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In the Newtonian limit of $f(R)$ gravity, for an isolated self-gravitating system consisting of $N$ extended fluid bodies, the inter-body dynamics are studied by applying the symmetric and trace-free formalism in terms of irreducible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Bofeng Wu , Xiao Zhang

Conformal geometry is considered within a general relativistic framework. An invariant distant for proper time is defined and a parallel displacement is applied in the distorted space-time, modifying Einstein's equation appropriately. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Edmund A. Chadwick , Timothy F. Hodgkinson , Graham S. McDonald

Synergies between self-force theory and other approaches to the gravitational two-body problem have traditionally relied on calculations of gauge-invariant observables as functions of orbital frequencies. However, in self-force theory one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-26 David Trestini , Zachary Nasipak , Adam Pound

The gravitational field exterior respectively interior to a spherically symmetric, isolated body made of perfect fluid is examined within the quasi-metric framework (QMF). It is required that the gravitational field is "metrically static",…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-21 Dag Østvang

In a foregoing paper, gravity has been interpreted as the pressure force exerted on matter at the scale of elementary particles by a perfect fluid. Under the condition that Newtonian gravity must be recovered in the incompressible case, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Mayeul Arminjon

Torsion represents the most natural extension of General Relativity and it attracted interest over the years in view of its link with fundamental properties of particle motion. The bulk of the approaches concerning the torsion dynamics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-24 Nakia Carlevaro , Orchidea Maria Lecian , Giovanni Montani

[Abridged] This review surveys the theory of gravitational self-force in curved spacetime and its application to the gravitational two-body problem in the extreme-mass-ratio regime. We first lay the relevant formal foundation, describing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-26 Leor Barack , Adam Pound

In this work we present an approximate solution of the Einstein equations describing a global model for the gravitational field generated by a bounded, self-gravitating stationary and axisymmetric body rotating rigidly with constant angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Martin-Martin , A. Molina , E. Ruiz

The electromagnetic self-force equation of motion is known to be afflicted by the so-called runaway problem. A similar problem arises in the semiclassical Einstein's field equation and plagues the self-consistent semiclassical evolution of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-03 Assaf Lanir , Amos Ori , Orr Sela

This work investigates the geometrical properties of self-gravitating $N$-body systems from the perspective established by Henri Poincar\'e and Albert Einstein concerning the operational nature of measured geometry. Utilizing recent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Maria I. R. Lourenço , Julian Barbour , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We consider a theory of gravity with a hidden extra-dimension and metric-dependent torsion. A set of physically motivated constraints are imposed on the geometry so that the torsion stays confined to the extra-dimension and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Karthik H. Shankar , Anand Balaraman , Kameshwar C. Wali

We are interested in the global dynamics of a massive scalar field evolving under its own gravitational field and, in this paper, we study spherically symmetric solutions to Einstein's field equations coupled with a Klein-Gordon equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-29 Philippe G. LeFloch , Filipe C. Mena , The-Cang Nguyen

A rigid body, with an interior cavity entirely filled with a Navier-Stokes liquid, moves in absence of external torques relative to the center of mass of the coupled system body-liquid (inertial motions). The only steady-state motions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-12 Giovanni P. Galdi

The second-order gravitational self-force on a small body is an important problem for gravitational-wave astronomy of extreme mass-ratio inspirals. We give a first-principles derivation of a prescription for computing the first and second…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Samuel E. Gralla

A new asymptotic expansion method is developed to separate the Wheeler-DeWitt equation into the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation for a matter field and the Einstein-Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the gravitational field including the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Sang Pyo Kim

We consider the Klein-Gordon equation in the non-relativistic limit regime, i.e. the speed of light c tending to infinity. We construct an asymptotic expansion for the solution with respect to the small parameter depending on the inverse of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-07 Erwan Faou , Katharina Schratz

The theory presented in this monograph establishes the first mathematically rigorous result on the global nonlinear stability of self-gravitating matter under small perturbations of an asymptotically flat, spacelike hypersurface of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-04 Philippe G. LeFloch , Yue Ma

In this paper, we have studied gravitational collapse and expansion of non-static anisotropic fluid in $5D$ Einstein Gauss-Bonnet gravity. For this purpose, the field equations have been modeled and evaluated for the given source and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-19 G. Abbas , M. Tahir

This work considers the {\em gravitational} $N$-body problem and introduces global time-renormalization {\em functions} that allow the efficient numerical integration with fixed time-steps. First, a lower bound of the radius of convergence…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-05-22 M. Antoñana , P. Chartier , J. Makazaga , A. Murua

We study the long-time behavior of spatially periodic solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations in the three-dimensional space. The body force is assumed to possess an asymptotic expansion or, resp., finite asymptotic approximation, in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Luan T. Hoang , Vincent R. Martinez