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Negative votes to depolarize politics
Karthik H. Shankar
The controversies around the 2020 US presidential elections certainly casts serious concerns on the efficiency of the current voting system in representing the people's will. Is th…
A metric theory of gravity with torsion in extra-dimension
Karthik H. Shankar, Anand Balaraman, Kameshwar C. Wali
We consider a theory of gravity with a hidden extra-dimension and metric-dependent torsion. A set of physically motivated constraints are imposed on the geometry so that the torsio…
Kaluza-Klein Theory with Torsion confined to the Extra-dimension
Karthik H. Shankar, Kameshwar C. Wali
Here we consider a variant of the 5 dimensional Kaluza-Klein theory within the framework of Einstein-Cartan formalism that includes torsion. By imposing a set of constraints on tor…
Self force of a static electric charge near a Schwarzschild Star
Karthik Shankar, Bernard F. Whiting
When a charge is held static near a constant density spherical star, it experiences a self-force which is significantly different from the force it would experience when placed nea…
Conformal coordinates of a constant density star
Karthik Shankar, Bernard. F. Whiting
It is well known that the interior of a constant density spherical star is conformally flat. In this paper we obtain the coordinate system in which the conformal flatness of the me…
On the Existence of Radiation Gauges in Petrov type II spacetimes
Larry R. Price, Karthik Shankar, Bernard F. Whiting
The radiation gauges used by Chrzanowski (his IRG/ORG) for metric reconstruction in the Kerr spacetime seem to be over-specified. Their specification consists of five conditions: f…