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We give a summary of the status of current research in stochastic semiclassical gravity and suggest directions for further investigations. This theory generalizes the semiclassical Einstein equation to an Einstein-Langevin equation with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 B. L. Hu

In a recent Letter, we have pointed out that the linearized Einstein gravity in de Sitter (dS) spacetime besides the spacetime symmetries generated by the Killing vectors and the evident gauge symmetry also possesses a hitherto `hidden'…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-12 Hamed Pejhan , Mohammad Enayati , Jean-Pierre Gazeau , Anzhong Wang

Certain off-diagonal vacuum and nonvacuum configurations in Einstein gravity can mimic physical effects of modified gravitational theories of $ f(R,T,R_{\mu\nu}T^{\mu\nu})$ type. We prove this statement by constructing exact and approximate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Emilio Elizalde , Sergiu I. Vacaru

Einstein-Strauss Hermitian gravity was recently formulated as a gauge theory where the tangent group is taken to be the pseudo-unitary group instead of the orthogonal group. A Higgs mechanism for massive gravity was also formulated. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-26 Ali H. Chamseddine , Viatcheslav Mukhanov

In hep-th/0506040 we discussed a classically constrained model of gravity. This theory contains known solutions of General Relativity (GR), and admits solutions that are absent in GR. Here we study cosmological implications of some of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gregory Gabadadze , Yanwen Shang

We show that $3$-dimensional AdS spacetime can be semiclassically unstable due to strongly interacting quantum field effects. In our previous paper, we have pointed out the possibility of such an instability of AdS$_3$ by inspecting linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-19 Akihiro Ishibashi , Kengo Maeda , Takashi Okamura

We study a non-relativistic realisation of two-dimensional de Sitter gravity both from its boundary and bulk description with the goal of learning about de Sitter space and paving the way for extending the holographic duality into a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-15 Matthias Harksen , Diego Hidalgo , Watse Sybesma

Recent investigations [arXiv:2111.02429][arXiv:2210.09647][arXiv:2304.05453] have introduced an infinite class of novel gravitational observables in Asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS) space that reside on codimension-one or -zero regions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-27 Robert C. Myers , Shan-Ming Ruan

The asymptotic symmetry algebra of four-dimensional Einstein gravity in the asymptotically flat context has been shown recently to be the direct sum of the Poincar\'e algebra and of an infinite-dimensional abelian algebra (with central…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-21 Oscar Fuentealba , Marc Henneaux , Cédric Troessaert

We present a three dimensional non-relativistic model of gravity that is invariant under the central extension of the symmetry group that leaves the recently constructed Newtonian gravity action invariant. We show that the model arises from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-22 Nese Ozdemir , Mehmet Ozkan , Orhan Tunca , Utku Zorba

In this note we investigate the generalized massive gravity in asymptotically $AdS_3$ spacetime by combining the two mass terms of topological massive gravity and new massive gravity theory. We study the linearized excitations around the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-30 Yan Liu , Ya-Wen Sun

Asymptotically Safe theories of gravity have recently received much attention. In this work we discuss a class of inflationary models derived from quantum-gravity modification of quadratic gravity according to the induced scaling around the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-14 Alfio Bonanno , Alessia Platania

In this paper, we examine stacky structures in Einstein's theory of gravity. In brief, we first give a construction of the moduli stack of solutions to (vacuum) Einstein field equations on $n$-dimensional spacetimes, with vanishing…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Kadri İlker Berktav

We reexamine the charged AdS domain wall solution to the Einstein-Abelian-Higgs model proposed by Gubser et al as holographic superconductors at quantum critical points and comment on their statement about the uniqueness of gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Ding-fang Zeng , Kai Zhao

We present black hole type solutions in the scalar-tensor theory with nonminimal derivative coupling to the Einstein tensor. The effects of the nonminimal derivative coupling appear in the large scales, while the solutions approach those in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Masato Minamitsuji

Anti-de Sitter (AdS) is conjectured to be nonlinear unstable to a weakly turbulent mechanism that develops a cascade towards high frequencies, leading to black hole formation [1,2]. We give evidence that the gravitational sector of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-15 Oscar J. C. Dias , Jorge E. Santos

Motivated by the gravity/fluid correspondence, we introduce a new method for characterizing nonlinear gravitational interactions. Namely we map the nonlinear perturbative form of the Einstein equation to the equations of motion of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-16 Huan Yang , Fan Zhang , Stephen R. Green , Luis Lehner

We present a new model of gravity which explicitly breaks Lorentz-invariance by the introduction of a unit time-like vector field, thereby giving rise to an extra (scalar) degree of freedom. We discuss its cosmology, exact solutions and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-18 Flavio S. Coelho , Carlos Herdeiro , Shinji Hirano , Yuki Sato

We stress that the dS/CFT correspondence should be formulated using unitary principal series representations of the de Sitter isometry group/conformal group, rather than highest-weight representations as originally proposed. These…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Alberto Guijosa , David A. Lowe

We analyze a class of product geometries of the form $\mathbb{R}^{1,1}\times \Sigma_2$ supported by electric, magnetic, or dyonic flux in the Einstein-Maxwell-$\Lambda$ theory. These spacetimes belong to a unified family of direct products…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-22 Metin Gurses , Tahsin Cagri Sisman , Bayram Tekin