Metric-affine gravity effects on terrestrial exoplanet profiles

AbstractCarbon-neutral oil production is one way to improve the sustainability of petroleum resources. The emissions from produced hydrocarbons can be offset by injecting capture CO$$_{2}$$ 2 from a nearby point source into a saline aquifer for storage or a producing oil reservoir. The latter is referred to as enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and would enhance the economic viability of CO$$_{2}$$ 2 sequestration. The injected CO$$_{2}$$ 2 will interact with the oil and cause it to flow more freely within the reservoir. Consequently, the overall recovery of oil from the reservoir will increase. This enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technique is perceived as the most cost-effective method for disposing captured CO$$_{2}$$ 2 emissions and has been performed for many decades with the focus on oil recovery. The interaction between existing oil and injected CO$$_{2}$$ 2 needs to be fully understood to effectively manage CO$$_{2}$$ 2 migration and storage efficiency. When CO$$_{2}$$ 2 and oil mix in a fully miscible setting, the density can change non-linearly and cause density instabilities. These instabilities involve complex convective-diffusive processes, which are hard to model and simulate. The interactions occur at the sub-centimeter scale, and it is important to understand its implications for the field scale migration of CO$$_{2}$$ 2 and oil. In this work, we simulate gravity effects, namely gravity override and convective mixing, during miscible displacement of CO$$_{2}$$ 2 and oil. The flow behavior due to the competition between viscous and gravity effects is complex, and can only be accurately simulated with a very fine grid. We demonstrate that convection occurs rapidly, and has a strong effect on breakthrough of CO$$_{2}$$ 2 at the outlet. This work for the first time quantifies these effects for a simple system under realistic conditions.

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Gravitational waves in metric-affine gravity theory

Physical Review D ◽

10.1103/physrevd.103.024018 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 103 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Alejandro Jiménez-Cano ◽

Yuri N. Obukhov

Keyword(s):

Gravitational Waves ◽

Gravity Theory ◽

Affine Gravity

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A cross-species neural integration of gravity for motor optimization

Science Advances ◽

10.1126/sciadv.abf7800 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (15) ◽

pp. eabf7800

Author(s):

Jeremie Gaveau ◽

Sidney Grospretre ◽

Bastien Berret ◽

Dora E. Angelaki ◽

Charalambos Papaxanthis

Keyword(s):

Optimization Strategy ◽

Motor Patterns ◽

Activation Patterns ◽

Single Degree Of Freedom ◽

Single Degree ◽

Neural Integration ◽

Gravity Effects ◽

Neural Signature ◽

Experimental Findings ◽

Muscular Activation

Recent kinematic results, combined with model simulations, have provided support for the hypothesis that the human brain shapes motor patterns that use gravity effects to minimize muscle effort. Because many different muscular activation patterns can give rise to the same trajectory, here, we specifically investigate gravity-related movement properties by analyzing muscular activation patterns during single-degree-of-freedom arm movements in various directions. Using a well-known decomposition method of tonic and phasic electromyographic activities, we demonstrate that phasic electromyograms (EMGs) present systematic negative phases. This negativity reveals the optimal motor plan’s neural signature, where the motor system harvests the mechanical effects of gravity to accelerate downward and decelerate upward movements, thereby saving muscle effort. We compare experimental findings in humans to monkeys, generalizing the Effort-optimization strategy across species.

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Scattering amplitudes in affine gravity

Physical Review D ◽

10.1103/physrevd.103.105019 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 103 (10) ◽

Author(s):

Benjamin Knorr ◽

Chris Ripken

Keyword(s):

Scattering Amplitudes ◽

Affine Gravity

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LARGE QUANTUM GRAVITY EFFECTS: CYLINDRICAL WAVES IN FOUR DIMENSIONS

International Journal of Modern Physics D ◽

10.1142/s0218271800000633 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 09 (06) ◽

pp. 669-686 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

MARÍA E. ANGULO ◽

GUILLERMO A. MENA MARUGÁN

Keyword(s):

Quantum Gravity ◽

Symmetry Axis ◽

Point Of View ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Asymptotic Region ◽

Four Dimensions ◽

Cylindrical Waves ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Gravity Effects ◽

Linearly Polarized

Linearly polarized cylindrical waves in four-dimensional vacuum gravity are mathematically equivalent to rotationally symmetric gravity coupled to a Maxwell (or Klein–Gordon) field in three dimensions. The quantization of this latter system was performed by Ashtekar and Pierri in a recent work. Employing that quantization, we obtain here a complete quantum theory which describes the four-dimensional geometry of the Einstein–Rosen waves. In particular, we construct regularized operators to represent the metric. It is shown that the results achieved by Ashtekar about the existence of important quantum gravity effects in the Einstein–Maxwell system at large distances from the symmetry axis continue to be valid from a four-dimensional point of view. The only significant difference is that, in order to admit an approximate classical description in the asymptotic region, states that are coherent in the Maxwell field need not contain a large number of photons anymore. We also analyze the metric fluctuations on the symmetry axis and argue that they are generally relevant for all of the coherent states.

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