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20092012
most citedGravitational waves in the presence of a cosmological constant

30 citations · 88 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

gr-qc2012★ 6 cited

Local measurement of Λ using pulsar timing arrays

Domènec Espriu, Daniel Puigdomènech

We have considered the propagation of gravitational waves (GW) in de Sitter space time and how a non-zero value of the cosmological constant might affect their detection in pulsar…

hep-th2012★ 15 cited

Spontaneous generation of geometry in four dimensions

Jorge Alfaro, Domènec Espriu, Daniel Puigdomènech

We present the extension to 4 dimensions of an euclidean 2-dimensional model that exhibits spontaneous generation of a metric. In this model gravitons emerge as Goldstone bosons of…

hep-th2011★ 30 cited

Gravitational waves in the presence of a cosmological constant

José Bernabeu, Domènec Espriu, Daniel Puigdomènech

We derive the effects of a non-zero cosmological constant on gravitational wave propagation in the linearized approximation of general relativity. In this approximation we cons…

hep-th2010★ 12 cited

The emergence of geometry: a two-dimensional toy model

Jorge Alfaro, Domènec Espriu, Daniel Puigdomènech

We review the similarities between the effective chiral lagrangrian, relevant for low-energy strong interactions, and the Einstein-Hilbert action. We use these analogies to suggest…

hep-th2009

Gravity as an effective theory

D. Espriu, D. Puigdomenech

Using as inspiration the well known chiral effective lagrangian describing the interactions of pions at low energies, in these lectures we review the quantization procedure of Eins…

physics.soc-ph2009★ 25 cited

Zipf's law from a Fisher variational-principle

A. Hernando, D. Puigdomenech, D. Villuendas +2

Zipf's law is shown to arise as the variational solution of a problem formulated in Fisher's terms. An appropriate minimization process involving Fisher information and scale-invar…

cond-mat.stat-mech2009

Fisher-based thermodynamics for scale-invariant systems: Zipf's Law as an equilibrium state of a scale-free ideal gas

A. Hernando, D. Puigdomenech, D. Villuendas +1

We present a thermodynamic formulation for scale-invariant systems based on the principle of extreme information. We create an analogy between these systems and the well-known ther…