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Gravitational waves emitted by distorted black holes---such as those arising from the coalescence of two neutron stars or black holes---carry not only information about the corresponding spacetime but also about the underlying theory of…

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In a D-dimensional maximally symmetric spacetime we simplify the massless Dirac equation to two decoupled wavelike equations with effective potentials. Furthermore in D-dimensional Schwarzschild and Schwarzschild de Sitter black holes we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Lopez-Ortega

The stability properties of the Einstein Static solution of General Relativity are altered when corrective terms arising from modification of the underlying gravitational theory appear in the cosmological equations. In this paper the…

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It is well established that black holes in four-dimensional, vacuum, general relativity exhibit vanishing static tidal Love numbers, indicating no multipolar response to the external tidal fields in the static limit. This intriguing feature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-09 Chiranjeeb Singha , Sumanta Chakraborty

The stability of three static and spherically symmetric black hole solutions with nonlinear electromagnetism as a source is investigated in three different ways. We show that the specific heat of all the solutions displays an infinite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-13 Nora Bretón , Santiago Esteban Perez Bergliaffa

We study the stability of fracton gravity, a variant of linearized gravity where the gauge symmetry is restricted to longitudinal diffeomorphisms. These transformations can be connected to a spacetime generalization of dipole symmetry,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-28 Evangelos Afxonidis , Alessio Caddeo , Carlos Hoyos , Daniele Musso

Lovelock theory is a natural extension of Einstein theory of gravity to higher dimensions, and it is of great interest in theoretical physics as it describes a wide class of models. In particular, it describes string theory inspired…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-19 Cecilia Garraffo , Gaston Giribet

We investigate the stability of self-similar solutions for a gravitationally collapsing isothermal sphere in Newtonian gravity by means of a normal mode analysis. It is found that the Hunter series of solutions are highly unstable, while…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Hideki Maeda , Tomohiro Harada

Asymptotic Safety offers a conservative and predictive framework for quantum gravity, based on the existence of a renormalization group fixed point that ensures ultraviolet completeness without introducing new degrees of freedom. Black…

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We study a scalar-tensor version of Lovelock theory with a non trivial higher order galileon term involving the coupling of the Lovelock two tensor with derivatives of the scalar galileon field. For a static and spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-09 Christos Charmousis , Minas Tsoukalas

This work examines the magnetized black holes of Lovelock gravity in the presence of double-logarithmic electrodynamics. In this context, the Lovelock polynomial is found and the accompanying thermodynamic quantities, such as mass, entropy,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-01 Askar Ali

We have investigated the classical stability of magnetically charged black $p$-brane solutions for string theories that include the case studied by Gregory and Laflamme. It turns out that the stability behaves very differently depending on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-06 Takayuki Hirayama , Gungwon Kang , Youngone Lee

We study the linear stability problem to gravitational and electromagnetic perturbations of the extremal, $ |\mathcal{Q}|=M, $ Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime, as a solution to the Einstein-Maxwell equations. Our work uses and extends the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-18 Marios Antonios Apetroaie

A four-dimensional static Schwarzschild-like solution obtained in [3]-[6] in the frames of the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity at the Kaluza-Klein split is analyzed. The matter in these solutions is created by auxiliary dimensions. The main…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-07 S. O. Alexeyev , B. N. Latosh , A. N. Petrov

We explore a classical instability of spacetimes of dimension $D>4$. Firstly, we consider static solutions: generalised black holes and brane world metrics. The dangerous mode is a tensor mode on an Einstein base manifold of dimension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-07 Gary Gibbons , Sean A. Hartnoll

We present an exact static, spherically symmetric black hole solution to the third order Lovelock gravity with a string cloud background in seven dimensions for the special case when the second and third order Lovelock coefficients are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Tae-Hun Lee , Dharmanand Baboolal , Sushant G. Ghosh

We define a notion of extrinsic black hole in pure Lovelock gravity of degree $k$ which captures the essential features of the so-called Lovelock-Schwarzschild solutions, viewed as rotationally invariant hypersurfaces with null $2k$-mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Levi Lopes de Lima , Frederico Girão , José Natário

As we know that the Lovelock theory is an extension of the general relativity to the higher-dimensions, in this theory the first and the second order terms correspond to the general relativity and the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity,…

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Approximate approach based on the Galerkin method is suggested for the investigation of equilibrium stellar models, a relativistic collapse problem and black hole formation. Some results of its simplified version - energetic method- are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , A. V. Dorodnitsyn

We obtain rotating black hole metric for higher dimensional Einstein and pure Lovelock gravity by employing two independent and well motivated methods. One is based on the principle of incorporation of Newtonian acceleration for timelike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-27 Naresh Dadhich , Sushant G. Ghosh