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The typical motions of a spinning test particle in Schwarzschild's background which show the strong repulsive action of the highly relativistic spin-gravity coupling are considered using the exact Mathisson-Papapetrou equations. An…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-12 Roman Plyatsko , Mykola Fenyk

The problem of finding most general form of the classical integrable relativistic models of many-body interaction of the $BC_{n}$ type is considered. In the simplest nontrivial case of $n=2$,the extra integral of motion is presented in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 V. I. Inozemtsev , R. Sasaki

Einstein's thesis ``A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions'' was the second of his five celebrated papers in 1905. Although it is -- thanks to its widespread practical applications -- the most quoted of his papers, it is less known…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Norbert Straumann

Nonminimal spin-gravity interaction through unit gravimagnetic moment leads to modified Mathisson-Papapetrou-Tulczyjew-Dixon equations with improved behavior in the ultrarelativistic limit. We present exact Hamiltonian of the resulting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-19 Alexei A. Deriglazov , Walberto Guzmán Ramírez

In this paper, we proceed to develop a new approach which was formulated first in Ershkov (2017) for solving Poisson equations: a new type of the solving procedure for Euler-Poisson equations (rigid body rotation over the fixed point) is…

General Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 Sergey V. Ershkov , Dmytro Leshchenko

We construct the Lagrangian formulation of a micro-structured spinning, dilating and shearing (deformable) test body, moving in arbitrary non-Riemannian backgrounds possessing all geometrical entities of curvature, torsion and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-19 Damianos Iosifidis

The method of many-body Green's functions is developed for arbitrary systems of electrons and nuclei starting from the full (beyond Born-Oppenheimer) Hamiltonian of Coulomb interactions and kinetic energies. The theory presented here…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-23 Ville J. Härkönen , Robert van Leeuwen , E. K. U. Gross

John Mather is a great scholar who was dedicated to mathematics in his whole life. His works in mathematics can be characterized as original and foundational. He laid out the foundation of singularity theory while he was a graduate student.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Sen Hu

This review is made of two parts which are related to Poincar\'e in different ways. The first part reviews the work of Poincar\'e on the Theory of (Special) Relativity. One emphasizes both the remarkable achievements of Poincar\'e, and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Thibault Damour

We give an overview of the derivation of multipolar equations of motion of extended test bodies for a wide set of gravitational theories beyond the standard general relativistic framework. The classes of theories covered range from simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 Yuri N. Obukhov , Dirk Puetzfeld

Basic principles of the Hamilton approach developed for the metric General Relativity (Einstein`s GR) are discussed. In particular, we derive the Hamiltonian of the metric GR in the explicit form. This Hamiltonian is a quadratic function of…

General Physics · Physics 2016-01-15 Alexei M. Frolov

Consider the $\lambda$-Green function and the $\lambda$-Poisson kernel of a Lipschitz domain $U\subset \mathbb H^n=\left\{x\in\mathbb R^n:x_n>0\right\}$ for hyperbolic Brownian motion with drift. We provide several relationships that…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Grzegorz Serafin

Mathieu's equation has many applications throughout theoretical physics. It is especially important to the theory of Josephson junctions, where it is equivalent to Schrodinger's equation. Mathieu's equation can be easily solved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Samuel A. Wilkinson , Nicolas Vogt , Dmitry S. Golubev , Jared H. Cole

By the time, in 1937, the Swiss astronomer Zwicky measured the velocity dispersion of the Coma cluster of galaxies, astronomers somehow got acquainted with the idea that the universe is filled by some kind of dark matter. After almost a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Riccardo Scarpa

We briefly discuss the current status of Mach's principle in general relativity and point out that its last vestige, namely, the gravitomagnetic field associated with rotation, has recently been measured for the earth in the GP-B…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 B. Mashhoon , P. S. Wesson

The Lagrangian, the Hamiltonian and the constant of motion of the gravitational attraction of two bodies when one of them has variable mass is considered. This is done by choosing the reference system in one of the bodies which allows to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Lopez , E. M. Juarez

High precision astrometry, space missions and certain tests of General Relativity, require the knowledge of the metric tensor of the solar system, or more generally, of a gravitational system of N extended bodies. Presently, the metric of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Sven Zschocke , Michael H. Soffel

The thesis developed by Cornelius Lanczos in his doctoral dissertation is that electrodynamics is a pure field theory which is hyperanalytic over the algebra of biquaternions. In this theory Maxwell's homogeneous equations correspond to a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cornelius Lanczos

We study the quantum mechanics of a Dirac fermion on a curved spacetime manifold. The metric of the spacetime is completely arbitrary, allowing for the discussion of all possible inertial and gravitational field configurations. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-04 Yuri N. Obukhov , Alexander J. Silenko , Oleg V. Teryaev

Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is an alternative to the dark matter hypothesis that attempts to explain the "missing gravity" problem in astrophysics and cosmology through a modification to objects' dynamics. Since its conception in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-29 Harry Desmond