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We find a consistent set of equations of motion and constraints for massive higher-spin fluctuations in a gravitational background, required of certain characteristic properties but more general than constant curvature space. Of particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Manuela Kulaxizi , Rakibur Rahman

We compute families of solutions to the Einstein vacuum equations of the type of Brill waves, but with slow fall-off towards spatial infinity. We prove existence and uniqueness of solutions for physical data and numerically construct some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-21 Lydia Bieri , David Garfinkle , James Wheeler

We present a systematic and robust approach to nonlinear gravitational perturbations of vacuum spacetimes. This approach provides a basis for a theory of nonlinear gravitational waves. In particular, we show that the system of perturbative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Andrzej Rostworowski

In this paper we construct negatively curved Einstein spaces describing gravitational waves having a solvegeometry wave-front (i.e., the wave-fronts are solvable Lie groups equipped with a left-invariant metric). Using the Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Sigbjorn Hervik

The dynamical behaviour of domain boundaries between different realizations of the vacuum of scalar fields with spontaneously broken phases is investigated. They correspond to zero-modes of the Goldstone fields, moving with the speed of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 J. W. van Holten

A gravitational wave must be nonlinear to be able to transport its own source, that is, energy and momentum. A physical gravitational wave, therefore, cannot be represented by a solution to a linear wave equation. Relying on this property,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-02 R. Aldrovandi , J. G. Pereira , Roldao da Rocha , K. H. Vu

We study the dynamics of domain walls in Einstein-Born-Infeld-dilaton theory. Dilaton is non-trivially coupled with the Born-Infeld electromagnetic field. We find three different types of solutions consistent with the dynamic domain walls.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Debaprasad Maity

We constructed a six-dimensional version of the standing wave model with an anisotropic 4-brane generated by a phantom-like scalar field. The model represents a braneworld where the compact (on-brane) dimension is assumed to be sufficiently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-14 L. J. S. Sousa , J. E. G. Silva , C. A. S. Almeida

New boundary conditions are imposed on the familiar cylindrical gravitational wave vacuum spacetimes. The new spacetime family represents cylindrical waves in a flat expanding (Kasner) universe. Space sections are flat and nonconical where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert H. Gowdy , B. Douglas Edmonds

We are concerned with the dynamical behavior of solutions to semilinear wave systems with time-varying damping and nonconvex force potential. Our result shows that the dynamical behavior of solution is asymptotically stable without any…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Zhe Jiao , Yong Xu , Lijing Zhao

We establish spectral, linear, and nonlinear stability of the vanishing and slow-moving travelling waves that arise as time asymptotic solutions to the Fisher-Stefan equation. Nonlinear stability is in terms of the limiting equations that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-18 T. T. H. Bui , P. van Heijster , R. Marangell

This study offers a detailed analysis of domain wall formation and its cosmological consequences in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity coupled to a scalar field. A central aspect of the model is the scalar field Lagrangian's ability to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 Maxim Krasnov , Daulet Berkimbayev , Andrea Addazi , Yermek Aldabergenov , Maxim Khlopov

In this paper, following the previous study, we evaluate the spectrum of gravitational wave background generated by domain walls which are produced if some discrete symmetry is spontaneously broken in the early universe. We apply two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-06 Masahiro Kawasaki , Ken'ichi Saikawa

Rozowsky, Volkas and Wali recently found interesting numerical solutions to the field equations for a gauged U1xU1 scalar field model. Their solutions describe a reflection-symmetric domain wall with scalar fields and coupled gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Damien P. George , Raymond R. Volkas

We propose a covariant definition of standing gravitational waves in general relativity.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-27 Sebastian J. Szybka , Adam Cieślik

Stationary electromagnetic waves display aspects that are shared with massive particles, since the energy and momentum contained in a volume of sides equal to the wavelengths form a non-zero energy-momentum invariant. The parallel can be…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Rafael Ferraro

Gravitational waves (GW) are expected to interact with dark energy and dark matter, affecting their propagation on cosmological scales. In order to model this interaction, we derive a gauge invariant effective equation and action valid for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-29 Antonio Enea Romano

One idea to explain the mysterious dark energy which appears to pervade the Universe is that it is due to a network of domain walls which has frozen into some kind of static configuration, akin to a soap film. Such models predict an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-18 Jonathan A. Pearson

Light scalar fields, with double well potentials and direct matter couplings, undergo density driven phase transitions, leading to the formation of domain walls. Such theories could explain dark energy, dark matter or source the nanoHz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-03 Kate Clements , Benjamin Elder , Lucia Hackermueller , Mark Fromhold , Clare Burrage

Motivated by some recent speculative attempts to model the dark energy, scalar fields with negative kinetic energy coupled to gravity without a cosmological constant are considered. It is shown that in the presence of an ordinary fluid, any…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 G. W. Gibbons