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Giovanni Montani

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arXiv2007

On the Gravitational Collapse of a Gas Cloud in Presence of Bulk Viscosity

We analyze the effects induced by the bulk viscosity on the dynamics associated to the extreme gravitational collapse. Aim of the work is to investigate whether the presence of viscous corrections to the evolution of a collapsing gas cloud influence the fragmentation process. To this end we study the dynamics of a uniform and spherically symmetric cloud with corrections due to the negative pressure contribution associated to the bulk viscosity phenomenology. Within the framework of a Newtonian approach (whose range of validity is outlined), we extend to the viscous case either the Lagrangian, either the Eulerian motion of the system and we treat the asymptotic evolution in correspondence to a viscosity coefficient of the form $ζ=ζ_0 ρ^{nu}$ ($ρ$ being the cloud density and $ζ_0=const.$). We show how, in the adiabatic-like behavior of the gas (i.e. when the politropic index takes values $4/3<γ\leq5/3$), density contrasts acquire, asymptotically, a vanishing behavior which prevents the formation of sub-structures. We can conclude that in the adiabatic-like collapse the top down mechanism of structures formation is suppressed as soon as enough strong viscous effects are taken into account. Such a feature is not present in the isothermal-like (i.e. $1\leqγ<4/3$) collapse because the sub-structures formation is yet present and outlines the same behavior as in the non-viscous case. We emphasize that in the adiabatic-like collapse the bulk viscosity is also responsible for the appearance of a threshold scale beyond which perturbations begin to increase.

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arXiv2007

Bulk Viscosity Effects on the Early Universe Stability

We present a discussion of the effects induced by the bulk viscosity on the very early Universe stability. The matter filling the cosmological (isotropic and homogeneous) background is described by a viscous fluid having an ultrarelativistic equation of state and whose viscosity coefficient is related to the energy density via a power-law of the form $ζ=ζ_0 ρ^ν$. The analytic expression of the density contrast (obtained for $ν=1/2$) shows that, for small values of the constant $ζ_0$, its behavior is not significantly different from the non-viscous one derived by E.M. Lifshitz. But as soon as $ζ_0$ overcomes a critical value, the growth of the density contrast is suppressed forward in time by the viscosity and the stability of the Universe is favored in the expanding picture. On the other hand, in such a regime, the asymptotic approach to the initial singularity (taken at $t=0$) is deeply modified by the apparency of significant viscosity in the primordial thermal bath i.e. the isotropic and homogeneous Universe admits an unstable collapsing picture. In our model this feature regards also scalar perturbations while in the non-viscous case it appears only for tensor modes.

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arXiv2007

Evolutionary Reformulation of Quantum Gravity

We present a critical analysis of the Canonical approach to quantum gravity, which relies on the ambiguity of implementing a space-time slicing on the quantum level. We emphasize that such a splitting procedure is consistent only if a real matter fluid is involved in the dynamics.

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arXiv2007

Formulation of an Evolutionary Quantum Cosmology

We provide an evolutionary formulation of a generic quantum cosmology. Our starting point is the request that all quantities living on the slicing have to be 3-tensors. This statement, when applied to the lapse function and the shift vector, yields the no longer vanishing behavior of the super-Hamiltonian. Then, we provide the formulation of an evolutionary quantum cosmology in correspondence to a generic Universe asymptotically to the initial singularity.

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arXiv2007

Electro-weak Model within a 5-dimensional Lorentz group theory

The Electroweak model will be geometrized in a 5-D Riemann-Cartan framework: U(1) weak hyper-charge group will be worked out in a Klauza-Klein scheme, while SU(2) weak isospin group will be identified to suitable bein projections of the contortion field. The possibility of introducing Ashtekar formalism in 5-D Klauza-Klein theories will be investigated.

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arXiv2007

Is Torsion a Fundamental Physical Field?

The local Lorentz group is introduced in flat space-time, where the resulting Dirac and Yang-Mills equations are found, and then generalized to curved space-time: if matter is neglected, the Lorentz connection is identified with the contortion field, while, if matter is taken into account, both the Lorentz connection and the spinor axial current are illustrated to contribute to the torsion of space-time.

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arXiv2007

Evolutionary Quantization of Cosmological Models

We consider a Schrödinger quantum dynamics for the gravitational field associated to a FRW spacetime and then we solve the corresponding eigenvalue problem. We show that, from a phenomenological point of view, an Evolutionary Quantum Cosmology overlaps the Wheeler-DeWitt approach. We also show how a so peculiar solution can be inferred to describe the more interesting case of a generic cosmological model.

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arXiv2007

Hamiltonian Formulation of 5-dimensional Kaluza-Klein Theory

We analyze the consistency of the ADM approach to KK model; we prove that KK reduction commute with ADM splitting. This leads to a well defined Hamiltonian; we provide the outcome. The electromagnetic constraint is derived from a geometrical one and this result enforces the physical meaning of KK model. Moreover we study the role of the extra scalar field we have in our model; classical hints from geodesic motion and cosmological solutions suggest that the scalar field can be an alternative time variable in the relational point of view.

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arXiv2007

Covariant Description of the Inhomogeneous Mixmaster Chaos

We outline the covariant nature of the chaos characterizing the generic cosmological solution near the initial singularity. Our analysis is based on a "gauge" independent ADM-reduction of the dynamics to the physical degrees of freedom, and shows that the dynamics is isomorphic point by point in space to a billiard on a Lobachevsky plane. The Jacobi metric associated to the geodesic flow is constructed and a non-zero Lyapunov exponent is explicitly calculated. The chaos covariance emerges from the independence of the form of the lapse function and the shift vector.

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arXiv2007

Vector Field Induced Chaos in Multi-dimensional Homogeneous Cosmologies

We show that in multidimensional gravity vector fields completely determine the structure and properties of singularity. It turns out that in the presence of a vector field the oscillatory regime exists for any number of spatial dimensions and for all homogeneous models. We derive the Poincaré return map associated to the Kasner indexes and fix the rules according to which the Kasner vectors rotate. In correspondence to a 4-dimensional space time, the oscillatory regime here constructed overlap the usual Belinski-Khalatnikov-Liftshitz one.

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arXiv2007

Spinning particles in General Relativity

We analyze the behavior of a spinning particle in gravity, both from a quantum and a classical point of view. We infer that, since the interaction between the space-time curvature and a spinning test particle is expected, then the main features of such an interaction can get light on which degrees of freedom have physical meaning in a quantum gravity theory with fermions. Finally, the dimensional reduction of Papapetrou equations is performed in a 5-dimensional Kaluza-Klein background and Dixon-Souriau results for the motion of a charged spinning body are obtained.

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arXiv2006

Hamiltonian formulation of the 5-D Kaluza-Klein model and test-particle motion

We examine the ADM reformulation of the 5-D KK model: the dimensional reduction is provided to commute with the ADM splitting and we show how the time component of the gauge vector is given by combination of the Lagrangian multipliers for the 5-D gravitational field. We consider 5D particles motion and after dimensional reduction the definition of charge is recovered within electrodynamic coupling. A time-varying fine structure constant is recognized because an extra scalar field is present in the 4-D theory.

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arXiv2006

Inhomogeneous Quantum Mixmaster: from Classical toward Quantum Mechanics

Starting from the Hamiltonian formulation for the inhomogeneous Mixmaster dynam- ics, we approach its quantum features through the link of the quasi-classical limit. We fix the proper operator-ordering which ensures that the WKB continuity equation overlaps the Liouville theorem as restricted to the configuration space. We describe the full quantum dynamics of the model in some details, providing a characterization of the (discrete) spectrum with analytic expressions for the limit of high occupation number. One of the main achievements of our analysis relies on the description of the ground state morphology, showing how it is characterized by a non-vanishing zero-point energy associated to the Universe anisotropy degrees of freedom

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arXiv2006

Generic Evolutionary Quantum Universe

We consider a Schrödinger quantum dynamics for the gravitational field associated to a generic cosmological model and then we solve the corresponding eigenvalue problem. We show that, from a phenomenological point of view, an Evolutionary Quantum Cosmology overlaps the Wheeler-DeWitt approach.

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