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We study an inverse source scattering problem for the Schr\"odinger equation with a quadratic nonlinearity. In general, uniqueness of inverse source problems can not be guaranteed at a fixed energy. Therefore, additional information is…
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We present a characteristic initial value approach to calculating the Green function of the Regge-Wheeler and Zerilli equations. We combine well-known numerical methods with newly derived initial data to obtain a scheme which can in…
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A study about the energy and momentum distributions of a new charged regular black hole solution with a nonlinear electrodynamics source is presented. The energy and momentum are calculated using the Einstein and M{\o}ller energy-momentum…
Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), stellar-mass compact objects (SCOs) inspiralling into a massive black hole, are one of the main sources of gravitational waves expected for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). To extract the…
The physical interpretation and eventual fate of gravitational singularities in a theory surpassing classical general relativity are puzzling questions that have generated a great deal of interest among various quantum gravity approaches.…
We find the most general, spherically symmetric solution in a special class of tetrad theory of gravitation. The tetrad gives the Schwarzschild metric. The energy is calculated by the superpotential method and by the Euclidean continuation…