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In this work a transformation acoustics scheme for generic elastic media is developed. Our approach starts form the decomposition of the elasticity tensor in terms of its eigentensors, an idea previously used by Norris. While Norris' transformation acoustics is restricted to the special class of so-called pentamode materials, we show that a similar scheme can be defined for the most general elasticity tensor. As in case of Norris' model (and in sharp contrast to transformation optics), the compatibility equations of the transformation medium are not purely algebraic and it is not guaranteed that solutions to these equations exist for any choice of material parameters and coordinate transformation. Nonetheless, it is shown that our scheme yields new cloaking solutions for certain classes of materials. In particular, we present the first application of a transformation based device for a non-scalar wave equation outside of the field of electromagnetics., Comment: 14 pages, LaTeX

The concept of transformation optics is extended to nonlinear electrodynamics. It is shown that transformation optics favors implicit constitutive relations in terms of energy densities D.E and B.H rather than E^2 and H^2. The Kerr nonlinearity is studied in detail and the transformation optics based engineering of self-interaction effects is discussed. As a specific example we introduce transformation optics applied on a self-focusing field configuration., Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures, REVTeX; v2: typo in affiliation corrected; v3: final version

The well-known TE/TM decomposition of time-harmonic electromagnetic fields in uniaxial anisotropic media is generalized in terms of four-dimensional differential-form formalism by requiring that the field two-form satisfies an orthogonality condition with respect to two given bivectors. Conditions for the electromagnetic medium in which such a decomposition is possible are derived and found to define three subclasses of media. It is shown that the previously known classes of generalized Q-media and generalized P-media are particular cases of the proposed decomposable media (DCM) associated to a quadratic equation for the medium dyadic. As a novel solution, another class of special decomposable media (SDCM) is defined by a linear dyadic equation. The paper further discusses the properties of medium dyadics and plane-wave propagation in all the identified cases of DCM and SDCM.

Based on a recent work by Schuller et al., a geometric representation of all skewonless, non-birefringent, linear media is obtained. The derived constitutive law is based on a "core", encoding the optical metric up to a constant. All further corrections are provided by two (anti-)selfdual bivectors, and an "axion". The bivectors are found to vanish if the optical metric has signature (3,1) - that is, if the Fresnel equation is hyperbolic. We propose applications of this result in the context of transformation optics and premetric electrodynamics., Comment: 12 pages, REVTeX; v2: typos; v3: relevant changes in text, reorganization of manuscript; v4: new section added, final version, to appear in Annalen der Physik

In this paper we show that a negative index of refraction is not a direct implication of transformation optics with orientation-reversing diffeomorphisms. Rather a negative index appears due to a specific choice of sign freedom. Furthermore, we point out that the transformation designed lens, which relies on the concept of spacetime folding, does not amplify evanescent modes, in contrast to the Pendry-Veselago lens. Instead, evanescent modes at the image point are produced by a duplicated source and thus no imaging of the near field (perfect lensing) takes place., Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX

Wolfgang Kummer was well known for his passion for axial gauges and for the formulation of gravity in terms of Cartan variables. The combination of the two applied to two dimensional dilaton gravity is the basis of the "Vienna School", which provided numerous significant results over the last seventeen years. In this review we trace the history of this success with particular emphasis on dilaton supergravity. We also present some previously unpublished results on the structure of non-local vertices in quantum dilaton supergravity with non-minimally coupled matter., Comment: 33 pages, Contribution to "Fundamental Interactions - A Memorial Volume for Wolfgang Kummer", to appear in World Scientific (v2: references added, v3: typos corrected)

Using the recently found first order formulation of two-dimensional dilaton gravity with boundary, we perform a Hamiltonian analysis and subsequent path integral quantization. The importance of the boundary terms to obtain the correct quantum result are outlined and the quantum triviality of the theory is shown to hold with this modification as well. We compare with recent classical results and comment on further applications., Comment: 8 p., no figures; to appear in the proceedings of the 4th workshop "Gravity, Astrophysics, and Strings at the Black Sea", Primorsko, June 10-16, 2007

We review the construction of the universal Hamilton-Jacobi counterterm for dilaton gravity in two dimensions, derive the corresponding result in the Cartan formulation and elaborate further upon black hole thermodynamics and semi-classical corrections. Applications include spherically symmetric black holes in arbitrary dimensions with Minkowski- or AdS-asymptotics, the BTZ black hole and black holes in two-dimensional string theory., Comment: 9 pages, proceedings contribution to QFEXT07 submitted to IJMPA, v2: added Ref

It is shown that the same essentially non-semiclassical mechanism, which generates in the nonsupersymmetric pure Yang-Mills theory the binary condensate of gauge field strengths, is responsible for the spontaneous breaking of the two supersymmetries in N=2 super Yang-Mills systems. A detailed discussion is presented in ref. \cite{LBPM}, Comment: 2 pages, no figures, contribution to the XXXth International Conference on High Energy Physics, (ICHEP2000), July-August 2000, Osaka, Japan