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Particulate exotica
Fan Zhang
Recent advances in differential topology single out four-dimensions as being special, allowing for vast varieties of exotic smoothness (differential) structures, distinguished by t…
A magnetospheric dichotomy for pulsars with extreme inclinations
Fan Zhang
Expanding on the comment by Lyne et al (2017), that intermittent pulsars tend to congregate near a stripe in the logarithmic period versus period-derivative diagram, representing a…
Gravitational slingshots around black holes in a binary
Fan Zhang
The speed gain of a test mass from taking a gravitational slingshot around a celestial object (scattering centre) increases with the latter's speed and compactness (stronger deflec…
Alternative route towards the change of metric signature
Fan Zhang
Beginning with Hartle and Hawking's no-boundary proposal, it has long been known that the pathology of a big bang singularity can be suppressed if a transition into Riemannian (Euc…
Neutrinos propagating in curved spacetimes
Fan Zhang
In the Dirac-Weyl equation that describes massless neutrino propagation in the minimal Standard Model, the ( equivalence of the) gamma matrices convert Weyl spinors into…
Equation of State Dependence of Nonlinear Mode-tide Coupling in Coalescing Binary Neutron Stars
Yixiao Zhou, Fan Zhang
Recently, an instability due to the nonlinear coupling of p-modes to g-modes in tidally deformed neutron stars in coalescing binaries has been studied in some detail. The result is…