ISLANDS IN PROLIFERATING DE SITTER SPACES

Islands in proliferating de Sitter spaces

Abstract We study two-dimensional de Sitter universe which evolves and proliferates according to the Ginsparg-Perry-Bousso-Hawking mechanism, using Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity coupled to conformal matter.Black holes are generated by quantum gravity effects from pure de Sitter space and then evaporate to yield multiple disjoint de Sitter spaces.The ba

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Detection of potential biodeterioration risks for tempera painting in 16th century exhibits from State Tretyakov Gallery.

In this study, we investigated biodeterioration of materials used in tempera painting by analyzing the structure of the microbiome in ancient tempera paintings exhibited in State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.Samples were obtained from 16th-century paintings, including a grand Russian Orthodox icon "The Church Militant" (all exhibits were witho

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The Black Burnished Type 18 Bowl and the Fifth Century

This article discusses a late Roman Black Burnished form known as the Type 18 bowl.The lateness of this form was click here first discussed in 2004 but new discoveries have continued to reinforce the probably late fourth to early fifth century date assigned to this vessel.Imitations in other fabrics are also beginning to be identified with one such

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