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Four Short-Period Algols, James Bruce Rafert Oct 1990

Four Short-Period Algols, James Bruce Rafert

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications

We have analyzed the light curves of four close binary star systems (BV 267, RU UMi, XZ CMi, and VV UMa) using the Wilson-Devinney differential corrections model. The present system geometries of these binaries is that of short-period, semi-detached systems with Roche lobe filling secondaries and main-sequence primaries. Differential coordinates in the mass-luminosity and mass-radius diagrams indicate that the secondary components lie near the main sequence, except in the case of BV 267. It is suggested that these systems are binaries with slightly overluminous and over-sized secondaries which have undergone case A mass transfer. This contention is supported by timing …


Analytic Variational Method For Hamiltonian Lattice Gauge Theory In 3+ 1 Dimensions, Ming C. Huang, Mohammad W. Katoot Mar 1990

Analytic Variational Method For Hamiltonian Lattice Gauge Theory In 3+ 1 Dimensions, Ming C. Huang, Mohammad W. Katoot

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications

We present an analytic d in 3 + 1 dimensions for Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory. This method is based on Batrouni's mean-plaquette method and space integration. The Abelianized Bianchi identities are used and a detailed study of the number of identities that are needed and the validity of this approximation is given. The we use is the product of single-plaquette wave functions. The guage group we consider here is SU(2), but the method is valid for any gauge theory. We apply this method to calculate the 0++ glueball mass, and, in addition, the results of the string tension (scaling is …


Perturbations Of Gravitational Instantons, Charles G. Torre Jan 1990

Perturbations Of Gravitational Instantons, Charles G. Torre

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications

Ashtekar's spinorial formulation of general relativity is used to study perturbations of gravitational instantons corresponding to finite-action solutions of the Euclidean Einstein equations (with a nonzero cosmological constant) possessing an anti-self-dual Weyl curvature tensor. It is shown that, with an appropriate "on-shell" form of infinitesimal gauge transformations, the space of solutions to the can be described in terms of an elliptic complex; the cohomology of the complex defines gauge-inequivalent perturbations. Using this elliptic complex we prove that there are no nontrivial solutions to the linearized instanton equation on conformally anti-self-dual Einstein spaces with a positive cosmological constant. Thus, the space …