The Style of Autobiography

Starobinski, Jean

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“…4 If one takes an empty universe (this means to drop theβF 2 -term), we arrive at the Starobinsky model of inflation. [5][6][7] The same result can be achieved by the application of effective action method. 8,9 One of the advantages of the effective action is that it enables one to consider the physical setting of the anomaly-induced inflation from the effective Quantum Field Theory viewpoint.…”

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On the Equations of State for the Quantum Vacuum Terms

Pelinson

Shapiro

2011

Int. J. Mod. Phys. Conf. Ser.

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The conformal anomaly provides a useful tool for deriving vacuum effective action. Such contributions to the gravitational action lead to the exponential inflation, similar to the cosmological constant term. In the presence of a background electromagnetic field, there is no exponential solution, including the case when the the anomaly-induced correction in the electromagnetic sector is taken into account. In this contribution we explore the role of the anomaly-induced terms in the form of "equation of state" in both gravitational and radiation sectors. Furthermore, we derive the scaling laws for these terms for the dS, radiation and matter-dominated cases. Keywords: Conformal anomaly; effective action; equation of state. PACS numbers: 04.62.+v, 98.80.Cq, 95.36.+x 65 Int. J. Mod. Phys. Conf. Ser. 2011.03:65-74. Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com by 191.101.54.22 on 06/15/16. For personal use only.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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On the Equations of State for the Quantum Vacuum Terms

Pelinson

Shapiro

2011

Int. J. Mod. Phys. Conf. Ser.

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“…[...] presumably, these are events that strongly affected the author's sense of self because, as one critic suggests, the author of an autobiography would have no reason to write one unless some sort of inner transformation had occured. […] an autobiography is, by definition, an account that focusses on the inner life (Langless & Frank 1981: 90; see also Starobinski 1971).…”

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Uses of the Self: Two Ways of Thinking about Scholarly Situatedness and Method

Neumann

2015

Millennium

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If the scholarly self is irretrievably tied to the world, then self-situating is a fruitful source of data production. The researcher becomes a producer, as opposed to a collector, of data. This how-to paper identifies three analytical stages where such self-situating takes place. Pre-field; there is autobiographical situating; in-field, there is field situating, and post-field, there is textual situating. Each of these stages are presented in terms of the three literatures that have done the most work on them --feminism, Gestalt, and poststructuralism -and a number of how-to examples. We illustrate with a number of how-to examples. In conclusion, we discuss how two different methodological commitments to situatedness, which Jackson (2010) dubbed reflexivist and analyticist, give rise to two analytically distinct ways of using the scholarly self for data production. Reflexivists and analyticists approach data production from opposite ends of the researcher/informant relationship. Where a reflexivist researcher tends to handle the relation between interlocutor and researcher by asking how interlocutors affect her, an analyticist researcher tends to ask how the researcher affects them.

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“…Inflationary models [1][2][3] are nowadays the most successful attempt to describe the early stages of development of the universe, and in particular are at the basis of the current explanations of the formation of structures in the universe. They are based on the hypothesis that a period of exponential expansion has taken place shortly after the big bang.…”

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“…It is then a promising candidate to describe the evolution of an inflationary universe. 1 In the following sections we shall investigate the main mathematical aspects of the solutions derived from the potential (1.4), reserving a study of their implications for observational cosmology to future work [15]. The main result of our investigation is that the solutions admitting exponential inflation, like (1.5), correspond to specific boundary conditions where the scalar field is initially at rest on the maximum of the potential, while generic initial conditions give rise to power-law inflation for a range of values of the parameter β.…”

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