Conveners
Gravity Theory
- Annalisa Marzuoli (PV)
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Roberto Giambò (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)9/7/21, 9:30 AMGravity theory
Even from the very name, the international collaboration Event Horizon Telescope may suggest that the stellar objects hidden within the observed shadow are necessarily black holes safely covered inside a trapped region. However, on a purely classical level, one can exhibit models determining a shadow without a horizon. Recent speculations on possible alternative interpretations of the objects...
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Luciano Bianco (ICRA)9/7/21, 10:00 AMGravity theory
In a campaign to acquire astrometric data on the stars orbiting the compact source at the Galaxy center, Sgr~A*, the groups led by R. Genzel at Max Planck, and by A. Ghez at University of California, have used the most advanced observational techniques of European (GRAVITY instrument at VLT), and US based (Keck, Gemini North and Subaru), to reach an unprecedented precise determination of the...
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Gabriele Gionti, S.J. (Vatican Observatory (Specola Vaticana))9/7/21, 10:30 AMGravity theory
We analyze the Brans-Dicke theory with a Gibbons-Hawking-York(GHY) boundary term and perform ADM decomposition both in Jordan and Einstein frames. For ω≠-3/2, we show that, at the Hamiltonian level, the Weyl (conformal) transformations from the Jordan to Einstein frames are not canonical transformations (in Hamiltonian sense). A set of canonical transformations is found. These are Anti-Gravity...
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Prof. Alexander Kamenshchik (University of Bologna and INFN )9/7/21, 11:30 AMGravity theory
We examine the long-wavelength correlation functions of massive scalar fields in de Sitter space. For the theory with a quartic self-interaction, the two-point function is calculated up to two loops. Comparing our results with the Hartree-Fock approximation and with the stochastic approach shows that the former resums only the cactus type diagrams, whereas the latter contains the sunset...
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Prof. Renzo Ricca (University of Milano-Bicocca)9/7/21, 12:00 PMGravity theory
Here we show that the standard 3D Gross–Pitaevskii equation (GPE) [1,2] for Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) admits hydrodynamic interpretation in a general Riemannian metric. This is done by deriving the corresponding Euler and Navier-Stokes forms in full generality. We also show [3] that in this metric the momentum equation has a new term that is associated with local curvature and density...
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Alice Roitberg (Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca)9/7/21, 12:15 PMGravity theory
Here we consider the hydrodynamic form of the momentum equation associated with the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) in general Riemannian metric [1] and show that, under particular steady state conditions, a new Einstein field equation can be determined in presence of negative scalar curvature. Since GPE vortex defects in Bose-Einstein condensates are useful, analogue models in cosmology, a...
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Gaetano Lambiase (SA)Gravity theory
The possibility of testing Gravitomagnetism effects in a terrestrial laboratory has been explored in recent years. In particular, the GINGER (Gyroscopes In General Relativity) experiment relies on the use of light for testing Gravitomagnetism and, more in general, post-Newtonian effects, in a terrestrial laboratory by means of an array of ring lasers (a ring laser is a rotation sensor based on...
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