxwell's equations. However, it is demonstrated that through simpl...

At high energy scale the only quantum effect of any asymptotic free and asymptoti-cally conformal invariant GUT is the trace anomaly of the energy-momentum tensor. Anomaly generates the new degree of freedom, that is propagating conformal factor. At lower energies conformal factor starts to interact with scalar field because of the violation of conformal invari-ance. We estimate the effect of s...

Let (M, g) be an asymptotically locally hyperbolic (ALH) manifold which is the interior of a conformally compact manifold and (∂M, [γ]) its conformal infinity. Suppose that the Ricci tensor of (M, g) dominates that of the hyperbolic space and that its scalar curvature satisfies a certain decay condition at infinity. If the Yamabe invariant of (∂M, [γ]) is non-negative, we prove that there exist...

A three dimensional black hole solution of Einstein equations with negative cosmological constant coupled to a conformal scalar field is given. The solution is static, circularly symmetric, asymptotically anti-de Sitter and nonperturbative in the conformal field. The curvature tensor is singular at the origin while the scalar field is regular everywhere. The condition that the Euclidean geometr...