General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
This paper investigates higher-dimensional scalar-tensor theories of gravity with nonminimal coupling, focusing on the reconstruction of exact spherically symmetric solutions. We systematically apply the formalism developed in previous…
We propose a small-throat prescription for the wave function of a closed universe in the Lorentzian path integral formalism, motivated by the idea that universe creation may be obtained as the decoupling, or pinch-off, limit of a tunneling…
A central challenge in testing inflationary scenarios with cosmic microwave background (CMB) data is to derive predictions for cosmological observables that remain accurate beyond the slow-roll regime, where the standard consistency…
We investigate the optical properties of a rotating black hole immersed in a Hernquist dark matter halo. The spacetime is generated from a static Hernquist black hole through the noncomplexification version of the Newman-Janis procedure,…
Testing General Relativity (GR) with black hole ringdowns has conventionally focused on attempting to detect shifts away from the quasinormal mode (QNM) frequencies of the Kerr metric. It has recently been argued, however, that the ringdown…
Direct waves from black-hole mergers may probe horizon dynamics, but their observed envelopes need not decay at the Kerr surface-gravity rate. We compute the complex-frequency spin-$-2$, $\ell=m=2$ Teukolsky response driven by a…
A small fraction of the gravitational waves (GWs) currently observable by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (LVK) may be strongly lensed by intervening galaxies and galaxy clusters, potentially producing multiple copies of the same signal. We search…
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will search for a stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background at millihertz frequencies, from both astrophysical and cosmological sources, and thereby open a new chapter in GW astronomy. In…
A covariant reconstruction framework for Kantowski--Sachs (KS) geometries sourced by Chaplygin-type and polytropic fluids in teleparallel $F(T)$ gravity is developed using the coframe--spin-connection formalism and the invariant…
We study linear gravito-electromagnetic perturbations of a slowly rotating 4-derivative corrected Kerr-Newman (KN) black hole (BH), using a perturbative approach beyond the KN geometry up to first order in angular momentum, first order in…
We study the five-dimensional Schwarzschild-Tangherlini solution, with particular attention to its geodesic structure and massless scalar perturbations. In the probe limit, we present two applications. First, we compute the scattering angle…
A massive fermion around a charged black hole provides a gravitational analogue of atomic bound states and their relaxation. In this work, we study this system by formulating the radial equation as a coupled matrix system and constructing…
Regular black holes in Horndeski theories must have stable horizons and regular centers. We study static, spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat configurations with a time-independent scalar. The horizon branch on which the scalar…
We investigate non-Hermitian $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric Klein--Gordon (KG) fields in a magnetized cosmic string spacetime. A complex non-minimal scalar interaction, $\mathcal{F}_{\mu}=(0,\mathcal{F}_{r},0,0)$ with $\mathcal{F}_{r}=\omega…
One of the technical anchors of JVN's research was the "action-at-a-distance" view of gravitational interaction, driven by "Mach's Principle" addressing the origin of inertia. This view exorcises the concept of a field as a mediator of…
We present an exact analytical model describing a complete gravitational collapse of matter from horizonless initial conditions to black hole formation, tracing the full evolution of the horizon $H(t)$ from its formation at microscopic…
We present a new class of exact solutions in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity in 2+1 dimensions that generalize the C-metric. This set of metrics equals the C-metric multiplied by a factor which, along with the massless scalar field, depends…
We present a novel rotating black hole solution surrounded by a Hernquist dark matter halo, obtained by applying the Newman--Janis algorithm to the exact Schwarzschild--Hernquist spacetime. The resulting Kerr--Hernquist geometry provides an…
Recently it was shown that a non-local T-duality-inspired smearing of the point mass introduces a finite zero-point length, while the regularized Newtonian gravitational self-energy is promoted to an additional source for the spacetime. The…
We study tides during the inspiral of a binary neutron star (BNS) system, including nonlinear hydrodynamical interactions. Using an affine approximation that treats the perturbed NS as an ellipsoid, we analytically derive coupling…